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Robert McCarthy, an official of the CIO's United Furniture Workers, told a John Reed Society discussion group last night at Phillips Brooks House that the "real issue behind the recent CIO convention fight was not communism, but whether the so-called left wing unions were entitled to their autonomy."
McCarthy said that Walter Reuther and Phillip Murray were using the communist issue as a shield in their attempt to shackle any unions who were opposing Reuther's bid to succeed Murray. He also accused the right wingers "of making the CIO a tail to the Democratic party."
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