Chill for Lewis

> The big-to-bursting auto workers' union, at the end of a blustery, roof-raising convention in Buffalo, last week pledged to Philip Murray support for reelection as president of C.I.O. Thus were chilled any hopes that John L. Lewis had nursed of wading in and regaining control of C.I.O. with the aid of the auto workers. Meanwhile Right-wingers, led by redheaded Walter Reuther won voting control of the auto union's executive board, and the delegates, who represented over half a million workers in or on the fringe of the defense program, backed the Administration's foreign policy, called for aid to all foes of Hitler. Communists, along with Fascists and Nazis, were barred from holding office.

> Still strike-shut were the vast Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. yards at Kearny, N.J. (TIME, Aug. 18). Blame for the tie-up was placed squarely on management by the National Defense Mediation Board when Federal rejected the Board's recommendation for a settlement. From the Administration came an ultimatum: accept the Board's finding or else--the Navy would step in, become boss.

> Ended was a week-long strike at Curtiss-Wright's propeller plant in Caldwell, NJ. A.F. of L. machinists agreed to go back to work while the Mediation Board weighed their grievances.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.