CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) holds its eleventh annual convention in Cleveland and expels two member unions, the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the Farm Equipment Workers, for alleged “disloyalty to the CIO” and support for the …
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Philip Murray
Walter Reuther
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Farm Equipment Workers
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