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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, fresh from his investigations of California Ham & Eggery, visited the office of State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in Chicago. What he found in the records there made meat for two columns about meaty William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days...
...right to advise it. Still one of the most imposing landmarks in U. S. labor history is the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act, which improved the legal status of unionism, drastically checked the granting of injunctions against unions in Federal courts (average before it was passed: 100 a year). Last month Senator Norris let it be known: "I have worked with and for labor for 30 years and I am disgusted with the situation now. . . . There is something wrong with the leadership or they would get together...
Obstacle. In Manhattan last week David Dubinsky looked back over the history of the C. I. O.-A. F. of L. dispute, found little logic in the present C. I. O. position. Four years ago, when Lewis, Dubinsky, and various progressives in A, F. of L., joined by Sidney Hillman's big, sprawling Amalgamated Clothing Workers,* formed the Committee for Industrial Organization, they did not demand industrial unionism for all A. F. of L. unions. Nor did they set up C. I. O. merely because they disliked individual A. F. of L. leaders, or disapproved of the way some...
...Last week David Dubinsky made it clear that he was not joining in the hue & cry for C. I. O.-A. F. of L. reconciliation, felt that he had been too optimistic about it before,wanted the I. L. G. W. U.'s action to speak louder than words for peace. Left-wing charges that A. F. of L. was too reactionary, that many an old-line A. F. of L. leader was a visionless labor boss, he brushed aside-all the more reason, said he, why the progressives should be back in A. F. of L., to moderate...
...John L. Lewis, last June, called labor peace "secondary...