Ruse Kept Barkley from Fighting Anti-FD Logan Bill
OLIVER, BRYCE
Ruse Kept Barkley from Fighting Anti-FD Logan Bill Measure Killing New Deal Faces Defeat After Expose By BRYCE OLIVER .Yews Commentator at Station WEVD, New York NOW that the House of...
...Besides spending hours en valuable material for as 1 features for which they could undoubtedly recejas ?w.IrT'malt?t^ese"' me?^' us funds in addition...
...Yen made it possible for a lot of us to Wye...
...Such an experienced Washington reporter as Mark Sullivan took the word of the report and impressed even liberal members of the Senate .and the House with a reasoned analysis (based upon the error) in his syndicated'column...
...We need help...
...The corporation has been given 20 days to answer to the complaint against it...
...TPH-IS wis Barkley's state of mind a year ago 1 when the "Walter-Logan Bill" neared the call on the consent calendar...
...These ere difficult deys for ell newspapers, muck mere se for The New Leader, which is fighting, endemic reaction and foreign total, terieeism's agents here...
...It was this 'unanimous" adoption by the Senate, a fact so often emphasised in the House debate, which convinced scores of Representatives who had not read or studied the bill that it must be as worthy as the publicity indicated...
...But now, because the late Senator Logan ¦rrone man!—had been induced to agree that it should go back to the calendar, the Walter-Logan Bill must meet the real fire of Senate examination...
...One newspaper sent 20 food and clothing trucks in a few days...
...I 'AND, so a little enlightenment concerning this ijw-.funanimity".of the Senate may be of some pftaent and future value...
...Justice Schmuck Hits Board of Education Policy The New York City Board of Education's practice in appointing substitute teachers to do the work of regular instructors at lower pay was condemned this week by Supreme Court Justice Peter Schmuck...
...The newspapermen decided to do something...
...From that point on, Senator Logan's colleague from Kentucky...
...Of course, after Barkley returned to the chamber—just too late—there were some fireworks, but strictly off the record...
...Write now . . . don't waft far Maman In the next town to do H. . Cordial**, THf NfW UAOER...
...i/fii the very start-r-at the birth Of this' measure—there was trickery...
...ft needs no certified public accountant to show what The New Leader and the cause of eati-totesV tarionism will gale If several thee...
...To this court it transfers the functions of every .agency in the Federal Government, with a few exceptions...
...1st the company wasn't ready to clip rawer coupon cud had ordered wage cats...
...The Vice-President . rattled out the old formula: "Is-there-objection - the - chair - hears - none-and-the-bill-is-passed...
...The mee would walk listlessly up to within a few hundred yards of the mine shafts, stood . around in pathetic groups, and then give way under the barrages of Ohio winter...
...Publicity and heightened morale finally woe a slight victory, for the miners, who appointed a committee to draft a letter of thanks to the newspapers which had sent?,the food...
...It isn't...
...It stated that the measure would establish a "special court" to fss upon the rulings of the administrative com-sskras in order to assure the constitutionality these decisions...
...With Barkley held at the telephone, the "JValterrLogan Bill" was called...
...Relief Crfsfc Looms In Toledo as WPA Cats Begin TOLEDO.—City .officials here foresee another hunger crisis if the contemplated WPA retrenchment program is carried out' Although a list of 3,900 eligi?les for WPA work is reported by authorities here, dismissal of 700 more Works Project employees has been ordered...
...The "Walter-Logan Bill," described in pious phrases as "an act to save Democracy from Bureaucracy," would accomplish by subterfuge the destruction of popular laws ] which the proponents of this iniquitous measure dare not attack in the open...
...Their letter ended with "You didn't ash If we were right, you asked if we were hungry* This wasn't your battle, but ybu helped us when we needed it...
...They therefore voted olihdly for a measure which had such seemingly patriotic fr...
...However, it is recorded now that Senator Logan himself was induced to agree that the bill should go back to the regular calendar...
...He now feels so strongly about it that he has threatened, in case it is finally passed, personally to ask the President to veto it...
...We're hungry in a sense...
...boss manager of The Now Leaden, aad ash him for oae of the new streamlined subscription booklets at has last devised, each booklet bm six dollars worth of sobs la Mr seek booklet sold means that democratic, anti-Nazi, anti-Communist prop* ganda is going inte eight new homes...
...The measure probably will never become law...
...it is entirely possible that tins/statement in the Logan report was the factor which caused the council of the American Federation of Labor to endorse the bilL Judging by tins report, here was a measure which would standardize commission practices and hasten the application of rulings in labor and commercial cases, including the all-important wage-hour and social security ' ones...
...Barkley, judging his...
...What we ash is simple...
...Senate, three to one by the House...
...i To their horror, some of the leaders of the -, AFL later found that this endorsement had mysteriously lined them np with the .established enemies of social legislation—American Bar Association, National Association of Manufacturers, American Iron and Steel Institute, Ohio and Cali, fornjta state chambers of commerce, National Publishers' Association, and the American Coalition of Patriotic Societies...
...sands of the many on ear Hits salt one subscription each...
...FTC Hits General Electric For Pake .Advertising WASHINGTON, D. C —The General Electric Company was attacked this week by the Federal Trade Commission for falsely advertising that all other bulbs are inferior to the G-E brand, and that competing company's products are so poor as to result in a 30% loss of light or waste of current...
...We need it new...
...faces have been a bit red...
...The AFL council was not the only group or person misled by Logan's error...
...We think we are...
...Like the reporters covering the Ohio mine strike .some of the leading feature writers for The New Leader have seat along their donations for subscribers who couldn't pay...
...Man folks war* discouraged...
...M. Logan, of Kentucky, a man...
...They took up a collection by passing one of their battered hats around...
