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and the "[[dictatorship of the proletariat]]." The [[Communist party|Communist parties]] of the world are the self-appointed midwives of this violent historical birth.
Communists must be taken out of the political back alleys and walk them up [[Main Street]] in the full light of informed opinion. No sober public examination of their unadorned doctrine and purposes can fail to reveal them as [[fraud]]s.<ref>''How to Beat the Communists,'' Walter P. Reuther, ''Colliers'' February 28, 1948. Quoted in Thomas Lawrence O'Brien, [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/hawaii.pdf ''The Plot to Sovietize,''] (Hilo, Hawaii: Hawaii News Printshop, 1948), p. 79 (p. 42 pdf).</ref>}}
He became president of the CIO in 1952, and negotiated a merger with George Meany and the American Federation of Labor immediately after, which took effect in 1955. In 1949 he led the CIO delegation to the London conference that set up the [[International Confederation of Free Trade Unions]] in opposition to the Communist-dominated [[World Federation of Trade Unions]]. He had left the Socialist party in 1939, and throughout the 1950s and 1960s was a leading spokesman for liberal interests in the CIO and in the Democratic party.
