Evening star., 1948-07-25

with pride-1 have made commit
ments. I have made them In every
section Of this land. have made
them In great halls and sports
arenas. In huge open-air meetings
snd in small gatherings. / have made
commitments In the basement OF q
Negro church and in union halls and
on picket lines. I have made COM
mitments. I have made them freely.
I shall abide by them. repeat them
with pride; y
! am committed to the policy OF
placing human rights above prop
erty rights.
Power Of Monopolies.
am committed to using the power
Of our democracy to control rigor-
ously and, wherever necessary, to re-
move from private to public hands
the power Of huge corporate monop-
olies and international big business.
/ am committed to peaceful nego-
tiations with the Soviet governmen
am committed to DO everything I
can through the New Party to save
the lives of those who are now to be
drafted through the establishment
OF peace without sacrificing any
American principle or public
interest.
I am committed to appointing
to positions in the cabinet and ad-
minstration men whose training and
private interests cannot conflict with
their public responsibilities.
/ am committed to building and
strengthening the United Nations
as an instrument which can peace
fully resolve differences between
nations.
am committed to using the power
and prestige of the United States to
help the peoples of the world, not
their exploiters and rulers; to help
the suffering, frustrated people in
the colonial areas of the world even
as we help older civilizations which
have felt the full destructive force
of war.
Cold War Jobs.
I am committed to planning as
carefully and thoroughly for pro-
duction for peace as the militarists
and bankers plan and plot for war.
For many of today's 100000 jobs
are cold war jobs, unstable jobs. sui
eide jobs. am committed to making
10000, ,000-and more-jobs of pro-
dueing for peace --- house building
jobs, school building jobs, the jobs
of building dams and power plants
and highways and clinics.
1 am committed to q program of
progressive capitalism "a program
which will protect from the tentacles
of monopolists the initiative and
creative and productive powers of
truly independent enterprise.
I am committed to fighting, with
everything have, the ugly practice
of sitting with Taft Hartley injunc-
tions and the power of government
the free trade union organizations
Of our workers. I am committed to
roofing out the causes OF industrial
conflict and antilabor practices; to
returning us to the basic principles
of the National Labor Relations
Act and to strengthening the DEM
ocratic organizatins which give our
workers safeguards against economic
and political injustice.
/ am pledged to fight the murder
ers who block, impede and stif1e
legislation and appropriations which
would eliminate segregation and
provide health and educatioT facil-
ities to bridge the. gap 81 ~ years
life expectancy between q Negro
child and a white child born this
day.
I am pledged to licking imitation
by stopping the cold war, the ruth
less prof1teering of monopolies, and
the waste of resources which could
give us an abundance of the goods
of peace.
Heavy Hand of Fear.
I am committed to helping lift
the heavy hand of fear from our
elder citizens, whose minds and
bodies have served to build this
America and whose reward must
be the economic security which will
enable them to spend their days
with the peace of mind that comes
from work well done and appreci-
ated. And I am committed to those
programs-principally the program
for peace, which will lift from our
young people the dread of war and
drafts and unemployment and which
will replace these fears with hope
born of security and the equal op-
portunity to develop fully their in
dividual talents and careers.
l am committed--as I have been
my whole life through--to advanc-
ing those programs for agriculture
which will increase the productivity
OF our land and better the lives OF
our farmers and their families.
I am committed to stopping the
creation of fear; to using all my
powers to prevent the fear-makers
from clogging the minds of the
people with the Red issue" The
American people want and deserve
fewer Red issues and more red
meat. Millions know and millions
more must see that it is not the
kremlin, not the Communists who
have sent milk to 24c q quart and
meat to $1.30 a pound; that it Is
the Red issue, not the Reds, who
did this to us.
Yes, am committed and I am
confident the New Party will COM
NIT itself to the principle of using
our democratic process to the end
that all men may enjoy the bene-
fits made possible by modern
science.
And I am committed and do re-
nounce the support of those who
practice hate and preach prejudice;
of those who would limit the civil
rights of others: of those who would
restrict the use of the ballot; of
those who advocate force and vio-
lence; and I am committed to ac-
cept and do accept the support of
those who favor the program for
peace l have outlined here; the
support of all those who truly be-
lieve in democracy. ""
Charles Olson to Speak
Charles Olson, author of Cali Me
Ishmael" will speak on "The Search