The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1943-08-02
LOOKING AHEAD
By Len De Caux
NTOW'S the time to look over the record Of YOU
representatives in Congress.

NJOW'S the time to look the record Of your
1 representatives in Congress.
You can get 1t at glance from the voting rec
ords compiled by the UAW-CIO that are now being
printed in The CLIO News and other union papers,
The complete record of Senate and House votes
on major issues is also available (along with other
important information) in the pamphlet keeping
Score-To Win The War;" which you may obtain
through your union, or direct from the Clio publicity
department, 71S Jackson. Place NV, Washing
ton g. d. c.
Now's the best time to check over this record,
because it's available in such handy form; because
your Senators and Congressman are home for the
summer recess, and you have a chance to talk 1t
over with them because you may now help them
improve their record in the next session; and be-
cause it's none too early to start thinking how
you're going to vote in the next elections
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You can find out whether your representatives
are representing you worthily by checking their
votes on the Smith-Connally bill, subsidies to
roll back living costs, the $4,000 salary limit, on
the Ruml plan, on incentive payments to increase
food production committees to bait and obstruct
the administration, and on a dozen other similar
measures.
These votes are all down in black and white now.
The CLIO tables show, after the name of every Sem
ator and Congressman, just how he voted on every
one of these issues.
plus (+) sign is marked down for vote for
labor and strong home front; and minus @
sign shows vote against labor and Com
mander-in-Chief's win-the-war program.
You can spend profitable few minutes by find
ing out how many plus signs and how many minus
signs there are after the names of your Senators
and your Congressman. It's an easy way to learn
the true political score.
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The fall Of Mussolini is the first substantial
crack in the system of fascism against which we
fighting.
Mussolini was the first to subject whole coun-
try to fascsm Hitler simply initiated his fascist
ideas and gave them the German name Of Nazism.
Franco was another imtator who installed fascism
in Spain. And nearly every other country has pro-
duced less successful imitators of this same evil
thing
The different names given to fascism in different
countries, and minor differences in national adapta-
tions should not blind to the essential
of fascism wherever it sprouts.
Fascsm means the crushing of the labor move
ment and the destruction of all democratic liberties
1t is the dictatorship of privileged minority d.
rected toward suppressing the rights and aspira-
tons Of the common people.
Fascsm maintains itself by regimenting the
whole population for aggressive and imperialistic
war-and the blood guilt for the present war rests
on the heads Of Mussoln Hitler and all their fas-
cist mitators and stooges.
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So while we rejoice over Muss0lini's downfall
we should also be spurred to renewed determination
to destroy the whole foul antsocial system of fas-
cism, wherever it has taken root.
This obviously goes for German fascism, or Ma
zism. and for the closely similar regime in Japan
But we should also be guard to destroy any
seeds of fascism In our own country.
There are such creatures as american Fas-