Labor Will Rule?

Abstract

Pour me a double Manhattan and call me Senator McCarthy, quipped the conservative journalist, Smith Hempstone, a future U.S. ambassador to an independent Kenya, “but I had the impression when this conference was finished”—referring to a key confab in Accra in 1958—“that the Pan African movement upon which so many hopes rest and which could be doing so much good was directed either by Communists or fools, possibly both.” Singled out for specific criticism was a dark-skinned, cherubic faced, labor leader from Kenya— Tom Mboya.¹