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...C.I.O. presidency is Allen S. Haywood, 64, C.I.O. executive vice president, who came out of the U.M.W. with Murray and has been a close associate ever since. Haywood may be the rallying point for all those who oppose the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, 45, well-hated by Phil Murray's Steelworkers...
...Outposts. Today, Soapy's strength in Michigan is built on a sort of right triangle. The base is the powerful C.I.O.P.A.C., anchored by some 400,000 members of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers in & around Detroit. The vertical side, extending far upstate, is the Michigan Democratic Club, founded by Soapy's good friend and law partner, Hicks Griffiths. The hypotenuse is the candidate himself. Each member of this triangular coalition is essentially dependent on the other...
What smart labor leaders-like C.I.O. State President Gus Scholle and Walter Reuther-really want out of political control is not patronage, because they don't want to lose their active labor leaders to politics. The P.A.C. is supported by contributions of its members, and neither needs, nor wants, political kickbacks. Nor do the labor leaders want political publicity. They have learned the hard way (e.g., in Detroit's mayoralty campaign) that the C.I.O.'s open endorsement can be the kiss of death. During the 1950 campaign, P.A.C. workers deliberately identified themselves simply as "Democrats," even...
What Scholle, Reuther & Co. wanted-and got-was effective control of policymaking jobs. At the outset of his first term Soapy Williams appointed as his press secretary and right-hand man Paul Weber, executive secretary of the Detroit Newspaper Guild. Weber was Gus Scholle's hand-picked recommendation. To this day Weber writes and edits most of Soapy's speeches, and thinks up the gimmicks of Soapy's "Build Michigan" legislative program...
...Chicago, Moody and Soapy were in the truculent forefront of the disastrous, disingenuous attempt to bind the South with the loyalty oath (TIME, July 28). Behind them, egging them on, was Walter Reuther. Moody's performance for the cause was the most appalling of all, for in his arguments before the credentials committee he became so mixed up that his ally, New York's Franklin Roosevelt Jr., had to straighten him out-which is like being saved from drowning by a three-year...