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Sympathizers & Friend. Philadelphia had experienced a Communist technique of creating turmoil. Thousands of union men & women and their sympathizers had been goaded to rebel against constituted authority, in legal robes and in blue uniforms. The police, when the violence had come, had added to it by eagerly swinging their clubs (see cut). An orderly strike had suddenly been turned into a bitter battle.
Labor's good friend in Philadelphia, J. David Stern's New Dealish Record, addressed an "emergency call" to C.I.O.'s anti-Communist Boss Phil Murray. Said the Record: Philadelphia's electrical workers "have been so misled that they are flatly defying our courts and all constituted authority. . . . Constituted Government has only one answer to that. We've tried to tell this to the C.I.O. leaders. No go. Maybe they will listen to you. We hope so. For the sake of the C.I.O., and the future of the labor movement in America."