The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-10

u1Qu0tIAAA tk1Ou6AAb WAAAShA 1NAAe w ley wishes to be interpreted" to active political forces in your dis trict." A few should suffice to provide an adequate conception of the platform as a whole. Spe- cific condemnation is made of measures .alien" to "the Amert- can System" and hampering pri. vate enterprise, to witt
 aThe attempt to control in- vestment in advance, instead of punishing individual abuses through court prosecution aft- erward; the attempt to regulate
 production instead of letting
 THE INEFFICIENT PERISH
 (capitaIs mine); the attempt to regulate wages, ignoring local
 and "Other conditions; the, ate
 tempt to regulate employment, '.impairing the efficiency and
 Independence of workmen." Another Beauty
 If the reader considers the foregoing stupid in the light of industrial self-interest, the sup- elementary resolution, introduced doubtless for fear something had been overlooked, attacking Presi- dent Roosevelt's Social Security Act, sinks to the uttermost depths of brutal contempt for morals and humanity.
 Security must be based on
 individual achievement, self-'
 reliance and thrift. Relief for
 distress resulting from illness,
 old age or unemployment must
 be administered solely on the
 basis of need, not as . statu-
 tory right. Depressi0ns make
 unempl0yment-insuranc fm-
 practical but there might be an-
 arrangement made for 3 dis-
 missal compensation"
 Later, D. v. I hope to make more extensive examination of the platform which contains the rea- sons why the National Associa- ton of Manufacturers want to "Help the President Out"-of office. They are all included in the blanks.
 Contrast
 In radical, and from the view- point of the National Association of Manufacturers, shocking con- trast to all this propaganda for the re-establishment of the law of the jungle in American social, economic, and industrial life comes a statement issued by the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare Coun- cil. The statement, issued with- in a day of the call to arms sounded by the Neanderthal Men of Big Business, was signed by more than a hundred Catholic leaders both lay and clerical. It advocates constitutional amend- ment to permit the setting up of 8 new and more extensive MIRA than the act which the United States Supreme Court has relegated to the junk heap of il- legalities. While the nanufactur- CTS were raging at the govern- mental regulation of business the N.C.W.C. declared that any regu. lation of the economic dictator ship" yielded by colossal money interests is insufficient to estab- fish "a just economic order" and simply prepares the way for either Q communist or a fascist state. The new MIRA which the amendment advocated would set up should include not only busi- ness and labor but also farmers and the professions under an oc- cupational group organization system which would take care Of economic self-government and at the same time collaborate with political government. Without such a constitutional amendment the Councils statement goes on record that
 ''the country can obtain neither
 the most elementary regulation
 of industry, as In the matter of
 minimum wages, maximum
 hours and fair business prac-
 tices, nor an occupatiOnal group
 system endowed with authority
 necessary to its various func-
 tions."