m|42” Mlxe* Candidate* and i anniversary anofLocal 142

1, 1942 SERVICE MEN’S HUB SPORTSWEAR DANCES” SCORE drive sweeps key BIG ILGW U HIT shops in to ilg w u . . . . , The all-out drive, undertaken by the Boston ILGWU Join. Undaunted by the d o w n p o u r ^ v,„ PHlp ( . aided by Boston District Manager jack Halpern of the Cotton 'n I Dress Department, is nearing a successful conclusion. J S f ! , 1 “105" Votes Extra Working Hour for a LAGUARDIA TURNS AUCTIONEER I Soldier Smoke Fund AT BIG “ 22" ART E X H IB ITIO N The first labor art Trial Dates Reset go on ’s famous Street, opened on Tuesday, Oc-I In Donnelly Cases tober 20, at the Fcrargil Gal-| leries7 63 West 57th will continue through ber 7, for the benefit of United DISTRICT China Relief. AT CONFAB 108 Brigade Grads Ready for Civilian Defense Activity

Poletti, Alfange Address 9th Annual “142” Anniversary Two thousand seven members of Local 142, W Neckwear and Art Flower ers' Union, ILGWU, fo ninth time since 1933 came gether on October 8 at Hall, East 11th Street, York City, to celebrate the testimonial dinner in hon- of Luigi Antonini, ILCWU t vice president and outgoing

New Yorkers! Vote Row C ALP for Alfange JUSTICE ILGWU RECORD AT MD.-VA. DISTRICT MEET

The Board of Directors of the Union Health Center, consists of the managers of most important ILGWU locals in , met on Oc­ tober 15 and designated Dr. Leo Price as

MONTREAL ILG SET FOR THIRD VICTORY LOAN wire from Montreal, Ijy Bernard Shane, 1I.G

BENEFITS UPPED BY ‘81’

sows corner of rutting room of Monarch Coat Co., L iity, at left is David Lily, owner: in center is Mor sop chairman, end Joseph Kessler, Local 20 manager, ' EIt’s Time to Vote • • •

Th« 1942 St&t* and Congressional campaign is nearly over. Let nothing stand In the way of your going to the polls on There are only a few days left before Election Day. It Is time to Election Day and making your vote countl rote, and to count the vote. Our loyalty to the and to VOTE THE TICKET, BUILD the cause of Independent progressive politics points to one direc­ LABOR’S INDEPENDENT POLITICAL FORCE IN NEW YORK, tion! To the American Labor Party and to all its candidates headed DEFEAT THE ENEMIES Or THE NEW DEAL! by Dean Alfange for Governor in ROW C. Polettl, Alfange LABOR BACKING G eors.t.M lntrer JUDGE BOTEIN UP Bernard Boteln | Addre„ Mh Annua, FOR ELECTION ON “142" Anniversary - GEO. J, MINTZER LABOR PARTY LINE FOR HIGH COURT

When the leaders of the trade ' unions affiliated with the Amer­ ican Labor' Party endorsed - Onrgt J. .Mtnlvr-Jtepubllcsn Can­ didate for Supreme ^Court Justice

- ,"62" STRAPPERS, a | IN PACTi WORK

"The Committee Is SPURS GROWTH It feels to be appropriate act and now advises all trade union to vote for deorge J. Mintzer | Shop chairiadics gathered at Justice of the Supreme Court In first Judicial District which, o i , recently called meeting heard j Loral 62 Manager Samu ‘ "George J. Mintzer has the le* I Shore report the signing of lng, experience, temperament social viewpoint that preeminently qualify him for the position of Jus-

; and has established , a splen- ■cord ss an Impartial Chair- in arbitrations affecting labor, unions representing more

lust election day." In view of the fact that Min- Uer’s name docsSiot appear.ort the American Labor Party line on the voting machine, be sure to ■Vote firsh-oti Row C for the ALP candidates, Number I to 6, then vote on Row A, No. 7, for Mintzer, and then return to Row C and vole for the remain­ ing ALP candidates. The following campaign ----- tee was elected: Luigi Antonlnl. Chairman: Abrahar “ ~ JUSTICE Wee— e her I. f«fj

