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COMMUNISM Is more OF an ex-
ternal danger, while the ultra
right in this country presents
the greater internal danger to
the nation.
But, Meany said, this nation
must be aware that it is the
Communists here, though few
in number, who are aiding the
Communist governments of
major world powers and hence
represent the most serious
threat to this country.
American democracy never
can be fully secure at home nor
can it defeat the totalitarian
enemy from without as long as
race discrimination, mass un-
employment and poverty "pla-
que millions of our citizens"
Meany said.
1t is we'll known. he said, that
dlctators of the right-fascists
Nazis, and Falangists, and dicta-
tors of the so-called left-the Com
munlsts-always make the trade un-
ions the first target for domination
and destruction.
For this reason, he declared
labor has a greater stake in the
preservation and promotion of
freedom than any other section
OF our national community.
Without democratic institutions
there can be no free trade unions:
without free trade unions, democ-
racy cannot last long" he con-
tinued.
Labor's role in the struggle be-
tween democracy and despotism" is
not new, he noted. pointing to an
AL convention resolution adopted
in 1886 calling for national indie
pendence and democracy for the
Cuban people.
Meany recounted labor's continu-
ing fight against totalltarianiSm
through the rise of Hitler, World
War II and the postwar struggle
to aid free trade unions in many
nations of the world
American labor will continue to
be in the forefront of the fight
against all enemies OF freedom, he
said, adding:
I'VE will fight them because of
our revulSion TO what they stand
for-and because we cherish the
great values of democracy which
they seek TO destroy"
Gov. Brown said change can be
brought about without extremiSm.
and that "our democratic form of
government is strong enough to re-
SiSt the attack of misguided zealots"
Working with organized labor,
the governor said, his admins
tratiOn has been able to achieve
substantial progress on progress
Sive programs which are the true
answers to extremiSm of any ma
fure.
Brown said that today the voice
of the far left in America has
faded TO whisper. while up and
down the state the voice of the
far right sounds harsh and strident,
and it is the right-wing radicals who
dominate the extremist scene"
Like Meany, Brown compared
the similarity of attitudes of ex-
tremists, citing as an example the
denunciation of the United Nations
by the far right as a front for
Russia and by Communists as a
front organization for AmersoW
The ultra rightists, Brown said,
ire full of hatred toward not just
but toward liberalism,
he Supreme Court, Vice Pres. John
ION, income taxes, the nations
press, former Presidents Eisen-
lower and Truman and labor
Jay Lovestone, AFL-CIO Dept.
Of International Affairs publications
director, suggested the conference
not call communism the far left"
Says Reds ''Reactionaries"
They are the "reactionarieS," he
declared, who may try TO hide
themselves in the left-wing move
mentS of the nation.
He also declared that peaceful
is not an instrument of
peace in the hands of the Soviets,
but an instrument OF. total war de-
signed to weaken the enemy and
make him more ready to succumb."
California Atty. Gen. Stanley
Mosk said that democracy has long
been under attack from extremists,
but Il would not have it any other
way. We cannot silence them and
we must not silence them if democ-
racy itself is to survive"
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