Extra!Congressmen Pass Subsidies-For Themselves
Extra!Congressmen Pass Subsidies-For Themselves WASHINGTON. — While members of the House of Representatives were killing the idea of government subsidies to keep down the price of food, the...
...or, if a congressman, you can have grilled lamb chops, also with potatoes, for U0 cents...
...That's nearly 15 times, in ratio, the appropriation asked to help keep down the food costs of the ordinary American...
...No self-service either...
...These facts were called to light during the subsidy fight by Donald Montgomery, consumers counsel for the UAW-CIO...
...While members of the House of Representatives were killing the idea of government subsidies to keep down the price of food, the congressmen themselves dined daily on good food at cheap prices in the House restaurant which is tubtidized by Federal funds...
...Should he he a candidate in the 1944 presidential election, I shall vote and work moat energetically for his reelection preferably on an independent :tieket, if there will be such, or on the Democratic Party ticket in the absence of an independent ticket...
...P. 8.—NO YOU CAN'T EAT IN THE HOUSE OR SENATE RESTAURANT...
...The only difference between them and ns is that they are willing to consort with Marcantbnio and Connolly and Quill in the hope of gaining power...
...buttered egg noodles...
...I regard the American Labor Party from now on as the Communist-Labor Party and am therefore withdrawing, officially and publicly from that party...
...But the Congressmen have voted a subsidy out of gov* eminent funds to make up the losses...
...Montgomery estimates that Congress provides a food subsidy of $n.o a year for each congressman...
...Turkey dinner was (it) cents...
...green peas...
...I would rather win the respect of my fellow-citizens than win the primary at such a cost...
...A PROMINENT SIGN SAYS THE MEALS THERE ARE RESERVED FOR MEMBERS ONLY...
...I shall not...
...Mayor LaGuardia's deliberate straddling of the issue, which confused the enrolled voters, was nothing short of a stab in the bark...
...I would rather lose the primaries and keep my self-respect...
...Or, if you are a congressman, you can have a tenderloin steak sandwich with French fries and cole slaw, for 60 cents...
...This is my personal decision...
...choice of pie or rice pudding...
...I never did and never will...
...beverage...
...At the next meeting of the General Executive Board of the I.L.G.W.C., I shall recommend to the leadership and members that they take similar action...
...I firmly believe that the nation imperative!* needs President Roosevelt at the helm of our government for the next term, both for the winning of the war and for the post-war reconstruction...
...A congressman gets waited on...
...Dubinsky Backs Roosevelt, Scores Hillman-C...
...under any circumstances, csst my vote for him on the Communist-ALI" ticket...
...Here is a sixty cent meal in the House restaurant: Old fashioned beef stew, family style...
...and $48,000 for a similar eating place in the Senate restaurant...
...I stand on what I said during the campaign, and I reiterate: I know that Sidney Hillman and his associates in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers are not Communists...
...P. Alliance By DAVID DUBINSKY President, Int'l Ladies' Garment Workers Union | PARTICIPATED actively in the campaign to defeat the Browder-Marcanlonio-Hillnian combine in yesterday's ALP primary election...
...Of course the restaurant in the House of Representatives operates at a deficit...
...Hillman can act as a front for the Communists...
...Starting out with an advantage of 25,000 colonized Communist votes, on which they could always count in our previous primaries, and the additional Communists who enrolled in the ALP following the loss of the legal status of their party in the 1942 elections, it required but a minor voting contribution from the Hillman end of the partnership to assure victory for Browder and his Communist Party...
...Thus far tins session, $;S7,0()0 has been voteil as a subsidy for the House restaurant...
Vol. 27 • April 1944 • No. 14
