Wallace Faints Picture Of Future

Northern Advocate, 26 July 1943, Page 4

Wallace Faints Picture Of Future

DETROIT. July 25. “Peace must be more than a breathing space between death of the old tyranny and birth of a new one. We will not be satisfied with a peace which will merely lead us front the concentration camps and mass merder of Fascism into an international jungle of gangster Governments operated behind the scenes by powercrazed, money-mad Imperialists,” said the Vice-President (Mr. Wallace) addressing labour and civil organisations. Mr. Wallace declared that the choice was between democracy for everybody or for. a few, between spreading social safeguards and economic opportunities to all people or concentration of abundant resources in the hands of selfishness and greed. The creation of a decent diet for every family would take as much planning as building new cars, refrigerators and washing-machines. The world is a neighbourhood. We have learned that starvation in China affects our own security, and that jobless in India are related to unemployment in America. The United States must continue splendid team-work with Britain and likewise become better acquainted with the Russians. Effective democracy at home is a vital prelude to stamping out unemployment, starvation, racial war and ignorance in the rest of the world. Peacetime Responsibilities Main peacetime responsibilities were: (1) Enlightenment of people; (2) mobilisation of production for full employment; (3) planning world co-operation. Ninetyseven per cent, of labour co-operated fully in the war effort and could work equally well with industry and agriculture in the future American people know. The second step towards Nazism was destruction of labour unions. There were midget Hitlers and demagogues who were America’s enemies. Both would destroy labour unions if they could. Mr. Wallace vigorously assailed persons who sniped President Roosevelt and said that powerful money-minded groups, called alternatively Isolationists, Reactionaries and American Fascists, sought to destroy President Roosevelt’s domestic achievements of the past 10 years by capitalising on his pre-occupation with the war. “I have known the President intimately for 10 years and, in the final show-down, he has always put human rights first,” said Mr. Wallace.