Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1949 — Page 5

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: By PETER EDSON, ime: Special Writer. { {L THERE IS NO-MORE clearly-defined front in the conflict {between left and right today thap in the field of American labor, Old Treatment: Often {The €10 particularly knows it in a fight, with no fewer than Happy Relief 10 unions doing their level damnedest to retain Red: nfluenced When disorder of Kitlney funetioh permits leadership, ys Etta to yemain in your blood, | This 18 no new struggle. Like every other aspect of the com-

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Right vs. Leff Conflict at 55 Pitch in Labor Unions: we

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head, was so. alarmed, “at the wave of strikes~notably against Big Stegl and the 12-hour day, ‘and’ in the case of ths Boston police who created a reign of terror by. their strike for higher pay-—that he hurried home from ‘Paris; where Ne had been advising President Wilson at the Peace © Tonference. : President Wilson's return found labor so rebellious that he called a conferéwce-of management and union leaders. Labor's demands were made by Mr, Gompers: The eight-hour day, right ta organize, collective bargaining, free speech and a minimum wage. U.S [Steel teed off in a flat refusal to bargain; the Gom pers forces walked out. " The Commies were made happy

by this. A million, or oné-fourth”

of membership; quit organized labor, The .Communists quickly organized unions to gobble up as many of these rénegades as possible, ‘

The AFI, first tried to get rid

sof the Communists who sneaked

in in 1919 and 1920 when, in 1926, it formed a Committee for the Preservation of Trade Unionism, Some. of the Reds in such craft unions as the painters and the miners were driven out, But ne headway could be made among the fur. needlework, shoe and leather unions, » n IN THAT very who “admittedly tedly still is a Communist, ted a bloody strike "by his United Fur Workers. Goon squads swept through" the "New York: fur district, breaking up more than 50 contract shops, bribing police who

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_ half-heartedly tried to curb them,

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AFTER THE CRASH fn 1929, communism: gained ‘some stature and was able to work more openly WT organizing laber. Opposition to the leftists within union ranks sapped by the depregsion’s ghastly unemployment, virtually collapsed Observers generally agree that for

the 15 vears between 1928 and the

last months of the war, Communists had almost a Tree hand. Communists supported John IL. Lewis when he led the United Mine. Workers out to form the CIO at the tumultuous AFL convention of 1935. They quickly moved into the American Newspaper Guild, formed the year before, and when the new union affiliated with the ClO the job was made easier. By 1940 pinks dominated the Guild, with most of the support coming. (tome the

New York locals, The Communists considered the Guild the key to the American

labor union movement and to control of American public opinion as well. But by 1941 the Guild, by a referendum of its member. ship, had managed the first Communist housecleaning” by an American labor union, " n » AT THE PEAK of their power in 1939. the Communists could claim 300 high officials in more than 30 of the 40 American. international unions, Ten vears later they could claim control of only a dozen. They were the CIO in-

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ry ‘Wallace for President. - These represented a membership of 1.2 million, or about onefifth of the CIO's total. Only a fraction of one per cent of ‘this number could be counted ax actual Communists’ But at its 1949 National Convention, the CIO moved decisively to kick them all

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out and start over fresh with a clean anti-Communist slate, The Electrical -Workers—biggent of the left-wing unions-—was expelled outright and its Pres|dent Alvert Fitzgerald kicked off the CIO executive committee, So was the Farm Equipment w orkWhich hdd previously “been. ? ordered to merge with the Auto Workers and lad refused. A new, non-Com;ales_unfon Gf~- Internar: tional Electricdd Workers was chartered: ; The ‘Fur & Leather Workers’ unjon was ordered tried, although its president, Ben Gold, was not because: he admitted being a Communist and CIO President Philip Muiray ruled him ineligible to hold office on the Executive Board, ; : This wholesale - purge of the American labor movement is in line. with CIO President Philip Murray's frequently. stated belief that Communism has ne real program for American labor, Its sole purpose ‘is to promote the foreign policies of Soviet Russia by gaining control of unions spreading dissention, creating chaos, This the program which real American Workingmen and women have finally heen awakened to reject as opposed to their own best interests,

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