LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

show how it loved Italy was to lie like billyOh for 20 years, and try to
starve Italy into submission: tariff wall, refusal of Italian goods, refusal
of emigrants. What way is that to show love ?
DOUBTless somebody who wants 30 years sweat show now wants
Italian workin’ men in the United States to go work—OVERTIME.
Well Charlie Marx had a word for it. That part of Marx is sound, and if
bygones are gone by, and IF the Americans love the Eyetalians, there is a
way to show it. Why not have a little open communication ? Why not
print the Charter of Labor ? Why not study how far the Italian law code,
the new law code, being published under Mussolini’s regime
IMPROVES on the old ones ? How many of you have heard of the
Charter of Labor ? How many of you have stopped to think whether
trade unions ought to have legal status ? And the RESPONSIBILITY
that goes with such status ? If you are going [toward] fascism or nazism
why not do it with open EYE, why not learn what these systems of
government are ? Why not ask and learn how far they are compatible
with American habits, [what] is good in ’em, and wherein their strength
consists, INSTEAD of merely lying and cussing and trying to kill ’em
on the assumption (if you can call it by so mild a term) that they are
something they ain’t ?
Conditions in German factories ? How do they compare ? I have seen
some dirty lying in my time. I can’t hold an inquest on every separate
lie, but I have seen something, I have heard something, and then I have
seen the American reports of ’em.
I have noticed DIScrepancies. I have heard the statement, I mean I
HEARD it while it was being said. I heard Mussolini say “WE need
years of peace to get on with our internal affairs.” And I have seen it
reported next day as a war speech. Twenty years of that sort of thing do
not show LOVE of Italy. Not on the part of the reporters or news
owners. In fact Mr. Brooks, if it was Brooks, is showing a new love,
store label not yet taken off.