LABOR: Lumps for the Left

Phil Murray did not like to see his scrappy brood of C.I.O. kids kick each other around. But Papa Phil could not have been very displeased at some of last week's infighting. Some of the C.I.O.'s Red-eyed bully boys—whom he does not like—were getting their lumps.

The Communist-cored Greater New York C.I.O. Council, which was noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and...

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