United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers

CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions

1949-11-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

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 +1 more labor-suppression red-scare anti-communism union-busting mccarthyism +1 more