Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1940 — Page 17

THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1940

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 hand of the dictator has taken com-, kU. Py Following i h mand. Only in free lands have free! » I.).—Following 1s t labor unions survived. When union text of President Roosevelt's workers can assemble with freedom |

. . and independence in conventions) address to the convention of like this, it is proof that American | the International

Brother- democracy has remained unimpaired hood " ; . |—and it is symbolic of our determiood of Teamsters, Chauf-

{nation to keep it free. Feurs, Stablemen and Helpers] Yours is now one of ihe grea; inof America, inciuding the

ternational labor unions of America. You can remember, however, other major changes made during, delivery:

days—days when labor unions were considered almost un-American by some individuals in our land. You Mr. Tobin, can remember when it was rare in-| vention: deed for an employer even to con-| I : ie « +n, Sider collective bargaining with his am in a sort of a quandary to- workers: when it was the common night. I don’t know whether this practice to discharge any worker Is a political speech or not. I do who joined a union. You can renot know ‘because in these days if, member when employers sought to In a certain period of the year, you meet threatened strikes by demand-| refer in any way to things back In ing that their Government—Federal the days of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln or any other person in the past. including the last seven vears, it is a great question as

to whether you are talking American history or politics. And so I throw myself upon your indulgence, and the indulgence of the radio companies who would in one case be paid, and in the other not be paid; and I throw myself on the indulgence of the American pub- | lic. I don't know. During the past weeks, in several

members of the con-

can remember when many large employers resorted to the un-Amer-ican practice — still unfortunately | followed in some sections of the] countrv—of hiring labor spies and] setting up private arsenals to ferret out and destroy members of a union. | The cause of labor has traveled | forward since those days, over a road beset with difficulties, bota from within its membership and | from without. Your own organiza-| tion is an outstanding example of}

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President Roosevelt waves as he addresses the Teamsters Union in Philadelphia. Capt. Daniel Callaghan, White House Naval aide, is in the center, Daniel Tobin, of Indianapolis, teamsters’ president, on the right.

{ Which he said:

jin his report to your convention in human being in the United States contribute his share. This applies . { both to those who train in the fightSAYS LABOR CO-OPERATES | ing forces and to the forces of work- — ers behind the lines. \ . It is indeed pitiful and wo is eunally necessary and far , ; that every dollar of capital In [heartbreaking and seriously de- America also contribute wn share. pressing to find that amongst our just so long as we continue to cali enormous membership, composed of upon men to train for combat, and clean men, fathers ot Americans of the purest type—to find amongst this membpership some ' service which they can give. creatures so bereft of decency and| Capital and industry as well as honor as to bring disgrace upon the labor and agriculture are respondinternational union.’ ing and I take it almost for granted Labor knows that there 1s no room | that they will continue to respond. in the labor movement for the| The nation, through its elected racketeer or the strong arm man. representatives, is now adopting the, Government is determined to help | Principle of selective universal] labor unions clean their house of | raining of its young men. On the those few persons who have tried | Same principle, no reasonable perto cetray them. |son can object to giving the GovIn this great crisis has come proof ernment the power to acquire the that organized labor, as well as all services of any plant or factory for lother groups of our citizens, is/ adequate compensation, if the ownaware of its own responsibilities. I er refuses to make its services availhave called on representatives of able to the defense needs of the |labor to serve, and have placed them nation. This is nothing new in in responsible positions to take part! American life. The principle of {in the defense work of their gov-/'eminent domain or eminent use is ernment. From the very start, repre- as old as democratic government sentatives of labor, including your itself. It merely permits governown distinguished president, have ment to acquire or to use, for a fair shared in formulating and adminis-| and reasonable price, any property (tering the program. which is necessary for its proper

| also continue to call upon the indus-

tamilies, for service behind the lines, will we|

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of fear, as they have rejected simi lar types which are “occasionally” |spread at election time. They know [that against the raging forces loose [in the world the best defense is the [strongest preparedness—fighting men and equipment in front, and fighting industry and agriculture behind the lines.

WEAKNESS INVITES ATTACK

Weakness in these days is a cor= dial invitation to attack. That is no longer theory; it is a proven fact —proved in the last year. I hate war now more than ever. I have one supreme determination —to do all I can to keep war away from these shores for all time. I stand, with my party, and outside by my party as President of all the people, upon the platform adopted in Chicago: “We will not participate in for- | eign wars, and we will not send our army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas, except in case of attack.” Let us have an end to the sort of lappeasement which seeks to keep fus helpless by playing on fear and |by indirect sabotage of all the progress we are making. ‘‘Appeasement” incidentally, as I use it, is

the progress which has been made. dustry; decent maximum hours and | ularly for three years and eight [overtime payments for overtime By 1933—it seems almost like ancient.| days of labor have been set, to bring | months block labor's welfare, and work. will insure adequate working history to me—your membership had | about an American standard of liv-{then for four months loudly pro- hours at decent wages to do all that dropped to 70.000. Within the last|ing and recreation; child labor has|claim that they are labor's true|is now necessary in physical deseven years you have grown to a been outlawed in practically all fac- | friends—from those who love the fense. We will not overlook the

