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of the men when the employers regarded the truck drivers who drove the beer trucks as brewery workers. In fact, the union always took them in. It was only after the truck drivers' union under Dave Beck and Dan Tobin got going strong and began claiming that these beer truck drivers were really truck drivers and not brewery workers, that a row occurred. That was a big row that had gone on for years. The AF of L had that jurisdictional fight come up once a year for fifteen years and never could settle it. I don't know, but I don't think they've settled it yet, as a matter of fact.

However, the brewery workers were an industrial union. The mine workers were an industrial union. The chemical workers were an industrial union. The mine workers and brewery workers were very thoroughly organized, but the chemical workers were not. Still whatever they had organized was industrial. So the AF of L had always chartered industrial unions.

That was one of the reasons why there was such anger when the CIO broke off on the theory that they had to have industrial unionism and that it was essential in modern mass production life. The AF of L was very angry because as the high command said, “We have industrial unions. We've been modern. We've kept up to date. There are plenty of industrial unions and the AF of L charters them when it's appropriate and necessary.”