Evening star., 1936-10-29
Urges'Handful'
of Employers
Leave i. S.
WILKES-BARRE
MINERS CHEER
Tactics i'm Glass
With "Coercion,"
He Asserts.
(Terts OF Presidents Speeches, B-14.J
By the Associated Press.

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By the Associated Press.
WILKES BARRE, Pa, october 90.
Asserting a handful of employers"
were attempting to sabotage the So
cial-security act through pay-envelope
propaganda, President Roosevelt ex-
pressed the belief today that American
workers would not be fooled by this
campaign any more than they were
frightened by the Strong-arm squads
Of the past"
The Chief Executive, on his second
invasion of the State offering second
highest prize in the electoral college.
addressed his remarks to large, ap-
plauding crowd of Anthracite workers
and their families crowded into
Miners Park. He spoke from a high,
f1ag-covered platform beside his train,
looking down on the thousands
massed in the park.
Charges Coercion.
Leading up to his statement about
security propaganda he asserted:
mo employer has right to put
his political preferences in the pay
envelope. That is coercion even if he
tells the whole truth. But this propa-
ganda misrepresents by telling only
half the truth. Labor and fair
minded public must place such tactics
in a class with the coercion of the
strong-arm squad and the whispering
of the labor spy"
After cautioning to 'get these facts
straight Mr.. Roosevelt went on to
say the social security law calls upon
the employer to put up So to every 81
by the employe for old age and unem-
ployment insurance.
Three for one," he exclaimed
"There's the rub. That is what these
propaganda-s spreading employers OBJ
ject to. These propagandists are driven
in their desperation to the contempt
ible, unpatriotic suggestion that some
future Congress will steal these insur-
ance funds for other purposes.
Better Leave Country.
eff they really believe what they say
in the pay envelopes, they have no
confidence in our form of government
or its permanence. 1t might be well
for them to move to some other nation
in which they have greater faith"
In reading his prepared speech,
the President added politicians and
newspapers to the handful" of en-
ployers he said were misleading la
bor on the social security act
Paying tribute to the late mine
union organizer, John Mitchell, for
whose memory the day had been set
aside, the President said Mitchell
pioneered in his day for collective
bargaining.
Today" he added, Eve have put
upon the statute books the legal mech
anlsm to make collective bargain
ing a reality"
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers of America
presented Mr.. Roosevelt as the de
fender of the Republic and the cham
pion of the people"
After the speech the President
stepped back on his train as the crowd
cheered and left for Harrisburg, the
State capital, for his second address
OF the day.
In his Harrisburg speech President
Roosevelt declared he knew the Ameri-
can people would not return to power
those Republican leaders who he said
"emptied the national market basket. y
IT know that the American people
will 60 forward with those who are
succeeding in filling it once more" he
added, contending the New Deal had
filled the housewives pocketbook faster
than food prices had risen.
Before his audience surrounding the
Capitol steps, Mr.. Roosevelt asserted
the Republican leadership today was
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