Last week John Lewis' trouble shooter, Philip Murray, assembled the top officers of C. I. O.'s automobile union for a seminar in Pittsburgh. Subject: order in the ranks. Object: to make the sometimes disorderly United Automobile Workers of America behave, lest the union's ill repute further besmirch the whole C. I. O.
Result was a letter to all U. A. W. locals from President Roland Jay Thomas and Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, proclaiming a set of "principles of responsibility." This noteworthy document was at once a confession of past sins and a command...
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