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...years the huge (1,100,000 members) United Steelworkers of America (A.F.L.-C.I.O.) and the small (40,000) but noisy International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Independent) have been deadly enemies. The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union goes back to the turn of the century and a 1905 hookup with the radical left's "Wobbly" movement and its leader, William ("Big Bill") Haywood. In 1917, Haywood jumped a $20,000 bond and fled to Russia rather than face charges of violating the Espionage Act. Half his ashes now rest in the Krem lin Wall, the other...
...however, the two old rivals have signed a mutual assistance pact, agreeing to observe each other's contracts and to quit raiding; meanwhile, talks leading toward complete merger, as the United Steelworkers of America, would go on. Why? And why now? Said a Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers official: "Everywhere you look, unions are finding it necessary to get together and present a united front against ever bigger financial and management empires...
Died. Francis Adams Cherry, 56, a former Arkansas Governor (1953-55), chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, who led the probe of the once powerful International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, in 1961 found it Communist-infiltrated; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Tenn., while a high school student of 15, alternated three-month stints of work and study to graduate as an electrical engineer from the University of Tennessee. For the next 18 years, Harper moved slowly up through the ranks; then his strong performance as works manager of an aluminum smelter at Rockdale, Texas, propelled him to Alcoa's Pittsburgh headquarters in 1955. Eight years later, he was elected president, a job that ROW pays him $155,000 a year. An incessant telephone salesman who keeps his desk clean of paperwork, Harper spends nearly half his time on flying trips...
...Communists to register as an organization, it can still persecute individuals whom it believes are party members. Furthermore it is free to take action against "front" groups and "infiltrated" organizations. Already the SACB has ordered two dozen such groups to register, including the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers and the United Electrical Workers...