WASHINGTON--A bold plan by the Congress of Industrial Organizations to restore labor peace by welding all union groups into a new "American Congress Of Labor," was rejected tonight by American Federation of Labor negotiators who branded it "fanciful" and designed for "headline purposes."
The CIO proposal was submitted as peace emissaries of the two factions met at the White House with President Roosevelt to explore formulae for ending their three-year struggle for supremacy.
It proposed to embrace the powerful railroad brotherhoods, which have stood aloof from the AFL - CIO fight, would deny CIO President John L. Lewis or AFL President William Green offices in the proposed new organization, and recommended the retirement of Green and AFL Secretary Frank Morrison at their present salary.
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