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

gress which has again started us
down Herbie Hoover's Wall Street
economic superhighway to depres-
sion and war"
President Frank X. Martel of the
Detroit & Wayne County AFL pre-
sented President Truman with a
resolution unanimously adopted by
the AFL city organization greeting
him as its candidate to defeat la
boris enemies.
The Democratic standard bear
er's first formal campaign speech
was a.fighting one. He said that "a
strong and free labor movement
constitutes a tremendous force fol
preserving our form of govern
ment. A free and strong labor
movement is our best bulwark
against Communism"
But, he warned, "to remain free
and strong you must have friend
lily administration and a friendly
Congress"
Then the President cited the de-
pression-ridden, anti-labor record
of pre-New Deal Republican admin
|istrations. In listing the New Deals
benefits to the workers he pointed
out: "The gains of labor were not
accomplished at the expense of the
rest of the population. Labor's
gains contributed to the nations
general prosperity"
The sharpest part of Truman'S
address was his attack upon the
S0th Congress. "That Congress-" he
said, promptly fell into the famil-
lar Republican pattern of aid for
big business and attack on labor.
The Republicans promptly voted
themselves a cut in taxes and vot-
ed you a cut in freedom"
Union men have voiced the opin-
ion, the President explained, that
labor is just beginning to feel the
effects of the Taft Hartley law.
"And," he predicted, "you and l
know the Taft Hartley law is only
a foretaste of what you will get if
the Republican reaction is allowed
to continue to grow"
He said that important Republi-
can newspapers have revealed that
the COP has already begun consid-
ering further and stronger meas
ures against labor"
The Democratic chief executive
said that he feared too that Re-
publican administration would
mean another depression within the
very near future, depression in
which 81 would fear not only for
the wages and living standards of
The American working man, but
even for our democratic institu-
ions"
Truman told the crowd that the
reactionary today is "a shrewd
nan with a calculating machine
where his heart ought to be. He
las learned great deal about how
o get his way by observing dem
lgogues and reactionaries in other
and now he has many
lble allies in the press and radio"
He attacked those Americans in
lining cars and country clubs and
fashionable resorts who repeat like
carrots the phrase Labor must be
.ept in it's place. 1t is time that all
americans realize that the place of
abor is side by side with the bus
nessmen and the farmer, and not
ne degree lower" the President
aid.
The President spoke on Labor
lay also in Flint, Grand Rapids,
.ansing, and Pontiac, Mich, and
'oledo, Ohio. At Flint he addressed
mother AFL-CIO rally at which
5000 workers and their families
,ere present, while another 10000
eople lined the route to the park
which Truman spoke.
In several of his speeches the
resident chided the special sess-
N of the 80th Congress with its
lilure to pass the Taft-Ellender-
Tagner housing bill, and said fin
ly that Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.,