The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-10-21
Mr.. Dewey's Brand
Of National Unity
BY BRADFORD V. CARTER
LPA COlumnist

LPA COlumnist
Like most trade unionists, tht
usually straight faced reporters
who have been following COP pre-
sidential candidate Tom Dewey:
campaign have gotten little fec
up lately with Dewey's constant
use of vague terms like national
unity" courage" Integrity" and
faith" They just couldn't keep on
writing news stories about plati-
tudes.
Skepticism even reared its ugly
head as news men began to wonder
if Dewey is really as noble as his
speeches, or if, perchance, his con-
slant use of inspirational rhetoric
is but cloak to hide the naked re-
action which he represents.
All too convincing confirmation
of the doubts about Dewey came
last week however The Republican
nominees train was about to pull
out of Beaucoup, Ill. It's engineer,
for good and proper railroading
reasons threw his locomotive into
reverse, giving the usual signals,
and slowly backed up. The people
who had come down to take a
squint at Dewey scurried off the
track as the train slowly moved to-
wards them. Of course no one was
hurt-or even particularly frighten-
ed.
But candidate Dewey was upset.
The smooth tempo of his swing
around the country had been brok-
en-. Something had happened that
wasn't called for in his carefully
written script. And for the first
time in his campaign he made some
unrehearsed remarks.
Engineer Linden, Dewey said,
sis a lunatic." Then the candidate
added che should probably be shot
at sunrise"
There you have it. This is
Thomas K. Dewey's brand of ma
tional unity-national unity with no
concern for the dignity, the good
sense and the interests of the
working people of the nation.
Dewey didn't really mean quite
what he said, his apologists tell
us. Maybe not. But the attitude,
the philosophy, the inner mind of
Thomas E. Dewey was revealed
more strikingly in those few ill ad-
vised words than in all the fancy
speeches he's made.
Dewey's national unity means a
callous disregard, by the people
who hold economic power and their
political stooges, Of the problems
and the needs of ordinary people.
Over their crassness he waves the
flag, cautions us not to complain
# we want to be counted good Am
ericans, and talks "faith," "inte-
gritty" courage" and "good gov
ernment."
Why doesn't he talk civil rights,
housing, price control, health insur-
ance and the restoration of trade
lnion rights? Because all of these
ssues involve a questioning of the
private decisions of big business.
And how can we have Dewey's type
If national unity if we question the
policies and the motives of his
,ackerS?
There is another kind of national
nifty. The unity of interest and
lemocratic intent of the vast maj !
rity of the American people
farmers, small business
nd professional men. They can
'and together to work out solu-
ions to their problems. 1t is to
heir advantage to thoroughly and
explore the issues which
onfront the nation. 1t is to the in
crest of Dewey's principal sup
orters to obscure issues.
That is why the Dewey brand
f national unity is a fraud. That
why Dewey must be rejected at
he polls next month. That is why
ye can never have united front"
nth the forces Dewey represents.