Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1944-09-08
Milford, Friday, September s, 1914

VIEWING THE WARTIME
strikes against their true back
ground. we see an Administration
which has never at any time dedi-
Gated itself to serving the Ameri-
can public as a whole. All of the
thinking and planning of the New
Deal has been in terms of groups
or classes of people. playing one
against the other as may have
seemed politically advantageous.
Various gestures have been made
to win the farm vote, the labor
vote. the negro vote. the Catholic
vote and so on. but always with
special Partially toward organized
labor. Mr.. Roosevelt kept his rec
ord almost spotless in the eyes of
his main supporting groups by re-
framing from any word or act not
clearly biased in their favor. The
fact that one portion of the popu-
lace can have permanent advan-
tages at the expense of the rest
has never been emphasized or even
recognized by the New Deal.
1t means less than nothing for
an administration to preach to the
world of racial and religious toll
erance when at the same time it
has deliberately promoted antag-
onism and intolerance between
groups or classes for nearly twelve
years. Intolerance is not dislike
or disapproval of any one thing.
1t is a mental attitude in which
nothing is conceded to those with
different ideas or interests,
At the beginning of the Roose-
welt Administration there were two
outstanding necessities, quite ap-
parent then as now. Our physical
existence depended on economic
recovery. while our existence as a
nation depended on formulating a
definite and workable foreign pol
icy at time when there were ON
inous signs in Europe and Asia. But
the New Dealers went in for what
they called reform" rather than
for recovery. and apparently saw
no necessity for any recognizable
foreign policy. The result has been
that financial recovery was never
realized and we were overtaken by
another war when we still were
seriously unprepared for war.
The New Deal can never end the
feuds in the industrial field for
which it is responsible. 1t assumed
a helpless position during the
wave of unlawful sit-down strikes.
1t has held out the idea of some
thing for nothing, or almost moth
ing, to pave the way for the extern
sion of Federal authority over
overwhelming fields of activity.
1t seems almost incredible for
strikes and work stoppages to go
on in endless succession in this
country even in our third year of
war. Reviewing the sequence of
events during the last twelve years .
we find the explanation. In some
cases there is some purely hypo-
thetical or extremely trivial griev-
ance. Undemocratic racial classes
are only one manifestation of the
arrogant spirit of organized labor
under racketeering leadership on
which the New Deal now relies |
more than ever for political sup
port. ;
The needed change in admins
rative policy at Washington will
1nly come about through change
n administration. To bring about :
he change it will be necessary to
peat political machine. the build a
ng of which. war or no war. has l
,een the paramount object of the
Jew Dealers for twelve years. In q
10 other way can we expect to
AVE the degree of cooperation and Il
he level of performance demand .
d of all of us to support the armed f
orces now carrying on so magnifi-
emily in various parts of the T
World. g,