The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1954-08-27
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Editorial In LABOR'S DAILY QTU)

Editorial In LABORS DAILY (lIU)
Never before has organized labor been as acutely
aware of its responsibility of spearheading a drive
to protect American way of life as it is today
Never before has national administration so con
clusively demonstrated it is impacabe foe OF
labor and the people as the Eisenhower regime
National resources have been plundered, raped
and pillaged; greedy, wealthy interests have been
fatened at the expense of the people and suffOcang
fear like poson-aden fog is spreading across the
land.
Millions of workers unemployed, and yet
the Administration has, through misleading state
ments, doctored statistics and fake economic re-
ports tried to label it normal, mild read justment
necessary to change over from a war to a peace
economy.
For many weeks now, Eisenhower cabinet mem
bers, their assistants and COP hucksters have been
going about trying to sell the voters on the admins
tration's dynamic" program
The Republican Party is employing every weapon
it muster in attempt to gain control of the
84th Congress.
It must have control if It'll to survive as strong
national party. The COP still wildly remembers
its errors Of the recent past. The crookedness and
ineptness of the Harding Administration, and the
calamitous Great Depression engendered by the
Hoover regime cost it 20 years of rule
In its brief return to power the Republicans have
recommitted all their old sins and have thrown in
a few dozen extras for good measure.
So it is inevitable that the people again will revolt
and cast them out of office. Smarting from their
hurts and disappontments, just as they were when
avalanches of votes swept Franklin Delano Roose-
welt into office again and again and elected Harry
Truman when all the political experts derided his
chances the voters once more will rise and demand
an administration concerned primarily with human
values.
Labor in 1852 recognized the danger of returning
the COP to power. It's leadership warned rank and
file members Of the necessity of voting for their best
interests and against the Republican reactonaries
(and some Democrats, too).
Individual union members responded but weak
~. Hundreds of thousands of them neglected to
qualify to vote. Many stayed away from the polls.
And far too many failed to educate their wives
and other members of their families to the urgent
necessity of voting for labor's friend rather than
general who promised miracle in Korea
That labor is fully aware now that it's 1854 and
1856 political action programs must be fu-strength
aggressive and unrelenting has been attested this
by convention after convention of the various
International and national unions.
The leaders of the American Federation of Labor
he Congress of Industrial Organizations and most
If the major independent unions all through the
ear have thrown ptiless spotlight on the COP
egime and fully acquainted their members with it's
lnon-hating policy and complete ignoring of the
est interests Of the masses of American people
In the ballot boxes lies the secret weapon that will
last the Taft-Hartey Act off the statute books and
alt the giveaways of the peoples natural wealth.
he only road to equitable taxation, social Justice
protection of civil rights and restoration of human
ignity to the individual runs through the voting c
ooth a
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