...Managing editors were hoping for violence and geed front page copy aad reporters found nothing bet the shivering and the famished...
...And the union collod its man eat...
...While Senators had not read it, and knew about it only what they had seen in the press and the Logan report, the legal staffs of the affected commissions had not- been asleep, and they promptly reported the true intention of the bill to the White House...
...The bill carries no such proposal...
...This seemed reasonable enough...
...In the resulting favorable (but not exited or even" enthusiastic) attention which the report received, the "Walter-Logan" measure was placed on -what is known as the Senate "consent calendar...
...If, just a routine squawk...
...Neither were other members of the committee...
...Senator Logan, a member of the Judiciary Committee, was not overly enthusiastic about the bill...
...Senator Barkley, the majority leader, began to study the bill...
...Thus, the agency established by .Congress to enforce the statute in question would': be rendered impotent by any organization rich enough to meet the legal costs...
...Some A FX...
...It was flaunted before the House...
...These were rich and important lawyers, who never had served any but large corporations and the influential rich...
...All bills in this category are passed unanimously when called up, provided there is no Objection from the floor...
...they'll get along...
...Apparently, the call of the bill was still distant when a Senate page called him to tfae telephone for an "urgent" communication...
...Then they drew lets and sent off one of the beys to stir up publicity for a relief campaign...
...BUT you see, the Logan report about that - "special court" was an "error...
...I in fact, the judiciary group of the Senate thought so little of the measure that the committee never held a formal hearing on' this bill which is now so important...
...But confusion there was...
...That's all there is to the story— almost forgotten by one of the editors of the New Leader until he eat down to write stiii another appeal for feeds...
...Circuit Court of Appeals in the District.of CoIumhiB, the judicial backbone of reactionary resistance...
...Ifs time to fill those twenty stubs with subs and pail as out of o'bole...
...The story begins not in the House of Representatives, which has just passed the measure, hut in the Senate, which once approved it "unanimously...
...More about fhh) next week...
...Ordered, under one of these laws, to obey, a powerful corporation or group, well supplied with money, could evade the statute) for years, and possibly forever, by the simple expedient of appealing first one point and then another and another to a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals...
...He was not gone long, but.in his absence there was some unaccountable speed with the calendar...
...Aad obviously se do you, or most of you wouldn't have subscribed to The New Leader for so many years...
...The Senate that morning was in the midst of a listless consideration of routine matters, but Barkley was waiting for the calendar call to voice objection...
...1 > - . If': Not all of us can be feature writers, but plenty of us can hehl provide the mouthpiece far ffcV literary moa of the democratic aad decent left who ore willing to give of their time, money aad energy te fight the totalitarian incursion of oar civil rights...
...They ware miners—hard-working men, and willing, too...
...He remembered the miners, reedy to figktr full of spirit, ready to* djueltueae »a powerful coal corporation with nothing bet a mimen graph machine...
...0 Merely write now to the bed...
...Reporters from nearby cities swarmed to the strike treat like New Yorkers around an excavation...
...But this is only an exposition of the subterfuge...
...But we don't want yea to neglect asking whether we're right...
...Like the Senate "unanimity," the AFL endorsement was emphasized...
...Bat If you're convinced we're right, if you know we have an important job t? do for all of as who still believe in decency and international peace, then it's time to get busy...
...This is no jest...
...The only information the Senate had about .it was in a report by jtogan, "¦This report, which accompanied the bill, to the Senate, contained a curious error...
...Such a court might hasten, rather than delay, the application of administrative commission rulings...
...It bat humor we intend when we soy that It was the mimeograph with its broken handle which reminded, us of The New Leader, with its eld-fashioned press crashing op against the corporation-dominated private doilies and the, foreige-subeldhed red, brown, and black sheets poilutieg the American newspaper field...
...We're parched tor the funds—in the form of subscriptions—which would dilute some of ear debts, permit us to widen oar foreign network, pay for important interpretative features on the American scene and for the pic-tares aad cartoons which keep au editor from journalistic frustration...
...Truly, we have a tenons hold on popular government The Good Fight Needs Food and Drink ll/OMEN aad kids ware hungry in o w little Ohio row*, net so long ago...
...Who hiad, switched from ultra-conservatism to ultra-ifberalism but who had always remained sym- . pathetic to the ideas, of his closest associates...
...The measure definitely provides for appeals from administrative rulings .pnjy .to the...
...firm of Frankle, Ashe1 and Rifkin...
...time, left the chamber...
...Much, however, had been done by this "unanimous" adoption...
...Ruse Kept Barkley from Fighting Anti-FD Logan Bill Measure Killing New Deal Faces Defeat After Expose By BRYCE OLIVER .Yews Commentator at Station WEVD, New York NOW that the House of Representatives has * ' passed the "Walter-Logan Bill" *y a vote of almost three to one and the measure has gone to . the Senate, the inside story of how this hill has been maneuvered to its present stage through the . use of trickery, deceit and subterfuge is beginning to leak out The outline of tfae story is enough to cause one to shudder for' the apparently tenuous hold which the American people have upon the institution of popular government...
...And now we come to the Senate "unanimity...
...This is no joh about which yea coa soy, "Ob well, I dent have to bother...
...But there was ah objection to the "Walter-Logan bill...
...The Senate author was the late 13...
...Senator Logan may very well' have made an honest error in delivering that report He was not a well man, and at the time there was another bill, with which the Judiciary Committee was toying, which definitely did provide for the very thing that appealed to the AFL...
...Justice Schnsuck ordered the appointment, as a regular teacher, of Philip Frankle, who was represented in the case by the...
...Yet it is only because one single man, Senator Logan, rejected his victory that this bill—bom of subterfuge and error, maneuvered by trickery-is not now through Congress, "unanimously" by the...
Vol. 23 • April 1940 • No. 17
