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The program is regularly scheduled for this time Staten Island today and he's a wise buying will not be heard this morning also the station presents a special broadcast of the eighty seventh anniversary convention of the New York State Federation of Labor we take you now to the Grand Ballroom of the hotel Commodore radios microphones are the Grand Ballroom of the hotel Commodore on the occasion is the meeting of the New York State Federation of Labor Mr Martin Lacy chairman of the New York City's central trade councils will introduce the regular order program Mr Lacy. I don't get. Friends next week I am about to introduce is well known far. And. Many of you by first name only has risen to one of the highest positions in the gift of the American electorate yet kept his mind and heart closed to the interests and aspirations of the working man and woman from whose ranks she sprang I have had the privilege of working closely with him in the cause of AUK and I labored and on many occasions I can testify it was understanding and sympathetic attitude wherever and whenever our problems are concerned I take pleasure and pride in presenting to you the mayor the city and the off the honorable when I'm old better known as the old. Your Eminence. America. Distinguished. Visitors. From outside of that day. And members of the convention the eighty seventh of this day after value. I have. The president to sign on this morning as my city of New York. To welcome this convention. I have had similar on a. Possibly hundreds of times in the voyage and few months that I've been a man. I have no. Right or sense however. I've a feeling that I'm addressing a group of ladies and gentleman. We're going to hold our city in this room building. A convention of the upmost importance to the people not only of the city the state. The nation and perhaps the world. I have lived long enough. And have sufficient experience throughout that living. To have come. To a non-binding conviction. That there is only one thing important in the whole world this morning and that is that democracy will not only exist in our time but big guarantee. That comes after us. I have also. Analyze the pile pronouncements of the last quarter of a century to known that democracy function rests upon a leg up. Properly organized properly in hand and that equated to the Constitution of the United States and democracy throughout the world. In this room in the represents the capacity of each one man mind you so a chain of command within the ranks of organized labor. Go right down to the home the father to the mother to the children. It is throw your. Efforts plan education fight for decent working conditions fight for our proper standard of living it is through your a growing sense that the masses of people will be educated to a point that they will understand those fundamental important issues consult a jury because you lose by lose tall your loved ones that represent the masses of people it is to you look hot guys in my job and I to represent something and that is the elected officials whether it's in the local community and the state or the national picture out about the world I do have a responsibility. And that one with God's help by the struggling here this morning and that great sponsibility is to keep on the air at Kyung to to the needs of the masses of people of Europe resembling those who look to governments fog guidance boss a partner in their legitimate aspirations I have the responsibility of all over and over again saying that every time regular is on my up act. It is a good thing on the elected official in recognition of the great honor all our principles involved was standing up and being counted whereas that recognition. Tied in with the same principles of our country this morning America said I I have the honor the privilege of. Standing before you and for recognition of what this convention Benjamin means and will mean to ask that the heavenly pot will be with you in your conferences that your views your plans will be geared to the great world issues of today that New York City through. Me as also the young and the privileged are welcoming with an R.V.. The eighty seven convention on the ballot thank you very much. That's why the map of the city of the autonomous when you vote was like the address of welcome a photo Commodore to the eighty seventh convention of the others all in New York City America's taking a few moments a personal greeting and in a few moments we'll have Mr Lacy come back again as chairman to make further introduction is a very distinguished table here of the principal speakers of the. Americas making the rounds saying hello to everybody. That's really his speech is over you will make his exit in a few moments because naturally he has other important duties and I thirty and I'm a celeb is about ready to make an announcement to sort of the sidewalks of New York Asaro they cover. Now Mr Lazio. Lawton's plans a dog there and a lousy and instantly clerically for introducing the next speaker I would like to ice jam on all things chairman of this convention state that we accept the challenge I. Placed before asked by the mayor the city of New York and I accept all responsibilities honored guests friends and delegate throughout reclaiming. The next speaker of whom all of us are proud is a product of the city of Najaf. And its president of the New York State veneration of labor. Yes continued. Beneficial. For the working people of our state. In many capacities and. Yet progressive characteristics. Steve. It is an outstanding privilege for me as president of the. Present do you. The president of the upstate Federation of Labor My friend you off ran how far. Thank you. Mr Chairman. Rev I'm pledging. Yes. Then