| The Campaign for the MVA / Community-based planning and organizing |
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| District 8 delegates conference on postwar planning. Workers elected 2 representatives from every department to attend the meeting. At these meetings, workers endorsed shorter work week, more government planning, the fight for the MVA. Courtesy of William Sentner Jr. |
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| Bob Logsdon and officers of the CIO meet with Senator Harry Truman. Later, Logsdon referred to Truman as a "slippery little devil." Truman's maneuvers ensured that the MVA proposal was sent to a hostile committee, and cost the MVA proposal its fierce momentum. |
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As the war wound down, workers found that the gains they had won under the War Labor Board were threatened by a new determination of business to regain power in the workplace and nation. But District 8 geared up for community-based campaign such as this one that protested the Beeher Steel company executive. |