HARDING DELIVERS FIRST ADDRESS TO CONGRESS IN PERSON
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On December 6, 1921, President Warren G. Harding delivered his first address to Congress in person. The speech was given in the House of Representatives Hall.
The President "outlined a plan for regulation of labor." Samuel Gompers*, president of the American Federation of Labor, later said this plan would carry "the history of the labor movement back 400 years."
Carter Field writes...
"As always is the case...(Republicans) praised (the Republican POTUS while Democrats)...had nothing but criticism to offer."^
^JFK+50 Note
I have rephrased Mr. Field's sentence. He is saying it is always the case that the party of the POTUS praises while the opposition party criticizes. Things certainly have not changed 100 years later.
*Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was born in Spitalfields, England & became a cigar manufacturer in the U.S. SG served as president of the AFL 1886-1924.
SOURCE
"Labor Regulation and Flexible Tariff Urged in Harding's Message," by Carter Field, The New York Tribune, December 7, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
