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{0 SPEECH BY iIrMAN THOMAS , Network of Na Broadcasting Com Friday, July 10, at Snight, Delivered From ^York City. Blue Ofer tu« jKfV « khui the tumult and shouting ^uadrennnial political catn (f^Lre are certain basic, ab auertions that we ought to «on»"?.; Thev cannot be answer ^ professi°ns of devotion .«hie abstractions as hbsr * md "democracy. Everybody t Liberty League, Wil '*B»ndplph Hearst, Roosevelt, 'if Robinson from Arkansas, S'emor McN'utt, author of Ind S military law—professes de ^and whose liberty? Part es are means, not ends. r value depends upon how they to answer these insistent ; Why, if the experts are have the resources ■ ::e:r ■ self us ■ questions l^eQU^pment; to make $2500 a I far a minimum for each worker I'S his family, should farmers and ■ Jîw count themselves lucky to ■SSI a thousand to twelve hun iH led' Why, w ith all our unsatis I y needs/ should there be more "^Aan eleven million unemployed? Why should we be reducing crops I »hen the children of the share croppers go in rags and suffer •«■jon pellagra, that unnecessary disease of malnutrition ? If every loves liberty, why are Moo ^and Billings still in jail? Why ii there a Black Legion, a revived Kn Klux Klan in Florida, Vigilan te in California, peonage and ter Hrorism in Arkansas and Alabama? ^ Why is the effort to organize steel workers a major social struggle? If every party loves peace, why do we spend a billion dollars, more than any nation in the world, on lour army and navy? What answer I have the parties ? We socialists have our answer. We recite the grim facts gf pover ty, tyranny, and drift to war. We ay: It is not the Old Deal or the New Deal that has failed. It is the system of which both are the expression. It is our social order, based on jingoistic nationalism and capitalism and the loyalties which (o with them. Our escape from war and fascism depends upon our building a new order, a world fed eration of cooperative common wealths. . I How can we expect abunance l»faen we produce for the profit of ■ owners increasingly absentee own |w-whose profit depends M Native scarcity ? How ■ P«ct justice and liberty under a ■ system which rests upon exploi |un°n r a system where the few ■ „ - . upon which the lives of us depend, and by virtue of ownership largeFy 2? of communication, and the of government? How w * expect peace when each wo» is a law unit itself in an in JWent world, and rival capi wf n ** l . on8 are driven to f0 F mar kets, raw i, a 8 ' . an d profits ? The system '^Pnate to war, not peace. escape collectivism ■Sew 7 Pen den î e in * machine 3eratil Ca p ma J^ collectivism fifht enc * we Social tad thls cam Paign. For this ncourage workers to or eir unions an d consum CpTrty C00P€ratives ' as wel1 as an swer by If iQQrt fe ^ ences to our But first let me ^ brief comn!f - St pos . ition clearer panson with the nosi upon can we ex own control the com We co By Thornton K ***> « r Wv uer os i^A >bu <SCW\Vhi<-V Tm* nfy • oMrteiA ] vou oh tuiS *irf xwi iSwo fcooO * THIS I* 6our euoe hchosr**?) TICKET-—_ / veuU'iHHO** vT» .tHS IT TO IICUOM» ? 1 ubQ€ 4 rweer tvxCT 2 I v 1 't S s' n) A % 0 * L 1 • » d u 2 fJ f I ip? if? I - - || I I I ? I h I WJ '//. fM '//■ w W' m / i /-v*C &>* r o** Jf i.... ^ th»m °i^ e .,? ther Parties. All of n»t^ Rei ïï! >h ? uls * Democrats, the Coughlm-Lemke Union Party, even the Communists for the mo ment 3re concerned with reforms possible within capitalism. , Communists, of course still believe that eventually ÄttoS m America must closely follow the But this* year. th£y say, that the struggle is between democracy and fascism—democra cy very imperfetcly expressed bv Roosevelt; fascism by Landon and his backers. Pending this building of a farmer-labor party which is them great demand, they are help? mg Roosevelt serve democracy by pressure from the left" and di jw ng th / 1 A campaign against the fascism of the Republicans. We believe their diagnosis is dangerously misleading. Fascism i s Tandon may do things which will encourage its coming; so may Roosevelt but Liberty Lea gue reaction isn't fascism. The tascist demagogue will talk like Hudy Long or maybe like Lemke, not Landon or Knox. We best fight against fascism, and best prepare a real farmer-labor party, by organizing and educating for So cialism. for What will bring fascism i s now economic catastrophe, or America's entry into war. What do the Re publicans or Democrats propose to prevent this drift to economic ca tastrophe or war? Grant that the Democratic platform is less incon sistent to organized workers—not of course, to sharecroppers—than 1 the Republican—the difference is not as wide as a bam door nor as high as a church steeple, and it will not suffice. The Democrats do not even promise as much as the German workers had before Hitler, and that didn't save them. Roose velt did not force through a Demo cratic Congress a revised Guffey bill, the Wagner Housing bill, the Pure Food and Drug Act. He has not lifted his little finger for the sharecroppers, in part the victims of A. A. A. Neither party will really dare to balance the bud get as the expense of the unem ployed. but both will try the old Roman way of seeing with how few crusts and how cheap circuses » or the unemployed can be kept quiet. With much of this criticism the Coughlin- Lemke Party would a gree, but it accepts the profit