Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-10-11
Political
Action
BY
Clayton
Rusch
Chairman

It is with great satisfaction
that we scan the report on
registration from the Board
of Elections. Lucas County
has more than 90 per cent of
its eligible voters registered
to vote. The big task before
us now is to get out the vote
for the candidates who will
be endorsed by the CIO-PAC.
1t is very important that the
people have a clear concep-
ton of the REAL issues in
volved in this campaign.
These issues are world peace,
full employment and adequate
social security.
The majority of the COM
mentators and propagandists
are working overtime to be-
cloud these issues. That is
understandable, but the sad
fact is that too many of the
people are being misinformed
on the issues, due to the eff
forts of the stooges of big
business.
If one were to go by what
he hears on the radio or reads
in the daily papers, the con-
clusion would be unmistak-
able that the primary issue
in this election is whether or
not the Communists are going
to take over the country.
Since it is quite obvious
that the Communists, Trot-
skyistS, etc, constitute only a
tiny minority of the popula-
ton and are further handi-
capped with an obsolete and
unWorWable program, 1t
would seem that the people
who point them out as a men
ance to the American way of
life would be deservedly
laughed at.
CONFUSED
The fact that so many
people take predictions of
Communist domination of the
nation seriously can be ex-
planned on two counts. First,
the Communists and their fell
low travellers use dictatorial
tactics in the trade unions and
secondly the average worker
is unfortunately confused on
what the American way of life
is, and how to preserve it.
Let us throw some light
amid the confusion by estab-
fishing three things. (1) What
the American way of life is.
(2) How to preserve it. (3)
How to combat Communism.
The American way of life
from the view of the workers
who comprise the majority of
the population is just this
A society which assures each
citizen as much personal lib
erty as is compatible with the
welfare of the people as a
whole. A society which limits
personal liberty to the extent
necessary to protect the well
fare of the people as a whole.
A society which limits per-
sonal liberty to the extent
necessary to protect the well
fare of the people as a whole.
A society which provides all
the people with the right, and
the opportunity, to a job at
living wages, with adequate
social security safeguards and
protection of civil liberties
for all.
The best way to preserve
this conception of the Amer
ican way of life is to elect
people who believe in it to
public office. This will as
sure the passage of social leg
islation which will provide
for participation by this ma
ton in a program to promote
world peace, and the estab-
lishment of an adequate full
employment and social secur-
ity program.
The best way to combat
Communism is to see that our
government is administered
by people who subscribe to
the legislative program dis
cussed above. No one could
get to first base by advocating
the scrapping of a system
which provides for private
ownership of property and re-
ligious freedom, and replacing
it with mass ownership and
atheism, unless the system
under attack was being ad-
ministered by stoogeS for big
business who were deaf to the
needs of the people.
The big business interests of
this nation are bent on cap
turing both major political
parties so that big business
will be the real ruler no mat
ter who wins the elections.
They are going about it by
attempting to pin the red
label on all liberals.
If they succeed in this they
can save the practice of al
lowing the corporations ex-
n