Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dubinsky had his heart set on a pet project. Since the World Federation of Trade Unions fell to the Communists, the world's non-Communist labor has had no international voice and no mechanism for united action. Dubinsky wanted an outfit to speak for the legitimate gripes of world labor. "If you don't, the Communists will," says Dubinsky. "They can say, 'why even your leaders fail...
...been achieved in spite of rather than because of the industry, which is skittery and as subject to sudden sinking spells as any industry that lives to satisfy woman's whim. Its 11,000 employers are mostly small businessmen who must move rapidly and warily in a trade that is bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change and a hundred employers find themselves...
...Heaven Too. Dubinsky's union and its locals are currently worth more than $26 million. Its membership includes 406,000 of the industry's 450,000 workers. Now there are as many Italians as Jews, as older Jewish immigrants have died off, and their children, scorning the trade, studied to become teachers, lawyers and doctors. I.L.G.W.U. locals are strong in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Philadelphia. In fact, the only major holdout is the Donnelly Garment Co. in Kansas City, against which the union has vainly hurled hordes of organizers for years, at a cost...
...Trade. In London, Mahmud Ali, arrested for assaulting Abdul Matlie, explained to police: "We had a quarrel over a girl and he bit my thumb. So I bit off his nose...
...reply to charges that Britain's bilateral trade policies were due to "doctrinaire socialism," the Economist wrote: "British commercial policies, with a few exceptions, are imposed by the facts of the case . . . When the United States Government comes up against comparable problems, as in Germany and Austria, it reacts in much the same...