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Each year on "famous women night," women students of small, coeducational Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pa.) select a celebrity to honor. The college, which is in the heart of Pennsylvania's steel and CIO area, has thus warmly welcomed such ladies as the late Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Martin Johnson. But it proved too hot last week for the famous woman whom students chose to honor this year-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...
...company has a CIO contract, and when a union official died, President Heil closed down the plant, half-masted the flag, went to the funeral. Julius Heil thinks he has as much social conscience as any man. When he set out to become Governor of Wisconsin, he said he wanted to become the State's general manager, to run it better. When Phil La Follette cried out against his "money bags," Candidate Heil replied typically: "Sure I'm a rich man. And I bet you wish you had more vultures like me who employ men and provide jobs...
...stead they erected a permanent organization, whose full official title is "Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)." Man of Power. John Llewellyn Lewis does not expect to be seen clearly in his time, but he does expect to be measured in history. Seemingly undismayed by C.I.O.'s poor showing in last fortnight's elections, Mr. Lewis last week measured himself as a man of power. Said he: "My strength is only the strength of the multitude when the multitude gives me a grant of authority to represent it, but when they send their grant of authority, then my strength...
...C.I.O. organizers (and other dissenters from the established Hague order) speak, solicit members, carry placards and otherwise exercise their Constitutional rights in Jersey City. Politico Lewis declared it high time to throw all Hagues out of the Democratic Party, to arrange a genuinely liberal political alignment of CIO...
Philip Murray, white-haired head of the steel workers' organizing committee, chairman of the "peace makers" and one of CIO chieftain John L. Lewis' closest advisers, said previous peace talks with the American Federation of Labor would be reviewed tonight and future steps discussed...