Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-06
Communists.
In kinori+y,
Gain Ends
SIS. 600 Limit on Salarie.
in Red Platform u
By GEO. BOUTWELL, BROWN
Special to THE DETROIT TINES =

speeiai 10 THE DETROIT TIMES IT.
WASHINGTON, Nov. cit f.
w of course, always unwiss
to try to predict from the re-
suit of an election what the us
innate consequences OF that,
election will be. ~
No one would have imagined.
for example, when the Conn,
munist Party in 1928 adopted d
national platform declaring for
the confiscation OF all salaries
above $4,000 a year, that by
1912 that radical left-wing brain
child would be enforced on all
Americans by executive order OF
a Democratic president first;
elected in 1882. IL
In 1928 the Communist Party
nominated the Red Syndicalist
William 4. Foster, the real
head of the Communist Party
in the United States. for Presi-
dent, and named Benjamin Clio,
low. who had a Sing Sing
prison record for his running
mate.
NOBODY took The Communist
Party seriously, except This
writer and one or two others
who hammered away at il, and
John l.. Lewis, whose United
Mine Workers. four years
earlier, had made an exhaustive
exposure of communism, subse.l
quently published as Senate
document, and constituting.
down TO the Dies Committee,
the most accurate source ma
terial on the Reds that we
have had. %
One more exception - the
Communists took themselves -
riously. They knew that
tail could be made to wag ths
dog. And have they done IL. -
In 1923 Foster and Gitlow
potfed for the Communist presi.
Dental ticket just 23.36l votes.
Hoover and Smith between
them rolled up SO. 40S,633. Some
dog-but what a tail,
IT IS astonishing how far
L the Communist party. which
polled fewer than $4,000 votes
in the national field in 1928, has
brought home the bacon only
IA years later, after y years
of the New Deal. Here are a
dozen OF the choice planks Of
that Moscow-inspired Comrnu.
mist platform. Null them over!
1-Overthrow of capitalism.
establishment of a work.
er's and farmers government.
establishment of a Corry
munist society. mot based on.
profit but on labor" %.
ILLUMINATION of poverty. ,
abolition Of the Suprerne
Court.
6-Recognltion of the Soviet
government.
7-Withdrawal of the ma
rines from China. 80
S-Abolition of all restric.
tons on immigration.
9-Federal social Insurance.,
including old age and unemploy-
ment insurance. ''-.f
1O-The fve-day week. e"''I
11-Exemption of wage earns
ers from all taxation.
12-Taxation of incomes
over $1,000 a year, "and conHs-
cation OF all incomes over S25..
600 a year"
A STRANGER today fl n
"A Mars, contemplating this
platform. and being informed ]
of the candidates who were In
the field in 1923, would be par.
doned for exclaiming: V'aS'
"Ah, so you elected Mr.. VIII 4
liam u. Foster" &c
And il one should inform the
stranger from Mars that he was I
in error. and Mr.. Foster in fact
polled only 23.36l votes out Of.
SO, 40S,633. would he not be JUS.
tilted in feeling that he was
being kidded? il
How come that this pattern
OF the Communist platform Of
1923 has become so familiar ID
us today? You answer il. -
Just a final word about thad
ceiling of $4,000 on the sal,
aries of all American executivesi
on the leaders of our industrial
life.
Mrs. Roosevelt first baptized
IL in her daily column early iu
the present year.
A few weeks ago President
Roosevelt recommended il It'd
Congress. -
Congress rejected il.
The President told Jinmy
Byrnes TO go ahead and enfotcd
il. Jimmy did so. ~
Mr.. Foster. YOU are a wiz,S~y
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