LOBOR HASN'T LOST DIXIE
STOUT, JONATHAN
Woshington and the Nation Labor Hasn' Lost Dixie By Jonathan Stout ATeto Leader*Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON^ D. C. 'Wt AFTiHARTLEY continued -to M>e *| Tthe major issue in the...
...Most of the Soviet GIs went through it with Shakespeare, Tolstoy- and ^Ehrenburg...
...Wofsky then told the secret CP conclave that such organization "means centering our plans for World Youth Week, March 21-28, and on popularizing the inspirational material, and decisions of the-1848 International Conference of Working .YoUth...
...First, the South can no longer' be pigeonholed as hopeless...
...This was the Kremlin-inspired youth'front which The New Leader exposed at the time...
...These facts emerged from a secret meeting of the National Committee of the Communist party, held January 24, to plot CP youth strategy...
...MORE ON CULTURE \ "Most of our GIs went, through tho war on comic books...
...While the'bill will provide a convenient rallying-point for young innocents, the real work will be done in industry, At the Jan...
...THE YOUTH BILL, which will pro• vide unemployment insurance for firstjob seekers, will probably be introduced soon by Senator William Langer of North Dakota and Representative Vito Marcantonio of New York...
...In the plants selected for concentration, we propose the building of Parly youth clubs at this time...
...T young workers In the steel, martime and 'distributive industries...
...of i youth employed in the auto • and electrical industries...
...they - say Taft-Hartley is wreaking daily havoc on the Unions and eighteen months is a long time to wait for a change...
...The fact Is, labor didn't do as badly in the' South as it may seem...
...6 2 Louisiana...
...Some labor people, and the President himself, think the same issue would provide a good rallying point for 1950...
...BUT OTHERS FEEL that labor will campaign energetically next year regardless...
...24 19 • _ _ Total 84 72 Southern States Alabama 3 4 Florida 3 3 Georgia...
...Here is the voting record on the Wood bill of the Congressional delegations from the main Northern and Southern states, interpreting a vote for the bill as a vote against labor: Northern Pro- AntiSiateg Labor Labor Connecticut 4 2 , Indiana...
...6 4 Massachusetts . , 6 8 Michigan...
...He also admitted that nationality youth groups ''must1 figure seriously in our- plarts...
...The Wood bill vote shows that certain Southern states gave labor as good a break as the allegedly pro-labor North...
...The building of Party Youth' clubs in the youth concentration plants will break ground for she'Marxist youth- organization a > few months later...
...6 10 Ohio 13 8 Pennsylvania 18 15 New Jersey 7 6 New York...
...The' big questions^afe whether the Senate or the House will make the next move...
...C ¦ '4 Texas wu...
...Ellender of Texas—who predicted that between 14 and 22 Democratic Senators (mostly from the South) will vote with him for Taft's measure—are taken with' little seriousness...
...SINCE THE WOOD BILL* VOTE, threats like that of Senator...
...Our recent experiences prove again what the YCL learned, thai special forms for Com* munlit youth activity are a necessary guarantee of the development of youth work in industry...
...Second...
...Thus, judging solely by the vote on the Wood measure, it would appear that labor's prospects of winning new- support in the South in 1950 are by ho means dim...
...V -;" "Of primary importance is out work . among the particularly large numberi...
...In that connection, Wofsky spoke of "The Opening up of systematic work among nationality youth groups,'.,,J.'<\'< .'"i0$^*--Communist party workers will- now invade youth movements on an unparalleled scale...
...1 9 Kentucky...
...furious jockeying'forpoifltion 4s now proceeding on, the legislative'and executive* levels...
...Number one catch-all on the list will be a new American Youth Security Act, wouldbe successor to the ill-fated American Youth Act of the late '30's...
...The Taf t*Hartley issue provided powerful impetus for labor in 1948...
...The Youth bill is the brain-child of Leon Wofsky, former director of the YCL and later of the American Youth for Democracy...
...But whereas Sims uses the'Wagner Act as his base, Taft is using-Taft-Hartley...
...In short, labor itself is divided on the question of compromise or no compromise...
...He declared...
...Woshington and the Nation Labor Hasn' Lost Dixie By Jonathan Stout ATeto Leader*Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON^ D. C. 'Wt AFTiHARTLEY continued -to M>e *| Tthe major issue in the Struggle *^*» * •between the * Administration«arid the Dixiecrat-Republican coalition...
...34 meeting* Wofsky called upon CP trade union leaders to form youth clubs within their, unions...
...11 Virginia ________________ 1 ^1 Total ------------...............J*7 ' 83 • • * ' THREE CONCLUSIONS emerge from this*study...
...New Look" YCL> will form the Kremlin's wedge in the ranks of .American youth...
...The new youth outfit will get its •formal sendoff at a meeting in Chicago on Memorial Day weekend...
...To complicate matters further, Senator Taft is working on a compromise bill Of his own...
...A Senatesupported renovated Taft bill would therefore produce a Congressional deadlock, If only 14 Democrats join the Jlepub*licans, the same situation may occur in ' therSenate as oeeurred'iritiie* House eh the Wood bill...
...j » j.a e tVe _ .., STUDENTS WILL T»LAY a'lesser role than the youth in'plants,'Wofay, revealed...
...and whether the Administration will make Taft-Hartley repeal a knockdown-dragout battle as a preliminary to the 1950 elections, or whether President Truman will accept a compromise like the Sims bill...
...Under this prpposal, in addition to provisions attacking the draft and .calling for a 30-hour week, workers will be able to draw against the fund before they haVe contributed a cent to it...
...This bill would restore much of the Wagner Act but would also include Taft-Hartley injunction features...
...3 5 Maryland...
...Nor are the'Dixiecrats as numerous or as influential as some have been led to believe...
...A rehash of the Young Communist League will foster exclusive party activities...
...and the CP's Youth Commission will soon move into some of America's most strategic plants artd factories...
...Its heaviest backer in the Committee meeting was Robert Thompson, one of the eleven CP leaders on trial...
...they therefore favor getting whatever is possible now and working for a better deal later...
...The-Democrats have a nominal margin of only 12 votes over the Republicans, although some allowance should be made-lor a few Hepublicans who would probably vote pro-labor on the Taft Bet...
...Third, no section of the country can be characterized as particularly pro- or .anti-labor (although it is'true that, pro• portionstely, there are more anti-labor votes below the Mason-Dixon line than above'it...
...Moreover, this will stimulate the Party's attention to youth questions throughout industry...
...In a few.places, - specific attention will, be turned lo ' Waiter K. Lewis has contributed1 many "inside" stories on totalitarian activities to The Sew leader...
...Barnard Rubin...
...labor has as a big political educatlon^ob to do in the North as irt Dixie...
...Taft's aim is to outmaneuver the Administration, which he has a good chance of doing if the Sims bill passes the House...
...the Young Progressiyes of America is all set for "united front" social and athletic projects...
...The assumption that the South is anti-labor territory is as unwarranted as the assumption that the Nd¥th is whblly pro-Jabbr...
...Liberals, too, might cast another glance southward...
...2 4 'North Carolina 2 8 South Carolina 1 5 fettftwe...
...New "Marxist Debating Societies" on campuses, new clubs in strategic national security plants tor educational and agit-prop work, the Young Progressive's as a social-athletic base, and the...
...Communists Step Up Drive To Woo American Youth By Walter K. Lewis THE COMMUNISTS have new plans for American youth...
...The 14-vote- margin by which the "Wood bill (another name for TaftHartley) won in'the House indicates the degree to which labor failed to win a favorable Congress last November...
Vol. 32 • May 1949 • No. 21
