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...education department's chairman is Julius Hochman, a union vice president and general manager of the N. Y. Dressmakers' Joint Board. Stocky Julius Hochman, shaggy browed and square faced, looks like C. I. O. Leader John L. Lewis, and is himself a product of workers' education. Born in Russia 45 years ago, he went to work at eleven for his father, a tailor. He arrived in Manhattan's garment district at 14, promptly enrolled in night school, later was graduated from Brookwood Labor College. Today he is a lover of painting and chamber music. He helped...
...Chairman Hochman believes that labor unions owe to their members education and fun as well as higher wages, that "man does not live by bread alone." Mr. Hochman and the union's able educational director, British-born Mark Starr, think that a worker is not fully educated in high school or college. Purpose of their workers' education program: to remove "prejudices" acquired in public schools, fill gaps, give workers "realistic" attitudes toward labor, teach them how a union works...
...disruption of the hundreds of local labor councils in which A. F. of L. and C.I.O. unionists can work together effectively, but which a complete breach between the two national organizations makes increasingly difficult. Last week former C.I.O. enthusiast Dubinsky stayed away from the C.I.O. meeting, sent instead Julius Hochman, poet, dilettante and hard-boiled manager of the New York Dressmakers' Joint Board...
When C.I.O. voted, with Mr. Hochman abstaining, to call a constitutional convention this fall to form a permanent organization, President Dubinsky became less categorical: "The decision . . . creates a new situation. Until now, the C.I.O. . . has neither in its structure nor in its ultimate objectives been designed to be a permanent competitive organization in the American trade union field. . . . The question of our participation in such a convention or of joining such a new organization will be taken up and decided upon by our General Executive Board . .. late...
...Chairman Hochman, a Brookwood alumnus and now vice president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, explained that although a few A. F. of L. as well as C. I. O. unions supported Brookwood, these unions, conducting their own classes in industrial centres, had decided to abandon Brookwood until Labor united, made it Labor's "official" college. Meanwhile, no move will be made to sell the $115,000 Katonah estate...