ROLL CALL
ROLL CALL On MEN and Measures THE U. S. senate on Mar. 18 passed legislation authored by Sen. Hatch, Democrat of New Mexico, which will affect approximately half a million employes in state and...
...Russell Frazier Lee Schwartz AGAINST PASSAGE: 28 Adams Byrnes Hughes Pepper Bailey Chavez Lucas Pittman Bankhead Connally Lu/ideen Schwellenbach Bilbo Donahey McKellar Smathers Brown Guffey Maloney Smith Bulow Harden Miller , Stewart Byrd Hill Minton Thomas, Okla...
...APPROPRIATIONS to put farmers on 100 per cent parity with industry were refused by the senate here as it rejected, by a roll call vote of 27 to 56, a proposal by Sen...
...Colo...
...Johnson (D, Colo...
...NOT VOTING: 10 Andrews Glass Shipstead Wiley Burke Harrison Slattcry Ellender King Truman Paired: Wiley for, Ellender against...
...The roll call vote, 58 to 23 for the bill, follows: FOR PASSAGE: 58 Ashurst George Lodge Sheppard Austin Gerry McCarran raft Barbour Gibson McNary Thomas, Idaho Barkley Gillette Mead Thomas, Utah Bone Green Murray Tobey Bridges Gurney Neely Townsend Capper Hale Norris Tydings Caraway Hatch Nye Vandenberg Chandler Herring O'Mahoney Van Nuys Clark, Idaho Holman Overton Wagner Clark, Mo...
...of Railroad Trainmen, closely followed by $2,506,126 from the Bro...
...anti-labor spy bill was also urged...
...Murray (D, Mont...
...Minn...
...Additional appropriations for the WPA were stressed as well as the need for expansion of the low-rent slum clearance programs...
...Miller (D, Ark...
...Glass against...
...of Locomotive Firemen & Engine-men...
...Nye IR, N. D.), Pepper (D, Fla), Sheppard ID, Tex...
...Idaho...
...Ship-stead for...
...Largest total was $2,823,294 from the Bro...
...Thomas (R, Idaho), and Wheeler (D, Mont...
...restricts political activity by state-federal employes...
...Voting for the Lee amendment were Sens...
...Hatch, Democrat of New Mexico, which will affect approximately half a million employes in state and local government...
...I.a Follette's (Prog., Wis...
...Reed Wheeler Davis Johnson...
...Andrews for, Slattery against...
...Ashurst (D, Ariz...
...Frazier (R, N. D.), Hill (D, Ala...
...Josh Lee (D, Okla...
...Connecticut Labor Calls On Solons WASHINGTON, D. C—Connecticut congressmen were visited by a 19-man delegation from the state's most important labor unions and given a first hand picture of labor's demands in that state...
...Lee (I...
...to appropriate $607,000,000 for parity payments...
...The Hatch bill, which now goes to the house, limits campaign contributions to S5.000...
...Connally (D, lex...
...Also voting for the Lee amendment were Sens...
...In an eloquent plea on behalf of his amendment, Lee declared that farmers produced wealth while rich men, with $50,000,000,000 in tax exempt securities, only accumulated wealth to the impoverishment of others...
...and La Follette (Prog., Wris...
...Lee's amendment to the pending agriculture appropriation bill would have stricken from the present act the limitation on payments up to 75...
...Lundeen (F-L...
...Lynn Frazier (R, N. D.) repeated his assertion that if any other industry comparable in size to agriculture was in a comparable plight "the congress of the U. S. would sit day and night until it found a solution...
...Ellender (D...
...Caraway (D, Ark), Clark (D...
...Nine Million in Rail Fund Paid NEW YORK CITY—Nine railroad unions paid out $9,198,809 in 1938 under death, disability, old age and other benefit plans...
...Okla...
...Holt Radcliffe Walsh Danaher Johnson, Calif...
...Composing the delegation were representatives of the brass workers, textile workers, auto workers, rubber workers, electrical workers, industrial union council and the state Labor's Non-Partisan League...
...Neely D, West Va...
...Shipstead (F-L, Minn...
...Bilbo (D, Miss...
...Bone ID, Wash...
...per cent of parity and would have increased the sum to be spent for parity payments by the Department of Agriculture from $212,000,000 to $607,000,000...
...Smathers (D, N. J.), Stewart (D, Tenn...
...The meetings, arranged by Labor's Non-Partisan League, gave the union members a chance to Impress upon the congressmen their opposition to changes in the labor relations art or the wage-hour bill and their support for broadening amendments to the Walsh-Healey act...
...Reynolds White Downey La Follette...
...Speedy passage of Sen...
...Norris (Ind., Neb...
...Minton (D...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
