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    "ocrText": "-5-\nthan I do\nNobody knows more about that productive industry / because\nI spent my time during the war years investigiting what labor was\ndoing for the war effort -- and they did a magnificent job! And\nSO did the farmer, so did industry, so did every other segment of\nthe population of our great Nation. There never was an effort\nlike it, and there never was an effort more successful. I think\nmaybe I had better read that to you out of the book -- it is se\ngood.\n\"NATIONAL\nARCHIVES AND\nRECORDS\nHere is another statement on page 194, and I quote --\nSERVICE\"\nlisten to this now:\niTo my mind, the Trft-Hartley Act represents the greatest\nsingle contribution mode by any political party for the past two\nRecades. It corrects in a single piece of legislation the aut-\nstanding mistakes of the New Deal. it the same time, it points the\nway toward E method to be utilized in correcting ther errors of\ngovernment initiated during the 1930's.' I don't know what those\nerrors were, but maybe we can find cut from Mr. Hartley.\nDo you get that? The Republicans pass a law ti break the\nbargaining power of the working sen, end they call it correcting\nthe mistakes of the New Deal.\n\"I or well aware, 19 says Mr. hartley on page 193, \"of the\nmolitical difficulties of climinating the New Deal social legis-\nlotion. It cannot be reported at single stroke.\"\nYou know, the reason he said that was because I was stand-\ning there with a veto -- end he couldn't get it by.\nWell, I certainly hope they can't repeal the New Deal legis-\nlotion. I hope and pray that it can't be repooled at all.\nNow, listen to this, and I quote again:\n\"All legislation of this type requires interim trustment.\"\nThat is another passage from Mr. Hartley's book.\nInterim treatment. Dc. you know what that is?\nThat is the Toft-Hartley law. They call it the Toft-Hartley\nlaw interim treatment.\nAnd after that, they take the gloves off, and give you the\nbare knückles.\nIn addition to the Wagner Act, there are E ther New Deel laws\nbenefiting labor that we Democrats are especially proud of.\nOne of them is the Fair Labor Standards Act which, for the\nfirst time in our history, set a floor under wages in the form of\na minimum wage.\nIt is very interesting to note what Mr. Hartley has to say\nabout that law. I quote from page 192 in this great book of Mr.\nHortley's -- it is very, very interesting:\n\"The Fair Lobor Standards Act is typics l of the New Deal\nlegislation enacted to combot the depression. Such legislation\nfailed to effect the conression one way or another and it has defin-\nitely outlived the usefulness it was supposed ever to have had.\"\nIsn't thrt C revolation?\nI asked this Republican do-nothing 80th Congress to increase\nthe minimum wage from 4C cents.t 75 cents an hour: They refused.\nThere's. the reason.\nNow we find that they not only refuse to increase it, but\nthey don't even want to keep the present pitiful 40 cent minimum.\nBut, on page 171 in Mr. Hartley's look appears the frankest\nconfessi on in the book. I want you to listen to this carefully.\nThis is what he says:\nOVER"
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