Evening star., 1936-10-13
lauds Gompers for Keeping
Organized Labor Out of
Party Politics.
RIGHT TO ORGANIZE
SUPPORTED IN TOLEDO
Governments Duty to Protect
Freedom Is Pronounced.
Deplores Split.
(Landon's Speeches, Page A-SJ

BY the Associated Press
TOLEDO, Ohio, October 13-Gov.
ALI M. Landon, addressing Ohio's
labor vote in this railroad center,
said today that labor today has its
false friends" who in other nations
s'have already betrayed the men and
Romen who work"
Praising Samuel Gompers, organizer
bf the American Federation Of Labor,
for keeping organized labor from be-
ing destroyed by its socialistic
enemies" the Republican presidential
nominee said His wisdom kept Or
ganized labor from the great tempta-
ton to participate in party politics"
The Republican candidates speech
here closed his personal campaign for
Ohio's 26 electoral votes.
Backs Right to Organize.
Il am absolutely opposed to any
infringement on the rights of labor
to organize and any curtailment of
the right OF freedom of assembly," the
Governor said as he addressed a
crowd in local theater.
1T is the Governments duty to pro-
tect labor and the people in these
rights.
II, for one, am sorry to see the re-
cent split in the ranks of labor and
hope it will be speedily healed. The
great gains made by labor through its
organizations are in danger so long as
this division exists. Here again unity
Is requisite for progress and achieve
ment."
"OrganiZed labor" the Kansan said.
"in the SO years of its experience, has
made a distinct contribution to our
American life. It has achieved pro-
greSsive reforms for the welfare of
working men and women through evo-
lutionary rather than revolutionary
processes.
"Workmen's compensation benefits
industrial accident insurance, child
labor laws, minimum wage laws, the
right Of collective bargaining, relief
from the abuse of injunctions, reduc-
tion OF hours Of labor-there are among
the improvements gained for the work.
ing people largely through the efforts
Of their organizations.
Promises to End Abuses.
Gov. Landon, making his first Mich
igan campaign thrust, said earlier
that If elected he would solve the
relief problem and end New Deal po-
1itical abuses"
Concluding three-day Ohio drive,
the Republican presidential candidate
sped toward Detroit for the third
major address on his Lake States tour
and conferences with Henry Ford,
Edsel Ford and other political and in
austrial leaders.
His speech, to be nationally broad
cast from Navin Field tonight, was ex-
pected to deal with freedom Of en-
terprise" in American business.
At Sandusky, first Ohio stop today,
Iandon re-emphasized the keynote of
his Cleveland relief address last
night-that relief money must go to
those In need and not to the Spoils-
men who take advantage of their dis
tresS."
No More Votes for Bread.
Presenting his relief program at
Cleveland, Landon told throng that
overflowed the 5,000-capacity public
auditorium:
II am dedicated to the proposition
that henceforth no American citizen
will ever again be put in the position
where he has to sell his vote for bread"
Landon said this was "a broad out
line" Of the Republican relief pro-
gram: Get rid of waste, extravaganza
and politics in the administration Of
relief.
This first step in building an in
telligent system for handling relief is
to find out the faces.
THE Republican party, as a major
reform. proposes to return the admin
istration of relief to the States. 1t
will then be possible for the commu-
mites themselves to determine just
what form the relief should take"
1.-The Federal Government must
continue to give financial aid through
the States. We intend to establish
system Of Federal grants-in-aid to the
States