Evening star., 1944-10-21
BY the Associated Press.

XII 1obOI1t1, OCI. zl.-r UiiOW-
ing is the text of an address given
by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Re-
publican presidential nominee, here
last night:
I am happy to come to Pennsyl-
vania again and report that a great
upsurge is sweeping the country
Everywhere, from coast to coast
the American people are coming to
the decision that it's time for a
change.
Republicans are confident of win
ming. Democrats, who deeply resent
the kidnapping of their party by the
Communists and the Political Action
Committee, are also confident of
winning-with us. Together with
independents, they are fed up with
II years of quarreling, waste and
decay. They agree that is years
would be intolerable. They want
a fresh and vigorous Government
with faith in the future of America
That's why it's time for change
Change in 26 States.
In 26 Republican States, having
two-thirds of our population, our
people have found that we can
have good progressive government
without wrangling, waste and con-
fusion. We have learned that we
can change State administrations
and greatly strengthen our unity
for war and our capacity to hasten
victory. With our great military
command continued, similar
change in civilian Washington will
speed total victory and will also
speed our work for a just and lasting
peace.
In the same way, a change of ad-
ministration offers the only future
to the working people of America.
The slogan of the New Deal is:
Back to normalcy with ten million
unemployed. That's where we still
were in 1910, after seven years of
the New Deal. But we Americans
are not going backward.
When the war is won a tremen-
dous job will just begin. No one
man and no single group will be able
to hold all the forces released by
war In constructive channels.
Every group in our population
agriculture, business, labor and
government-will have to pull to-
gether.
Can this great effort be led by an
administration which is both worn
out and torn to shreds by internal
dissensions? Can it be done by a
President who has warred with a
Congress Of his own party year
after year until that Congress is in
open rebellion?
Recalls End of Last War.
Let me recall to you what hap
pened at the end of the last war
under another tired administration
1919 brought soup kitchens into our
cities-not for the helpless-but for
returning soldiers. In the best
organized communities 1t took a re-
turning soldier an average of two
and a half months to find Jobs.
While that veteran walked the
streets, this Nation was shaken by
its hrst general strike. The same
year brought the great steel strike,
the meatpacking strike, the lock-
out in the building trades. Making
the strife more bitter were the as
saults Of the Democratic Attorney
General, A. Mitchell Palmer, on
union halls and civil liberties. This
Nation was 50 torn by cleavage and
insecurity that 1t was in the year
1919 that the Communist party OF
the U. S. A. was organized, dedi-
Gated to revolution.
Improved labor relations and
advances for the working people OF
the country came only with good
times. Labor leaders joined with a
Republican Congress to establish
the Women's Bureau of the De-
partment of Labor. They helped a
Republican administration set up
the Railway Labor Act, which is to-
day still the model law in employer
employe relations. Under Republic
an administrations came legislation
against child labor, limitation Of
interstate distribution of the prod
ucts of prison labor, laws for pay
ment of prevailing rates of pay on
Government jobs and the anti
injunction bill of rights for labor.
This program was a part of the