WISCONSIN PAYS THE PRICE
Wisconsin Pays the Price The Story of The Kepuhlican Administration Through (Questions and Answers |The I'rogiesnive presents below the third of a series of inxtallment* from the Progressive...
...You must have dictatorship...
...We might get something done with one man at the top with the power to say 'yes' and 'no.' You can't run industry like a state government...
...There I am the supreme authority...
...A. Yes...
...Wisconsin Pays the Price The Story of The Kepuhlican Administration Through (Questions and Answers |The I'rogiesnive presents below the third of a series of inxtallment* from the Progressive purly'n pamphlet, "Wisconsin Pays The Trice...
...A. Yes...
...Statement by Gov...
...As one agricultural economist put it recently, the one-tenth of the population who own half the country's wealth are already consuming all the food they will ever want, and further increase in their income does not affect farm prices at all...
...Competent attorneys reported that the wording of the bill permitted the governor to be czar over the hiring and firing of teachers in all the public schools of Wisconsin...
...Q. Were there any attempts by the Republican administration to translate the principles of "supreme authority" in the Heil Co...
...Q. Is it true that the Republicans proposed to break down the direct primary system and return to the corrupt, boss-ridden convention system of nominating candidates for public ofTce...
...A. Yes, a great many...
...LABOR NO GROUP in the Wisconsin populace felt the wrath of the Republican administration with such devastating...
...A. These were the so-called "Employment Peace act" and the anti-picketing measure known as the Catlin law...
...A. Yes...
...But if the wage-earner receives an increase in pay, through union activity or otherwise, his first move is to set a better table and see to it that his children have all the butter and milk and eggs and cheese that growing bodies need...
...Studies by non-partisan agricultural experts at the University of Wisconsin show that when labor's wages in the city go down, there is a corresponding reduction in the market for the products of the farm...
...Heil complete control over ail state employes and all state finances...
...For instance, the Republican administration refused to continue the valuabfe School for Workers in Industry, which gave laboring men a chance at education...
...Not content with this destruction, the administration, and especially the big business crowd for which it speaks, exerted terrific pressure in its campaign to pound a wedge between the two great producing groups in society—agriculture and labor...
...A. They sought to wipe out labor's hard-won gains in recent years, particularly those gains which protected labor's right to organize free of coercion, to bargain collectively, to picket, and otherwise to fight for a higher standard of living...
...It died with sine die adjournment of the legislature— one step from final passage...
...Q. In general, what did these anti-labor bills seek to accomplish...
...This measure, which was widely known as the dictatorship bill, would have established one-man rule.in the hiring and firing of state employes and would have made Heil alone, rather than the legislature, the absolute authority on all expenditures...
...Q. Did the Republican plan propose one-man control over other than state employes...
...to the state government of Wisconsin...
...A. It was defeated after a great outcry of public indignation, but will doubtless be revived in 1941 if the Republican administration is re-elected...
...The fourth chapter will appear In an early issue.—Editor's Note...
...Q. Why are anti-labor measures like these harmful to agriculture as well as to labor...
...force as did organized labor...
...Moderate gains achieved by labor In recent years, after decades of heartbreaking' struggle, were wiped out by the...
...Q. What happened to this dictatorship bill...
...Heil, quoted in the St...
...business administration...
...That bill almost passed both houses of the legis-lature...
...A. They are injurious to farmers because they lower the purchasing power of the farmers' best customers—the many thousands of the working families In the cities...
...Q. Did the Republican administration really attempt to deprive the Progressive party of full representation on the state ballot...
...Q. Which were the most destructive blows struck at labor by the Republican administration...
...The Republican-controlled senate judiciary committee proposed such a scheme, but failed to press for its passage when a statewide clamor against it broke out in the press...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, April 23, 1939...
...Q. Were there any attacks on labor other than at organization through unions...
...A. Yes, the Republican administration proposed legislation which would have given Gov...
...If passed, it would have given the Progressive party a minor and obscure position on the state ballot during presidential years...
...DEMOCRACY TN THE HEIL COMPANY of Milwaukee I get things done better and quicker...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
