Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-11
New Deal
For World Is
Roosevelt Aim
Labor Man Winanf Leads
Appeal 10 Workers
BY PAUL MALLON

the world-which Mr.. Roosevelt
vaguely mentioned a few weeks
backs gathering significance
The administration seems 10 be
nudglng IL forward and amplify-
ing IL as the aim of our nom
belllgerent participation in the
war 1t IS taking the form as
the Roosevelt program for peace
that is 10 come after.
The President explained il in
his opening message to Congress
only as a broad four-polnt no.
ton. He looked forward TO a
world founded upon four es-
sential human FIRE c d o m s.
freedom of speech, freedom of
worship freedom from want
thealthfu international eco
nomic understanding and free
dom from fear practical dis
armamenD. This kind of a
world, he promised, would come
IN our time.
NOW comes his new ambassa-
~, dor to London with more
revealing details. The newly
chosen keyman of the White
House in Europe. John Winant.
volunteered further clarity of
what seems to be back in the
administration mind in his New
York speech to the women vot-
o,c IIa c,tI tho ,,oktr moral most.
war order would be founded on
social justice for all nations of.
the world and he gave some
inkling of what he conceiveS
social justice to be.
From these spoken words and
what l have heard otherwise, /
would Judge that the institution
of a labor democracy in Ger
many and elsewhere would sat-
isfy. Certainly the institution of
socially conscious democracies
with accent on labor's freedom
and rights in every country IN
the world is what is Telling up
stairs.
Winant is labor man, He
will deal with British govern
ment in which labor's promi-
hence is increasing rapidly.
BevaH is the man on horseback
there.
WINANT is talking of peace
w that can come only by
finding a common basis of world
citizenship and by accepting far
reaching and progressive social
change" This war, as he sees it.
is to throw off the shackles of
dictatorship on labor and on the
people generally.
"The conflict goes far deeper
than the battlefields OF today"
he says. This Is war of and
for social principles. Those prin-
cipIes are not national, they are
International" The principles
apparently are security" SEM
plOyment," Strengthening the
fundamental economic. social,
and civil rights of all free citi-
Zens."
You can see this goes much
further than the unofflcially
stated war aim of Britain. 1t is
not only the preservation of de-
mocracy, but a particular kind
of democracy. 1t is a new deal
for the world.
THE British government will
i no doubt see the war propa-
ganda possibilities of the idea,
soon after Mr.. Winant arrives
in London, even if they seem TO
have been a little slow to catch
on so far.
If this message ever gets to
the German workers and they
accept il. the war will be over.
German production is the power
upon which Hitler's might rests.
Internal collapse is the only Of
fenSive strategy upon which the
British have been working.
German labor is the only po-
litical power in Hitlerland with
sufficient force to accomplish it.
Hitler seemed to read this wall
writing of his main weakness
when he chose a few weeks ago
to deliver a major addresses to
German workers in a defense
factory.
Unless I read the signs wrong,
you are going to hear more and
more of this strategic motif
from now on.
Not altogether incidentally
consider what SapS this trend
makes of any United States
workers who are striking and
hindering the progress of the de-
Tense program without the most
vital cause. 1t exposes them as
striking against themselves. But
more important, it points to the
need for wise labor leaders,
capable of assuming the respOn-
slbillties of d new moral order.
! 4 RMY and navy expenditures
"A are running SD 100000 a
/ day. These are actual cash pay
mentS for deliveries. not just
! materials ION order" for future
months or years. They totaled
/ $3.50 100000 in January.
From last July ] through jan
uary first seven months Of the
/ fiscal year, the defense services
paid out about - billions.
This. of course. Is the dynamo
Of the current business eXpan-