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House Passes Wage-Hour Bill
EPRESENTATIVE MARY NOR-
TON'S wage-hour bill finally got
through the house by a vote of 314
to 97, despite fierce opposition of
the southern Demo-
crats. It was sent on
differing
and where
ported
carry on a filibuster.
The Southerners
3 fought for
A : tials favoring their
a industries, and were
Rep. Norton .ijeq4 by a few Re-
publicans who called the bill a *‘vote
catcher”
out of work.”
The measure
wage-hour standards
classes of
operating in
regardless of prevailing
scales. It fixes an initial wage of
25 cents an hour which steps up to
40 cents an hour in three years, and
rigid
certain
establishes
for
two years.
A coalition of farm state repre-
sentatives and the southern Demo-
crats put over a drastic amendment
offered by Mrs. Norton, exempting
thousands of employees engaged in
the processing of agricultural com-
modities from the provisions of the
measure.
Other amendments exempt retail
establishments in intrastate com-
merce; the entire fishing industry;
and employees of rural weekly and
semi-weekly newspapers with less
than 3,000 circulation.
The shipment in commerce of
goods produced with the aid of child
labor is prohibited, but child actors
are exempt from this provision.
When the fight ended, Mrs. Nor-
ton, chairman of the labor commit-
tee, was cheered and hugged by the
victorious administration Demo-
crats.
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Morgan Charges Deceit
R. ARTHUR E.
ed chief of TVA, was the first
witness heard by the congressional
committee inquiring into the affairs
of the authority.
fashion he told his side of the story,
charging his fellow directors with
dishonest management. He ex-
plained he did not mean David Lil-
deceived the President, congress,
and the public; that they covered
up important facts tending to throw
ernment’s huge social experiment;
reported a false electric power yard-
stick, and were subservient to politi-
cal and other special interests.
He accused Lilienthal flatly of de-
ceit in leading the public to be-
lieve that the financial accounts of
service they render to the public.
Dr. Morgan discussed in great de-
tail the celebrated ‘‘Berry marble
case,” involving Sen. George L. Ber-
ry, Tennessee Democrat,
sosmmamnnns
Boss Hines Arrested
JAMES J. HINES, most powerful
leader of Tammany Hall and
chief dispenser of federal patronage
in New York, was arrested on
charges arising from the 100-million-
dollar-a-year policy game racket in
that city. He surrendered in the
office of District Attorney Thomas
E. Dewey, hard hitting young prose-
cutor of Manhattan's multitudinous
rackets, and was released in bonds
of $20,000.
A —_—.
Lewis Backs Barkley
JoBN L. LEWIS, C. 1. O. chieftain,
has asked labor to support Sen.
Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky in
the primaries August 6. In his ca-
pacity as chairman of Labor's Non-
Jattisan league, Lewis said of Bark-
y:
. He is recognized as one of the
nation’s leading statesmen, liberal
in his viewpoint and co-operative in
his attitude toward legislation in the
interests of labor and the common
people.”
Harry Hopkins, WPA administra-
tor, found occasion to say a good
Democratic senaterial nomination
For this Hopkins was denounced
by senators who were demanding
that the relief appropriations be ear-
marked so they cannot be used for
political purposes.
AROLD L. ICKES, secretary of
the interior and PWA adminis-
trator, put one over on all but his
closest friends. He sailed secretly
from New York to
Ireland and
lin was quietly mar-
ried to Miss Jane
Dahlman of Milwau-
kee, twenty - five
years old and a
clerk in his depart-
ment. Mr. Ickes,
who is sixty - four
years old, lost his
g first wife nearly
three years go In
Harold Ickes an automobile acci-
dent in the Southwest,
The new Mrs. Ickes, red haired
and pretty, is a niece of John Cuda-
hy, American minister to Ireland,
and sister of Mrs. Wilmarth Ickes of
Winnetka, Ill., widow of Mr. Ickes’
step-son.
Minister Cudahy did not attend
the wedding, but was represented by
an attache of the
legation. The couple left Dublin by
automobile for a brief honeymoon
trip. Mr. Ickes cabled friends in
Washington that he would
a week and would be at
home on his estate near Olney, Md.
EN persons died when a twin-
motored plane of the United Air
bound from New York for
Chicago, crashed and burned south
of Cleveland, Ohio.
and the stewardess.
