The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-10-16
NORTH DAKOTAN
is CONFIDENT Of
G. 0. P. VICTORY

Women and children whom hi
saw at work in the fields off Eur
ope, cleaning every stray head OF
grain that had escaped the har
vest, impressed him more than ever
with the inability of American in
dustrial and agricultural workers
To compete with foreign labor,
Representative Olger B. Burtnes;
of Grand Forks, North Dakota
declared at National Republican
headquarters in Chicago.
In the face of hard times in Eur
ope and the plentiful supply of CHI
cap labor there, with workers held
to much lower scale of living
than prevails among those engag-
ed in agriculture and industry in
the United Statesb this country
must stand firmly by the protec-
tive policy of the Republican par
ty, said Mr.. Burtness, who tray
elled through twelve northern and
western countries of continental
Europe.
'In may respects it would BIZ
impossible for us to compete with
the countries | visited" he stated
Particularly is this true in agri-
culture. | saw thousands of women
and children working diligently to
salvage that portion of the har
vested grain which would be left
10 the birds in this country. Wo-
men handle threshing and dairying
almost entirely. The United States
can offer neither comparison MOI
competition with the working con-
ditions we saw on European ia
rms"
"Cheap labor is the rule in the
factories as well as on the farm:
of the more Industrious countries
of Europe. Against that menace
we have only one recourse-a tar
tiff law such as was enacted at the
last session of Congress, with 6
flexible provision which permits
duties to be adjusted to meet new
destructive competition from a.
broad"
Burtness foud no basis for dole
full tales of widespread resent
ment in Europe against our tar
iff policy, MOST of which have
been brought back to this country
by returning Democratic spokes.
men, or broadcast by members Of
the same party who have not beer
outside the limits of the contin-
entail United States in some years
if ever.
"Such an attitude, if it existed
amang the people of European
countries, and particularly theii
political and business leaders
would be indefensible, since sew.
eral of those nations have adopted
higher protective scales than the
American Congress would dare ap-
prove"
eff the mouthpieces off the DEM
ocratic party are sincere, they have
confused official protests with ma
tional sentiment. The great ma
jority Of Europeans are too fair
to critisize us for adopting a policy
which their own governments have
approved on magnified scale. "
The Federal Farm Board is do
ing excellent work in improving
marketing conditions of specific
commodities, to the end that the
price to the producer may more
accurately reflect Tariff rrotec-
ton, Mr.. Burtness said.
North Dakota will return Re-
publicans to the House from all
three of its Congressional Dis
tricts in the coming election, he
is confident. Agricultural condi-
tions in North Dakota are far
from good" he admits, due to low
prices of farm products, but farm
ers are conscious and appreclative
of the administration efforts to
improve the situation and will not
heed Democratic urgings to vote
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