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Show vf HE question that faces you now is whether you are going II to continue the kind of government that has done so much for the people, or whether you are going to turn around and NAM GAVE YOU THE 50 DOLLAR The reason the NAM set out to destroy price controls was start down the Republican road. that, The issue in this election, as again, is Is me give you just one example of their propaganda. You can judge from that how much their advice it worth and Let have said time and time the people against special privilege. their greed, the leaders of big business wanted to make even higher profits. There never was a more vicious or a better organised campaign to mislead and deceive the American people. THE PEOPLE vs. SPECIAL PRIVILEGE I in the Govern- how much their promises can be believed. In a full page news- t ment of the United States going to be run in the interest of the paper ad people as a whole, or in the interest of a small group of "If OPA is permanently discontinued, the production of goods privi- I am exaggerating when say that I the Republican Party is the party of special privilege. Some of you may think I am exaggerating, when I say big business using its lobbies and spending I quote; to pay." Now, that's what NAM said in an ad. Well, price? adjusted themselves all right. They adjusted have watched themselves the NAM way its millions lican way in Washington to turn the Congress away from its duty to serve the people. You don't have to take my wora for it. Look at the record. HAM IS BIG BUSINESS Look I will mount rapidly and, through free competition, prices will adjust themselves quickly to levels that consumers are willing leged big businessmen? Some of you may think the summer of 1946, NAM said, and in at the record of Inflation. Right after the end of the war, big business in this country set out to destroy the laws which were protecting the consumer against exploitation i This drive was spearheaded by the National Association of Manufacturers, the most powerful organization of big business in this country. The NAM boasts of a membership of 1 5,000 industrial firms, but it is dominated by the officers of just a the big business way the Repub- they went up and up and up. NAM CONTROLS REPUBLICAN PARTY That's the plain, factual record on inflation. The forces of big business, operating through the Republican Party, tore down the protection against high prices, which had been built up for our people. The people who told you in 1946 that your Democratic Administration was wrong, when we wanted to continue price control the people who told you that prices would take care these same people are telling you now that, if you will turn the Government of the United States over to them, everything will take care of itself. of themselves That's what mean when I say the Republican Party is willing and eager to listen to the voice of big business and I special privileges. I dont think you're going to be fooled egoln by that sort handful of giant corporations. The NAM is big business. of tommyrot. (Sig.) HARRY S TRUMAN Presided of the United State (Excerpts from Address) When Wallace Bennett, the Republican candidate for the Senate, wo president of the National Association of Manufacturers in 1 949, the combined corporate wealth of NAM's Board of Directors was $5,288,900,000.00. Each member's average assets was (ond is) $146,000,000.00 not exactly representative of Utah's "corner drug stores" Candidate Bennett loves to talk about. Bennett was elected president of NAM to front for big business. Pa u Pa Au.ertiMm h P ! Dobbs, 03den; Mr. Heber Benn ion, Jr., Salt Lake City; Melvm Homer, Tremonton; J. W. G.llman, Orem) : |