Word: cio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussion of "How Can We Mitigate Industrial Strikes" is billed for January 30. The Forum has invited Reuther, new head of the CIO; Fred Hartley, co-author of the Taft-Hartley Law; and Martin Durkin, newly-appointed Secretary of Labor. No replies have been received yet, however...
...CIO divided into two rival camps yesterday in a convention eve tug-of-war over choosing a successor to the late CLO President Philip Murray...
...fending factions were headed by Allan S. Haywood, the CIO's executive vice-president, and 45-year-old Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, the CIO's largest union...
...typical Democratic bogey is the Taft-Hartley law. Democrats have pledged to repeal and rewrite the law, while Republicans would add the 22 liberalizing amendments proposed by Senator Taft three years ago. Since a new Democratic law as proposed by the CIO includes these amendments, the final legislative product will be almost the same no matter who wins...
...mayor of highly industrial Toledo, DiSalle was unusually successful in reconciling labor-management disputes. Summoned to Washington last year for the thankless job of administering price controls, DiSalle amazed pressure groups with his independence. He talked wage controls to the CIO convention. In front of Southern Congressmen, he complained that cotton was not a commodity, but a theology." Dubbed "the fat man in the hot seat," DiSalle failed to freeze prices, but won the nation's sympathy and chuckles...