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...Congressman "Pat" Kearney wanted to get out and tour his Upper New York State district. On his first day back home in Gloversville, he had visited his widowed mother in the old white house where she takes in roomers. Then he had gone to the local headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, where, as its onetime national commander, he is heard with respect. He hoped to get out to see his constituents in industrial Schenectady, in the hilly resort country of Hamilton County. But first he had to face a union delegation headed by the C.I.O. United Leather Workers...
...union men seemed to be boiling. The Leather Workers rank among C.I.O.'s most leftist groups; they mince no words. Their program is simple: all-out support of Franklin Roosevelt and Russia. Bluntly their leader told Congressman Kearney: "Your labor record smells...
...Kearney had expected such beefs-he had voted for the Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike bill, had voted to override the President's veto. Now he defended his course, said he was certain he had expressed the will of a majority...
...check-up that day in Gloversville revealed that Pat Kearney was right. Said the manager of the Western Union office: "Pat had to vote for that bill. You should have heard the mothers and fathers of soldiers who came in here to send telegrams to their boys. . . . They were out for blood. They couldn't understand a strike going on, and they couldn't understand Roosevelt not doing anything. . . ." The secretary of a union local added a wry note. He had been ordered to write a letter to Congressman Kearney demanding a vote against the anti-strike bill...
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