Evening star., 1937-12-31

Oh lile one ndHu ana Lne corporation.
on the other"
If either WINS he added, "the
people will lose"
Norris Praises Ickes Speech.
Senator Norris. independent, of Ne.
braska praised the Ickes talk as "the
truth" and added that big busines.
men seeking to defeat Mr.. Roosevelt
program are like Samson of old
pulling down the pillars of the temple
Senator Van Nuys. Democrat, OF
Indiana. who repeatedly has urgec
cooperation between Government anc
business, expressed regret that "ad.
ditional barriers are raised between
Government and private industry.
Il don't think we can get anywhere
by heckling or harassing business as
q whole" he said
Representative Fish, Republican. OF
New York asserted Secretary Ickes
and Mr.. Jackson were the left-wing
mouthpiece for the ventriloquist in
the White House. attempting to cover
up the Roosevelt made depression.
Senator Sheppard, Democrat, of
Texas said Mr.. Ickes was correct in
saying that the real conflict is be-
tween laWless concentrations of wealth
on the one side and the general in
terests of the masses on the other"
Newspapers were charged by Sena-
tor Murray, Democrat, of Montana
with waging campaign of propa-
ganda designed to discredit the ad-
ministration. He asserted. however.
that another effort ought to be made
by both business and the administra-
tion to see if they can't come to some
common understanding
Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico, meanwhile. said special
Senate Committee would make it's in
vestigation of unemployment condi-
tions I'm 2 cooperative spirit" with
business. Hearings will begin next
week.
Takes Phrase From Book.
In his address, Secretary Ickes took
. phrase from a book by Ferdinand
Lundberg, in talking repeatedly of the
go families" who. he said. controlled
one-fourth of the country's wealth.
He charged that the 80 families" had
attempted to use the economic recess
sion as lever to pry concessions from
the Government
In the course of his attack on 'big
business" which he said should be
distinguished from the rank and file
Of business, Mr.. 1ckes declared:
Big business might wisely put its
own house in order by correcting the
hieh-handed practices. or by purging
Itself Of its Fords, its Girdlers and its
Rands before it presumes to tell the
people what they should or should not
do about troubles caused by labor laws.
Big business should wash in strong dis
infectants so that it can come into the
court of public opinion with clean
hands,
go Families" Accused,
Declaring the 80 families" have
threatened to refuse to operate the
American economic system unless
they are once more given full power to
wreck American democracy in their
own sweet way" the Secretary o. 3n-
terror continued:
), ITO the l20,00000O people of the
United States they have made. the
threat that unless they are free to
speculate free Of regulations to protect
the peoples money; unless they are
free to accumulate through legal tricks
by means of corporations without pay
ing their share of taxes; unless they
are free TO dominate the rest of us
without restrictions on their financial
or economic power; unless they are
once more free to do all these things,
then the United States is to have its
first general sit-down strike-not of
labor-not of the American people
but Of the 60 families and of the capi-
tai created by the whole American
people Of which the 60 families have
obtained control.
III the American people call this
bluff. then the America that is to be
will be a democratic America, a free
America.
IT the American people yield to
this bluff, then the America that is to
be will be big-business Fascist Amer
ica-an enslaved America.
THE future of America depends
upon whether big business can-now,
within the coming session of Congress
be compelled to conform to our laws,
be compelled to accept the will OF the
majority, be compelled to cooperate
with the rest of us in trying to make
democracy work"
Critici1es Du Pont Speech.
- -, Mr.. Ickes, at another point in his
address, took exception to the speech
of Lammot du Pont at the recent
meeting of the National Association
Of Manufacturers. Mr.. Ickes said:
Mr. du Pont names labor trouble
as one Of the most important dimcul-
i. ties Of private enterprise today. Does
--lkr. du Pont stop to consider how