Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-10-23

'Nitub hoNu lucI FORCE OF employees. !
This aroused a good deal Of indigna- /
ton and Il was the cause given by
your Democratic Senator at Wash |
ington for the shortness OF employ |
ment as late as the month of July.
Democrats Cause Depression.
I'VE nov hear your other Demo-
cratic representative at Washington.
my opponent. stating that this is due
to the war in Europe. Surely the
comparison will show you the utter
fallacy OF their claims. Great stress
is laid on the European war and our
! opponents clutch at II frantically in
an effort to convince the American
/ people that this war Is responsible
for the lack of employment and for
the hard times. Therefore, we have
them admitting by the excuses they
offer that hard times are here, but
the people do not have to be re-
minded OF that state of affairs. My
! Democratic opponent I'm his Play
house speech made the statement
that the European war has caused a
slackness OF work among the car
builders in this city because their
products were no longer sold in the
nations at war. The facts are that
the car builders In Wilmington do
not supply Europe with cars. The
/ Harlan and Hollingsworth Corpora
ton. to which he referred, has never
sold a car or a coach in Europe. The
same may practically be said about
the Jackson and sharp plant now
known as the American Car and
Foundry Company. How then can
the war in Europe affect the build
ing of cars in the various plants do
, ing this character OF work in VIII
, mington? You certainly are not 60
ing 10 stand for the assertion of our
opponents and believe Il.
"The truth of the matter is that the
domestic car market is at a stand
still due TO the stagnation in bust
ness which is being held up by the
attitude of the party in power, and
this alone will explain why some Of
our plants to which my Democratic
opponents referred are not building
cars.
Workmen Lose Employment.
my opponent, in speaking at The
Playhouse meeting the other evening"
made the statement that the shipyards
in the city of Wilmington. and parti-
cularly that the Harlan & Hollings-
worth Corporation, land / mention
their name because he did we're idle
b because of the war in Europe. He
g said that the warning nations we're
not buying vessels for mercantile or
peaceful purposes. but were buying
'' war boats. Does he not know that none
@ of the warning nations In Europe, and
in fact. none of the nations in Eu-
I, rope come to this country to purchase
their mercantile ships? With respect
4, to our local firm. does he not know
" that the Harlan q Hollinesworth Cor
poration has never built mercantile
I'd ship for a foreign country? The sam,
D. may be said about the Pussy & Jones
Company. one of the local shipyard
"a he undoubtedly referred to In thi
city In fact the only ships purchase,
by foreign countries in this countr,
have BEEN war boats. and Turkey. Ar
gentine Japan. Russia and China ar,
the only nations that have come Il
this country for battle ships. How
then does the war in Europe affect on
local shipyards? Looking more close
ly at our local shipyards, the Harlan
q Hollingsworth Corporation-let m,
state TO you today-are employing on
- ly SIS men, from the president dow
- to the lowest laborer; 262 of these ar
engaged in outside work; Ga on con
struction, and the rest in the organi
cation of the firm. Their averag
payroll was 1000 people. and thei
high-water mark has been $500. bot
figures In Republican times. This /
one OF the firms 20 which our JUNO
Senator referred. and to which hav
referred earlier in the evening Slac
work and the statement of Mr.. Sauls
bury, that the manufacturers wer
purposely cutting down, came befor
the European war had been seized VI
on by our opponents as an excuse 70
the situation existing in this countr
today
Il am not going 10 talk you I
III death about that Playhouse meetin
which the Democratic party held tn
other evening. but what I have sal
heretofore has been in reference I
the Democratic Senator and RepreseI
tatiye al Washington and I have lal
particular stress on a few remark
Il Of my opponent because as I listene
20 his speech II gave me the impre,
sion that he had been misinforme
or was misleading the people whe
he referred 70 the ship yards and
the car builders of this city as he di
There we're two other gentlemen
The Playhouse that night whom n
III democratic party imported and viii
n they made excellent speeches from