The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-13
Noven1ber 15 Session
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 nopolies and financial oligarchies." These he promised to end.
 He said his wage and hours pro- gram, by distributing jobs and short- eaing the work-day, should so in- crease consumption that production costs would decrease and industry would absorb "a considerable in- crease in labor costs" without rais- Ing prices to the consumer.
 Revive Battles
 Four of MT. Roosevelt's five iin- mediate legislative proposals-ex- cluding only further antitrust legis- lation-revive battles of the last congressional session in which "a democratic majority refused to en- act his bills.
 Describing his program as of inc mediate need and for the immediate future, MT. Roosevelt told the na- ton c few hours after he had called the special session that he wanted congress to enact legislation for:
 l. Crop surplus control.
 2. Proper land use.
 3. Reorganization of government departments.
 1. Minimum wages, maximum hours and prohibition of child labor,
 5. Stronger anti-trust laws to end monopoly.
 He said expenditures involved in crop control could bN made land the national budget kept out of the red" Request Not Repeated
 MT. Roosevelt did not repeat his request of Feb. s of this year for re- organization of the judiciary, but he challenged the courts on two counts, complaining that inValida- ton of NlsA and AAA kept many groups" on sub-Standard living lev- els and that legal intefpreta tions and the laws delays over Q period of years limited effectiveness" of antitrust legiSlation.
 Cautioning tho nation against tho deception of merely temporary prosperity" MT. Roosevelt explained that he would ask the special ses- sion Ito consider immediately cer. tain important legislation which my recent trip through the nation con- vinces me tho American people ifn- mediately need" He hoped the ses- sion would enable congress to avoid c summer in Washington in lo30, when oil members of the house and one. third of the senate will Do contest- Ing for reelection.
 The president said "enemies of democracy" would object that the geSSioii would hurt business. He argued that tho congress Is an es- sential instrument of democratic government" and therefore could not Do considered on intruder in national affairs.
 Human Budget
 Keying his chat to the theme of not only balancing the financial budget, but balancing the human budget" as well, MT. Roosevelt said:
 What you and I want Is such governmental rules of the game that labor. agriculture and industry will produce balanced abundance without waste.
 "so we intend this winter to find c way to prvent four.and- -one-haif cent cotton, nine cent corn and thirty cent wheat-with all the diS- aSter those prices mean for all of uS-from ever coming back again.
 ITO do that, the farmers them- selves want to cooperate to build ar all-weather farm program 50 that in the long run prices will be more stable. They believe this can be done, and the national budget kept out Of the red"
 RidlCules Manufacturers
 MT. Roosevelt ridiculed "big iianu- facturers" who object to crop con- trol as an "indefenSible economy of scarcity" He cited industrial policies which caused plants to close when confronted with other production and asserted that the two were iden. tical.
 "When 1t B their baby who has the measles" the president continued they call 1t not economy of scarcity but sound business judgment
 Sometimes I get bored sitting in Washington hearing certain people talk and talk about oil that govern- rnent ought not do-peopie who got oil they wanted from government back in the days when financial iri- stitutiong and tho railroads were be- ing bailed out in 1033, bailed out by the government.
 Tt iS refreshing to 60 out through the country and feel the common wisdom that the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
 Challenge to Congressman
 Tucked in the body of the speech was . challenge to those southern congressmen who baked last glfis fner ct wages and hours legisiAtion on the ground that 1t would rob the south of favorable wage differentialD in comparison with northern indus trial areas.
 The president said that busineSs rHSm agree "that no enc section Of the country can permanently bcne. 1t itself, or tho rest of the country, by maintaining standards Of wages