Those in America who later read lis speech felt that their country had been given a stab in the bee It was bad enough thay Mi, Lewis who had been deferred to by the New Deal Administration should show no gratitude and present a gloomy picture of Government failure, it was even worse that he should cast doubt on the ability of democracy to meet the worlds ing problems or provide an exi 1 et reasonable comfort for the ho supported it 1
"Hundreds of thousands of people of this nation have for y on years been exploited. apore: ud denied the exercise of those lits guaranteed to them unde: our Constitution. They have been little more than industrial They have been unable to raise their wages, to ameliorate their working conditions, to assure themselves of economic security It was no pici e to present to Europe as an example of what Democracy could do for them. Moreover it was unfair in its implications.
Long before Mr. Lewis beea prominent public figure the Any working man drove in his own larity is undiminished but his word no longer carries the same weight opposition within the ranks of group the course w nich has not announced fessional Opposition Th position to the President is moost noticeable in Congress but Conis a political barometer responsive to pressures from the gene:
It is reasserting itself be itssmembers sense that such a "men not unpopular e." They can t ere fore rein: ress to its fu rible partnership e Constitution of executive, nature and judiciary, The tim the executive all powerful and jowed the other two branches past confidence can be seen in the attitude taken to almost every bill. It should not perhaps be called "new" for its roots can be traced back to th lit over the Supreme Cuurt. The same nucteous of opposition was found to exist when the special session was called at the end of s the President's reform programme suffered accord-of 1000 Main in munities, was puck-e and coming out of c he not tod by me f the menstres, mote nartiior taxis money laid aside as distributing in to the r form of increased decline. seemed only common Small Busimessmen's Conference Mhe fi ication that big bı ness was nct one in opposition to the P.csident's programme came when small businessmen assembled in ashington for a riotous three-day conference, The Administration had n iı, for granted that small busis would be opposed to b ness and would prove a valuable Acministration st as in the mobile to his factory or his mine and his wages were the highest in the world, If the American standard of living was that of a serf then the word serf needs a new definition.
Huge Number of Unemployed "Thirteen million Americans are now unemployed, said Mr. Lewi "Their' numbers are steadily increasing, as the nation drifts with terrify-never realm of financial bankruptcy, economic collapse and human tragedy. It that is what happens in a democracy, then democracies cannot reproach the dic-
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