Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1949-07-15

M heroic exploits, the crush
49, ing and pulverizing bombing
m 81 ass raids on our Air Forces.
N What were our boys fight
ing for Why were they so
Pete Zvara ready to charge into the
very mouth of hell" to suffer, to bleed and
TO die as so many tens of thousands of
them did?
For freedom i. . . for decency for human
dignity for world in which EVERYONE
could live in peace and abundance.
They fought so gallantly and died so brave
" because they were determined to rid the
world of the egomanic Hitler and his beastial
gang who set out to rule the world They
wanted to rid the world of the power-crazed
nilitarists of Japan who joined hands with
Hitler so that they in turn might make Asia,
with its teeming millions and vast natural re-
sources, their private colony.
Both Hitler and the Mikado justified their
hideous crimes with the theory that THEY
WERE A MASTER RACE. They were to rule
the woIhMEhile all other peoples were to be
reducsA Ae status of slaves
Hfa Mikado and Mussolini
smasha Vas their theory of the Master
Why not? Didn't they just win the greatest
war in history? And were they not ready
and eager TO embark upon road that would
lead them to the kind of world they fought
and-so many of them-died for? That's what
they thought.
1--WE YEARE AGO all this happened Sure
ly in that time we should have had ample
opportunity to at least begin to approach that
Brave New World" Surely, in that time we
should have been able to make at least be-
ginning
The brutal and untarnshed facts of the
case are that we have failed miserably.
at world tOdav7 JS there any,
thing new in it? What is new about all the
talk that's going about New War . a
bigger and ghastlier war than we have ever
had before A new war even before all the
dead of the last holocaust are decently buried
=. before the debris is cleared away . be-
fore the manned and the cripped are patched
up.
SOMEONE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY say that
~ the desperate plight wherein the world
finds itself is not our fault And there is truth
in that. 1t most certainly isn't ALL our fault
The Russians hard to get along with.
But what about domestic situations?
Surely, we can't blame anyone for that Who
is responsible for the spreading unemploy-
ment in our country-the richest, most power
full nation on earth? Who shall we blame for
the spreading paralysis of fear . fear of
want hunger and unemployment that is creep
ing over the land of the free and the home
of the brave?
Already close to million workers are job
less
The steel and other basic industries are
sharply curtailing their productions. Some i'm
dustries, like textile for example, are already
operating below the 500 capacity mark
In May alone 776 business firms went
bankrupt In 1948 approximately 5000 bus-
ness concerns were forced into bankruptcy
And so far this year, that is up to the end of
May, the number of business failures rose to
nearly 1000 with April alone showing 900
bankruptcies.
RUT ALL THESE ARE small firms. They're
~ little people" The Big Boys" are doing
great. President Truman a few days ago re-
ported that corporation profits" have dropped
by 1870. lie forgot TO mention that these big
Boys -- the huge corporations are reaping
profits 3OO% and 40O% higher than they did
few years ago
And Big Business is not ashamed of its
huge profits They are more arrogant than
ever before Actually they taunt the people
one large corporation, the Standard Steel
Spring Co, for example, purchased full page
advertisements in leading papers all over the
country in defense of those who make over
100000 per year In this add they bitterly
denounce those who advocate higher taxes on
these large incomes Among other things thew
say in this add
Among them (the 1882 who reported in
comes of S5O,OOO or more in l9is) are the men
VIVID the brains, the know-hOw, the CUTS to
Keep the American Business System i'm its COW
eted position OF world industrial leadership.
Ihey are the men upon whose keen minds and
broad shoulders now rests as ALWAYS, the des-
Tiny oil this country and its peOpIe-IN PEACE
AND in WAR They are the leaders
And whatever they earn, they are worth the
money"
you REMEMBER, STARTED out by
talking about Master Race" And there
you have IT. Right here in our midst They
openly, arrogantly tell us that they ARE the
Master Race And that whatever thew earn.
they are worth it,
Ordinarily we could dismiss this tyne of
talk as sheer nonsense. But this isn't These
are the people who sit in the chairs of the
mighty They are the heads of our great cor
poratlons. Their influence in Washington
witness the fate of Truman's Fair Deal Pro-
gram and especially the promise to repeal
the infamous Taft-tiartley Acts decisive.
These are the people who tell the steel
workers, our own auto workers and all others