Evening star., 1940-09-12

the Chief Executive declared, "and
for service behind the lines, will we
also continue to call upon the in
dustrial plants of the Nation for the
service which they can give.
No business is above its govern
ment and government should be
empowered to deal adequately with
any business which tries to rise
above its government"
CAS- reported out by conferees
last night, the CONSUMPTION bill
contains provision for Govern
nent rental of "recalcitrant"
manufacturing facilities in time
of public danger"-a modiflca-
ton of the proposal on which
Wendell Willkie demanded a
presidential expression and on
which he took varying positions
himSelf0
There was particular appeal to
labor, too, when Mr.. Roosevelt re-
marked at the cooperation in the
current defense effort from the
A. F. of L, the c. I. o. and the
Railroad Brotherhoods, and added
significantly that it is his hope
that there will result therefrom
"closer and more friendly relations
between these great labor organi-
cations"
And there was attentiveness as
he quoted their own president,
Daniel J. Tobin, to the effect that
"it is indeed pitiful and heart
breaking and seriously depressing
"'' to find among their member
ship some creatures so bereft OF
decency and honor as to bring dis
grace upon the international union"
Labor knows that there is no
room in the labor movement for
the racketeer or the strong-arm
man Mr.. Roosevelt continued.
Government is determined to help
labor unions clean their house of
those few persons who have betrayed
them"
Raps at Willkie.
Continuing his studied policy OF
not mentioning the name Of the
Republican presidential nominee,
Mr.. Roosevelt was obviously rapping
ut Mr. Willkie or the latters political
and business associates on several
occasions.
You can remember" he declared
during a review of the progress made
by labor in years of the New Deal,
when many large employers re-
sorted to the un-American practice
still unfortunately followed in some
sections of the country-of hiring
labor spies and setting up private
arsenalS to ferret out members of
q union"
Chairman Ed Flynn of the
Democratic National Committee
recently charged that one of the
concerns with which Mr.. Willkie
was connected had spent con-
siderable sums for labor spies
an accusation that was later de-
MED by the G. o. P. nominee)
Cites 1896 Practice.
And later, he spoke of the 1886
practice of certain employers,
politicians and newspapers-all of
whom are now active in this cam
paign-in an effort to mislead and
intimidate labor" in stuffng pay en-
velopes with notices, critical of the
Social Security Act.
That kind of opposition comes
only too often" Mr. Roosevelt said,
from those who regularly for three
years and eight months block labor's
welfare and then for four months
loudly proclaim that they are labor's
true friends-from those who love
the laboring man in November but
forget him in January"
Countering charges of those who
discover an attempt to lead us into
war" the President became most
vehement near the end Of his speech
in defending the administrators
program of preparedness.
81 hate war now more than ever"
he insisted. Il have one supreme
determination-to do all I can to
keep war away from these shores for
all time. Let us have an end
to the sort of appeasement which
seeks to keep us helpless by playing
on fear and by indirect sabotage of
all the progress we are making.
'Appeasement' is a polite word for
misdirected partisanship."
Makes No-War Pledge.
Carefully then he affirmed his
agreement with the party's platform
plank pledging no participation in
foreign wars, nor the dispatch of
American forces to foreign lands, ex-
cept in case of attack.
Departing from his text on sew
eral occasions, Mr.. Roosevelt opened |
his address by declaring himself in |