CIO Gives Board Power to Probe Organizing Failures
CIO delegates authorize the executive board to investigate affiliates that have made little progress in organizing unorganized workers. President Philip Murray criticizes UOPWA and other unions for incompetence and calls for resignations, while praising UE and IFW unions as more capable. Durkin denounces the attack as an threat to union autonomy.
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Portland, Ore
CIO
CIO Executive Board
United Office & Professional Workers
United Public Workers
Uopwa Pres
James Durkin
Murray
UOPWA
United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers
Ind Fur & Leather Workers Union
CIO Demands Taft Hartley Repeal At Portland Convention
The CIO unanimously backs repudiation and repeal of Taft Hartley and urges President Truman and Congress to restore the Wagner Act. Delegates condemn the act as strikebreaking, note widespread injunctions against unions, and praise CIO efforts in the 1948 election. The resolution cites NLRB conduct and portrayals of unions as illegal conspiracies while praising labor gains and liberal policy goals.
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Portland, Ore
CIO
Pres. Truman
Congress
NLRB
Robert Denham
America
The
Communist Party
White House
Dewey
U.S
Cio-Pac
Jerk Charter of New York Council Revoked by CIO Board
The Greater New York CIO Council was revoked on November 20 as the CIO Executive Board voted 38 to 5 with four abstentions and four absences to seize its funds and property until a new group forms. Louis Hollander named interim custodian. The action followed a unanimous report finding the council interfered in international union affairs and discredited CIO policy and constitutional rules.
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Portland, Ore
Greater New York Cio Council
CIO
New York
Communist Party
Favors New World Journalist Group Formation Proposed
President Harry Martin of the American Newspaper Guild arrived from Europe and urged a new world group to rival the International Organization of Journalists. He suggested elements from IOJ protesters and Irish and Scandinavian unions might join, potentially forming the International Organization of Free Journalists.
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New World
New York
Harry “Martin
American Newspaper Guild
CIO
Europe
New World Group
Int. Organization of Journalists
Nout
U.S
Warmongers
Unian Ho
Uld
1OJ
Intl
Organization of Free Journalists
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Ivy
Philip Murray
Desegates
Daily Worker
UE Sec. Treas
Julius Emspak
United Retail Wholesale & Dept
Samuel Wolchok
Greater New York Industrial Union Council
Durkin
Portland
Ore
Dorothy Lee
Nail
Allan S. Haywood
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Emil Rieve
Textile Workers Union
van A. Bittner
CIO Southern Organization Campaign
Sec.Treas
Frank Rosenblum
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Federated Pictures
Jerk Charter of
Avier i
Aufdemkampe
Freeman Avenue
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