Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03


ton and its spokesman. The workers
have been taught to believe that
the Republican party and particu-
larly the managers of industry and
business are their potential if not
actual enemies. 1t is not surprising
to find some voters mistakenly
wrought up now to the point OF
violence.
Not long ago even in this very
campaign, President Roosevelt, in
a speech to the teamsters' union,
preached class cleavage. Never be-
fore has class friction been as pro-
nounced as it is today. Yet the
same United States of America
existed in the prosperous twenties
without ugly feeling and fanatical
bitterness.
The reason for the development
of the class warfare is that the New
Deal has merely adopted the totali-
tartan technique which is to select
some group or class and make them
the subject of bitter attacks. In
Nazi Germany and in Italy the class
warfare has taken on religious and
racial grounds whereas in the
United States the Government in
power has resorted to hate on eco
nomic grounds to condemn bust
nessmen and employers as class.
Satisfactory Relations.
Long before the Wagner labor re-
lations law was passed, the majority
of the employers and employees en-
joyed satisfactory relations. The
cases where exploitation occurred
constituted small minority yet the
administration spokesman give the
impression that every employer is
an enemy of his workers.
Some day when the public debt
has risen to dangerous levels and
the Nation is on the verge of bank
ruptcy so that, as happened in Ger
many in 1923, the wage earners pay
envelope is used up in buying a
loaf of bread. the workers will dis
cover that the persons who plotted
the breakdown of the economic sys-
tenn really had in the back of their
minds a form of national socialism
not unlike that which Germany and
Italy have put into effect.
RadicaGsm thrives on class war
fare, and so does Communism. The
doctrine of the Communist is to
foment class war so that chaos
will ensue and then the people in
desperation will accept radical ex-
periments. The New Deal has in
it many men, including the Presi-
dent himself, who would not for
moment tolerate actual Commun-
ism. They scott today at fears that
class warfare can hurt America.
1rdeed, the theory prevails now
s6 always in administration circles
that everything can be kept in
hand by one man-juSt so long as
the elections are favorable to the
administration.
Warning of Radicalism.
The argument that the President
can control the left-wing has been
handed out as a reason urging
conservatives to support him. But
the conservatives who bet on Hitler's
ability to hold back the extremists
in Germany soon found themselves
mistaken. If the juggernaught of
radicalism once gets going in Amer
lea, even Mr.. Roosevelt with the
best of intentions will not be able
to hold it in check
1t is significant that the Presi-
dent rebuked the Government en-
ploye who threw missiles at Mr.
Willkie. 1t was shrewd recognition
of the fact that such things cannot
60 unnoticed in politics. For invar-
iably they react against the party
whose supporters resort to that type
of thing The President, however,
would make much more progress
and would win more votes-if he
took the trouble to study the seeds
of unrest in America and particu-
larly the currents of enmity which
his constant harping on employer
employe relationships has caused.
He does it, of course, just to get
votes, but the scars he leaves do not
disappear the day after election.
Reckless Campaigning.
The technique of condemning the
Republicans as unpatriotic and as
somehow supporting Hitler is just