Members of the A.F.L.'s beefy executive council had cat-footed through the first stages of their convention in San Francisco, nervously aware of a cloud, no bigger than a ham, hanging on the horizon. The cloud was John L. Lewis, eleventh vice president of the A.F.L.
John was determined to take the A.F.L. headlong into a struggle with the Government over the Taft-Hartley Act. The council was just as opposed to the Act as he was, but unwilling to fight on John's line, which was a technicality over signing an anti-Communist affidavit. The council members wanted to avoid the issue by wiping out...
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