Evening star., 1944-10-25

Industry Needs Freer
in Reconversion
! BY the Associated Press.
II FORT WORTH, Tex, Oct. 25.--
Gov. John w. Bricker declared to.
day that industry should be allowed
to resume peacetime production a!
soon as possible and without Gov.
ernment "shackleS."
The Republican vice presidential
nominee, in speech released by hi.
campaign staff, quoted Vice Presi.
dent Wallace as remarking:
"I don't see how we can get re.
kconverSion accomplished without
disastrous consequences unless thu
Government steps in as 1t did ir
conversion"
The Ohio Governor, contendine
that New Deal restraints" had pre-.
vented about production early ir
the war, added:
IF the Government steps intt
postwar production, as it did intt
war production, Mr.. Hopkins ano
Mr.. Morgenthau will be playing with
the destiny of American labor ano
industrial management to the tune
called by Sidney Hillman and Ear
Browder."
Assails Wallace.
He asserted that MIR. Hillman
chairman of the Political Action
Committee, and Mr.. Browder, di-
rector of the Communist Political
Association. want American busi-
ness harnessed and hitched."
The Ohioan also contributed tc
the Vice President this statement;
You had to take industry by the
scruff of the neck and throw it into
the war"
| Remarking that Henry Wallace
ought to know better than that,
Gov. Bricker added that the New
Deal took industry by the scruff OF
the neck" in 1888 and was holding
the grip when the Japs attacked
Pearl Harbor.
But the New Deal" he declared
did not throw industry into the
war. The record on this is clear
American industry got into pro-
duction just as soon as the ad-
ministration took its hands off the
scruff of the neck"
What Mr.. Wallace should have
said, Gov. Bricker continued. was
American production has worked
miracle of war production. The
New Deal restraints delayed all-out
production"
Calls for Change.
Reiterating that the Nation
needs change of national admin
istration, the Governor asserted
that industry must be released
from the shackles that cramp her
effort" that 'the atmosphere must
be cleared of the talk about seizing
American citizens by the scruff of
the neck" and that American in
dustry must get the green light at
the earliest possible moment"
Gov. Bricker's special train rolled
into Texas after a two-day cam
paign in Colorado, with his man.
ayers hopeful of capitalizing on re-
ported dissension among Democrats
of the Lone Star State,
The nominees staff announced
that in the auditorium selected for
his address, 300 seats had been set
aside for the Texas regular Dem,-
Gratis" and that E. B.. GERMANY of
Dallas, their chairman, would par
ticipate in a parade. Mr.. GERMANY
was described as a former manager
for Senator W. Lee ODaniel, foe
OF the New Deal. in his campaigns
for Governor and United States
Senator.
Missouri Program ENLARGED.
Gov. Bricker, deciding to make a
strong bid for the home State of his
Democratic rival, last night added
six speeches to his Missouri program.
increasing to nine the addresses he
will make on the home grounds of
Senator Truman October q and %
They win be topped by Nationwide
broadcast the night of October 27
from Kansas City.
Gov. Bricker's staff said the Kan
sas City speech would be one of the
major addresses of the campaign.
The new Missouri engagements
will be talks from the rear platform
of his special train Saturday at
Harrisonville, Rich Hill, Nevada,
Lamar, Neosho and Aurora. He pre-
viously had arranged to speak at
Joplin and Springfield.
Another addition was made to the
Bricker program for Kansas in the
form of rear platform appearance
at Newton Friday. The additions
increase to ia the number of
speeches Gov. Bricker will have
made when he completes his four
week, 10,000-mile Western campaign
swing.
Sees Press at Pueblo.
At Pueblo, Colo, press confer
ence yesterday he asserted that If
the Republicans took over the ad-
ministration in Washington, they
would begin as soon as possible a
"dlsmantling of the tremendous
powers vested in the presidency"
Colorado's Republican Governor
John c. Vivien, said Gov. Bricker's
visit had "crystallized in Colorado
the growing enthusiasm for the
principles and policies of the Re-
publican party and the growing dis
content with the New Deal party. u
At Walsenberg Gov. Bricker as
serted the Nations young people
will have to pay the bill not only
OF the war but of the burden of
super-Government built up in
Washington" The talk was made
;; from the rear platform of his train
He told another railroad crowd at
Trinidad to assure the servicemen
that November we're going to
free the United States from ruth
less, needless, costly and arrogant