Milestones

Last week Michael Francis Tighe, 78, resigned after 17 years as president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. Relegated to a back seat when John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization took over his decrepit little craft union and set out to make it a great industrial union of all the nation's steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), reactionary old Mike Tighe offered ill health as reason for his resignation, actually got out before the union's new blood voted him out.

Day before, President David Dubinsky of big International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union resigned as eleventh vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Industrial Unionist Dubinsky's reason: The craft-unionist A. F. of L. Executive Council had exceeded its authority last month in ordering the ten industrial unions composing C. I. O. to abandon their organization within 30 days or be suspended from the Federation.

Three days later, with both sides standing pat, the 30-day deadline came & went. Out of A. F. of L. marched 1,100,000 members of United Mine Workers; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; Iron, Steel & Tin Workers; United Automobile Workers; United Rubber Workers; Flat Glass Workers.

The sun went up on Labor Day this week with Organized U. S. Labor ranged for an historic civil war.

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