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CIO Auto Workers Headquarters

DETROIT. (AP) Dynamiters made an attempt to blow up the CIO United Auto Workers' headquarters last night.

They failed, but only by a hair's breadth.

A stack of 39 sticks of dynamite, wrapped in tape and colored Christmas gift paper, was found at a side stairway of the union building.

Two fuses had burned to within an inch or less of the explosives before they sputtered out, harmlessly.

Except for two night workers, the union building was empty.

However, lives were imperiled in a neighboring General Motors building.

As a result, authorities were confronted today with a new task in solving mysterious acts of violence against the big auto union and its leadership.

Within less than two years would-be assassins have tried to kill two of the UAW's prominent Reuther brothers.

Walter Reuther, president of the UAW, was shot by an unknown assailant in April of 1948. He almost lost the use of an arm.

Victor Reuther, the union's educational director, lost an eye in a similar shotgun attack last May.

Both of the shootings still are unsolved.

Police immediately linked last night's incident with the attempts on the Reuthers' lives.

There is "no doubt" of it.

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According to inspector Joseph A. Kurg of the police special investigation squad.

Kurg said he was convinced it was a deliberate attempt to blow
up the building.

"The dynamiter knew what he was about and he meant business," Kurg said. "This was no scare attempt."

An anonymous call to a Detroit newspaperman led to what was at first a vain police search at the union headquarters.
Later two union employees came upon the wrapped sticks of explosive, tied up in gay red and white Christmas paper.
The destructive package lay at an outside stairway not far from the adjacent general motors research laboratory.