I delegate. I don't know if I was mayor of New York City. But just. Want to play the arc of some of the old woman who tried to slip him but he couldn't get away without. Backing Mr Murray pardon for interrupting to speak with Mr Morial continue now in just a moment I want to come in here comes to be so I blasted him now instead of when I was. About F.L. right away commander didn't enter any reputable. Again as your president you know is my great privilege. And pleasure to extend a hand he welcome to this post to sample it now delegates and friends in attendance that this eighty seventh annual convention of the New York State Federation of Labor. No record it tended up delegate at this year's Gathering is only one witness because of growing strength and prestige I want to State Federation of Labor. Which today speaks for more than what I want to happen here members of the American Federation of Labor in the Empire State. But the four hundred third time since this convention was founded in the early eighteen sixty the annual convention is being held in the city of New York. The outpouring of Johnny gate and friend to the conventions of recent years has been so great that only a few cities in the state cannot comedy it is fitting of course. That we should be to New York City during the year marking the one hundred and ever story of the birth of Samuel Gompers the founder and first president of the American Federation of Labor though he became a nice thank you very much national and international leader of labor Sam Gump and you was very inspirational and I experienced probably young at diagnostic treat you in your book but of the city of New York this city is rich in memory and I still see a shoot up that Graham I have here I have a very good tree you are going to. He was born I'm not eighteen hundred and fifty I brought to this country at the age of thirty when the Civil War was raging this conflict apparently made a deep impression upon the by his MY as related to politics and yet it created here factors fear of light through the Freedom of all people of America. One of the outstanding accomplishments of Cybill goblets was his success I'm happy connect that place an amendment to the Sherman Act the trust among which restrain the courts from and to parry what the free rights of labor. I have junction of process it was declared by competent to belabor Magna Carta. Is a stylish Labor's bill of right under our constitutional law and was the first consciousness why it spread like knowledge meant that working men and women of this nation had a right collectively and individually. To we're all reprieve from working without thought to get the fairer I don't recognition that in their employment they weren't title to pursue that constitutional guarantee of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Great Union the property that of free trade union movement was the twin gospel which stand up and preach from one end of the country to the other those fundamental principle will be exemplified in the proceedings of this convention we will keep every in mind that the deliberation at this vision of this past December I write is that after freedom discussion will hammer putt from the pack upon the future welfare of the weary generators of the state and their families. The New York State Federation of Labor is the oldest in years of service and is the largest good member and accomplishment of interstate generations of labor with the American Federation of Labor. It was brought in to be you opposed to earning an oppression and as an instrument talent joy established industrial freedom and liberty for the working men and women of the Empire State. On March seventh eighteen sixty four Frederick place of the twelfth senatorial district the prize and then later at Washington County introduced in the legislative session a proposed bill may have missed a beat or for groups of working man to come by him or collect the back for their own protect reiterating in the charter that membership in a trade union constituted a conspiracy punishable by what years imprisonment and up by up two hundred fifty dollars up to big this bill was killed and to beat it on a protest of the trade unionists of New York state and there are many friends as a result. Of this next period the New York State Federation of Labor was sponsoring. Since its formation it has been on the forefront in advocating for liberal progressive legislation to improve the condition of the workers of our state as a result. Of these continue with their New York State now I had to find a liberal progressive humanitarian laws of any state in the union I wanted as we were fighting opposed your and I we pledge ourselves to the continuance of this policy and to the principle of freedom liberty at dumb ocracy for the workers of our state. The struggles over the past eighty six year after one very substantial gains that have placed on the statue books of our state the great mass of social economic and what better legislation so badly treated by the workers of the state. We had a day into night in fifty with the formation. Of. An international labor organization of which the American Federation. In trickle part and I which all the trade unions of the world are members median counting Harlem in the British government two hundred sixty one representatives of almost thirty billion workers in fifty three countries follow the S.W. the international confederation of free trade union. This organization was formed to combat a so-called international law to vision that was dominated by Soviet Russia and the twenty of us that. You wouldn't which were not free you didn't but word the puppets of the come together stick over lard and controllers and direct it but it is through this authorization