Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1940 — Page 22
.
aw
5 :
* speech. in Indiana. he said he would vote for the Dow- people, Its passage gave no candiney Bill now pending before Con-| date and no administration a mort- | {gage on'the workers of America. No | “How does he know he will until man can buy the votes of labor. No true leader of labor would: try and
‘communities
‘ductions,
PAGE 22
G. 0. P. SEEKING T0 BRING DEWEY TO NOV. 1 RALLY
Bradford Says 500 Meetings Are Planned for Next Month.
Efforts to bring Thomas E. Dewey of New York to speak at a G. O. P. campaign climax rally Nov. 1 are being made by the Marion County Republican organization. Mr. Dewey drew an overflow crowd to the Butler Field House several months ago when he spoke during his campaign for the RePublican presidential nomination. Mr. Bradford told the chairmen of his plans for a vigorous last month campaign, with 500 meetings including at least one in each Precinct. He expressed the belief there are far more volunteers active in the Republican campaign this year than in any campaign in the last 12 years, and this, he said, indicates that “the tide is running strong to the party.” :
Robinson to Speak
The Young Republican Organization of both the 11th and 12th Districts will participate in the 11th District rally at 4400 E. 10th St. Monday night. Maurice G. Robinson of Anderson, 11th District congressional nominee and one of the organizers of the Young Republican movement in 1928, will speak. : The Young Republican group at the rally will be headed by Harold W. Geisel, the group's Marion County chairman. will be Miss Lucille Thompson, Marion County vice chairman, Robert: E. Brown, 11th District chairman; Mrs. Elsie Meyers, Greenfield, 11th District vice chairman, and Joseph Young, the Marion County group's colored division supervisor. :
Willis Ridicules Minton
Senator Sherman Minton “hasn't
cast a vote yet without asking the |tions “ ‘head man,’” Raymond E. Willis,
Republican senatorial nominee, said in a talk last at Columbus. “I notice by the papers,” Mr. Willis said, “that the little New Deal finally has permitted my opponent, Sherman Minton, to make one In that speech
gress.
he asks ‘Papa’ Roosevelt?” | Answering a challenge by Sena-
tor Minton as to where he stands bers.
on the old age pension plan, Mr.
Willis said he repeatedly had an-|tional labor relations act before it| nounced he favored a system of was passed—I was for it after it was Federal pensions on a pay as you passed—and I am for it now
go basis.
Attacks 2 Per Cent Club
collected by the Two Per Cent Club
in the last two years would have in agreement with me on this prin-
diligently and build one for himself.
Assisting him |S
result of a century of bloody strug-
tion of a simple fact—the right of men to join together—to bargain collectively for better hours, better
to the principle of collective bargaining by representatives of labor’s The estimated half million dollars |iree choice.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3 (U. P.).—Partial text of Republican Presidential Nominee Wendell L. Willkie’s speech at Forbes Field: The City of Pittsburgh stands for American Enterprise. Courage and hard work have built this city and and have manufactured here the sinews [of peace and war ‘I know of no more fitting place for a man to stand up and talk—frankly and specifically—about American labor. You workers of America—organ=ized and unorganized—skilled and unskilled—are entitled to know in forthright language exactly where I stand—and I want you to know. .. Abraham Lincoln said: “Labor is prior and independent of capital, Capital is only the fruit of labor. Could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital. And deserves much higher consideration.” : I stand with Abraham Lincoln, I have earned bread by the sweat of my brow. I know, as well as any man in America, the strong band that unites labor.
URGES PROPERTY RIGHTS
But this bond should not lead to war upon business, or upon property. |Because, as Lincoln also said: : “Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world . . . let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work
Thus by example assuring that his own will be safe when built.” I stand for a democratic society based on the bill of rights and a ystem of private property—with full rights to labor. Let no man, and no party claim sole credit for the National Labor Relations Act. . . . This act is the
gles—of the sweat and the agony of countless unnamed workers. It was, and is statutory recogni-
wages, and .better working condithrough representatives of their own choosing. It was long overdue.
CONTRACTS HAVE 2 PARTIES
The act was passed by the Congress, as their representative of the
sell the free ballots of his mem-
For my part, I was for the na-
I subscribe, without reservation,
All men of good conscience are
Partial Text of Wil
lkie's
Mr. Willkie . . . “Secretary of Labor is a man’s job.”
office for the second time: “I see one-third of a nation ill-fed, illhoused, ill-clad and ill-nourished.”
