The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 8, 1947, Page 7

é 4 4 4 . ? # 4 e ta MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1947 nes a — ae | Pledges 900,000, Elks to Aid. Boy. Scouts; SAYS ‘LEFT | Bese oe Help wes OR ‘RIGHT’ jsf ep By MAX HALL Winer the wine hl Sing nen the térms ‘right wing’ and ‘left wing’ are Sey in ae labor movement, they have a © * special, 7 i iemening. |? e oo Top nr gegen 8 important to understand. #, ey this. Otherw: e pbs oe ised when "aumosne. cits e s about the “right” and “left” wings of the CIO, or when says the United Auto; orkers “swung to the right.”| _ You may be ‘accustomed to! * thinking of “right” as meaning | “conservative”’—or perhaps re- actionary.” | You may be accustomed to thinking of “left” as meaning “liberal”—or perhaps “radical.” But when you go to a CIO con- vention and hear the delegates | talking about a ‘right-winger” they don’t mean a reactionary or a conservative. They mean an | Reg hood of America to benefit as L. A, Lewis (left), head of B.P.O.E. and Dr. E, K. Fretwell, head of Scouts, lay plans. anti-Commu- The 1,475 lodges of Elkdom, rep-|mean to furnish funds and offer hist. resenting some 900,000 members,|many of our war veteran Elks as \ They usually mean someone! have zeenied for the coming year| Scout leaders and committeemen. who not only is opposed to| 8" aggressive pean to sponsor and} “The 68,000 Boy Scout troops assist financially the promotion of | for nearly two million Scout mem- the Boy Scout program, Senior|bers are not enough. We have Scouting and Cub Scouting, espe-|seen militant minorities working‘ cially in less privileged districts |for some revolution or other; why and neighborhoods, according to|}not the militant minority of Scout- an announcement by Lafayette A,| trained citizens sponsored by Elks Lewis, of Los’ Angeles, newly|who stand for our best institutions elected Grand Exalted Ruler of|and traditions?” Communism in theory but also is resisting the efforts of the Com- munists to take leadership in the trade union movement. If a Socialist fights Commu- nism he’s a “right-winger.” -not believe in attacking Commu- nists. A This doesn’t mean all “left- wingers” are Communists. In numbers, the Communists are a tiny minority of the labor move- ment. But they got control of some national unions in the CIO! through hard work, zeal, skill in arguing, rigid discipline, balance of power politics and other de- vices, One of their greatest successes was to convince many unionists that any criticism of them was “red-baiting” which would weaken the CIO, : Recently the Communists seem to have been losing ground. One big yeason is the international situation. Also, labor groups now under- stand their methods better and have developed techniques for resisting them. Many _ progres- sive people have lost their re- ‘luctance to criticize them. Returning to definitions: A “left-winger” in the CIO means a Communist, or a fol- dower of Communist policies, or @ person who cooperates with Communists in union politics, or Maybe only a person who does “left-wing union” is one which is controlled by Commu- nists or by people who are will- inggto work with them. Naturally there are many peo- ple in “left-wing unions” who dislike ‘Communism and would like to throw out the leaders. There are still others who dis- jike Communism but support the leaders because they believe them to be good leaders. When the words “right” and “left” are used in a union's in- ternal politics, they usually mean that one faction is oppos- ing the Communists and the ®ther faction is accepting the Communists’ support. The Com- munists don’t necessarily domi- nate the factiongthey are sup- porting. ps } In unions genefally, the terms faren’t “official.” But informally they are used more often by the “right-winge' than by the other side. Many people who find selves in a so-called “left-wing” resent being called a “left wing- them- Is and progres- sives who are anti-Communists deplore the lack of a better term than “right wing.” They say it Suggests “reaction.” They ac- ecuse the Communists of being “reactionary.” 7 They point to Communist Russia as a totalitarian state and say that anyone who supports a totalitarian doctrine is reac- tionary. The Communists themselves use the terms and when they say “right wing”, they try to identify it with paction” and “Fascism” as well. ———_—__—_—_ | It is estimated that U. S. tour- ists spend more than $214 mil- lion a year in Canada. .. ell AS ASSN BINED OSIPTDDAE ES Harry Markowitz, Inc. Formerly of Markowitz & Resnick, ‘Plumbing Operators in Miami, Fla. ~ 1S BACK IN BUSINESS IN MIAMI ON U.S. HIGHWAY No. 1 NEAR LeJEUNE ROAD Visit Our Showrooms—Carloads of Merchandise in Our Warehouse and Yards HARRY MARKOWITZ, INC. PLUMBING Phones 486821 and 40763 the B.P.O.E, In-:this. connection Mr. Lewis quoted with pride Colonel .Charles Spencer Hart,|the figures of Admiral Chester Past Grand Exalted Ruler, has been appointed to represent the Elks:on the ‘National Civic Rela- tionships Committee of the Boy limitz that 40 per cent of his men lad been Boy Scouts and that 60 er cent of his decorated heroes ‘ad been Scouts. Moscow Driving Scouts of America. The new Elks’ chieftain has ar- On a special trip to New. York,|ranged itineraries totaling 150,000 Mr. Lewis conferred with Dr.|miles of travel to subordinate Elbert K. Fretwell, chief Sceut|lodges this year. On his visita- executive for the United States;| tions he plans to pledge more vig- Coldnel Hart and Commaander|orously than ever the Elks’ cam- Thomas J, Keane, U.S.N.R., Na-|paign against internal enemies of tional Director of Civic Relations | America. The particular targets of of the Boy Scouts of America, and|the Elks are the Ku Klux Klan, developed plans for Elk partici-]|Communism, Fascism ahd other pation. subversive elements, “Already we have 300 lodges of} In. its 79-year history the Elks sponsoring Boy Scout troops|B.P.O.E. has donated to worthy and Cub Packs,” Lewis declared,|causes. more than $72,000,000, “but our goal is to have every|reaching a total of $5,000,009 dur- one of our 1,475 lodges cooperate|ing the past year alone in addi- with from one to three local Scout|tion to other sums given by local units. More than one million boys|lodges. Lewis expects basic con- —nearly 1,100,000—reach twelve | tributions this year will total more years of age each vear and 700,000] than $12,000,000, Much of this will of them indicate they want to be- f° for care of war veterans in 152 come Boy Scouts. Yet only, 400,000|hospitals in 41 sales, for the can be accepted because of in-|benefit of crippled children and sufficient sponsorship, We:want to|toward -college “scholarships . to: help ‘provide Scouting fdcilities|outstanding secondary school stus for the 300,000 left-overs and we|dents,: % oe ' Gets Pay He - Wolf From Door | Earned In °18 MOSCOW.—(AP).—Large Rus-; MASSENA, N. Y.—Better late sian wolves which ‘during the {than never, Wilfred Cote ‘be- war multiplied’ in the Moscow ! lieves. He appeared at the Mas- area to the extent that they be-|sena plant. of the Aluminum came a’ danger to livestock, are; Company of America and ex- now on the run. plained that he didn’t get paid Hunting teams have been out} on August 28, 1918. Alcoa of- on the trail after the gray | ficials dug into a vault, checked thieves who in one day alone} the records and found Cote was right. 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