of the free trade unions that the were of that kind of the workers throughout that were much to look for freedom limiting and a buck risky in the conduct of their trade unions and the pursuit of happiness in their personal life working side by side with the American Federation of Labor we feel assured that exams will be accomplished and that the workers of all the people will eventually destroy communism I don't know whose purpose is ours in Africa are to conquer all free democracy and leave all the work. Again the year of the night the fifty years significant in that the American Federation of Labor has set. It up as the year which is to accomplish its goal while the election of a liberal with Congress on the political nonpartizan policy of standing on top or rewarding your friends and at the feet of your everyday the American Federation of Labor as entered into the political field to carriers philosophy into effect this State Federation of Labor with every other branch of the American Federation of Labor has been forced into the political team to protect our authorization and the right of the workers of the country which you have been weakened and I already implemented have a long the coming out are a we up on the other that Labour's league for political education. But I noted to accomplish these that each day we must have on. That top Harvey log they have us to use a body in your you know Treasury for political purpose that for each and every member is called upon to make a voluntary contribution Your contribution can and will in my opinion help to elect with the Congress of the United States of Representatives who legislate for all the people. In the early part of this but the American Federation of Labor called at the conference its leaders from every city and state of the United States have a parrot's wave was a campaign of November ninety. Secretary Hanover as your representative attended these companies and took part in the deliberation and discussion. We all have perfect harmony as to our duty and our responsibility and we have New York State shall continue in the field of Providence under the guidance of delivers league for political education to bring about the results sought by the American Federation of Labor there be no let up. Our work will be continuous and aggressive and I am now on your bed I assure the American Federation of Labor that we will we can pay in this empire state which will go down in the history of the state as Labor example book Freedom and Liberty at last but the year of night the fifty we have Korea. As president of our state that aeration of labor I want the problem of the middle President Truman and the United Nations on the ability of the drastic action they have taken in the sense of South Korea. And there there are determination there stuff like Tommy other stories from overrunning the countries of the free people of the word the president struck a resounding growth for World Freedom What do you want to America may be a better Republican Korea. Why is this brought right actually Eastern or noticed on Russian a period was that the United States will not tolerate further communistic inroads into Asia or anywhere else. The American Federation of Labor our parent body as long recognized that proclaims that there can be no compromise with communism all the time yet as either in world affairs or on our domestic issue. There York State but a ration of Labor hasn't Iraq to your you know communism and commie and I was or fellow travellers at that convention. Continuously in this program adopted year after year I say all those who would lend support to any commie ever stick doctor Labor some I've always been found in the forefront in the defense of our country and of liberty and democracy. Wherever and whenever needed it will be found on the battlefield in the factory workshops I'm not buying laborous down the world in a production of war equipment in World War two. The dye has been cast no one can tell whether it's Korea. But I Gratian him be sealed off all whether it's flames will engulf the world I think I speak for all American Federation of Labor My prayers with a state when I pledge that we stand ready once again. For every touch and shoulder every Briton necessary to bring victory in career or another young or part of the word will we must come to is that. What the monster of World Com is that. It is our hope that this present conflict. Which we are certain will in victoriously will eliminate any further attempt on the part of Russia to want to slay the free people of the word. The New York State that arranged of labor is fully appreciate. I've governor do or is not a duty relative to the problems of labor and it is my present duty at this time to make this public acknowledgment the State Department of Labor plays a most important part in the parchment and the administration of labor are now on ours that your book is deprived represented by our most liberalism just free of commissioner who when there is a system is fully appreciate of the problems of labor the continuance of the New York State oppressors trading that trading card has been a great assistance to veterans who have been attempting to rehabilitate themselves back into civilian life. It better station of the state compensation law the unemployment insurance lower and other beneficial legislation has showed on murders on it as determination to administer laws liberally in the interest of the workers of our state. It would not be pretty good for be were I not to express at this time on behalf of the New York State veneration of labor our acknowledgment and appreciation of the spread of services commissioner Richard Corsi and as associates in the administration of the labor department of the state of New York. I am happy