POLITICS
Politics Notes from Here and There About Solons and Citizens -I By 'OBSERVER DAWES AND THE BUDGET CHARLES G. DAWES, board chairman of the City National bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, former GOP...
...Much of it has bern...
...to organize a a stale-wide reemployment movement...
...John Haynes Holmes and Oswald Garrison Villard are among the liberals who have signed a "pc'ition for peace" directed to congress and the president...
...have pink stains on their escutcheons...
...Wheeler insists that nothing less than first place would interest him...
...Xorrls, beloved Nebraska liberal, told reporters last week that he thinks It unlikely that President Roosevelt will run again...
...Two former CIO union officials told the Dies committee recently that the Transport Workers Union and the American Communications association are both Communist controlled...
...We members of the federation are not denouncing President Roosevelt as a traitor to working men and women," Green said...
...The Republican party has never been liberal and it never will be...
...Elizabeth Dilllng, whose life work is the exposure of reds, has discovered that Sen...
...In a letter to James A. Farley, Democratic national chairmr.n...
...the petition declares...
...Reason is that 'business efficiency' hearings originally scheduled for week of Apr...
...The board emoloye sharply denied that he had written the resolution...
...The Smith committee that is alledegdly investigating the NLRB got a sharp rebuff when it tried to show that a labor board employe had drafted a resolution supporting the La Follette Civil Liberties committee for consideration by a conference of CIO officers at Atlantic City in 1937...
...a former local officer of the Bro...
...Independent voters, who hold the balance of power, have not decided that the entire New Deal program is unsound...
...SOCIAL LABOR PARTY Adopting a platform that brands both AFL and CIO as "agencies of capitalism," the Socialist Labor party concluded its 20th national convention by nominating candidates for the presidency and vice presidency...
...We call upon the workers of America to organize themselves into integral Socialist Industrial unions to enforce the demand for social ownership proclaimed through the ballot...
...and is, approved by them to a greater extent than by conservative Democrats...
...Wilsus, prominent engineer, tdld the American Society of Civil Engineers...
...Note to the G.O.P.: Elephants sold for $500 each at a circus auction held last week in Texas...
...He adds: "We cannot—and should not—try to turn the clock back...
...Din't the colonel make the same prediction in 1932 and 1936...
...if it wants to win in 1940...
...Col...
...A few Republican senators and representatives, able to rise above partisanship, have helped in the passage of individual measures...
...solemnly states that the vigilante organization "instigated a certain amount of opposition, including proposals to ban The Grapes of Wrath, for the deliberate purpose of getting more people to read it and get interested in California's migrant problem...
...Sen...
...I think the president would like to retire and get a rest...
...Dawes was first director of the budget...
...Arthur Vandcnburg (R...
...was chosen for the presidential race...
...The long and constant struggle to bring justice into the economic system and to make it work has been carried on almost exclusively by the Democratic party...
...of Chicago, former GOP vice-president, told a group of big businessmen that the most important task of the day is balancing the budget...
...Result is that long-pending economic 'free-for-all' may be postponed until after elections...
...PIGEONHOLE HATCH BILL The senate-approved Hatch bill imposing curbs on political activities of state employes paid with federal funds has been killed in the house judiciary committee...
...The convention refused to give Dewey control of the Rhode Island slate and picked four delegates who were favored by Gov...
...Aaron M. Orange, candidate for the New York governorship in the last election, was named for the vice ures-idency...
...H. Van-derbilt of Rhode Island has signed a bill authorizing Rhode Island insurance companies to sell insurance against sitdown strikes...
...Jerome Davis...
...said in an address before the Civic and Social congress at LaSalle college . . . Funnier than the one about the fanner's daughter is the Associated Farmers' explanation of their attempt last year to ban circulation of John Steinbeck's searing novel, The Grapes of Wrath...
...Wilgus said the railroads are the "key log in our economic jam...
...Culbert L. Olson of California with violating a pledge to end the spoils system...
...Bui we at the same time caution the workers that such unions must be organized, for none now exist...
...Some other method than war must be found to suppress dictatorships...
...and Dist...
...of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers (AFL...
...Pres...
...Republican United Sta'es senator from Kansas, has an article in the magazine Look in which he says the Republican party "must take over such part of the New Deal as is clearly in the public interest...
...Abram Flaxer of the State County and Municipal Workers (CIO) demanded that Olson reinstate a score of veteran workers on the staff of the state relief administration in Alameda (Oakland) county...
...The committee vote to table the measure was 14 to 10...
...Gov...
...McNary and Capper are active in the effort to make the platform a strong one in declarations on farm issues...
...They have been disappointed in the past and they will be disappointed again this year...
...Norrls...
...Mass...
