Word: pro-communist
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Phil Murray threw the right-wingers a fish. Last week, in the warmup before the 630 delegates convened, he got the national executive board to change the rules governing state & city industrial councils. Many of these councils are riddled with Reds and have embarrassed C.I.O. with their pro-Communist trumpetings. Under the new rules they will be under strict censorship and surveillance by the executive board (dominated by Murray...
...Manhattan's sprawling 18th Congressional District is a verminous, crime-ridden slum called East Harlem. Its hordes of Italians, Puerto Ricans, Jews and Negroes have traditionally voted Republican. But in the last decade a new force came into power: the patchwork patronage machine of shrill, stooped, angry-eyed, pro-Communist Representative Vito...
...London, at a stormy meeting of 300 Labor M.P.s, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin won a resounding victory over pro-Communist critics. His foreign policy was endorsed by a vote of 260-to-6, with 34 abstentions. In a belligerent statement...
Albania's pro-Communist President, hulking, baby-faced Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hodja) knew that this week's constitutional convention election was in the bag. His 82 candidates were certain to overwhelm the 20 venturesome men who had turned up in opposition. So he permitted free and secret balloting, under a system rude but effective. It functioned admirably...
...trade terms as good as those offered any other power (i.e., Russia). Both the U.S. and Britain suddenly promised to recognize the pro-Communist Albanian Government of Premier Colonel General Enver Hoxha-provided the Dec. 2 elections were free. The U.S. added its own condition: its most-favored-nation agreement of 1922 with Albania must remain valid...