NEWS VIEWS AND REVIEWS
News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation Census Politics (From The Nation) AS AN example of dirty politics the attack being made on this year's census questionnaire...
...The court effectively sidesteps consideration of the important issues, particularly those arising out of valuation and depreciation theory, by finding that unless it supports the lower court in reversing the commission, it would lay itself open to the charge of confiscation on the part of the Wisconsin Telephone Co...
...It does, however, give the teacher a right to a hearing and an opportunity to present his or her side of the case, which is certainly a fair procedure...
...Milwaukee 3.83 12.00 Boston 6.88 13.00 Philadelphia 5.98 12.00 Baltimore 6.13 13.00 Washington, D. C. 6.77 14.00 Detroit 4.09 10.50 Louisville 5.81 13.00 Kansas City 4.97 , 13.00 Dallas 4.25 11.00 Los Angeles 4.36 11.00 San Francisco 5.45 13.00 It will be a bit difficult for the average person to compare the ariove figures and then see how Mr...
...5134,500...
...The TNEC contended that while the two big dairy corporations did not have complete control in central milk markets, they are of such tremendous size and have such huge resources that, acting in concert, they can fix prices and control marketing conditions...
...Lammot du Pont, S183.500...
...is a net incom* of $13,499,459 for the year ended Jan...
...Giaeser reaches the following concluson: The present writer can only register his disappointment that the supreme court of Wisconsin seemed to be more interested in telling an administrative agency whose practices the court apparently did not like, that it was "off the reservation," than in taking what that commission had actually done and judging it from the point of view of constitutional tests of confiscation...
...S3.000...
...Today these same Republicans find themselves very much on the defensive...
...At the same time it must be conceded that Philadelphia is a much more appropriate place for the G. O. P. to hold its conclave...
...Pierre S. du Pont...
...Montague refers to answers made by company officials to the Temporary National Economic committee denying that the two big dairy combines, the Borden Co...
...2. WAR PROFITS — Elimination of war profits: governmental monopoly on the manufacture and sale of munitions...
...The question is hotly contested and will remain so until the Supreme court renders a decision on this specific application...
...5. PURCHASING CO-OPERATIVES — Development of a strong farm-urban consumers cooperative purchasing movement...
...and the Pew family of Philadelphia, large stockholders of the Sun Oil Corp., $310,000...
...that the dairy farmers have been underpaid for milk produced on their farms and in many instances have been receiving less than cost of production...
...That is why The Progressive, which has been fighting the abuse of public office by certain public officials, is glad to say a good word for Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee and to note that he led the field in the recent primary race...
...THE referendum question on the April 2 ballot is purely advisory and the legislature is not bound to follow the expressed wishes of the voters...
...It seems that a lot of good people have been laboring under the delusion (according to the Borden Co...
...Census-taking depends on the cooperation of all the peoplpe rather than on penalties, and demagogues who for political reasons attempt to sabotage it by working on the fears of the ignorant and hysterical deserve condemnation for utter irresponsibility...
...Mon-tague can make any charges against labor and agriculture stick, there would seem to be a lot of rather well established facts about the big dairy distributing corporations that need to be explained away...
...School boards in this state have been known to be tyrannical and to have acted against teachers for reasons that had little or nothing to do with their teaching activities...
...eggs are plenty enough, but Jay Goulds arc mighty scarce...
...salary scale for 1938 cited by the TNEC: Theodore G. Montague, pres...
...The corrupt practices act forbids corporations to contribute to political parties...
...In the pious hands of the' right peoplt —Joseph Pew...
...Vole 'No' On The Referendum For Repealing Teacher Tenure Law ON the ballot that will be handed to voters when they go to the pons on April 2 will appear a referendum question on the Wisconsin teacher tenure law...
...6. UNIONS—Development of a strong trades union movement...
...He voted "NO"—against the amendment...
...reports that it had increased its net profits for the year 1939 to $7,979,837, a gain of $1,338,033 over the previous year of 1938...
...Bank-head, would in theory at least bar huge personal contributions to the Republican campaign barrel like those of the du Pont-s...
...By putting Mr...
...Arnold...
...For instance, the Borden Co...
...Every voter should make sure that he is recorded on this issue...
...S25.000...
...Wiley's Vole On $5,04)0 Limit To Campaign Contributions SEN...
...now seeks to lay the blame for high milk prices to consumers at the door of the farmers and labor...
...Henry B. du Pont...
...Wiley was recorded by Editorial Research Reports, a non-partisan statistical agency, as having been absent on about one-third of the 26 outstanding roll calls of the session...
...7. BANKS—A government owned central banking system to break the grip of the money trust by carrying out, among other things, the congressional power "to coin money, and regulate the value thereof...
