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to the convention
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* Reprinted from the Louleville “Covrler-Journal
PEACE OR
WAR
General
EISENHOWER
wins, the Taft crowd (Bricker,
Jenner, Kem, Mundt, McCarthy,
Joe Martin, etc.) will write the
policy for (1) promoting ‘‘liberation’’ uprisings and pulling out
of Europe and the United Na(2) sending our armed
tions;
forces deeper into Asia, inviting,
words,
Bradley’s
in General
‘‘the wrong war, at the wrong
place, at the wrong time, and
with the wrong enemy.”’
would
keep
our commitments to the nations
of Europe in NATO; stay in the
United Nations; stay with the
UN forces in Korea, Behind the
military
shield of growing
strength he would cooperate in
the development of other countries. ‘‘The contest with tyranny
is not a 100-yard dash—it is an
acid test of endurance ... The
answer to the inhumanity of
Communism is human respect for
the individual.’’
Republicans
other
and
Taft
=>
fed inflation ever since 1946,
when they ganged up on price
control. Now Taft and EISENHOWER blame the Republican
50-cent dollar on the Democrats.
Instead of effective price and
rent control, they offer tighter
credit at higher. interest, promise
to cut wasteful spending by De-
fense and other departments.
Danger, as CIO has warned, is
that, as defense pipelines are
policies will flop again and be
followed by deflation—closed
towns,
ghost
workers and busted farmers.
*
*
idle
*
= STEVENSON will demand
new price, rent and wage controls if prices are still going up
Jan. 1, Has tagged Taft as
‘leader of the inflationary shock
troops in Congress.’’ Warns that
a
new
cycle
sCTAXES
of
boom,
bust,
de-
pression and unemployment
would be made to order for the
Kremlin plan of world conquest;
says full production and employment must be maintained.
&
=> STEVENSON told Governor
Shivers of Texas that he agrees
with the Supreme Court that offshore oil belongs to the people of
the U.S. A. He is sure to favor
its use to help. ease local school
taxes,
otherwise
due
BIKES
CRUSADE
5 a <
FENTRANCE “J:
—-
§
Members of the Cast
~
Fy*patin,
ric
thekp
on
for
steep
increases as more children reach
school age. STEVENSON says
he will cut expenses to the bone
and improve services as he has
done in Illinois and will demand
taxes stiff enough to pay for defense and other services as we
go. Supports platform pledge to
close tax loopholes and to op-
pose a federal sales tax.
"Just Big Enough
Now
PLAYING
4
=> EISENHOWER has said offshore oil resources should be
turned over to the states. When
told the Supreme Court held
otherwise, he clammed up, but
the Texas Shivercrats say he is
still their man.
REAL
DANGER: If put in control, Republicans would cut taxes on high
incomes and transfer more of the
tax load to low income people by
use of federal sales tax.
‘‘trickle-down’’
GOP’s
filled,
factories,
ox x
=> STEVENSON
3
INFLATION
FREE
UNIONS |
CIVIL RIGHTS
=> General EISENHOWER is
outspokenly AGAINST FEPC.
The 1952 Republican platform
plank on civil rights is weaker
than the 1948 plank. It supports
Taft’s opposition to FEPC with
enforcement powers.
The plat-
> EISENHOWER
Nixon are silent on Rule 22.
Taft declaration—' ‘Injunctioy.
form,
EISENHOWER,
Taft, and
Senator Ives (R., N. Y.)
this silence on filibuster
As
said,
rule
makes all GOP civil rights talk
“‘academic.’’
Taft is ‘‘delighted’’ with McCarthy’s primary
victory, EISENHOWER is supporting McCarthy despite McCarthy’s
slander
of General
Marshall.
*
=
*
has stated un-
equivocally his support of the
Democratic
platform’s
civil
rights plank, including its pledge
of an effective. Federal FEPC.
Likewise he has stated his support for the platform pledge to
substitute majority rule for filibuster
rule,
to
be
the
would
Taft-Hartley
cluding the injunction,
achieved
by
Senate action January 3, 1953.
He has denounced McCarthyism,
to Drive a Few Trucks Through"
Acti}
but
out the seizure provision
by STEVENSON. EISENHQ)ii
ER told the AFL he was ‘‘agail
compulsion’’ but he accepts *
the only thing that really }
stop
strikes.’’
Wall.
Stic
Journal has predicted m)
anti-labor action if Republic)
win,
*
*K
*
=> STEVENSON
urges repjiy
of the Taft-Hartley Act ¢
In his Lalty'
make a fresh start.
*
STEVENSON
tinue
NW
Day speech at Detroit and ag}
to the AFL, STEVENSON s\
that
a
new
law,
in
addition}
guaranteeing the right to orgy:
ize and to bargain. collectively
should include provisions agai}
unfh
disputes,
jurisdictional
labor practices and methods jw
peaceful settlements of dispup
in national emergency cases. |
has pledged strengthening of {ji
Labor Department and NLRB},
“I'm
in the
Fourth
Gradii
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SECURITY
‘‘In these times
mer 9, 1948.)
gaear so much of security,
Wity for everything we do.
