Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carey . . ." Fitzgerald shouted back, "you are not going to confuse the minds of these delegates . . . We want to stay in the C.I.O...
...Else. The party-liners rolled on. Burly President Fitzgerald rode victoriously into another term by a vote of 2,335 to 1,500; Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and James J. Matles, the U.E.'s top organizer, rode back in with him. Then the triumphant triumvirate threw down a six-point ultimatum to Phil Murray. Its net: punish other C.I.O. unions for "raiding" U.E. membership ranks-or else...
Washington strategists were optimistic. "We had to get them out of Washington," explained a Labor Department conciliator. "Murray was too far out on the limb to crawl back and the steel companies were fast getting into the same position on the opposite limb. Local bargaining may turn up something that can be made to fit the entire industry...
...time for the vote neared, Oregon's Wayne Morse, his back severely wrenched in a racing accident, was carried into the Capitol on a stretcher and appeared in the Senate in a wheelchair to cast his vote for the bill. The Administration was rallying every last supporter. In the end, George's proposed $500 million cut was defeated by a comfortable margin...
...done at the last seven U.E. conventions, the C.I.O.'s slim little Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey moved into the convention hall with a slate of right-wing candidates and a do-or-die campaign to unseat the Reds and bring U.E. back into the C.I.O. parlor. But, although he had collected the biggest bloc of votes since the Communists bounced him out of the U.E. presidency eight years ago, Jim Carey's words were still louder than his deeds. With mounting rage he stormed against the well-laid plans of the left-winger's President Albert...