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Others on the School Faculty included Augustus Tyler, Political Director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Palmer Weber, Director of Research for the CIO Political Action Committee; and the legislative representatives for both the Massachusetts AFL and CIO...
...slashed the prices of about half G.E.'s products (TIME, Jan 12), hoping to start a "chain reaction" of lower prices from industry and head off an inflationary third round of wage increases from labor. What he got, said he, was sneers and new wage demands from the CIO union at G.E. (which G.E. turned down this week), and price hikes by many another company. Said Wilson: "An expensive gesture...
...Conal, director of political organization for PCA, and James Loeb, executive director of the ADA, are also expected to garnish the list of speakers, while August Tyler, political director of the anti-Communist ILGWU-AFL, and George Markham, legislative director of the allegedly Communist-dominated Fur and Leather Workers-CIO are also expected to join the "faculty...
...newly-elected 40-odd-man national board encompasses all of labor minus the Harry Bridges-led splinter of the CIO as well as the young men in the Democratic Party and the now minority-representation of independent liberal citizens. Here enter Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ex-housing expediter Wilson Wyatt, and movie star Ronald Reagan. Eleanor Roosevelt looms a power behind the scenes. This total coalition's impressiveness stems from the fact that it is influence mobilized with the sole immediate political end of isolating Henry Wallace. To do this job and to elect congressmen who meet "progressive...
...everywhere at the Bellevue-Stratford: in the stuffy platform-drafting sessions, on the windy convention floor, hurrying down corridors, upstairs in rooms pointedly unlisted at the registration desk, all the panjandrums and small fry of big labor's leadership showed in full force. They were from the previously-hostile CIO, AFL, and powerful independent unions such as the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the International Association of Machinists. Phil Murray was present sub rosa for a brief few hours Saturday in one of those up-stairs rooms. William Green made his first appearance before any political convention, on the same...