Bitter Union Battle Over Reds In America
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Received Fridav 8.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 3. One of the bitterest battles in United States labour history loomed today as the Congress of Industrial Organisations' exeeutive board issued a charter to the new Electrical Workers' Union to replace the old Left Wing union which the C.I.O. \xpelled yesterday for 'i1-, following a Communist party line on foreign and domestic issues. The new union has been called Ihe International Fnion of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers and has a prominent C.I.O. official, Mr James Carev, as its temporary chief. Mr Carev said the union would ask all emplovees holding current contracts with the expelled union to break them ar.J sign up with the nevv union. He called on members of the Left Wing union to join his group. Branches of the expelled Unite-J Electrical Union throughout the nation arranged ballots to determine which union the members would choose, The whole question "of which union owns members' contracts and funds' is expected to be aired in the courts for a long time.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1949, Page 5
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