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Meany: Find someone other than Helstein to name to the council...
Reuther: You have no right to veto the choice of the C.I.O. group. The Communist allegations about Helstein's union were cleared up long ago. Besides, you permit Maurice Hutcheson [president of the A.F.L.'s carpenters union] to sit on the council even though he has been convicted of contempt of Congress...
Meany: You deliberately picked Helstein to embarrass me and put me on the spot...
Reuther: I did not. Helstein's selection was made freely and openly. Meany: I don't believe...
...this point, Dave Dubinsky piped in with the suggestion that the two gladiators hold off and let their differences simmer until the next council meeting, scheduled for Washington in November. Thus the question of Helstein's nomination and Meany's veto was left riding. To newsmen next day Meany called reports of the argument "unscientific fiction . . . I don't think I ever called Reuther a liar. There are times that you say to a person that you think a statement they have made is not correct...