Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-08
.W0ULOCUT
R,R,LAB0R
TRIBUNAL
Anti-Strike Laws for New
Labor Board Asked.
by Harding
HITS CHILD LABOR
Harding to Call Meeting
of Governors to Aid
Prohibition
United Press STAFF Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Dee. SIN n
message that covered the entire
scope of domestic and foreign prob
lens confronting the nation, Presi-
dent Harding today laid before con
gress the most extensive legislative
program outlined by amy president
" many years. At the same time
Mr.. Harding re-affirmed and de-
Tended before the world the Amcri-
can foreign policy as developed by
his administration.
The Presidents S domestic program,
as outlined to the joint session of
congress included startling propos-
ais, among them being abolition of
the railroad labor board ard sub
stitution of a labor branch OF the
interstate commerce commission,
consisting of four members; anti
strike legislation to make decisions
of this new labor board enforcible:
credit and marketing legislation for
agriculture, consolidation of the
railroads into q few systems; an an
ti-chjld labor amendment to the
constitution. He announced thai lie
would call a conference of all gov
eynors on prohibition enforcement.
Answers Clemenceau
He answerc Georges Clemenceau
and others who criticize American
aloofness. To them Mr.. Harding
said in effect that America had not
shirkcd and would not shirll infer
national obligations nor permit in
fringement Of American rights
anywhere, but that this government
would not engage in treaties of
armed alliance or in any commit
ment where either council or an
assembly of leagued nations may
chart our course.
The President, in emphatic terms,
called attention to the duty TO up
hold the eighteenth amendment and
prohibition enforcement, declaring
that conditions relating to enforce
inent of the Nolstcad law "sayor Of
nationwide scandal, and denounc-
ing those who would break down
present agricultural productivity.
law which viii ultimately destroy
the republic He asserted that the
prohibition enforcement problem is
the most demoralizing factor in our
public life.
To clear up indefinitencss con.
cerning the responsibility of the
federal government and of the vari-
Gus states and territories IN cnforc-
ing prohibition, MIR. Harding an
nounced he would call conference
here of the governors of all tho
states and states TO work out "dcf-
mite policies of national aud state
cooperation in administering the
law.
Advises Farm Aid
Mr.. Harding tackled first the
farm problem, recommending, credit
legislation by enlarging the powers
of the farm loan board to provide
ample agricultural and livestock
production Credits
Linked with the problem of farm
credits, he said, is that Of transpor-
tation and he declared with respect
to it.:
1.-That the nation must begin
to coordinate its transportation IA
cilities, including waterways, motors
and steam driven vehicles.
2.-That government operation
does not afford the cure for trans
portation ills. cit was government
operation which brought us to the
very order of things against which
we now rebel" he said. And we
are still liquidating the costs of that
supreme folly"
3.-That railroads ought to be
merged into a few systems and their
equipment pooled.
4.-That the labor board be abol-
ished and four man tribunal be
created within the interstate com
merce commission as substitute.
5.-That anti-strike legislation he
provided to make the dccrees of this
tribunal enforceable.
Explains Foreign Policy
In promising ''board-minded use
of the flexible provisions of the
new tariff law, Mr.. Harding took
up foreign relations, stating that
the "Umited States does not con
template commercial aloofness nor
any other aloofness contradictory to
the best American traditions. - He
said the world should not get the
impression because America was at
tending to domestic problems that
it was unsympathetic or unmindful
of its international duty.