John T. Flynn Quotes

The Cio Put Up Half A Million Dollars For Roosevelt's 1936 Campaign And Provided Him With An Immense Group Of Active Labor Workers Who Played A Large Part In The Sweeping Victory He Won At The Polls.

I Think We Have To Be Fair In Saying At This Point That Neither Roosevelt Nor Lewis Realized The Peril To Which They Were Exposing Both The Unions And The Country.

These Code Authorities Could Regulate Production, Quantities, Qualities, Prices, Distribution Methods, Etc., Under The Supervision Of The Nra. This Was Fascism.

But No One Can Praise Roosevelt For Doing This And Then Insist That He Restored Our Traditional Political And Economic Systems To Their Former Vitality.

We Seem To Be A Long Way Off From The Kind Of Fascism Which We Behold In Italy Today, But We Are Not So Far From The Kind Of Fascism Which Mussolini Preached In Italy Before He Assumed Power, And We Are Slowly Approaching The Conditions Which Made Fascism There Possible.

But Fascism Cannot Continue In A Modified Form.

In Different Countries The Basis Of Resistance Takes Different Forms, But It Comes Chiefly From The Conservative Groups. Hence It Becomes Increasingly Difficult To Go On Spending In The Presence Of Persisting Deficits And Rising Debt. Some Form Of Spending Must Be Found That Will Command The Support Of The Conservative Groups. Political Leaders, Embarrassed By Their Subsidies To The Poor, Soon Learned That One Of The Easiest Ways To Spend Money Is On Military Establishments And Armaments, Because It Commands The Support Of The Groups Most Opposed To Spending.

The Nra Provided That In America Each Industry Should Be Organized Into A Federally Supervised Trade Association. It Was Not Called A Corporative. It Was Called A Code Authority.

This Most Dangerous Enemy Is The American Counterpart Of The British Fabian Socialist, Who Denies That He Is A Socialist And Operates Behind A Mask Which He Calls National Planning.

At The End Of All This, Russia Held In Her Hands A Vast Belt Of Land Running From The Baltic Sea In The North To The Black Sea In The South, Comprising Eleven Nations With A Population Of 100 Million People.

No Matter What The Cause, Even Though It Be To Conquer With Tanks And Planes And Modern Artillery Some Defenseless Black Population, There Will Be No Lack Of Poets And Preachers And Essayists And Philosophers To Invent The Necessary Reasons And Gild The Infamy With Righteousness. To This Righteousness There Is, Of Course, Never An Adequate Reply. Thus A War To End Poverty Becomes An Unanswerable Enterprise. For Who Can Decently Be For Poverty? To Even Debate Whether The War Will End Poverty Becomes An Exhibition Of Ugly Pragmatism And The Sign Of An Ignoble Mind.

The Communists Were Interested In Getting Into Key Positions As Union Officers, Statisticians, Economists, Etc., In Order To Utilize The Apparatus Of The Unions To Promote The Cause Of Revolution.