Show Inside Labor LaborA A F L Leaders Map Party Deny Doing It If By fly Victor Riesel MIAMI MIAMI They'll They'll tell you here that they're not whipping Into shape a new political party part to compete with the Democrats and Republicans But If it you dont don't let Biscayno bays bay's simmering sun get Into your eyes you can observe the optimistic A ALF L F chiefs slowly but positively setting up a national political machine which will be a new party with everything everything everything every every- thing thing- the major parties have have have- except a formal name And by 1950 this political action labor league will have developed gadgets that will ill startle the older parties parties parties-ac- ac according cording to decisions being made In a top roof-top conference room where the A F L high command Is meeting Seek Million 1 Members It can be reported for example ex cx ample that the labor chiefs chief are going out soon to enroll an Independent Independent In Independent In dependent force of ot members each pa paying ing about a dollar a year Into the league These will be Individual public pub pub- lie lic members not Just union peo peo- pie And It'll be the tho biggest membership bloc any political outfit can swing Furthermore the leagues league's director director di director di- di rector Joe Keenan will have havea a streamlined publicity and propaganda outfit which will seem like a wishful dream sequence lIe BC- quence to the major party public pub pub- lie lic relations men This political league has earmarked car car- marked a year car for a five day radio show show show- not Just aimed at their fol fol- lowers When tho the right commentator commentator com corn is hired hell he'll aim his broadcasts at the women's clubs Rotary and similar groups all over tho the nation Nothing Subtle Therell There'll be nothing subtle about this propaganda drive The Tho labor leaders here are frankly disclosing that some someday someday someday day they may go In for tor dent politics to force the major parties to nominate men the union officials believe c friendly to them them and and the labor league wants want to build as much of an independent following as po possible pos pos- sible outside of ot labor circles That's Thata where the women's and Rotary clubs come In For the labor people therell there'll be a national weekly newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper and motion pictures to brief them on tactics The Tho newspaper newspaper-a a tabloid tabloid- will be published as aEi soon as possible in Washington It has Just a budget for launching But tho the league already has collected with another pledged It by A F L unions So therell there'll be enough money to get the newspaper started and distributed distributed distributed to homes In Inthe tho the next two years year At least leastA A F L Chief Bill Green who In shirt sleeves and suspenders looks 20 years younger than tho the 75 he Is believes union people will bo be buying the paper in a few years That's Thata the goal for this publication publication cation the first of ot its kind in labors labor's political history It'll take no advertising But the money Is expected to pour In from unions which will be bo urged to buy it in bulk for their millions of ot members Many thousands are expected to be distributed on the streets of a hundred cities and towns the year ear around but especially durIng during dur dur- ing campaigns To Show Films Although production of ot labor movies was ordered postponed during the drive to raise for the year-round year radio broadcast Labor League Director tor tar Joe Keenan told me that the films will be bo made for eventual use not in public movie houses but in union halls There the motion pictures will brief briet regional re regional re- re gional political lieutenants on tactics or Inspire Intense political cal campaigning or pass on propaganda which in turn can be transmitted to the public How and w when v h hen e n will the A F V political machine be thrown into action 1 The A F L leaders disclosed that unlike the C CIO I 10 0 they're not interested In local and city elections this year They're set to build their political machinery for tor state and national cam cam- Were improving our state organizations i K Keenan e e a n a n re revealed revealed re- re so ISO we wo can get the little Taft Hartley laws repealed In some Seine 15 lt states Then if it were we're not successful well we'll set up what's necessary to support and elect candidates to state and national legislatures There It was A quiet but nonetheless blunt warning that their league is ready to operate as an Independent political outfit out out- fit tit If it it cant can't get what it wants from the older parties partie |