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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...
From the unsolicited recipients of this largesse came howls of dismay. Cried Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley: "We don't want them here. Why don't they go to Moscow?" His feelings were echoed by Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers, whose 120,000 membership is more than one-third Negro: "The Communist Party is about to go out of business. There's no place for it in Chicago or any other place in America." And from Manhattan's Dave Dubinsky, who had been individually applauded by the Communists in convention, came...