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...fierce pride, strutted five blocks through heat and applause, and girded himself to grasp the ultimate prize. Then, with cruel suddenness, the prize was snatched away. The Stevenson boom had never really died; when Barkley invited some labor friends, among them the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther and Jack Kroll, to a friendly breakfast, they carelessly told him the awful truth...
...worst black eye the unions had received at the hands of a top Democrat in many a year. The A.F.L.'s shrewd Dave Dubinsky, who had not attended labor's famous breakfast with Barkley, laughed at the discomfiture of the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther, Who had been a leader of the stop-Barkley movement. The embarrassment caused by the Barkley statement may have contributed to Truman's determination to end the steel strike then & there. Murray, furious at what his Chicago lieutenants had done, painstakingly drafted a warm letter of affection to Barkley...
...extreme way of dealing with the situation is for the Democrats to stick 100% with the New Deal and take their risk in the South. This, in effect, is advocated by Candidate Averell Harriman and by labor leaders like Walter Reuther...
Left wingers did not seem to care whether the Southerners stayed with the party or not. In fact, the C.I.O.'s Walter Reuther had laid down the line in a letter to the resolutions committee. Wrote he: "We do not believe the South will bolt, but if it so chooses, let this happen. Let the realignment of the parties proceed...
...Walter Reuther, whose article had described setting up "free" unions in liberated Russia, got a hot reaction from his brother Victor, who was in Europe on a union mission. Practically everybody Victor Reuther talked with was in violent objection to the entire series. Walter Reuther had hoped the series would produce some serious thoughts for peace. "The failure," he said in a letter to the Nation, "was due ... in great measure to the terrifying and horrible scenes depicted in the art work...