National Affairs: C.I.O. (CIO)

Dr. George Gallup recently polled U. S. voters on U. S. Labor. He found that 78% preferred A. F. of L.'s William Green to C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis. His conclusion: "The majority of American voters, particularly in the upper and middle classes, fear the power of Lewis and the C.I.O." Last week the frightened classes had a look at the man and the thing they fear.

John L. Lewis and 518 other delegates to a constitutional convention assembled in Pittsburgh to bury the three-year-old Committee for Industrial Organization.

In its stead they erected a...

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