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Swope, of General Motors. Indus
trialist Swope is the leading advo-
cate of applying a modification of
Mussolinis brand of Fascism in the
United States.
why is it that your father and
other Committee for the Nation
leaders launched their initiation
program, as a 'mozsStary reform
measure to rebuild purchasing
power without saying anything
publicly about the fact that they
wanted it. as they said in secret
conferences. to help protect prop
erty rights?" I asked young Van
derlip in an interview. wanted
his explanation Of why this none
tary reform" movement was
launched ostensibly on behalf Of
smaller business men and farm
ers" when in fact it had been orr
ginated by big-shot capitalists who
we're neryously talking about the
threat of "Bolshevism" and the
necessity Of their doing some
thing about the farm strikes, I'M
employed marches and mortgage
moratorium movements which they
considered threatening to the ruler
ship Of the top flnanciers.
when Did You Hear That"
THAT'S only partially fair" an
swered Vanderliu. Property rights
were not being attacked sufficiently
at that time for this to be upper
most in the minds of those in the
conferences. I attended most Of my
fathers conferences, and I don't
think there was any unanimity on
the question"
IT didn't say there was. But some
of them we're certainly thinking
along that line. Didn't your father
and others meet in your Hotel
Pierre apartment and listen nerv-
ously to Henry Pope's declaration
as long as February l, 1893, that
America was Just six months away
from Bolshevism' unless something
were done to prevent it?"
shocked. who could have been
there that could have repeated such
a conversation. How could such a
conversation come to your ear5l"
Banker Vanderlip, said his son,
resigned from the Committee for
the Nation soon after it launched
its first broadside. However, he
didn't announce it, nor have his
friends take his name of their liter
allure. In fact. This resignation
doesn't mean the Committee for the
Nation fellows don't still come to
father for advice they still are
associated socially, and talk things
over"
why Six Glasses of Members?
"Why does the Committee have
six classes of membership, ending
some material to some classes of
it's own membership and keeping it
from others?"
Two reasons" said young Van
der1ip. IF various kinds of mem
bers get different material, they
think the more they pay the more
they get, and besides, different kinds
of members can use different kinds
Of material. If you want to reach
Journal readers through one mem
Der, you don't send him Times pub
licity stuff-you sugar-coat the pill
so as to tell people what they want
to hear"
asked him to explain the SEEM
ing paradox that this Committee.
led by industrialists, bankers and
big farmer spokesman who are in
timately involved in the anti-labor,
anti-poor farmer National Associs-
ton of Manufacturers Chamber of
Commerce drive against labor. dare
to ask labor and poor farmers to
refrain from striking, to cooperate"
with them. was thinking especial
ly Of the speeches Committee mem
bers have made since the San Fran
cisco general strike, speeches urging
working people to protect the prop
erty rights Of their exploiters.
Frazier on Radio
Early in August, for example.
Frederic H. Frazier, chairman of
General Baking Co., and treasurer
of the Committee, urged nation
wide radio audience: LET lis not
endanger recovery by fighting
among ourselves. 1t is true that
many strikes in the past have been
justified. But many strikes to-
dav are NOT Some are for, e,,+ar,