Officials of the air line said their
information indicated the pilot was
forced to make a landing because of
Japan Demands Apology
TOW it is the turn of Japan to
4 demand an apology — from
Great Britain. The Tokyo govern-
ler, parliamentary of the British for-
eign office, that Japanese marines
hzd shot many Chinese war prison-
tured the port of Amoy.
manded that the British government
slur on Japan's honor.
The Japanese announced in Shang-
hai that they had at last gained
complete control of the 800-mile
Tientsin-Pukow railway, and expect-
ed to resume operations linking Pei-
ping and Shanghai early in July.
smn.
Two Taxation Decisions
N TWO far-reaching decisions the
United States Supreme court fur-
ther narrowed the field of recipro-
cal intergovernmental tax immuni-
ty. The rulings continued the trend
in the direction of President Roose-
velt’s theory that the federal and
state governments can tax the sala-
ries of each other's employees and
the income of each other's securi-
ties without a constitutional amend-
ment.
In a decision delivered by Justice
Stone, the court upheld levying of
federal income taxes on employees
of the Port of New York authority.
In a decision delivered by Justice
Roberts, the court upheld federal
admission taxes on tickets to foot-
ball games conducted by the uni-
versity system of Georgia.
HE National Labor Relations
board ordered the Kuehne Manu-
facturing company, Flora, Il1., to re.
instate with back pay 164 American
Federation of Labor sit-down strik-
ers,
It was the NLRB’s third major
sit-down decision, but the first in-
volving an A. F. of L. union,
The labor board refused to an-
| swer 74 questions put to it by the
| Ford Motor company in United
States circuit court at Covington,
Ky. The board particularly resented
| being asked whether Thomas Cor-
{ coran, Benjamin V. Cohen, John L.
| Lewis or Homer Martin were con-
sulted in arriving at an order charg-
ing the Ford company with violat-
ing the Wagner labor act.
| CE ——
| Too Late for Wheat Quotas
SECRETARY WALLACE said that
| under the new crop control law
it is too late to invoke marketing
| quotas on this year's indicated
{| bumper wheat crop. He explained
that the law authorized quotas this
| year only in the event congress ap-
| propriated funds by May 15 for
“parity payments’ provided in the
new legislation.
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Martin Loses in Oregon
OV. CHARLES H. MARTIN of
Oregon, the veteran soldier
who has been fighting against the
C. I. O. and other radicals, was
beaten for renomination in the Dem-
ocratic primary by Henry Hess who
had the backing of labor unions and
of Secretary of the Interior Ickes.
Charles A. Sprague was nominated
{ for governor by the Republicans and
| they believe they have a good
chance to win in the fall elections,
| for the Democrats, there as in Penn-
sylvania, were badly split.
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War Narrowly Averted
ERMAN and Czech troops by
the thousands were massed on
the frontier between the two coun-
| tries. President Benes of Czechoslo-
vakia and his cabi-
net decided to call
70,000 reserves to
the Poland
assembled armed
forces close to the
Slovakia border.
Hungary was re-
ported to be taking
“certain military
measures.” France
was ready to defend
her ally, Czechoslo-
vakia, against Nazi
aggression, and
assurance that Great
Britain and Russia would come to
the aid of France if she were at-
tacked without provocation.
No wonder the governments of
Europe were desperately worried
by such a critical condition.
Hitler must have realized that the
time was not ripe for aggressive ac-
ion against the Czechs, for German
authorities in Berlin solemnly as-
sured Dr. Vojtech Mastny, Czech
minister to Berlin, and the Czech
military attache that Germany
{ planned no military expedition
against Czechoslovakia. This eased
the situation somewhat, but the
British cabinet continued to urge
Benes and his government to make
all possible concessions to Hitler
concerning the demands of the Su-
deten German minority. It was be-
lieved the Fuehrer would ultimate-
ly get about everything he wants
{ from the Czechs without a fight.
Dr. Milan Hodza, premier of
Czechoslovakia, and Konrad Hen-
lein, leader of the Sudeten German
| party, were brought together in
peace talks in Prague. Henlein was
{ reported to have said he didn't be-
lieve much progress in that line
| could be made until the government
{ had recalled the reservists who had
been mobilized.
The Czechs informed the French
and British governments they are
willing to become a central Euro-
pean Switzerland in which all races
| of the polyglot republic will have
equal rights. However, they insist
{ on further guarantees against Ger-
| man aggression to compensate for
{| weakening their defense.