to report that the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations that Cornell University as function splendidly throughout the years. And has become a great asset to us and I noticed about Talladega which sent a cantor the Liberty people with understanding of the problems that the workers of our state the State University of New York of which vice president Donnelly of the member of the board a trustee have progressed favorably and great things can be expected for labor out of these magnificent educational institutions. The state commission against discrimination. Recently celebrated its depth that a person when our old Bill Edwards as chairman of the commission or ahead Commission has administered the law and I don't which as a whole hearted acceptance and cooperation of the general public and as resulted in a tremendous increase of opportunity for all workers of our state of New York State this place person division which your State Federation has appointed to the my representative as some of them one of the most outstanding job I'm ready to see I would strike the nomination approximately forty five thousand displaced person as that was in New York State and I am happy to earn a point the majority of the happy times members of our that are as labor in fact many of our trade unions have waived initiation fee and admitted to the membership. People who belong to the European ever credit trade union I will not undertake to review the record of the last legislative body that will be taken care by our I reveal energetic secretary. We have another job to do one which is to wasn't overlooked the legislative leader of the State Federation of Labor cannot properly carry on their functions without your backing. When we have already called for your sobriety and we have of opposition. There's some legislative action or proposal we expect you to contact your deputy by that senators and let them know that the while they should vote for the progress of labor. We shall present to the convention our platform up verify the Executive Council as a basis for our work for the author of the year I cannot close without saying a word of Pre as to compliment the local combat I after said to paint the Labor Council upon the oppression and scope of the convent at the rate and upon the wall of the reception that the State Federation of Labor's given here today as we have much to accomplish at this initial session I will close my remarks with an appreciation of the attention even being at present to you this party. That's all. I'm going to. The only friends. Your family unity six years of its existence the New York state that a region of Labor has played host to many distinguished governors of our state and it that you want to vent the Federation has made it a custom do extended potations to those governors who said ministration happen but by a sincere concern for the welfare of the we do have one who will make up the vast bulk of the state's population. I'm not places we have invited a present governor to have a convention. Of recent years and to this convention. We have a question and I'm pretty sure they have found it possible to hand up the use of this many duties to be with us today don't know do we have always displayed another stabbing I do have a problem with M.B. The whole time I was workers of our state he has consistently been taped and a presidential address stepped up relationship with the legislature representatives of the New York State but a ration of Labor his daughter has always been open to one much but official legislation such as a state the supremacy benefits alone would not be on the step to close today what's not Chris leadership at some point. It's a great honor and a province to present to you a good plan the New York state separation of labor and I'm not standing on punished or even as cheap executives the Argos I'm going to see doing going to have the state of New York. Ramadans. And so many friends this seems like oh wait. I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you this morning because I am not going to talk about. The important and significant matter is that we've had in common in the past year the past year. There are other. Aspects of our society and of the world today which I so proud of or shadowing everything else in the world is. That I want to take them up with you an example long. I distinguish friends out of mind that the other day and he said to me I was in France at the outbreak of the second world war or not until that fateful Rod did the French government mobilize its full arm strength and call for a full conversion to water production. The leaders of the opposition made appropriate statements supporting the government France was reading the latest to work and to fight and she lost. I had a horrible feeling my friend went on that the whole world is now in the position I lived through in France eleven years ago. That he's a gentleman that man was right. The people of France have been concentrating on their own individual welfare when they did mobilize I had neither the weapons the trained leaders nor the national determination which flows from facing right now I think I've been called a reality. That was a failure to understand that the true nature of the desperate struggle let's face them was desperate until it was too late and black totalitarianism and Gulf fronts and all your. In my solemn judgment. Id's and gentlemen. The free world stands in similar peril today the threat is immediate urgent and perhaps desperate. We are standing on all of us every single one of us on a beachhead perhaps as small as that pitiful little piece of land or young men are occupying and bleeding and dying on in Korea today. My purpose in speaking to you today. Is to cite with our only earnestness