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The original documents are located in Box D22, folder "Republican Banquet, Springfield,
Delaware County, PA, April 28, 1967" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary
and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D22 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
For Release at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 28, 1967--
Excerpts from an Address by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., House Minority Leader,
at Republican banquet in Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
This year we are being given more and more resounding proof that the
President is defaulting on his obligations to the American people in the field
of labor-management relations.
It is not the answer to repeated clashes between big labor and big business
to use the White House as a collective bargaining agency of last resort and then
to have Congress employ legislative compulsion to block a strike.
We must keep the railroads running, particularly in time of war. But there
must be a better answer than a quickie commandment from Congress on a plea from
the White House. There is a better answer, and Congress would have devised it by
now if the President h a d come up with a recommendation for
improved permanent legislation dealing with national emergency labor disputes.
It's elementary that Democratic leaders in Congress are not going to act on such
Regislation without a go-signal from the White House.
Instead of being given White House recommendations in the labor-management
field to be carefully and thoroughly considered, Congress is being plunged into
one labor crisis situation after another by a President who has abdicated one of
his most serious responsibilities.
The Republican Party controls neither the White House nor the Congress. We
are helpless to move in this situation. We have repeatedly urged the President to
send Congress a proposal for dealing more effectively with national emergency
labor-management disputes. He has not done SO. He have repeatedly introduced
bills calling for creation of a joint committee of Congress to study the need for
such legislation. The Democratic Leadership has refused even to schedule hearings
on the matter. The dereliction of duty is not on the Republican side.
Action is needed. We should be moving in this area and should have moved
long before this. We must bring neutrality and objectivity into the handling of
labor-management disputes in place of government intervention which may tip the
scales to one side or the other.
***
(more)
-2-
We have come to a crossroads in American political life. A momentous
decision is imminent for the Congress and the American people.
We must make a basic choice which will sharply influence the course of
government in this country and the future progress of the Nation.
The choice is whether we shall continue down the path of ever-greater
centralization of power and control of our everyday lives in the federal govern-
ment or whether we shall shift some of that power to the states.
The choice is now. It cannot be delayed. That is why Republicans in the
House of Representatives have proposed that block sum grants be substituted for
categorical grants in the federal program of aid to elementary and secondary
schools.
We prefer sharing of federal income tax revenue with States and local units
of government. But since we lack the power to move on federal tax-sharing, we
have organized behind the block grant approach in federal school aid. If we
are successful, we will have struck a blow for better balance in government, for
a shift in power and responsibility to the states, for greater freedom for state
and local educators to determine their own priorities in problem-solving, for
bringing government closer to the people.
This is progress. This would put the American people on a new path to
local problem-solving and freedom from federal intrusion in local affairs.
There is a healthy and exciting ferment among Republicans in Congress
a ferment that has produced the block grant approach to school aid and the Percy-
Widnall plan to make home owners of slum dwellers with a minimum of federal dollar
help and emphasis on citizen effort.
The ferment also is working on behalf of tax credits for parents who need
help in sending their children to college. I am happy to see that the Senate has
tentatively approved such a plan.
I think the time is fast approaching when a tax credit for part of college
expenses will receive the full approval of Congress and become the lever which lifts
a majority of Americans to the college level. We are the richest nation in the
world. We must also become the best educated.
####
CONGRESSMAN
NEWS
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
RELEASE
For Release at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 28, 1967--
Excerpts from an Address by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, R-Mich., House Minority Leader,
at Republican banquet in Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
This year we are being given more and more resounding proof that the
President is defaulting on his obligations to the American people in the field
of labor-management relations.
It is not the answer to repeated clashes between big labor and big business
to use the White House as a collective bargaining agency of last resort and then
to have Congress employ legislative compulsion to block a strike.
We must keep the railroads running, particularly in time of war. But there
must be a better answer than a quickie commandment from Congress on a plea from
the White House. There is a better answer, and Congress would have devised it by
now if the President h a d come up with a recommendation for
improved permanent legislation dealing with national emergency labor disputes.
It's elementary that Democratic leaders in Congress are not going to act on such
legislation without a go-signal from the White House.
Instead of being given White House recommendations in the labor-management
field to be carefully and thoroughly considered, Congress is being plunged into
one labor crisis situation after another by a President who has abdicated one of
his most serious responsibilities.
The Republican Party controls neither the White House nor the Congress. We
are helpless to move in this situation. We have repeatedly urged the President to
send Congress a proposal for dealing more effectively with national emergency
labor-management disputes. He has not done SO.
We
have repeatedly introduced
bills calling for creation of a joint committee of Congress to study the need for
such legislation. The Democratic Leadership has refused even to schedule hearings
on the matter. The dereliction of duty is not on the Republican side.
Action is needed. We should be moving in this area and should have moved
long before this. We must bring neutrality and objectivity into the handling of
labor-management disputes in place of government intervention which may tip the
scales to one side or the other.
***
(more)
-2-
We have come to a crossroads in American political life. A momentous
decision is imminent for the Congress and the American people.
We must make a basic choice which will sharply influence the course of
government in this country and the future progress of the Nation.
The choice is whether we shall continue down the path of ever-greater
centralization of power and control of our everyday lives in the federal govern-
ment or whether we shall shift some of that power to the states.
The choice is now. It cannot be delayed. That is why Republicans in the
House of Representatives have proposed that block sum grants be substituted for
categorical grants in the federal program of aid to elementary and secondary
schools.
We prefer sharing of federal income tax revenue with States and local units
of government. But since we lack the power to move on federal tax-sharing, we
have organized behind the block grant approach in federal school aid. If we
are successful, we will have struck a blow for better balance in government, for
a shift in power and responsibility to the states, for greater freedom for state
and local educators to determine their own priorities in problem-solving, for
bringing government closer to the people.
This is progress. This would put the American people on a new path to
local problem-solving and freedom from federal intrusion in local affairs.
***
There is a healthy and exciting ferment among Republicans in Congress
a ferment that has produced the block grant approach to school aid and the Percy-
Widnall plan to make home owners of slum dwellers with a minimum of federal dollar
help and emphasis on citizen effort.
The ferment also is working on behalf of tax credits for parents who need
help in sending their children to college. I am happy to see that the Senate has
tentatively approved such a plan.
I think the time is fast approaching when a tax credit for part of college
expenses will receive the full approval of Congress and become the lever which lifts
a majority of Americans to the college level. We are the richest nation in the
world. We must also become the best educated.
####