When 750 delegates gathered in Cleveland's public auditorium last week for tie 15th annual convention of the C.I.O., memories of 1952's bitter fight for the C.I.O. presidency still rankled. The United
Auto Workers' hard-driving Walter Reuther won last year's fight with 54% of the vote, and afterwards rumors floated about that some lesser C.I.O. chieftains were restive, that the C.I.O. was coming apart at the seams, that Steelworkers Boss David J. McDonald was getting ready to join up with the A.F.L. Teamsters' Dave Beck and the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis...
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