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...nonsense words of Myra Wolfgang, a vice president of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, typified the mood of the more than 3,000 blue-collar women who gathered in Chicago in late March to form the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Instead of recipes, the representatives from 58 labor unions discussed ways to end sex discrimination in wages, hiring and job classifications. They also resolved to organize more of the nation's 34 million women workers (only 4 million belong to unions) and to elect more female officials (though more than 25% of the AFL-CIO membership...
Because of the wide gap between white-and blue-collar feminism, some union women believe that the two should be kept apart. Says Unionist Wolfgang: "Sisters cannot unify solely because they are women. We have to look at class rather than sex." Olga Madar, international vice president of the United Auto Workers and newly appointed president of the CLUW, disagrees: "For the first time women workers have united to speak out against sexual discrimination. At the same time union women bring real, down-to-earth issues to the feminist movement. The blend is important...
...enormous contribution that foreigners have made to the development of music. Only two of the 36 songs--"Frere Jacques" and "Au Clair de la Lune"--were not written by Americans. The book, for example, includes the work of Al Jolson ("California Here I Come") but ignores that of Wolfgang Mozart ("Symphony No. 39 in E flat," "The Marriage of Figaro"). Nowhere in the songbook is the music of Ludwig van Beethoven ("The Fifth Symphony," "Missa Solemnis"), another talented foreigner. In fairness to editor Michael Scheff, it must be noted that Beethoven disliked the telephone and refused to compose...
Captain Stitzer agreed: "It was an overall team effort. There was great improvement by our less-experienced players Joe Antenucci, Wolfgang Gutschert, and Peter Matthias," he said. "It was the first time we played together as a unit and that was the secret. Our spiking and faking were excellent, and the defense was fantastic...
...have at hand the true tone of all those Busby Berkeley production numbers. No subsequent recordings of the songs quite recapture the tinny excitement of the original scoring as it was caught by primitive sound systems. But the record devoted to the work of the music department heavies-Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman-stirs the sweetest nostalgic pangs. Only by hearing in isolation the sweeping romanticism of Korngold's Sea Hawk score or the brooding march Steiner used to drive the prospectors toward The Treasure of the Sierra Madre can one realize how much the music...