{"value"=>"Interviews with Alan Brown, March 8, 1979, and Steve Schlossberg, March 9, 1979"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Taped by Manford for use in a comparative study of the leadership qualities of Doug Fraser, President of the United Auto Workers, and Eugene Debs, conducted for a political science seminar at Columbia. Also see audio cassettes 02826, 02828, 02830, 02831, 02833.</p> <p>Side A: Alan Brown, self-styled \"former liberal conservative\" editor and publisher of an independent political newsletter, discusses the Progressive Alliance, describes it as being a Marxist-oriented, democratic-socialist action and leadership group similar to Americans for Democratic Action, and identifying with the United Auto Workers and its president, Doug Fraser; although he speculates that the Progressive Alliance may be a hopeless cause because of the inherent ideological differences, and conflicts on the social and economic issues that can unite a majority of members, and the need for social democrats and social liberals to unite on economic issues.</p> <p>Side B: Included among the subjects discussed by Steve Schlossberg, advisor to Doug Fraser, are the purposes of the Progressive Alliance; the need to resist the rightwards drift in America; the fact that politicians of both parties are \"running for cover and refusing to deal with real human problems, but look at everything in terms of cost analysis\" an attitude that could set the country back and \"could undo some of the things that have been accomplished by scores of people over the past fifty, hundred years\"; the creation of the Progressive Alliance by Doug Fraser who assembled a group of intellectuals interested in the electoral process, and in putting together a more responsible party politics that is not partisan; Fraser's unhappiness with sitting on the Labor Management Council composed of the leaders of industry, feeling that it was a collaborationist role which he resented; and the need for liberal labor in the Progressive Alliance to recruit conservative AFL-CIO unions based on unifying issues.</p>"}