I should think that the
@ example of it would be a
“g serving a lifetime in a fed“prison.”’ (January 13, 1952.)
*
*
ESTEVENSON
*
is for increas-
feligibility age to draw benecontinue
work,
provid-
asupplemental unemployment
apensation allowances for degients. While Republicans are
gain to fight federalization of
gxmen’s compensation and
gistrial
health
and _ safety
#s and enforcement, STE*NSON’S record shows no
jl opposition.
fd Shift, Second Layer"
In the
Washington
MINIMUM
WAGE
=>
Republican platform is silent
on
minimum
the
New
‘‘curbing,
wages,
and
Post,
Fair
but
damns
Deals
for
“Give Us‘A Hand; I'll Split With You!”
restraining,’’ etc., free
enterprise. Taft and other reactionary Republicans would fight
$1.25 minimum and most would
join worst Southern Democrats
in further weakening
both
Wage-Hour and Public Contracts
Acts to benefit sweatshops North
and South.
*
*
=> Democratic platform pledges
increases in minimum wages and
other fair labor standards ‘‘consistent with present-day progress,’’ Also pledges to maintain
“‘at all times maximum employment,
production
and PURCHASING POWER in the American economy.’’
STEVENSON,
in addition to pledging himself
to the platform, says such an
economy is essential to national
strength
and security against
Communist aggressive moves.
More
Than
whose
Taft,
domestic
program has been adopted by
EISENHOWER,
assassinated
the aid-to-medical education bill
of which he was a co-sponsor.
The AMA political machine is
opénly campaigning for EISENHOWER and Nixon.
Se
= STEVENSON
has declared
himself
against
‘‘socialized
medicine’’ but in favor of adequate medical services
and
means for meeting the costs of
‘“catastrophic’’ illness. In pledging support of the Democratic
platform he committed himself
to a solution of the ‘‘urgent
problem’’ of the costs of medical care which “‘have grown to
be prohibitive for many millions
of people.’’ The platform commends present studies by President Truman’s Commission on
the Health Needs of the Na-
tion,
of
which
dent Walter
member,
Factories
Are
T.
4
ly
=> The GOP platform denounces
federal compulsory health insurance.
Page
NOVEMBER
MEDICAL
CARE
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“and extending benefits to
‘r and unemployed workers,
‘@ring the retirement age for
fen, allowing workers past
~Herblock
NOW
“What Big Ears You Have, Grandma!”
has been
‘SIISENHOWER
ag to make workers forget
# statements of his: ‘‘If all
4Americans want is security,
# can go to prison. They'll
“4 enough to eat, a bed and
(De® over their heads.’’
mand
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
1952
UAW-CIO
P,
Reuther
Presi-
is
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Cae
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HOUSING
10
SCHOOLS
=> Complete text of 1952 Republican platform plank on Education:
‘‘The
tradition
of
ing, which puts the 1952 GOP to
popular education, tax-supportthe right of where Taft used to ed and free to all, is strong with
be when he cosponsored 1949 our people.
The responsibility
Housing Act. Would limit rent for sustaining this system has
control to defense areas of short- always rested upon the local
communities and the states. We
age. Republicans (83 per cent in
fully to this
printhe House, 91 per cent in the subscribe
ciple.’’ Republicans oppose fedSenate) killed vital co-op loan eral use of
offshore oil resources,
section of the 1950 Middle In- would would yield revenue to
come Housing Bill; yoted to help
localities
meet
nation’s
limit public low-rent housing to school needs for years to come,
platform
=> The Republican
doesn’t say a word about Hous-
5,000 units
authorized)
(instead of 135,000
in 1951 and 1952,
Far
ee ie
*.
ok
=> STEVENSON supports the
Democratic
platform which
pledges federal aid to states and
=> STEVENSON is for reviving
programs for low-rent and mid- localities to build enough schools,
dle-income,
migratory
farm train and hire enough teachers
workers, defense and veterans’ at salaries high enough to get
housing and slum clearance that and keep good ones.
It also
real estate lobby and a bipar- pledges federal scholarships. As
tisan majority in the Congress noted above (under No. 3, TAXhave cut down, blocked or de- ES), STEVENSON also supports
layed. Also favors continued rent federal use of offshore oil recontrols in defense and other sources to improve schools and
areas of housing shortages. All teaching of our children.
Also
this is pledged in plain language favors more and better vocation.
in the Democratic platform,
al training.
Needed
“Now
Truman
open
Health
your
mouth
Plan’.
wide
and
say,
‘Down
with
UNITED
1952
October,
}
AUTOMOBILE
Page
WORKER
“ Our Social Security Program Needs Much
. Improvement-Not Republican Wrecking
Our national social security system was founded?
and developed during Democratic administrations. It|
must be expanded and improved to provide security|
Want Security? Go to Jail
the risks of old age, unemployment, disability, |
against
sickness, accident and death.
