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election day . When votes are at stake , they suddenly discover that they really love labor and that they are anxious to protect labor from its old friends .
I got quite a laugh , for example�and I am sure that you did�when I read this plank in the Republican platform adopted at their National Convention in Chicago last July : “ The Republican Party accepts the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act , the Wage and Hour Act , the Social Security Act and all other Federal statutes designed to promote and protect the welfare of American working men and women , and we promise a fair and just administration of these laws .”
You know , many of the Republican leaders and Congressmen and candidates , who shouted enthusiastic approval of that plank in that Convention Hall would not even recognize these progressive laws if they met them in broad daylight . Indeed , they have personally spent years of effort and energy�and much money�in fighting every one of those laws in the Congress , and in the press , and in the courts , ever since this Administration began to advocate them and enact them into legislation . That is a fair example of their insincerity and of their inconsistency .
The whole purpose of Republican oratory these days seems to be to switch labels . The
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