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Lewis was there to oust Murray from the vice-presidency he had held for 20 years in the Mine Workers' Union. The formal basis for the ouster: Murray had accepted other offices. (He is the new president of C.I.O.'s United Steelworkers of America.) Real reason: they had finally parted company over John's political beliefs. This moment was Angry John's vengeance...
...certainly an eye-opener for us, for until then I always thought that this demand to oust us from the sunny Southern California was nothing but a dirty scheme by some of our local politicians. But I now realize the awful necessity of us getting out of the coast as soon as possible and I do believe that it is our duty to move inland so that we may relieve the Army the burden of keeping watch over us when it must concentrate its full power on guarding the important coast. This is a fight to finish and our fate...
...white of the A.F. of L. to turn their collars around last Thursday at their Seattle convention and come out for a "program of wiping out racketeering and crime wherever it may exist" in their union! And how sincere of them simultaneously to oust George E. Browne, President of the Stage Employees and Motion Picture Employes Union now on trial in New York for extorting $550,000 from four motion picture companies, from the A.F. of L. Executive Council...
...compact, fast-stepping minuscule minority seized control, persuaded the delegates to kill every anti-Red resolution Mr. Carey suggested. Carey-men on the floor flopped helplessly. The radicals argued that Carey had too many jobs, climaxed the session by getting the electricians to short-circuit Carey and oust him from the presidency...
...national director of organization, did. From a hotel room Haywood proceeded to pull strings. There were plenty to pull. Big and lusty as it was, U.A.W. was split by factionalism. On one side were Walter Reuther and Dick Frankensteen, who were determined to purge U.A.W. of Communists and oust wavy-haired, black-browed George Addes from his job as secretary-treasurer. On the other side was saturnine Mr. Addes and some shadowy figures in dark corners...