Talk:Joseph Curran

Chronology wrong somewhere

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CIO president Philip Murray appointed a three-member board in October 1940 to forestall the House investigation. The board members reported to Murray that Curran, Kills and the GNYIU executive board had been advocating pro-communist policies. The GNYIU was on the verge of supporting Henry A. Wallace in an independent bid for president as well. The national CIO executive board revoked the charter of the GNYIU in November 1940. Curran denied that he was a communist before both the CIO executive board and the Joint Commerce Committee of the U.S. Congress. Curran became increasingly anti-communist thereafter. In 1946, he pulled the NMU out of a Committee for Maritime Unity which was led by Harry Bridges. After World War II, he purged thousands of members and elected leaders he suspected of harboring communist sympathies.

Without going to the references, I suspect that the 1940 dates must be 1948 instead; that's when Murray started fighting for control of central labor councils. Henry Wallace was not an independent candidate for President until 1948.

If you fix that, then you need to rewrite the sentence "Curran became . . . ." and what follows it. I don't doubt the general chronology, much less the fact that he turned right, but you can't have an event in 1946 take place after 1948. And that requires looking again at just when Curran changed direction. While he may have split with Bridges in 1946, it would appear that he did not break with the CP until the pressure got to him (and others, such as MIke Quill) in 1948 and thereafter.Italo Svevo 02:25, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use

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