Montana labor news., 1944-08-31
The SECRET OF
PROSPERITY

Mr.. Dewey-not the Dewey Of Man
ia Bay-has the solution for national
unemployment. The solution is simple
like all Mr.. Deweys solutions such as
this: I'VE need have no fear OF the
future. for the future will be in our
own handsl" 1t is so simple anyone
can understand It. His plan for solv-
ing probable postwar unemployment Is
this: Full employment by private in
dustry."
Obviously, this rends the veil Of sec
recv and makes our national economic
future a path strewn with roses. Any
one can see. now that the subject has
been illuminated, that Roosevelt was
wrong in devising public works 20 re-
Heve unemployment He should nave
done nothing except wait for private
industry to put an end to unemploy-
ment
Mr.. Dewey was sprinkled with the
baphsmal water Of pristine Republican
doctrine by none other than Herbert
Hoover. The mantle Of Elijah is drap-
ed about him. He is pledged ana
Guaranteed probably by a cash bond
i'm the National City Bank) to go back
fo the kind of national government
which sits and waits for private Dusl-
ness TO restore prosperity He is pledg-
ed and guaranteed TO do this by the
. Great Stationary Engineer himself
who waited from 1929 to 1880 and from
1890 to 1881. and from 1881 to 1882,
and from 1882 to March, l933-waited
for private industry to put an end TO
inqs of the people were exhausted
Waited-til the security markets were
trading in stage money instead Of in
vestments. Waited-tin the imminent
/ collapse Of the banking system threat
ened nationwide paralysis.
At no time i nthe period 1929-l933
did the leaders Of finance and industry
go TO the White House to ask Mr.
Hoover to use the great power ano
credit of the Federal sovereignty to
rescue them or if they secretly die
so he must have refused, because Of
his belief in private industry. But II
March of 1888 these leaders went u
Roosevelt. who has since recalled tna
in effect they pleaded, "Saveus, or W.
perish"
weu. he did save them. Perhaps
/ spossible or government to create en-
during prosperity. perhaps not. Bu
he did save them from something
worse than the WPA. They were gla'
10 take the WPA instead Of rioting an'
looting. They were glad and eager q
take a regime of government-fostere
employment with revived private busi
ness and restored solvency of bank
| Happy indeed. having escaped the hid
eous threat of national bankruptcy
/ were the leaders o fthe business struc
nure. TO welcome mot the world wha
Mr.. Dewey mot Admiral George O
Manna) has the brass to call th
Roosevelt depression
! Advanced thinkers such as Thoma
| jefferson. have sal dthat all govern
ment of men by other men is bad, tina
| it is all a choice of evils anyway
Well, the great powers of busines
made their choice in 1882 along VII
the rest of us-the choice of do-some
thing about-it instead Of do-nothinl
The difference between them and th
rest of us is that after they were pick
ed I'D and set. bowling but safe agair
their feet, they started kicking Roose
velrs shins before their tears were dry
To get back to Mr.. Dewey's simpl
recipe for unemployment: Full EN-
ploymmt by private industry" Eithe
private industry will, of its own COLT
ion. employ all employable persons, O
it will not. In 1929-l932 it did moi
and in 19ss-37 it did not. Not 70
meanness. It didn't have the jobs. i
1945-49 it will either employ all EN-
ployables, or it will not. If it does no
does Mr.. Dewey propose to force it t
employ? Perish the thought Evei
, the hated Roosevelt didn't propos
; that He made jobs by public work.
If Dewey is president after the war h
has a pledge to keep to the America
people, that pledge is so TO arrang