Boston situation looks better now following the fight with the Herald-Traveler unit: "Of course there are those who claim that it's all the result of my agitation and that I'm preparing for another election campaign -- a charge which I might head off, if it becomes too widespread, by resigning from the negotiating committee at the meeting because of it. I don't think the issue of Whipple should be injected into the issue of waiving, and that's the only way of stopping it." Agrees that the campaign did good and "scared them a little." Discovered another thing in Washington, "the so-called progressive people there have apparently lost all touch with the membership... the reason is that the progressives are so blinded by their factionalism that they simply cannot publicly agree with a phoney leader when he happens to be right on an issue."
