Evening star. [volume], November 18, 1938, Page A-8, Image 8

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President to Keep
His Party Liberal,
Hopkins Predicts
State W. P. A. Heads
Told New Deal Will Be
Here in 1958
Works Progress Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins predicted last
night that President Roosevelt will
“continue to be an influence" that
will keep the Democratic party “lib
eral,” and that the New Deal will
be here 20 years from now.
Addressing the conference of State
directors and supervisors of W. P.
A. education and recreation projects,
Mr. Hopkins did not specify in what
capacity Mr. Roosevelt would con
tinue the liberalization, although his
remarks came at a time when the
question of a third term for Presi
dent Roosevelt is being much dis
cussed.
“I think he's led the party of
Which he is the head into being the
great liberal party in America," the
administrator said of the President,
“and I think that he’s going to
continue to be an influence that
will keep that party a liberal party.
“In other words, the New Deal
er whatever you call it 20 years
HARRY L. HOPKINS
As he addressed State W. P. A.
officials last night.
—A. P. Photo.
from now, will still be here, and
I hope still to be a part of it."
Mr. Hopkins was more than an
hour late for his scheduled address,
and the delegates entertained them
selves holding a community sing
and listening to a talk by Dr. L. R.
Alderman, national director of the
education division, while they
waited.
The W. P. A. administrator told
the more than 200 W. P. A. program
directors that he often has been
intrigued by the mechanics of his
job, but that “always I am brought
back to the stark reality of the
poverty with which it deals."
“Poverty, I have found, has not
one redeeming quality,” he said. “I
simply do not believe people grow
by suffering. I have seen courage
among the poor, yes; but I have seen
no one thriving on poverty. The
more I see of the whole thing, the
less I like it.”
Mr. Hopkins declared he believed
poverty can be abolished wholly and
that it is the duty of the Govern
ment to work to find a way.
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delegates parading, tooting horns,
ringing bells and shouting. Balloons
fluttered over the convention hall.
Lt. Gov. Thomas Kennedy of
Pennsylvania, secretary-treasurer of
Lewis’ United Mine Workers, asked
if there were any other nomina
tions, and delegates yelled “No!”
Election Is Unanimous.
Hugh Thompson of Buffalo, a C.
I. O. regional director, then moved
the nominations be closed, and Lewis
was elected unanimously.
Responding, Mr. Lewis said:
“This marks my transition from
the role of a dictator to the role of
a servant of a constitutional de
mocracy. What a change for a dic
tator!
“Your servant I am and proudly
so.”
Mr. Lewis spoke of helping the
worker! to stave off the “fears of
tomorrow.”
Hands thrust Into his coat pockets,
while the packed hall listened, mo
tionless, he said he failed to com
prehend the resolves of the conven
tion that no one need fear his in
fluence, because:
“If I represent what lies in the
hearts of these men and women,
then let their enemies beware and
their adversaries take counsel.”
Mr. Lewis said his strength was
only the grant of strength from the
workers.
“And this strength becoiAes a
strength to be reckoned with in this
day and this democracy,” he as
serted.
“It doesn t make any difference
what people say about us if the
facts belie the records.”
Promises to “Justify” Faith.
Speaking of the new leadership
he was assuming, Mr. Lewis promised
to carry on the C. I. O., and “justify
the confidence” of the workers.
“How can I fail,” he asked, “with
4,000,000 members of the C. I. O.,
behind me?”
The veteran labor leader was
nominated by his long-time friend
and right-hand lieutenant, Philip
Murray, vice president of the
United Mine Workers and chairman
of the Steel Workers’ Organizing
Committee.
The end of the speech was the sig
nal for a deafening demonstration.
Horns sounded, drums beat, balloons
drifted down from the balcony of
the gayly decorated hall with con
fetti and beys rapg. Delegates stood
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rades.
Recalling their association of 26
years in the labor movement, Mr.
Murray said Mr. Lewis had been a
constant champion of the principles
of industrial democracy.
Mr. Lewis’ goal. Mr. Murray said,
had been the “better distribution of
the profits of Industry.”
Mr. Lewis’ founding of the C. I. O.,
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ing of wages and shortening of
hours for industrial organizations,
and “benefltted all the Nation’s
workers either directly or indirectly."
Four Billions Gain Claimed.
Mr. Murray estimated the gain
of all workers amounted to about
four billion dollars a year on the
basis of contracts and wage In
creases won by the C. I. O., Steel
Workers’ Union.
If the pre-election expectations
ire fulfilled, the two vice presidencies
provided by C. I. O.’s new constitu
tion will go to Murray and Sidney
Hillman. Murray, a Pittsburgh res
ident, is vice president of the United
Mine Workers and chairman of the
Steel Workers Organizing Commit
tee. Hillman, a New Yorker, has
long headed the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers Union, and under C. I.
O., has directed the organizing drive
in the textile industry. James B.
Carey of New York, head of the
United Electrical, Radio and Ma
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A highly demonstrative convention
grinding out a policy program for the
now permanently organized C. I. O.,
highlighted yesterday’s session with
passage of resolutions threatening
boycott action against the Ford
Motor Co., the only major motor car
concern in the United States which
has not signed a collective bargain
ing agreement with C. I. O.’s United
Auto Workers Union.
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a flood of convention oratory that
all but blotted out other policy
making developments.
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