The union times., 1943-08-28
Much Money Being
 Expended On Drive


 propaganda campaign to un- dermine socal security legis- latiOn and kill the sOcalled American Beveridge plan, in- cOrporated in the proposed Wagner-Murray-Dingell Social Security Bill (S ll6l), was revealed this week.
 Thousands of dollars from an apparently unlimited fund have already been spent on the campaign by the National Physicians Committee for the Extension of Medical Service, high-titled political arm of the most reactiOnary clique in the American Medical Association.
 Two nationwide mailings to every physician in the U. s. have already been sent from the com mittee's office in Chicago, term ing the health protective pro visions of the social security measure a plot to abolish pri- vate medical practice. e."
 Physicians are urged to send second pamphlet to each of their hundreds of thousands of patients. Advantage is taken of the sick and the weak to get them to create ''tidal wave of protest" against any measures for health and hospital izatiOn insurance at the wars end.
 Copies of all the booklets and special message to doctors asking that they speak before local Cham bers of Commerce, Rotary clubs and other groups and insist on at- Jacks upon the health provisions of the Social Security Bill by local newspapers are in possession of Federated Press.
 With a technique differing only in intensity from that of American faS- cist organizations, the physicians group calls the present denial of ade- quate care of the underprivileged the Christian concept of the sanctity of human personality = the American way" The rather meagre health pro- visions of the Wagner -MurrayDin gell bill are described as a plan for transforming a rapidly expanding federal bureaucracy into an all power full totalitarian state control"
 Provisions of the bill which allow the U. s. surgeon general to obtain volunteer physicians to work under the health insurance sections of the act, arrange for disqualification and set fees to be paid for work done by doctors are attacked as political medicine" ''regimentatiOn,' ''tOtal- itarianism."
 Under a heading, What Dr. Jen- nings Did," the committee calls on all physicians to emulate Dr. K. Kenneth Jennings of Pittsheld, III. The doctor, armed with 28-page booklet attack ing health insurance, appeared before his Rotary club and then got an edi- torial denouncing the social security plan into the local newspaper.
 Will you arrange to appear-or arrange for some other speaker to ap- pear-before your local Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions or other group to discuss the provisions and implications of Senate Bill 1l6l?" the committee asks every doctor from coast to coast 'Will you try to have your local newspaper or newspapers carry a story and/or an editorial ?" Then, as if to demonstrate the thou sands of dollars behind the campaign, it adds: "We will send you FREE 100, 200, 300, 500 or more copies of the 8-page 1eaflet, $3048,000,000 of Political Medicine
 The Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill, indorsed by the AFL and CIO, pro- vides for 64o payroll tax by both employers and employees to project present social security benefits to thousands not now covered, includ- ing returning members of the armed services; establishes a system of temporary and permanent disa- bility insurance, insurance for health and hospital care, increased old age benefits; and calls for a uniform national system of unem- piOyment insurance.