I am particularly glad to be able] i : : : : to say a the A Ye pn L.the C. 1 functioning, : : a polite word for mis-directed partiO. and the railroad brotherhoods are | The overwhelming majority of sanship. our munitions and other defense; In our efforts for national defense.

all loyally co-operating in this ef-| : v fort with the National Defense Com- | Fequirements are now manufactured ' fine teamwork has been developedand you Teamsters know what the

sections of the East, I have heen inspecting the progress of our national defense. I have gone through Navy yvards and private yards to

watch the building of destroyers, submarines and aircraft carriers; 1 have visited aviation units to see our modern fighting planes: I have been in great gun factories where I have scen the most modern guns of all types, swiftly being

membership of 500,000. In those same seven years organized labor as a whole has become stronger in membership, in influence, and in its capacity to serve the interests of the laboring maa i, f <oci ee 0 o molded into shape; I have visited a Youn on of Society by rani camps where young Americans are history. Much of this progress has receiving training and Instruction yeen done to the one thing which this employment. in the tactics of the warfare of 10-| Aqministration, from the very beday. Through it all there was the ginning has insisted upon—the asimpressive conviction that America 'surance to labor of the untrammeled is rising to meet the ever-growing pjcht—right, not privilege—but right need for an adequate physicalitg organize and to bargain collecarmed defense of the country. [tively with their employers. Tonight in a very real sense, I} feel as I stand here that I am visil- peddeq in the law of the land; it|of people who worked for them. ing another type of national de-/myst remain as the foundation of fense, equally important in its OWN jndustrial relations for all times. way in meeting the needs of the times. Enduring strength to a nation and staying power in an emer-| gency definitely call for an efficient and determined lakor force

our

mediation of labor disputes.

ling back to my first CITES LAWS OF 7 YEARS : I

The principle has the support to. through my service for nearly eight

carrying on the processes of industry qav not only of organized labor as | Years of Assistant Secretary of the > i p and my service during four

and trade. And when I speak of x {Navy x oo 4 .~* a whole, but also of hundreds of ig v a “labor force” I very definitely in-| thousands of decent. practical, for years as Governor of the largest clude those who toil in their fields ward-looking employers as well as those who toil in indus-|,4 OIA ry. Teamsters will be use first 10 willing to accept the principle of! assert that farmers labor too. | collective bargaining; but today I eee | ETIEVE. the Wajority of emploverst DEFENDS LABOR UNIONS |8ladly adopt it. ————enl And with that foundation, the Is Ryo. Yr have seen a series|of putting untrue electioneering no1 laws enacted to give to labor A tices in pay euvelopes in order to fair share of the good life to which smash the new Social Security Act free men and women in a free na- ang force its repeal by electing its tion are entitled as a matter of enemies. right. Fair minimum wages are | That kind of opposition comes being established for workers in in- "only too often from those who reg-

A decade |

20 a minority of employers were You will remember that kind of

opposition in the campaign of four years ago when certain employers, politicians and newspapers—all of whom are now active in this cam|paign—in an effort to mislead ana | intimidate labor, went to the extent

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It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic modern nation that it have free and independent labor unions. In country after country in other lands. labor unions have disappeared as the iron

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lon which is being built protection | from the hazards of old age and un-

This progress of the last seven {years has been difficult. It has been {beset by obstruction and by bitter; (propaganda from certain minority | groups in the community who had {tant from the object That | been accustomed for too many years eak— Brit Co : SL | seek—the security and the principle has now become firmly im- {to the exploitation of the great mass standard of liv

{labor employing state in the union.

| tories; a system of employment ex-|laboring man in November, but for- {lesson learned in Europe in past changes has been created; machin-|get him in January. ery has been set up and strength-| ened and successfully used for the|Vvast majority of our small business Over them all has been created a shelter | he or | of social securitv—a foundation up- | 831ns of the entire interdependent

In spite of that opposition the

men have now become convinced that the gains of labor are the

community, and that the welfare (of labor is indispensable to the wel{fare of all. They know now that [their best customer is a satisfied, adequately paid worker with a feel{ing of security against unemploy- | ment and poverty in his old age. | We are still, however, quite dis-! ive which w high | ing for every man, |

em. Itiwoman and child which the re(was the same type of opposition 10 sources and manpower of America (which I had become accustomed zke possible. {during my entire public career, dat-| election to the| |Senate of the state of New York 30| ‘OUR FEET ON GROUND’ years ago this autumn, continuing

