Montana labor news., 1944-09-28
FOR ALL MAIN
POSTWAR AIM
WALLACE

NEW YORK (FP) Opening his cam
paign for the reelection of Franklin d.
Roosevelt, Vice Pres. Henry A. Wallace
Sept. 81 called 70 ra huge turnout of the
people at the voting booths Nov. 7 to pre-
vent a return to the normally of a
Harding and a 1O-year decay into the
panic of a Hoover"
Scene of Wallace's first major public
appearance since the Chicago convention
was a colorful rally at huge Madison So.
Garden, packed to the last seat with
$4,000 New Workers who went wild with
excitement when Wallace walked onto
the platform. Several thousand more,
lining the streets outside the Garden,
listened to the speeches broadcast to
them over a public address system.
Sponsored by the Independent Voters
Committee of the Arts & Sciences for
Roosevelt, the meeting assembled on the
platform outstanding figures from the
cultural world. Speakers who brought
gusts of laughter from the audience with
their barbed comments on COP candi-
date Tom Dewey included screen stars
Bette Davis, Orson Welles and Fredric
March, sculptor 10 Davidson, novelist
Sinclair Lewis, Helen Keller, DR.. Harlow
Shapley, astronomer, Serge K~oussevitsky,
symphony conductor, and DR.. Charming
H. Tobias, Negro leader.
Only problem in the campaign, wal
lace said, is which of the two candidates
can better handle the following two pro-
blems:
Il. Who can better cooperate with
Churchill, Stain and the generalissimo,
in writing a lasting, liberal, democratic
peace which will best preserve American
interests without being unfair to any
big or smaI?"
.. Who can best make sure that
there are jobs for everybody and there
fore good incomes for farmers, white
collar workers, business and professional
men?"
The crowd itself answered Wallace's
question, roaring out a full-throated
Roosevelt when he demanded with a
broad grin: "Who can better provide
for permanent peace and full employ
ment-Dewey or ROOSEVELT
wallace described the Republican
party as the channel through which the
isolationists, The cartellists and the inter
national %freebooters work best"
Placing before the audience his blue
print of the postwar world, Wallace said:
we give first place in our hearts to
Jobs for ALL in health and security
Any modern government, postwar, which
is not dedicated to full employment, will
fail its people. Such a government de
serves to fail"
Protection for the returned soldier and
emphasis on the human side Of recon-
version we're next in the tasks Wallace h
outlined for a progressive government. !
The postwar battle for full employ
ment, national health and a permanent
peace can only be won if industry pro 7
duces at least $17O billion annually at !
present price levels of peacetime goods !
and services, he said. Declaring that ,
5he days Of normally for the few and
5u~b-normalcy for the many" we're past,
ended his speech with a call to ~
the fight we have never had-the nor :
nalcy of the good life for everybody"
Bette Davis, who flew in from Holly -
to address the meeting, said women y
n this war have learned their respon- y
iibilities the hardway, and know that y
heir security, and that Of their return =
ng husbands, and that of their unborn =
.ons is bound up in the single, simple !
that will pull the voting lever 8
Town over the name Of Franklin Delano /
Roosevelt" -