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Truman to Lewis: Come back home
UMW head urged to support Roosevelt
Los Angeles, California (UP) –
Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic vice-presidential nominee, today invited President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers to reconsider his support of the Republican presidential ticket in the November election and back President Roosevelt.
“I think the best interests of Mr. Lewis’ organization would be served by the Democratic Party,” Mr. Truman said in reply to a news conference question asking him to amplify a remark he made yesterday that the Democrats would accept Mr. Lewis’ support if Mr. Lewis would “come back and be a good boy.” […] told that Governor Thomas E. Dewey had “read Lewis out of the Republican Party,” and added, “I didn’t want him to have no place to go.”
Senator Truman will deliver the first major speech of his campaign trip tonight, addressing a Democratic rally in the Shrine Auditorium from the same platform on which Governor John W. Bricker will address a Republican rally two days later. Governor Bricker was scheduled to pass through here late today en route to San Diego, where he speaks tomorrow.
Invading a critical state in which most political observers have been conceding an edge to President Roosevelt, Senator Truman arrived yesterday after a 2,000-mile trip from New Orleans. He leaves tonight for San Francisco.
Murray hits GOP labor policies
Trenton, New Jersey (UP) –
Philip Murray, president of the CIO, says Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Governor John W. Bricker are attempting to “confuse” the nation’s workingmen, and he is unaware of “a single, solitary thing that Mr. Dewey has done for labor in his public life.”
Speaking at a “Phil Murray Day” outing sponsored by seven locals of United Steelworkers of America yesterday at the state fairgrounds. Mr. Murray said that Mr. Dewey “in his recent campaign trip to California praised the Roosevelt labor laws and social reforms, but Governor Bricker, his running mate, now traveling on the same circuit, condemns the labor and social reforms of the President.”
Praising the CIO’s Political Action Committee as a “thoroughly American institution designed to present facts to the people of the United States in an educational way.” Mr. Murray added:
I assume responsibility for its creation and am proud of the wonderful job it has done in all parts of the United States.
Mr. Murray said that “big money interests and isolationists” are backing Mr. Dewey.