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The New Leader endorses no candidates, describes its politics now as "liberal and democratic with a small d." It rejects pro-Communist pieces, but almost anything else goes, as Columbia University Sociology Professor Daniel Bell proved a few issues back when he took the In ternational Ladies' Garment Workers' Union to task for its anti-Negro bias. The I.L.G.W.U. happens to be one of the magazine's principal angels, helping to make up a chronic deficit that ran to $50,000 last year on a minuscule $150,000 budget. The union fired off an 1,800-word letter branding Bell's piece "entirely unfounded," but there was not a word of reproach to the magazine itself. No matter what the New Leader writes, the I.L.G.W.U., like most of the magazine's subscribers, just mails in its checks regularly.