The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-10-21
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gigantic armies of drones and
hacks. We are going to substitute
payrolls for relief rolls. We pro-
pose to encourage industry and
initiative to the end that smoke
will again ron, from QUIZ now
idle factories and bring prosper
ity in turn to the railroads, to
agriculture and labor"
We propose to guarantee to
labor the right Of collective
bargaining and to throw the
whole power of the government
behind it in the protection of its
recognized right. We propose
further TO guarantee. to labor
the opportunity to work in
private industry at saving wages
so that they will not be forced
to the degradation of public
relief.
1--WE Propose to Take America
out Of the New Deal Iron Lung
and Let ii Have Bre at h of
FRESH Air
I'VE propose to take the
throttling hand of governmental
bureaucracy from the throat of
business, labor and agriculture
and give to- them a permanent
breathing spell"
Mr.. Hallanan, supporting his
charge that the New Deal had
played politics with human
misery, said that in the first a
months of 1886, just proceeding
the primary elections of that
year, the WPA had spent in
West Virginia $10,383, 1922
and that in the same months
of 1887, when there was no
primary election, the WPA
spent only S7,944,889.18. He
called attention to the fact that
Senator Nicely and Congressman
Ramsy, in whose district he was
speaking, were up for renomina-
ton in that primary, and that
the difference in the amount
spent in 1886 and 1897 was
$2,38S, 303.24. "T his seems to
be a rather high price to pay for
Mr.. Ramsey and Mr.. Nicely, and
the two and one quarter million
dollars that it took to renomi-
nate them came out of your
pockes.
He said that in March, 1886,
during the heat of the Demo-
cratic primary campaign, there
were 5G, 433 WPA workers in
West Vedginia; that immediate
ly after the primaries this figure
dropped to 43,457. He said that
in September 1886, during the
general election campaign of
that year, there were 42,579
WPA workers in West Virginia
but in September 1887, which
was not an election year, this
number declined to 26,958.
To-day we are in the midst of
another campaign and the num-
Der of WPA workers is increas-
ing day by day. How long will
they be on the pay roll? You
know, know, not one of the
men now being put to work will
be on the payroll after Novem-
Der 9Th. Regardless of tn e ir
need and restitution they will be
cast adrift by the New Deal as
soon as they have served their
purpose.
THE victims of this cruel
political racket are awakening
They are beginning to perceive
that they are the guinea pigs of
MIR. Roosevelt's laboratory. They
know that out of every dollar
appropriated for them they are
receiving only Gle and they
know that the other 39c goes to
political bosses who are not in
need. The CCC boy has awaken
ed to the fact that Of theS1 200
appropriated annually for each
such boy, only $3.50. ever reache-
rs him or his family. What be-
comes Of the other $3.50? You
know whore it goes, I know, and
the CCC boy knows"
in 1886 the National Steel
corporation (of which the Weir
ton Steel co is a part paid in
taxes S294.45 for each and every
oDc Of it's 1898 EMPLOYEES. In
1887 it paid S495.87 for each
onc Of its employees. The tax
of this company almost |
doubled in a single year, and whoi
2a'd 1t? It came out of the |
SWEAT OF LABOR and came |
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