Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who "would be chairman of the American Communist Party if the McCarran Act permitted it to have officers," held forth like a queen for almost two hours. She reminisced about her lifelong fight for a socialist America "in the plain simple language of the workers--no Madison Avenue terms; the bosses aren't the establishment...
...American Communist Party is not the agent of any foreign power, Miss Flynn maintained. Its link with the Soviet Union is stated only in the McCarran Act, she said, and this link is based merely on findings of the House Un-American Activities Committee. "There has never even been the slightest attempt to prove the link legally," she insisted; "if we agree on something, it doesn't mean we are taking orders...
...Miss Flynn defended the actions of labor unions from their earliest days, including her participation in the International Workers of the World (IWW) as well as the actions of Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa today. "We don't organize unions to be pure and holy, but to help the workers," she insisted...
Delighting, amusing, and scolding her audience at once, Miss Flynn admitted she "could talk all night," and there were those who would have have stayed and listened...
Asked whom the American Communist Party would support for the Presidency this year, Miss Flynn smiled and suggested that "we just might have our own write-in candidate this time. Since what happened in New Hampshire, we've been thinking about it. Gus Hall has a short name, you know...