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of the working class become so involved, we should try to enlist others. Trade unionists and Negro candidacies should be considered now. For example, more advanced labor leaders could be considered and the whys and wherefores developed with approaches being made now. Alongside of working to develop these political currents we should agitate boldly for the need for a labor party, and support any and all moves in that direction.

Khrushchev's visit has made the development of peace activities within the trade unions more of a practicality. Certain unions avail themselves to a greater range of such activities. Such as District 65, hotel, etc. However, generally speaking, the situation is still somewhat delicate in the major unions. However, New York City being a port lends itself to the concept of trade. Trade means jobs. This is easy to comprehend. The whole question of ending tests is no longer the problem that it was. Particularly in view of Ike-Khrushchev Camp David statement. Generally speaking the entire atmosphere on peace is improved. It might be interesting to note the fine reception Khrushchev got from workers in Pittsburgh, San Francisco. Also interesting to note was the widespread speculation in regard to steel negotiations. How workers linked his visit with an effect on negotiations. Workers in their own astute way recognized the impact of the socialist world on America. Immediate resolutions of opposition on Rockefeller call for resumed testing and his recent ultra-reactionary economic proposals in the name of meeting the Soviet challenge, could be raised in a whole series of unions and I think it would be welcomed. Perhaps the time is ripe for city-wide labor sane nuclear centers. More boldness on trade and testing is possible. On armaments and jobs, armaments emerging as the key international question, here we have a unique role to play inside and alongside the labor movement in terms of transitions in this direction. Trade union delegations to the Soviet Union are possible to organize presently. The draft resolution and national trade union resolution will deal with this more adequately, but disarmament is an open subject today, thanks to Khrushchev.

The labor movement today must move more vigorously on the youth and woman questions, particularly as it affects the Negroes and Puerto Ricans. The fact is that today thousands of Negro and Puerto Rican women work under slave conditions in New York. This certainly has an effect on the relationship to the young people and child rearing. Opportunities for young people today are difficult and the Negro and Puerto Rican young people of course bear the brunt of this. The Labor Day parade gave evidence of the militance and spirit of the Negro and Puerto Rican women and young people who were there by the thousands. We must try to direct the labor movement to deal with special problems arising from this. Questions of apprentice training, child care centers, education, equal pay for women, etc., are vital questions for the labor movement today.

Communists must dedicate themselves to the fight for democracy in the unions. Corruption and anti-democratic practices develop to the extent that union contracts are not enforced. Our fight for the enforcement and improvement of contracts is a significant fight of our work.

As the report indicates, there are various left trends developing in the city labor movements today. However, this does not constitute a conscious pragmatic left. Consequently being part of and helping to expand and guide these developments is not a sufficient outlook. Without a conscious progressive left these trends often tend to drift or collapse. We must find the forms within these trends to develop a more organized left, which will create united front relationships with various forces with the left trend and seeks to propel it further and towards dealing with more fundamental political economic issues. The very question of adequate pay today for New York City still hasn't found adequate expression within the labor movement in the city of New York. Even on such an elementary question as pay a left becomes necessary to intervene even here. The pay question cannot be solved any more solely through collective