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There was no doubt about which side had Phil Murray's unspoken sympathy in another fight. Last week the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, the biggest Communist-wired union of all, cried out for Murray to do something about "raids" on its membership by right-winger Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers. A fortnight ago two large U.E. locals (about 4,500 members) in Hartford, Conn., voted overwhelmingly to secede from the U.E. and join a new U.A.W. local. Their reason: long feuding between the locals' non-Communist leaders and the U.E.'s top bosses...
...about it was to issue a perfunctory statement that raiding could never be condoned. That, of course, was meant to be a warning slap against any such shenanigans within the family. But to many a C.I.O. man it seemed more like a soft-gloved pat of encouragement for Walter Reuther...
During the months ahead Walter P. Reuther the effective political figure will need his new-found ability to win and influence people not on the production line. His role will be worth watching in Election Year, 1948. The "independent" voters within trade unions and without, who were formerly solid behind the Roosevelt symbol, currently divide into two camps of confused citizens sharing only restlessness and concern. Some intend to back Wallace to register a squawk; others may dislike Truman policies but will support him or, in greater likelihood, work for a better Democratic nominee, in the belief that a protest...
...face of a continuing pattern of Administration ineptitude and the emotional tug of the Wallace candidacy, how does Reuther orient his strategy? His chief emphasis must rest with positive assurance that there will emerge a politically successful alternative to conservative weighting of the Democratic Party. On March 3 the UAW consequently proclaimed its alternative: "formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party." Harsh charges are made against the Wallace move: that "this third party is...a Communist Party maneuver to advance the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union"; that "this party has neither the organizational...
Persistent jockeying for position looms ahead for now until November and especially for the year following. What if Wallace piles up 5,000,000 votes? How does the founding convention of the new progressive party crack that? Wednesday afternoon Reuther did not think these were issues. "We didn't necessarily mean a 'fourth party,'" he commented, "but we did mean realignment." Wallace's backing isn't going to hold and "in any event when the Communist Party gets through using him, they'll drop him like an old shoe." Reuther disclosed that the CIO will "very shortly" speak...