POLITICAL EDUCATION ACTIVITY LEADS TO MORE COOPERATION BETWEEN WSFL AND STATE IUC
Scope and Content Note: WSFL and State IUC cooperated more, in spite of rift between Haberman and IUC leadership. No-raid pact in Kenosha ended infighting, although the pact did more to stop CIO than AFL raids. Last AFL raid was in 1952 when UAW-AFL (AIW) threatened to take over Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Company workers in Manitowoc and Two Rivers, which led to bitter fight between AIW and AFL. Ultimately, USWA absorbed aluminum workers there. At Malleable Iron Range Company in Beaver Dam, foundry workers went one direction, and rest of workers went to IBEW. John Deere Horicon Works foundry workers went to molders, while machinery department went to machinists. Workers at old Jones Manufacturing Co. in Fort Atkinson also split.