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Labor vote looms in Pennsylvania election battle
Philadelphia dispatch surveys how labor blocs sway Pennsylvania voters in next week’s election. CIO AFL and United Mine Workers total about 1.2 million members influencing registrations while leaders clash over Taft Hartley law and Truman re election hopes. GOP and Democratic chiefs predict varied margins for major cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
FDR
CIO
AFL
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Philip Murray
Pittsburgh
Roosevelt
GOP
Hugh D. Scott Jr
U. S. House of Representatives
Philip Mathews
Dewey
J. W. Gitt
Henry Wallace
Big City
Pittsburg
James J. Malone Jr
Steel City
Bernard M. McGinnis
James Finnegan
William Meade