(Following is the radio speech of EARL BROWDER, Communist Crmdidate forPresident of the United States, addressed to the y:::ang people of America.)

final belligerency. Last Spring, the organ-ized youth movement put the questionsquarely to the President when its delegatesgathered in Washington for the CitizenshipInstitute. The President answered them withone word, "twaddle." That word explodedthe Roosevelt illusion. How sure were theinstincts of the youth, is now testified to bythe unchallenged note, sounded from Wash-ington' one month before the national elec-tions, that "The United States may be atwar by next spring, if not sooner." It istestified to by the conscription law, whichhas sense and meaning only as preparationfor plunging this COWltry into the world-wide scramble for Empire.

Prospect of Slaughter

Conscription, militarization, and verysoon a place in the very vortex of the im-perialist world slaughter-these are theprospects held out to American youth byboth Roosevelt and Willkie.

Last Wednesday in Cleveland, Mr. Will-kie made some vote-catching gestures to theoverwhelming anti-war sentiments of theAmerican people. But every word he saidabout practical policy, about what to donow, was thought for thought and almostword for word, on the same line on whichRoosevelt is not only talking but acting.If America is being dragged into the war,a fact now being generally recognized, it isprecisely by the present policies uponwhich Willkie and Roosevelt are agreed-80 closely agreed that Willkie quoted fromRoosevelt's own words to express thatagreement in his acceptance speech.

No, it is clear the American youth can-not express their deepest thoughts andfeelings against the disastrous war into

which they are being dragged, by choosingbetween Willkie and Roosevelt.

Domestic policy has, for both Rooseveltand Willkie, been reduced to the positionof "the tail that goes with the hide" of aforeign policy of war and preparations forwar.

Consider for a moment, the needs ofAmerican youth for education and jobs,which are harder and harder to obtain, andmore and more precarious when gained.Out of years of bitter experience and pro-found thinking, the youth of America,through their broadest and most representa-tive organizations, brought forth a programfor a minimum satisfaction of their needs,t?at they might be enabled to marry, estab-lish homes and become useful citizens.Th~y p~t this into the form of a practicallegislative measure, called the AmericanYouth Act. They estimated that it wouldcost the Covernment about five hundredm~llion dollars per year. They proved thatthis would be the most remunerative invest-ment that our country could possibly make.

(Mr. fohn Gates, Member National Committee, Young Communist League, introducedthe Presidential candidate to the nation.]

MR. JOHN GATES, Member National Committee, Young Communist League:

This is the second in a series of nation-wide broadcasts by the Communist candi-dates for President and Vice-President of the United States. Tonight, Earl Browder,General Secretary of the Communist Party and its candidate for President addresses theyouth of our nation. I am privileged to present a champion of America's youth, fighterin the great crusade to keep the young generation of America out of war and to securefor them jobs, security and peace, the Communist candidate for President of the UnitedStates, Earl Browder.

EARL BROWDER, Communist Candidatefor President of the United States:

Friends and Fellow Americans:

TONIGHT I wish to address myself espe-cially to the young people of the United

States, to those who have come to maturityduring the period of the great crisis of thecapitalist world now unfolding in the Sec-ond Imperialist World War.

You, young men and women, were borninto the richest country in the world, a landwhose wealth and productive powers wereequal to all the rest of the world combined,where scientific technique was highest,where the current boast was that "prosper-ity" had become permanent. Even then, ofcourse, half or more of the workers, yOWlgand old, had to console themselves withhopes, for their failure to share in the"prosperity," but the dominant tone wasunlimited optimism for the future. Beforethe present generation had time, however,to begin to face their own problems ofpractical adjustment to hfe, the great crashof 1929-32 destroyed the illusions of theCoolidge. Hoover era. Since then, ouryoung people have been groping for a newfoundation upon which to build their ex-pectations of life.

Came the War

The false dawn of Roosevelt's New Dealperiod aroused great hopes and enthusi-asms, especially in the younger generation.Then came the war, and with it the growingsuspicion among the young people thatRoosevelt was not dealing frankly withthem, that under cover of fine phrasesabout neutrality and peace, he was actuallytaking us step by step into partisanship and

Scrapping the New Deal

But Roosevelt has scrapped even his littlebeginnings in that direction of the NewDeal period, now long dead and gone. Heanswered the young people who urged theirplan upon him, in these words: "Don'tseek or expect utopia overnight, don't seekor expect a panacea-some wonderful newlaw that will give to everybody who needsit a handout or a guarantee of permanentremunerative occupation of your ownchoosing." Those are the words, and ex-press the thoughts, of all the Willkies ofWall Street who have fought with such bit-ter hatred against every social and eco-nomic advance, even the smallest that havebeen wrung from them by the struggles ofthe people. Today, Willkie and Rooseveltare united in telling the young people tolook to the army and to the munitions fac-tories for all the solutions of their problems.