‘AMERICA—A YOUNG COUNTRY’
Well, what has been done about it? What has been done except to keep them ill-fed, ill-housed, illclad and ill-nourished? You might ask: “What can Wendell Willkie do about it? We've stopped growing. We have a static economy, We're going backward.” That's just what the New Deal believes. That’s just what it’s been preaching. And that’s just why it can’t make any jobs. In order to make jobs people have to believe in the future. They have to see America the way it really is, a young country hungry for more goods, more food, more comfort, more work. That's what America is. That's your - America and my America. But in order to have that kind of America, conditions must be such that men are eager to get
into business and start new enter-
prises. That means more jobs. More jobs mean more buying power and more consumption. More consumption means more production—and again more jobs. . .
LABOR CALLED PARTNER
. The New Deal has discouraged business—Ilittle business far more than big business—until today we are short—here in America—about 700,000 new enterprises. I am in favor of getting those 700,000 new enterprises started and I will get them started. I am in favor of encouraging business—not because it is business—
cared for thousands of needy per-|ciple, and I want the support of sons, Secretary of State James M.|no others. ‘
Tucker said in a talk at Marion last night. Had this money been diverted to
Complete and = unequivocal ac-| ceptance of the great principle of collective bargaining is, then, one of
“humanitarian purposes,” he said, |the foundation stones on which my
it would have provided old-age pensions for 28,475 persons for a month, would have cared for 36,390 penniless boys and girls for a month, or 24,283 blind persons for a month. Instead, he charged, the New Deal “chose to use it to nominate men favorable to the state machine, to finance a troupe of vaudeville performers or buy champagne for the national political debut of Mr. McNutt.”
'Lessen Taxes'—Hillis
At Spencer this afternoon; Glen R. Hillis, G. O. P. gubernatorial nominee, assailed the New Deal’s “oppressive tax burdens in Indiana.” “Lessening the taxes in Indiana would result in expanding the State's job giving industries,” he said. “Punitive taxes levied by both the New Deal and State Administration are driving industries out of the and discouraging others from coming in.” Pledging economies and tax reMr. Hillis accused the present administration of “reckless spending.” He said “90 per cent of the State Government departments will spend 99 per cent of their appropriations, even to the extent of buying large
quantities of postage stamps at the .end of the year.”
«
Stress 3d Term Issue
The 11th and 12th District G. O.| P. congressional nominees centered their fire on dictatorship and the third term issue in talks last night. James A. Collins, 12th District nominee, warned that the third term issue “overshadows all others in this campaign.” : He declared that President Roosevelt, instead of standing by the 1932 Democratic platform, substituted for it, “plank by plank, the Socialist platform of Norman E. Thomas, which marked the beginning of the New Deal plan to change our whole form of government. His 11th District running mate, Mr. Robinson, told the McKinley Club that “there can be no dictatorship as long as each member of Congress has the courage to represent the will of the people of his own district.”
CITES TOLL BRIDGE IN REPUBLICAN ATTACK
Mrs. Inez. M. School, Democratic candidate for Supreme Court reporter, charged that Republican state administrations “paid for half of a toll bridge, then gave it to k oka Rone SY cerrta to the bridge over the Ohio River at Evansville, half of which was paid for by Indiana under a contract with Kentucky, providing that the latter collect tolls until its half of the structure was T. pRid 107, Aedutic administration in our state can touch the hem of the garment of extravagance in comarison with the gift of a toll bridge to a neighboring state.”
SLACK, JOHNSON TO TALK The public is invited to the meeting of the South Side Civic Club
in the Garfield Park Community
House at 8 p. m. today to hear talks on the importance of civic clubs by City Engineer M. G. Johnson and L. Ert Slack. :
us
administration will be based. And I.will see to it that any selfish and corrupt forces that oppose collective bargaining will have the hand of the government against them.
