Bricker raps labor draft, administration
Coverup for bungling, Ohio presidential candidate calls proposal
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio brought his campaign for the Presidency into Pennsylvania today with a blast against the National Service Act proposed by President Roosevelt for the drafting of men and women for war work.
In a press conference in his William Penn Hotel suite preliminary to a McKinley Day address before United Spanish War Veterans at the hotel tonight, Governor Bricker declared there has been no necessity shown for the proposed labor draft.
He charged that the act:
…is only a smokescreen to cover up the administration’s bungling and failure to cope with and handle the muddled condition in industry that has led to many strikes.
On soldier vote
He characterized the labor draft proposal as an extension of bureaucratic control and asserted:
There is no reason to put American men and women workers under the jurisdiction of draft boards.
Commenting on the soldier vote bill before Congress, Governor Bricker said there should be federal-enabling legislation passed, but that our soldiers should be entitled to vote the same kind of ballot they would receive if they were at home.
He suggested the soldier vote be handled by the Army and Navy, but that it be kept on a state basis as well as national.
Soldier bonus die
Governor Bricker said his program toward erasing the federal deficit would be to reduce taxes, to slice federal payrolls to a necessary working number and to slice salaries where they were far out of proportion.
Regarding the mustering-out pay for soldiers, Governor Bricker said it was entirely fair and certainly no more than soldiers deserve for their sacrifice of income and opportunities.
He charged that what the nation needs most today is a change in the philosophy of government as well as a change in the administration.
Visited nine states
He declared:
We must make the people masters of their government, rather than servants to it.
Governor Bricker said it had not yet been determined whether he will enter any of the state preferential primaries. He has visited nine states thus far since announcing his presidential candidacy in Chicago last December.
