The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-02-17
New DeCi Administration Is
incapable, Says Hutcheson
Cites Issues For Consideru-
ton In 1914 Presidential
Election
By WILLIAM l.. HUTCHINSON


Every so often, single year flares
out historically as turning point in
human progress. 1914 seems destined
to be such year. Vast social and eco
nOmic issues are coming to Il focus.
Long evaded realities must be faced.
Just as this is the year of decision"
of our great and uncompleted war
task, so the choice which the American
people will make in the 1914 PreSi-
Dental election will determine the
shape and direction of our national
economy for at least generation.
AS producer, as consumer, as citizen,
the American wage Garner feels the
impact of every throb of our national
viewpoint. His viewpoint is that of the
whole american economy. Labor speaks
as the voice, not of faction, but of
the national interst as a whole.
TO American Labor the issues of
1914 are crucial. Labor wants ii
change.
In voicing such inSistence labor
makes it clear that the time is past
when our economy can permit the
extravaganza of water tight cOmpart-
ments of mutually exclusive group
interests. American well being is in
divisible. Any national program how
ever packaged to win labors approval,
which Injuries the national economy,
inevitably Injuries the wage-earner. The
American labor movement, while con-
tinuOusly striving for the betterment of
laborS status, rejects the MARKHAM CON
cept that a single group can benefit
while the general economy suffers.
1t is my conviction that the New
Deal Administration has shown itself
incapable: that its methods and
policies have, themselves, created new
threats to our national economy more
diSquieting than those which we have
been attempting to escape; that wage
earnerS have been victims of a cruel
political deception in that our economy
has been entrusted to viSiOnaries
When war ends. the twelve million men
and women in the armed forces want
to return to hOnest-tO-GOd jobs. While
they are away it is the duty of all men
and women of good will to oppose un
Sparingly the national policies and
leaders who have revealed an in,
capacity. or an unwillingneSS to make
our American free enterprise system
work. They must make their opposition
eifectve in the approaching PreSi
Dental contest.
Labor demands of both national
political parties that the candidates
shall have the ability and their plat
forms the assurance of a progressive
leadership to the end that the natioI
shall have:
l. The preservation of free enter
prise.
. The abatement of bureaucracy.
3 The halt of paternalism.
t. The creation of postwar JOBS
through private industry.
;. The maintenance of labOr's sOcia
gains.
6. The protection of our natiOna
interests.
CD The preservation of free enter
prise. In many respects, our accepted
American free enterprise system ha:
been in sad and constant retrea
throughout the eleven years of New
Deal rule. Under the guiSe, first o
combating the Depression, and late
of waging World War ii, many o
those in high places in this Admins
tration have waged Il continuous Wa
OF attritiOn against the psychological
and economic support of our free enter
prise economy. They have pursued
Government policies which have dan
gerouSly weakened the incentives whicI
make Il free economy workable. The.
have confused the public mind will
their ,iargon Of an inevitable afterwa
mixed economy"
(2) The abatement of bureaucracy y
\ corolary is the necessity of an i'm
mediate program to halt the weed-lik
growth of bureaucracy which is chOE
ing our democratic institutions. Gu
national economy is enmeshed in Il!
intricate network of government con
trolls and regulations.
(3) The halt of paternalisnl. Moth
ing is more disquieting to labor thai
the steady march of the nation, unde
the New Deal, toward an overai
paternaliSm. The substitution of gov
ernment by men for government o
laws, against which Jefferson warne
the nation, has proceeded apace. Vas
diScretiOnar% authority has been con
ferred upon appointive boards an
commissions whose decisions effect tn
life of every citizen.
The present Administration, in it
conduct of such agencies as the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board and tn
War Labor Board has revealed man
of the worst vices Of IL paternalisti
State. 1t has stripped to virtual in
potence the Department of Labo
through which labor should have
cabinet voice in the conduct of IN
n1tinp11 government If has MIA we'd