BOB, JR., ASKS CONGRESS TO FACE ISSUES
Bob, Jr., Asks Congress To Face Issues Session Must Continue Until Problems Are Solved, View WASHINGTON, D. C—Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Jr. Is urging congress to stay in session "all summer if...
...We must take immediate action to restore a dynamic quality to our national life," Sen...
...They are: 1. A program to open up educational and work opportunities lo youth...
...It is abosutely necessary that we solve some of these important domestic problems to build up a strong national defense...
...Wylle is appealing from a ruling by Circuit Judge Henry Graass in refusing to Issue temporary injunctions restraining* Oreen Bay barbers from violating the code covering the barber industry...
...2. The proposal to set up a joint congressional committer to make a thorough study of national defense needs and to formulate a unified deferse policy...
...William Riley, Madison, chairman of the Dane county Democratic committee, announced flatly that: "I am not at all interested in the convention and I don't propose to attend...
...La Follette declared...
...Our internal defenses are of great importance in protecting the nation in these days of modern warfare in which industrial production and economic strength are so vital...
...Riley is a leader of the Roosevelt wing of the party and has been associated with Gustave Keller...
...Fred M. Wylie, counsel for the fair trade practice division of the department of agriculture, said today the state supreme court would consider his motion June 4 to rule on constitutionality of the code law before the summer recess...
...Apple-ton, chairman of the Democratic party organization of Wisconsin, which is in revolt against the official party machinery...
...Paririe du Chicn, reactionary chairman of the state central committee...
...4. legislation, of which Senator La Follette is co-sponsor, designed to give farmers lower interest rates on their mortgages and an opportunity to reduce their indebtedness to amounts which the productive value of the farms can carry...
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...There were numerous reports last week that Keller might lead his entire organization away from the convention in protest against the tactics of the official clique headed by William O. Carroll...
...Democrats Are Troubled With New Headache BADLY divided into four or five warring factions...
...6. Change tae social security program to provide for a general old age pension plan...
...Wisconsin's Democratic party had a new headache to nurse last week just as the formal call for the party's convention was going out through the state...
...I know that the members of congress are anxious to get home and prepare for the coming election campaign, but we have problems facing us here which should come first," Sen...
...La Follette stated in an interview last week...
...3. A program to give the dairy farmers a program and parity prices for all of agriculture...
...La Follette listed seven measures of major importance as being among those which he said ought to be acted on before congress adjourns...
...Now that we have given the money for the national defense requested by the president we should turn our attention to our domestic problems...
...Is urging congress to stay in session "all summer if necessary" to secure action upon the problems of national defense, taxes, farm debt adjustment, unemployment, and old age pensions...
...Keller is opposed to hand-picked endorsement of candidates at the party convention in Green Bay June 8. and Carroll is determined to have the convention make candidate selections in advance of the primary elections...
...5. A program to release our productive rapacity and provide the opportunity lo work to the unemployed...
...7. A tax bill to raise as much revenue as possible to meet the increased appropriations...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 22
