RELIEF OF STRIKERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 238, 8 October 1934, Page 5

RELIEF OF STRIKERS

DECRIED BY SENATOR.

CHAOS AND BLOODSHED

REPUBLICAN CRITIC'S VXEW.

(By SENATOR L. J. DICKINSON.)

CHICAGO, August 30. The dividends resulting from the new deal aiv.: The expectation of receiving more for giving less, higher pay for less service, more consuming power with less ability to pay —all of which results in dissatisfaction, complete lack of confidence, uncertainty in the >uinds of everyone, unrest in all classes of labour, resulting in strikes and bloodshed. The Democratic Administration continues to lead our labouring people to expect more and, at the same time, I makes industry less capable of being able Ito pay wages at all. Numerous Labour j disturbances that now involve the major [industries of the country are the direct result of this programme. How can the Democratic Administration justify its) position when it leads Labour to expect more and paralyses industry by curtailing its expectation for proiit and its possibility to continue. Tho present disposition on the part of the Administration to encourage strikes and immediately put those unwilling to work 011 the relief rolls cieates a situation unparalleled in American history. Administrator Hopkins has been quoted as saying that those who strike for reasons satisfactory to themselves will be welcomed to the relief rolls in the various localities, and their support provided for out of the Federal Treasury. No Justification. When people are encouraged to leave their jobs, and told that they shall be j put on the payroll for emergency relief at I the expense of the taxpayer, we not only encourage shiftlessness, out we also make it impossible for the Federal Government I to continue to furnish the necessary finlances in order to give the needed Federal relief.

The Federal Government cannot justify any such procedure, whereby a workman is encouraged to leave his job by one Government bureau and then is put upon a relief roll by another bureau. This can lead to but one end if continued, and that is the breakdown of our whole social structure. Five thousand serious labour dispute? have been created by the N.R.A. —1500 serious strikes, many of them resulting in bloodshed. How can the Federal I Government continue to justify such a I procedure? j Best authorities indicate the emerI gency relief roll this coming winter will I exceed any previous figure —much of it I resulting from the high-handed method lof the present Administration, encouraging men to expect too much for giving too little. It is an attempt to impose the burden of caring for the shiftless upon those that are thrift}'. Continuous propaganda is being promoted, creating this unrest by insisting that the wealth of the few shall lie redistributed for the support of the many. This programme, as now beiir; carried out, is a further identification of the present Democratic Administration with the Socialistic programme heretofore outlined and approved by all outstanding Socialists. Brain Trust Ideals. The heavier the burden imposed upon those that have, to take care of the needs of those on the relief list, the nearer you approach the Socialistic ideal. This ideal appears to be the ideal of those in control of the present Administration. Read the platform of Upton Sinclair, the Democratic nominee for Governor in California. Peruse the preachings and the teachings of the brain trust, and they all are in lin-.r with the proposed programme of tli<; Socialist for the transfer of industry from private to public ownership, to he operated under a Socialistic, co-operative system. Each day the present N"ew Deal programme tends further toward th<> Left under the Socialistic leadership of those in control. When the number of those eating at the expense of the public exceeds Usability of those who pay the taxes to liquidate the expense, then we have socia! chaos. Tlio contimiatiou of the present programme will lead to such an end. (N.A.N.A.)