...The individual returns it handles cannot be made available to any outside department...
...THE PROGRESSIVE has always supported the teacner tenure law because we believe that it operates to protect the state's educational system from a great many abuses...
...S3.000...
...Yes, on this important amendment...
...Almost half of the opinion was devoted to the relatively unimportant matter of procedure, affecting, in fact, only the temporary order of 1934...
...Their defense so far, as it has appeared in public statement, is first, that the department of justice is discriminating against the AFL in favor of the CIO...
...Weir in charga of presidential finances, the Republican National committee has gone as far as it could to place an embargo on any Republican candidate with the slightest taint of liberalism...
...That does not mean, however, that the referendum is not important...
...That the voters of Milwaukee are not unappreciative of the high type of leadership that the city has enjoyed under Dan Hoan is demonstrated by the fact that election after election he has been returned to office by the votes of good citizens who have waived partisanship to support him...
...61,000...
...This confidence of the people Dan Hoan has repaid by making a record that stands out in national significance...
...The teacher tenure law means that teachers who are doing a good job are given a measure of security and may not be discharged without cause through the whim of capricious school boards...
...Teacher tenure helps keep alive in the schools the spirit of civil liberty, encouraging free expression and free speech, without which democracy is impossible...
...I. du Pont...
...A. M. L. du Pont, of Wilmington...
...THE manner in which the officers and directors of the Borden Co...
...31, 1940, against $10,586,565 for the previous year...
...Louis Star-Times) ERNEST T. WEIR may have as much to say about the nomination of a Republican candidate for president this year as Boies Penrose had in 1920...
...THE Federal Trade commission has made public some interesting figures showing the price spread for fluid milk between the farmer and the consumer...
...and National Dairy Products Corp., have a working monopoly of the milk market...
...The great railroad magnate remarked that eggs must be at a premium in that section, to which the restaurant keeper replied: "No...
...Second, that the practices which the government now regards as actionable have been followed for 25 years...
...The Old Shell Game While jay Gould was traveling on the Wabash system, he stopped over for dinner at a little town in southern Illinois...
...News Views and Reviews Editorial Opinions from the Press of the Nation Census Politics (From The Nation) AS AN example of dirty politics the attack being made on this year's census questionnaire is hard to match...
...The referendum question, as referred to the voters by the last legislature, reads as follows: "Do you favor a repeal of Section 39.40 of the Wisconsin statutes known as the teacher tenure law...
...Wiley noted that his vote on one of the most important amendments to the Hatch "clean politics" bills, that limiting campaign contributions to $5,-000 per individual, was actually recorded...
...Wiley did manage to pair in favor of the bill...
...After several days of conference in Washington, devoted to a series of attacks upon Thurman Arnold and his anti-trust indictments against building trades unions, the AFL officials have agreed to hear Mr...
...Mayor Hoan is more than a good mayor of Wisconsin's largest city—he is a public official of whom the whole state is justly proud...
...Mrs...
...It is, one might say, beautifully fitting...
...G. O. P. In Pennsylvania (From The Chicago Daily Times) IT would have been nice to have the Republican national convention in Chicago...
...THE COURTS—Liberalization and reform of the federal judiciary, including the U. S. supreme court, to curb the threat to democratic government that lies in judicial autocracy and usurpation of power...
...Just reported by C. & S. Corp...
...did not have the record it has in filling its own campaign barrel...
...The ERR survey, of course, was based on the Congressional Record...
...f\F course, it may be a bit difficult for a lot of people to give full credence to Mr...
...slush fund by some $617,000...
...Teacher tenure, as its opponents argue, does not tie the hands of school boards and the local communities and prevent them from dismissing teachers who are inefficient or guilty of misbehavior...
...121.7.10...
...George F. Baker of the First National Bank of the city of New York...
...It is to be hoped that this .judicial piece of legerdemain will afford a basis for securing judicial review by our highest court...
...One dozen eggs, $1.80...
...3. INCOME TAX—High inheritance and income taxes to be levied on the beneficiaries of monopoly...
...This is an excellent opportunity to clarfiy the points of difference and bring the entire dispute into the open...
...William du Pont, Jr., $21,000...
...And yet in face of the TNEC's report, which incidentally was reviewed in detail a few months ago in this newspaper, the Borden Co...
...arrive at the conclusion that the farmers and their marketing cooperatives are guilty of holding up the consumer...
...9. RELIEF—Adequate poor and unemployment relief and the restoration of purchasing power in the hands of the great masses of the people...
...A 'Judicial Piece of Legerdemain' IN an able and compixnensive article in the current issue of the Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, Prof...
...280,000 George M. Waugh Jr., vice-pres...
