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Show One of the best manifestations that some Big Labor leaders feel they are above the law of the land is contained in the howl set up by Dave Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies Garment Gar-ment Workers Union when the Justice . Dept. recently secured an anti-trust indictment a fains t one of his lo-S cals and sev-; eral garment, manufacturers associations, s I Mr. Dubin- sky, in a fine.; rage, charges that the Justice Jus-tice Dept. is going back, to quote him, to C. W. Harder entered into an agreement with both the National and Greater groups which substantially provided pro-vided the same thing. In addition, addi-tion, the union and the National group, it is alleged, joined hands, to force non-member jobbers and manufacturers to either join the National group, or conform with the existing agreements which set up an allocation system, sys-tem, price fixing, and all the other paraphernalia of a cozy little deal. Then there was a big fall out of the boys, and for a while there was little observance of the price fixing arrangement. From here on out, the matter got very foggy indeed. It seems that although he had no connection connec-tion with the lady's blouse busi- i ness in any way, one Harry I Strasser, a convicted dope peddler, ped-dler, and alleged to be a former associate of Louis Buchalter, former head of Murder, Inc., somehow got into the set and was quite busy in negotiating a new deal all around in which all the disputing associations and the I union. got friendly once again. Under the new arrangement, ' by some curious quirk, the union entered into agreements with the I Greater and National groups i which provided among other I things, the allocation of the Na- . tional group members work among the members of Greater and Slate Belt groups. I ' Thus, according to Justice . Dept. the union took dominant role in enforcing allocation and price fixing provisions of the I agreements. ' , Dave Dubinsky has raised a I howl about Justice Dept. making ' all this public. i I He perhaps believes that the alleged price fixing situation in the blouse industry is a skeleton that should be kept fully clothed. the 1890's when the nation's antitrust anti-trust laws were not used against monopoly, but to harass unions. The backgr6und of his fine tirade ti-rade is based on lady's blouses. There are some 300 million dollars dol-lars of them wholesaled, most of them in the four state area of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Connecticut. Some four hundred contractors who sell to the wholesale trade in this area belong to one of two trade associations, named Greater and Slate Belt. These two have agreements with the IJ,GWU. In addition, the union has an agreement with an association as-sociation of blouse jobbers and manufacturers doing business in New York City called National. Now the Justice Dept. charges that an agreement was reached whereby National members were required to give all their work to members of the Greater and Slate Belt groups, and in turn, the members of these groups were required to work exclusively exclusive-ly for the National group. (Now Dave Dubinsky's union g Nitloml Fjdrrnlon of Indrpendf at buiift- |