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Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-08 | Page 8 | Labor Bore Brunt of FDR Battle

Type issue
Date 1944-11-08
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Labor Bore Brunt of FDR Battle
Type article
Date 1944-11-08
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 8
OCR Text Labor Bore Brunt Bruni Of Baffle Bailie V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Nov No 8 UP CD- CD Labor provided the shock troops for the Roosevelt fourth term vic vic- tory From early until te late at the end of a n. shift or the start of ot one Americas America's home front army of war workers from factories mines and offices filed Into the polls to pile pileup pileup pileup up a record wait wartime me vote Spearheaded by the CI C CIOs CIO's I Os O's political political political po po- po- po action committee committees a n new force torce arose arJe in Tuesdays Tuesday's election for Cor the task usually performed by bythe bythe bythe the party worker The Tho P PAC A C emphasized the importance Importance importance im Im- of or getting out the vote and followed through in the heavily lly ily industrial areas arcas where Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt received his greatest margins by seeing to it that Joe Doakes the No 2 machine operator and his wife got to the polls polIs To Continue PAC PAO P A 0 Chairman Sidney Hillman told reporters Tuesday night that the C PAC CIO I P O-P A C is expected to con con- conI I I The election Is a stunning repudiation re rc re of ot the isolationist isola la- la and clement who ho based their campaign on bigotry and prejudice Hillman s said id lie We are proud of the contribution contribution tion to the happy result made by bythe bythe bythe the C CIO I 0 political action committee commit commit- tee and the national citizens' citizens po po- political political action committee and this contribution has been made by tens tens tens' of thousands of oC American citizens who participated in this most critIcal critical critical crit crit- ical of ot all aU campaigns It would be impossible to estimate estimate esti- esti mate what percentage of or the labor Jabor vote went to President Roosevelt Unions Union for tor Roosevelt Most of the union leaders were outspokenly for Roosevelt however however however how how- ever and their official publications I shouted for Cor his reelection for weeks past Their organizations worked as never before in this campaign Personal contact was preached by P PAC A C and it was preceded by bya a constant flow of pamphlets comic strips and fancy brochures numbering in the millions which reached into almost every pre pre- While Hillman and Philip Murray Murray Mur Mur- ra ray C ID I'D president were the chief spokesmen for this movement A F L President William Green himself a Democrat made no speeches but led the cheers for Roosevelt at the teamsters' teamsters dinner which formally touched off ort the fourth term campaign On the other side of the fence was vas John L. L Lewis who sought to break the presidents president's hold on his United Mine Workers
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