The benefits must be improved to (1) take account|
protect |
(2)
of the expanding standard of living and
against increases in the cost of living.
The position of the Republican Party towards these goals
was expressed by its candidate for President, General EHisen|
hower, in his 1948 statement that
“Tf all that Americans want is SECURITY, then they
can go to PRISON.”’
In 1948 Senator Nixon stated:
“I am opposed to pensions in any form, as it makes
loafing more attractive than working.’’
to assistance
referring
was
he
payments
than
rather
the
social
all
of the
aged
to
paid
are
which
grams
under
=
1939,
in
80th
the
opposed
Republicans
security
social
of
ment
Congress,
enact-|
exclude
1935.|
in
form
calls
for
Republican
coverage
of
meaning
platform
excluded
groups
but
in the 80th Congress,
controlled by Republicans, the Reposals
to
extend
and
500,000
The
and
workers.
750,000
Democratic
Party
in
1950
(1) reversed the action of the
publican-controlled
80th
Cong
and
(2)
brought
into
Re-
security
covers|
people.
increased
an
additional
10 million*
including
domestic
workers,
selfemployed,
agricultural
workers,
the}
over
1952
in
again
and
1950
were
opposition of the Republican Party. |
On
an amendment
to further
in-}
maximum
the
$7.50
by
|erease
monthly benefit, 75 per cent
m
Republicans voted “NO.”
prog
platform
The Democratic
workers,|
the
gives|
Party’s|
it that
system
Benefits—Benefits
in
persons|
500,000
to the Democratic
pledge
to see to
social
more
(2)|
between
from
protection
away
took
coverage
|} the
pro-
all
opposed
(1)
Party
publican
to |
was
action
performance
This
others.
and
plat-
than
more
the
of
YOU
SOCIAL SECURITY—WHEN
ARE TOO OLD TO WORK
Coverage—The
only
their
and
1950
Congress,|
program.
and | from the
expansion
its
opposed
They
the
control
liad
they
| when
right.
earned
as an
pro-
insurance
security
The adtitude expressed by its 1952@
candidates matches the Republican | development
During
1952,
Party's record on all aspects of the}
program
on need |
are based
that
payments
to the aged|
payments
for higher
need
the
of
in talking
that
clear
made |
Eisenhower
General
a candidate,
becoming
after
Even
of
the
prom- |
ises further
increases,
The Repub-|
lican platform’s silence is eloquent
DISABILITY BENEFITS—WHEN
YOU ARE UNABLE TO WORK
In
1950,
the
attempted
;
Democratic
to
amend
Party|
;
Social
the
Security
5
persons
cause of
Act to provide benefits to
compelled
to
retire
beillness. This proposal was
defeated
by
85
per-
the
cent
of
Republican
the
House
Party;
Republi-
cans
voted
0
Again
against
such
95
1952
in
extension
a
Ae
Republican
the
Party, at the request of the Amerioa
j
deleted
Association,
Medical
can
provisions which
would
have
preserved the rights of the disabled to
future
benefits
Security
under
the
Republican
terested
in
ers
than
employed
tax
Act.
oppose
of
all
action,
the
cry
tion
of
to
unemployment
3
This
the
Yet
in state
oppose
all at-
| dards
tempts to provide more adequate
benefits under state laws.
won't
Republicans,
both
in
Age
500,000
excluded
Insurance
| publican
whose
by
The
they
Senator
in
tion,
most
lators
by
unemployment
have
the
company
men’s
erty
In
Republican
weakens
eagerly
compensa-
obeyed
employer
and
lobbies
compensation
to
iegiee|
urging
insurance
keep
benefits
at
work-
pov-
leyel
mos
workers
injured
compensation
on
their
for
jobs
fuse
to
| strike,”
the
is
sympathetic
state
legislatures
to
federal
stan-
if you
one
your
accept
such
that
said
benefits
a job
in
a
“you
plant
re-
dollars.
as
New
In
some
York,
Ari-
zona, Washington and for United
States Government employes, the
benefits at least continue for life
without cash limit.
maximum
$9,000,
and
Taft's
said
in
law
home
state,
compensation
“as little as
that,
the
is
only}
$6,000
in
wages
alone
may
are
the
tragically
family in
be several
hun-
just as dead from
or silicosis as from
head,
“If all that Americans want is
security, they can go to prison.
They'll have enough to eat, a bed,
and a roof over their heads.”
—from
a Speech by General
Eisenhower
in Galveston,
Texas, Reported in the New
York
Times,
December
9,
1918.
"In these times we hear so much
of security, security for everything
we do...1 should think that the best
example of it would be a man serving
a lifetime in a: federal prison."
legislators have
when
a
worker
pay
less than
a proper
share of loses an arm on the job, he receives
the losses suffered
by
workers
in|no more than a minor
fraction of |
their
factories,
Injured
workers, | hig wages for about 200 weeks (less|
widows and children have to make| than 4 years)—nothing else,
up two thirds of the losses, Often
Occupational
disease
is negthey must turn to relief or charity.
lected, although a person can be
Death
benefits
low.
