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...Harvard branch of the Student Union, represented by some twenty delegates, merged into the much larger national organization, which dominated not only the general philosophy of the meeting but also most of the independent youth groups gathered there. CIO youth unions were dominant in labor policy, fortifying the pro-labor attitude...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.--CIO President John L. Lewis assailed the economic, taxation, national defense, and labor policies of the Roosevelt administration tonight, asserting that the United States is in a "war economy" which threatens involvement in foreign war or ultimate economic collapse...
Moreover, labor has specific grievances against the President, suggested the Harvard labor expert. Organized labor was prominent in winning the 1936 victory for the New Deal, and certain commitments and support to Lewis and the CIO might have been expected as "only logical repayments." But these have not been forthcoming. It has, for example, taken seventeen months of intensive lobbying to persuade President Roosevelt to write House Leader McCormack in favor of the Mine Safety Bill...
...immediate future, labor's bargaining power may well be strengthened, the Economics instructor said. Republicans must justify Lewis' endorsement, presumably by personnel commitments and by Steel's recognition of the CIO through contracts. The Democrats, on the other hand, will have to concentrate their efforts on wooing back the defected union followers of the Willkie-walking leader...
...long run, Nixon doubts that Lewis and Willkie are permanently mated, and feels that the CIO president may by 1944 be ready for a third-party move. This will particularly be the case if the next administration--whether Roosevelt's or Willkie's--does not "come through" as far as Lewis and labor are concerned. "It may be necessary to learn the hard way that a labor party is needed," Nixon stated...