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| as Social democracy.
Social democracy, he contends, Is a
substitute for socialism. And appar-
emily he regards it as supplementary
to democracy, if not substitute for
the original brand of democracy.
Opposes MARKHAM Socialism.
Mr.. Sinclair now sees no place in
the United States for Socialism of the
MARKHAM variety. 1t would not work
here, ne said. Nor do the people of
America understand the phrases which
have come from the Socialists of Ger
many and Russia and other CONT
mental countries, he said. No one here
cottons to the term proletariat, for
| example.
They are always talking about the
working class and its conflict with
other classes in European Socialism, /"
he said.
America is country of the middle
class.
Every American parent thinks his
child will be an oil man, or at the
worst a doctor, for example
I'VE have started a movement which
J will take the place of Socialism in the
| United States. The Socialist party is
gone, practically, in California"
Mr.. Sinclair said the only class
struggle in America was the struggle
of the great middle class, the farmers
and the industrial workers and small
business men, against the Wall
Street bankers"
1--WE can lick them 10 to l." said
Sinclair.
Mr.. Sinclair described his CONVEX
sion to the Democratic party.
1T was on January !, 1888, that I
| registered as Democrat" he said
Il had been a Socialist for 80 years
and had had a lot of fine theories.
Earlier I had had 80 years to dis
cuss these theories and to try to have
them put into practice.
But I saw Hitler in Germany and
what he was doing I knew that there
was not another 80 years TO study
and campaign for the Socialist
theories"
Mr.. Sinclair said he worked out
his E. P. I. c. plan with the knowl-
edge that there are 1,250,000 people
on the charity rolls in California and
that they would drive the State into
bankruptcy if continued there. The
only way out was to put them to
work. So his plan is to have them
put to work, the State leasing, at
first, mills and factories, and prob
ably owning them later.
The money needed to start the
| operations will be taken, in the form
of taxes, he said, from those who
have it instead of from those who
haven't"
Backbone of Plan.
The backbone Of his plan is to
put people to work. He talked his
plan all over the State, with workers
and with business men. And he said
that he was sure that owners of
factories now idle or doing little work
would be glad to have the State lease
them and put the unemployed to
work. 1t was not intended to put
the products into competition with
the products of private industry.
1T will be production for use by the
people who need these articles and
cannot buy them" he said.
The farmers who turn produce into
the warehouses operated by the State
| will receive warehouse receipts, which
they may use to pay their State taxes
Mr.. Sinclair said he had enjoyed
greatly his interview with President
Roosevelt yesterday
He told me everything I wanted
| to know" said Sinclair II hadn't
been able to sleep the night before.
Last night I went to sleep like a
baby"
Sinclair said that he had talked
with Senator johnson several months
ago and that johnson had told him
to come back and see him after the
primary was over.
Whether Senator McAdoo, who sup
ported George Creel for the guberna-
torial nomination against Sinclair,
would fall in line for him, Sinclair did
not know, he said. He plans, however,
to have a conference with McAdoo
before he goes back to California, if
he can, and in California if he does
not see the Senator in the East.
McAdoo arrived in New York from
Europe yesterday and declined to
comment on Sinclair's candidacy.
Mr.. Sinclair was asked to comment
on the magazine article by former
President Hoover entitled THE Chal-
lenge to Liberty"
Il don't read Mr.. Hoover" said
Sinclair. II watched him for four
years in the White House. I know his
mind"
| Addreceipo tna Not;opo1 praes Tl,,h
luncheon guests, Mr.. Sinclair said in
part:
More than million people are to-
day dependent upon public charity in
California. They cannot be permitted
to starve and the task of feeding them
at public expense puts an unbearable
burden upon the taxpayers. Public
borrowing offers no way out, for this
only piles up the burden for our chill
dren. Federal grants offer no deliver
ance. for there is no one to pay the
debts of this Nation but the people Of
the Nation and California will owe its
prorata share.
THE way to escape is to follow the
example recently set for us by our
National Government. A public cor
| poi dtiOil has DceA Sct up III Tie OlS-
trict OF Columbia to make the de-
pendent persons Of that community
self-supporting. They are to have
access to the land to grow their own
food and to the factories to produce
their own goods, and under Govern
ment supervision they are to barter
food and goods among themselves so
that all may reap the benefit of their
common labor. This method will take
the unemployed of the backs of the
taxpayers, and 1t will do no harm
to private business because the goods
will not be sold In the open market
but will bs available only to those
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