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Curran and Bridges were cochairmen. United, they won substantial wage gains. Big Joe was happy-but he was also uneasy. The reason for his uneasiness was that the top layer of C.M.U.'s officialdom was dominated by Communist party-liners, and in the midst of trade-union victory they were playing their own game, as slow-thinking Joe Curran slowly found...
...press conference in Manhattan, General Carlson and Russophile Singer Paul Robeson, cochairmen of the National Committee to Win the Peace, announced a San Francisco conference for next month to urge withdrawal of U.S. troops from China, withdrawal of U.S. support from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government. Said Cochairman Carlson: "The only democratic force [in China] is that being fostered by the Communists. People in this country don't like that word Communist; but I've learned it's wise to go behind words and find out about actions...
...Council Against Intolerance in America (cochairmen: William Allen White, George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour) sent to the nation's high schools a manual called An American Answer to Intolerance, instructing teachers how to immunize pupils against propaganda, teach them not to hate aliens, Jews or Germans (by teaching them to recognize their own prejudices, propagandists' tricks...
...accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference of Jews & Christians, a position left vacant by the death of Newton Diehl Baker (TIME, Jan. 3). Physicist Compton will be specially concerned with N. C. J. C.'s educational work, will consult regularly with his Catholic and Jewish cochairmen, Columbia Professor Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes and Businessman Roger Williams Straus, on broad policies of maintaining goodwill among the three great faiths...