National Affairs: Krushchev Debates with U.S. Labor Leaders

CHAIRMAN v. THE WORKERS

"It is in argument," said Nikita Khrushchev to San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, "that the truth is born." In San Francisco last week, the visiting boss of the Communist world tangled fiercely with some of the top bosses of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in a private dinner debate that gave birth to little truth but made one of the classic give-and-takes of the

Khrushchev trip. Among those ranged against Khrushchev: United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther; International Union of Electrical Workers' James Carey; Papermakers and Paperworkers' Paul Phillips; Maritime Union's Joseph Curran; Oil,...

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