The Pittsburgh Press (September 16, 1944)
Bricker calls New Deal aimless
Parkersburg, West Virginia (UP) –
The New Deal administration, torn by “internal feuds, dissensions, jealousy and strife,” has become a purposeless administration which must be replaced by the Republican Party which will create a “climate of opportunity” to solve the basic economic problems of America, Ohio Governor John W. Bricker said here last night.
Speaking at the opening of the West Virginia state Republican campaign, the GOP vice-presidential nominee accused the present administration of becoming “content with day-by-day improvisations,” following upon its failure “to provide jobs in peacetime.”
Mr. Bricker departed from his prepared text to attack the Roosevelt administration’s “vicious allegiance with Sidney Hillman and his CIO Political Action Committee.”
Mr. Bricker said:
Hillman brought to his country his old-world concepts of power politics and class hatreds and they have no place in the American political future.
I condemn the President of the United States for dealing with Sidney Hillman, and I condemn Hillman himself for the harm he is doing organized labor in the United States.