Word: prolabor
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...grip Ed Crump has held on Tennessee's U.S. Senators for the last 15 years.* The man who dared the Boss's revivalist anger and self-righteous vituperation was big (6 ft. 3 in.) Yale-trained Estes Kefauver of Chattanooga, a hard-working Congressman with a prolabor, New Dealish record. "Red Pet Coon." Able, 44-year-old Estes Kefauver jumped into the senatorial primary fight last winter when Mister Crump gave the boot to servile Senator Tom Stewart and hand-picked John Mitchell, a hill-country judge, as his candidate (TIME, Dec. 22). Stewart decided to run anyway...
...short, the Cuban electorate approved Grau's strongly prolabor, socialistic program which had included Government seizure, retention and operation of factories, fuel supplies, and trolley lines. The election results also proved that the Communists had the power to deliver the labor vote in smashing style...
...effect, Murray was putting the kibosh on the eight years of pleas and proposals to merge the A.F. of L. and C.I.O. Murray now proposed: let's fight side by side for prolabor legislation, and forget about reunions. Phil Murray was obviously not worried about C.I.O.'s future-not only because of its 5,000,000 membership but on account of its proved political power at the polls. And Murray also believed that C.I.O. ambitions for vast, industry-wide bargaining units could never be reconciled with the old-line A.F. of L. craft-union idea...
...When New York City's experimental, ad-less tabloid PM was born, few newsmen expected it to last long. This week PM is three years old and growing. Its policy is still the same: pro-underdog, proLabor, pro-Roosevelt. Its circulation has gone up since its 70,000 low near 1940's end, but is still a long haul from the estimated 250,000 PM needs to get into the black...
Last week U.S. legislatures, sitting in 34 states, were mainly taking action against the Government. Nine of them had passed or were considering anti-labor bills. As legislatures they are not antilabor; but they feel the Administration is too much prolabor...