at my command that we have the free world must wake up that we must realize today the true nature of the onslaught against us by a new and more possible totalitarianism we must face reality if we're going to survive. Eleven years ago there was no single aggressive power controlling one third of all the people of the world. In fact the shoe was on the other foot Germany Italy and Japan all added up together only one tenth of the people of the world and yet they came perilously close to taking the world. Now I do not know the timetable of world communism I am the last person in the United States when they would take it into their confidence. And I rather doubt whether anybody outside the Kremlin knows that timetable and they may not have made up their minds yet we may still have something to do with making up their mind if we're fast and tough but some things are desperately obvious if we will only look for four years I've been saying to everybody I could get to listen to me. That this crisis was rushing toward us that headlong speed I've been saying and I've been sneered at for it by a very large number of people that national unity in this country was the most important thing of all because we face a very grave crisis. I said it two years ago three years ago four years ago I say it to you today two and a half years ago I said in a formal address I described exactly what is happening today in Korea and what is happening in China sense and I said it day in and day out for two and a half years I now say to you. That while no one can tell a timetable in terms of days or even years it is equally obvious that the communist schedule includes just similar attacks on pomo stuff. If we defend our most or as we have announced that we will then America will be put in the position of being at war with Red China the problem of military supply and again providing American youth to do much of the bleeding and dying is very grave indeed. United Nations support is questionable in the case of Formosa since Great Britain and in the have already recognized communist China which may or may not include her claims the foremost. On the other hand if we do not defend the most away which our government has recently committed us to do know then that commitment will be found to be worthless and we show those still more of the confidence of the free world which is becoming very shaky indeed. We have a very serious problem that problem of our most is critical and it should be raised at the United Nations right now rather than when it may be too late the commonest timetable obviously implodes the invasion by satellite nations from Belgariad through grace to the Mediterranean the communist timetable obviously in close and invasion of Yugoslavia which may come at any time the communist timetable obviously includes Tibet when advance guards of already arrived and it includes Indochina and I was immensely all asian the Philippines and Indonesia. They can do all this my friends without even showing their own hand or having one Russian soldier out of Russian bars. Everything can be done through the fighting and the dying of satellite slave people Russian troops need not need to come into action at all until they launch their attack on Iran which also appears to be on the schedule and may be very high on that attack will presumably go on through Iran through Irak and through on through Israel and to the Mediterranean again the purpose would be to isolate Turkey and the gravity who does call Osmanli all resources of the Near East without which Europe might not survive. The grand prize on the communist timetable short of the world is of course the industrial capacity of Germany and Japan they feel that once they've got Germany and Japan they then no longer have to fear American industrial protection production it is regarded as certain that the Soviet Union has two hundred divisions all ready for action it's no secret. That we have not two hundred ten divisions which represent the present limit of American strength when and whether the Soviets find it desirable to launch your two hundred divisions through Western Europe only time in expediency will tell now because those are the forecast looking at our own situation for just a minute we must assume that the Soviet has bombers which could reach an off West and the north east in this country and return to Russia I assume we could retaliate if we were ready and had a place to land our planes it is also believed that this all the at the teasel they conduct what is called Operation hot spring charming idea they send planes to bomb the great industrial plants and cities of this country and then they have the pilots bail out and spend the rest of the war comfortably as prisoners of war at Hot Springs. Needless to say we could not make similar plans with any confidence that our pilots would be similarly treated. It's reliable and reported that the red Korean forces contain a large numbers of veterans of the successful communist conquests of China including many Korean veterans of Soviet army This raises the specter of an invasion of Alaska Believe me this is a real one are we any better prepared to resist such an army which would be of any magnitude this all the that will be the first wave of Chinese satellite troops could be sent over and they might or might not succeed I do not know then there would be the second way then if necessary a third way. At whatever cost in American blood we could defend the first I do not know about the second or the third but then there would still be tens of millions of able bodied Chinese males descend on after the fall. If Alaska should fall the Soviets in the air bases and land bases for the hardness of Asia on the North Atlantic continent it is difficult to be very optimistic