Word: helstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Purpose of the meeting: to discuss why Meany still refused to seat Ralph Helstein, president of the C.I.O.'s packinghouse workers' union, on the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
Executive Council. Helstein was the unanimous choice of the C.I.O.'s leaders to fill the seat vacated several months ago by a retiring C.I.O. man. But Meany had vetoed the choice, arguing that Helstein's union had in years past been tinged with Communist membership...