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Lewis' insuperable urge for power, which helped him break away from the AFL in 1935 and from his own CIO after 1940, is fully displayed here with considerable objectivity. Mr. Alinsky, though an intimate of Lewis, is keenly aware of his subject's personal weaknesses, and deals fairly with them; it is on the level of policy and politics that there seems to be unfairness...
...strike of 2,000 AFL deck officers operating from Gulf and Atlantic coast ports, which threatened to tie up all shipping in the region, was postponed last night on the plea of government mediators. The strike had been called for midnight...
Little more than an hour before that deadline, a 30-day extension was agreed upon, subject to approval of the rank and file of the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots and the 38 companies making up the employers' group from Atlantic and Gulf ports...
...Commission is now considering a request made Monday by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators AFL, that use of high school auditoriums be refused to "professional or commercial groups" unless union men are employed to handle stage productions or motion picture shows...
...Harvard Teachers Union (AFL) voted unanimous support last week to the campaign to defeat "anti-labor" referenda 5, 6, and 7 on the Massachusetts ballot. The proposed bills would ban the union shop, require a majority union vote before striking, and call for annual election of union officers...