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Dewey to speak in Seattle tonight
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Governor Thomas E. Dewey headed for Seattle today to make his bid for labor support in the November election with a program designed to “restore free collective bargaining and to correct the existing situation in which labor’s rights are made subject to political favoritism.”
The Republican presidential nominee is to address the nation tonight from Seattle’s Civic Auditorium.
Mr. Dewey’s speech will be broadcast by WJAS at 10:30 p.m. ET.
Paul E. Lockwood, Governor Dewey’s secretary, said the Seattle speech would “discuss the problems that confront the working men and women of America.”
Bureaucracy hit
Mr. Lockwood said:
Governor Dewey will analyze the position in which American labor finds itself today under the system of overlapping agencies and confliction of regulations which have been built up by Washington bureaucracy.
Before the speech, Governor Dewey scheduled day-long conferences with business, agriculture, labor and political leaders similar to those he has held at nine other stops across the country during the last 11 days.
Governor Dewey told a crowd greeting him at the Union Station at Seattle today that equality among all sections of the nation is important to American prosperity. He said that economic development of the West has barely begun and promised that:
If we can achieve equality among the East, the Middle West, and the Far West in reconversion, we can go ahead to fuller employment in a free economy.
Governor Dewey will swing south after the Seattle address tonight, speaking ay Portland tomorrow night, San Francisco on Thursday night and Los Angeles on Friday night.
‘Ickes to go’
The candidate said yesterday that he was “entirely convinced” by his trip, through Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington that the Roosevelt administration had “deserted” the western section of the country.
He promised that, if elected, he would be sure to appoint a Westerner to his Cabinet – probably as Secretary of the Interior. The pledge that a Cabinet post will go to a Westerner is the second commitment made thus far. He previously promised that the Labor Secretary would come from the ranks of organized labor.