Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also includes a dozen quite respectable hotels, the Glide Memorial Church (Southern Methodist), the B'nai Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot in the city (featuring people like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rogers), the headquarters of a large proportion of the city's labor unions, both A. F. of L. and C. I. O., and any number of decent and properly conducted restaurants and stores...
Historic hates in Labor are Matthew Woll's for John L. Lewis, Thomas A. Rickert's for Sidney Hillman. Tiny Mr. Woll (5 ft. 2 in.) thinks he would be president of A. F. of L. today instead of its third and smallest vice president if John Lewis had played ball in 1924 (when Founder Sam Gompers died). Tom Rickert thinks he would be high man in the men's apparel industry if Sidney Hillman had not seceded in 1914 from Mr. Rickert's United Garment Workers and eclipsed it with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
Whatever effect this had on the honest membership, it achieved a Labor paradox. A so-called C. I. O. audience booed & hissed every mention of the name of John Lewis...
...Martin recently received from Manhattan two checks totaling $25,000. In Manhattan is Mr. Martin's friend David Dubinsky, whose rich International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is also out of both C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. and might well welcome company as a Labor independent...
...Jews are the regents of the stock exchange power of the American Union. Every year they manage to become increasingly the controlling masters of the labor power of a people of 120,000,000 souls. . . . With rapacious cleverness they knead public opinion and form from it the instrument of a struggle for their own future...