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Speaking in his dual role as head of the CIO and the 850,000 United Steel Workers after a clearing house conference with Albert Fitzgerald, president of the 600,000 United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers and Walter Reuther, boss of 900,000 United Auto Workers, Murray said...
Fish for the Right. As usual, a big problem was the Reds. Communism had always plagued the C.I.O., infesting many of its unions, dominating some. Right-wingers like the autoworkers' Walter Reuther hollered for the radicals' heads, but Murray managed to quell any Red-hunt. Not that he was in sympathy with Communism. But he was afraid that an open attack on them would upset everything. As he said to a meeting of his sub-chieftains, Communist-dominated unions make up 20% of C.I.O. membership. The Communists are in all unions, he said, and they have...
Jolt for the Left. But the Reutherites were still not satisfied. Murray made a diplomat's gambit. He appointed a committee to draw up a resolution which would satisfy the right wing and not offend the left. The six-man committee was delicately balanced. From the right wing: Reuther; Milton Murray* of the Newspaper Guild; onetime Socialist Emil Rieve of the textile workers; from the left: the furriers' Communist boss, Ben Gold; red-hot Michael Quill of the transport workers, who has been denying for years that he is a Communist; the white-collar workers' pink Abram...
...mixture of fear, frustration and anger was expressed in many ways. In Cleveland, U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther announced that contracts covering 400,000 of his autoworkers would be reopened promptly-a statement that increased the possibility of a new wage scrimmage. Some people trembled to think what would happen if federal rent controls were dropped. And some were beginning to shift uneasily at the prospect that the booming U.S. was in for a recession, if not a bust (see BUSINESS...
...George Addes. 4. Walter Reuther...