Show Inside Labor CIO Cia Engages Engages' 9 In Battle Of af Mail Sacks B By Victor Riesel V WASHINGTON Call Call ASHINGTON-Call Call it the theba ba battle Ule of the bulging mail sacks Call it what you will but will but by any name its it's the toughest propaganda war this towns town's seen in years Already the battle battle battle bat bat- tle has hurtled letters into the office of one senator alone and alone and soon the blocks block- block s square q qua u a r e congressional cong office buildings may be plastered with more And all as the result of the suddenly flaring war between the nations nation's most powerful labor Jabor leaders and known best-known business executives They've taken aken off the gloves in their struggle over repeal of the Taft-Hartley Taft law Jaw The industrialists have havo been using a sort of pyramid club technique to keep the letters rolling in on congress Now the labor leaders are going in for blunter action Some days ago C CIO I 0 chief Phil Murray dispatched a private prIvate private vate letter to every one of his topside officials and key lieu lieu- tenants They were told to alert the C CIO's CIOs I Os O's six million They were told in effect to prove that they really won the last I election And it could be proved I Ionly only one way by creating creating- white heat sentiment for repeal of the law they hate so 50 much Using the dynamic organization tion genius of his more hectic days Phil Murray in this personal personal personal per per- and hitherto unrevealed letter leiter made his aids personally personal personal- ly responsible for the success of a point 10 field campaign meetings 1 Ordered He alerted all C CIO's CIOs I Os O's pile driving units to get up steam for A cross country series of wide city mass meetings into which every union in and out of C CIO I 0 would be drawn At least letters or post cards containing personal messages to be addressed by every C CIO I 10 0 member to his hisor hisor hisor or her congressman Then families and friends were to be enlisted in the mail drive A personal visit of special C CIO I 0 delegations to every senator and representative representative-in in his home A call to all friendly organizations organizations in town to rally toC to toC C CIO's CIOs I Os O's support A special campaign to get clergymen school and college instructors doctors dentists and other professional people s sma small m a 11 businessmen political leaders of both parties and even public officials such as mayors and governors to turn heat on congress for repeal of the law law law- which now seems destined to tobe tobe tobe be wi with th us a lot longer than wed we'd have thought last Novem Novem- ber At the same time national C CIO I 0 headquarters is prepayIng preparing preparing prepay prepay- ing advertisements which the regional units are to run in labor papers and the daily press Typical of these ads is one which says Theres a fire in Washington They're giving the fair deal program a hot foot Your bucket of water is needed right away So write wite away How It Happened All this steam was gotten up in a terrific hurry Actually labor was outmaneuvered It had waited for White House pressure to push its program through congress But the White House couldn't deliver Meanwhile the industrialists industrialists industrialists indus indus- refused to take the November election as lethal The businessmen f frankly ran r a n k l 1 Y called for public support of the Taft-Hartley Taft law Heres Here's where the General Electric Co started its own pyramid club General Electric ran a questionnaire questionnaire questionnaire ques ques- on Taft-Hartley Taft re reprinted reprinted reprinted re- re printed it sent it to other companies companies com corn and asked executives to reproduce the the questions for their and in turn send them to other industrialists Radio broadcasters and columnists columnists columnists col col- col- col spread the question further asking their listeners and readers to send the answers to congress Results w were e ere r e startling Sen Ive Ives Ivea R R. N. N Y received clips Others got Sen Harry P P. P Cain R. R Wash was deluged with 1000 |