LABOR: Biggest Headache

The A.F.L.-C.I.O. has no bigger head ache than its biggest union, the 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, some of whose top officers have a weakness for the good deal, wherever found.

Last week the Teamsters were obviously on the mind of doughty David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a member of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ethical-practices committee. Said Dubinsky at the opening session of the I.L.G.W.U.'s 29th triennial convention in Atlantic City: labor leaders who double as businessmen in the same fields are "immoral, unethical, unfit to serve the labor movement." Though he named no names, none in...

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