MAJOR PARTIES AIR VIEWS IN STUDENT UNION GATHERING

Discussing the political situation of the country from four different angles, speakers representing the Socialists, Communists, Democrats, and Republicans spoke last night in the New Lecture Hall.

The four speakers in the Harvard Student Union symposium were Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, lecturer on chemistry, and candidate for the Senate on the Socialist ticket; George Blake, secretary of the New England division of the Communist Party; David Stock, a Democratic New York lawyer and former special counsel to the Finance Committee of the Senate during Hoover's regime; and Henry Parkman '15, a member of the Massachusetts Senate who presented the Republican point of view.

Parkman declared that the Communists are seeing spooks under the bed when they say that the Republicans are reactionary. "The underlying philosophy of the New Deal is to raise prices by curtailment of production and the creation of monopoly under the NRA," he said, "while the Republicans advocate removing restrictions on business and by free competition get lower prices and an increased distribution of income."

"If the AAA is unconstitutional, so is the RFC set up under Hoover," stated Stock, the Democratic speaker. "The Hoover policy of giving aid only at the top to large banks and corporations is just what Republican philosophy of today stands for," he continued.

"Were I a Communist," he said in conclusion, "I would vote for Landon because after his four years the country would be ready for communism."

George Blake, the Communist, declared that the issue in the campaign was the choice between democracy and fascism and that the Communist party represents democracy. "Roosevelt promises all things to all men and is no real progressive," he added. He also attacked the Union party as the illegitimate child of the Liberty League, born over the radio and sired by Hearst.

Calling the Communists "our erring brothers," Coolidge attributed the non-cooperation of the Socialists with the Communists to years of experience of deceit, disruption, and interference by them in the working class movement.