POLITICS
Politics Notes from tleve and There About Solons and Citizens [By 'OBSERVER'] TENNESSEE BLUE LAW THERE was, or is, a blue law in Tennessee that makes it illegal to sell clgarets to school...
...Though not much has been printed about it, there is a dispute raging about the actual size of the nation's gross income, almost as active an argument as the one over how many people are jobless...
...Lehman of California, attending the funeral rites of Samuel ITntermeyer, famed New York lawyer, praised the barrister's career and his public works . . . Says the Buffalo News, a Republican paper: "Whatever the practical consideration of money-raising which led to the selection of Ernest T. Weir to head the Republican finance committee, the choice cannot be viewed as anything but, a political blunder on the part of the leadership of the Republican National committee...
...Last week it was J eld Invalid by an Alleghany county circuit court . . . The International Labor Defense has announced that it will colli Inue to work for freedom for tin: ScotLsboro boys . . . William M. I.elserson, member of the National Labor Relations board, condemned the amendments which the Smith committee has recomended to the NLRA...
...Politics Notes from tleve and There About Solons and Citizens [By 'OBSERVER'] TENNESSEE BLUE LAW THERE was, or is, a blue law in Tennessee that makes it illegal to sell clgarets to school teachers in that state , . A ruing from Washington' on whether or not it would be all right under the Hatch "clean politics" act for a minister employed on WPA to pray out loud for Iowa Democrats at a state convention without jeopardizing his WPA job has come through in the affirmative...
...The Dies committee is also looking for Clarence Hathaway, editor of the New York Daily Worker, Communist organ, who failed to respond to a subpoena...
...she said...
...Now the latter chamber is not only exhibiting support for the senate proposal, but suggesting even stricter amendments itself...
...Sen...
...thus working for the continuance of the U. S. as a democracy which will stand as a light to the people of all nations...
...The union pointed out that the only issue involved was that of academic freedom...
...As to Dewey's specrhmaking, Connally added: "You cant blame him, though...
...Russell E. Chase, a Cleveland attorney, doesn't like the idea and said so...
...union has the rest, all under closed shop agreements...
...Justice department officials in announcing the ruling called attention to President Roosevelt's statement that non-civil service employes would not volatc the law "if they should merely express their opinion of preference publicly, orally, by radio, or In writing without doing so as part of an organized political campaign for office...
...APPLAUSE CONTROL When Thomas E. Dewey visited Portland recently, his day was planned for him -y local Republicans almost down to the split second...
...WASHINGTON WHISPERS From Washing.on Whispers In the United States News: Dark horse among the individuals figuring in maneuvers that finally will determine the Democratic party ticket is Henry Wallace, agriculture secretary...
...Russell, who was first attacked because of his views on marriage, is now under fire because of his status as an alien...
...The Rev...
...Next thing, they'll be seeking a domestic passport law" * * * CROMWELL WILL STICK James H. R. Cromwell, U. S. minister to Canada, will not resign his post as a result of the rebuke he received from the state department for two speeches favorable to the Allies, it is reported...
...If Mr...
...Most guessing is that it didn't...
...The mayor has contended that, while he is 100 per cent in favor of unionism, the city cannot legally sign closed shop pacts...
...Recently Sen...
...Morris Sheppard of Texas actually went on the radio the other day and called Vice-President Garner a liberal and praised his "practical liberalism...
...PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Tom Girdler has given written assurance that he will not interfere with workers' rights in the Beaver Falls, Pa., plants of the Union Drawn Steel Co., Republic Steel subsidiary...
...Referring to a recent Dewey speech...
...New York NEW YORK CITY—Mayor F. H. LaGuardia and three unions on New-York's subway systems smoked the peace pipe last week after a prolonged controversy over the status of union contracts when the subways are taken over by the city...
...Russell's appointment was upheld by the board of higher education but ruled out by a New York court...
...It must be admitted that the GOP methods of getting money for the expenses connected with elections is much easier and much more effertlve...
...Hamilton of the Republican National committee and Ernest Weir, the finance director of the minority party, are concerned over the raising of campaign funds by the Democrats, They likewise find fault with our Jackson day dinners through which contributions of small sums from many Democrats help make up the war chest...
...The Junior Chamber of Commerce of Toledo wants to fingerprint all citizens of that city...
...The Engineers have 1,000 motor-men on the two lines, the signalmen over 400 tower and signal workers, and the C.I.O...
...He's running for office...
...Resultant law may be much more drastic than otherwise anticipated...
...A similar measure passed the assembly :ast year but lost in the senate...
...Progressives and liberals in congress grinned at Sheppard's remark: "No member of congress has a record more libera) than John Garner...
...A promise to stop interfering with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (CIO) was posted in the plants, as required by an NLRB order which was upheld by the third circuit court of appeals Jan...
...The most helpful position we can take not only for ouselves but for our sisters in Europe is not to prolong their suffering by entering into this war but by having nothing to do with it...