about our future. Now what is the condition of the free world obviously the United States is the leader yet apparently it was not even a contemplated part of our strategy to defend Korea I understand and I am sure it is true that there were absolutely no plans for the defense of Korea when we moved in and no available adequate I am Zora trained manpower. I now raise the question. Whether after this prolonged notice there are today detailed military plans for the defense of any of the other sections of the world in which aggressive action is obviously going to occur and to which we as a nation are a revocable a come at it. Even with the programs the president has now at Vannes our effort and that of our friends is too much if we are living in a world of peace and too little if we are living in a world at war. If there are any tanks of adequate size or in adequate numbers why haven't some of them reached Korea after five weeks. If we have enough anti aircraft guns and train crews in the entire United States to defend one single city then the rest of the country is better defended the New York. That's all I can speak about with authority. If there is any civil defense organization in Washington what has it done. As near as I can find out the state of New York through General Lucius play is organizing the most effective civilian defense in the entire United States and this is entirely mind you without coordination or leadership from our national government. After our civilian defense program was launched I thought you might like to know but what happened very nice young man called me up on the telephone. He was supposed to be in charge of civilian defense in Washington and he asked me not to make any plans which would be inconsistent with those of the federal government so I said what's plan of the federal government and he said Well we hope to have some by September and I said look up have you got a guarantee that you're going to enforce that we won't be attacked in the mean time and he said No I said well if you don't mind I'm going to go ahead and doing my best to protect the people of New York and I'll be glad to lend you our plans when they're finished if you want to. Meanwhile. An action of government ended its fiscal year thirty days ago with a billion dollars appropriated by the Congress for the defense establishment lying in the Treasury on appropriated on allocated and on. I give you this summary of our position without the slightest interest or desire at this time to assess responsibility for it. I am not attacking the administration and I am not attacking the Congress I haven't the slightest interest in how we conduct where we are I am desperately concerned with where we are and where we are going. I state all of these facts to you because I believe our country and the whole free world are an imminent peril. And as I have said so many times over the last four years the whole concept of human freedom is in danger of being wiped off the face of this earth. I do not ask total mobilization not. I do I ask total planning. Which is now absent vastly exaggerated production of arms and train cadre still operate them so that if and when we do mobilize we will be wholly affected. We will never again never again have months or years in which to prepare. We must be physically ready at all times and even more importantly spiritually ready to resist the peril that we really understand. No one knows whether that peril is simply the ancient oriental device of inflicting how to lose and. As you know. No one of those thousand cut is fatal but over a long enough time the victim. Die. It may be this threat against us it may be the Thousand Cuts or it may be all out atomic warfare which may be weighed. It makes very little difference which kind of peril it is so long as we recognize and recognize immediately as a nation and as a free world that the time has come for national unity on a single objective and for sacrifice and unity throughout the entire free world. This I know the Soviet Union has expanded in five years to the point where if you now can throw eight hundred million people. That's one third of the world's population. With these succeeding Soviet conquest more and more people of the free world have begun to doubt their capacity to stay free or even the desirability of remaining free and resisting. Just for one example it's been dismaying to see the failure of American diplomacy over the last decade and then here east and defined Arab nations including Egypt already seeking to be neutral as if there were such a thing as new probably in this struggle if we weaken or if there is any increase in the flight to neutrality elsewhere in the world then I say in all of the land of the two you freedom in the last. Listen to this you who may still believe the United States could live alone in the world or could survive without friends we all of us in the United States of America are only one fifteenth of this world. We need friend. And we need friends who have confidence in our leadership in faith in our ideals we need friends in vast numbers who believe as we do or we will not stand by. If every male American between sixteen years and seventy years of age bore arms our numbers could still not even Max the hardness of the Soviet satellites to say nothing of the Soviet herself. Up to now every conquest of Communist aggression has been achieved by expanding the blood of Soviet the him. Her satellites today young Americans are dying in Korea fighting the imprisoned misguided youth of North Korea it is absolutely essential to the existence of human freedom that everyone opposed to communism unite to do his share I do not now I'm OK arming a resurgent Germany or Japan of course I don't but with all my hockey I had located inspiring their