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Show Left-Right Fight Breaks In Electrical Union PITTSBURGH, Nov. 5 UP President Albert J. Fltxgerald's order reading right wing leaders out of Jits United Electrical Workers Work-ers union is being met Saturday either with defiance or with silence. si-lence. The order. In the form of telegrams tele-grams to individual officers, came Friday, a result of the expulsion of the U. E. by the national CIO earlier this week at its convention in Cleveland. The expulsion, on the grounds of left wingism. Immediately put the long-standing left-right fight out In the open. Officers of at least five big U. X. locals throughout the country have received telegrams from Fits-gerald Fits-gerald telling them they are no longer officers or members of the union. Some, like Clyde J. Bowmen, executive board member of 13,700-member 13,700-member local 601 at the Westing-house Westing-house Electric Corp. in East Pltte- burgh, have wired back defiant messages. Bowman, one of 14 officers '"read out" at Pittsburgh, told Fitzgerald: "Because you walked out of the CIO. I no longer recognize you as having any authority to tall me anything." There was feverish activity all over the U. K. front. In New Jersey, with about 0,-000 0,-000 U. E. members, seven locals voted to secede from the parent body and Join a new electrical workers' union. Just chartered by the CIO. Three other locals in the same state voted to stick with the U.K. Three New York state unions have decided to switch their allegiance al-legiance to the new CIO group. In South Bend, InL, 1000-member 1000-member U. E. local of the Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing Co. ' voted unanimously to apply for membership in the CIO United Auto Workers. . . i1 |