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Goldstein, prominent Boston lawyer and instructor in labor law at Boston University, is expected to defend the bill against the attacks of Collins, New England regional director of the CIO...
Last week the Adventists announced at they had signed an agreement with the United Auto Workers (CIO). Adventist auto workers agreed to contribute the monetary equivalent of union dues to a sick-benefit or some other workmen's benevolent fund, and to refrain from backing either side in the event of a strike. In return, they will receive from the union a card exempting them from all dues, meetings and other union activities in any of the U.A.W.'s 900 locals...
William Ackerly of the AFL's Cambridge Central Labor Union and the Rev. Rembert Stokes will receive HTU support in their fight to reach the City Council. The Union will attempt to place the Rev. Kenneth Hughes and Dennis Sullivan of the United Electrical Workers-CIO, Lever Brothers local, on the school committee...
...vast transcontinental distance which separated this week's national conventions of the CIO and AFL is strictly coincidental in terms of organized labor's unity in the coming countrywide elections. On the surface the unions may appear a long way apart. CIO's president calls for a meeting "to formulate an immediate joint program" and the AFL hierarchy declines in a huff. But under the surface of intra-labor jockeying the plain fact persists that both CIO and AFL have common political aims in the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and the defeat of its Congressional supporters...
Fortunately CIO and AFL political action programs will work arm-in-arm in '48. But if the PCA-ADA division ever becomes institutionalized in the two sections of labor, a schism reaching into '50 and '52 will undoubtedly occur. Now is the time to search with determination for common ground. Philip Murray has demonstrated in the sessions at the Bradford this week that great leadership can find ways to unite divergent factions in a crucial hour. The Henry Wallaces and Chester Bowleses do not deserve a look until they too demonstrate this statesmanlike faculty...