| Show Inside Labor Real Hatreds Grip CIO Factions By Br Victor WASHINGTON T The There's Theres h e r es ea something about the hotel lobbies lobbies lobbies lob lob- bies and the C CIO I 0 headquarters headquarters head head- quarters where some of the nations nation's most powerful labor chiefs and squads of their lieutenants lieutenants lieu lieu- tenants gathered this week eek which recalls those western movie mo melodramas when two grim men stalk deserted streets ready to shoot it out There has hai never been so much bitterness so much subdued excitement so much rash name- name callin calling and so o frigidly furious a Phil Murray in the war between between between be be- tween the states of ot mind of the Communists and anti For days top C CIO I 0 leaders sent Murray letters and telegrams telegrams telegrams tele tele- grams of support in reply to charges that he and his union used thugs and worked with the Ku I Klux lux Klan Mart against southern Bouthern south south- ern Communist labor men Be Dc There For days energetic C CIO I 0 national national national na na- na- na headquarters organizers contacted unions from coast to coast alerting them to dispatch delegations to the showdown sessions in the big council room whose windows overlook Blair House yards Meanwhile all day Monday and late into the night ht the Communist C CIO I 0 leaders met in New York and conferred on tactics tactics tactics tac tac- tics until just a few minutes before the last planes and trains left for Washington Some of them took time lime out outto outto outto to further defy C CI I 0 O by meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing with Henry Wallace Vallace and joining him on the of ofa a Madison Square Garden peace rally Washington was full of secret memos and public posters used by the Commies to charge that the lithe C CI I 10 O 0 is committing suicide by attempting to discipline its Communist rebels Posters Scream From one such placard you get a picture of the modern labor civil war It displays a picture of drenched blood-drenched Maurice Maurice Maurice Mau Mau- rice Travis head of ot the proCommunist proCommunist proCommunist pro- pro Communist copper and iron ore miners union Wire Vire Philip Murray today the poster screams Tell him your union your membership wants raiding stopped today Tell him that at the C CIO I 10 0 executive executive executive ex ex- board meeting the mine mine- mill and other raided unions must be heard on this question Tell him that American workers will not permit their dues money to be spent on The lefty mine-mill mine union charges that Murray lieutenants Travis in a southern radio station Travis was waiting waiting waiting wait wait- ing to go on the air and broadcast broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast an appeal to iron ore miners to vote for hl his outfit against Murrays Murray's steel workers unions The election was to determine which outfit would cover the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co All the Details This poster set the raucous Commie tone here Travis it is learned has lost sight in his right eye as a result of the slugging he took in the radio station free for The lefties were here with full doctors doctor's details of the struggle to save Travis' Travis eyeball Since the Uie real issue is the Commies' Commies effort to pin the assault assault assault as as- sault directly on Murray who was 1500 miles away the antiCommunists antiCommunists antiCommunists anti- anti Communists unions kicked like e rodeo steers Typical of the leftist attitude is what this column was told by a spokesman for the proCommunist proCommunist proCommunist pro- pro Communist Food and Tobacco Workers Fear Murray Power As far as were we're concerned there is no possibility of our bolting C CIO I 0 at this time he asserted in reply to a question on his unions union's tactics You notice at his last convention convention convention con con- longshoreman Harry Bridges went out of his way to stress his loyalty to C CI I 0 O itself The C CIO I 0 Communists know that once they bolted Phil Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray would surround their territorIes territories territories terri terri- tories with new unions and smash their old ones So the Commies decided that no matter how v hard the right wing would spit In their faces the left wing would say it was raining Copyright N. N Y Post Corp |
