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lea, particularly, anything less than
that would not be victory.

lea, particularly, anything less than
that would not be victory.
STRUGGLE OF IDEAS
s'By now it should be clear to all
that the war is very complex con-
1iict that must be fought at home
as well as abroad. Beneath the SUR
face of the great land and sea bat
ties, bitter struggle of ideas is
being fought. Not only must we
win against the armed might of the
Axis; we must win, just as de-
cisively, against that kind of think
ing and against those backward
ideas out of which Fascist and Nazi-
minded movements begin.
eve must not only defeat the
foreign despots. We must also de-
feat every effort and inclination,
every lingering hope to establish
in America, or elsewhere, reaction
airy governments that would make
a mOckery of all that we are striv-
ing for.
1--WE must make it perfectly clear
that we are fighting to put an end
to that concept of society that per-
mits some to go hungry in the
midst of plenty.
mo, it is not only against Hitler
ism and militarism that we are fight
ing. We are fighting against age-old
slavery and ruthless exploitation. We
are fighting against the vicious con-
cept that some might be masters
while others are serfs. We are fight
ing against every false principle of
inequality that permits marks of dis
tinction to be raised among human
beings because of race, color or creed.
1--WE are fighting against the
forces which produce poverty and
unemployment, against twentieth
century feudalism i'm which one
third of great nation can be ILL
clad, ill-housed, ill-fed. We are
fighting against those forces which
would deny to working people the
right to join trade unions of their
own choosing, which would use
every trick of deception and force
to destroy the hard-won rights of
labor.
Consider the world we can create
if we are vigilant and alert, if we
stand united and determined. We can
spread the benefits of education to all
who desire them. We can put an end
to the frightening causes of war and
social strife. We can provide oppor-
tlnity for all to work and learn and
rest. We can have society of really
free men, where none will be tor
mented because of station or class.
We can have governments devoted
only to the general welfare. We can
establish a sound and workable sys-
tenn for the distribution of goods and
services. We can make a world in
which the decent hopes of ordinary
people for security and individual de-
velopment will have the chance of
fulfllment.
LABOR'S> GOALS
II doubt if there is anyone here
who does not share with me that
hope for a world to come. Ii is for
such world that American labor
has struggled, and it is for such a
world that American labor is now
making its greatest achievement.
"ThOse are the goals for sVhich
s0e are fighting. Those are the
goals for sOhich no sacrifice zoe
make can be too great.
Il speak of American Labor be-
cause l know the working people of
Connecticut. Here, in our state, those
who work for wages have never once
faltered in serving our great cause.
Here, in Connecticut, our workers
fulfilled, beyond the most hopeful ex-
pectation of all, almost incredible
tasks of production. Here, in this
arsenal for world democracy, not
once since the war for us began, has
organized labor gone out on strike
because of any grievance. Here, in
our state, labor was the first to sur
render without compulsion the time
honored right to strike
II do not think the Connecticut
Compact for Victory, which you sign
ed through your worthy president,
was of significance only to us.