Today it is the threat of war, of "na-ti~nal emergency," that is used to justifythis brutal and callous rejection of the de-mands of the youth. But only a few monthsago, before war and emergency had beenbr?ught to our doorsteps by the Roosevelt-WIllkie policies, they rejected the Youth~ct with equal brutality; then they said,It would cost too much money, it would

lead the country to bankruptcy and ruin,America could not afford it.

How is it, you statesmen and gentlemenof the moneybags, that a mere five hundredmillions to educate the youth and trainthem for useful work, would in 1939 havethreatened America with bankruptcy andruin, while in 1940 you rush to appropri-ate fifteen billions, thirty times as much,for militarization and war, without a singlevoice being raised from your mids~ to warnus that this is the road to ruin? EIther youwere lying to us last year when you saidour proposals for social expendi~u,res werethe road to disaster, or you are hiding fromus this year the fact that you, are :ushingus on the road to disaster thirty times asfast. The truth is in both these alternatives:You were lying to us a year ago, and youare also rushing the country to catastrophethis year. .

In this issue we find the explanatIOn ofwhy our economic royalists, the rulingclass of America and their statesmen in andout of power, are rushing our countryhelter-skelter into the midst of the bloodyworld scramble for Empire. Their syst.emof rule, the system of capitalism, ~ rottingand dying it is no longer working and

0' k aeai tcannot be made to wor again so as 0

satisfy the needs of the.pe?ple. So long asthey cling to the capItalIst system, th~ymust fight for ever-rising profits for the b~gcapitalists, the monopolists, the econom!croyalists. But big profits are eternally ill

opposition to the needs of th~ people, torational expenditure of the national m~omefor the people's nee?s. S~ 0ey are drI~'en,by the logic of their pOSItIon, to sacrificethe people and to drive i?to. the world war,speculating to solve their msoluble prob-lems at the expense of other people andother lands.

The War Solves Nothing

But war is no way out, it is only ~hehundred-fold multiplication of all the Illsof peace and the addition of new catas-trophes. b

The old order is dead. It can never eresurrected. Not Willkie nor ten thousandWillkies can take us back to the days ofCoolidge and Hoover. Not Roosevelt nor

thousand Roosevelts can restore life tolen . d . I tmoribund economrc an SOCIa sys emilirouO'h the violence of war.

Yo~g people, especially, are learning

to understand that beyond all their immedi-ate demands for the betterment of theirpresent intolerable conditions, there is thedeeper necessity to find a way out of thepresent mell6 to a new world.

There is no road back to the daye of pre-war capitalism, to the old world. There isno by-path to any long-term compromisesolution. There is, finally, only one roadto the new world which youth is seeking.That ill the road away from capitalism, tosocialism. That is the road away from therule of the oapitalist class and toward therule of the working cl888.

Capitalism is, and can only be, the own-ership and control of the national economyand everything that goes with it, by a smallclass of parasitical monopolists. That is theroot of crises, unemployment, and all thesocial ills of mankind; it is the root ofmilitarism and war.

Socialism is the ouly alternative to capi-talism. It is the transfer of the nationaleconomy to the ownership and control ofthe entire people, incorporated into theworking class, with the full utilization and

development ef the national economy forthe benefit of all.

Socialism haa been proved to be emi-nently practical. While the capitalist worldis falling to pieces, the great Socialist So-viet Union is forging ahead to prosperity,security, and well-being for 200 millions ofpeople. It is multiplying i18 national wealthat a rate unheard of in previous history, anddistributee its benefits over the whole pop-ulation. It is doing this in a hostile andwarlike world, without assistance, andkeeping itself out of the war through apowerful modern defense coupled with avigilant and intelligent policy of good-neighborly peace.

Not through Roosevelt nor Willkie, notthrough any party or policy that clings tothe profit system and drives to war canAmerican youth find its way to the brightfuture world which they seek. Only theCommunist Party points the way to thefuture. Only the Communists organize theworkers to travel on that road. The futurebelongs to the youth-and to Socialism.

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