Montana labor news., 1947-09-25

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r~esearch-all this to be administered
by state and local boards. under the
general supervision of a national board
and an advisory council, within the
orbit OF the Federal Security Admin
istrator. The plan is to be financed
by approximately a three percent
tax on the wages of those receiving
benefits under the plan, tThe bill is
necessarily long and complicated. and
very carefully worked ont in detail).
ANA Attempts To Brighten Public
If il were not so tragic. it would
be amusing to not how far the eXpen-
sive pamphlet of the Physicians COM
mittee goes in its attempts to Brighten
the public about public health pro-
grams. The thing even quotes the
New York paper. PM, at considerable
length. seemingly in an attempt to
prove something or other. However,
the reader invariably finds that the
I'M dItltlcS Hldht SCIlot, as ~
the following quote from PM, an art
icle by Albert Deutsch. dated March
%, 1916. "A sordid tale of medical in
trigue and ~unprincipled propaganda,
conducted behind a hypocritical mask
OF professional dignity, may be unfold
ed in the course of the senate hearings
on the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill for
national health insurance which start
next week. The tale hangs on a $500,
600 a year smear campaign loOsed
against the bill and its sponsors, in
Guiding the President, by an alliance
OF reactionary medical and drug manu-
featuring interests
Patent Medicine Companies Like
Status Quo
The campaign is gOdfathered and
fostered by the American Medical as
ISOLATION. 1t is financed largely by
big patent medicine companies. 1t is
spearheaded by a dummy agency fol
organized medicine and masterminded
by an ex-advertising mar who once
did the same job of an anti New DeaI
committee created and headed by pub
Usher. Frank Gannett."
The propaganda front for org
anized medicine is the National PLY.
sicians' Committee for the Extension
Of Medical Service 1t has flooded
the nations press with propaganda
that distorts the aims and contents of
the bill. 1t has succeeded in getting
more than 5000 full-page advertise
ments in newspapers throughout the
country by an ingenious campaign
wherein the mats for the ads are furn
ished free OF charge and direct instruc
tions are given to advertising manager
on how to line up local drug stores
medical societies and industrial houses
to pay for the ads"
Many other methods OF distributing
this propaganda are described in tn
PM article, but the foregoing is typi
cal.
In the Physicians pamphlet, as be
fore mentioned, are many extended
quotes from the senate COMMITTEES
hearings. One such quote is interest
ing.
Senator Murray read excerpts from
a WASHINGTON POST editorial SUP
porting the proposal of state medicine
Senator Murray used the POST ed
torial as a basis for his own suggestiol
that the legislation should not be or
posed merely on the allegation that
was "Communistic or Socialistic'.
Too "socialistic" For Taft
THE colloquy which followed fairl
illustrated the tenor Of the hearing
under Senator Murray's Craftsmanship
Senator Taft Eyes, of Taft-Hartle
fame-the Gentleman from Ohio):
think it is very Socialistic, SO | dir
agree entirely with the editorial.
think that you might have that to star
with: if you are going to make a part
san statement. | am going to make ont
chairman Murray. 1 did not max
Q. partisan statement
Sen. Taft: But if you are going
give a rebuke to people who conside
it Socialistic. | consider it Socialism
1t is to my mind the most Socialist
measure that this congress has eve
had before it, seriously
Senator Murray charged that Sci
ator Taft was attempting merely t
confuse the minds Of the people on
bill that was very worthy and yer
valuable to this country. Murray ais
explained that Senator Wagner woul
: be the first witness called in the hea
: ings. However, Taft arrogantly il
! sisted on making statements agains
! the bill at that time. To which arr,
] CANT insistance, Murray said, anon
: other things: You can have an oppo
] tunity to make a statement at the pro-
! er time"
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