Peace proposals have raised rows before, but this one took the cake. It was not so much the proposal itself as the man who made it: proud, devious, embittered John L. Lewis.
There was assuredly much sweetness in Mr. Lewis' proposal—that A.F. of L. and C.I.O. reunite, kiss and be friends—but there was a notable lack of light. Skeptical searchers soon claimed that they had flashed some light into a dark corner of the plan: an understanding between Lewis and the boss of the A.F. of L.'s carpenters, Big Bill Hutcheson, who is just as hardboiled,...
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