...Says the Reading, Pa., Labor Advocate: "AKhough, as in previous legislative elections, the coming campaign will center around the city legislative candidates, who this year are Darlington Hoopes a*id Miles N. Williams, Socialists of Reading and Berks will conduct a united campaign for all candidates on their ballot from president down to the most humble office...
...James of Pennsylvania some time ago named Walter D. Fuller, president of the Curtis Publishing Co...
...Atty...
...Maybe that initial R. means 'Revolutionary' instead of 'Republican.' . . .Government ownership of railroads is inevitable...
...ATTITUDE TOWARD LABOR If the "existing system of business" is to continue, employers must "display a more liberal attitude toward labor," Wiliam J. Devlin, president of the Philadelphia Hardware and Malleable Iron Wor!:s Inc...
...29, will be covered in form of Federal Trade commission report...
...Downey said that he had long held the view that no president should hold a third term and that at this time he saw "no reason to change that opinion...
...Frank C. Knox and Sen...
...Flaxer telegraphed the California governor that the dismissal of leading members of the SCMW was "outrageous...
...Insiders intimate temporary suspension of the TNEC activities...
...The Old Guard is reaching out to control the Philadelphia convention and to dictate the party nominees...
...It has a fringe of idealists and liberals who strive constantly to convert the party to progressive principles and to bring it in touch with the needs and aspirations of the average citizen...
...Sheridan Downey of California came out openly last week against a third term for the office of president...
...WASHINGTON WHISPERS From Washington Whispers" column in the United States News: ''Jus-tire Roberts has let friends know that under no circumstances would he permit himself to he drafted as Republican presidential nominee...
...Roosevelt's renewed interest in Sen...
...Voorhls of California, member of the liberal bloc In congress, which would require state department registration for numerous groups, including those of the propaganda variety, is being strongly criticized by left-wing leagues and alliances.....Says John Paine: "Mrs...
...Speaking at the annual Jefferson day dinner of the Rhode Lsland Democratic state committee in Providece, Postmaster General Farley said: "There is no political party which will dare to advocate the repeal of the splendid program of laws which the Roosevelt administratipn has placed on the statute books because these laws have the sanction and approval of the vast majority of the American people...
...McCormick of the Chicago Tribune says the country is going Republican with a whoop...
...The results of the Republican primary convention in Rhode Island was considered a setback for Thomas E. Dewey...
...The CIO, AFL and simyar organizations are agencies of capitalism for the reason that they are pledged to maintain the system of private property, and structurally they lend themselves pre-eminently to the furthering of capitalist interests...
...CAPPER IN "LOOK" Sen...
...Reason, state relief funds were running low...
...John L. Lewis' attacks on President Roosevelt and his talk of a third party are inspired by a desire to run for the presidency himself...
...Capper...
...the platform states...
...A. F. publicity man...
...Robert A. Taft (R.i, Sen...
...Sen...
...Gov...
...Vanderbilt and other state leaders who are unpledged to any candidate...
...Military experts of this government were not surprised by reports of serious British reverses in Norway, owing to difficulties of transporting troops 800 miles and landing them on difficult terrain against opposition from airplanes...
...But the power, the leadership, and the drive came from the Democratic party...
...Thomas E. Dewey (R...
...Charging Gov...
...New Dealers are questioning whether the attitude of Justice Roberts will Influence Justice Douglas, who Is being eyed by drafters in the Democratic ranks . . . Back of Pres...
...A bill by Rep...
...Some who were not members of the party have given valuable aid...
...The voice of liberalism may come through the loud speaker but the controlling hand at the mechanism will be the same old hand of reaction...
...said Sen...
...AFL president, told 1.500 delegates to the Pennsylvania state federation of labor convention at Pittsburgh last week that...
...I'm afraid he won't run again...
...He was also the party's choice in 1936...
...A bill permitting the president to regulate transactions in foreign held U. S. securities during emergencies . . . William Green...
...Robert Franklin...
...Roosevelt and Garner forces in Texas are working out a truce on the delegate fight there, it is reported...
...Wheeler is the president's thought that the Montana senator would be a strong vote-getter In the second place on the 1940 Democratic ticket...
...The measure would have limited personal campaign contributions to $5,000...
...LAN DON BOOSTED Alfred M. Landon, Republican nominee for president in 1936, is being advanced by the liberals and the Western farm bloc group to be chairman of the platform committee of the Republican national convention...
...The Simon J. Lubin Society, agricultural research organization, comments that Franklin's statement is "the first A. F. admission that the book is factual...
...Rather we are appreciative of the great progress labor has made under him...
...Fuller claims that 60.000 jobs have been created, saving $20,-000,000 in releif costs...
...John W. Aiken of Chelsea...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