...Oregon PORTLAND, Ore.—More than 100 delegates from women's organizations in the northwest, attending the fourth Women's Labor congress, designated Apr...
...Informed Cnlifornians say that there will be a strong challenge this year to the senatorial seat of Hiram Johnson, Republican veteran...
...The incoming executive board was instructed to compile a list of children's books telling the truth about labor, "since many of the books published for Juveniles reflect the viewpoint of fasicst-minded employers, particularly boys' books which lend to glorify war...
...They merely levy on a selected list of very rich men for whatever assessment they require...
...Senate opponents of the Hatch act show signs of worry over a possible backfire of their stategy...
...Downey clashed with Sen...
...Spokesmen for the railroad labor groups predicted that all remaining differences would be ironed out, and voiced assurances that LaGuardia's administration will "not adopt any unfair labor policy...
...Wagner on the subject...
...You notice he studiously refrained from saying what he himself planned to do about it all...
...N. J.—Union representatives hooted and booed as the assembly dcfetited 35 to 24 a state wage-hour bill introduced by Assemblyman Samuel S. Ferster (R...
...President John I, Lewis of the CIO and Mayor K II La Guardia of New York City conferred to settle union contracts for subway workers . . . Cumberland, Maryland had an anti-hand bill ordinance...
...subway lines pass into municipal hands...
...He agreed, however, to put the decision up to the courts...
...That is the cheapest political method there is...
...Connally of Texas pointed out in reference to Dewey attacks on the New Deal that the country has been kept out of war without the help of Mr...
...If we select only one slogan for for 1940, let that one be, 'Keep the U. S. out of war,'" said Mrs...
...The Liberal party in Canada won a smashing victory In the recent elections, unseating some of its worst foes in parliament...
...Firing back at criticism of Democratic party fund raising by means of selling convention books, Postmaster General Farley declared in a statement: Chairman John Etc...
...Unfortunately a Democratic administration has no favors to sell...
...The Civil Liberties union has offered legal aid in defense of any court action to prevent Ber-trand Russell from teaching at the College of the City of New York...
...6 as Peace day...
...The White House last week indignantly denied charges that a copy of the Cromwell speech had been rend by the president before being delivered . . . Gov...
...D. Gwilym Roberts of Des Moines is the minister...
...Clark of Missouri is author of the measure, which would set up an investigating body of seven senators...
...Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes calls GOP candidate, Thomas E. Dewey "a little prosecuting attorney just finding fault...
...Any one can find fault...
...Doubtless if the Democrats were In that sort of market, (hey could offer comparable bargains...
...Ickes said "I read a portion of his address in the morning papers...
...he remarked "It is simply more evidence of an effort to set up a Gestapo In this country...
...Inside officials are saying that the way to tell whether or not the Welles mission turned up anything important is this: if Mr...
...Dewey...
...Pathfinder magazine came out Willi an article insl week playing up Frauk Gannett of Rochester, N. Y., reactionary publisher, as a "new 'face" that will "loom larger" as the possible G.O.P...
...LaGuardia agreed to recommend to the board of transportation that contracts of the unions—the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, and the C. I. O. Transport Workers—be assumed by the city when the big Interborough and B.M.T...
...Fingerprinting could be used to blacklist union members and strikers...
...The committee, Lol.srrson said, "thoroughly misunderstood the act and lacked a fundamental conception of it...
...Wallace technique is to tend to knitting and trust to luck...
...It "Hist be admitted that a $4,000 draft is cheap to pay for such enactments as the Smoot-Hawley tariff, for example...
...The present prediction, however, is that the senior California statesman Is still hard to beat...
...Roosevelt gives the go-ahead signal to third termers, it did...
...Roosevelt imposes further restraint on third-term boosters, it did not...
...Sen...
...TO PROBE FOREIGN AGENTS The U. S. Senate foreign relations committee has unanimously approved a resolution providing $25,000 for an investigation of foreign propaganda activities in the United States...
...Purpose of the strict amendments which they added to the bill was to make it unpalatable for the house...
...Cromwell, it was said, will probably ask for temporary leave should he deride to run for IT...
...Candidates who have burst into the open are not faring so well...
...S. sen- ator from New Jersey...
...TRENTON...
...The resolution instructs them to investigate "the activities of any person, firm, or corporation acting for any foreign nation by way of propaganda or otherwise, having as the ultimate goal or tending to cause directly or indirectly a change in the neutral position of the United States in the conflicts now being waged abroad...
...Claretta Orton, secretary of the federated auxiliaries of the International woodworkers (CIO...
...The last report of Mr, Hamilton's outfit seems to have established a $4,000 a-plece rate...
...presidential nominee...
...On the committee handling the arrangements was a gentleman named Simpson whose job, according to the program was "To control applause" . . . Foreclosures on nonfarm real estate in 1939 dropped to the lowest level in 13 years, the Federal Home Loan Bank board reported In a statement reviewing developments in the real estate field last year...
...Records of the Communist party in the city of Baltimore have been seized by Dies committee probers, and four Communist party officials in that area have been summoned to testify...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 14
