Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-08

Clayton w. u v iC"''
Foun4air re crui ed
from the bush leagues of busi-
ness, at a time when the battle
for democracy is in the ninth inn
ing, with two out.
Leon Henderson, Thurman Ar
mold, Henry Wallace, Milo Per-
kins and Sumner Welles have
been sent to the showers Lusty
cheers from the right-field
bleachers have applauded their
departure.
There is an air of relief in the
counting houses and the editorial
sanctums.
Some editors have warmed up
to the point of referring to "that
man in the White House" as
President Roosevelt" The Chief
Executive is no longer addressed
with the cold title of "Mr."
RUSH FROM THE RIGHT
The right wing of American
politics is getting it's feet back on
tie ground-and into the trough.
1t is led by the vanguard of the
dollar-a-year buckaroos riding
high in the saddle of the war eff
fort.
Bankers and industrialists who
once stood forlornlv OH the out
side throwing stones at the White
House are now on the inside, and
they are grinning smugly at us
across the tracks.
And there is a grand rush from
the right to cheer the resurgence
of the economic royalists" who
have come out of the dog house
with drooling fangs. The lean
years during which they barked
loudly, but were restrained from
biting, have ended.
Flushed with feastng on fat
war contracts, the monopollsts
are again on the muscle. They
have been appointed to positions
of power to which the people
would never have elected them.
And the New Deal fidgets ner-
vously on third base.
NEW DEAL VS.. THE WAR
A voice from the right says:
$50 what? What if the New
Deal is bleeding at the nose and
splitting out its teeth? We are
fighting a war--not running
social experiment."
The people are thus ordered to
believe that a choice must be
made between winning the war
and maintaining the New Deal
Freeze wages. Freeze labor.
Do away with time-and-a-half.
Hang a heavy sales tax on the
small folks of America. Shackle
the labor unions with repressive
Laws and legal handouts. That
is the way to win the war, we are
told.
Hold hands with Franco. Give
Badoglio enough rope to hang the
laborites and democrats who
want to build democracy in Italy.
Look the other way when Ghandi
and Nehru suggest that the In
dian masses would appreciate
down payment On the Four Free
doms. That is the way to smash
Fascism-it says so in the daily
press.
MUDDY WATER
This is muddy water that is
flowing under our political
bridges. 1t is rolled and soiled by
fishermen on the right bank who
want the people to forget that
Fascism fed in its youth at the
money-bags of industry and fl
nance. They want to tear out of
the history books that page
which tells of how Mussolini and
Hitler and Franco we're hired by
the monopolists to do job on
democracy.
The New Deal was meant to be
an answer to Fascism. 1t was
planned to give the common peo-
pie jobs and opportunity, educa-
tion and security, health and lib
erty. To do these things it was
necessary to battle the monopo-
lists of industry ant finance who
ran the show-and ran it into the
ground in 1929.
Common folks joined gallantly
in this battle. Twice they re-
turned the New Deal to power.
With equal gallantry they joined
in the war to destroy Fascism.
Any political leader-be he
president or dog-catcher-who
would fight Fascism by wrecking
the New Deal is building himself
up for big let-down.
confusing tittle-talle," said that