Mere members are not admitted. He joins the group and immediately gets into an argument with the steel worker, who has just delivered a little speech on one big union. It is a good speech. It's the same thing with a union. We've got to have one big union.
Unions are bad when they get too big.
There are hoots from the audience on the railing, but he continues. The Old Guard is beaten and moves off in disgust. As usual, there was no news from the inside except what was bootlegged. There had been a test vote on a move to invite a member of the C.I.O. to come and address the delegates. The tide was setting in.