Evening star., 1940-12-16

the HAYES the persistence OF mass
unemployment, etc. In so doing,
he has finally arrayed himself on
the side of total" world revolution
and has served notice on what the
axis theologians call the pluto
democracies" that the price of total
defense is total reform.
This grafton comes just at the
moment when eX-Ambassador Jo-
seph Kennedy is warning influential
business groups that effective de-
fense means Socialism, wiping out
Of democracy" as it has been un-
derstood in certain American cir
cles. The American appeasement
drive has not yet taken form, but
there is no concealment of the
fact that quite few of our citizens
are very reluctant to accept the
social revolution which a war econ
omy would impose on free society.
Labor Measures.
For example, the representatives
Of big business have recently made
it clear that they believe that ma
tional defense requires us to smash
the wages-and- hours law and other
social gains of labor. while Repre-
sentative Smith of Virginia is spon-
sor of a bill which is calculated to
outlaw all strikes on defense projects
and to inflict the "cruel and un-
usual punishment" of life imprison-
ment for workers found guilty Of
sabotage in defense There have
also been irresponsible suggestions
of death sentence and new def
milton of treason which would
apply to industrial workers who in
terfered with defense production.
Now the lesson of France under
Daladier was that France fell when
you got tough with labor in the
name Of defense. And the lesson
of British resistance to Hitler is
embraced in Ernest Bevin's refusal
to muck about with the pennies of
the workers" England is discover
ing that the road to victory lies
through social reforms on the basis
Of human equality, reforms on
scale which is really revolutionary
in a sort of civil war directed against
an external enemy.
Barely had Hitler's words ceased
kissing over the microphone than
Roosevelt had given America s
answer In his message to the Eco
nonic Club Of New York, the Presi-
dent declared: The freedoms that
we must and will protect in tte
United States are the freedom
which would make the individu0l
paramount in true democracy
freedom from want, freedom fro-7
insecurity, freedom from fear
our American way Of life polite
and economic freedom must 60 har
in hand"
Suggested Economy.
Here is, in nutshell our versio''
of the revolution of freedom" on
which even the British conservative
have learned that they must re-"
If the worldorder is to be preserved
and world civilization is to continue
Where Hitler boasted that he hat
created an economy Of work. as op-
posed to an economy of gold, We
propose to set up an economy Of
gold and brains or industrial man
agement-will combine for free life
for a free world. No other mean
ing can be read into Roosevelt's
statement that "in this joint effort
there must be provided proper re-
ward for labor (work). proper in
centive for enterprise (brains) and
a proper return on investment
(gol6."
If this program is really under
stood and followed in this country.
and if the implications of Hitler's
monistic economy of work are ap-
preciated by our business leaders,
here We have the world wide answer
to the menace of Hitler's real eco
nomic system which is based on
values supported by bayonets, forced
trade or barter, and labor which is
only varying degrees of slavery.
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