Evening star., 1934-09-02
Special Dispatch to The Star.
" OS ANGELES, Calf, September
(NAN.A) Having won the
Democratic nomination for

" OS ANGELES, Calf, September
l (NAN.AD Having won the
Democratic nomination for
IL Governor of California at the
primary election by an over
whelming majority, Upton Sinclair,
noted author and Socialist-turned
Democrat, terms his success a victory
for the New Deal.
Sinclair based his campaign on
"end poverty in California" He calls
his platform the E. P. I. c. plan.
MY nomination as the Democratic
gubernatorial candidate at the No
vember election" said the man who
until recently was high in the coun-
CilS of world Socialism, lis a victory
not for me, but for the people of
California and the first of many
which they are determined to win
1t is a victory for the New Deal.
1--WE have been nominated as
Democrats and we intend to func-
ton as Democrats and to apply the
principles of democracy to industry"
Conservatives BewiIdered.
California conservative Democrats
who sponsored the candidacy of
George Creel and the seven others
who sought to carry the toga of de-
mocracy in this State appear be-
wildered at the Sinclair victory.
Whether the factional units which
so bitterly assailed Sinclair and his
E. P. I. c. plan will bury the politi-
cal hatchet and unite with the power
full forces developed by the Socialist
Sinclair and lead him to a possible
victory in November was freely dis
cussed by those who follow politics,
but no answer to the problem is avail
able.
Sinclair'S landslide was based on
the following program:
To end poverty in California.
To put the unemployed at work
producing for their own needs, thus
taking them of the backs of the tax
payer.
To eliminate all taxation on homes
and farms under So 900 assessed Valu-
alton when occupied by owners.
To repeal the State sales tax.
Higher Income Taxes.
10 IdlSG dllO
taxes in the higher brackets.
To give pensions to the aged, the
blind, the disabled and widows with
dependent children.
AS a lifelong advocate of collective
economic principle, Sinclair has for
the past month been attracting ma
tional, even world, attention to his.
gubernatorial campaign and E. P. 1.
c. plan.
Discussing his plan, which is unique
in the annals of Democratic politics,
Sinclair said
Unemployment in California last
year cost the taxpayers close to $780,
900, ,000-approximatefy As cents per
person per day. Not SO very much,
you will say, but it is enough to break
all of us If it continues.
In brief, three-fourths of the
people in California are carrying one
fourth on their backs.
The E. P. I. C. plan provides re-
lief to the taxpayers. 1t is this: Those
who are living on charity must work
and produce what they consume. I
mean food, clothing and their essen
of the ever-increasing burden caused
by unemployment of their fellow
man."
Cites ID. c. Plan.
Sinclair asserted that the United
States Government has adopted the
E. P. I. c. plan to provide for more
than 10000 destitute in the District
of Columbia, and that various States
are now awakening to the necessity
of adopting this plan.
He said that Gov. Frank F. Mer-
riam, Republican, who he will oppose
at the November election, has Sug-
gested possible means of saving the
peach crop by having the co-opera-
tives can it for market.
Continuing, Sinclair said:
Il say to business men, farmers and
employers in general: The unemployed,
numbering. hundreds of thousands are
of no use or value to you because
they have no money nor have they
any means of earning any We will take
the burden of the unemployed from
the shoulders of the taxpayers and
put them to work producing for them
selves"
The E. P. l. c. plan, according to
Sinclair, can be started on a rental
basis. Owners of factories, closed or
working part time, will certainly be
glad to rent to the State. The unem-
ployed can be put to work making
clothing, shoes and other necessary
articles. Tracts of land can be rented
for a portion of the taxes and fruit
and vegetable gardens will quickly
replace acres of weeds.
Food for Taxes.
Farmers can give their surplus fooc
to feed the unemployed, receiving re-
ceiptS good for taxes.
Relief, in the opinion of Sinclair, /!
q racket, pure and simple. He as
serted there Is no money for politi-
clans in cooperation. That is why
according to Sinclair, politicians art
slow TO move and a political revolu'
ton should be led by somebody witt
courage to turn down campaign fund
of the special interests.
Sinclair would replace the presen
sales tax with State income tax, in