| Show I Need Men Like Taft Jaff Overall Clad Workers Give Vote Reasons I n By Bruce Biossat iossa t i ii 1 i C COLUMBUS 0 L U M B U 5 0 O. Nov 28 NEA NEA l I voted for Taft We Ve need him in the senate We Ve need somebody who'll get up and ask questions I dont don't like the idea of these union leaders maybe running running running run run- ning the state or even the country And besides Ferguson wasn't good goodenough goodenough goodenough enough for the job This was no businessman in a well-warmed well club but a blue- blue Second Secund of u a series Cries dc dealing with Ohio's senatorial election worker standing outside a huge steel mill in Cleveland I II caught him and find a lot of other I steel hands as they streamed through the gates at a shift change late lale on a cold night For a strongly unionized plant with many foreign-born foreign workers it produced a surprisingly heavy sprinkling of Taft voters oters My ran- ran dom sample ran only about 5 to 4 for Ferguson Throughout Ohio 6 to 3 for Ferguson is estimated b by both bolh Republican and labor leaders to be the true worker showing Usually the men I approached were friendly and spoke c up quickly when asked what they did on election election election elec elec- tion day One was cagey Why dont don't you ask me l if Im I'm satisfied with the result I did and he said I am Then he laughed and added Im a Republican Republican Republican lican and I marked my ballot that way ay Wherever I went to talk to factor factory factory fac fac- tor tory workers the pro-Ferguson pro story was generally the same The Democrats are are for the ordinary working man the underdog and the Republicans and Taft are for forthe forthe forthe the big interests the people with money Said the man at the steel plant See Page G 5 Column 1 I Ivera vera lied Workers Give sight to Taft Victory l Continued from Page 1 r notice when a fellow getse gets how he switches to tUe e money Democrat to Republican the party for me t ts t's not V handful of the Ferguson vot- vot id the Taft-Hartley Taft law in indo ad d Said one I 1 talked to in a n aSir d 3 do Sir tin r shop I didn't think Fern Fer- Fer a good candidate and ande andoW Mn w was n Taft raft had more to offer t the e oW f e Taft Taft Hartley Hartley law stopped I me Still I know a lot of fellows who voted for Taft because they admire him and dont don't think the law is as bad as labor leaders make it out Most fost who voted for Ferguson either hadn't read or hadn't been much affected by the heralded propaganda labor leaders put out in their Taft anti-Taft campaign On a construction job near Cleveland a burly fellow sai said I voted for Ferguson but Im I'm glad it came out the way it did If these labor leaders had won they might have been en drunk with the their power I dont don't think that'd be good for the country I know several several several sev sev- sev- sev eral men on this job who ot voted d for Taft One revealing t bit it of evidence e I encountered was a letter written Ito I Ito to a reporter by an anonymous Massillon worker He held an annuity annuity annuity an an- and said he feared union wage demands would lead to more and more inflation until his annuity annuity annuity an an- buy peanuts He too was worried about top labor men grabbing too much power And he added I know several fellows in this shop who wore Ferguson Ferguson Ferguson Fer Fer- guson buttons but voted for Taft Down in Columbus at another large arge plant the sample ran about 7 to 3 for Ferguson The men who chose Taft seemed to stress Fergusons Ferguson's lack of experience experience experience ex ex- for the senate job Fergusons Fergusons Fer guson's a good auditor but that's all On the whole I think Taft Tact has done a pretty good job down there And I dont don't think the Taft- Taft Hartley law is so bad in some ways as Out on the farm as expected Taft had much the better of it My sample came out around 8 to 5 for him in a county with a reputation reputation reputation tation for swinging back and forth from year to year earI ear I found one farmer fanner feeding his hogs A lean leathery-faced leathery man with steel-rimmed steel glasses and a ablack ablack ablack black hunters' hunters top tie-top cap he slicked st on his pipe as he told me I 1 voted for Taft Hes He's just the i better man Especially in times i like these I made up my mind how Id I'd vote as soon as I heard Ferguson Ferguson Ferguson Fer Fer- I guson was the other choice AndI And I 1 didn't like what the labor leaders I were doing its it's against my principles prin- prin At another place I leaned in the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of a barn as a farmer got ready to milk his cO cos s. s He spoke out Im against all aU this spending spending spend- spend j I ing by government I take the farm payments they hand out because because because be be- cause everybody else elso takes them But I dont don't like it I voted for Taft because hes he's for the old principles of American life I stepped into a farmers farmer's kitchen and talked with his wife They'd made up their minds to vote for Taft late in the race We Ve dont don't like him We Ve think hes he's against the farmer But Ferguson just isn't Washington caliber Generally the pro-Ferguson pro farmers I met stressed their feeling feeling feeling feel feel- ing that Taft hadn't done enough for the farmer Like the workers most farmers answered questions readily al although although although al- al though a few declined on the ground their vote was a private matter One old fellow chased me off after shouting The Republicans are at the bottom of this I aint gonna tell you anything I put him down for Ferguson Tomorrow The Republicans organize in a big way |
