NEW DEAL AND LABOUR

Southland Times, Issue 23024, 19 October 1936, Page 7

NEW DEAL AND LABOUR

MR ROOSEVELT OPPOSES VESTED INTERESTS

BIG FIRMS’ DONATION TO REPUBLICANS

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) New York, October 17. Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States and Democratic candidate for another term at White House, concluding the last day of an intensive campaign in the Middle West, again warned the nation in a speech at Cleveland (Ohio) not to heed “the gospel of fear spread by his opponents that the Administration was antagonistic to business.”

Mr Roosevelt surprised members of his own party in the middle of his speech by picturing the New Deal as Labour’s champion, and by opposing concentrated wealth when he stated that Wall street was using corporation and stockholders’ money to finance propaganda against his re-election. Mr H. C. Hoover, a former Piesident, in a speech at Philadelphia assailed the New Deal for misleading the public about future expenses, asserting that “if income taxpayers juggled their accounts and showed similar morals to the Administration in keeping ,their books they would be put in gaol.” The Republican candidate for the Presidency (Mr A. M. Landon) at Topeka (Kansas) announced his sudden decision to hold a campaign on the Pacific coast. A “straw poll” gives him a four-to-five chance in California. The seventh “straw vote” conducted by The Literary Digest, as a forecast of the coming election, shows that of the 48 States,' Mr Landon captured 32 with 370 electoral votes and Mr Roosevelt 16 with 161. The Republicans led by a slightly lower percentage in the first returns from large cities, which gave Mr Roosevelt New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. The total figures to date are: Mr Landon 1,011,489, Mr Roosevelt 728,088. Senator J. F. Guffey (Pennsylvania), chairman of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, revealed to reporters to-day that Dupont de Nemours (armaments manufacturers) and associated companies had contributed 338,000 dollars to the Republican campaign funds. The largest gift—that from Mr Lamont Dupont—was 105,000 dollars. Labour Approves Of Mr Roosevelt RECORD FAVOURABLE TO UNIONS (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 11 p.m.) Washington, October 18. The American Federation of Labour made public yesterday the quadrennial pre-election report to 33,000 local unions and 110 national and international unions, adhering to its nonpartisan political policy with the admonition to “stand faithfully by our friends and elect them.” The report found Mr Roosevelts record from 1911, when he was a member of the New York State Senate, to his Presidential incumbency favourable to the cause of organized Labour. As a State senator Mr Roosevelt favoured 27 Labour measures, as Governor 21 and as President 47. Mr Landon’s record as Governor of Kansas was not given, but acceptance of a speech is cited in which he said that he favoured Labour’s right to organize without interference. A comparison of the two major parties’ platforms showed that both omitted measures advocated by Labour, including a shorter working day and compensation for technological unemployment. The 28-year-old record of the VicePresident (Mr J. N. Garner) showed 11 votes favourable and 18 unfavourable to Labour.