SUPPORT OF NEW DEAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 5

SUPPORT OF NEW DEAL

C.L0. Leader Commends Roosevelt (Eeceived 29, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YOEK, Nov. 27. Eadical Labour's attitude towards tho Eoosevelt Administration has been written by Mr John L. Lewis, leader of the Committee of Industrial Organisation. "It will go down as oue of the most idealistic of all time, one which tried to do the most for the average man. For this I gave President Eoosevelt my support, and he still has it. "But the greatest tragedy of the New Deal is tfrat it wages sych heroic battles and, having won victory in sueh agonising struggles, it nevertlieless has deelined in prcstige because of just one thing — namely, lack of cqmpetent and co-ordinated leadership from the N.E.A, to the present housing schemes." Mr Lewis expres!sed great perturbation at the reports that Mr Eoosevelt was planning a tremendous naval building programme. Dismissing any good that might accrue to Labour from that programme, he said: "I cannot help wOndering why all this rush is going on about war. If enough people in high places adopt a war psychology, eventually we are going to get the country tliinking that way. This is sometliir.g that concerns me very much, because il" there is a war it is Labour that has .do mpst of the dying,"