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United Automobile Worker
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1952-04-01
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Vol. 16 No. 4
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MOST WONDERFUL EDUCATION CONFERENCE EVER: That’s what some 25 university observers said of the Conference. Also what the rank-and-file delegates said. Why?
Because with 1,862 registered delegates, and almost 1,000 wives and visitors, everybody had
a chance to talk—and 95 per cent of everyone there actually talked.
HOW DO YOU GIVE EVERYONE A CHANCE TO TATA"
where all the delegates heard the atomic scientists, the eco
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the officers of the
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But then the Conference broke up into small meeij
around a round table.
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More than 260 small ten-person meetil
AFTER the big meetings, after the small meetings of ten, after then groups of ten met in
ten groups of ten—then everyone went back into the big meetings, And there rank-and-file
delegates asked the speakers, the senators, the scientists, and the seers,-the questions they
wanted answered. Two hundred and forty-seven questions asked and answered at the big
meetings by the rank and file.
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civil rights. But the
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plant. And this exhibit shows how to bring that goal about.
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meeting. He is announcing what question the group wants
answered, If any speaker thought that he could ignore a vital
in the forums.
point in his talk, he found out the difference
HERE is a spokesman from one of the groups of ten reporting to a session where there are ten groups of ten. He
is reporting on what the group of ten thought about the
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ALMOST 3,000 people were there altogether. And what
did each of them think? Of the senators taking their coats
Went, but you never saw another
ore eager for the speakers than
off and speaking off their chests? Of Senator Kefauver crashing into the Conference? This man thought he had never
been to a conference so big, where he felt that he was a key
man, and where he could learn so much,
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morality of
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THE Big Exhibit presented by the Atomic Energy Commission on atomic energy was overpowering. From it the
delegates said, you could learn to put together a bomb yourself. Now, a delegate said, I understand how atomic energy
is a political issue. The issue: will we work for atomic en-
ergy companies, or will atomic energy companies work for us.
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