The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-04

program today to eastern industrial workers. His aides say he needs their votes if he is to defeat President Roosevelt's bid for third term. Willkie presented his labor pro gram specifically to crowd of ap- proximately 35,O00 in Forbes field at Pittsburgh last night but he went to the steel mill and electrical product manufacturing districts to present his case face-to-face to the workers themselves.
 Willkie rode 53 miles in an open car for four hours through most of industrial Alleghany county to re- affirm his support of labor's right to organize, to ask the workers to study the arguments of both sides, and to give him flair shake" be- fore deciding whether they vote for him or MT. Roosevelt.
 The Forbes field show brought Willkie and his vice-presidential running-mate, Sen. Charles L. Mo Nary of Oregon, together on public platform for the first time. McNary predicted Willkie's victory in No- vember and renewed his pledge of fealty" to the new Republican leader.
 Willkie's aides said they had been surprised by the volume of applause, and the infrequency of boos, in the tour of the industrial sections. Before the cheering Forbes field throng, the nominee offered this program:
 Special legislation to bring about 8 wiser administration" of the Wagner Labor Relations Act should be tried before material changes in the labor law are made. 2Labor should clean its house of crooked racketeers who have found their way into the labor movement" !"
 3-Employers and workers should write into collective bargaining con- tracts a provision for a cooling-off period, a delay before using their economic weapons"
 4EThe president should call a conference of farm, factory, labor and consumer groups "to tackle the job of ending economic stagnation and of preventing a common disas- ter"
 5-Social Security should be ex- tended to workers who do not now enjoy it, and the federal government should be made solvent so that it can fulfill its Social Security obliga- tionS.
 .6-The Federal Consolidation serv- ice should be strengthened and im- proved, and its work should be in- tegrated with the work of the Labor board"
 7-The Federal Wage-Hour law should be continued and enforced both north and south.' Willkie said that he would 'wield the big stick of Theodore Roosevelt against sweat shops"
 8-Federal government activities in the labor field should be decen- tralized because each locality knows its own problems best" 9EStateS should be encouraged to strengthen and improve their own procedures for the settlement of labor disputes"
 Willkie renewed his pledge to make new jobs for those who now seek them so desperately to "clear out from the federal government all Communists and their ow-trayel- CTS" and to appoint as secretary of labor a man who is "an outstanding and an actual representative of labor"
 Willkie travelled south and east through Pennsylvania today with stops scheduled at Harrisburg, the capital, at 10:30 a. m. (EST), Lan- caster at 12:25 p. m.; and Coates vile, at 1:20 pm. He reaches Phil- adelphia at 2:30 p. m., where he will tour the factory sections, speak from Independence Hall, and address a night meeting at Shibe park.
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