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Unanimously, the Court upheld the Arkansas "right to work" law which makes criminal any use of force, threat, or violence to prevent, try to stop, or aid in stopping a worker from engaging in a legal occupation. The CIO was appealing the case for two of its members, convicted by their state...
Archibald MacLeish '19, Boylsotn Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, will be toastmaster of a dinner given by the Americans for Democratic Action in honor of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. Principal speakers will be Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO's president, and Elmer Davis, radio commentator...
...same interview system that gives this book strength and color also makes it something less than an impartial work. Mr. Alinsky, who is a long-time acquaintance of Lewis, tends to over-emphasize his central character at the expense of the other men with whom the founder of the CIO has dealt...
...pushed his organizers through the tough "Little Steel" campaigns cannot be dismissed as a Lewis stooge without considerable evidence. Mr. Alinsky fails to point out that Murray may have been far more representative of the sentiments of labor than was Lewis when Murray took over the CIO, and that he certainly has followed since then a policy more sensitive to the needs and desires of the country than the course followed by Lewis...
Lewis' insuperable urge for power, which helped him break away from the AFL in 1935 and from his own CIO after 1940, is fully displayed here with considerable objectivity. Mr. Alinsky, though an intimate of Lewis, is keenly aware of his subject's personal weaknesses, and deals fairly with them; it is on the level of policy and politics that there seems to be unfairness...