Evening star., 1928-11-01

| came three distinct recommendation
requiring legislation, not single onC
of which was enacted into law. Indeed
| the Republican candidate in his Newark
speech again recommends one of the
proposals set forth in the original report
of his commission. but what he failec
to do was to tell the workingman that
as far back as 1921 this same recon-
mendation was put forth by him, but
he never did anything about it since
then.
Last Winter Democratic member OF
the Senate offered bills to carry into
effect the recommendations on unem-
ployment made by Mr.. Hoovers COM
mission. but the Republican administra-
tion ignored them.
Further on in his speech he speaks
about building projects and recon-
mends that these be carried on In such
way as to take up the slack in occa-
Sional unemployment. The Republican
party had q chance to do this in the
period when he admits that 100000
were out OF employment and, instead OF
doing it, they preferred to make q false
showing of economy and allow i'm
portant and necessary building projects
to which they were committed but for
which they had made no appropriation,
to go over to succeeding administrations
FavOrs Public Work.
7 favor the adoption of a Govern
ment program to prevent the suffering
and enormous losses of unemployment
To that end the Department of Labor
should be given the necessary approp1i-
ationS and charged with the duty OF
collecting accurate and comprehensive
information on employment in impor-
tant industries.
I favor the adoption after study of q
scientific plan whereby during periods
of unemployment appropriations shall
be made available for the construction
of necessary public work.
I also favor an immediate and
thorough study of the modern methods
of industry, to the end that a construc-
tive solution may be arrived at to alb
sorb and utilize the surplus human
labor released by the increasing use of
machinery.
The difference between 1900 900 and
100000 men out of work may mean
but little to Mr.. Hoover, but it means a
great deal to the army Of the unem-
ployed and their dependents. Mr..
Hoover is most generous in his use Of
statistics, but no amount of statistics
will support the family Of man who
is out of work. Take statistics into a
butcher or grocer shop and see how far
you will get with them.
In the course of the speeches so far
made by the Republican candidate he
has claimed credit for the Republican
party for everything of betterment that
has occurred in this country in the last
seven anG A half years, even to the in
crease in the number of children in our
public schools, to the number of
additicaial miles of electric wire laid
through the country, the number OF
miles Of highways although they are
built by the States, and the improve
ments in our educational system, al
though the Federal Government has
nothing to do with it.
I do not know just why he referred
to education in his speech, or how he
believes that is calculated to help his
candidacy.
Record on Education.
MY record as Governor of New York
shows that there has been no greater
friend to the cause of public educa-
ton than I have been. During my ad-
ministration the appropriations from
State funds for public education rose
from $9,000,000 in 1918 to $86,0o0,00O
in 1923.
Public elementary and high school
facilities were extended, generous ap-
propriations made for agricultural col
leges, and salaries to teachers increased
to meet tn higher cost of living.
I went further than the Republican
party was willing to go when I made
n 60 ofFort IN iY11TlrnUn .
ditions in the rural schools. only to be
met by Republican opposition sufficient
ly strong in a hostile legislature to de-
feat the proposal.
The Republican national committee
to my way of thinking goes the very
limit when they spend large amounts
of money in newspaper advertising In
an attempt to lead the American Ia
borer to believe that everybody owns an
automobile and that everybody lives or
chicken dinners and that everybody is
wearing silk socks.
The bureau of labor statistics Is on
record as declaring that it requires a
sum of well over $4,000 a year to pro-
vide a fair standard of living for a
family of five people. The National In
dustrial Conference Board made up OF
employers presents to us the following
data with regard to the average wages
in the United States.
Average Wages Quoted.
In the printing and publishing bust
ness it runs from $1,873 year in New
York down to $1,115 in Ohio.
In food products the wage runs from
$1,700 a year in New York to 1888 q
year in Michigan.
In lumber and its products it runs
from $3.50 a year in New York to
SI,24l in Massachusetts.
In metal industries it runs from
$1,615 in Ohio down to $1,357 a year
in New Jersey.
In December of last year both Mr.
Hoover and President Coolidge declared
that the average wage in all manu-
featuring industries Of the country was
81 ,280 a year or approximately $4.00 q
day. At the same time they made that
statement, they failed to point out that
the Bureau of Labor Statistics fiXee
$4,000 a year as the cost of fair stand
ard of living for family Of five people
The purpose of the advertisement, put
out at great cost to the Republican ma
tional committee, is nothing more noI
less than an attempt to fool the Amer
ican workingman.
MY attention was recently called to a
circular put in the pay envelopes OF
workingmen here in New Jersey, which
to my way of thinking is the most
despicable kind of political propaganda
so far devised. 1t shows picture OF
an American workingman's home with
a huge wall built around it described
as the tariff wall. Figure depicting
foreign countries are seen prying loose
the great stones of the tariff walls and
they are crushing through the roof OF
the American workingman's home. His
wife is fleeing from danger with heI
children and he is lying PROSTATE on
the ground. In the printed matter thu
workingman is told that the envelope
contains from 2 to 10 times as much as
he would receive for doing the same
work in Europe, and while it bears nc
imprint to indicate where it comes
from, am reliably informed that large
of fhnca circulars Uera maid