‘NO STATISTIC TRAGEDY’
However, labor agreements have two parties—the employer and the workers. With increased rights to labor go increased responsibilities. There must be genuine and "persistent effort to reach agreements on the basis of facts, not force. And once reached, those agreements must be kept by both parties. In such agreements, entered into by free men on the basis of facts and in good faith, let us find the foundation for the great America we want to build—the new America —an America big enough for all of
Now I will tell why I think the present administration has let labor down. It has let labor down because it has failed to make jobs. It is honest and proper to say here that when the New Deal first took office we all had great hopes for it. I, for one, had those hopes, and I voted for those hopes. But all our hopes have been dashed on the rock of unemployment,
|In seven years the New Deal has
been unable to lick the problem of jobs. Today there are 9,600,000 persons out of work. And that's a quarter million more men than were out of work four years ago. when the third term candidate. was running ior his second term. The New Dealers have come to think of unemployment as the normal way of things. But this isn’t a statistic. It’s a tragedy. . .. This is my pledge to American labor. I will make real jobs for those who seek them so desparately, I will give those elderly men the one more chance they are looking for. And for young people I will make this America of ours once more a land of opportunity. On Jan. 20, 1937, the candidate
not because of profits as such, but because I know that such encouragement will put 9,600,000 men back to work. I am for proper regulation of business, particularly big business, but I am for having those regulations as simple as possible, as efficient as possible. Labor should be for that—and I think it is. Next to the objective of making our defenses strong—a major, vital problem that this administration has failed—and is still failing to solve—the biggest single American objective is to re-establish our expanding life, our dynamic life. To start that new expansion we need new enterprises. - But what else do we need?
-
CHARGES NLRB MALADJUSTMENT
Why, we need good relations. We must have good relations between Government and industry, good relations between Government and labor—and above all, good relations between labor and industry. What is the role of labor in an expanding economy? It is the role of a partner in a free enterprise. It is only superficially that collective bargaining is a means of adjusting differences. More fundamentally, collective bargaining is a way of -working together—labor and capital—to advance their common, their mutual, and their joint in-terest-—to a higher standard of living for the American people. I have said that it is the duty of the Government to protect labor and the right to bargain collectively. to have the right of collective bargaining about a job that it doesn’t have. . ..
URGES MORE CONCILIATION
But the administration of the act is another thing. Its administration has been condemned by employer and labor alike. The maladministration of this act has-been —and it is—one of the most shocking tragedies in the history of American industrial relations. The trouble lies, in the main, not with the act, but with its administra-
for a third term said, on entering
tion.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Oct. 4
30,000 in: Forbes Field: 1—Special legislation to bring
ing contracts a “provision for a using their economic weapons.”
5—Social Security should be
6—The Federal conciliation se labor board.”
forced, hoth North and South.”
Nine-Point Labor Program Offered Pittsburgh Crowd
labor program Wendell Willkie offered last night to a crowd of
the Wagner Zabor Relations Act should be tried before material changes in the labor law are made. 2—Lahor should clean its house of “crooked racketeers who have found their way into the labor movement.” . 3—Employers and workers should write into collective bargain-
4—The President should call a conference of farm, factory, labor and consumer groups ‘to tackle the job of ending economic stagnation and of preventing a common disaster.”
now enjoy it, and the Federal Government should be made solvent so that it can fulfill its Social Security obligations.
improved, and its work should be integrated with the work of the 7—The Federal Wage-Hour Law should be continued and “en-
“wield the big stick of Theodore Roosevelt 8—Federal Government activities in the labor field should be decentralized “because each locality knows its own problems best.” - : 9—States “should be encouraged to strengthen and improve their own procedures for the settlement of labor
(U. P.).—Here is the nine-point
about a “wiser administration” of
cooling-off period, a delay before
extended to workers who do not
rvice should be “strengthened and
Mr. Willkie said that he would . « . against sweat shops.”
disputes.”
But it does labor no good |
It would therefore seem to me wise, before materially changing the act, as many suggest, to change the administration of it.. This would require some special legislation, but that problem is not insuperable. If a wiser admisistration of the act does not produce the results that we all want—good relations between labor and industry—then changes would be in order. . . . First, and last we must under= stand that the real job of the National Labor Relations Board is much more than the settlement of the 10,000 cases that come before it every year. Its real job is to create a beter understanding of the possibilities inherent in collective bargaining. Its real job is to help people to work together; to strengthen—not «+ to disrupt-—the basic partnership of industry, If our democracy is to become strong, the men who do the work and the men who take risks must be meshed together around a table. When I am elected that is what an efficient labor board will do. First, the healthy spread of -collective bargaining makes it more important than ever that the Government be prepared to offer a high-grade conciliation service when industrial disputes threaten. The existing Conciliation . Service must be strengthened and improved, and its work should be integrated with the work of the Labor Board. Second, there should be some decentralization of Federal Government activities in the labor field, because each locality knows its own problems best. Third, the states should be encouraged to strengthen and improve their own procedures for the settlement of labor disputes. Fourth, and I say this especlally to those -millions of Americans who are not members of any labor union —I give my solemn word that fair minimum wages, below which no employer can go, will be established, and the law enforced, both North and South. And by fair minimum wages I mean just this—that as our economy expands, as our resources are developed, as our new industries get under way, I shall expect to see to it that our wage structures rise with the growth accomplished, so that the standard of living of all will rise with our increased production. _I hate starvation wages. I hate the sweat shops. ‘I despise any man who profits unjustly by those who labor. Against such a man I will wield the big stick of Theodore Roosevelt. \ Fifth, I stand for maximum hour legislation. And by that I mean that a limit, a ceiling, should be put on the hours: a man or a woman may work: A fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay. Sixth, I believe in social security and I believe it should be extended to those who do not now enjoy it, But I warn you that there is no security in bankruptcy. Your social security does you no good—absolutely no good—if you are paying it into a Government that will not, at the rate it is spending, be able to pay you back. Seventh, I will tie labor into the councils of our Government. For too long it has been -excluded from the council table—for too long it has been treated as a group apart. . . .
