Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Work" used to be regarded as a career for unmarriageable females, male fuddy-duddies and a few selfless souls like Jane Addams. Today professional social workers, headed by Harry Hopkins, are key people in Government's multiplex Relief-dispensing machine. When 3,000 of them met last week in Seattle for the 65th National Conference of Social Work, what they said, and what was said to them, was news...
...have allowed our system of public welfare administration to grow far too detached from the body of the citizenship who pay the bills and who drop their verdict into the ballot box." He urged that "the John Citizens of America" be put on relief boards, to leaven professional social workers and politicians...
Union? Because they minister to the laboring classes, Labor wants social workers in its camp. C. L. O. is out to organize 50,000 of them. President Jacob Baker of C. L. O.'s United Federal Workers of America (Government employes' union) sent emissaries to Seattle with a message saying: "Unorganized, these [Government] workers present a danger to the labor movement. . . . They will be sympathetic to Labor or they will be hostile and there is no middle ground." Mr. Baker's organizers found the social workers at Seattle about equally divided between: 1) Elders who regarded themselves...
...conception of Work Relief as a permanent U. S. institution. He defended the "idiotic idea that it was the duty of government to find its citizens work." "Under modern conditions of depressed purchasing power, this assertion of the right to work, the right to a job, is not visionary social idealism - it is simple economic realism, for it is the quickest and cheapest way to attain full economic recovery. . . . Our purpose is putting these people to work not to compete with private industry or to build up a rival economic system outside the limits of private enterprise. Our purpose...
Both these organizations are Fascism's spectacular answer to widely-voiced democratic criticisms that under dictatorships the masses do not fare well. Both were launched to replace the highly developed social and recreation programs of the now outlawed German and Italian Leftist labor unions. As astute Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels once said: "A government which really wants to penetrate the people must never leave the people to themselves...