The 21,432 people who worked for him when he was president of Commonwealth & Southern make Wendell Lewis Willkie the biggest employer of labor ever to run for the U. S. presidency. Certain it was that before the 1940 campaign grew very old Employer Willkie's labor record would be thrown up for grabs. Up it went last week.
Drawing heavily on a special Willkie supplement issued by the labor-loving New Republic, Democratic Boss Edward J. Flynn issued a provocative statement on Willkie and Labor. Highlights: that Mr. Willkie's Georgia Power Co. spent $31,000 on...
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