{"value"=>"<p>Side A: Speech given at a dinner of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) honoring Franklin D. Roosevelt. Introduced by William Woodward. Fraser, a vice-president of ADA, states his conviction that \"ADA is more important now than it has ever been\" since its foundation in 1947, and asks progressives to work to rectify the widening gap between the wages of workers and corporate profits.</p> <p>Side B: After the dinner Fraser discusses with Manford and the press the inequity of mandatory controls which contain built-in mechanisms to control wages, but no such mechanisms to restrain prices and profits; government guidelines; cost of living provisions; oil crisis and the need for the government to create competition in domestic oil production; comments on the Progressive Alliance, and the need to reevaluate the relevance of the Socialist ideas inherited from the Depression Era; reiterates that his role in the PA, or any organization, is as president of the UAW, and that he can not make endorsements without prior decision within the union; although he is not philosophically opposed to a third party, he does not see it as a feasible alternative at this time in American history; questions whether the PA supports the redistribution of the nation's wealth; wants more competition between public enterprise and private industry; discusses the problems of socialization; discusses the question whether government should go into business; side-steps the question of his ideology, and discusses the future of the Progressive Alliance, and his role in it.</p> <p>; Interview with Doug Fraser. Taped by Manford for use in a comparative study of the leadership qualities of Doug Fraser, President of the United Auto Workers, and Eugene Debs, conducted for a political science seminar at Columbia. Also see audio cassettes 02826, 02830, 02831, 02832, and 02833.</p>"}