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Show PINCHOT SCORES GEORGE W. PERKINS Chairman of Progressive National Executive Committee Menace to Progressive Party New York, June 10. Amos PInchot made public today the text of the confidential letter he recently addressed address-ed to Theodore Itoosevclt, the mem? bers of tho Progressive national committee com-mittee and other leaders, denouncing Gcorgo W. Perkins, chairman of thOj national executive committee as a menace me-nace to the party, principally because of his affiliation with tho United States Steel corporation and tho International In-ternational Harvester Company, two great monopolies which have succeeded succeed-ed most completely In exploiting the public and crushing organized ltibor. The letter opens by declaring that a situation exists In tho Progressiva party which must bo terminated be-foro be-foro It can command general popular support. "Tho situation I refer to, Mr. PInchot PIn-chot continues In his letter, Is this: First, on element In our party leadership, lead-ership, headed by Gcorgo W. Perk-'Ins, Perk-'Ins, favors tho protection of private monopoly In American Industry and since tho party's formatln has been taking active steps to commit the party to that policy. Second, the chair man of the executive committee (Mr. Perkins) Is acttvoly opposed to recognition recog-nition of labor's right to organize and deal with capital through labor unions, un-ions, and has frequently gnu on record rec-ord to this effect. Mr. PInchot then goes on to sav tho Progressive party has placed Itself It-self positively and definitely on record In opposition to Mr. Perkins and adds that through tho Progresslvo party's official bulletin, through public speech cs and Interviews, and In pamphlets printed as Progresslvo party literature litera-ture and distributed from tho party's headquarters In New York hnd Washington, Mr. Perkins has conducted con-ducted an extensive pro trust propaganda propa-ganda calculated to convince tho party par-ty and tho public that the trusts nrc useful nnd sacred Institutions; that those who nttnek them nro kept upon tho destruction of all healthy industry on n largo scalo and finally, that tho Progresslvo party fully agrees with him in theso views. As a result wo havo been placed in a falso and a fatal fa-tal position. |