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Show Who Represents Tehm? In his message to Congress, vetoing the anti-subsidy legislation, legisla-tion, President Roosevelt called attention to the fact that "more than 4,000,000 families have not had an increase of more than five per cent in their income during the last eighteen months." He said the legislation ignores "the millions of .salaried, white-collar white-collar workers the School teachers, teach-ers, the clergymen, the State, county and city officials, the policemen, the firemen, the clerks whose salaries have remained re-mained low but whose standards are being cruelly and inequitably slashed by higher foood prices." Hell, who represents these classes? Congress, acting under pressure of organized groups, shows no interest in their welfare. wel-fare. The classes themselves, for some strange reason, seem utterly utter-ly unable to organize to protect themselves in the game of pressure pres-sure politics. |