Abstract

Labor's Fight for Democracy

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (C.I.O.) does not contend that only government can produce jobs for all, just as Americans do not believe that unbridled competitive business can do so. Nor does labor have a royal road for easy achievement of these desirable ends. Americans contend that each group has a contribution to make, and that there must be teamwork on the part of labor, industry and government in organizing production around on overall national plan and component industry plans. Labor, management, and government get together successfully to produce the weapons for victory. Now Americans have extended their fight for democracy from the workshop to the polling place. People are not intimidated from organizing politically to campaign for the ends, which they believe, are right. After all, the current slander against the Political Action Committee is not so great as the malicious campaign carried on in 1937 and 1938 against the organization by the C.I.O. of the great masses of industrial workers.