Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 16, Number 50, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 November 1946 — HALLECK ASKS RETURN OF THE AMERICAN WAY [ARTICLE]

HALLECK ASKS RETURN OF THE AMERICAN WAY

Congressman In Lafayette Address Charges That State Socialism Has Failed America Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 29 (Special) •—Charging that “state socialism has failed in America,” Charles A. Halleck, dean of the Indiana Congressional delegation, tonight called for “a return to the American way of doing things.” Speaking at a Republican rally here, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, said: “The shortages and the confusion today can be laid directly at the door of those who have used a whole series of governmental actions to disrupt the American way. “A Republican Congress must institute a series of measures to counteract the New Deal’s destructive policies and to free the American people once more, under a system of fair and impartial governmental regulation, to go to work and produce for America,” he said. Calling for revision of present tax laws which, he said, “have become instruments of economic destruction and punishment,” the Rensselaer Republican declared that a Republican Congress will undertake to re-examine the entire labor-management structure on the basis of “a fair deal for both sides.” “A fair deal to management would give management* the right .to manage its own affairs,” he said. “How else can we enable the men with the knowledge of production to organize the work which means production ? “A fair deal to the workman would give the workman two fundamental rights—the opportunity to work and the right to join with other workmen to bargain collectively with his employer. “Neither management nor labor should have the right to use violence to force its will upon the other. Nor should either side be allowed to undermine and discredit the other without the regards to the facts of every case.” Labor problems, he continued, cannot be solved by “continued governmental interference with the natural processes of collective bargaining. “Let us call in both sides,” he continued. “Some problems belong to the participants themselves and they are the only ones who can solve them. For the rest, all we need is a fair set of rules, simple rules of justice which will bring the representatives of labor and the representatives of management together at the conference table on equal and reasonable terms. Declaring that “It is time for Americans to stop making faces at each other and get down to work.” Halleck said: “I do not claim the millenium will come Congress. None expects all our Congress. Noone expects all our problems to be solved overnight in a Republican victory. “But,” he continued, “‘the difference between the Republican approach and the New Deal Approach is that we will solve problems as we go along on the principle of equal justice and a fair deal to every American citizen.