The loss to
Security
on
YOU-
dred ghousand
states,
California
lose
the
less than
one-third
of
their
lost| Maine and Kansas
wages.
The employers are allowed |
Employer-minded
by
were
insurance,
In Senator
states,
program
of, unemployment
including
Washington
state
to 750,000
from
the
from
WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION—IF
ARE INJURED ON THE JOB
As
done all in
the present
for the Knowland “scab or starve”
Amendment
proposed
by the Re-
which
caused
states have
to weaken
| also excluded from unemployment
|
compensation.
Ninety-two, per cent
of the Senate
Republicans
voted
supplementa-
was
program,
workers
| Old
defeating
workers
defense
program,
legislatures they
un-
federal
Rights.”
Bill
federal
benefits
to
treatment
in
Moody-Dingell
and in the
ploy- | their power
en
benefits
through
“States’
this
proposed
to
uniform
workers
crying
used
is more in-|
beneffts
adequate
workers
They
They
Party
Ike’s idea of Social
Social
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION—
WHEN YOU ARE OUT OF WORK
The
YOU CAN TAKE IKE'S WORD FOR IT
poison
a blow
fumes
on his
—from
a
Kisenhower
Speech
to
by
Ceneral
Columbia
Uni-
versity students quoted in the
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL, January
13,
1952.
9
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AUTOMOBILE
UNITED
10
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WORKER
October, 1952
GOP Twists Facts on Korea
In Cheap Effort to Grab Votes |
_————
“Whatever unscrupulous politicians may
say to exploit grief, tragedy and discontent
*
Warns Against "Spreading the War"
for votes, history will never record that
Korea was a ‘useless’ war, unless today’s
heroism is watered with tomorrow’s cowardice.”
I am under no illusion that our present strategy of using means
short of total war to achieve our ends and oppose communism is a
guarantee that a world war will not be thrust upon us. But a policy of
patience and determination without provoking a world war, while
we improve our military power, is one which we believe we must
continue to follow.
As long as we keep the conflict within its present scope, we are
hese words of Adlai Stevenson, spoken September 9 at San Francisco, the birthplace of the United
Nations, emphasize a great truth:
In Korea collective security through the UN has
stopped Communist aggression cold, and thereby
gone a long way toward preventing World War III.
And here are other truths that Republican demagogues would like to have the American people forget on November 4:
—The Truman Doctrine (1947) helped save
Greece and Turkey from armed insurrection
and invasion by Communist forces.
—The Marshall Plan (1948) helped revive and
unify Western Europe, causing Communist
parties there to lose. more than a million
members.
—The Berlin airlift (1948-49) saved that out-
post of freedom.
—NATO (1950) is welding a common defense
force in Western Europe, to halt Soviet
aggression before it starts.
—Our Point Four program of technical aid
(1950) is helping save India, Indonesia, and
other countries from going the way of
China.
Altogether, we have helped keep 255 million
We have kept not
Europeans from Communism.
only these people—many of them our own velatives
—but also their factories, their skills, their
ments out of Stalin’s bloody grasp.
And we are doing the same in Asia.
arma-
Yet the Republicansin Congress for the past
four years have done little but hamper and hinder
And in the
this successful Democratie policy.
present campaign the whole Republican leadership
is sinking to new lows of demagogy and attempts
to rewrite history and falsify the record.
THE GREAT SURRENDER
General Eisenhower and Senator Taft have
Following the
agreed to bury their differences,
General’s Great Surrender, September 12, the
Republican isolationists, the Republican imperialists and the few remaining Republican bipartisans
are all making common cause.
To catch votes they agree in denouncing the
very policies that they themselves often helped
formulate.
To catch votes, they agree in wild and warlike
mouthings about extending the Korean war into
China and ‘‘liberating’’ Eastern Europe.
But after they have caught the votes, what will
Taft and The General and their whole combatteam agree on?
Based on the record, they will not agree on aid
to our friends and allies—most of the Republicans
in Congress have voted against it.
Based on their own statements, they won’t agree
ever to negotiate with Russia if and when opportunity arises to settle differences over the con-
ference
idea.
NAKED,
table—they
NARROW
do nothing but denounce
that
MILITARISM
In fact the only positive thing on which the
whole Republican combat-team agrees is this:
That America must become a citadel of armed
might and nothing else.
That is the lowest common denominator of
Republican agreement. That policy of naked,
narrow militarism, of a completely militarized
nation fighting without allies for victory or
survival, is the Republican answer to the
}
atomic age.
And that policy of militarism alone is a direct
road to World War IlJ—a direct road to more
Pearl Harbors, more Guadalcanals, Tunisias, Anzio
and Normandy beaches—plus Soviet A-bombs rainet
ing on American cities.
Every one of the above statements about the
Question: Who pulled U. S. troops out of
:
South Korea in 1949?
Answer: See full story in November Auto
Worker.
