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DULUTH
I pledge to you that as President I shall continue to
fight for the develonment of the resources of this great area
and for the full development of the St. Lawrence Seaway and
Power Project. I will not cempromise with special interests,
as some candidates for office are doing by supporting just the
electric power development of the St. Lawrence at the expense
of the Seaway. Nor will I support the Seaway and abandon the
plans for the development of power, power which is so badly
needed in many industrial cities.
There are a great many things you will get if you elect
a Democratic Congress and a Democratic Administration in November.
You will get back on the hish road to prosperity. You will get
rid of the se high prices that cause everyone of us to suffer.
Labor will no longer be the whipping boy of bi business.
The Taft-Hartley Act will be repealed. I want to say to you
that I vetoed that Toft-Hortley Act, and I vetoed it with
everything I had. It was passed over my veto and has become the
law of the land. And when the lows are on the books the President
of the United States is sworn to enforce them, and he does just
that. New, if you don't want that low enforced send enough
Democrats to Congress and let's repeal it and get it off the
books.
Now, in 1946 about two-thirds of the people in the United
States forgot that there was an election Taking place, and a
third of the people in the country elected that awful 80th
Congress -- and see what you got! Don't do that any more. I am
talking to the rest of the people of the United States -- I
am not talking to Duluth. Duluth didn't do that. You sent John
Blatnik back to Washington -- and if we had a lot more there
like him we wouldn't have any Teft-Hartley law.
I am just as sure as I can be that the people are waiting
for November 2nd so they can get to the polls and send men to
Washington who will be concerned with the welfare of the country
and not just concerned with a few special interests.
I am on this crusdde across the United States to tell the
people the facts and to make sure that ev ryone of you goes to
the polls on Election Day and votés for prosperity in the United
States and peace in the world.
I certainly wish I could stay here all afternoon to discuss
all the issues with you, but that just isn't possible. I have
engagements that I have to keep I have to hit the high-spots as
fast as I can. I have to bring home to you the things in which
you are interested and I have to bring home to you that you are
the Government. And I want to urge you with everything I have
to exercise that power and be sure to vote on Election Day.
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