VETERANS IRED BY GOP'S MEMORIAL DAY GATHERING
Veterans Ired By GOP's Memorial Day Gathering THOMAS F. Davlin. vice chairman of the state highway commission and an outstanding Wisconsin Progressive leader, was reported in satisfactory condition...
...William H. Armstrong, past president of the United Spanish War Veterans, announced that his organization and the American Legion are absolutely opposed to a Republican convention on the day dedicated to the men who gave up their lives in the service of their country...
...He became ill Saturday and was taken to the hospital Sunday...
...Republican state chairman, but he did not indicate whether a change would be made...
...He declared that he did not believe that Wisconsin's 300.(100 members of veterans' organizations would regard a Republican convention as a suitable observance of Ihe holiday...
...Robert M. La Follette Jr., Wisconsin Progressive, voted against continuation of the reciprocal tariff program when the Roosevelt administration's measure passed successfully through its final vote last week...
...He revealed that Gilbert H. Stor-dock, chairman of the joint committee of veterans' organizations, has also pretested vigorously against starting the convention on Decoration or Memorial day...
...vice chairman of the state highway commission and an outstanding Wisconsin Progressive leader, was reported in satisfactory condition In a Madison hospital early this week after experiencing a serious attack of pneumonia...
...would have set up a mechanism for hearings on specific changes proposed in the reciprocal trade treaties...
...Others denounced the scheduling of the convention on the legal holiday as a cheap attempt to link patriotic observance of a holiday with the Republican party...
...Bob Casts Vote Against Trade Pacts Renewal WASHINGTON, D. C—Sen...
...The second amendment, this one rejecicd by the close vote of 4:2 tu "a...
...Bob sought twice lo amend the measure to protect agriculture asrainst wha' he reflected as dangerous shifts in foreign trade arising out of (he preseti...
...Protests were lodged formally with F. L. Gullickson...
...Armstrong, for instance, pointed out that the convention would open the night of May 30 with a general meeting which would be a patriotic ceremony...
...The first amendment would have established a control board empowered to maintain for American producers their fair share of world markets, to cushion the American economy against international price-fixing by belligerents, to protect American consumers against unduly high prices of imported goods, and to guard against dumping by foreign nations...
...war, but both amendments were rejected by the senate...
...Edward A. Bacon, Milwaukee, vice chairman of the Republican state committee, was outspoken in his agreement with the veterans' organisations that some other day might better have been chosen...
...Solemn Holiday Misused By Republicans, Complaint REPUBLICAN politicians in charge of that party's state convention May 30 faced a flood of protests this week from veterans' and patriotic organizations for scheduling a political convention on Memorial day...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
