Speech #850047777

I believe that tqday labor is understandably loath to make such proposals since it can be realistically anticipated that any labor legislation passed by this Congress would contain repressive provisions aimed not at helping labor. but at strangling and destroying it. This situation would not obtain if our people. as a whole. had a dynamic and prevailing moral purpose. If the executive and the legislative branches of the Government had such a prevailing moral purpose. an adequate priority would be given to the wholesale revision of that unAmerican -and inhuman immigration and citizenship law. the McCarranWalter Act. Within recent days. the mere threat of delay in the delivery of mail was enough to spread screaming black headlines across the Nation and to force an emergency appropriation by Congress. Yet the delay of months and years in the emigration of parents and children from abroad to join their loved ones in this country. a delay resulting from the McCarranWalter Act. gets little national attention. and no action whatever by Congress. Yes. in these and other ways the policies of our Government show the lack of a moral core. Of course.