THE ELECTIONS “Little International” Support Urged for Abramson in Paaaaic County and For Other Labor Candidataa — Dress Shops Slow — Note on Wa|a Control IN THE CLOAK The locale of our Department are at present panic ip, EOT DISTRICT wo eteetion campaigns, one in the Mate of New York, other in New Jerney. We are part of the American Labor Party New York, and are conducting an active campaign for PAY RAISE TO MEMBERS IN 6 » an tn sympathy a JERSEY SHOPS

More than 300 workers i “O >» » tabor csn«. New Jersey shops are rect tn« (ram its ranks, higher wages this week as the tsmillsr with • u.

n appointed to formulate «• York. Tanenbntimum uSFJw do*Ma" Sports Workers Give to War Fund B- vote himself end Worlars of »h« Lofoyotta Spor .mbers of Locel 221, Elizaboth, N. J„ give their contributions 5 the United Wor Fund os they line up ot the tir a clock.

is Use present addresses of WORKERS IN 10 CONN. SHOPS RECEIVE HgW PAY INCREASES ovlde^llml | nt Workers in ten Connecticut shops have, received pay in- tasee in the past fortnight, the Eastern Offi-of-Town Depart- ‘ s, forjhc most part negotiated on the

mwvPhnpa «7», -1" New, Jlavcn. Eastern Our-of-Ti -Bufsflit F i s i!. atMtx-'Brrf no. J. »• V Drysa. , NORWALK LOCAL . ,We arp conbuciing Standard Dress. Clardl Dress. Col­ 1 various tnlInterested parties. - Non- paign la the Hudson V lege press, Andy Tommy Dress, and union emph RESUMES CULTURAL, >n . mum of 40 ir interpret District ot New York 8tate. : ~ ' Dress: In Waterbury. Dtboer election ol Ferdinand Hoyt, date lor Congress. ot the American EDUCATIONAL WORK Labor Parly. This campaign South Norwalk's educational TO Local 14S. Plainfield. Jf ■ and recreational program, high- een appointed to that clt ?dlKDrSH T£ tt“ coD successfu' durin5 “ic P“ l - - ly Tommy, spring, will be resumed in the 1 On Saturday. October 31. tbe E ‘11 fall and winter months, -organ- i i trict Council of the Eastern O ir Louis Orons announced last *• \ of-Town Department will hold > *2: and lounging \ * | all-day session at the Hotel Abt elect Ferdinand Hoyt and d Hamilton Fish. the raUoning ot Elect Abramson! ■s and^fttemin to introl Justly price ceilings Us phase of the war depends upon

tor and elect Irving Abramson I 4 Elizabeth Shop* Congress. Jersey Labor Man Gets Support for Congress Vote Monthly Grant Cloakmakers Open To United War Fuad Bowling Season 1LGWU members in four Elizabeth, N. J., shops bavt voted to give one hour’s pay «,h month to the United War

cal 221 Manager Peter Dellefsen hu reported. The plan, recommended by the local's executive committee and shop chairmen, is expected w be adopted by other garment ebopa Groups represented b.v the Unj>“ War Fund Include the United sere vice Organisations rtJSO'. *•’’ Relief, and eight approved foretP The Local 221 committee » charge of ILGWU partlclpatlenw the Fmul Includes Harriet WjTJ Loepinozs, Irena Oeralen. Vide Maczka, Katherine Bare. Irving Abramson, candidate for Congress in Naw Jersey's Eghth District (canter), being greeted by SheoesU, Angle Martuod. NeuM Harry Bronstein, manager of Local 161. Tha girls are (left to right) Louisa Brandley, Aldona Meuller, serai Goldie Karp, Julia Horna* Let your answer t Joyce Schippel. Brother Bronstein it treasurer of the Passaic County American Labor League and Augusta Marlow, Anna Nowak. Brother Abramson is president of the New Jersey Stole CIO. ZIMMERMAN BRANDS ADMIRAL LAND'S, ‘22’ ART GROUP OPENS UNIQUE *nACIC ON LABOR AS 'FASCIST TO THE VERY Ct«E’i CALLS ON GREEN TO PROTEST TO FDR EXHIBIT AT FERARGIL GALLERY sued trom Page 1) . I Chic Junior. 13*6 Broaden,, wee Vice nt Charlesi S. ZirZimmerman, head of Drwmakcrs' M» Jean Dubtnakyl aeleeled for a one-year scholarship Prealdent Dubtnsby All1 to the National Academy of Design. Union Local 22, last wc, called upon President William Green • • pictures | Hor picture U called -Lunch Hour on of Labor to protest to President

serious enough Admiral

I MURRAY GROSS, head of Comploint Deportment of Dress Joint Board, whose c i palqn on the American Li i Party ticket in the Fourth B nu uiiuww Assembly District, is putting GOODS SCARCITY I observers ore predicting his _____ tion. Every worker, libera' kni.li, ,h ,„ „ in ih, ^ h r - . ■» : situation in the metropo- j - I,css market, bringing with “ 2 2 ” A p p e a ls fo r Support to Springer, a In -Unfitness" Gross in Campaign Murray Gross and Maida Springer, ihe two officers of Dressmakers’ Union laical 22 .dl '::;5lr

