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...internal struggle boiled. Curran had the support of Vice President Jack Lawrenson and soft-spoken Treasurer Hedley Stone. Curran's enemies are led by three smart Communist-line operators: Vice President Joe Stack; Jamaican Negro Secretary Ferdinand Smith; weary-looking Vice President Howard McKenzie. Stack, Smith and McKenzie have one objective: to toss Curran out and realign N.M.U. solidly with Bridges and the Party. Curran, who once thought he could run the Reds-and sometimes even run with them-knows that this time he will be lucky if he survives them...
...feuds frothing to the surface last week. When the ballots were counted, Joe Curran, unopposed in the election, was nominally on top as president. But under him were four hostile members of the new national council of nine officers. Beefy, flaccid Fireman Jerome King defeated Communist Jack Lawrenson for secretary treasurer. Two others also were out & out anti-Curran men. A fourth leaned not so much against popular Joe Curran as against the Communist friends to whom he, though no Communist, turned for counsel in the union's early days. Eager to move in on Curran headquarters in Manhattan...