The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1947-10-17
Colmer Cites
Record In Bid
For Senate Seat

For Senate Seat
VILLAIN M. Colmer cited his
record as a Congressman, defend.
ed his vote on the Taft-Hartley
Labor Bill, and asked other can
didates to stand up and be count.
ed on vital issues facing the
nation in a talk here Tuesday
night in his bid for election to the
United States Senate on Novem-
ber 4th.
The occasion was an organiza-
ton meeting of Colmer forces in
Jackson county which drew a
packed audience to the Pascagoula
courthouse.
Following the address of Mr.,
Colmer, Judge H. P. Heidelberg
was named county chairman OF
the Colmer organization, A. F.
Megehee, secretary, and present
members of the board of super
visors together with those nom-
mated at the last election named
to serve in each beat.
A meeting of the group has
been called for 4 p. m. Friday
(today) at the courthouse, Judge
Heidelberg said, at which time
one additional person will be
named in each beat to serve with
the board member.
Commenting Mississippi Labor
for its independence of thought
and action" Mr.. Colmer said that
as the son of a skilled laborer
and having worked himself in a
sawmill during his youth 'my
sympathy in any controversy be-
tween labor and management is
and always has been with those
who earn their living by the sweat
of their brow"
Voted for Wage-Hour Law
Some years ago." he said,
when the so-called Wage and
Hour Bill was up before Congress
l was the only member of the
Mississippi delegation then serv-
ing in the House who voted for
that bill the late Senator
Bilbo being the only other Missis-
sippian who supported it."
The Taft-Hartley Bill, he said,
which 'The Union Tsars in the
East have dubbed a slave labor
bill might be more appropriately
called a bill to free labor from
its tyrannical leaders"
I'VE know as a matter of COM
mon knowledge that it has be-
come the declared policy of these
Tsars of the labor world to not
only attempt to dictate to Con-
gress and the Executive branch,
but also to their union members
as to whom they can vote for
and for whom they cannot.
Il do not believe in the prin-
ciples advocated by the John L.
Lewises and other labor dietators
of this type. AS freeborn Amer
lean citizen l cannot subscribe
to the theory that any group of
our people whether it be
labor or any other class :.
has a superior right over the rest
of our citizens in the manage
ment and control of our govern
ment under the Constitution of
the United States. If our gov
ernment is to survive, it must sur
vive on the broad principles of a
government of all the people, for
all the people and by all the peo-
pie.
Cites Record
In citing his record Mr.. Colmer
said that during the IA years he
has served the people of the
Sixth District as their Congress
man. that he had made a record in
which he took humble pride.
THAT record is an open book"
he said, land is subject to the
scrutiny and criticism of all con-
cerned. II reflects an honest ef-
fort to deal with literally hum
dreds of controversial issues
which came before the Congress.
That record will disclose that /
have been in the forefront in an
effort to secure proper and fair
legislation for all segments of our
people. Il is upon this record
that now ask you 10 promote me
to the United States Senate"