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sets minimum standards below
which wages cannot 60, and which
establishes maximum limits of hours
beyond which no one may be asked
OF work without just additional
compensation.
have held those views for many
years. As a matter of fact, the first
time that ever went into court as
a young lawyer was with my father,
who was representing labor union.
am no last-minute convert to the
wage and hour law.
Would Insist on Enforcement
In South as Well as in North.
Our republican administration
will insist that adequate funds be
appropriated for the enforcement of
this law and will insist that it be.
vigorously and fearlessly enforced
not only in the North but in the
South as WELL
But besides protecting the rights of
those who have jobs, we must also
protect those who have been kept
out of jobs by the New Deal.
So long as unemployment con-
tinues, we must continue Federal re-
lief. We promise you that when I
am President no man will be taken
off relief until he has a job. There
is going to be no debate about that
and don't let anyone tell you diff
ferent.
Not only will we continue Federal
relief as long as there is any unem-
ployment, but we will improve it and
expand it and make it mean more
to the men on relief and to the pub
lie. In later speeches shall dis
cuss unemployment relief in detail.
Protection of labor's rights and
continuation of relief are funda-
mental to our Republican program.
In addition there are other protec-
tons to which the American worker
Is entitled.
Specifically, he is entitled to full
protection against the unfair COM
petition of the enslaved labor of
totalitarian countries. I want to
be frank with you. I look forward
constantly to the day when inter-
national tariff barriers will be re-
duced. hope that in the years to
come we can see the flow of interna-
tional trade increased. But 1t is
absurd and contradictory that we in
America, who believe in decent
standards of living and who sup
port proper wage and hour stand
ards, should permit the entry into
this country of goods manufactured
by the oppressed workers of the die
tatorships.
It is awful to read the newspaper
stories of little girls, 13 and IA years
old, working at night for two and
three dollars a week in the textile
mills of Japan. 1t is shocking that
goods made in this manner should
be sold in competition with goods
which are made by free men in
America and who are supporting
their families.
We can promise you that we will
resist this inhuman and unfair type
of competition.
No Compromise with Methods
Of Totalitarian Governments.
There will be no compromise with
these totalitarian ideas and meth
DDS, either within this country or in
our relations with other countries.
We will defend America from
within by giving our people jobs.
We will defend America from
without by making our national de-
fenses the strongest in the world.
The laws which guarantee those
social gains are not enough.
They can never be enough. A law
which guarantees you the right to
collective bargaining issof no use II
you have no job to bargain about.
A law which puts a floor on your
wages and ceiling on your hours is
of no use if you are not working at
all.
And we do not believe that the fu-
ture of America is limited to State
pay roll.
We must move in the other dl-
rection. Get out of the blind alley
of the New Deal and back on the
high road.
In the last 10 years, when the New
Deal has been telling us that no
further progress was possible, am
proud to say that our scientists and
engineers have been knocking on
the door of the future.
Within the last 10 years we have
seen a whole stream of revolutionary
new inventions.
The new inventions, the new in
dustries that we need are here. All
that Is lacking is the courage and
the opportunity to use them.
But we have not even begun to
reach the limits of expansion of our
older industries. Thousands upon
thousands of American farms and
urban homes still do not have cleo
tricity. How can anyone say that
America has reached the limit Of its