LANDON’S PROMISE
Balanced Budget and Relief For Needy (Received July 24, 5.5 p.m.) Topeka (Kansas), July 23. Before 100,000 enthusiastic partisans, Governor Alfred Landon to-day formally notified his nomination as Republican Presidential candidate and delivered a formal speech of acceptance. His address consisted of 3500 words, which is comparatively short for such occasions, and. in addition to a generalised attack on the New Deal, Mr. Landon limited ills remarks to comparatively few issues. He promised to restore the American Government to an "efficient and constitutional basis” with a reduction of Government spending to bring a balanced Budget without curtailing unemployment relief for those needing it most. A significant part of the speech politically was the elucidation of his Labour policy, Mr. Landon declaring in effect for the “open shop." He emphasised that workers should be free to join or not join any union wliich they wished rather than lie governed by majority decisions, which is a basic principle of President Roosevelt’s labour policy.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 9
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