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...against the C. I. O. unions, denounced the Lewis bloc for affording Communists a foothold in U. S. labor organizations. At the last minute, since Mr. McGrady could not be present, George L. Berry, president of the Printing Pressmen's Union and Federal Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation (NRA plan-maker), rushed to Tampa as the Government's umpire...
...this will come only one sure thing: work for Ed McGrady. He has always been the New Deal's labor trouble shooter. Taken from his job as chief lobbyist of the A. F. of L., he was made General Hugh Johnson's labor-aide on NRA, soon after Assistant Secretary of Labor, began his travels from strike to strike. In 1933 he went to Uniontown, Pa. where striking United Mine Workers were meeting. In one speech he persuaded them to accept a truce and go back to work. In 1934 he spent six months on the Pacific Coast...
...hardly aware that it was in fact open-shop. Its working population had drifted in from rural regions where unions never existed. Indeed, many an automobile worker learned about unions for the first time from the lips of the boss in 1933 when company unionism was budding under NRA's Section...
...second addition to the campaign was Alf Landon's final effort to pin down Franklin Roosevelt on his intention of reviving or of not reviving NRA. Either stand would have cost the New Deal votes. At Madison Square Garden, twenty cheering thousands helped Alf Landon drive home his oft-repeated challenge. At the same place two nights later Franklin Roosevelt had twenty other cheering thousands to applaud his indignant denial of the charge that his intentions are unknown...
...effacing young Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger swung his venerable journal to the Democracy one day last month (TIME, Oct. 12), promptly reasserted its independence by sharply criticizing Franklin Roosevelt on two succes sive days, continuing to ask him such embarrassing questions as what he intends to do about reviving NRA...