Montana labor news., 1937-08-26
RADIO ADDRESS OF
JERRY J. 0'(0NNELL
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man has been betrayed by those
whom they sent here to represent
them, while all this has been going
on, a small band of men, a small
group of Liberals and Progressives
in the Congress of the United States
have been fighting for all these
things, fighting for what the Ameri-
can people demand, a program dedi-
Gated to civil rights and civil liberty,
a program providing for political
and economic freedom for the great
masses of this nation.
We have fought to reform the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
We have fought to guarantee mini
mum wages and shorter hours for
labor, to abolish child labor, to put
an end to sweatshops. We have
fought for a general farm program,
for the sterilization of farm prices,
for the guarantee of a fair income
above the cost of production for the
American farmer. We have fought
for American peace, for world peace,
and for a real neutrality program;
we have fought, my friends, for an
adequate old age pension; we have
denounced the curtailment of the
WPA and the relief program.
We have denounced the Chicago
Memorial Day massacre, and the
cold-blooded murder of strikers in
the steel area; we have pledged
eternal war on the so-called Vigi-
lante or Law and Order" commit
tees; we have fought to protect the
American Negro from lawless groups
in the South and other parts of the
country; we have fought to shift
the burden of taxation from the
small working man and the small
business man to the entrenched
wealth of those who have been
evading and avoiding their real
share of the tax burden. We have
fought for an adequate housing pro-
gram. We have fought to secure
those detectives the American peo-
pie demanded when they gave their
mandate on November 3rd, 1886, and
for which President Roosevelt said
he had just begun to fight-in Madi-
son Square Garden on the Saturday
night before election.
Our little Liberal Bloc consists of
about 100 men, included among many
others are Coffee of Washington,
Bernard of Minnesota, Maverick of
Texas, Teigan of Minnesota, Boileau
of Wisconsin, VOORHEES, of California,
Leavy of Washington and Allen of
Pennsylvania and a few other Lib
eral leaders in the Congress of the
United States. Some are Democrats,
some Farmer-Laborites some Pro-
gressives, one or two are Republi-
cans, but we r all fighting for the
same cause. We expect in the in
tervening period before the conven-
ing of the next Congress to carry
our fight to the people of the United
States; we expect to carry that fight
to the people in the 1888 Congress
sional election and battle for these
issues against those red batting,
breast beating, labor hating Tories
in the Senate and in the House of
Representatives.
We expect in the next Congress
to fight for the program urged by
the President in the White House,
to fight for a program for the people
we expect to fight for a real, ade-
quate wage and hour bill, for the
absolute abolition of child labor and
sweatshops, for an absolute, full,
complete appropriation for the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board-that
the right of collective bargaining in
the United States may be secure.
We expect to provide a real farm
program for American agriculture,
for a program that will guarantee
them a fair income above the cost
of production, that will stabilize farm
prices-that will protect and insure
their crops from drouth and devasta-
ton!
To the unemployed of this country
to those people who have been
dropped from the WPA-to those
people who are not getting adequate
relief, we members of the Liberal
Bloc pledge our fight, our spirit, and
our energy to enact the Schwellen-
bach-Allen Resolution into law
which will provide that NO WPA
employees shall be dropped from the
rolls until he has been absolutely
absorbed by private industry; to
fight for an increased appropriation
for the WPA and more adequate, less
red-tape relief for those entitled to it.
And more than that, we promise
to the unemployed to present to the
Congress of the United States a pro-
gram of unemployment relief to
guarantee to every worker the right
to work when he desires to do so.
We promise those who believe that
America must never again go to war,
we will fight for an embargo on the
shipment of munitions and materials
of war, not only in times of war but
when it should be-in time of peace.
We promise to fight for the adoption