Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they gathered last week in Southport's hoary Town Hall for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (T. U. C.). Keynote speaker was horny-handed, dynamic Ernest Bevin, who since 1910 has slugged and plugged for organized labor, is now Minister of Labor. "The British labor movement came to the rescue of this nation and the Commonwealth at the blackest hour of its history," he shouted, assailing Toryism with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power of Labor. The reconstruction of the world, he declared, must come about "through harnessing the rising masses of Labor...
...moment of "deep meaning" not only to the United States; nor merely to individual young men; but to youth-as-a-whole, to the great mass of students and workers and would-be workers who form the raw material of the American youth movement...
...Germany the youth movement had a long history, antedating the Nazis and intertwined with the land and folklore of the nation. Here in the United States the youth movement, such as it is, is the outgrowth of more recent times, and of economic rather than cultural longings...
...combination of these two facts--widening economic backgrounds and narrowing economic horizons--that has been the driving force in the creation of a conscious youth movement in America. To our elders, reared in an earlier era of unmitigated confidence, youth's readiness to question that All's Right With the World has smacked of "radicalism" and "skepticism." It has led to endless preachments and a steady stream of protesting letters and articles in magazines and alumni bulletins...
...throughout the country. To many young men, as they signed their names, the same doubting attitude which had previously provoked adult criticism was present. Many had little sympathy with a measure which seemed imposed upon them from above. And to all those interested in the future of the youth movement, and of its promise as a means of achieving "a better world," arose a question. Would the Draft Act serve to strengthen and unite youth in a common consciousness, as the C.C.C. and N.Y.A. legislation has done? Or would conscription deaden youth's capacity to criticize, to hope...