The Roosevelt administration is heading to the right, Rabbi Israel Goldstein declared in his sermon yesterday before Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, 88th street, west of Broadway.
“In the provisions of the New Deal thus far, several important elements which are indispensible to a New Deal have been conspicuously missing,” Dr. Goldstein asserted. “These may be set down as the failures of the New Deal. Nothing has been done or even attempted in the direction of unemployment insurance, public ownership of railroads and utilities, nationalization of banks, and substantial income tax increase in the higher income brackets. There is also the fundamental problem of solving economic ills by a more just distribution of goods rather than by a curtailment of production.
“I believe the administration is inclined to the left but that it will be driven to the right because the pressure from the right will be stronger than the personal inclination to the left of Mr. Roosevelt or of his personal advisors.”
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