The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-16
BY LES FINNEGAN

Last month reactionary column
ist David Lawrence complained
that there has been no humor in
the election campaigns to date. If
it was humor that Lawrence was
looking for the Labor Day speeches
by Republican leaders should have
left his tonsils limp. Dewey didn't
dare go to Detroit himself to ans
wer Truman's Labor Day address.
Instead he sent Harold Stassen.
Even Republican newspapers
thought this very odd. If anyone is
going to talk about the COP and
labor, they reasoned, it ought to be
the author of the Republican
Party's labor policy-Sen. Robert
Taft. Whatever else he is, however,
Dewey isn't that stupid. Taft would
have been about as welcome to De-
troit's workers as a decision by
General Motors to return to the
manufacture of the buggy and one
horse shay. Truman addressed 1885,
coo people in Detroit; Stassen at
tracted 5000, and 1000 of these
were said to have been people who
came to see how small the crowd,
would be.
Stassen declared that Truman is
"a failure as president" Now
there's bright crack from man
who couldn't even succeed in be-
coming a candidate for president.
Dewey, in his Labor Day procla-
nation, boasted that "We have
kept the bread and butter problems
of labor relations where they be-
longed, far removed from politics.
In his own state Dewey demanded
and got an anti-strike law that was
opposed by all organized labor.
And if Dewey thinks the Taft
Hartley law is not a bread and but
ter problem when strikers for ex-
ample can be legally replaced by
scabs somebody ought to get him
off that hashish diet. Dewey is in
for a rude surprise if he continues
in his naive notion that CIO-PAC
and the AFL League for Political
Education were organized for the
purpose of reelecting Phil Murray
and Bill Green to their union Of
fees.
How do Republicans like Dewey
ever develop the simple-minded con-
viction that they are heavens gift
to labor relations and industrial
peace. Strikes are on the increase
in Dewey's own state and in other
strongholds. Philadel-
phia has had Republican admins
tration for so long that even the |
New Deal landslides didn't bulge |
it. For the first six months of this |
year far more people were out on
strike in Philadelphia than during
the same period last year and the
year before. The same is true in
other COP cities. The Republican
program for achieving labor peace
is to use the same method the
great engineer Herbert Hoover
used in dealing with the bonus
army.
Washington BARRIERS have decid-
ed to ask for $1.25 for haircuts.
Congressman patronizing
their own barbershops in the Capt.
tol building will continue to pay
only SOC. This is the only case in
current history in which Congress
and not the public gets a good
Thomas Dewey said it was "cruel
and inhuman punishment" to call |!
Congress back into special session.
t certainly was that but not for |!
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