FDR FLAYS FOE OF U. S. CENSUS INCOME QUERY
FDR Flays Foe of U. S. Census Income Query ' Sen. Tobey Accu.seil of Advocating Violation of Law WASHINGTON, D. C. — President Roosevelt unleashed a new attack last week on opponents of individual...
...Tobey was the first member of the upper chamber ever to do so...
...But news of Mr...
...as one person who will not answer the two income questions when he knows full well that, in his case, the answer would be unnecessary, since the enumerator would knew that the senator earns more than $5,000 plus...
...Tobey added that it was "time to call a halt to attempts of departments to arrogate to themselves the function of a legislative body, especially in matters which threaten the people of this free country with imprisc-ment for not bowing to the will of a bureau...
...Apologizing first for the president's cancellation of his press conference along with all other appointments, Mr...
...From his private quarters in the White House, where he spent the day recuperating from a cold, the presi-I dent instructed his secretary, Stephen j Early, to make public answer to an unnamed senator who had urged a radio audience to refuse to answer inquiries of census takers about their incomes...
...Tobey Accu.seil of Advocating Violation of Law WASHINGTON, D. C. — President Roosevelt unleashed a new attack last week on opponents of individual income questions included by the Census bureau in its 1940 population count...
...He accused Senator Tobey of New Hampshire of publicly advocating violation of the law and said Mr...
...and the anonymity of the senator referred to by Mr...
...Newton Is Editor of Kenosha Labor KENOSHA, Wis.—Appointment of Harold Newton as editor of th5 Kenosha Labor, one of the brightest labor papers in the country, was announced recently by Paul Porter, who served until recently as both publisher and editor...
...Roosevelt's stand brought an immediate reply from the New England senator, who has been the spearhead of senate opposition to the income questions and who sponsored a resolution condemning them as an invasion of private affairs of citizens...
...Early said: "Had he seen you in person today he would have followed up the statement of Secretary Hopkins last night —as I know it was his Intention...
...Mr...
...He merely smiled when It was suggested that Senator Tobey was the person in question...
...Need of Census as Guide Cited "The president would have told you that these questions, endorsed by a wide range of prominent riti-zens and organizations, wi 1 develop the same basic statistics about the low-income groups that are now available for the higher income brackets through the treasury...
...Newton, who has served the paper as assistant editor and managing editor, is widely known in state and national labor circles...
...It was not necessary for Mr...
...He would have added that he thought these statistics are needed by American business as a guide to mass buying power and that they are also vivtally needed to study the situation of part-time and piece workers for which there is no common denominator to represent the degree of employment in relation to the amount of wages and salaries received —in other words, the amount of money received in exchange for work...
...The president already had denounced senate opposition to the Census bureau income form as an "ob-I viously political move...
...Early on Mr...
...Tobey himseif...
...Tobey Hits Back at President In a telegram to the president, Senator Tobey said: "If it is your position that an unauthorized ruling of a departmental bureau constitutes a law of the United States, then it is important that the people recall that such were the tactics used by Hitler in gaining powers never sanctioned by the people...
...Porter will continue as publisher, and will direct th...
...Early to name the object of the presidential attack...
...growing volume of business of the Union Co-operative Publishing Co...
...Hopkins discussed the objections raised, particularly those of one Senator to the census forms, attacking the questions relative to Income...
...The senator recently urged his listeners to join him in refusing the information...
...Roosevelt's order was readily penetrated by newspaper men who heard him and Mr...
...The president also would have pointed out that for the first time in his knowledge a United States senator openly advised the American people to vio'ate the law and held himself out...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 12
