Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-13

Automobile Workers of Amer
lea, clio Local 81.
l for one will vote for you,
that is positive.
/ am not going to be pre-
JUDGED to vote otherwise. l am
going to vote for you. have
been settled in my mind on
that as a result of your past
record.
In talking to the fellows at
the shop, have found that
there are a lot of them need
ing enlightening as to your
labor record, and your pro-
gram.
Some fellows feel that the
Democratic Party is on their
side.
/ happen to know that you
are on their side even more so.
! have a record here to prove
1t, of your accomplishments
on labor.
i have also the record here
to compare with your record
prior to 1852, and there is
hardly any comparison.
And l wish, Mr.. President,
that you would explain and
enlighten my buddieS back
home as to your stand on la
Dor, unions, and the things
that they are trying to do.
The President: Well, first of
all, let me say this: I belong to a
family Of boys who were raised
in meager circumstances in Cen
trail Kansas, and every one of us
earned our way as we went
along. and it never occurred to
us that We were poor, but we
were.
My work week the last year
before I went to West Point was
"a hours, seven nights a week.
II hours night, and I thought
l had a good job.
Now, when I see what unions
have done for the working man
of America as compared to that
record you can well imagine that
I don't have to have any doubt
in my mind as to what they have
done for America as a whole.
Now. there have been, 1 think,
certain defects in the laws, and
l have recommended think it
is three times now-changes in
the Taft-Hartley Act that l
think would be fairer for labor,
particularly the one that requires
them to take an oath of loyalty,
does not require an employer,
and also the one that is called
the economic difficulty = you
know, where-about the voting
on iurisdictional matters.
Well. none of those have been
passed. They have always been
stopped and blocked in the Con-
gress. But at the same time we
have pushed ahead with many
things.
Now it is true that when I
recommended the increase in the
wage law in the Con-
gress, the opposition put an adj
ditional 10 cents for what I
thought was the proper-the big
to do was to spread that
wage law to get to
more people. And the higher
you raise it before you get a
spread, am afraid, it is going
to be difficult in getting these
fellows who are not under it yet
these men and women, work.
ing men and women-is going to
be more difficult.
l want more people under 1t.
In the meantime, wages have
been raised, and the cost of liv-
ing has been extraordinarily sta
BILE in the last three years.
1t is true that you can say
technically the cost of living is
high. 1t is going up two-and-a-
half per cent since we have been
Gin office. but it went up As per
cent or more in the last seven
years of the one-the preceding
administration.
So that all in all. the workman
has been improving his unions
and strengths, and he has been
improving his pay. He has been
improving his pay. He has been
improving in every single thing
social security, unemployment
insurance - and we have sup
ported those things. So l be-
lieve that if labor. the laboring
man today - and that really
should include all America when
you come down to tive all
ought to be laboring for our
living, and most of us do. If
they will look at the record, 1
think they can find nothing
there, that they can say this adj
ministration is their enemy;
might, on the contrary, be their
good friend.
Right there.
SOIL BANK PLAN
Mr.. John Stone: l am John
Stone from WatertOwn, in
northern New York State, and
with me is my wife, Mrs.
Stone.
We are dairy farmers. We
operate 4O-milking COW herd.
In the northeast, we have rec
Ognized the fact that the Fed
eral milk marketing orders
have stabilized our markets,
and we hope 1t will continue
to do so.
However, at this time, we
wonder what the soil bank,
overall soil bank, proceeding
program has to offer to farm
ers of the Northeast.
The president: Well, first of
all. the orders will continue. That
| can assure you.
Secondly. the soil bank pro-
ram probably doesn't have as
direct and marked influence on
rs as it does farmers in some
other forms Of the industry, but