WARNING FOR ROOSEVELT

Southland Times, Issue 23297, 6 September 1937, Page 5

WARNING FOR ROOSEVELT

LABOUR SYMPATHIES ALIENATED “POLITICIANS’ PERFIDY” EMPHASIZED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 5, 6.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, September 3. Mr John L. Lewis, Leader of the Committee for Industrial Organization, in a nation-wide broadcast inferentially threatened the President, Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the consequences of alienating the sympathies of organized labour. He said: “It ill behoves one who has supped at Labour’s table to curse with equal fervour Labour and its adversaries when locked in a deadly embrace. He also assailed the Democrats for their failure to pass industrial legislation, adding that the spectacle of members of Congress hiding in order to prevent a quorum acting on Labour measures emphasizes the perfidy of politicians. , , Mr Roosevelt, on Labour Day, issued a statement in the course of which he said the mistakes made by both sides in the current labour disputes were the result of mental distrust and bitter recrimination. He urged peaceful settlements and no strikes in the' future. The President admitted by inference that the Wagner Labour Act might need alteration. He said his statement, which had been prepared before Mr Lewis made his broadcast, maintained the tone of neutrality about which Mr Lewis had complained.