1946 PRIMARY ELECTION
Scope and Content Note: Lack of labor votes cost La Follette the election; workers urged to support Howard McMurray in Democratic primary. Communist-influenced vote also helped to defeat La Follette; State CIO News unlike the AFL press, “did a job on Bob.” Workers asked what they could get out of Republican Party in terms of pro-labor legislation since Republicans historically represented business interests. DOC agenda included pro-labor legislation.