St. Louis' Bill Sentner is a labor leader who has never made any bones about his politics; he is a Communist and proud of it. He is a general vice president of the C.I.O.'s Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers and president of its District 8.
In 1936, Sentner organized a local at St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. The following year he led the plant's 2,000 workers in a 53-day sit-down strike, the second longest sit-down in U.S. labor history. But when handsome Stuart Symington (now Secretary of the Air Force) took over as Emerson's...
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