Series

SPEECHES AND STATEMENTS,, 1923-1958

Dates

1923-1958

Scope and Contents

Summary: Speeches and public statements made in the House and at clubs, conferences, etc.; also includes press releases and radio broadcasts. Speeches pertain to several subjects, including the following:

Labor: including "Labor Standards Legislation: A Bulwark for Democracy," address before the National Consumers League, December 8, 1939; a defense of the Labor Committee in the House (undated); a speech urging passage of the Fair Labor Standards Bill (undated); a speech on the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Bill; a speech in the House on the Wages and Hours Bill (October 19, 1938; also October 23, 1938); amendments to the National Labor Relations Act (in the House June 6, 1940); address before the New Jersey CIO convention (December 6, 1947); radio addresses on the Wages and Hours Bill (October 3, 1937)
Defense: including "The Defense of America," an address at the regional conference of eleven western states in Los Angeles (September 13, 1943); remarks on Compulsory Military Service (in the House, September 7, 1940); speech supporting the extension of military service (August 12, 1941) and conscription (1940)
Women: including and address on the 20th Anniversary of suffrage (undated); "Women's Place in Government" (undated); an addresses on "defense manpower" (October 9, 1952, also December 4, 1951); "Women in Government" (May 5, 1932); D.C. suffrage (speech, 1943); radio speech (April 28, 1938).
Reports include the report to accompany Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938).

Included in the papers are typescript speeches, printed speeches, speeches and statements published in the Congressional Record, press releases, reports, bills.