...Teachers who are capable and eflicent may not be fired to make room for relatives or friends or board members or local politicians...
...Archibald du Pont, of Wilmington, Del., $1,000...
...E. T. Weir, Gov...
...Teacher tenure is in a sense application of the civil service principle to the schools,—the merit system instead ot the spoils system...
...The amendment providing for the $5,000 limitation, offered by Sen...
...Arnold's side of the case...
...The AFL's most substantial disagreement with Thurman Arnold is on the third point: that the anti-trust laws do not apply to labor unions...
...5,000...
...slush fund: Felix A. du Pont...
...It couldn't be, of course, that high prices for fluid milk to consumers in certain cities had anything to do with the big boost in Borden Co...
...And third, that the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust acts must not apply to labor unions...
...In acceding to Thurman Arnold's request that he be allowed to present his side of the dispute, the AFL officials acted wisely...
...The people of this state will be asked to express themselves on whether or not...
...S. Hallack du Pont, S5.500...
...C. du Pont, of Wilmington, Del., $5,250...
...It must have been with some surprise, therefore, that Wisconsin constitutes of Sen...
...Milwaukee is unique among large cities for its clean, efficient government, its democratic approach to civic problems, its low crime rate, and its forward looking spirit...
...The American census is, in many ways, a statistical model, and the Bureau of the Census has un honorable record for efficiency and integrity...
...Boss Weir (From The St...
...A representative committee of building trades union leaders is to meet with Mr...
...The justice department's viewpoint should be heard and understood by the general public as well...
...48,000 W. H. Comfort, vice-pres...
...43,000 8 officials, total salaries...
...During the first session of the 76th (1939) congress...
...Eugene du Pont...
...406,438 * * * T EFORE the Borden Co...
...To mention just a few of the other big contributions to the Republican organization by men closely identified with giant American corporations, there were J. P. Morgan with his gift of $55,000...
...James, Moe Annen...
...For instance, the "royal family of Delaware," the du Ponts, who control one of the largest corporate empires in the United States, have long been financial angels to the Republican party...
...On the final roll call on passage taken last Monday, Sen...
...Here is a chance for the people to inform the legislature that they want this safeguard left alone...
...Towards Understanding (From The New York Post) RELATIONS between the anti-trust division of the Justice department and the AFL unions in the building trades have taken a turn for the better...
...After a careful review of the case and the decision of the court, Prof...
...These things Dan Hoan has striven for years to accomplish and he may be depended upon to keep on with the good fight through another term in the city hall...
...THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM 1. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP of natural resources and of those activities with a public interest—light, heat, power and transportation...
...under the decisions of the United States Supreme court...
...This second question is of major importance since there is reason to believe that chronic underemployment constitutes a very Important part of what we call the unemployment problem...
...and subsidiaries, has been one of the severest critics of TVA'» alleged destruction of private utilities...
...Its true extent, however, can only be gauged by asking questions about income...
...profits during the last year...
...Well, where does the leadership of the G.O.P...
...The Republican party has always been the biggest beneficiary of campaign cash from the corporate and big money crowd...
...The Progressive sincerely hopes that the voters of Milwaukee will again show the good judgment they have in the past and return Mayor Hoan with a whopping majority...
...Teacher tenure helps keep favoritism out of the schools...
...Yet objections are being raised because the census-takers are being instructed to inquire not only about the employed status of each adult but about family income...
...60,000 14 directors, total salaries...
...Eager to grasp any stick to beat the New Deal with, a group of Republicans are attempting to work up popular feeling by assertions that the administration Is violating the bill of rights by seeking information about such matters as housing conditions and unemployment...
...John D. Rockefeller, $150,000...
...Hamilton, the Republican national committee chairman, is indignant because advertising from business concerns is to be included in the Democratic convention book...
...Cents Per Qt...
...These are two problems which all political par-tics agree arc definitely the concern of the government but In regard to which accurate and complete information U lacking...
...Mayor Hoan led in the primary by a wide margin and his supporters are hoping that he will be re-elected to his eighth consecutive term at the regular municipal election on April 2 without difficulty...
...Mrs...
...who in the last national campaign sweetened the G.O.P...
...a plebiscite on wars which would send American soldiers to foreign soil...
...4. MARKETING CO-OPERATIVES—Development of a strong farm producers' co-operative marketing movement...
...Wilmington...
...Prof...
...Martin G. Giaeser of the econom-ice department of the University of Wisconsin discusses the Wisconsin Telephone Co...
...Unfortunately lor this statement, however, the Temporary National Economic committee, also known as the "monopoly committee," didn't, agree that that was no virtual monopoly in the dairy industry...
...10...
...Ireuec du Pont...
