BITTER LABOUR BATTLE IN U.S.A.; EXPULSION OF A UNION
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (Recd. 6 pm). —One of the bitterest battles in United States Labour history loomed today as the Congress of Industrial Organisation’s Executive Board issued a charter to a new Electrical Workers’ Union to replace the old left wing union which the C. 1.0. expelled yesterday for following a Communist party line on foreign and domestic issues." The new union has been called the International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers, and has a prominent C. 1.0. official, Mr. James Carey, as temporary chief. Mr. Carey said the union would ask •411 employers holding current con- • tracts with the expelled union to break them and sign up with the new union. He called on members of the left wing union to join his group. Branches of the expelled United Electrical Union throughout the nation arranged ballots to determine which union the members would choose. The whole question of which union owns the members’ contracts and funds is expected to be aired in the courts for a long time.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 5 November 1949, Page 5
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