{| In Paris it was reported that the
French government asked that the
United States associate itself with
France and Britain in their efforts
| to keep Hitler from attacking Czech-
| oslovakia, and that Washington's
i reply, through Ambassador Bullitt,
was a refusal to mix in the row.
This was denied by Mr. Bullitt,
r—
colors,
President
Benes
there was
Italy Warns France
JTALY intimated it would keep out
of the Nazi-Czech quarrel, but
{ Mussolini broke off the friendship
| talks with France and warned that
continued French acquiescence in
| the shipment of arms to govern-
{| ment Spain would not be tolerated.
lona, Italy and Germany may be
would endanger the new Anglo-Ital-
ian agreement.
sin Ss
Predestination Is Out
G ENERAL assembly of the Pres-
byterian church in the United
States, in session at Meriden, Miss.,
voted 151 to 130 to omit from the
confession of faith these two impor-
tant sections:
“By the decree of God, for the
manifestation of his glory, some
men and angels are predestined
unto everlasting life and others fore.
ordained to everlasting death.
**And their number is so certain
and definite that it cannot be either
increased or diminished.”
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By WILLIAM
3 ¥ {
BRUC
NATIONA
is curious how
We,
here in Washing-
ton, have just wit-
nessed what can
well be called a
phenomenon. It grows out of the
primaries in two widely separated
states, Florida and Pennsylvania.
The fact that it was a Democratic
primary in each instance, however,
makes possible this analysis and
discussion of details.
Taking up the primaries in their
order, there was the primary in
Florida where Sen. Claude Pepper,
100 per cent New Dealer, indorser
of Townsend old-age pensions, and
himself indorsed by James Roose-
velt, son and secretary of the Pres-
ident, licked the pants off of his
challengers. He polled more votes
than Rep. J. Mark Wilcox and for-
mer Gov. Dave Sholtz combined. It
was, without doubt, a New Deal vic-
tory for which the President can
claim justifiable credit.
The second primary was that in
Pennsylvania where there were
three candidates for the United
States senatorial nomination among
the Democrats and three for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomina-
tion. There were two candidates for
the Republican nomination for each
of these offices, as well, but that
fact will be treated later,
Few party primaries in modern
times developed the bitterness that
flamed in the
Pennsylvania. It was
that rganize , a8
come out ur * open with
candidates
Democratic
ley has ta
to tell the
Washington.—It
Phenomenon
in Politics
the first time
such, had
anc
National Chairms:
ken a hand in attempt
il voters of a state what
do. In addition, there
party COMmMN
upon selecting a slate of
in regulation boss fashior
were all of the
fight, and it happened accordin
forecast
Mr. Farley made
hour public appeal to
of Pennsylvania
asked them to nominate Governor
Earle for the United States senate
Governor
Earle
the state comm
Farley also
sylvanian
Thomas 3
urer of the United Mine
for the governorship
was thrown
commitiee
Was
which
1
1itlee
elements of a r
an
the Democrats
al
ittee faction. Mr.
that the Penn.
Lieut
asked
Workers,
overboard by the state
but he had the open in-
dorsement of John L. Lewis, head
of the C. I. O. labor union. He also
had the backing of Sen. Joseph Guf-
fey, who has constantly served as
President Roosevelt's in the
United States senate. The Farley
recommendation cast out
Charles Alvin Jones of Pittsburgh,
state committee selection for the
governorship,
voice
thus
the discard as far
cratic senatorial nomination
concerned. Mayor Wilson
Lewis-C. 1. O.-Guffey
was
was a
candidate.
up resentment even from the men
loud and long; so did Lieutenant
Governor Kennedy.
Mr. Earle won. Mr. Kennedy
lost. Mr. Jones won, and shouted
about it. Mayor Wilson lost and
bellowed about the interference.
And after the smoke cleared away,
Mr. Farley said promptly, in ef-
fect, “Let's all get together and
elect our Democratic candidates.”
ad * »
John D. M. Hamilton, Republican
national chairman, wrote a state-
men while the
sun was coming
up on the day fol-
lowing the pri-
mary. He bounced biting words
right off of Mr. Farley's head. In
substance, he said the Pennsylvania
primary showed: 1. The voters of
any state resent interference from
the national headquarters as re-
gards their party nominees. 2. The
voters of Pennsylvania showed they
will have nothing to do with John L.
