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...president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. On his 68th birthday most of the boys on the 29-man Executive Council, winding up a four-day meeting in Chicago, were throwing him a party. They all sang Happy Birthday, and nobody joined in more lustily than the Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther. Indeed, Meany and Reuther seemed as ebulliently friendly as if they had just signed up management for a 35-hour coffee break. But the fact was that Meany and Reuther, who hate each other's insides...
...clash came in Meany's room at the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel. Reuther had requested the meeting, and at 4 p.m. he showed up in the company of Dave Dubinsky of the ladies' garment workers' union and Al Hayes of the machinists...
...Reuther: You have no right to veto the choice of the C.I.O. group. The Communist allegations about Helstein's union were cleared up long ago. Besides, you permit Maurice Hutcheson [president of the A.F.L.'s carpenters union] to sit on the council even though he has been convicted of contempt of Congress...
...Reuther: I did not. Helstein's selection was made freely and openly. Meany: I don't believe...
...Reuther: Are you calling me a liar...