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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 36
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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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