ORGANISED LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 9

ORGANISED LABOUR

■': —. . , ». — BROADCAST BY MR. LEWIS MR. ROOSEVELT IN REPLY WASHINGTON, September 4. The chairman of the Committee lo) Industrial Organisation, Mr; John L Lewis, in a nation-wide broadcast, in ferentially threatened President Roosevelt with the consequences of alienat ing sympathies of organised Labour. "It ill becomes one who has supped at Labour's table to curse with equal fervour Labour and its adversaries when they are . locked in deadly embrace," he said. « , Mr. Lewis 'also assailed the Democrats for their failure to pass industrial legislation which was prepared recently, adding that the spectacle oi members'of. Congress hiding in order to prevent a quorum acting on Labour measures emphasised the perfidy of politicians. . ' . .■•■". A message from Rhode Island states that President Roosevelt issued a statement in the course, of which he said that mistakes had been made by both sides in the current Labour disputes, owing to distrust and bitter recrimination. He urged peaceful settlements and avoidance of strikes in the future. The President admitted by inference that the Wagner Act might need alterations." ■*■'■'. . He said further that his statement, which had been prepared before Mr. Lewis made his radio broadcast, maintained that tone of neutrality concerning which Mr. Lewis had complained.