The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-12
ELECTION OFFERS
SIGNS TO FUTURE
By SAM BLACKMAN

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-R-Even
while the votes Of Tuesdays cleo
ton still are being counted, two
points of portent for the future po-
| litical scene have emerged:
/. The cIo-Political Action Com
| rnittee will continue on national
scale.
| 2. Two minor parties have
| achieved a balsnce-of-poWer posi-
ton in important New York state
and one of them is talking about
a national organization.
The CIO-PAC's future role will
be determined definitely at t h e
CIO convention in Chicago Nov. 20,
but Sidney Hillman, CLIO PAC
chairman, left no doubt that the
group would continue when he said
recently 1--WE have not organized
for 1914 alone. -
The two parties-the American
Labor party which Hillman heads,
and the newly-forned Liberal par
ty-gave President Roosevelt 807,-
F067 votes, more than double the
316,013 plurality by which he car
ried this state.
The Democratic party alone fail
ed to muster the support to give
LMr. Roosevelt New York's Al cleo
| toral votes. The Presidents total
on the Democratic line was 1885,
802, while Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
obtained 2,977,856 in the Republi-
can column.
Justified or not, the two parties,
whose support Of candidates is not
confined to any one party, were
certain to claim veto power over
any major party candidate OF
whom they do not approve.
And what Of the C1O-PAC?
Hillman confined his post cleo.
ton comment to statement that
eve are proud of our contribution
to the happy result"
C. B. Baldwin, assistant chair
man, was more definite. He said:
1--WE take a great deal Of pride
in turning out the vote. 1t was not
entirely due to the PAC, but we
were in the forefront. This cam.
paign started alphabetically. We
contributed to the relief Of that
apathy. But the President did more
than anyone else. This is the
kind of fight you don't stop. You
Just can't fold up. Congress faces
some of the most important issues
it ever faced. We want to give
support to the progressives behind
the Presidents program and our
own program. We would like to
see this supplemented by legisla
tion"
The CIO-PAC has outlined its OBJ.
| jectives for postwar America as
those proclaimed by President
Roosevelt in his bill Of rights
message to Congress last January
Among these rights, the Presi'
dent included: useful and remun'
erative job, adequate f o o d and
clothing and recreation, a decent
home, adequate medical care, 8
good education, protecting f r n,
the economic fears of old age, sick
ness, accident and unemployment
the right Of every farmer to raise
and sell his products at a return
which will give him and his family
a decent living" and the right Of
every businessman ito trade in ar
atmosphere of freedom from IN
fair competition
To achieve these goals, the CIO'.
formal program calls on the mex
Congress to make the bill O.
rights the objective of our nation
al policy. The CIO proposes per
manent national planning board
charged with the task of formula
ting plans and developing program!
in cooperation with other agencie!
of the government to effectuate thu
new bill of rights"
Although Hillman is head Of thu
American labor party, his statee
position is not to make thire
party of the CIO-PAC. He toll
house committee investigating
campaign expenditures that &c;
third party would only serve t.
divide rather than to unite the for
ces of progress.
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