system. It is populism bom too late, a populism which today has resemblances to fascism. It is a party not democratically created, but handed down from on high, born full grown with candidates and a 15-point platform resem bling the old Nazi platform in Germany. "Congress shall legis late"—-as if Congress were God, creating the world—living wages; the destruction of monoply, but good business for little men; pro fits for all farmers; "adequate pensions for the aged; no more mortgages for land owning fanne ers, but nothing specific, as yet for tenants. All this within the pre sent Constiution, and without plan ned producion* Better believe 1 in Santa Claus and be done with it. What the Union Party really means is a boost for inflation and a help for Landon. Bitterly as these parties quarrel, all of them alike are trying to cure aberculosis with cough dr:ps. Their brands are different They use different flavors and differ ent drugs; sxr.e better, some worse. But neither the Landon, Roosevelt, Lemke, or Townsend brand and flavor can do the job. The cure, and the only cure, is Socialism. We seek power in the state to take over in orderly fash ion, all the commanding heights of the ceonomic order: coal, iron, oil, public utilities, banks, the great industries, the dairy and other fodstuffs. Consumers' cooperatives and Credit Unions will be encour aged. Socialized enterprizes will be democratically governed under boards representing consumers Slfc ^ economic Coun will h ^ or Sundance. Leisure ment pnH ^ ged unemploy can by producing what babl^mi 8h0Uld - We can set a Pro Sv Ä °u ?2500 for each to re™' renumeration o rewärd Various classes of work ers according to deed. Every able bodied adult must live by work! and by planned control of produc tion and hours there will be jobs for all. we \Ve shall work for international ^rangements to guarantee world wide immmum for workers, abolish meal wars, and imperialism, and allocate raw materials. We shall cooperate for peace, but we shall LaKe no part ip war whatever pre text it may be waged. When the workers with hand and brain get what they create the capitalist uirve for the profits hoped for from imperialism will be abated. We seek freedom _ _ _ as well as peac ? u and plenty—a freedom fully possible only when men enjoy both security and leisure, and are not dependent upon for their jobs. owning class an "But", many of .you say, "this sounds beautiful, but it is far in the future. We must eat now. We cf™* 0 * wait to feast in Utopia." Why is it far in the future? Be cause you make it so by voting your fears and not your hopes, by your defeatist belief that the bundance that a we can produce "is too good to be true." We Socialists promise you nothing that you will not organize and win. We do not forget today's needs. Look at the immediate demands consistent with Socialism, care fully stated in our program; They include public housing to conquer the slums and give em ployment, genuine social security, including employment and old age pensions, health insurance and ma ternity benefits; specific measures of help for farmers, including crop insurance, a bill of civil and relig ious liberties; protection, especial ly for the Negro against lynching and race discrimination; a guaran tee to workers of the right to ganize and bargain collectively in bona fide unions; the or the working week to help unem ployment, and the destruction of the brutal machinery of strike breaking. We demand for youth opportunities denied them, and promise them escape from militar ization. We help keep the country out of war, \ye propose to take the pro fit out'of war and preparation for war, to end American imperialism, to establish genuine neutrality, and to lead the world in disarma ment, not armament. We are against the sales tax! We are for income and inheritance taxes, and a graduated capital levy or tax on wealth in private hands in order to support the cost of government, wipe out the dan gerous burden of debt, and aid in socialization. We would use land value taxation to help end private landlordism and recover unearned increment on land. With great insistence we pose the Farmers' and Workers Rights Amendment to the Consti tution in order to end government by judicial oligarchy and to make democracy constitutional. Unlike the Democrats, we do not have to wait for popular government to be kicked around any longer before we know what we want. We want Congres to have the right to legis late for the economic and social wellbeing of the people. These proposals are more fully stated in our platform. I shall am plify them more specifically, in . a series of speeches. But the great purpose of our campaign is no one of them, important as all of them are. It is to advance Socialism in our time,, our hope of plenty, peace and freedom. HUNGRY PICKET ADDITIONAL FUNDS are granted took a ^mon stration of hungry unemployed men and women members of the Work ?. rs ' Alliance to force icago City Council to pass a tax levy for relief. While police on the outside were trying to disperse the picket line around the city hall the councilman on the inside lost 5? tlI ? e , in voting on the levy al though they had been evading the issue for weeks. The relief situation was so bad .sod and food orders coula in Chicago that relief stations were be mailed for lack of postage. Un e ^o> Te d men and women besieg ed the homes of