Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-17
Text 7oKs Radio Address Attacking for 6O0 Cross Country Speaking Tour

bound to bring imitation again. D
We want Congress that will brinl
back OPA?
| Means Wage Regulation.
Combined with the Brannal
Plan, the Spence bill would Civ
Washington bureaus the job o
regulating in detail all commerce
industry and agriculture in this vas
country. 1t cannot be effectiv,
without regulating all wages alsl
telling every workman for i1ov
much he shall work, and ever,
housewife what she shall cook.
And last year the Presiden
wanted power to put the Govern
ment into any business, like TIT
steel business, where some Govern.
ment economist told him the indus.
try wasn't expanding fast enough
OF course some things can only bt
done by the Government, like the
construction Of huge dams on navi'
gable rivers. But if we are going tt
keep free industry, the Government
can't get into competition with it!
own citizens. No one can compete
with the Government, prepared Il
lose the taxpayers money.
The labor leaders are powerful
Therefore, Mr.. Truman proposes tt
repeal the Taft Hartley law anc
restore a condition of the most COM
plete special privilege the law has
ever given in this country. Union
officials were not liable on their
contracts. They weren't liable fol-
the acts of their agents. They
weren't liable for damages to those
they injured or put out of business
They were not liable to their own
members. These workingmen who
defied them could be driven from
the union and from their jobs. They
weren't liable to the Nation itself
for strikes which crippled the econ
omy and threatened the safety and
health of $50 million people.
Sabotaged the Law.
The President sabotaged the Law
in failing to deal effectively with
the coal strike. He only appoints
members of the National Labor Re-
lations Board If they are approved
by the CLIO and AFL and he refuses
to accept the principle of the law
that the Government shall hold the
scales of justice even between labor
and management. The Department
of Justice fails to enforce the anti
Communist oath provision.
The Taft Hartley Law is based on
free collective bargaining and free
dom to strike. 1t protects the work.
man against arbitrary treatment by
his labor union bosses. It is wholly
wrong to say, as the President said
last night, that the Taft-Hartley
law infringes the basic freedom to
bargain collectively. OF course, no
one will believe his claim that it
has undermined the strength of
labor unions. Do you want rubber
stamp Congress which will restore
those special exemptions of labor
leaders and their power to dominate
their men and all but the most pow
erful employers?
The general program of the Tru-
man crusade is clear. Promise
every one everything, and hope to
back it up with Government money.
Every American knows in his heart
that such policy will wreck the
United States and reduce it to bank
ruptcy. 1t will bring, first imitation,
and then depression.
Persuaded by Left Wingers.
The President asks how your
liberties have been limited or the
country socislized. OF course the
first answer is that, since Mr.. Tru-
man was first persuaded by his left
wing followers that his political
future depended on accepting the
CLIO policy on every major issue
both the Republican 80th Congress
and the Democratic 81st Congress
turned down all the principal fea-
lures Of his program, except the
pleasure of spending which the
first session of the 81st Congress
could not resist.
But your freedom has been limited
by a huge taxation. Just add up the
money deducted from your pay
over the year, and then remember
that when you buy food or cloth
ing or shoes or anything else, the
price includes about 20 per cent OF
taxes paid along the road by the
farmer, the railroad, the manufac-
turer, the retailer and all the rest
of them.
Altogether the Governments take
more than Is per cent of the ma
tional income in taxes, and most OF
this is passed on to the poor old
consumer. The Government is tax
ing from you the freedom to spend
the money, you earn by the sweat OF
your brow. You've lost about q
quarter of your freedom if we &c
On with the present spending pro-
gram. In England they have al
ready lost 40 per cent of their free
dom to spend their own money.
If we go on spending Fair Deal
We will all soon lose most of our
freedom. I don't know any better
way to deprive man of freedom
completely than to take over fol
him the spending of practically al
he earns.
All Done With Mirrors.
The people can't hope for any rea
increase in their standard of living
on this kind of program. Every in.
crease in wages is balanced by high.
er prices and higher taxes. It's al
done with mirrors. Something fol-
nothing to everyone. Parity price
to the farmer, unlimited loans tt
little business, free medicine to all
free land through Government rec.
lamation, unlimited power to laboI
to obtain any wage they desire, FIRE,
gifts to the entire world.
Even the taxpayer can't do it IL
the end. 1t can only be done b,
printing money and killing the VALUE
Iof the dollar. No people in thi
world ever got something for moth
ing.
And the present annual So million
deficit is bound to bring imitation
reduce the value of savings and in
surance and savings bonds. ant
lead to a false boom and a depres
sion.
This is not all the false glitter O
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