The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-29
ALLENGES EGAN END0RS RSEMENT
Gormley Doubts
 If Goss Has <
 Vote Of Labor
Claims National President Greens Statment Leaves Status ''of Delivered Support" in Doubt -Brook- lyn Rally Rings With Several Speeches

r
 win Manufacturing Co, has gone so
 far as ito increase wages when it
 has been possible to do so, and that
 this Is especially true when men
 work for weeks ,and in some cases
 months, have later been rehired?
 It is not necessary that I mention
 Mir Goss is well acquainted with it.
 "Congressmen Lonergan and
 Congressman Tierney, both demo-
 crats, have received the frank, open
 endorsement of the American Fed
 eration of Labor. TO warrant the
 approval of organized labor, 1t is
 safe to say that they showed in
 their actions at Washington that
 they stood firmly by all labor legts-
 lation. They received their award
 in the form of unquesttonable en-
 dorsement. Mir Goss has not, and
 the reason, think, is obvious. He
 still shouts for the support of
 Herbert Hoover and all republican
 candidates on the theory that a
 still higher protective tariff is ne-
 cessary to insure the future pros- 4
 tinctly a protectionist, but protec-
 ton, to my mind, does not mean d. tariff that has been chiefly instru-
 mental in bringing about a condi-
 ton wherein more than eleven mill lion people are unemployed; pro- lection does not mean a condition bordering closely on starvation, dis
 enlargement, despair and unhappi- ness; protection does not mean a
 bread line extending from coast to coast. Protection, as I see it. can
 be summed up as that sort of legis- lation that provides a job at q fair wage for every man and woman compelled by, circumstances to la.
 bor for living. It is that sort of | Legislation that means food, cloth ing, shelter and the securing of the common necessities of life in
 accordance with the standard of the average American family. It is protection. of this kind that the
 democratic party will endeavor to
 bring about in the event of it's suc- cess on November 9th.
 'hTe democratic platform is clear and understandable. We pro- pose to do our utmost to write that
 kind of tariff that will immedi- ately restore our great foreign trade and facilitate exchange.
 There Is one thing further to which I would call your attention. You will remember that in his speech of acceptance as the repub- lican nominee for congress on Oc- tober 24, he stated substantially as follows: will stand for reelection entirely upon the, record m have It is my intention of having my
 made during my career in congress. entire voting record published Tn all the newspaper in this city, and I will leave the people to. judge for themselves whether or not should
 be returned to Washington Well, that was more than five weeks ago, and as yet we have failed to sec the published record of Mir Goss. .a Tn connection with the Recon
 struction Finance Corporation, a vote was taken on July IA, 1882, as
 house journal, wherein it was pro- will be found on page 16 838 of the posed that the Reconstruction Fi-
 nance Corporation be compelled to
 file monthly statements of loans with clerk of house and secretary
 
 terest charged. The purpose of this
 country full and complete infor- bill was to give the people of the nation as to who was getting the money in the form of loans from the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration, and to let us know the rate of interest on these loans. The bill was passed by q vote of 172 to 15O., We find Mir Goss voting with the minority, No.
 My opponent still has approxi- mately ten days to explain the things I have mentioned. Thus far
 he has failed to answer any single
 statement I have made in regard to the nfanner in which he recon ciles a continuance. of the republi- can, party in power, with the con ditions as they exist to-day: he has yet to state his position on old age pensions, and to cite a specific in- stance wherein he has taken any action to bring about, the possibility of an old age pension law in the state of Connecticut. He has as yet failed to mention bill now pend- ing in congress known as the Lud-
 low bill. the passage. of which will bring about federal aid and finan- cial contribution to those states
 wherein old age pension legislature may be enacted. II have specifically charged, in
 many addresses, the fact that
 through the policies of the rcpubli-
 can administration, this condition or unemployment has especially af- fected our own community. and to
 date he has failed to prove the con- trary, He recently made an amaz- ing staetmcnt. in my home town of Naugatuck, when certain conditions
 were brought to his attention clearly indicating that because of the republican policies the rubber industry in Naugatuck was In a very precarious position. When told ' of these conditions he said that he would look into the matter when he returned to Washington. Is 1t now that he learns for the first time that for many months. rub Der products of Japan and Czecho- Slovakia have been dumped into America? Is it now that for the first time he has decided to give this question some attention? Has his time been so occupied with the protection CD .of other indutries that he has failed to realize the fact that the rubber industry in this country is in a position of jeop-
 ardy? Truly, 1t seems to me my opponent has many explanations to
 make between now and November 8, if he proposes, as he said in his speech of acceptance, to stand on
 his record and accomplishments as a member of the house of repre-
 sentatives."s
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