Itself unstlntlng.- at the Ferergil Galleries created e rt editors of the great dailies and levote big space to the occasion. A large amount of money has been raised for United China Relief, PRIZE WINNERS: (Left to right) Lucille Lane, Phannie Xeneies, Violet Dancinge;r. Marguerite Conjona,

by prejudice "Unionism

it ‘22’ Art Show Mayor

Admiral trltlyethe

j-lng. directly | and Indirectly. thousands o(,

in bids that meant money for United nbers. displayed ar the Ferargil Galleries, continue through November 7. Novrmhrr I, I 94M r«f« six JUSTICE WAGE ADJUSTMENT WILL BE PRESSED, HOCHMAN DECLARES

In a sharp note adilrnwrl on October 27 to Louie Rubin, di- or of the Popular Pi iced “ 0™“A me . Julius Hoehman, geperat manager ot Ute Dress Join!

Union Defenders Honored Local 22's. New York Dressmakers' Union, famous control corps. The Union Defenders Comn " UNION DEFENDERS COMMITTEE & : ■ £ = £ « = FETED BY J. B. AT LUNCHEON ere not et war? This point *111 j The enforcement of the 35-hour work week in the dress t» no trilling matter. and that Uia 01 be lost on the German people the pivotal point in the collective agreement, has, since . not ym 'iSF* rll“ Sh,n n.vtr forurt 193*, been left in the hands of a special department of the Joint j made to carry Hie burden ot thi Un" behind the words ol Attorney Board, known as the U.D.C. and is managed by Mr. Abe Roshco. Increased cost ol hvlny.- hr added, ieneral Biddle was the great spirit UX).C. stands lor Hie Union De-®""" ...... ~...... • I President Franltltn D. Roosevelt 1 tenders Committee. Some 300 vol- it would be possible to enlorce Ihe IVIOlly rICOT1 SingS ------— ------unteers membeoi ol : f ^°'‘L‘ " f j .^ h ^ ’doubts' an’ A t D reS S O p e n A ir •22” Tos... Forth the task.of patrolling| Ished and the control to now no China Aid Rally A New Celebrity M» moo dress shops in^ the gar- less-effective than lormerly. 't isn't every day the ILQWU ! make certain thjno shop operates I toldom^Nagler. manager* ol laical lor Chinese relict was held In Ihe i produce a "Pins and Needles," alter live o'clock. The patrol ol the I0 M>x Cohen. manager ol bocal heart ol the dress market. 3«th a Labor Art Show such as Local shops is extended to Saturdays and (<#. Nathaniel M. Mtnkotl. seere- street and Sth Avenue, at noon, on s which is now taking New York i legal holidays during which no! lary-treasurer ol the Dress Joint ( Friday. October 23. under the aus-

Thelr Art Money Goes to China Aid

“ THE VOICE OF LOCAL 89"

RUTH SCHWARTZ.. whose picture brought $75 China Relief.' fbrrm hrr 1, 1942 JUSTICE

J Garment Workers Get in the Scrap; Pile Up Tons of Metal $115,000 MORE WAR BONDS IS BOUGHT BY JT. BOARD LOCALS The cloak organization! dug into their treasuries at the • Columbus Day celebration of the Italian-American Labor Council

Shop chairmen and commit­ tees from the entire borough jammed Arian Hall October 22 at the first of the season's series j of borough-wide meetings spon­ sored by the Brooklyn division of the Cloak Joint Board. Oenrrnl Manager Pelnberg.

the tone ot the meeting by an to September. Workers employed by Jobbers and contractors controlled by the Merchants-American De­ All toctions of tha industry, employe allocations and the union,, with ILGWU members tparking partment, of which Harry Slutsky shopi and buildingi a thorough house cleaning, October 19. Is manager, purchased <751.000 from " driva. gava the garment distric 1 August to October, and workers tn the reefer shops, managed try Jacob Snyder, purchased <285.000 Irons IJuly 24 to September 25. M I L L I O N LBS. OF SCRAP OPERATORS GIVE