‘
jolding
in
eral
war
Korea
in
to
minimum the forces we must commit and tie down.
he strategie~alternative, enlargement of the war in Korea to
include
vould probably delight the Kremlin more than
euld.do. It would necessarily tie down additional
forces, especially ot
ower and our air power, while the Soviet
Union would not be‘ebliged to put a single man into the conflict.
Under present circulst: neces. we have recommended against enlarging the war. The dotirse of action é6ften described as a “limited
war” with Red China
increase the risk we are taking by engaging too much of o
power in an area that is not the critical
strategic prize.
GENERAL BRADLEY’S sworn testimony
—At right, reproduced
exactly from the Sen- ate Hearings transcript
on Gen.
MacArthur’s
dismissal, is statement
by the GI’s General opposing
spreading
of
war
te-a
Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.
Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy
would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong
ime, and with the wrong enemy.
’
gen-
Asia.
Republican leadership is documented in the record.
ALL-IMPORTANT QUESTION
But more important than the Republican record
is the answer to this question:
How can we hope to prevent world
a world so threatened
muuist imperialism?
When
you
first figure
out
are
how
by
threatened
your
expanding
enemy
by
an
war,
in
Com-
enemy,
operates.
you
How the Kremlin operates in its effort to win the
world should by now be clear to all:
First, aggression.
Stalin relies on Red army
conquests. That primarily, is how he won Eastern
Europe.
Second, subversion. Stalin relies on native Communist parties to exploit hunger and oppression,
foment civil war and so win power. That primarily
is how the Communists won China.
Third, depression. Stalin relies on another depression in the U. S., to weaken, divide and cave
in his chief opposition.
If we are to avoid both a third world war and a
Communist world, we have to continue taking
account of all three of Stalin’s methods.
First of all, we have to show Stalin that-armed
aggression by the Red army of the satellite-armies
will not pay.
That is why we are in Korea.
That is
. why we have NATO in Europe.
Once Stalin jis convinced that aggression won’t
pay, we can hope that he and the Politburo will
talk seriously about ending the arms race. That is
why we must continually be ready to negotiate,
But if Stalin does agree to enforceable mutual
disarmament, he will then plan even more strongly
to win through subversion and depression.
Second,
therefore,
we
must
continue
helping
the
poorer peoples of the world progress economically
and move toward social justice. We must defeat
“stomach communism.”’
Third, we must continue our progress in the
United States, avoiding the new Republican depression that Stalin counts on.
All these things are precisely the Democratic
policy. They are Adlai Stevenson’s policy. But*
the Republicans—agreeing among themselves only
on militarism—haye opposed one part after another
of this policy for preventing World War III.
WHY WE FIGHT
It is quite clear, for example, why we are fighting
in Korea. We and our friends are fighting there—
in the first successful collective effort to enforce
the world rule of law—in order to prevent World
War
III.
We had to teach the Communists that their
Korean aggression would not pay. Otherwise,
like Hitler in Europe and Tojo in Asia, they
would have gobbled up one country after another, ending in another Pear] Harbor.
UN action in Korea HAS taught the Communists
a lesson. More than two years later, Stalin and
Mao have not launched aggression elsewhere. In
contrast, back in September 1938, the Western.
powers—despite FDR’s efforts—let Hitler carve up
Czechoslovakia at Munich. A year later in September, 1939, he had started World War II,
Yet now some Republicans show their recklessness by urging all-out war in China. They would
start World War III under the guise of preventing
World War IIT.
General MacArthur, Senator Cain (R., Wash.)
and the China lobby would all, in the words of
General Omar Bradley, ‘‘involve us in the wrong
war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and
with the wrong enemy.’’
(see above).
SAVED LIVES
By continuing to negotiate in Korea we haye
saved thousands of American lives, while strengthening our military position. The Republicans who
sneer at willingness to negotiate in Korea should
be honest about their alternative: scores of thousands more American casualties, and possible total
world war.
It is the same in Europe and elsewhere. We are
helping build free world arms to teach the Communists beforehand that NO aggression will pay.
That is the meaning of NATO and the Mutual
Security program.
But
August
a majority
17
block ANY
and
of
House
October
help, military,
10,
Republicans
1951,
economic
voted
on
to
or tech-
nical, to our friends.
And three-quarters of the Senate Republicans
yoted on May 27, 1952, to slash help ‘to our friends
$1 billion below the level that General Eisenhower
three weeks before had called ‘‘essential in the
interests of United States security.”
Lastly, Stalin relies on a depression in America,
spreading throughout the world, to smooth his
path.
KIND OF AMERICA NEEDED
Only a ‘progressive, forward-looking America,
with full rights for all citizens, can effectively win
peace in a world that insists on progress and threefifths of whose people are colored.
Only an expanding America implementing Democratie full employment policies can disarm without
depression.
3ig business still fears the prospect of speedy
Under the
conversion to peacetime production.
Republicans as under the Democrats, the arms program will doubtless turn down somewhat as the
tooling-up is finished, the pipelines are filled and
the stockpiles grow.
