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...shirt-sleeved audience sweltering in the frowzy, faded yellow hall on Atlanta's Ivy Street included labor leaders from Texas oil fields, Alabama steel furnaces, North Carolina textile mills. They had gathered to be knighted for a new crusade. Up rose portly, grizzled Van Bittner, 61-year-old veteran organizer and director of the C.I.O.'s drive to unionize the South, to make the dedication...
Scorning a similar drive by the A.F. of L., Bittner announced an objective of 1,000,000 new C.I.O. members in a year. He promised to send 400 organizers into the field, said that $2 million had already been pledged to the drive. The C.I.O. field men, he explained, would be predominantly native Southerners, largely war veterans, would concentrate on both Negro and white workers. For a question on the connection between his program and Sidney Hillman's P.A.C., Bittner had an ambiguous reply...
Conclusions reached by the Green-Bittner experiments: viruses are now shown to be more closely linked with the cancer problem; virus-infected cancer cells are entirely foreign to normal mouse cells; anti-cancer agents in the serum cause no damage to normal cells...
Bespectacled Researcher Green, said to have been the inspiration for Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, works late in his basement laboratory with Dr. Bittner. The virus has been named the "Bittner Virus," in recognition of his discovery of the milk factor...
While their double-barreled discovery is unquestionably one more forward step in cancer research, Drs. Green & Bittner carefully point out that heredity, hormone influences and nutrition are still known to be factors in the appearance of cancer. But the relatively unexplored field of virus influence in mammary cancer has now been opened...