COLLECTED IN COAT DISTRICT J. B. Hoars Felnbarg On Toronto Convention , DEAN ALFANGE A The cloak market yielded a vast ansuum Jctober 19, the'efay on ttsWdl Ae-gumeat combined tp . contribute an estimated two mUlioiv pounds of scrap M .fcelp' iiglll , Defetnt Fund Tax WARM WELCOME Coming in Rapidly Treasurer Morris J. Ashbra j Labor party elear^and irtformed the delegates at 'the “d l ‘jj* Iat”wh tiding discarded Joint Board meeting October I crasswatUs. noted Negro 21. that the defense lund collection j drtssw) the members, is proceeding according to schedule : A Urg, aUdience showr tiie sum of SI50.000 having already ot tht Labor Party cant been turned over to the treasury. | platform by a hearty t Labor Party Ticket The Industry vu permuted to i [hc address of Brother Warmly Endorsed by Finishers’ Local 9 Dean AUange. Labor -party can-

“ 35" FORMS YOUTH-FOR-VICTORY cheerfulne

CORPS TO HELP IN WAR EFFORT xpedltlous collections Uie departments.

ith-for-Victory Corps, composed of.50 young members ’ » 15 l.h“ I Buy bonds till it hurts-the 15 sponsored by the local s cducatational department, completing the <300.000 fund will > t contribution of the cloak presserss' union to the war proceed rapidly. I enemy.______

Alfange demonstrated “We Must and Will Elect AUange" ~~|

law! 'educational 35. the corps w! funtpralung ager soring

affair, tentaUvely Saturday evening.

FRANK CROSSWAITH making a »« elactlon of Daan Alfanga, Amarican Let November 1, 1942 ■ RUSTIC Em At the MOVIES

let. Based on Somerset Maug- In spite of ihe fan tlj im'j novel. It pull* leW punches with a blast ihal tlic people was soon lollownl by » R| irganuen-at-sunnsr signal.

fVowwmbry I . IV<2 JUS c

W A R CHEST DRIVE ILGWU Member* in Southwest Alive to Urge. War Relief Are Doubling Their Contribu tion* Thi* Year II Hr METER PERI. STEIN, VJ*. ■ " .

War Chest drive ihc communities hcte in the South- full swing, with members fully participating in the ion of the drive I in contributions. The war chest

Meyer Saltnrian, of the ILGWU engineering depart Williant Gomberg is director, has been in Minneapolis fc r a week to check up on the methods of setting piece rate, al the Boulevard Frocks. For two years past. the .Boulevard firm we

SPOT NEWS FROM HERE AND THERE

Enlists After Son - Dies in Action rpresenlellv

The famous' speech Henry A.'VJaBatvr. Vice

which .the ILOWU reprinted pamphlet form. Is- being dean

Malouf Vs Viola May, Directors: At [ue. Lorraine : special meeting outlining our plans •to Vice President V idler, organizer.

district cooperating. Kansas City Gives Dinner for Union Cotton Dressmakers Crown Queen at Colorful Fete

SCOTTISH COOPERATOR TALKS OF GROWTH

Forest City Wage Increase Asked Under the agreement with the purest City Co., signed last No­ vember and covering several shops,

Words wool win the war — Ann Muick of th* Portnoy shop wc crowntd quMn of Locol 182, St. Louit. at eolorful ceremonies, but money is louder than October 2, at union heodquorters. hccompanyina her wot "her majesty1! court" composed of words I Buy U. S. war bonds contenders for the Htl*. They Indu a Evelyn Branca, Mardall Hettinger L rean Hendricks, June Jeanette Prograa, Maty Votevich. - and stamps 1 N ovem ber *

Listening to President Dubinsky retell the story of the WU to the delegates at Springfield, 1 couldn't help but bi pressed once again by the unique role which educational has played in the life of our union. Obviously, the primary’ purposeB- ......

