The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1942-08-15
State AFL Members To SUPPORT Gov. Hurley, Says Rope

necticut members of the American
Federation of Labor would support
Governor Robert A. Hurley for re-
election in the Fall election, was
promised Saturday by SEN. Joseph
T. Rourke, vice-president of the
New Haven Central Labor Council,
in a speech before the annual gar
den party of the Connecticut Fed
Grafton of Democratic Women's
Clubs. Gov. Robert A. Hurley was
the main speaker. Joseph Leeds.
Textile Workers, represented the
CLIO i'm Connecticut.
EXTEND VOTING HOURS
Rourke, as a member of the
N. H. Central Labor Councils Com
mittee for Independent Political
Action, told the audience of the
steps taken by the committee to
insure the extension of voting time
ON Election Day in New Haven to
9 p. Nj. to insure sufficient time
for all war industrial workers to
cast their ballot. He urged that
similar action be taken throughout
Connecticut.
tsThe Labor Movement has ire
mendous stake, its very existence,
i'm this war and we i'm the Labor
Movement willingly accept more
than our share of this response
bility,' Rourke said. s'Never i'm the
history of our beloved United
States have we faced such a crisis.
This is a fight to the death between
a man who has the unvarnished
gall to believe that he and the
people he represents are super
race and that he, Hitler, must con-
quer the world to preserve this
race, and us, the 13O,O0O,OOO men
and women i'm the United States
i'm this war fighting to the finish
for Democracy.
ROOSEVELT AND HURLEY
ssThere will be no Labor move
ment. There will be no freedom
of speech no freedom of re-
ligion no social security and
no friend of Labor i'm the White
House like F. ID. r." Rourke de-
cIared If the war were lost. In
stead we'd get, he asserted, second
grade scab paper hanger.
'sOrganized Labor supported
Roosevelt for a third term and will
support him for a fourth if neces-
sary,' Rourke continued. "The
Labor Movement will support
Roosevelt's friends and we in the
American Federation of Labor in
Connecticut consider Governor
Robert A. Hurley a friend and a
strong supporter of Franklin ID.
Roosevelt. 1t is my opinion that
the tremendous job we have to do
here in Connecticut, which has the
second largest number of defense
contracts, will be better served if
Governor Robert A. Hurley is kept
in Office"
ssISOLATIONISM"
Hurley dashed out at Republican
State Chairman ]. Kenneth Bradley,
U. S. Senator John A. Danaher and
former Republican Governor Ray
mond E. Baldwin. Danaher, he scath-
ingly, termed "high priest of isola-
tionism and appeasement" and con-
demned Baldwin whose approval OF
Danaher commended the point of
view which brought our nation to the
brink of disaster"
"CAN'T FORGET
"Mr. Bradley has not forgotten"
Hurley's sponsorship of Connecticuts
Victory Compact, the Connecticut
War Industries Commission to help
convert small plants for war produc-
ton, the Connecticut State Defense
Council, which is the model council
of the nation, the negotiations for
the establishment of the Windsor
Locks army air base and the Coast
Guard training station at Groton
Hurley declared. "The trouble is he
cannot forget them, nor can he forget
his own tinid equivocal, indefinite
and near-sighted position on the wal
until the bombs exploding on Pear
Harbor made him realize that his
control of the Republican party was
in serious jeopardy because the people
could not be expected to follow those
who were too blind or too cowardly
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