3ig business fears alone would tend to push the
Republicans toward permanent militarism for
America. And a military America, in addition, is
the only solution the Republicans can agree on as
an answer to Communist aggression.
The military America that the Republican combat-team would build could not act for peace. It
would have few or no allies. It would have junked
the UN, as Bricker and others propose. It could
only land us in the devastating horror of another
:
world war.
UNITED
October, 1952
WORKER
AUTOMOBILE
Page
11
Stevenson Fights for Human Rights
The Republican-Dixiecrat record on human rights
is plain. It is a record of double-talk, smear and discrimination. In Congress, it is a record of repeated
votes AGAINST democracy and equality.
ETA
yrs OU
The New Deal-Fair Deal record is also plain. It is a record
of constant fighting to achieve the principles of the Declaration
of Independence, to abolish dise rimination based on:
. . » Where you or your parents came from,
. . - Your color or your religion,
. . . How you think and speak.
This struggle to achieve full dignity and freedom for all is
no new thing. For generationst he great corporate interests and
their Republican stooges have relied on prejudice to divide sand
conquer.
he said:
‘‘The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudice of the people
until all wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few people
,
and the Republic is destroyed.’
Under the New Deal and F air Deal, people have been increasingly able to get ahead regardless of their own and their
parents’ national origin. High federal offices have been filled
on
warned of t his when
Abraham
Lincoln
the
of merit,
The
basis
1952
specifically
Democratic
pledges:
“.,.Federal
FECTIVELY
rights
to
to equal
ment:
to
secure
everyone:
the
(1)
on
the
Platform®
legislation
opportunity
(2)
not
EF-
these
the
right
for employ-
right
to
security
of person:
(3) the right to full
and
equal
participation
in the
nation’s political life, free from
arbitrary
restraints.”
Contrast
this with
the
weasel |
words
of the current
Republican}
Platform:
“Enacting
federal legislation to}
treat-|
further just and equitable
ment in the area of discriminatory|
employment, practices...” (Weasel
words to disguise the fact that this
is
a
complete
retreat
from
the
GOP
1948 Platform, which promised a “just enforcement” of such
legislation, not merely enactment.)
spelling
of a name.
compulsory
thing
|ja federal
conference,
Abilene,
| (Press
sas, June 5, 1952)
.. .
Kan-
FILIBUSTER!
FEPC
has been
filibustered
to
death in the Senate by the Dixiecrats. The Dixiecrats were able to
do this because
the
Republicans
ganged
up
with
them
and
put
through a rule saying that to stop
|a filibuster two-thirds of the entire Senate—that is, 64 Senators—
had to vote to do so. Senate Rule
22 makes it just about impossible
ever to stop a Southern filibuster
and
to get a vote on FEPC.
A
total of 33 Senators absent or voting in the negative can block action on civil rights or any other
measure.
This underhanded means for defeating
FEPC“was
sponsored
by
Senator Wherry,
then Republican
leader of the'Senate.
Republicans
voted for it overwhelmingly, 34 to
eight, on March 17, 1949. And so,
of course, did the Southern Demo-
ADLAI ON FEPC
Here is what
Governor
Adlai
Stevenson
had to say on FEPC,
months before he was out asking
for our votes. Based on years of} crats.
fighting for an FEPC
in Illinois,
The
1952 Democratic
Platform
he declared:
comes
out
squarely
against
this
“I regard
the
right to earn
betrayal
of the principle of maone’s living free from discrimijority rule:
nation
founded
on
race,
color
“In order that the will of the
and religion as so fundamental
American
people
may
be exa part of the heritage of all our
pressed upon all legislative procitizens that the failure of the
posals, we
urge
that action
be
problem
the
to solve
states
taken at the beginning
of the
clearly
warrants
a
federal
ap-
proach.
“As
to
the
Democratic
party
platform, I think the party cannot
retreat
from
the platform
plank
adopted
at the 1948 convention.”
(U. S. News
and
World
Report,
”
83rd
Congress
gressional
to
improve
procedures
Con-
so
that
majority
rule prevails and
decisions can be made after reasonable
debate
without
being
blocked by a minority in either
House.”
The Republican Platform is completely silent on this point.
In the House, FEPC came up for
April 25, 1952)
General Eisenhower, in contrast,
comes out squarely against any effective
federal action to ensure} a vote in 1950. There also the
Reequal job opportunities:
publicans ganged
up with
the
*.,.I really believe we can do
«
more
by leadership and getting)
states to do it than by making it}
PAY
Southern
Democrats.
Rep.
DIRT
FIRST IT'S DOUBLE-TALK
—NOW IT'S SMEAR!
McCon-
nell (Republican, of Pennsylvania)
offered an amendment to take all
the enforcement teeth out of the
Democratic FEPC bill. McConnell’s amendment
to limit the
FEPC to “investigation” and “recThe Republican masters of double-talk have still another
ommendations”
passed
the House |
on February 22, 1950, with Republi- ‘method:
Smear. They try to make people believe the Democan and Dixiecrat votes. Repub- crats in Washington have been coddling Communist saboteur
s,
licans voted for it 104 to 49. Demoletting them steal official secrets. This is Hitler’s technique of
crats voted against this milk-toast
| the Big Lie, plain and ugly.
