Detroit evening times., 1945-08-30
By {. +. TOMPKlNS


- II Democratic members met in caucus and welded
themselves into bloc to support a drastic program
of sociaistc legislation when Congress reconvenes
Sept B.
This maneuver nteigently interpreted at Wash
ngton, ID. c. veied threat" to President Harry S.
Trumans efforts ID check the ruinous extravagances
which his administration inherited from the old New
Deal; 2) to deate the bureaucracy that has
been built up in the federal departments; CD to re-
establish economy and efficiency in national affairs;
(4) to preserve the system of free enterprise and 5
to restore the principle of constitutional government
America.
TNHIS left wing action formidable one-not be-
i cause group of II senators comprise more than
II per cent of the membership but because this SUBJ
stantal minority has the combined support of ma
tionwide aggregation of radical aggressive and heavily
financed pressure groups and propaganda outfits.
Among the groups and organzations-backed by
the left wing press and radioare the resurected and
revolutionary Communist party of the United States and
its fluid subsidiaries fronts and transmission belts;
various Socialist societies, including the League for In
dustria Democracy and of the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations with its Communist-conrolled
unions and it's active political aates the CIO-Potcal
Action Committee and the National Political Action Com
mttee
The II senators, serving the congressional
spearhead for these radical interests adopted their
caucus beguing "12 point program tactical
cover for their specific legislative intentions.
THE program significant in what it DOES NOT saw
Il 1t is statement in vague and general phrases, Of
purposes and policies which any one, demagogue or
patriot alike, could adopt campaign slogans
to protect the free enterprise system in America
abate the abuses of conhscatory taxation which RE-
STRICT business expansion 70 abandon the immoral
habit ota deficit financing and mitess public debt
to abolish the prevalent bureaucratic abuses of ad-
minisrave law to strive for labor legislation which
would promote industrial peace.
Furthermore, the program does indicate
the precise nature and direction of legislation which the
II senators and their following intend upon the
country
That omission was especially deceptive and repre-
hensble for the that large group of bills had
PREVIOUSLY been introduced in Congress- many of
them bearing the names of senators in the group.
These among the bills which the II senators
will press carrying their platform"
EACH of the bills is an artfuly disguised SOCIAL
IST measure
A ND this set of bills is the REAL program to which
"A the II and their Communistic- -Socalistic
AMERICA.
These are SOME of the bills:
FULL EMPLOYMENT BILL OF l945
1 This bill is simply the American version of the
Beveridge plan which the Socialist Labor government
intends to apply in Great Britain.
C-SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE BILL.
This bill would put the United States government in
the commercial banking business with billion n-dolar
corporation having access to the of the Federal
Reserve system.
C-GENERAL WELFARE BILL.
- This bill is the American replica of the Beveridge
social welfare plan in Great Britain.
Under the guise Of amending and extending the
Social Security Act 1t would infic annual 12bilon
establish sociaized medicine under the dictatorship Of
the surgeon general of the United States and would
initiate the existing social security agency into vast
irresponsible bureaucracy with coercve political powers
/ A-FEDERAL EDUCATION BILLS
There two bills purporting to provide federal
aid to education in backward
One would expend $3OOO00000 year the other
S55O,OOO.OOO.
Both would apportion funds politically, irrespective
of state or local need, and both would give the H. S.
commissioner of education dicatorial powers over state
and local educational authorities.
E-NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION BILL.
- This bill would set up centralized federal
bureaucracy and endow 1t with power TO dominate all
scientific research private well public
1t would inject politics into nonpolitcal sphere
and would interfere with scientific and industrial in
stitutions and with the national defense.
/ C-REGIONAL AUTHORITY BILLS
- Several regional authority" bills have been intro
duced in the 10th Congress.
These bills would disregard lines infringe state
rights and nflict upon the regions ns'-without the
peoples ascertaned assenta federal system of planned
economy"
7-GENERAL HOUSING BILL.
Purporting to aid private enterprise in the build
ing construction industry this bill would perpetuate