Evening star., 1936-02-03
EARLE ELAUDS N.R.A.
IN TALK TO MINERS
Says Recovery Act Was
Greatest Ever Written
on Statute Books.

Almost continually tHfougnout
history of labor Organization has
run controversy OF industrial us.
craft unioniSn,. Outstanding cham
ptons OF tDo schools are John l..
Lepis and United Mine Workers
as opposed to William Green and
A. F. OF L.
Favoring single union for entire
industry, rather than separate
groups for individual crafts, LeiDis
and U. M. w. threatened last
ipeek to discontinue a1iliation ,Oith
A. F. OF L.
Describing the outlawed national
recovery act as the greatest law ever
written upon the statute books Of the
American Republic" Gov. George H.
Earle of Pennsylvania today told the
United Mine Workers of America
that demonstrations or not, the
principles it established must and
will be followed by America in the
days to come"
Earle, a Democrat and great IA
vorite with the miners, hundreds Of
thousands of whom work in the fields
of the Keystone State, received a
great ovation from the 100 delegates
when he entered Constitution Hall,
where the national convention is being
held.
I'VE want no hypocritical pretense
that industry and business will regu-
lats themselves" he said. "You know
and I know that big business cele-
brated the death of N. r. A. by slash
ing wages, cutting pay rolls. increas-
ing hours. laying of workers: with
regulation they have gone back to
the same old evil ways that led us
to the terrible collapse OF 1929"
"Suffered by Lack of Order"
Emphasizing "the States individually
cannot regulate business and the Fed
eral Government must" Earle added
I'VE have seen and we have suffered
from the effects Of unregulated and
uncontrolled production in America
It means brutally long hours and
starvation wages for workers. 1t means
the Cutting Of American markets with
articles the people have no money to
buy. It meant a desperate attempt
under the Hoover administration to
dump American products into the
clogged channels of foreign trade"
Earle told the mine workers that the
liberal democracy of Pennsylvania is
fighting to carry the State for Roose-
welt in November
For many. many years." ne said
G%ba NEovuo oy,d t1,c AfollOpc opI he
du Ponts-these men who ride in the
private railroad cars-have had fair
play. Now, for the first time in many,
many years. under the able. honest
and dynamic leadership of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, let us give fair play
to the American men, women and
children who ride in the day coaches. "
. In an attitude of tense expectancy,
the mine workers awaited the appear
ance on the speakers platform late
this afternoon of William Green, presi-
dent Of the American Federation of
Labor, with whom their own leader
ship is at loggerheads.
Green Promises Direct Talk.
Confronted with a threat from the
Mine Workers to withdraw from the
Federation over the industrial-versus-
craft unionlsm issue. Green has prom
ised4he Will not "mince words" in dis
cusstng the breach. Just back from a
meeting Of the A. F. of L. Executive
Council In Miami, which told John
L. Lewis. n esident of the Mine Work.
ers, and the heads of seven other
International unions to disband their
committee. which Is advocating one
big ul1ion ir the s-production in
dustries, rather than separate unions
for individual crafts, Green evidenced
dispieasure at the turn the convention
here has taken.
y The Federation chief is a member
cf the Mine Workers, and one union,
In Fayette City, Pa has presented a
resolution that would provide for his
recall as delegate to the A. F. of l..
The Resolutions Committee, however,
y bringing in an unfavorable report
on this.
- The trouble is drawing wide atten-
ton. In Boston yesterday Edward F.
McGladv. Assistant Secretary of La
Dor, who formerly was an organizer
for the A F. of L., said that from it
hasrcmerged labor's most critical sit
tation in so years."