% over Senator Robert M. LaFolamendment, 128 to 118.
The lesson is clear: only Adlai |
But here is the truth:
lette
Jr., in
1946
by
a narrow
Stevenson
and
fighting
liberal
1. The loyalty of every governmargin.)
Democrats will work for effective |
ment employe is checked and
The net effect of their charges
action to make every American a
double-checked
if necessary
is not to weaken
but to help the
fully first-class citizen.
by the FBI.
This has been
spread
of Communism.
Most
of
true ever since
1947—three
them are isolationists and, as such,
|
years before
Sen. McCarthy
contemptuous of other nations and
ever opened his mouth.
utterly defeatist so far as interna2. “If Houdini were a suspected
tional cooperation
to block. ComCommunist,
he
couldn’t
get
munist aggression is concerned,
“Crusaders of Smear’’ vote
Smearers Smear People
The record of how these
against the people shows clear ly what their aims are. Here,
for example, is how Senators McCarthy, Nixon, Dirksen,
Cain and Jenner have voted:
—CUT
THE
TAXES
RICH
$60,000
MAN,
WORKING
FOR
$30
PEOPLE.
FOR
They
all
tried to do this in 1947 with the
“rich
man’s”
have
cut
for
$2,500
—END
FOOD.
(all save
average
PRICE
They
vote)
a
those
and
only
family
year,
CONTROL
tried
McCarthy,
on
$60,000
for
a year,
a
would
$500,000
$5,000
the
earning
It
nearly
$50,000
for
$30
bill.
making
nearly
making
the
taxes
those
year,
tax
June
to’ do
who
4,
ON
this
dodged
1952,
by
voting
for
Dirksen’s
trickilyworded amendment to “suspend”
price controls on “agricultural
commodities,”
*Reprinted From the Baltimore Bua
—KEEP
THE
TAPT-HARTLEY
CRACK-DOWN
ON
WORKERS’ RIGHTS, They did
this in 1949 (all except Dirksen,
who was not then in Congréss),
by blocking liberal Democratic
efforts to repeal Taft-Hartley's
unfair provisions,
near a
payroll
8.
—ALMOST WIPE OUT PUBLIC HOUSING.— They all tried
to do this on’ June 3, 1952, voting to authorize only 5,000 new
federal-aided
apartments
or
houses
this
75,000 as
President,
year,
instead
of
by
the
recommended
laws.
laws.
must
We
We
The man who
lai Stevenson,
We must
house to
said that
is Ad-
McCarthy
a
Under
the
government
(Life Maga-
1,
1951)
has
single
agent.
uncovered
Communist
civilian-controlled
Energy
Commission,
not a single security leak
been discovered.
Atomic
crets
THE
were stolen
WAR,
when
has
se-
tary
ran
pro-
lican
Lie
the
have
and
the
stock-in-trade,
DURING
the mili-
A-bomb
leaders
party
Big
already
have
the
must
fight
false-
our better ideas...
not burn down the
kill the rats.”
Sen.
gram,
The chief
fight traitors with
hood and evil ideas with truth
and
better
ideas,
We
have
them in plenty, But we must
not confuse the two. Laws infringing our rights and intimidating unoffending persons
without
enlarging
our
stcurity
will neither
catch
subversives nor win converts to
October
Atomic
Those
of us
who
want
an
America
both
free and sectre
will vote for the man who believes as follows:
“We
zine,
not
4.
sensitive
today.”
of
the
now
Repub-
made
witch-hunt
General
the
their
Eisenhow-
er and Sen, Taft openly encourage
and
support
such
specialists
in
smear
|
|
|
on,
as
Senators
Dirksen,
MOUTH
To
| nism
with the
ithe hard
| workers
licked it
and
Nix-
Jenner,
men,
business
mouth,
reality
of
Commu-
making
noises
It does not have
so well known to
who
have
fought
In their local unions,
and
their
shops and their communities. (We
know
that
McCarthy
was
given
and that he accepted the support
of Communists when he won the
Republican Senatorial nomination
intent,
the
effect
EX-DEWEY FANS
PLUG FOR ADLAI
Ike,
the
Dewey-eyed
political
maiden, is losing some of the support even Dewey had
At Yale, where the sons of the
rich
seek
education,
the
Yale
Daily
News,
undergraduate
newspaper, came out for Stevenson
The
famed
St.
Louis
Post-Dispate!
liberal
newspaper
fourrded
Joseph,
stomach
fighting
their
of their systematic smearing is to
divide, discourage and thereby
to
disarm
and
weaken
us,
thereby
} opening the door and rolling out
by
FIGHTING
these
is a
Cain
McCarthy,
Whatever
Pulitzer,
Dewey
come
out
against
picked candidate
managed
in
‘48
Ike,
Stevenson Says
“We
erals are
socialists
must
remember
but
his
to
has
hand-
that
lib-
not Communists, and
are not Communists,
that
and
that radicals in the American tradition are not Communists."—Address at Albuquerque, N, M., September 12, 1952.