Lewis, despite the fact that prob-
ably that state is the most tightly
organized for the C. I. O. of any
state in the country. 3. The Demo-
crats of Pennsylvania are tiring of
the ‘‘crack-pot brains’’ of the Roose-
velt administration.
Mr. Hamilton, further, called at-
Biting
Words
of representatives were defeated for
renomination. Representative Stack,
an admirer of Father Coughlin, rad-
ical radio priest, and Representa-
tive Crosby, author of Townsend
plan bills in the house, were sup-
planted. The Republican chairman
sought to connect their defeat with
a trend away from radicalism which
he says is inherent in the New Deal,
because Mr. Stack sometimes went
beyond New Desl ground.
* Now, as to the Republican battle:
James J. Davis, present senator,
was ted over G. Mason
Owlett, backed by the
state committee, and J Arthur
H. James was nomina for the
governorship over former Gov, Gif-
ford Pinchot, who, like Mr.
nedy, was approved by John L.
Lewis and his C. 1. O. as acceptable.
So again, the voters took things into
their own hands and their state com-
mittee selections were taken on
where the voters liked the man.
But, to get back to the premise
upon which I started, it has been
most interesting to note the veering
of the political winds. Shortly after
the Florida primary, there was a
hurrying for cover by dozens of
Democrats in the house of repre-
sentatives. They thought they saw
in those results a swing again to
the New Deal, a restoration of the
President's popularity. New Deal
spokesmen around Washington did
not let any grass grow under their
feet. They used the Florida results
to advantage. In good political fash-
ion, they whispered and hinted and
sometimes said out loud that the
boys who went against the New Deal
would get their spanking.
And to their credit, it must be
said they did a good job. For ex-
ample, 1 am convinced the vicious
wages and hours bill that was
locked so securely in a house com-
mittee would never have been
brought out except for the reaction
from the Florida primary. Seldom,
if ever, has there been so much
haste in signing a petition for re-
port of a bill was observed in
the case of that legislation. Gen-
speaking, I believe it is a
New Deal backbones were
as
fact that
renominat
assures election in
and the Far-
'
ley “harmony at-
he day before the polls
And came then a sud-
ival of the
al Demox
"lorida’s
figint that
rats were makin
Maybe the
lve clear-
was
was
arts
anii-
vole
da vote did not inv
New Deal issues; maybe it
: chine, maybe it
was that—any-
were running:
ania is a better ba-
each
May be
one is analyz-
ing that effort to
Wi their
thing
Organized
political
was washed out
Pennsylvania
the
made the mc
\atever conclusions are,
definitely estal
labor's most am-
effort flopped. It
of the road. The
rout of organized la-
John Lewis brand is
re significant because
of the link with the White House
disclosed through Mr. Farley's in-
dorsement of Mr. Kennedy. It may
be, of course, that President Roose-
velt did keep hands off, but it is
quite another matter to convince the
average person that the White
House was not involved. For one
the Pennsylvania results
one
ed
Another thing to remember about
the Democratic primary results in
1940,
to be exact. The
gubernatorial nomination de-
Democrats so long exercised by Sen-
ator Guffey. He cannot be called the
And when it is time
for election of a successor to Mr.
Guffey, the best political judgment
available predicts Mr. Guffey's dis-
appearance as an entrant. As to
the 1940 projection, attention ought
to be directed to the fact that prob-
ably Mr. Jones, and not Mr. Guffey,
will determine what Democratic
presidential aspirant shall have the
great block of 72 votes in the na-
tional convention. This seems cer-
tain whether Mr. Jones wins or
loses the race for governor. He is
established as head of the party. All
of the indications now perceptible
faction, now controlling, with the
more conservative group nationally,
most certain to, have an important
reaction on national
strategy.
* Sl -
In addition to these circum-
stances, there is talk going around
Talk About
Kentucky
New Deal faction
in Kentucky is de-
termined to
business. In that state, of course,
Senator Barkley, the Roosevelt ma-
jority leader in the senate whose
selection to the job was made in
the famous “‘Dear Alben” letter,
has a tremendous bulge. Cold anal-
ysis of the situation does not af-
ford much comfort for the forces of
A. B. “Happy” Chandler, who seeks
the Barkley scalp. The point is,
however, that anti-New Dealers
among the Democrats think the
Pennsylvania situation may possi-
bly be reptod uced in Kentucky.
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