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Harry Bridges, head of the International Longshoreman's Union and leader of the West Coast CIO Union movement, whose deportation as an alien Communist is still pending, will speak to an Armistice Day Audience in Emerson D on "Labor and the War" next Wednesday...
...himself God's gift to the professional labor-baiter. West-brook Pegler can now re-fill his fountain pen and Carl Vinson re-wag his Senatorial tongue, for the President of the United Mine Workers has chosen to defeat Hitler by leading his 2,800 members out of the CIO...
...losing its divine shine and taking on the destructive five of the Machine Boss. In rapid succession, he turned against the New Deal, found himself facing opposition in the organization he had created, and resorted to a back-to-the-wall fight against both President Philip Murray of the CIO and President Franklin Roosevelt...
Before December 7, 1941, this country was seared by a Lewis-Murray split within the CIO, a CIO-AF of L fight within the general ranks, and a Labor-Management struggle within the nation as a whole. Since Pearl Harbor, two of those splits have undergone a healing process. The government has taken control over all negotiations of wage contracts. Both Mr. Murray and Mr. Green have sworn off jurisdictional disputes. And right now a series of meetings is being conducted in Washington by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, NAM, CIO and AF of L "to explore ways...
...John L. Lewis, starving for personal power at a time when group cooperation is vital, still lives in the thirties. Crying that "the CIO is trying to destroy your entire organization by criticizing UMW officers," he has taken the miners who first followed him out of the AF of L, and led them, with very different purpose, into a new camp. This time he is not merely bucking a Roosevelt or a Murray. He is bucking the combined will of American Labor to unite and cooperate in time of emergency. Under the force of that will, he shall be crushed...