Scranton’s Royal ILGWU CATCHES UP Young Lola and Old Glory Miss Comes Across They mate quite a team—charming Lola Valenti, member of With Pay Upping Boston's Local 229 and employed in Nat Goodman’s shop, who W ITH FRAMINGHAM came as delegate to East-West Massachusetts Cotton Garment MACKINTOSH PLANT Conference in Springfield. Saturday. October 24. WORK A H E M , New Bedford, Mass., AT EAST-WEST MASS. CONFERENCE i Dress loins Popular ______| Price Association More than 200 delegates from locals of the East-West Mas- i ! sachusetts District of the Cotton Garment and Miscellaneous Trades Department gathered in Springfield, Mass., on October 24 to hear President David Dubinsky set “Through Unior: ~

“This Above All”

In the midst Of the Springfield, Mas... Colton Garmon! cc-.fab , is tin Max Chanslty. of Massachusetts East-West Dni'.ct Counc. takes | humanity. We can r time out to discuss wage -ales with Mollie Gp'duerg^Be^icc M k m n n i Belanger (chatried^.^ich r_ Com,.______‘ 111 war. >Yt_shall_Ur ROOSEVELT, GREEN TO SPtAK IN ILGWU LABOR‘CAVALCADE’ The voices of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wendell Willkie. William Green, Philip Murray and other leaders of A" * r,cac life and labor will be heard in the pageant of American tabor r IlOWtJ I ILGWU

'266" MEMBERS IN , CONTRACTOR SHOPS “It’s Sergeant OBTAIN VACATIONS Tllove Now Culminating months of nego­ tiations. the ILGWU and two I .os Angeles employer associa­ tions signed ■ supplementary 'gree- metjt. October 72. guaranteeing NO

Portland, Oregon, Stresses Bonds s a happy day in the Goldstein. Inc. shop in Portland wl >ger Manly Labby distributed war bonds bought by m.

West Coast Notes

Local 266, Sportswear and C o 11 o-n Garment Workers’ I UttiuH, , recently j held the * first ol its., regularly Jwlance* driving and. othel scheduled monthly "educational civilian detensf activities. . event of the month." The meeting attracted widespread commendation. Angeles Police Department I lng evacuation and air-raid ibershlp meeting ILGWU in Los Angeles

Intolerance Fought by ILGWU Pub- By Canada Unions E leven representatives of | lu| needle trades unions in Canada, llie union uiciuucu tix of them from ILGWU or-1 LouU Levy. Pacific ------ganlaatlrms. met last week at Ot-: Margaret Corain P ™ o f £ .... ; BIG ILGWU RALLY . with Elliot M. Little, director cal 368; and J. L. Goldberg, man wltich participated program. Members fo r GOV. OLSON, i AND AGAINST mi' One of Southern Californi greatest eleetion rallies on I half of labor's friends was “This Is Swell Idea,” Says Gob

Sclectlv

sympathellc response

-d s schcd- the Panflc

’resident David Dubinvky wot on hand to mal >£ th. ILGWU Hwlfh Labor sta9° nen too per cent official and. at aiwoyt, wanted t union was doing." Thit gob who hod "battened Buy bonds till it hurts—the ,( pratty ILGWU hostesses told President Dul - ,hrr 1,1941 JUSTICE

MOVIES FOR MORALE “SERVICE MEN’S DANCES” SCORE The movie spotlight will be tui HIT IN LABOR STAGE HALL home fronts of the United Nations in mentary” movies to be shown in day, November 10, at 6:30 New York II.GWU Edu­ cational Council meeting at 3 West 16th (Street, New York City/ November S, 6:30 P.M. jhayp.

108 Brigade Grads Ready for Civilian Defense hrr I , 1942

OUR BOYS SERVICES IN T H E

1 Dear Ben: j ... I like the army life very LETTERS ..... I ant getting all * can I itt of every bit of training I getgi 1 7 ". Vie then cut • branch oft , that I will become a good sol- , W skinned the bark and iwmmea ier and do my bit to wit, ibis om ,T We av. . . . Give my best regards y,m,. routed gang up on the sixth , nd Ui loo,____ ' I I’^nSTir, pit around I. Sol Mandelbaum (Local lHR) h>u nours before they - TRAGEDY OF MILLIONS SWEEPS I I S TORONTO CONVENTION AS WOLL, g g | H O C H M A N P L E A D F O R AID FUND Wlto “ V meat In , stirrillg appeal to the convention delegate, on October well done. ,+ ^ final day 0f ,he AFL 62nd annual gathenrtg. at Toron- canned"rations*'»«»' w**»re L ’ Ontario, Vice President Matthew of «he ------— etable dinner convention's committee on International Labor Relations, drew a he £ S l l pitlure of “da,km* an<1 billf,nSa and halre^ -t.h.al-.?-‘ - —1°-^: twon i ^spoae J OI K I S S w i , w . 1 , 1 the -- battlenelds - " c«•— ?.b

