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NAACP — Part 4
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Mmhe continuing sericus limitetions of the Asso-
ciation's nolicy in theese ficlds must be uncerstood cuicfly
ns a veflection of the present reletions of forses In our
country. On the question of 'enti-Comnunisn,!’ for oxample,
it would hee been unrurlistic to BSUPNOS. thet any explicit
chenze of position could be pogistere do et Atlantic City.
alvugugh the Negro people, becnuse of their own oppression,
do tend to be mors sensitive then the rencrel ponuleation to
‘ll kinds of undemocr: tic muessures, still, miven today's
politics] climnte, we could hardly coxpect the NAACP. now
to undertake nan task which cven the Labor inovement thus fer.
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Mity Convention re-em phesized
Fst a 3
the fect the t N.A.A.C.Pe I5 the key to building the Negro-
lrbor elliance. Not only did the Convention call for labor's
help in the fight for Negro rights; it clso cndorsed prec-
tically all ot lsbor's current economic Commnds snd defended
lrborts riszht to cnprgo in independent politics] action. When
one consisers, further, that C.1.0ts Welter Reuther is a
member of the Associntion's Netionnl Bocrd of Lirectors,
that there is en inercesingly active Lebor Dupsrtment in the
Netionsal orri
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Committoes ero buginning to pley ° vitci role in th. local
openches, and thet scores of unions censiecer it important to
send freternel delegates to th. Annual Conveniton, if is
prebeble thet no pcoplet< oprprnization in Amcrie:, Yugro or
white, hes so conscious rnd orgsnis cdo. rels ‘tionsal with
the Llapor movement es dows the N.A.A.C.P. Uers, aircly, is
the most tdvenecd cxpression of the Nocre-lsobor sllinance on
tne current SCUNC «
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"Tt is clear thet the Associntion ic veecr further
to develop its reletions with lsbor--ns, indecd, it must.
Toe fond reformist conceit thet intoer: tion enn be achieved
through the good prereas of the rulins cless hes been dvalt
some shettering blows in th. recent veriod; rnd the lerders
of NvAWA.C,.Pe--1s is beginning to be truc ef other Negro
people's orgonizations--o1re forecd to look morc snd more to
the working clsss for supoort. In this ouest for sllies in
the Labor mnoverent, they will also find it neecsse “ry, in
time, to reapprrise their roletions with the Left as a part
of the working class,
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