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Bald Frank FitzGerald, candidate of organized labor and of the Negro, came up from nowhere to win Detroit's non-partisan primary right under the suntanned nose of Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr. (TIME, Oct. 18). Then the fight grew hot. FitzGerald hammered that Jeffries' campaign was "based...
Black & White. Negro groups, backing FitzGerald, set up a Vote Mobilization Headquarters in Paradise Valley, Detroit's Harlem. C.I.O., which spent $30,000 for FitzGerald in the primary campaign, tossed in almost as much again. But the city's three newspapers were solidly for Jeffries.
In two previous campaigns, Mayor Jeffries won by a 2-to-1 majority, with the support of the C.I.O. as well as the white-collar and uppercrust vote. But this time the restive, powerful United Auto Workers (C.I.O.) wanted a man of their own. They picked FitzGerald, a balding Irish...
One vote C.I.O. did not have to encourage: the Negro. Rightly or wrongly, Negroes believe they received a bad deal from Jeffries in the June 20 race riot (TIME, June 28) and in the critical months since. And Detroit's politically conscious 150,000 Negroes constitute 9% of the...
Could Jeffries overtake FitzGerald's 37,000 primary lead in the November finals? Political wiseacres hesitated to guess. Jeffries' backers believe their overconfident supporters didn't bother to vote in the primaries.