The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-03

GRAFTON leaders could not commit
themselves to endorsement of any par
ticular ticket and therefore their ac-
tiyities at the convention were con-
Quoted with a minimum of publicity.
Nevertheless, they made no secret
of the fact of their hostility to Wal
lace, whose record showed repeated
acts of discrimination against the
AFL and whose allegiances were OBJ
viously to the left-wing element in the
CIO.
Also, by being photographed public
ly with Senator Truman the day be-
! fore the nomination took place at a
breakfast conference, President Green
let ii be. known that the Federation
favored the Missouri Senator, whose
relations with building trades and rail
road unions have been highly coopera-
tive and whose report on the war in
yestigation which he heads paid high
tribute to labor'S war record.
One of the leaders in Senator Tru-
Rivers, secretary-treaSurer of the
Building and Construction Trades De-
partment of the AFL, who is a life
long friend of the Senator and who ar
ranged the breakfast conference be-
tween him and President Green.
Another leading AE'L figure at the
convention was Vice President Daniel
j. Tobin head of the Teamsters Union,
who made the first seconding speech
for President Roosevelt and who
served as member of the Resolutions
Committee which drafted the plat
form
Perhaps the most significant result
of the convention was its fiat repudia
tion of the efforts of the CIO POliti-
cal Action Committee to take over con-
troll of the Democratic Party
The CIO group, led by Sidney Hill
man and Phil Murray, went all-out for
Wallace and packed the galleries with
Il Communist rabble in an attempt to
force the hand of the delegates.
Their actions aroused deep resent
ment among the delegates and left
lasting scars which even Hillman's be-
ldleu dcCepldIlCe Ol SelldlOT lTu1lldH
could not obliterate.
Many party leaders were frank and
open in their condemnation of the CIO-
Communist tactics and expressed the
fear that the support of the CIO Po-
litical Action Committee would handi-
cap the Democratic ticket in the cleo
tions.
Among such leaders was Mayor
Kelly of Chicago who was boOed and
shouted down by the CIO gallery
claque when he attempted to place the
name of Illinois favorite son, Senator
Lucas, before the convention for Vice
President. The Mayor was shaking
with rage when he left the platform.
EIillman ensconced himself in an eX
penSive hotel suite and sought. to run
the convention by remote control, de
manding that party leaders respond to
his beck and call. Only Il few were
that subservient and these were with
out real influence.
The great ma jority of the delegates
took cognizance of the fact that the
NhiNdSo Iiio'i'o anu oliNI opPosi'ioh
newspapers delighted in portraying
Hillman in cartoons and editorials as
the real boss of the Democratic Party.
They went home feeling that the Re
publicans will try to pin the Go label
on the Democratic Party and use it as,
their chief campaign issue.
Delegates and newspapermen alike
agreed that the CIO had made Il mis-
cradle failure of its first major effort
TO demonstrate its political strength
AS one newspaperman remarked:
II wouldn't want their support if
We're running for dogcatcher in Po-
dunk. In fact, I'd beg them to oppose
me-"