Carbon County news., 1937-11-05

last session OF cOuSESSS, LHS SSnd-
ltor said ssthe desire to bend the
1 court to his will is still strong in
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The
! senator expressed the view that
needed reforms tscaa be enacted in
a constitutional manner. No one
man has the right to assume that
the constitution should be junked
so that his idea Of the social order
might prevail. .
Bridges said that zone of the
most important declarations of in
tent that the Republican party
must make it in the field of labor.
Labor cannot be said, by any
stretch of the imagination, to
wholeheartedly support the Repu-
blican party as such today. There
| is no reason for this except the de-
termination of the new deal to
feel a class consciousness that
should not exist and also to sup
port every labor proposal, good,
bad or Indifferent, that comes
along. I feel that a boomerang is
at hand. The new deal supports the
C. I. o. in some of it's more radi-
cal designs. The utter indifference
to the rights of property was evil
denced by the White house when
the sit-down strikes were prevail
ent. The hands-off policy when
United States mails were interfer-
ed with during the recent steel
strikes in Ohio and Pennsylvania
is an example, All these things
have soured the cause of labor in
the eyes of the public.
"I do not believe these sporadic
occurrences represent true Ameri-
can labor. I believe an intelligent
labor program on the part of the
Republican party would win for us
the labor votes that count, the vote
of the laboring man who has the
welfare of his country at heart,
the vote of the American laborer
who has not been~swayed by the
promises of bosses and racketeers
who are exploiting him for their
selfish purposes. I believe in the
arbitration of differences between
capital and labor. I certainly be-
lieve that labor should have it's
just share of the fruits of capital
wealth which it helps to create. I
do not support big business in
any attempt to crush the worker
under inhuman hours and at star
walton wages. I believe in the right
to strike but / do also believe in
the. right to work.
"Let us support a truly Ameri-
can minimum wage and maximum
hour bill. Let us support fair ma
tional labor relations act that will
give both sides to the controversy
fair hearing. The government |
must guide employers and employ
'es impartially. Each must deal
with the other In a spirit of COOP
Grafton and not. Of suspicion and
hate. Applying the philosophy of
Theodore Roosevelt, it might be
said that if the country is not good
for both labor and capital it is not
good for either. As q party we
solicit the vote of labor but we
cannot take contributions such as
were accepted by the Democratic
national committee from John L.
Lewis C.. I. o. affiliates. We must
refuse contributions based on a
barter of the functions of govern
ment for votes and dollars. We
must assure the humble citizen of
the United States that law and
order will be on his side and pro-
tect his right to work, whenever,
wherever and however he wishes"
In the foreign affairs, the sena-
tor advocated path midway be-
tween that of isolation and be-
coming involved in the entangle-
ments of other lands. In the Chi
nese-Japanese situation he accus-
ed President Roosevelt of taking
a page from book on the beau
ties of inconsistency, and added
that he should formulate a safe,
sane peace policy and leave the
beauties of inconsistency to 9TH
ers." ":.'s
To find the solution of this and
other pressing problems was term
ed "the challenge to the Republi-
can party, which is not dead and
is not dying" :ss%