WE . . . must resort to all sorts of stratagems, artifices, illegal methods, to evasions and subterfuges . . . to get into the trade unions, to remain in them, and to carry on Communist work within them at all costs."
So wrote Lenin, and Communists obediently burrowed deep into U.S. labor unions in the '30s. Since then, the A.F.L. has cleaned house; by 1950, eleven Communist-run unions had been thrown out of the C.I.O. But Communist labor bosses, despite exposure of their Red ties by congressional committees, have managed to keep...
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