LABOR: Memo for Liberals

In a memorable speech last week before the National Religion and Labor Foundation in New York, newly elected A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany bluntly scored some U.S. liberals and international neutralists for avoiding the facts of 20th century political life. Excerpts:

"Too many in the free world fail to see the real nature of Communism as the mortal foe of everything that we hold dear, of every moral and spiritual value. Too many are still prisoners of the illusion that Communism is, historically speaking, a progressive system . . . extreme liberalism temporarily...

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