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Christian Trade Unions than their are of the (Confederal Generale.) We'll say it's due to personal views.

Anyhow, these Josist headquarters were good because they offered a clubhouse, for instance, to their members--a really good club where people coming into the city work, who hadn't yet found a place to live and settled down to it, could stay. You got a nice little bit of a room--a cubicle, to be sure, but a decent clean room--and a good breakfast and a good dinner for a minimum charge. I forget now what it was but it was very minimum. Young men and young women coming to the city for the first time settled in there until they found some suitable living arrangements, and some lived there for as much as a year.

Also in this clubhouse there were all kinds of activities-- social activities, artistic activities, music. You could always get tickets for large concerts in the cities, through the headquarters, through the club. It reminded me in a strange way--although it was not so vigorous and lively--of the old headquarters of the International Lady Garmet Workers, when they set up their health center over on East 30 --something-- Street. People coming and going all day long, children taking music lessons, all that sort of thing. There was a great deal of that in it.

I did not see any of that at the Socialist Trade Union headquarters, although I went there. But I'm told that in





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