Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-18

NEWARK, N. j., September 49,
The text of the address delivered here
last evening by Herbert Hoover, Repub.
| lican candidate for President, Is a.
| follows
Real wages and standards of living
of our labor have improved more dur
| ing the past seven and half years OF
Republican rule than during any SIM
| liar period in the history of this or any
| other country.
When / speak of wages I refer both
| to those who work at the bench and
| those who work at the desk. Nor is
| this addressed to men alone. More
| than 100000 women march to work
every morning side by side with the
men. Steadily the Importance of wom-
en- is gaining not only in the routine
tasks of industry but in executive re-
sponsibility. l include also the woman
who stays at home as the guardian of
the welfare of the family. She is a
partner in the job and the wages.
Women constitute part of our indus
trial achievement.
wish to lay down the proposition
that the very prerequisite. the very
foundation. of economic progress to
our industrial and business employees
is full and stable employment. A con-
tinued surplus of unemployed workers
means decreasing wages, increasing
hours and fear for the future. To pro-
tect labor, to maintain its prosperity.
to abolish poverty, We must SO organize
our economic system as to provide a
job for all who have the will to work.
Full employment depends mot only
upon strong and progressive economic
system but upon the sound policies of
and the vigorous cooperation by the
Government to promote economic well
fare. Labor in its collective efforts has
contributed greatly to the maintenance
of proper wages and to improved con-
ditions of labor. But collective bar
gaining cannot overcome the forces
that make for unemployment. 1. for
one, am willing to trust the proved
ability of employees to take care of their
rights If there is employment to be
had. And our workers as citizens at
the ballot box have large part in the
determination of these economic policies.
Problem of National Concern.
The problem of insuring full work all
the time Is problem of national con-
Germ. 1t is one to which government
must give its attention. It is one which
government may contribute to solve
Behind every job is a vast, intricate
and delicately adjusted system of inter-
locked industries dependent upon skilled
leadership and upon finding a market
for their products at home or in for
elgn lands. The forces of credit, COM
municationS, transportation, power, for
eign relations and what not. must all
be kept in tune if steady employment is
TO be assured. A failure in any part
imposes penalty upon labor through
unemployment. Break this chain of
relationship at any point and the whole
machine is thrown out of order Close
down New Jersey factory because of
inadequate transportation or inadequate
tariff and its effect is felt by the New
Jersey truck farmer. Cease exporting
automobiles to South America or
Europe, and automobile workers are
thrown out of employment in Michigan.
The suffering does not stop there. 1t
only begins. The steel mills slacken in
Pennsylvania and Indiana. The mines
employ fewer workers at Lake Superior
And every farmer in the United States