Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 10, August 18th, 1948
SCM Attitude
SCM Attitude
Precisely why the British SCM had disaffiliated and its Penry Jones, a WFDY secretary, had resigned, didn't seem quite so obvious. The way to make an organisation work, remarked Mrs. Bailey politely, is hardly to resign, but to pitch in. Only active membership can Justify criticism of WFDY organisation. To say, as the British SCM did, that WFDY can no longer be salvaged, is rather shortsighted. By a simple process of elimination, if everyone except the Left Wing gets out, WFDY will become a political organisation.
Such critics as Jones, Pedersen (no names mentioned!) should have made their remarks at meetings; to adopt the agenda wholeheartedly there, and then to criticise at home, seems rather a strange procedure. Communist-dominated? The majority of the Executive, as Mrs. Bailey pointed out is English or American, there being one Russian member; the President is French. The aims of WFDY are to get equal pay for both sexes, free education, cultural and recreational facilities, the right to jobs, and to union organisation, for world youth. "We must [ unclear: judge] WFDY on its actions, not what its [ unclear: critics] call it." Its agenda is being put into action by its [ unclear: executive]; opposition to these aims is to be expected in some countries.