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...their own for pay, hours, union recognition. Hot-headed strike leaders welcomed alliance with open arms, for it gave them an opportunity to shake a bigger stick. When Joseph P. Ryan, national president of the International Longshoremen's Association, tried to negotiate a settlement on the basis of non-partisan control of the hiring halls, Leader Bridges and his embattled followers turned down the agreement because it did not provide for their allies. Their determination to win unconditional victory upon all fronts blocked all subsequent attempts at settlement. It led President Ryan to join with employers in accusing Leader Bridges...
Having made this edict to end all code-making in 30 days, he announced that he had written the President that as soon as code making was done NRA would cease to be a one-man job and should be administered by a non-partisan commission. Then, lest the public entertain any premature hopes of his early retirement, he added...
When they went to the polls last week, North Dakota Republicans had the choice of three slates: Independent Voters Association, "Real Non-Partisan League" and Governor Langer's Non-Partisan League proper. While his enemies bitterly cried for his defeat as "a convicted criminal." William Langer stood on his record. Was it not better, asked friends of "the poor man's Governor," to accept campaign funds from the rank-&-file than to solicit them from rich corporations which would expect fat State favors? On their ballots. North Dakotans, rich & poor, thundered "Yes!" Governor Langer was renominated with...
...pity if there is to be no organized non-partisan opposition, for the issue presented goes much deeper than any ordinary eleavage between Republicans and Democrats. It runs deeper and also it outs at right angles across both parties. The novel theories of society and government which some aspects of the New Deal introduce to America are more directly counter to Democratic principles and traditions than to Republican...
Nevertheless, as things stand today, the regrettable condition is that there is no present promise of a non-partisan organization or of a third party. In this condition, those who oppose what is being done are forced to look to the Republican Party as the framework through which to express themselves. The great question therefore is whether the Republican Party will live up to an obligation which is wider than the party...