The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-02
LABOR SUPPORT
WILL Be GIVEN
G. 0. p, BELIEF
Statement Issued by Republi-
can Central Committee
Points Out Reasons.

The following statement was issued
yesterday by the Republican County
Central COMMITTEES:
Republican workers in the various
factories of the city have reported that
the industrial workers of the city will
largely support the Republican ticket
again at the election next Tuesday.
Harry Strickland. the Democratic
candidate for congress, who has spent
a great part of his time in Richmond.
during the campaign, and his local
campaign manager, William Haber-
kern, former manager of the Oakland
Wine company, have been bending ev-
cry effort to attract the support of the
factory employees to Mr.. Stricklands
candidacy.
Democratic propaganda which has
been prepared for working men and
which has been industriously circulat-
ed in Richmond, makes the bald claim
that only the Democratic party can
insure the workman that he will con-
tinue to- receive after peace has been
declared the wages which have been
paid during the period of the war.
This claim Is brazenly made by the
Democrats in the face of the fact that
the present administration has up to
this time, on the eve of world peace,
made no effort nor considered any
plans for the protection of the business
interests of the United States and the
interests of the American workman
following the war.
No Tariff Barrier.
Should peace come tomorrow Ameri-
can business and American workers
would find no tariff barrier to protect
home markets from being flooded by
cheap-labor made products OF devas-
tated, war-gutted Europe.
The only tariff law now on the stat
ute books is the notorious Underwood
free trade" act, and the working men
of Richmond do not need to be re-
minded what effect that law had on
the country the first year OF its opera
ton, 1913, just year before the out
break of the European war.
Richmond workmen remember how
industry became stagnated immediate
ly after the enactment of the Under
wood law, and how industrial paralysis
continued until it's revival through
the stimulent of war business.
Remembering what Democratic
free trade" did for the country be-
fore the outbreak Of the world war in
1914, and bearing in mind the fact
that the Underwood act will still be
on the statute books when peace comes
again, providing a Democratic con-
yress is reelected, Richmond work
men are paying slight heed to the
clamor of the Democratic organ1Za-
ton workers that the only protection
they have is to continue the Democrat
ic party in power.
Prepare for After War.
Richmond workers well remember
the prosperous times of Republican
protective tariffs, and, being men who
keep in touch with events, they know
that the Republican leaders In con-
gress are the only ones who have CIV
en- any consideration to policies to be
pursued during the reconstruction Pc
Rod which is to follow the war, for the
safeguarding of the interests of Amer
lean industries and American work
men. These Republican leaders have
realized that the country is now as
unprepared for peace as it was un-
prepared for war, eighteen months
ago, sa they are acting. The majority
party in congress, the Democrats, have
lone nothing to meet the grave prob
ems which are certain to confront the
country when peace is declared, al
hough they must realize that con-
inued delay in the consideration of
hese problems may be fraught with
erious consequences to the country
GLOWING the war.
Republican leaders in congress have
we'll realized that that war today does
rot mean merely the winning OF it..
They well realize that unless the war
means an improvement in the stand
ard of every life in America, that I'M
,ess 1t means better living conditions,
iner equalization of opportunities for
I'll and co-ordinated Improvement in
he common lives of 100000 peo-
Die, 1t will have been fought in vain.
{ it Is going to mean commercial de-
,ressions, business panics, labor up
leavals, widespread or justified dis
satisfaction among the masses as re-
suits that follow it, America will have
lost the supreme effort she has made