...8. SOCIAL SECURITY—Adequate old age pensions, unemployment insurance and an improved security program...
...get off to be talking disapprovingly of financial aid from business and corporation interests...
...Previously spokesmen for the building trades have been uncompromising in their denunciation of the anti-trust actions...
...On The Defensive (From The Cleveland, O. Press...
...The du Ponts in the last national campaign contributed $617,000 to the Republican party...
...It has been wrested from the Earles and Guffey» and Sterns...
...Pennsylvania is safely delivered from the villainous clutches of the New Deal...
...Attempts to repeal the law have reen repeatedly made during recent legislative sessions...
...A "judicial piece of legerdermain" the court's ruling in favor of the telephone trust was indeed...
...or Mr...
...The Borden Company Blames The Farmer And Lahor HPHE annual report to Borden Milk Co...
...stockholders recently sent out by that firm's president, Theodore G. Montague, contains an extraordinary piece of news—that the big milk distributing corporations are not to blame for high fluid milk prices and that the real culprits are the farmers with their cooperative marketing organizations and the working men with their unions...
...they want the legislature to repeal the teacher tenure law and abandon a well established principle of safeguarding academic freedom...
...Montague and the Borden Co...
...berg, and Uncle Joe Grundy—the Keystone Stat* once again stands undefiled as the symbol of regular Republicanism...
...Vote "NO" on the teacher tenure repeal referendum...
...The party ate some eggs, among other things, and when the bill was presented to Gould it contained the item...
...The housing section of the census, which seeks information about the construction of homes, appliances and services used, mortgage position, and so on, will yield facts essential for the development of housing policies...
...There may be things about Democratic fund raising methods that need fumigating, but the Republican party with its record of being financed by the corporate crowd and working in behalf of the corporate crowd (remember the billions of corporation income tax refunds under Mellon), is scarcely in a position to criticize...
...Teacher tenure does not force a community to keep teachers on the pay roll in the face of falling enrollment...
...Sen...
...WILEY has shown an extraordi-nary talent for being absent when important roll calls are being taken on politically significant questions in the United States senate...
...Poor Wendell Wilkie (From The New York Post) WENDELL WILKIE, president of Common, wealth & Southern Corp...
...rate case recently decided in favor of the telephone company by the Wisconsin supreme court...
...To say this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black is a mild way of putting it...
...Giaeser, a recognized authority on utility regulation and procedure, analyses the involved reasoning of the state supreme court in arriving at the decl-son that cancelled out nine years of effort on the part of the public service commission to reduce the bills for telephone service in this state to a reasonable level...
...Wiley was recorded...
...Republican as well as Democratic leadership should be reminded that the spirit as well as the letter of that law should be observed...
...142,333 16 officers, "employes...
...The figures, showing the fluid milk prices for 1938, include cities where the two big dairy corporations, Borden and National Dairy, operate: CITY Distributor Consumer Pays Pays Farmer Distributor (Cents Per Qt...
...The Progressive hopes that the people of Wiscon: -n will decisively inform the legislature that they are against the wrecking of the teacher tenure law...
...Moreover, data 'of this kind are needed, and have been requested, by ?n important group of industries which were consulted in drawing up the schedules...
...stockholders...
...SI 11.990...
...Montague's charges because of certain other matters discussed in the report to the Borden Co...
...are sacrificing themselves when it comes to profiting from the sale of milk (at two or three times what the farmer gets for it) is shown in the following Borden Co...
...The Convention Books THE Republican complaint about the plan of the national Democratic organization to raise funds by issuing convention books again this year would sound much more convincing if the G.O.P...
...Mayor Hoan—A Mayor All Wisconsin Is Proud Of IN these days when there are increas-ing signs of corruption and malfeasance in public office, it is refreshing to see public approval expressed at the ballot box in favor or ciean government administered by conscientious public servants...
...The second largest dairy corporation in the United States, with an S8,000,000 annual profit representing a gain of one and a third millions over the previous year, doesn't appear to be in a position to be attacking farmer co-operatives for being greedy...
...If their conversations are to serve a useful purpose, they should be reported in full to the membership of the unions involved...
...The following list recently appeared in the Congressional Record, showing du Pont contributions to the G.O.P...
...These same good people have also been overlooking the princely salaries paid milk wagon drivers and workers in dairy plants...
...It's about time for the G. O. P. master minds to get together and smoke up another hotel room, and another issue...
...ACOUPLE of months ago some Republicans thought they had Secretary Hull on the rua in the matter of the reciprocal trade agreements program...
...Under the Hoan administration, Milwaukee has benefited from honest, graft free government, and the city has won a national reputation for being virtually free of the evils that beset other cities in its'population class...
Vol. 10 • March 1940 • No. 13
