Abstract

Inglewood's Backwash

This article discusses various issues related to labor movements in the U.S. It is assumed that the chief purpose of the subversive elements behind the recent labor upheaval was disruption, embarrassment, and confusion. Philip Murray, the pro-labor president of the Congress of Industrial Organization was forced to use federal troops in a strike. Congressional clamor for anti-labor legislation was reinforced. Above all, an atmosphere was created in which nearly everybody is confused, and confusion is the handiest weapon of the totalitarian technique. Expectations in Inglewood, California, that labor leader John L. Lewis might denounce the Communists and come out in support of Murray appear so far to be pure wishful thinking. They are believed to emanate from government circles, which would like to make him take a positive stand one way or the other.