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...bursting auto workers' union, at the end of a blustery, roof-raising convention in Buffalo, last week pledged to Philip Murray support for reelection as president of C.I.O. Thus were chilled any hopes that John L. Lewis had nursed of wading in and regaining control of C.I.O. with the aid of the auto workers. Meanwhile Right-wingers, led by redheaded Walter Reuther won voting control of the auto union's executive board, and the delegates, who represented over half a million workers in or on the fringe of the defense program, backed the Administration's foreign policy...
...Lewis did not go to Buffalo himself. But an intimate henchman, Allan S. Haywood, C.I.O.'s national director of organization, did. From a hotel room Haywood proceeded to pull strings. There were plenty to pull. Big and lusty as it was, U.A.W. was split by factionalism. On one side were Walter Reuther and Dick Frankensteen, who were determined to purge U.A.W. of Communists and oust wavy-haired, black-browed George Addes from his job as secretary-treasurer. On the other side was saturnine Mr. Addes and some shadowy figures in dark corners...
...plain that Mr. Lewis was taking a pratfall. Showdown would be over ousting the Communists, beating George Addes, electing a new executive board with a Reuther majority on it. But the final showdown would be bigger than that. As the convention went into its second hot, tense week in Buffalo, behind the scenes the fight was on for control of U.S. labor...
...known as "the road that starts nowhere and ends nowhere," has defaulted four times in 66 years, spent 22 of them in receivership. It lacks seaport and gateway terminals, depends on other lines to feed it about two-thirds of its business. But its straight-sweeping main line from Buffalo to Kansas City avoids the congestion at Chicago and St. Louis. The Wabash was therefore one of the biggest chips in the great consolidation poker game played by the Eastern trunk lines...
Before Pennsy could get ICC approval of this arrangement, it had to overcome objections by the rival New York Central. Pennsy now owns a 30% stock interest in the Lehigh Valley Railroad (which connects Buffalo with New York Harbor); Wabash owns another 21%; and the thought of a Pennsy-Wabash-Lehigh tie-up gave New York Central competitive fits. As a fit-cure, Pennsy agreed to deposit its Lehigh stock, along with the Wabash's, with independent voting trustees...