The Washington times., 1936-06-25
BLIND JUSTICE
IN DECISIONS
ASSALED
MinimumWage Ruling
Draws Hot Fire of
Party Leader
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Keynoting-senator Alben w. Bark
ley, Robinson aSsailed the Su
preme Court rulings that invali
dated important portions of the
New Deal"
Robinson, as he became per
manent convention chairman,
shouted:
"Oh, blind and impartial jus
tice,. what blunders are COM
mitted In thy name! Liberty.
are thou both deaf and dumb?
"Canst thou not behold the
pallid faces, the emaciated
forms, the sweating brOws, the
trembling hands of millions of
women and children workers
who, by the decision (which
nullified the right Of States to
regulate hours and wages for
women), are left at the mercy
of those who have neither pity
nor charity for the oppressed
and the pOOr!"
Robinson also aSsailed the Re
publican candidacy of Governor
Alfred M. Landon of Kansas,
praised President Roosevelt for
taking the United States off the
gold standard, and defended in
toto the policies and activities OF
the Administration.
But his references to the Su'
preme Court interested political
observers most. It has been
widely reported, without affima'
tion or denial, that Mr.. Roosevelt
intends to appoint the Senate
majority leader to the first va
caney on the high court bench.
Bound to Go Forward
Mentioning invalidation Of the
National Recovery Act, Agricul'
tural Adjustment Act and the
Guffey Coal Act as decisions
which "have had the effect Of
slowing up recovery" Robinson
asserted:
"In spite of these decisions
the American people are going
forward.
1--WE do not regard the court
as above and beyond those fac
tors and causes which natur-
ally influence the minds of hui
man beings. ss
'sWhatever may be the just
basis of difference of opinion
respecting other decisions, the
bar Of the United States over
whelmingly repudiates the de-
nial by the Supreme Court Of
the power to regulate maximum
hours and minimum wages.
Everyone, including those
sagacious politicians who until
recently sought partisan ad-
vantage by praiSing our highest
judicial tribunal for upsetting
various features of the national
recovery program now seeks
concurrence in a plan to over.
come a decision, which, they say,
if permitted to stand will prove
oppressive"
RAPS LANDON GOLD STAND
On the monetary issue. he
stated:
Candidate LandOn's declara-
ton on the subject evadeS the
issue. Governor Land0n did not
dare advocate an immediate re-
turn to the gold standard.
Had we remained on the gold
standard the Government would
have been compelled to face a
demand for monetary initiation
which would have been ir-
reSiStible."
Maintaining that the Repub-
lican platform calls for inmedi-
ate balancing Of the budget with.
out additional taxes, by simply re-
ducing expenditures, Robinson de-
clared:
"To balance the Federal budget
promptly would be to terminate
at once all relief. Do the Ameri-
can people wish to deny all as
Sistance from the National Gov
ernment to workers who are out
of employment"
The Senator took issue with the
Republicans on war-debt collection.
It was the Hoover Administration,
he charged, that declared the
moratorium which made couec-
tion impossible.
The Works Progress Administra-
tion was defended as a sound in
stitution even though "some mis-
takes" and "Sorne po--SSics" had
crept into its administration.
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