Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-11

November elections was ado
day Conference of Progressiv
Sponsored by the CIO Po-
litical Action Committee, the
Citizens Political A ito n
Committee, the Independent Cit
izens Committee of the Arts,
Sciences and Professions, the
National Farmers Union, the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
and other groups, the Confer
ence heard a dozen speakers in
cluding CIO President Philip
Murray, former Treasury Secre-
tary Henry Morgenthau, former
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes,
NFU President James Patton,
Sen. Claude Pepper ID. Fla.)
Walter White, NAACP execu-
tive secretary, and Jack Kroll,
! ICIO-PAC director
Form Continuous Committee
More than 300 delegates from
I35 states authorized formation
of a Combinations Committee
of so to plan a second Confer
ence of Progressives to meet in
Washington in midi n u r
after the new Congress con-
venes.
The action program called
for united efforts by the ma
tion's independent voter!
against "the reactionary coali'
ton in the 79tn Congress thai
has betrayed the people oy
sabotaging every measure tha'
would have brought security
and freedom"
Concretely, the Conference
called for 100000 active work
ers in the nations 125,000 pre-
cincts to get 50,OO0,000 voter.
to the polls. Through basic or
ganization" the Conference re
solved, through grassroots &C
tivity, through the building o
ward and precinct clubs ant
councils and action committees
we will carry the issues Il
where the voter lives AM
works"
Return To FDR Thinking
The foreign policy platform
proposed "a swift return to tn
progressive global thinking o
Franklin Roosevelt" we mus
base our foreign policies one
more on that world good-neigh
borliness which was his legac
to u.s." The platform called o.
all foreign governments, includ
ing our own, to cease interven
ton in Chinese affairs and t
end military aid to any factor
The Baruch atomic energ
: control plan actually encourage
, an atomic race now, the Con
, ference declared. The U. 5. al
maments budget of $4,000
900 sis impossible to justify
our policies are those of peace.
A 12-point domestic platform
called for: passage of a strlc
price and rent control law; tn
, Wagner-Ellender-T a # housin
program; the Wagner-Murray
Dingell health insurance bill
increased social security protec
ton: a Federal Civil Right
| Bill: increased minimum wag
scales; and abolition of the pol
: tax.
Conference leaders made
: clear that they did not conside
formation of a third party feas
, ible at the present time. A reso
, luton passed at a closed ses
sion urged Henry Wallace t
carry on in your fight for tn
fullest, freest discussion of tina
basic problem of our day-in
ternational cooperation" and Il
visit us at every crossroads il
America"
Murray told the Conference
that Labor struggles in the leg
islative arena during the pas
year have convinced many tina
it is only through a movemen
of this description created TO
the purpose of electing progres
sives to Congress that the threa
to labor can be defeated. 1t j
only by electing liberal Con
gressmen that we can proven
organized reaction in this coun
try from pursuing its vendett
of hate against labor"
Tells The c. P.s
Referring to recent confer
erces with visiting Soviet trad
union representatives Murra
said, 1--WE told them that we ha
no more use for an America
; Communist meddling with ou
business than they would TO
an American going over ther
and meddling with their bust