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...crowded session at Leverett House last night, the HLU voted to affiliate with Students for Democratic Action, elected three men to its executive committee, and decided to form a group to protect the rights of labor...
Argument centered on the ADA platform excluding Communists from its membership. Speakers against the motion asserted that joining the SDA would alienate many of the liberals who felt their strength lay in the united front, thus isolating the HLU from the main current of liberal action...
Members endorsing the motion insisted that the issue was not whether the HLU was "red-baiting," but how it could get better results from united action. A speaker cited the destruction of the American Student Union when it was taken over by the Communists in 1941, concluding that the Reds were a non-assimilable group...
...bitter contest last term, an HLU majority ousted more radical members from executive office in a move that paralleled action taken all over the country by progressive organizations...
...HLU also agreed last night to support the campaign for lowering the minimum voting age to eighteen years, and set up two fact-gathering committees to work on matters involving political action and University affairs...