The C.I.O.'s ninth annual convention in Boston last week, which a lot of delegates expected to be a Donnybrook Fair between the left and the right, turned out to be more like a day at Sunnybrook Farm. Shrewd Phil Murray had it firmly under control.
For weeks, Murray had pestered Secretary of State George Marshall to come to the convention. Russian propaganda cried that the Marshall Plan was a product of Wall Street. What better reply than for Marshall himself to address the C.I.O. convention? George Marshall acquiesced.
He pleaded gravely for labor's support of U.S. foreign policy, warned against "vicious propaganda and...
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