Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-07
OTHERS VIEWS
MIR. WRIGHT ANSWERS.
To the Editor:


article written by me in which tried
to show that Congressman Hoffman
of Michigan who made a speech at
Birmingham some days before was
endeavoring to destroy the New Deal
and organized labor And that if the
plutocrats succeed in their efforts the
farmer and worker had as well go
Jump in the lake for nothing but
slavery will be their lot for a long
time. In the Dispatch of August Both,
is long article denouncing me for
my endeavor to lift up my class, writ
ten by Joseph P.. Kemp, vice chair
man of the Constitutional Educa-
ton League.
Now this league was not heard
about until after the Liberty League
was formed a year or so ago to de-
feat Franklin D. Roosevelt, so I feel
justified in thinking it is a sprout
from that evil monster that was the
product of the furtive minds of or
ganiZed wealth.
Mr.. Kemp in his answer to my ar
ticle says those who sponsored Hoff-
mans speech at Birmingham were
workers who were memSers of the
veterans, Protestant ministers and
Catholic priest. Now they might have
all been very fine people, but we all
know you can, in every large COM
munity find a very motley crowd COM
posed of just that kind of cattle. Now
as to the American Federation of
Labor it is to make one laugh when
it is mentioned as an agent for the
uplift of the toiling masses, and no
well informed person is surprised to
find it aiding Mr.. Kemp and his Lea
que in their attempt to destroy Roose-
welt and the CLIO. For forty years the
A. F. of L. has been pretending to or
ganize labor, but it did just enough
to keep it's leaders living high while
the workers lived very low. I have
been watching the unionizing of
workers since the days of Terence "
Powderly who was head of the
knights of Labor knew Samuel
Gompers and his American Fedora
ton of Labor. He was good man and
had fine organization, but sad to
say it never troubled organized wealth
but little. Throughout all the years he
was in command paupers multiplied
by the millions and millionaires by
the thousands. And now we have Will
liam Green the caby of all labor
leaders, as head of the A. F. L. and he
is lived by big wealth like brother
while John L. Lewis is hated like the
devil. Green is the Judas of the work.
ers, while Lewis is their only hope
Mr.. Kemp was hard up for ground
for argument when he informs me,
in his article that Congressman Hoff-
man does not come from Ford's dis
trict, for he must know that makes
no difference since in every state in
the Union we find congressman who
are lured by the siren voice of big
money to use their talent to keep
labor at the bottom of the Slough of
DespOnd. Let me tell Mr.. Kemp that
there are no Congressional districts in
our country that does not have a big
majority of farmers and workers in
them and their voice should be heard
and their wants supplied before the
rich is considered at all. We want a
democracy in truth and not just in
name as we have had through all the
years, and to that end the Great
Roosevelt is striving aided by such as
John L. Lewis and his compatriots. If
all Congressman would truly repre-
sent those who elect them we would
not have any trouble with labor or
any other class in our country except
the greedy devils who want it all for
themselves.
Mr.. Kemp and 1 agree when he says
that I believe Mr.. John L. Lewis and
his organization is working for the
uplift of the producing class. Lincoln
said: "Stand with anybody that stands
right" So as long as l elieve Lewis
is striving to help the workers 1 am
with him, and am unalterably against
any who seek to stop him.
This Mr.. Kemp and his mouth
piece Hoffman have much to say
about Communism and the awful eff
feet it would have on our country.
They want to carry us back to the |
days when the man in the White |
House was controlled by Wall Street |
and the workingman who asked for |
better deal was shot as they now do
in Italy and Germany. They pirate !
much about John L. Lewis and the
CLIO being controlled by Communist
but they studiously avoid saying
much about Fascism or Nazl--sm
which is far more likely to envelope
our country than is Communism. II
the American farmer ana WORKER
stand up for their rights Win much
more force than they are now DONG
it is not unlikely, should the New
Deal be defeated next Fail, tnat we
will soon have the doctrine OF MUS
solini and Hitler written INTO oui
laws. That doctrine ru's eve~y thlns
even religion in the HANDS or the
money power and renders the masses
nothing but tools in it's nahos. Fu'
Mr.. Roosevelt out of power ana we
will have just that here now, 70
hen. when Hoffman, Kemp, ct al, cal
no longer fool the people WIN me
Liberty League and tneii ooiiStuu-
tional Educational League and such.