The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-10-29
HOW SHALL WE VOTE ON NOV. 2.
l948-TRUMAN OR DEWEY?

Our International Union has never dictated to our
members how they should vote.
1t is our duty to submit the facts and depend upon
their good judgment to vote in their own best interest.
l shall vote for Truman and Barkley on November 2,
1913, for the following conclusive reasons:
ID They are pledged to work for the repeal of the
wicked Taft-Hartley Act.
ca They are pledged to support an increase in the
Minimum Wage Law.
() They are pledged to extend the provisions of the
Social Security Act to cover millions of poor and UNI
derprivileged people, as well as increase the benefits
to those now covered.
() They are committed to support low cost housing
for Veterans and workers.
() They are committed to stop wage reductions by
stopping the continued increase in the cost of living.
() They are pledged to reduce the taxes of the poor
instead Of only on the very rich. The last Republican
Congress reduced the taxes of the rich 1870, but only
So for the poor.
(O They are committed to support the small farmer
and save him from another siege of bankruptcy.
() They are pledged to develop our national resources,
such as water, power, etc, in the interests of all the
people, instead of giving them away to the greedy
monopolies.
(D A vote for the Republican Presidential Candidate
is a vote to betray your Union card. 1t is a vote for
the Taft-Hartley Act. 1t is a vote for more and more
anti-Labor Legislation. 1t is a vote for wage reduc-
tions and an increase in hours. In short, it is a vote
to cancel all the advances we have made in the last
twenty years.
Q) A vote for Wallace is one-half a vote for Dewey
and one-half a vote for Communism.
0D President Truman, acting on bad advice, has done
some things / do not like, but he is still far and away
the best man for the Nations workers, farmers and
small business men. His intentions are good, and lie
viii not make the same mistake again.
t12) Finally, the wage earners, and particularly Rail-
road Labor, owe an everlasting debt of gratitude to
Alben W. Barley, who for years fought for the
HowellBarkley Bill, which later became the Railway
Labor Act, to take the place of the vicious Transpor-
tation Act of 1920, under which our working condi-
tons were destroyed and our wages beaten into the
ground, all of which provoked the shopmens strike
of 1922, followed by the infamous D~augherty injunc-
ton that left us only the right to breathe.
There are many other reasons which | could assign
as to why | shall vote for Truman and Barley, but
the above is sufficient.
All of my life l have tried TO be a Lincoln Republican" but
when the reactionary powers that control the Republican
Party stifled the voices of such men as fighting Bob Lafol-
lette of Wisconsin. George Norris of Nebraska. Hiram John
son of California. Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota and moved
into the House OF Lincoln. the Tafts. the HarneYs and the
Balls. as well as a host of other enemies of the working
people. I could no longer live in that house. if / were to be
true TO my trust in defense of the wage earners. Devotion to
the labor movement transcends all political parties.
CHAS. J.
International President. Brotherhood of Boilermakers.