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Show Pafg Four. PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Actions speak louder than words t t 1 THE N. D. A. HAS A PROGRAM. To the extent of our limited talents, abilities and powers, we are putting that program into actual execution. WHAT IS THAT PROGRAM? It is: Putting idle men to work in idle factories. Putting the products of these factories into a common warehouse. As a matter of airryplifying the accounting, the issuing of coupons in payment for the products. .1. 2. Organizing the farmers and inducing them to bring their products to the common warehouse; they to receive coupons for their products. 8. Processing and putting into usable form these products, this service to be handled by the use of coupons. Making all necessary transfers at prevailing market prices to members, product for product, product for service, service for service, coupons being used only to simplify the transfers. The for cash. surplus may be sold to 4. non-membe-rs We THIS IS A PRACTICAL, WORKABLE PROGRAM. p are going on. The difference between the N. D. A. and other all a perorganizations and programs is that ours is first of manent movement The idle men this organization puts into idle factories will stay there as long as they make good. self-hel- We are told that oat in Seattle the Federated Unemployed, by setting themselves to work, are caring for more than 60,000 needy. At Los Angeles a similar organization claims to be caring for more than 360,000 of the jobless and their families. These groups are rapidly being multiplied in other sections. Bat the trouble with them is that they are only temporary expedients. Admitting that they are all doing immense good, still they do not folly meet the need of the nation. The p group that attempts no permanent ablution of the problem is shirking the vital part of its task. self-hel- The N. D. A. is doing for its members ail that the other groups are doing for theirs and in addition is building permanently. It has a program. It knows where it is going and hew to get there. To feed the hungry and employ the jobless is only the first step in any rational relief program. The future must be taken care of. t This the N. D A. is Doing |