” uUd’ng up°of aTnlJ In B l^ ^ a P ^ e d J^ m c e against Axis pottees.’' 1 u,c unfortunate victims i rtwsed. Ih; I "6H0chm,n. ilowu ■ visr I bru“‘‘‘L . ^ mated into, „ , . dele*.!*. ,o the JUSTICE CUTTERS COLUMN * Union Officer Gets “Her Mark” LOCAL tO I Attention, Members LOCAL 10 the support of the American Labor Party and its standard bear Dean Alfangc. B“" ^ ...... '— REGULAR MEETING

fully outlined U'impartial chairman raear and ne|U«ee bra

ANN SHTERN. o.e i board member of Embroidery WorVeri' Union 315. Montre in., being presented with en identified' tion bracelet by Be Shane, general organizer, as she left for service with t

Installation Di November 12 ALT#/ CENTER

are furthered. It would make little .difference as the Republican preal. srd Appoints Dr* Leo Price Director . The Board of Directors of the Union Health Ceiite ober 15 and bv unanimous vote appointed Dr. L ctor of the institufion. Dr. Leo Price is no stranger to the Union Healit was practlcalljJjrouEht up In0------“------atmosphere of the Institution : lcms which are new to

lal period ahead. Health Center, President Dubtnsky called ILGWU Delegates to AFL Convention at Toronto, Canada