young men together with the remaining free peoples of the world to join us in the defense of their own liberty How do you do that when the United Nations is the agency for the leadership of that force it must not be thwarted by a name a noob or a strategic retreat that Mr Malec may propose on behalf of the Soviet Union tomorrow when he takes the chair while we still have a preponderance of friends of freedom in the United Nations that should be asked to lead in calling for the building of a mighty force of those who believe in this single cause this force for freedom should be recruited from every nation and every people who are willing to defend freedom against communism slavery specifically for example the Japanese constitution prohibits the maintenance of an army but it does not forbid individual Japanese serving the World Organization for the preservation of peace. I am confident. That under United Nations leadership and with a full understanding of the necessities the people of the free nations of the world will respond to a call if it is extended to I ask you to listen to me with all your hearts and minds an appeal which may be premature by I or an ear. Or it could be this could be the last thirty days in which we have to act no one knows how much time we have. The only hope we have of making this appeal premature or perhaps a necessary probably hoping that it could all look silly and years from now. Will be if we respond with a sense of urgency and sacrifice to the nature of this world the only way to avoid the dire things that are being plotted against us and our fellow human beings is to acts with glee in all areas that once with a boldness in the scale which is not yet been brought to bear. I beg you to listen to me on this subject because this is not solely a task of those in public office whatever it may be there's a limit to what public office is going to do with the public support I ask you to listen and respond because you are the elected officers of organized labor in the state of New York and you have a mighty and with fluency among our people and among the leaders of labor throughout the free world there are of course no leaders of labor behind the Iron Curtain it will not be popular for you as elected officers. To accept the call to sacrifice but it's the duty of elected officers to make unpopular decisions and to provide leadership. You have a rare opportunity everyone of you in this room. In your hands lies much of the stability of our economic system without which we cannot meet the long continued drain upon our limited national resources. If you say to me how long will this last all I can say is it must last until we have a short our freedom and the possibility of armed attack has disappeared. It will not be over by Christmas is some people are hoping. It will go on for a long time to come you may ask how much must we sacrifice I say to you whatever is necessary we couldn't sacrifice enough for freedom if we should sacrifice most of our physical possession we still would not be reduced to the misery of the people behind the. Recent evidence of mass buying by our people is a tragic display of selfishness and lack of understanding. When we are in trouble only customarily help our neighbors we don't steal from them. We don't go out and try to grab food and clothing they need Moreover the only sure way to create shortage is just to buy more than we need now we're all in this together and five pounds of sugar in the cupboard won't make any difference in the job of saving freedom. And I am saying all this and I may be called an alarmist in fact I already have. I'm not an alarmist I'm a realist if our way of life. Is in danger the most important thing in the world is that we face it squarely and honestly and not hysterically then we should tighten our belts compose our soul and go to work. I recently talked with a girl from Czechoslovakia her father was a successful farmer and a veterinarian on the side and she and her two sisters had lived with their parents throughout the second world war and then the communist domination rose and they lacked to keep their freedom abandoning everything they had in the world they walked up with just the clothes on their back because they felt the breath of Liberty slipping away. I say to you that no physical poverty which any of us could suffer could equal the spiritual poverty of the loss of liberty. I have spoken of are all necessary industrial mobilization more important is to rally the Hohner free world but even more important than military strength is that we mobilized spiritually to help our neighbors the peasant family which you've been divided in Korea some killed some sent the slave labor is out for our day they cry out in Korean and we may not be able to hear it but they are God's children to. Other voices are crying from behind the Iron Curtain we can't help them today but if we are not prepared to help our brothers and sisters of the free world we shall be earning any tragic fate that may befall them. There will be no peace of saw for any of us unless we respond to the call of suffering people as Americans always have responded there will be no security or peace until evil learned that unity and sacrifice are the only road we can follow we shall never save ourselves I know Leslie first save up in. The hour is very late I do not know. Whether we still have a day or a year three years or ten years not a second should be lost. Our government our people the United Nations and the spokesman of the reels of the free world should rally now if we do all of us I don't know how much will say but at least we'll save out of this well our consciences are small and we may have an even chance to save human living. 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