Our advance has been accom‘plished with patience and deliberation. That is the democratic way; {that is the road which leads to last{ing results. Here in America we! have kept our feet on the ground: jour progress has been steady and! {sure; we have not been misled by |illusory promises. | Events abroad have shown too! {late the result of the other kind of methods—promises of swift, revo{lutionary relief; seductive pictures {of panaceas; short cuts to pros'perity and plenty, pictured as simple and easy—all of these have led to {the same cruel disappointment. |For these promises people yielded {up their liberties and all that made life dear. In exchange they have] received only the rationing of their news, the rationing of their religion, the rationing of the clothes ‘upon their backs, and the ration-| ing of the bread upon their tables. Our progress must continue to be | | a steady and deliberate one—we cannot stand still, we cannot slip | ‘back. We must look forward to | certain definite things in the near future. For example, the benefits lof social security ought to be! broadened and extended: unemploy{ment insurance ought to cover a larger number of workers. Our old-| age pension system ought to be improved and extended; the amount of the pension ought to be increased, and, above all, those pensions must be given in a manner | which will respect the dignity of the life of service and labor which our | aged citizens have given to the nation. ! | It is my hope that soon the | United States will have a national svstem under which no needy man or woman within our borders will lack a minimum old-age pension | which will provide adequate food, clothing and lodging to the end of | the road—without having to go to the poorhouse to get it. And I lock forward to a system which, in addition to this bare minimum, will enable those who have | faithfully toiled in any occupation | to build up additional security for] | their old-age which will allow them | | to live in comfort and happiness.

{ | | The people must decide whether | to continue the type of government | which has fostered the progress to | date, or whether to turn it over to | those who by theéir action, if not | always by their word, have shown {their fundamental opposition to the | main objectives toward which we | | have worked in the past and to| | which we are definitely committed | | for the future. { There are some who would not {only stop now the progress we are

making in social and labor legisla-|

tion, but would even repeal. what has been enacted during the past seven years—all on the plea that an | adequate nationa! defense requires | it. They would seek unlimited hours | of labor. They would seek lower! ‘wages. They would seek the cancel-| | lation of those safeguards for which {we have all struggled so long. I still believe, however, as I did { when I said on May 26th last: “We, | must make sure in all that we do ‘that there be no breakdown or can- | cellation of any of the great sociat | | gains which we have made in these | | past years. . . . There is nothing in | jour present emergency to justify a | | retreat from any of our social ob-|

‘PEOPLE MUST DECIDE’

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| assistance to agriculture, housing, {and help to the under-privileged.” Our mighty national defense effort

f against all present and potential

| threats cannot be measured alone in | terms of mathematical increase in { the number of, soldiers and sailors, or of guns or tanks or planes. Be- | hind them all must stand a united people whose spiritual and moral] | strength has not been sapped] | through hunger or want or fear of | insecurity. The morale of a people is| an essential supplement to their guns|

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I am confinced that a breakdown | of existing labor and social legis-/ i lation would weaken rather than increase our efforts for defense. Continuance of them means the preservation of the efficiency, of labor. It means the return to work of several millions still unemployed. | The employment of additional workers and the provisions for|

mission and with the Army and by private enterprise under private Navy. This co-operation in the task management. We continue that word “teamwork” means. of national defense will, I hope, en- Process. It is only in the rare, The continuance of this teamwork, courage closer and more friendly re- isolated case that the owner of a after the present emergency 1s over, lations between these great labor Plant will refuse to deal with his will have consequences of lasting organizations. Government in a fair way. good to the nation as a whole. It ? But if and when such case does will enable us to enjoy an internal arise, the Governmnet cannot stand SECUrity transcending anything by. helpless in its efforts to arm and hereinione know Bn: heritage: weiare defend itself. No business is above deeds oth all u Ro and I know that America will never Government; and Government Must | ight to keep it intact. The work= be disappointed in its expectation | %€ JFmpawered 0 Roa) adequateiy "in the factories, the farmers on [that labor will always continue to|ypont Government, Tc (©7158 the land, and businessmen in plants {do its share of the job we now face, | : . land offices are awake to the perils es ; | In all of these plans for national which threaten America. No selfish cluding the profession of the law to patriotically, effectively and un-idefense, only those who seek to interest, no personal ambition, no which I belong. | selfishly. |play upon the fears of the American political campaign can sway the I cannot add to the terms of In our search for national unity | people, discover an attempt to lead majority will of our people of condemnation which your president, as the basis of national defense, itius into war. The American people America to make America strong— my old friend Dan Tobin, included is necessary and it is fair that every will reject that kind of propaganda and to keep America free.

years. At times. internal obstacles to the growth of labor unions have come in those rare instances where the occasional scoundrel—it's a good word, old-fashioned—has appeared in position of leadership. | Labor unions are not the only organizations which have to suffer innocently for the crimes and misdeeds of one or two of their selfish and guilty members. The rule applies to all organizations, to all trades and professions alike, in-

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