The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-05

now, Joseph heenan, dlrecIor ol
Labor's League for Political Edu-
cation told the LLPE meeting.
"They're using the race issue,
the religious issue, the Red issue,
he said. They're trying to pit one
labor group against n o h r.
There's never been a campaign like
this. This is the last dying gasp OF
the reactionaries in their effort to
buy their way into control Of gov
ernment and set up some kind OF
Fascist state"
Declaring labor can't hope to
get its message into the daily news
papers, keenan, said labor will have
to rely largely on the trade union
press. eve are faced by a power
ful combine including utilities, big
financial interests, manufacturers
groups, and the American Medical
Association" he said.
George Meany, as LLPE secre-
tary-treasurer, reported a b 0
$500 900 raised in contributions SO
far, about twice as much as at the
same time in 1948, and said the
total may reach $1,C00,000. Labor
will do a better job than the old
political machines Of getting out
the vote, Meany said. He pointed
out that registration drives are
getting into high gear. Singing
out the American Medical Associa-
ton, Meany said the ANA "has
been picked out by all the reaction
airy forces of the country to spear
head a vicious, anti-labor cam
paign."
The ANA earlier took a drub-
bing in the talk of Oscar Ewing
Federal Security Administrator. He
pointed out that the ANA will
spend $1,1OO,000 directly in an adj
vertising campaign starting Oct
ober 8, and that $l9,0OO,00O more
will be spent in "tie-in" advertis-
ing, all denouncing health insur-
ance as Specialized medicine"
Ewing said there was something
significant" about the fact that the
drive was being put on in October
and something significant about
the fact that "every reactionary
special interest in the country has
rallied around the ANA at this
particular moment, waving THEN
checkbooks as if they were new
banners Of freedom"
The significance is, Ewing charg-
ed, that "the powerful men who
run the ANA are using their or
ganization to promote the political
ends of reaction. They have Great
ed the 1850 war chest of reaction
The doctors real aim, he declared
is "to defeat every liberal-mindeo
candidate for office this year, anC
to elect reactionary, backward
looking, labor-hating candidates in
their place
The nature Of the ANA cam
paign is pointed up, Ewing said, by
the fact that the ANA has beer
extremely active in distributing
that notorious primer of reac-
ton" John T. Flynn's book, "The
Road Ahead" The ANA has pass
ed out more than 100000 copies
of the book, Ewing declared, with
the blessing and cooperation of the
even more notorious Committee foI
Constitutional Government" CThe
Committee for Constitutional Gov
ernment has been branded as "Fas-
cist" on the floor of Congress and
was revealed by the House Com
mittee on Lobbying as the nations
top anti Fair Deal, anti-labor lobby
group.)
The Taft Hartley act was de-
lnounced by Sen. Wayne Morse
liberal Oregon Republican. "Threo
years Of experience have proved
that it is an act of legislative
hypocrisy, he said, and the effect
has been to frustrate and defeat
collective bargaining.
Morse gave example after eX-
ample, particularly in the South
where unions were smashed by in
timidation, violence, and use OF
yigilantes. In spite of the pious
phrases in the TIL act, said Morse
southern employees are being de-
MED the rights which Congress has
so solemnly declared they are en-
titled to exercise" He called the