ASKS ‘COOLING-OFF’ TIME
»
Besides these specific pledges I have two suggestions to make, I think it would be very helpful
to labor's cause and to the recovery of America if labor and management could incorporate into their contracts, of thier own volition, provisions for a cooling-off period. A delay before using their economic weapons, Secondly, as I would have you freed from coercion by unscrupulous employers, so must you be freed from ‘the control of any crooked racketeers who have found their way into the labor movement. This is essentially a matter for labor itself to settle within its own ranks, But whether in office or out of it, you will find me relentlessly opposed to these selfish or criminal leaders who double-cross or exploit their own membership. These must be eliminated from all groups in America—including lahor. I am against exploitation of any of you—in any manner, shape or form. | : I want a free, strong labor, earn-. Ing a decent wage, working fair hours, under the right kind of conditions—labor, free and - strong— taking its equal place, and standing shoulder to shoulder with agriculture and business to solve the problems of America—in the American way. Ly) As briefly and as frankly as I can put it, that is my labor program. I stand for the protection of labor’s rights. But I stand for more than protection. I stand for jobs. I stand for free labor, free to bargain and free to work.
‘A MAN’S JOB’
When I am elected I will appoint as Secretary of Labor an outstanding and actual representative of labor. The job of Secretary of Labor is
a man’s job. :
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
&
Address
And the first job of my Secretary will be to bring about co-operation within labor itself, to bring peace and strength to the ranks of labor. To help labor with all the means
at his command, and to educate labor and employer alike to the ite meaning of collective bargaing. : And also, when I am elected President, I will immediately clear out from the Federal Government all Communists and their fellow-trav-elers. Mr. Earl Browder will have no accasion—or wish—to recommend me for a third term. And so, IT call upon all of the workers of America, all of the people of America, to join me in the good fight—the fight for jobs— the fight for production—the fight to unite’ America. I have gone up and down America preaching the gospel of progress, the desperate need for unity in our people. I have told men and women everywhere that the monstrous doctrine of class against class must be put down. Affirmatively, I say to you that the forces of America— farmer, businessman, and worker— must be geared to work together. Ours is the task to put to work the free institutions of free men in free America; to give the lie to the strutting bullies of Europe, with their doctrines of super-mern, slave classes, and subject races. I propose a triumvirate of labor, agriculture and business—one for all and all for one. That triumvirate will work together, each will see the other’s problems. Each will sacrifice a little for the other. Each will work toward the other’s gain. And then, then I know that there is nothing that can stop this wonderful America. This great dynamic giant. Nothing can stop us then from bursting through our present doubt and discouragement into a world of new hope and new hori-
DOWNEY LAUDS MINTON STAND
Praises Hoosier for Putting 0. K. on His Version of Old-Age Pension.
Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—Senator| Shermam Minton (D. Ind.) today] was congratulated by Senator Sheridan Downey (D, Cal.) for indorsing the Downey Old Age Pension Bill in a speech at Sullivan, Ind, Wednesday night. The Downey Bill is the Senate version of the Townsend Old. Age] Pension Plan. By taking such action, Senator Minton becomes the| first Senate Democratic leader to turn Townsendite. Neither he nor Senator Downey has any notion of obtaining action | on the measure this session. Intro-| duced by Senator Downey upon his| arrival here, the bill has never been considered by a Senate Committee. | It provides a 2 per cent gross in-| come: tax to finance Federal pension payments to all over 60 years not gainfully employed. Estimated payments are around $50 monthly, Senator Minton said. “Since the New Deal originated) old age pension payments, I do not! intend to let the Republicans steal! that issue away from us,” Senator Minton explained updh his return] here. ; No vote ever has been taken on the Townsend Plan in the Senate.| In the House, five of the seven Republican Congressmen from Indiana! voted for it and Rep. William T.| Schulte (D. Ind.) was paired for it, but absent. “Senator Minton indicated that he believes his -indorsement will help in an uphill fight for renomination against Raymond E. Willis, his Re-
{ |
publican opponent.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS "WOO FIRST VOTERS
Whippings Due For Willkie Eggs
. PONTIAC, Mich., Oct. 4 (U. P.). Three of five youths whom police said confessed throwing eggs at Wendell L. Willkie during his visit here Tuesday have been sentenced to be whipped by their parents. | Probate Judge Arthur E. Moore found the three guilty yesterday and told the parents if they couldn’t properly whip the youths they could have the assistance of juvenile officers. The parents told the court they could well administer the punishment. l. Judge Moore also ordered each boy to make a written apology. to the high school student body and to later make reports on their views regarding their untoward actions during Mr. Willkie’s visit. |- A fourth youth, 17 years old, was charged with disturbing the peace and pleaded guilty. He will be
sentenced next week and faces a possible jail term.
‘ The Young Democrats of Marion |’ County will match the ward by ward battle of the Young Republicans to 'woo” the thousands of new voters who have reached voting age since the last election. Ned Corcoran, president of the Young Men’s Division of the Demo-
cratic organization, and Miss Marie |*
Lienhart, head of the Young Wom-
en’s Division, have appointed rep-|;
resentatives in every | ward and township to get the new voters to
SAVIN
ANNIVERSARY SALE PRICED
Regular 30.00 TOPCOATS
3.19
New Fall, 1940, patterns and colors in smartly
styled Harris Tweed and hair cloth topcoats . . .
at a saving that's important right at the start of
the topcoat season. sleeve: styles.
Raglan shoulders or set-in
Ayreshire 35.00 Suits, Sale Priced........ 29,75
Topcoats with Detachable
Lining......... 29,15
MEN'S CLOTHING, SECOND FLOOR
ANNIVERSARY SALE PRICED
2.29, 3 for 4.75.
patterns as well as blue and white oxtords. collar types included. Super AMC White Shirts,
Our Famous,
Exclusive AMC SHIRTS
1.69
3 for 5.00. Whites; plain colors and smart fancy
All
Regular 75¢ AMC Shirts and Shorts .... §9¢ Ea, Regular 2.00 AMC Pajamas.............. {,69 Regular 1.00 Neckties....... §9¢, 3 for 2.00 Regular 35¢ Dividend Hose.u.eveeuesnee.. 929¢ Brown Suede Blouse Jackets.....ovcvce... 4,99 Imported English 6x3 Rib Wool Hose...... 44¢
MEN'S FURNISHINGS, STREET FLOOR
the polls. :
. a
An ARR AAR AN Is
3 I SEIN 000 NG
"Entire § ROYS
ANNIVERSARY. SALE PRICED |
including the yo
Entire Stock, Me
black.
ANNIVERSARY SALE PRICED *
Brogues with lei: = dle oxfords with « shoes in wingtip =
Entire Stock, 6.
Entire Stock, 8 by
Smartly styled I i
or regular weigh
Entire Stock, Me iH
aR a
7 Ye State Chairman said.
Y, OCT. 4, 1940
_KIE'S J0B
Inane, ~ Pointless, 's Declares; Cites Cuts on WPA.
eches of Democratic lead«diana this week have bris1 satiric quips at Wendell promises to restore jobs ss of unemployed.
:Democratic Chairman Fred i in a speech at Richmond ‘ht, described Mr. Willkie's ises as “futile, inane an BS. : Willkie says he can settle . iiproblem in two ways—first, #3ork for yourselves and secan employer who will hire
‘der what the 40,000 WPA who were laid off their jobs . i the Republicans in Congress o cut appropriations think | Ar. Willkie’s solution of their 12s.”
3d Term Critics ing critics of a third term, {on Ketchum, Democratic can{for Lieutnant Governor, said nking persons would ever to the Government being
“zing of the Republican poli“voked during the Twenties, chum said: * id not believe that we were y tradition to recognize the or pensions for the aged, asto the blind and. security unemployed and then sit by ch time as the Constitution specifically he people to secure a measelief which they needed im-
in all the new Fall styles, en's telescope styles. Light he ®ew Fall colors.
Fall Hats......... 4,35
4.35 red rubber soles . . . sad-
iar or rubber-soles . . . dressy aight tip styles. Brown or
r Six Shoes. cvo000 0 5.65
Eight Shoes......1,65
MEN'S SHOES, SECOND FLOOR