The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-19
MURRAY GIVEN
 AN OVATION
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 we want Murray. we want Mur. Fay-Phil's our man."
 "Nothlng must stop the great worh of organizing the uEorganiZed." he said. "No, not even the national emergency"
 Closed Shop Defended
 Representatives of the mine work. CTS union arose to defend the con. ventionS support of the closed ahoI demands. John Mates, organizer iE district 50, branded the captive coal mine shutdown "the most justihabls cause now before the American peo- ple." Other speakers charged the public press with building up a phoney fight between miners and the president"
 "What about the steel compa. niese" John Mitch of the Steel Work. CTS Organizing committee asked.
 Murray halted this debate at ii:46 0. n. and recessed the convention to Thursday morning. Delegates were scheduled to tour Ford Motor company plants this afternoon. Murray and Kennedy were endorsed for resigning from the board in pro- test against It's failure to grant Q closed shop in the captive coal mines. Five CIO alternates of the NOME resigned with the officers.
 The conventions approval of the bolt against the governments de. fense Betup came As delegates began discussion of the entire defense ad. istration-mainly with critical approach.
 Earmarked for prompt attention were proposals repudiating the Na- tional Labor Relations Board and the once of Production Manage ment, in addition to the NOME.
 100000 Federal Workers
 Allan Haywood, director of CIO organization, opened the third day convention sess.on with an an- nouncement that 100000 federal employees would be the major target of new membership drives designed to bring CIO strength from 5000 900 to 100000 workers within i8 months.
 "There is as much intolerance practiced by some government offi- cials as by Ford and Girdler," he shouted. Haywood referred to Henry Ford, whose automctive industry now Is under CIO agreement, and Tom Girdler, president of Republic Steel Corp.
 Referring to the resignation of Murray and Kennedy from the NOME, the convention report said that "in establishing Q government tai policy of open shop" the board had made it impossible for labor representatives to continue as Inern- bers or alternates."
 However, the report preserved the CIos support of governmental agencies for solving problems of industrial relations. The conver1- ton intended to recommend the Murray plan for industry councils as a replacement for the present defense Administrative machinery.
 There was possibility that floor discussion might bring an attack on OPM Associate Director Sidney Hillman, president of the Omalga- mated Clothing Workers and a founder of the CIO.
 The comna..tee report made no mention of Hillman in citing Pres ident Philip Murray's accusation that big industrialist representatives n the OPM were responsible for critical lag in our armament pro gram"
 A. D. (Denny) Lewis, chairmas of the construction workers organ izing committee and brother of United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis, has submitted Q res- olution proposal censuring Hillraan for -allegedly discriminating against CIO labor in the award of defense housing contracts.