The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-31
WAR ON NEW
 DEAL IS URGED
Senator Bridges, N. H., Calls For "DeCentraliza=
 ton of Government"

Bangor, Me, March 31-(UP)-U. s. Senator H. Styles Bridges today urged the Republican party to adopt decentralization of government" as its war cry in the 1888 congressional campaigns.
 The New Hampshire senator, a potential Republican presidential candidate, declared open season on the New Deal and demanded that the nation "once and for all put an end to what may truthfully be called Roosevelt constitutional tyranny"
 Addressing the Republican state convention, he proposed 10-plank platform:
 1. Take the federal government out of competition with industry.
 2. Reform the federal tax struc- ture.
 3. Amend the social security act. 4. Legislate minimum wages and maximum hours.
 5. Amend the National Labor Re- | lations act.
 6. Drastically modify the neutral 1 ity law.
 7. Provide an adequate army, navy and air force to protect Amer ican territory and lives.
 8. Legislate the profits out of war.
 9. Give American products first consideration in the American mar ket.
 10. Return the administration of relief to the several states and mu- nicipalities.
 Bridges pictured decentralization of the federal government as "the first step to recovery, the first step to economic sanity, the first on the path to the American type of free- dom."
 with decentralization as a key stone," he said, i've Republicans can formulate safe, honest, courageous program-a program that has appeal to all thinking Americans"
 Turning to the tax structure, he urged that processing taxes be thrown overheard and the profit system be returned to sane level. He believed that the senate was working out 0 decent tax bill" de- spite the threat of administration spokesmen that the president will veto the bii! if certain pet reform features are altered"
 While commenting the objectives of the social security law, he argued that 1t should be amended to include farmers and general workers now exempt.
 "The greatest fraud that is being perpetrated by the New Deal today is the spending of social security trust funds to pay current ex- penses," he contended, demanding that administration of the law be placed on pay-as-you-go basis.
 Bridges accused the administra- ton of fostering "sit-down strikes, destruction of property, fighting and pickering between rival unions and all manner of labor upheaval."
 He believed the Republican party policy should be ito harmonize and to bring labor and industry into closer agreement for their mutual benefit and the general advantage of the country as a whole"
 Though upholding the objectives of the National Labor Relations law, he charged that present provi- sions of the law cause dissension and strikes. He accused its admins trators of prosecuting employers and siding with one great labor union against another.
 Turning to foreign relations, he recommended more workable and positive" neutrality law and charged that the presidents "good neighbor" policy of reciprocal trade agreements was forcing American industry to curtail production, bring ing unemployment mad threatening the American standard of living through importation of cheap for eign products.
 Bridges predicted that "a whole sale, one-sided election this year . .. means the end of America as the people of our generation have known it."
 "The recent spectacle of the pres ident of the United States going completely outside his jurisdiction and holding drumhead trial of the chairman of one of the federal in- dependent commissions is mere ly a forerunner of what may be ex- pected in the future if the majority of the people passively submit to such executive usurpation of power"