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“unac-
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like-
round-house
swing
policy
foreign
alleging
that
the
Demo-
Oregon
Republican
isn’t
no
new
crats’ foreign policy plank was
“much
stronger”
because
“‘it
doesn’t seek to compromise with
the isolationists.”
The
experience
who
that’s
but
colleagues,
for
successfully
frenzied
efforts
of
years ago.
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6:15}
resisted
the
Morse
the
Oregon
Primary
Republican
the
Senator
to oust
Guard
Old
“GOP
Republican
his
with
popular
in
him
two
AMA Releases
Best Front Men
REPUBLICANS
For ‘Unethical’ Job
CHICAGO
Medical
(LPA)—The
Association
its
National
has
been
announced
Education
eampaign
“dangers
of socialized
eminently
But
H.
that
its
resigned
had
Campaign
part
in
With
a straight
the
the AMA
sional
pating
in
Dr.
leading
from
the
Committee
presidential
face
Dr.
is
legally
election
anspir-
Educato
take
campaign.
Bauer
“as a non-partisan,
and
has
Louis
president,
organization,
ethically
the
medicine
the same
tion
its
against
breath
AMA
nounced
because
successful.”
in the same
Bauer,
that
Committee
disbanded
four-year
been
American
profes-
barred
from
said
both
partici-
campaigns.”
So,
Dr.
Elmer
L.
Henderson,
chairman
of the AMA
Coordinating Committee,
resigned, and immediatgly announced formation of
a “National
Professional Committee
for
Eisenhower
and
Nixon.”
And
the
famous
husband-and-wife
team
of Whitaker
and
Baxter,
which
master-mindéd
the “socialized medicine” campaign, also resigned and immediately turned up
as campaign directors of the new
Eisenhower-Nixon
committee.
The Republican seedling sprouted and grew
In the simple
minds
of quite a few,
And those simple minds will vote alike—
They'll cast their votes for dear old Ike.
They ve promised a lot; they’ll promise more,
But take a look at what happened before.
Twenty years have passed, and yet
Those Hoover days we’ll never forget.
When
And a
I never
And if
When
Hoover
was
in, | lived-on a farm
dollar bill looked long as your arm.
saw a ten-dollar bill.
Ike gets in, | doubt if I will.
Hoover was in, things were mighty tight,
Rabbits were. scarce and fish wouldn’t bite.
The men were too ragged to go anywhere,
And
the women
Mem-
Nashville, WLAC
Repub-
utterly
Republican
at the
WKZO;
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senator in Washington in a poll
of political scientists, has noth-
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Senator
Wayne
Morse#(R.,
Ore.) voted the best Republican
and
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MISSOURI—
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WKRC;
Cleveland,
WGAR;
Columbus, WNBS;
Dayton, WHIO;
Youngstown, WKBN
ing but harsh words for the Republican platform.
Plain-talking
Senator
Morse
declared
that
the
Democratic
was
rights
civil
on
plank
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Series
The two special UAW-CIO coast-to-coast radio programs will
be carried on af least 73.stations in 24 states. That many outlets
had been secured when The Auto?
Worker went to press, and the|
CALIFORNIA—San
Diego,
UAW
Radio
Department
was} KCBQ; San Francisco, KCBS, Fres-
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UAW President |
in the first two
and unrehearsed
to see how well
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73 STATIONS IN 24 STATES
TO CARRY UAW RADIO SERIES
The
“A great many distortions have been circulated about labor’s
role in the campaign. These programs will prove that labor’s|
viewpoint is not the viewpoint of any special interest group but
of the people as a whole.
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Radio
Campaign
The UAW-CIO will cut through political crossfire to stress the- key presi-|
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dential campaign issues in a series of coast-to-coast telévision and radio programs.
Three half-hour televised discussions and two half -hour radio programs will|
bring labor’s views on vital issues to a nationwide audience.
The first of three consecutive Sunday television programs will be carried by
coaxial cable across the country, Sunday, October 19, from 5:30 to 6 p. m. (Kastern Standard Time), on a 17-station network. As “The Auto Worker” went to!
press, the UAW was seeking time on other stations.¢
Nationally prominent newsmen will bombard
Walter P. Reuther with questions on the issues
television programs. These will be spontaneous
and will give the nation an excellent chance
labor’s views stand up under scrutiny.
Oct ober,
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wore flour sack underwear,
So men, beware when you cast your vote,
If you vote for Ike you cut your throat.
Would you rather have a life of ease
Or water gravy and black-eyed peas?
Since the year nineteen hundred and thirty-two
The Republican party has been in a stew.
They cussed the Democrats, called them bad names,
But the banks stayed open just the same.
If Ike gets in I’ll go back to the farm,
Plant some taters behind the barn,
Steal my neighbor’s roasting ears
And try to get by for another four years,
and
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