The union times., 1946-11-02
Ceelan Tells How
 Election Affects
 Working People
Says COP. Out To De- stroy Social Laws Won
 By Roosevelt
By HON. JAMES P. CEELAN 3rd CongressionaI District

3rd Congressional District
 The importance of Democratic victory to the working people of this nation next November 5th would be difficult to overstate. Every single piece of social Iegis- lation that has been placed upon the books under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt and the Demo- cratic party in the past fourteen years will be destroyed should can- didates like Raymond Baldwin and Ellsworth Foote be successful in the coming elections.
 The basis for this assertion is con- tained in the record and in the public statements made by these and other Republican candidates. If asked point blank which of the so-called New Deal laws which have meant so much to the working people of this nation they would repeal, they have no answer. Despite the bitter opposition on the part of the Republican party to these bills when they were under consideration in the Congress they even now agree that they are good laws. They also state, however, that they are In need of revision. Therein lies the answer to their plan of at- tack It is the old method of attempt ing to kill bill by amending it to death which is the practice commonly III vogue daily in the House of Repre- Sentatives.
 HOW IT'S DONE
 On any important piece of legis- latiOn, on the record roll call vote, you will notice very few votes against the bill by the Republican party. However, when the House is sitting as committee of the whole for the purpose of amending the bill, amendment after amendment is introduced and supported by the entire Republican delegation in Congress. This happened on the Price Control Bill in l945 while we were still at war-it happened on the Veterans Emergency Housing Bill, and on numerous other inn pOrtant bills before the last session of Congress.
 BALDWIN ON NLBB
 Governor Baldwin, the Republican candidate for United States Senator, has stated publicly that he is of the opinion that the National Labor Re- lations Act needs amendment. He is evidently taking his cue from the Ma tlonal Association of Manufacturers, who have been advocating such re- vision for some time. This is the agency, of course, which spear headed the drive to kill all price control.
 THE NEXT TARGET
 The Social Security Act will be the next target for their attack. In its original form, the Social Secur- ity Act provided for a graduating scale of taxes. The purpose of this was to create fund sufficiently large to not only care for present and future needs but also to per- init increased benefits which are SO necessary nov if for no other req son than to keep pace with the in- creased cost of living.
 The Republican party has been suc cessful in defeating this purpose of the act by freezing the tax rate yearly for the past five or six years at one per cent. If in control of the Congress, they would hardly stop at that, and the entire social security system would definitely be ill danger.
 It is for these and similar rea- sons near and dear to the heart of the people who work for a living which make it so important that the Democratic party be victorious in the coming elections.