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Show 'Labor Leaders 4 Aware Of Power We have called attention to the recent remarks of R. J. Thomas, President of the United Automobile Automo-bile Workers, CIO, that unions cannot "tolerate wildcat strikes in war plants and still survive." Now comes David Dubinsky, President of the Initernational Ladies' La-dies' Garment Workers' Union, a powerful union, in New York, to suggest the elimination of racketeering racket-eering from the ranks of the American Federation of Labor by methods more effective than mere "moral suasion." Mr. Dubinsky argues that- the Federation has taken steps to prevent pre-vent communists from sitting in national conventions and. local assemblies as-semblies and that it can, with equal right, bar racketeers from positions of responsibility. These declaration, and others like them represent frank and constructive con-structive labor leadership. They indicate in-dicate that the leaders of organized organiz-ed labor are gradually becoming more aware of the responsibility that attends the exercise of power. |