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| | Activist Impulses: Campus Radicalism in the 1930s (Cohen) |
 | | Some of the LID groupsI think, the Swarthmore groupwent into a hosiery strike in the area near Philadelphia and published a pamphlet on the situation in the industry, which had a very useful impact on public understanding of the case for the hosiery workers. |
 | | Well, after the campaign ended, the LID, which was the campus organization of the Socialists, although it carried on adult activities, immediately had secretaries going out to try to bring these people who voted for Thomas into permanent LID chapters. |
 | | Whereas in the Student LID and NSL you had hostility toward FDR and the New Deal as a sort of Kerensky type movement, which is what, of course, also the right wing considered it; now the evaluation changed and you found that the Communists were becoming militant exponents of the deal. |
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