The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-15

our ticket seriously threaten
 dOuble-macrine."
 The Socialist candidate, angered by charges by certain labor spokes- men. that he and his party are
 sshampering the war effort" by seeking election this year, declared
 that ''what these old party stooges, posing as labor leaders, are really tiemanding, is not national unity, but national slavery"
 National Unity
 'These self-appointed labor lead CTS talk about national unity" Mayor McLevy said, "but they want you and me and everyone else to
 be unified their way. They talk about our fight for freedom, a fight l in which you and and all the free people of the earth are engaged until victory is won, but in the next breath they suggest that civil hb- critics, which are the precious ob- 5 jectives for which we all are fight ing, and for which I have spent my ! whole life in fighting, shall now De meekly surrendered"
 without mentioning by name the Individuals or groups who nave sought to persuade him to with draw, McLevy said, "They boldly ! propose that, here in Connecticut we shall suddenly surrender at home the things for which we are , fighting abroad, by dispensing with free elections, and they have the effrontery to offer the excuse that ! this would be national unity"
 q have never run away from a fight in my life, particularly where the public welfare is concerned" the Socialist candidate for governor said, in his address which was ] broadcast over a statewide hook up. q refuse to betray the many thousands of men and women who have voted for our party through out the state in the past
 q refuse to knuckle down to the empty threats and clustering ot Democrats and Republicans who Temporarily put on labor's overalS and profess to speak for labor with out authority, and without the slightest knowledge of labor's wishes or labor's background in Connectl- cut
 Enemies of Labor q denounce these appointed
 mouthpieces as the enemies and not the friends of labor, as political op- portunists who are soiling and in s turing the war effort by miSusing 1t for shabby political purposes. l think I know the temper and the ideals of the laboring men and wom- en of Connecticut as well as any one in the state. My whole life has 2 been an almost constant battle on their behalf, and they have often ' honGRed me with high office in many labor organizations"
 Candidate McLevy declared that s'my political opponents would have you believe that the governor ot
 Connecticut is both a general in the
 army and an admiral in the navy,
 who can, in some mysterious way, win the war if you will but elect his party"
 '"They are the typewriter strate- gistS' whom President Roosevelt de- nounoed so bitterly in his speech on < Monday night" he said. He referred
 to his own acceptance speech, In which he spoke almost the same s words delivered by the President last Monday, We, therefore, will Z scontinue to leave the plans for this { war to the military leaders Mc- Lew invited Governor Hurley and MT. Baldwin to join the good com-
 pany of President Roosevelt and myself and stop waging the war m Y this Connecticut campaign"
 SOrdid Fusions
 2 Mayor McLevy attacked the "sor- did and disgraceful fusion" of Dem- ocratic and Republican candidates for the General Assembly in Bridge port, and said, 'The two old parties { have publicly confessed that they < are one and the same and that ' whichever of them you support, you will lose anyway.
 ''They have publicly recognized the partnership which exists be-
 tween them all over hte state. So snow, in Bridgeport, there actually and publicly is no difference be-
 tween Democrats and Republicans. *They admit that as between them thew have no opponents in this
 campaign but the Socialist candi-
 dates, whom the people of Bridge @port and of Connecticut have