ILOWU decided

Air-Raid Drills Appeal to Cutters Earl; In t November I, 1942

iii|i§l|Win|ti> i'i . .FDITORIAL NOTES, To All ILGWU Members in Neu> York Hying labor, organ There ere only « few day* left before Eleo the salaried groupi people of the State Moat of you, reader, of "Ju .ti and ew Deal. Hi. merci- ILGWU member., have .upported the Amer­ .t, the Farley candi- ican Labor Party from the day it w a. form'd iie functionary bereft of idea. in 1936. In .everal p art, of New York City ,d of Dewey, the Republican you member, of our union, have formed vacillating, time-aerving, get- the bulwark of the ALP vote and have fur­ ,rice office afeeker, has gained nished the organizational manpower which for Alfan ns of thousands of adherent, has kept it going throughout the years. of the State. You have supported loyally the American the belated endorsement of Bennett Labor Party because you have adopted it. .by the ’ resident, an endorsement obviously faith and you have trusted it. leadership. _ „ perfunctory discharge of a routine You have helped to drive Tammany out o obligation by the official leader of the party, power in our city for keeps, and you ha could not improve the hopeless cause of kept the banner of the New Deal aloft Farley’s candidate. This late-hour benedic­ this State in 1936, 1938 and 1940. Fo. tion Ky no means could erase the fact that minority party these are important a President Roosevelt, Governor Lehman and Senators Wagner and Mead all forcefully This year, with our country engaged in opposed Bennett’s nomination. It could not complishcd ? , life-and-death struggle for survival, the weaken the conviction among the m asse, preservation of the New Deal and all that Quite a few things, indeed. It called for the crea­ of New York citizens that the defeat of tion of an over-all board for military and civilian it implies to the common peopl. Bennett will vindicate Roosevelt’s prediction e urgent. Had the De­ strategy to. centralize ami coordinate direction of the that Farley’s candidate could not win and mocratic Party in this State chosen a can­ entire war program. It reaffirmed and reinforced la­ it will strengthen the President’s leadership bor’s no-strike policy. It approved the new economic didate for Governor who would be represen­ ,f the Democratic Party in New York as well tative of the New Deal, the American Labor stabilization program, urging that decisions on wages be left entirely to the National War Labor Board. It Party undoubtedly would have give *" ’** is time to vote The . It endorsed the Manpower Mobilization program, but iU„. „ „ t the Di------Ouir loyalty to the ur State has fallen into the hand! declared there is no justification as yet for job-freez­ nd to the c of independent , of the New Deal and of notorioui v Deal a ing. It called for full labor representation on all war politics points to on agencies. It pledged the six million AFL member* . aithful to its mission — to defent trican Labor Party e> and uphold the New Deal in the Emp.r. to buy another billion dollars’ worth of bonds in lol ! candidates headed by Dean 1 a r t State — the ALP nominated its own cand. of trade u----- ______i ROW C. relief agencies through the United date --- Dean Alfange ---- and has made Let nothing stand in the way of your go­ ations Relief Fund. direct appeal to the voter, of New York. ing to the polls on Election Day and making The ALP has swung into the politici It adopted a report calling for closer cooperation K,years your vote countl of tho labor..movements of Jlie . and arena,'. for th e first ti VOTE THE-AMERICAN LABOR PARTY n independent force Great .Britain ' and'vlowv- vciationships with • Pan- , political tifi 'upon f 'TICKET, BUILD LABOR’S INDEPENDENT mendoi labor. It endorsed bnion-managemem ro- h a. ' “ . I ™ , . , , POLITICAL FORCE IN NEW YORK, DEFEAT to speed full production in war plants. the electorate. Dean Alfange ed THE ENEMIES OF THE NEW DEAL. . In the and dynamic a campaigner as ever gi ords of Dean Alfange: c offer the political hustings of our State All this—and many other things, gone up and down New York carryin annas to evety high-faintin’ convention "whereas or message of militant liberalism to scor “resolve” merely because they sound well. All too fre­ quently these high resolves are unable to catch up with their own tempo. Still, the Federation is the ac­ “22 ” Artists — ,. , » - F" hf | i ” * : £ ..sr " s i r knowledged spokesman for six million vital, essential On Big Time scale. doubt whether people in the great American community. Strong or anywhere about town could be found weak, full-throated or muffled, it is the voice of work­ its "art show,” and has scored heavily. more impregnated with the spirit of honest,, whole­ ing America that speaks from the Federation's plat- On October 20, the flock of dressmaker artists—27 hearted zest. . ■ • Some of the talents are as yet fo""- . . of them, with but two men to relieve the solid female technically not very far advanced, but there arc paint­ And stronger perhaps than at any time in ilic-jjjg line—turned up with their oik, water-colors pastels ings that reveal excellent qualities.” seven years, since the internal rift has come to plague and monotypes right in the heart of the swank gallery Our personal angle is confined to a sense of genu­ the organized labor movement, the call for peace, the district on East 57th Street. They were taken under ine amazement over the palpable fact that these girls demand for unity has sounded forth from the Feder­ wing by United China Relief, with sale proceeds all excellent I of Local 22 actually possess the creative spark and ation’s platform in Toronto. It sounded more reso­ going for that immensely worthy ...... nant and confident because the AFL position in re- idea for spect to peace r.„. today—, — become...... sof »credit. W a "■ I And, as President Dubinskv observed at the stronger. John Lewis’ expected withdrawal from the We shall not attempt a technical appraisal of the opening of ‘he exhibit, CIO, which took place while the AFL was in session 140-odd pieces on exhibit at Ferargil Gallery. This 1 these girls and boys w.ll develop i great in Toronto, while adding to the potential list of md compete in the field of art with outstanding bidders for peace, has doubtless added bargaining raftsmen; rather am I overjoyed with the fact that strength to the AFL vis-a-vis CIO. our union-has given another group of its members With all that, those who now anticipate a brisk a chance for self-expression." msummation of the peace talks, scheduled to start This simple thought, in our estimation, epitomizes this month between the .AFL and CIO, are likely the union’s attitude in this matter. In aiding some of be disappointed. Observation from this conning iu members to develop artistic taste and inclinations, ver over a period of a half-dozen years has given- the union docs not feel it Is obliged to make ample evidence that the “mills of peace” in Amcr- “stars” out of any of them. Its true mission,- in labor ...... ’’ ’ slow. The personal education and in'the arts, it finds to be the encourage­ is the greatest single factor t ment of the greatest number .possible towards an ex­ pression of the finer human traits and gifts lying dor­ mant and inarticulate in so many of them. ayiCTORY . ... The 62nd annual meeting of the Our soldiers, sailors, and A Close-Up AFL .n Ton BUY marbles need planes, ships, Of Toronto wartime form. Hardly a resolution, tanks, ammunition, uni­ debate or decision during the tep-da, convention ' forms, and food.-You can touched on some war policy, activity or need. Even more impressive was jhc over-all mow help to supply thcn •s bonds solemnity that prevailed through the score of sessi buying’ war s The old-fashioned brand of flag waving was < and stamps. plctcly absent. Too often, from the platform from the floor, came ominous v it the road