Evening star., 1948-10-23
Truman Renews
Attacks on DIP
And Labor Bills
Woos Cool Miners in
One-Doy Campaign
Into Pennsylvania
DEWEY BIDS FOR Democrats
Votes in Unity Campaign
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By Joseph A. Fox
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ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN IN
PENNSYLVANIA, Oct. 23.-Presi-
dent Truman today repeated his
charge that the displaced per-
sons legislation passed by the
Eightieth Congress discriminates
against Jews and Catholics, as
he came on a vote hunt into the
anthracite country of Pennsyl-
vania, where the population
largely stems from foreign FORE
bears.
Addressing a morning audience
at WilkeS-Barre as he moved toward
Pittsburgh for a major address to-
night in a bid for Pennsylvania
IS electoral votes. the President de-
clared the Republican-sponsored
measure is neither right" nor
American"
This bill," the President ex-
planned, "opens the door to por-
tion of those former victims Of
Naziism. people from Poland, Lithu-
ania, Latvia, Estonia. Czechoslo-
vakia, Hungary and other Eu-
1opean countries, who have been
prosecuted by the Germans and who
now don't want to go back to
tyranny behind the Soviet Iron
Curtain.
II wanted to see our country adj
NIT It's fair share of these helpless
victims. wanted to see them come
in without any discrimination, but
the Republican Eightieth Congress
passed a law which discriminateS
against certain groups.
1T excludes nearly all persons
who belong to the Jewish faith, and
it excludes an unfair proportion Of
those belonging to the Catholic
faith"
Seeks Miners Support.
The Presidents language was Of
the same tenor he used in state
ment when signing the displaced
persons legislation as better than
none" proposition, but it constituted
the sharpest attack of the campaign
on this measure.
Before the Wilkes Barre speech,
the President addressed a breakfast
hour gathering at Scranton, where
ne likened the Shameful Taft
Hartley labor law" to q "termite,
undermining and eating away your
legal protection to organize and
bargain collectively"
The Scranton appearance also saw
the President gesturing for the sup
port of the United Mines Workers,
with whom he is in trouble on ac-
count of his court fights with John
L. Lewis. Laying wreath at the
monument to John Mitchell, a stall
wart in the struggles of the UNIV
for a foothold in the labor world
in the early 1900s, Mr.. Truman de-
clared the one-time UNIV president
was not only great labor organ
izer, he was a great labor states
man." Mr.. Lewis was not mentioned.
WlHciS OFCCt fECcAuCAts
Steel-helmeted miners greeted
the President at both Scranton and
Wilkes-Barre, but Mike Kosic,
United Mine Workers president in
the district, was not in the wei.
coming group.
The President arrived at Scran-
ton at o'clock after an eight-hour
ride and spoke in Courthouse Square
near the railroad station.
A crowd estimated at 5000 heard
the speech, and despite the early
hour, there were other thousands
on the streets.
The President made the 13-mile
trip from Scranton to Wilkes Barre
by automobile, then picked up his
train again at Nearby Kingston.
The Wilkes-Barre speech was de-
livered in downtown square,
where the crowd -approximated
10000.
Drawing a parallel between the
opposition John Mitchell met in his
battle with the coal industry to or
ganize the miners and the fight
which labor now has on its hands by
reason of the Taft-Hartley Act,
President Truman asserted that the
new law sis only the beginning lit
is only the first step in the -
range strategy of the Repu an
party to crush organized lat to
the ground"
Sees Welfare Fund Threat.
To bolster this argument, the
President raised the issue of the
health and welfare fund which the
UNIV has just gotten established
after a struggle with the operators,
declaring IF another Republican
Congress is elected in November, the
Republican leaders will do all they
can to destroy the growth Of union
welfare funds"
The speaker asserted that selfish.
backward looking men," who oppose
such benefits, thought they were
blocked-out by the Taft-Hartley
Act" but they were wrong, "A Fed
eral court, the President amplified.
(See TRUMAN, Page A-2D