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Last week Clinton Jencks, international representative of the red-hued International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, became the second labor leader to be convicted of falsifying a Taft-Hartley non-Communist affidavit. (The first: United Electrical Workers' F. Melvin Hupman.) A federal jury in El Paso took 22 minutes to find Jencks guilty, and he was sentenced to five years in prison...
...including such giants as Westinghouse and General Electric, and has about 100,000 members. More than a third of the workers in plants of International Harvester, which makes Garand rifles and Army trucks, are members of the Communist-bossed Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers. The Red-dyed Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union has a strong hold on U.S. production of defense metals, from copper to uranium. Party-liners are in control of the American Communications Association, bargaining agent for 5,000 Western Union employees in New York, and Communist Harry Bridges' 75,000 International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen...
Liquidating RFC's $1.6 billion assets will be no easy job. RFC's rubber plants will be sold to private industry in the next year or two (TIME, April 27); its tin smelter and other properties will be transferred to other Government agencies. But with $832 million still outstanding in RFC loans that run as long as 30 years, the effects of the old Government agency will take a long time to fade away...
...Saskatchewan Labor Relations Board announced that it was certifying the Communist-led International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in two of the province's uranium mines. The federal government admitted that, under Canadian law, it had no alternative to installing the same Red union as bargaining agent at the government-owned Eldorado mines, the country's largest uranium producers. Mine-Mill, already solidly entrenched at Trail, British Columbia, where heavy water for Canadian and U.S. atomic plants is produced, has long been Canada's most slavish Communist union. Harvey Murphy, the union's boss...
...state police patrolled the streets keeping the peace. The enemy this time was a small group of moviemakers-some of whom are alleged to be Communists -filming a semi-documentary about miners. The picture, Salt of the Earth, is sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (ousted from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated), and the cast is composed largely of Mexican-American miners and their families from the Silver City region (TIME...