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There is the crux of the matter. Already a very active contributor to the "noncontributory" coal miners' pension fund, and with prospects of shortly assuming similar paternalism in behalf of the steel worker I don't see how I can conscientiously fail to do as well by the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker...
...month with a record that will re-elect him to its presidency--in the face of both the raucous agitating of such Communist-led unions as the United Electrical Workers and the growing political strength of Walter Renther, who gave himself a big boost by coaxing a non-contributory pension plan from Ford last week...
...other pressure points are being hammered by unionists John L. Lowis and William Green. Lewis, always pretty much of a maverick, has been attacking Murray for dropping the fourth-round wage demands that the mineworkers are after. (They already have a non-contributory pension plan.) Green, AF of L head, is using the same reason to knock Murray's handling of the CIO--like Lewis, he doesn't think much of presidential fact-finding boards, and is using Murray's acceptance of the report as a club to attack...
...very weak ground, open to damaging accusations that he has given up on the fourth round and is going along with big business. Now, Murray was undoubtedly right from a long-range point of view when he dropped the wage demands and stuck merely to pensions; but his locals won't see it the same way as the public. To them, it could be made to look like betrayal--if the United Electrical Workers' propagandists make enough noise. And in the background is Reuther, the bright boy from Detroit, who would certainly like the presidency of the whole CIO. Reuther...
...seems that politics and not economics will decide Murray's course, whether or not he is correct about the pension question. He may or may not be right; but he won't have a chance to reach his decision on those grounds. It is unfortunate for the entire labor movement that this man, who has played this one hard but fairly and wisely all the way, should be boxed in by his own people...