"The Time Has Come"

C.I.O. President Philip Murray shocked his executive council last week. They were meeting behind closed doors to discuss the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union. A fight to overthrow the union's Communist-hitched leadership ended recently in the secession of the union's right wing. Murray asked the council for unanimous approval of a peace plan under which leaders of both sides would be booted out and replaced by outside administrators.

When 27 voted for it and eight against it,/- a livid Phil Murray, who has wavered over the issue of Communism in the C.I.O. for a long time, wavered no longer. Said he: "Any man who goes into a shop ostensibly as the representative of the workers and then devotes his time to furthering the interest of the Communist Party is a goddam traitor. I'm tired of defending Communists and I'm tired of hearing C.I.O. officials defend them. The time has come to kick them out wherever and whenever we find them."

/-Communist Ben Gold, of the furriers; Communist-wired Julius Emspak, of the electrical workers; Mike Quill, of the transport workers; Joe Selly, of the communication workers; Max Perlow, of the furniture workers; J. F. Jurich, of the fishermen; Reid Robinson, of the mine, mill & smelter workers; Howland Berne, of the office & professional workers -- all Communist-liners.

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