United Textile Workers Union elects new chief. Washington, D.C., May 10. Councile M. Fox, 36, newly elected President of the United Textile Workers Union, and Francis Gorman, former president who resigned. Fox has been a textile worker since he was 12 years old, and took the election by unanimous vo
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