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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 36

59 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt · 59 pages OCR'd
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generally from them on the besic False Unity _ a FOR INSTANCE, the UDA and by Max Gordon the Dubinsky crowd al- TTION of Jast Saturday's New York Poat tacked Henry Wallace's foreign policy speeches during the can- "4 . story about an off-the-record conference” en. But PM adopted Wallace's - of “non-Com@unist liberals” to be held in Washingt¥%, av acn speech as the expression " eer — > | of its own policy. +i These Social Democrats are The CIO union leaders directly eamaking an effort to break o-oo. of | Ce a . ious reason, the siory was yanked in the igier edi- "7 tions, but the conference nas been « ‘hrough their political Isolation by j referred to since by certein “Ib- -tying to unite artificially with me io ee ey eon. ihe eral" columnists 4. progressives like Lerner, PHP convention ficor, a resolution whose chief claim to fame seems to be a ‘ vitriolic hatred of the Soviet Union and a ipersistent red- Papiting. Tné facis re- warding this ” 2 where Chester eee gine hPeMely backed by Murray. ere—progressives who differ tne arL leaders mentioned were among the creators of the arch-reactionary foreign policy adopted by the AFL national con- ' vention, which is directly opposcd ‘ oy Murray, a leader of the World | Federation of Trade Unions. | But while the confcrence rep- | Pesents an effort to unite people Ton the-record” conference. as | who differ fundamentatly on the Tepor y the Post, are dhese: ! peal Issue of foreign policy, the ' @ It was initiated by the“Union _ basis for this projected “unity” $s or_Democratic Action. , ‘ the utterly falsc issue of “Com- @ Among {he endorsers thus far munism.” . ‘ . te ~ Roosevelt and Ches- co According to the Post story, : oh a the conference was prompted by , Hin ers expected to take the need for “liberals” to net { rede one Green of the Ship- away from “Communist Party buliders, Rieve of the Tex- Ev _44r domination of liberal affairs,” and - tiie Workers, and Walter Reuther mT el! from too close a hewing to the of the Auto Workers. There was ; 4 i an uncertain reference to the pos- (INDEXED Boviet tne ip al ae sibility of CIO president Philip JUST WHERE the Communist Murray elther attending or send- |M0- J) Y of 2 7- hk Party “dominates” Nberal affairs ng &@ representative, mane F-- Fe. 4 and what “libera) groups'' hew too tied to the conference oppored- Lette bp TY, hd @ APL leaders who have signt- SMTP der closely to the “Soviet line’ in for- Haieteiied Yih attend are David 87 JAN 16 1947 eign policy is not. of course, made ney © ¢ Ledies Garment ‘ clear. But since the Chicago con- Workers and Hugo Emst of the . ference to unite vsrious progres- Hotel and Restaurant Workers. see Oe sive groups was held only rep e and ig being followed up] by IT 18 CLEAR that this Jan. 4 . further meetings, we suspect [his rgnfab was initiated by Social- + ds what the initiators of the #an. Vemocrats of the Dubinsky type. ' @ conference were referring to. Fhe Union for Democratic Ac- | If #0, they describe it in those \fon is dominated by them. It. - terms because they figure no con- ienerally follows the bitter red- . ference is tree from “Communist talting, anti-Soviet line of the ation” which does not balt ‘Sdzlal Democratic Federation. he Soviet Union and which re- During the recent CIO conven- ‘ fuses to accept the Dies-Rankin- ‘on, Reinhold Niebuhr, leading Taft-Dewey thesis of the “red i, IDA spokesman, was hastily sum- menace.” clippinr from noned by Social Democrats in- Since the purpose of the “red | of the ide the convention to lecture to menace” thesis is lo disrupt and Wa he delegates against the CIO paralyze progressive movements, ' GiKKER lcreign policy resolution, which ‘what the Social Democrats are -alled for Big Three unity and . . trying to do is to promote their “orld peace. Nigbuhr virtually | false unity in order to block gene omanded a nilve atomic ' wine unity on the real issues of Var ag the at once. | Pesce, economie well-being dee» the Scat anlenisi¢g mentioned . _ mocracy. . de definitely tled up with n- ns ‘ feremce are widely-knewh Social
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