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...scenes. This total coalition's impressiveness stems from the fact that it is influence mobilized with the sole immediate political end of isolating Henry Wallace. To do this job and to elect congressmen who meet "progressive" standards ADA will from a united-front throughout the country for the AFL's League for Political Education and the CIO's Political Action Committee. The plans are concrete. Hard-boiled veterans of labor's wars such as organization directors Frank Fenton of the AFL and Allan Haywood of the CIO, both conspicuous at the proceedings and solidly attached...
...Bellevue-Stratford: in the stuffy platform-drafting sessions, on the windy convention floor, hurrying down corridors, upstairs in rooms pointedly unlisted at the registration desk, all the panjandrums and small fry of big labor's leadership showed in full force. They were from the previously-hostile CIO, AFL, and powerful independent unions such as the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the International Association of Machinists. Phil Murray was present sub rosa for a brief few hours Saturday in one of those up-stairs rooms. William Green made his first appearance before any political convention, on the same platform with Walter...
William Ackerly of the AFL's Cambridge Central Labor Union and the Rev. Rembert Stokes will receive HTU support in their fight to reach the City Council. The Union will attempt to place the Rev. Kenneth Hughes and Dennis Sullivan of the United Electrical Workers-CIO, Lever Brothers local, on the school committee...
From the two national conventions have emerged two programs for electioneering which, agreeing on these common aims, will supplement each other rather than conflict. One looks to the need for improving labor's stock in the public eye: this is the AFL's 38-cent per member assessment for a $3,000,000 propaganda agency. The other moves to intensify labor's block-by-block doorbell ringing; this is PAC's registration drive to bring out 60,000,000 voters next Fall, 12,000,000 more than...
Fortunately CIO and AFL political action programs will work arm-in-arm in '48. But if the PCA-ADA division ever becomes institutionalized in the two sections of labor, a schism reaching into '50 and '52 will undoubtedly occur. Now is the time to search with determination for common ground. Philip Murray has demonstrated in the sessions at the Bradford this week that great leadership can find ways to unite divergent factions in a crucial hour. The Henry Wallaces and Chester Bowleses do not deserve a look until they too demonstrate this statesmanlike faculty...