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unionist. Secondly, he was a Jew with a Messianic idea about a material world of sweetness and light and prosperity with everybody well-off. Every Jew has a sense of social justice, unless they're very, very perverted in some way. If they have any belief in their background and religion, they have it. It may be a half-hearted belief, but they get touched with that. I think it springs out of the Messianic idea that the Messiah has not come, but is coming. You are making the coming. The thing that's coming is a society in which everybody is happy, everybody is comfortable, material goods are ample for the needs of man, there is no backbiting.

The Jewish unions were quite identifiable from all the others in New York State. When they came into the picture, they always were for the legislation. They'd rise up in the AF of L convention and speak up, but they were only one or two unions.

However, I think that even Dubinsky was first and foremost a trade unionist. The important thing was to organize the union. I personally think that that position is right for the trade unions. The more I've thought of it, the more I've come to believe that that's the proper function for a trade union and that it's better to leave to the general public and to the proper authorities of government the





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