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Show IjH iSec. Burleson II Gives Account Of Administration U ATLANTIC CITY. N J t If. .ji Postmaster General Burleson today fcavo the National Hardware as tlon and thS American Hardware Man-rufacturors' Man-rufacturors' association. In joint sos-! sos-! ;lon here, the first public account of i jjJj his administration, which lie has made jjf .since he entered the cabinet. Policies which have made him the T-M rhject of perhaps the most bitter lacks directed aeainst any of Presi-dent Presi-dent Wilson's advisers, were explained , Jj And the difficulties of his administra-tlon administra-tlon under war conditions were dc-Jft dc-Jft scribed to the bu.in men forming I IH tnr audience IJD "Record has been made of what I !', stand for," Mr Burleson declared, 1 smashing his fist into his open pn'm, I ill "and it is not coins to be changed if' Chief among his critics Mr Burle- ill son listed the express companies, 1 m which, he said, were ang red by his 'development ot the parcel post; the I railroads, opposed to changing ihe ba i H owner? f pneumatic tubt Bystew -J which, he declared, had been nothing ; l short of "-I il : :e - paper.- and in . I m azines which I-.': been forced to pa; I iff JiiRher second ibis r.i'i s. and i h I American Federal inn of Labor o'imh, lut v n's stand against public em-ploves em-ploves affiliating with an organization usin the strike to enforce denands H He declared he had been confronted with powerful opposition e--r'"d . through congress by ihese Interests, aaal IP Mr Burleson particularly defended I jfi Ills enforcement of the espionage act "which, he said, earned him epithets jfjfl of the disloyal because he excluded Be-1 Jj lltionist newspapers Inun the mails, i Turning to current political ques-I Ji tlons, the postmaster eneiil o r lar d ! h the welfare of the country waited on ill ratification of th i treat) b) A congress and the passage of Important 1 -'f legislation urged by President Wilson j many months ago. iilj "Now they are talking about a re- II 'cess 'n November," he said, "with many things left undone If the party in power undertakes any such Step, the attention of the American people will be brought to the facts." |