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...C.I.O.'s United Furniture Workers of America were in an uproar. Hassock-shaped Morris Muster, overstuffed (215 lbs.) U.F.W.A. president, had quit in disgust after nine years in the union. Two days later a Southern district president followed him out. Said Muster, 20,000 members were in open revolt. Their reason: U.F.W.A. had been taken over by its Communist faction; the new executive board was dominated by Stalinists...
Cried ex-President Muster as he packed up and left: "I created a strong union and behind my back these ferrets got in. . . . When they become officers or board members of a union they cease to be good trade unionists and become emissaries of Uncle Joe Stalin...
...story earnest Morris Muster told was a classic example from the handbook of Communist tactics. The first move had come, said he, as soon as the U.F.W.A. was born, in a 1937 merger of A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions. Communist-picked switchboard operators and secretaries were slipped in; they became the basis of an efficient espionage system. A sympathetic secretary-treasurer and educational director were maneuvered into office to give Communists access to union finances and membership rolls, control of union newspapers...
From This Day Forward, at the University. Intelligent enough to pass muster even by a Harvard...
Last week, on San Jacinto Day (the anniversary of Texas' independence), Aggies the world over held their first postwar muster. Wherever two or more met, they called the names of classmates who had died. But on the Texas A & M campus itself, where 10,000 mustered, the dead were so many (696 in World War II) that the list was abridged. The names of the four dead Medal of Honor winners were called. In strained, choked voices, four Aggies answered, "Here...