Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1948-10-22
Inside
America
written BY the Staff OF The
CIO NewS)


The quotation doesn't come
from a union official or a
vote-hungry politician - but
from Secretary of State
George C. Marshall.
He made the statement
an all-out recognition of la
boris Importance to European
recovery-in a speech to 40
European union officials at
Paris earlyt his month.
European r v cry Pro-
gram is being well stated
with u. S. union experts, to
work out close cooperation
with unions in democratic
countries overseas.
Said Marshall to represen-
tatives of European unions:
What we are fighting for
is not just peace, but a type
of peace in which an indi-
vidual or trade union is free
to meet as it pleases and to
say what it pleases."
And we second the Secre-
tary's motion.
Importance of labor help to
European Recovery Program
was also underscored by Clint
Golden, former CIO steel un-
ion official anad now one of
Paul Hoffmans' chief advisers
in the government recovery
project.
Golden, speaking in Chi
cago, mentioned grotesquely-
exagg gerate propaganda
Spewed out through European
against the Marshall Plan and
alleged American imperial
ISM"
Most effective answer to
such a charge" Golden said,
sis the support and participa-
tion of the American labor
movement ERP.
81 know from personal
knowledge" obtained on
recent visits to Europe-"that
united support of American
labor behind the Marshall
Plan has been a crucial fac
tor in quieting fears of Euro
pean trade unionists that
American aid might involve
loss of European sovereignty"
One of the big stories of the
'48 election campaign is
woodworking effectiveness
of CLOS Political Action Com
mittee.
PAC hasn't had the smear
campaign of 1944-but de-
spite fewer headlines, its work
has been for more solid and
vote-producing than four
years ago.
In other words: more PAC
volunteers are ringing more
doorbells than ever before.
Pamphlets by the million have
rolled off the presses. In
scores of Congressional dis
tricts, union activities -
through CIO-PAC-have been
crucial factor in rounding up
support for liberal candidates.
Coming CIO convention
next month undoubtedly will
applaud PACs work, provide
for its continuation as perma-
nent political fighting arm of
CIO.
Big surprise of '48 cam
paign is manner in which
Henry Wallace's Third Party
movement has been running
down hill.
Newspaper political experts,
who earlier in the season were
willing to concede that Wal
lace might win as many as S
million-and even up to 10
million votes-have cut the
figure way down.
Many expect Wallace will
pull fewer than 215 million,
and only most optimistic talk
interms of four or five million
votes. Meanwhile, Wallace
party shows signs of coming
apart at the seams, with haul
ing-and-pulling by various in
ternal factions.
NOTE: If Wallace pulls only
21z million votes, he'll have
made a far worse showing-in
proportion to total votes
than Bob LaFollette did "a
years ago.
Jack Kroll, PAC national
director, laced into the Re-
publicans when he spoke on
the same platform with Presi-
dent Truman in Akron.
There have been only two
Republican Presidents who
really worked for the people"
Kroll recalled.
Teddy Roosevelt was one
of them-and they threw him
out of the party.
"Abe Lincoln was the other
and he was shot by a Dixie
crat."
We don't accept every pub
lie opinion poll as gospel-but
every so often DR.. George
Gallup unwittingly says a
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