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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phil Murray did. He wanted to get the Henry Wallace issue out in the open, and, if possible, get it settled. He asked the board to approve a resolution condemning a third-party presidential campaign. Such a campaign, he said, "bodes nothing but ill for labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Black & White | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...This, as Phil Murray knew it would, set off one of the most savage debates the C.I.O. has ever known. Harry Bridges, Communist-line boss of 75,000 West Coast longshoremen, cried out: "I'm against this phony resolution! There's nothing for labor to do but back Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Black & White | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...nine hours, the hot words flew. In the end, the Murray resolution was adopted, 33 to 11. Then Phil Murray did something he had never done before. He made the left-wingers stand up and be counted. If the time ever came-and it might come before the 1948 campaign was over -when Phil Murray felt it necessary to boot these left-wingers out of the C.I.O., he would have a black & white record to use against the likes of Harry Bridges, the Transport Workers' Mike Quill and the United Electrical Workers' Al Fitzgerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Black & White | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Even so, the left-wingers insisted that they would never abandon Henry Wallace. And they knew that, no matter what Phil Murray did, their ten big unions (with roughly 1,000,000 members) could make things rough for the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee and for Harry Truman. Snorted Harry Bridges: "The Democratic Party hasn't the chance of a snowball in hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Black & White | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Class. Phil. 20s. Latin Palaeography--Reading and Research. Assistant Professor Elder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Course Additions, Changes | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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