council members und a special meeting was called. Members of the Workers' Al liance jammed the council chamber and shouted, "We want cash re lief," until they were thrown out by several hundred police officers hastdy summoned by Majvor Kelly. When they started picketing out side of the city hall, mounted policemen rode on the side walk in an attempt to disperse the crowd with the use of their clubs and their horses' hoofs. TTw-Swererofqry-sc adDvs aiH According to relief administra tions, this aditional revenue added to the city's share of the sales tax will still be insufficient to cover the needs of Chicago's unemploy ment. A large demonstration is plan ned for July 18 in front of the offices .of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission, and the city hall and local relief stations will be picketed every dafy according to a decision by the Workers' Alliance. Paul Porter, Labor secretary of the Socialist party, said "The Chi cago incident is noly one example of the scores of such incidents which will take place in this coun try. Relief will be cut. The unem not starve. Politicians will dilly-dally until the unemployed exert pressure. First clubs wil be used against those on relief, but if that fails to halt them, additional funds will be hastily found. Gen uine unemployment insurance and necessary public works at uion wages is the only solution und^r our present economic system. GRASSHOPPER WAR RAGES IN COUNTY Splendid results are being ob tained in the destruction of grass hoppers by those who are spread ing the poisoned bait prepared at the W. P. A. porject at Reserve. District Extension Agent, C. H. Peterson, long experienced grasshopper control work, says that farmers in the Medicine Lake, Reserve, Antelope and Dagmar and Coalridge areas should watch the few late fields of grain that are still green, particularly millets and com by putting out bait, should hoppers attack the fields, better still put the bait out on ad jacent fields where they maybe found now before they move on to the few remaining green spots. Every hopper killed now before they start laying eggs, destroys thousands of potential hoppers next year. The W. P. A. Administration ex pects to maintain a mixing crew at Reserve up to August first hence everyone who may need bait should secure it crew are mixing at Reserve. Best results are obtained by mg on© of the many different types of mechanical spreaders that were used in 1934. in poisoned bile the w us NORTHWEST labor NOTES POWER COMPANY ANSWER UNION'S CHARGES " On July 13, the Northern States Power Company, which provides electricity to Minneapolis and the northwest, answered the charges put forth by the Electrical Work k° ca l 160, by denying that the company sought to evade the conditions of the agreement drawn up between the company and the employes last January, there has been no discrimination against unionists, said the com pany» nor has there been any chi seling on the wage agreement bince the union has strike only the week before be cause of these conditions, the workers naturally cannot agree with the statement of the company. The union will state its case to tne arbitration board recently set up as an outcome of their walk out last week. No matter the out come of the arbitration, the union has strengthened its position in the last week so that it is pre pared to give the company cogent reasons for dealing fairly with its employes. HOTEL LAUNDRIES NOW ORGANISED - The Laundry Union, Local 183, has ..successfully ..neogiated ... agreement with two of the city'i largest hotels, the ..Raddiaon ..and the Nicollet, by which the hotels agree to increase wages from 2c to 19c per hour, with a shortening of the worts week to 45 hours, a great difference from the previous aver age work week of 60 hours. The union is recognized as ..the ..rep resentative of the ..workers, ..and seniority rights are provided. —These two hotels for years had .an been notoriously anti-hnion, conse quently this agreement is a splen did victory for the ..union. ..From this victory the union intends to go to the other hotels ..which ..have laundries and offer the agreement. The same as the commercial laun dries operate under. ..There ..is ..a great prospect of success. MOTOR EMPLOYES RESENT CHISELING EMPLOYERS ACTS Employes of the United Motor Company went out on strike last Tuesday, the years' hottest day when the mercury climbed to 107.8 degrees, and commenced picketing thecompany's store, which is chain in a link of like stores that the General Motors Corp. operates in several large cities. The porkers demand that the employers sign the agreement drawn up between the company and the employes two weeks ago, in which the company agreed to recognize the Machin ists Union, Local 382, as the rep resentative of the workers. *060 company had failed to live up to the agreement, and the strike re sulted, If the strikers' militancy does not wilt under the intense heat, and there is little likelihood of this considering the first day's picketing, there is a good prospect of an early and favorable settle ment for the workers. We need all the available feed for livestock next winter hence canont afford to let the hoppers destroy what little have. The U. S. Biological Survey sent in a carload of bran this week which was unloaded at Reserve, suring an ample supply 0 f pre pared bait for those who apply now. grasa we as-