Evening star., 1934-08-30
SINCLAIR VISIONS
! EPIC PLAN IN j. S.
Nominee Says Change From
CapitaIistiC System to
Be Gradual.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 30.-A
challenge to both capitalism and wha
was hurled across the country last
night by Upton Sinclair, Democratic
nominee for governor in a broadcast
address explaining his extraordinary
plan to lend poverty in California."
Capitalism" he said, has served
its time and is passing from the face
of the earth. A new system must be
found to take its place" He said
however, the change would be made
gradually and "painlessly.'
The Socialist, who turned Democrat
TO ride to primary victory on his
E.P.I.C C. platform, denounced Nazism
and Fascism. He referred to Adolf
Hitler as "an obscene demagogue.
Benito Mussolini he described as a
dictator subsidized by 100000, ,00C
Wall Street loan.
Alters Plan.
While his plurality for the Demo
cratic nomination grew in returns
still being tabulated, Sinclair outlined
his plan for making CALIFORNIA; un-
employed self sustaining.
Sinclair's original plan called for
the taking over of untenanted agri-
cultural land and idle factories by
condemnation proceeding under a
1880, 900 State bond program. In
his address he said the bond issue
would move too slowly and proposed
renting the land and factories by pay
ing the taxes and overhead for the
owners.
In California alone, he said, there
are l,250,000 persons out Of work, who
never again can have work while the
present system endures."
As a solution of the problem, he
offered the E. P. I. C. plan on which
he campaigned. This plan, as he
explained it, would put unemployed
to work in idle and near-idle fac
tories to be leased by the State. They
would own goods they produced. From
farmers unable to pay taxes, the
State would buy products with tax
receipts and the products would go
to the factory workers in exchange
for the latter's goods.
Eliminates Wall Street.
Instead of the bond issue that
he first proposed he said, the credit
power of the State would be used
to motivate "a new system of pro-
duction in which Wall Street will
have no share"
He said political opponents had crit
hi
muniSm. Yet, he said the Federal
Government has applied the princi-
Piles of our E. P. I. G. plan in the
District of Columbia"
Eighty thousand unemployed" said
Sinclair, ARE to have access to land
to grow their own food, and to fac
tories to produce their own goods,
and they are to barter these among
themselves with the help of the
Federal Government"
He said efforts of enemies to crush
the California movement "by lies
and Intimidation" represent a prep
aration for the scrapping Of the
new deal at the presidential election
of 1896" as well as an attack on
him.
Can democracy work." he asked
Can the people use its instruments
In their own interests, or can they
be fooled and lied and frightened
away from their goal?"
I Would Replace Gradually.
Sinclair described his plan as q
way out of the depression.
I'VE are not proposing" he said
ito replace the whole collapsing sys-
TEN by new one at once"
Unemployed are being supported
now, he said, by public charities. He
described this as a burden driving
the State to bankruptcy and the tax
payers to ruin" Yet, he said, the
whole power of vested privilege
rises up against the plan. This he
attributed to fear that the plan
would succeed and Show the unem-
ployed how to produce for use instead
Of profit"
The slender, graying author of so
books, whose writings in 1905 of the
packing house situation in Chicago
are credited with having inspired the
national legislation governing meat
packing, counseled California voters
to make no mistake about the mean
ing of the decision which you are
going to make next November"
Calls for Faith.
"The news has gone out to the
whole country" he said "and if the
Democratic party of California adopts
the E. P. I. c. plan, it will mean hope,
courage and guidance to the unem-
ployed of all our 48 States"
Sinclair concluded:
: Our opponents have told you that
We cannot put this plan through. Let
me answer just this: If you should
give me a chance to end poverty in
California, and if I should fail to do
1t, life would mean nothing to me
thereafter. All that I have taught
all through the years would be with
out meaning. Believe me, and stick
by me and we together shall not fail!''