Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Steelworkers' Union, second in size only to the U.A.W. among C.I.O. member unions, fought Reuther's election implacably, and the Steelworkers' candidate, C.I.O. Vice President Allan S. Haywood, was backed by more unions than Reuther. Among Haywood's supporters, however, were the smaller unions, such unlikely "industrial organizations" as the Barbers & Beauty Culturists, Department Store Workers, the Government and Civic Employees and the United Theatrical Workers. Reuther was backed by most of the big C.I.O. unions, including U.A.W., Rubber Workers, Textile Workers, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and International Union of Electrical Workers. The vote...
...this week's C.I.O. convention at Atlantic City, C.I.O. bigwigs had failed to reach a behind-the-scenes settlement of the rivalry between the two leading candidates to succeed the late Phil Murray as C.I.O. president: the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther and C.I.O. Vice President Allan Haywood. Barring a last minute agreement, the C.I.O. seemed in danger of having to choose its president in an open and probably bitter fight on the floor of the convention. Not until the C.I.O. re-established its own unity could it give attention to unification with George Meany's A.F.L...
...fending factions were headed by Allan S. Haywood, the CIO's executive vice-president, and 45-year-old Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, the CIO's largest union...
Leading contender for the C.I.O. presidency is Allen S. Haywood, 64, C.I.O. executive vice president, who came out of the U.M.W. with Murray and has been a close associate ever since. Haywood may be the rallying point for all those who oppose the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, 45, well-hated by Phil Murray's Steelworkers...
...Neither Haywood, Reuther nor anyone else in sight has the stature or wisdom of Phil Murray. By coincidence, both Harry Truman and Ben Fairless used the same term in eulogizing Murray this week. They called him a "Christian Gentleman," a hard term to earn in the vortex of a social storm...