POLITICS
Politics Notes from Here and There About Solons and Citizens By OBSERVER' ANTI-ALIEN BILL CHAIRMAN Dies of the house committee on un-American activities has Introduced a bill barring all alien...
...Mareh'ng ahead with the growth of labor unions, organized workers, together with southern progressives, are participating directlv in political activity and making striking gains...
...Fascists, and Communists from the country and to deport any now here...
...Burton will seek the seat of Sen...
...Don't let them fool you about that...
...Ford Co...
...Politics Notes from Here and There About Solons and Citizens By OBSERVER' ANTI-ALIEN BILL CHAIRMAN Dies of the house committee on un-American activities has Introduced a bill barring all alien Nazis...
...Previously the board directed the company to stop ant i-union activity at...
...Raymond E. Baldwin as a "favorite son" candidate for the G. O. P. presidential nomination . . . President Roosevelt has 700 votes of 1,904 in the coming Democratic national convention, a tabulation shows . . . Until industry can absorb the unemployed it would be better "to stop all the silly talk about lengthening the hours of work," AFL Pres...
...There is considerable support for a proposal that congress determine each year the amount of appropriations, then attempt to find the necessary revenue or expressly authorize an increase in the debt limit...
...I have sat as a president of one of these farm loan association, and I know there is no semblance of a cooperative about this system...
...Contrary to the widely publicized notion that the American people are anxious to return to the nre-depresslon policies of Coollge end Hoover, congressional primary elections • and local contests brought victory to outstanding liberal and pro-labor candidates...
...Leonard Castle, United Press political writer, says: "Dopestcrs will run into considerable difficulty attempting to ascertain whether the trend of vote was Republican or Democratic in the recent primary...
...The financing problem of the federal government in connection with the defense program may be deferred until the next session of congress, according tn Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harrison .. . the senate has bRcked up the president in his transfer of the Civil Aeronautics Authority to the Department of Commerce...
...Cat lovers threaten to offer a Persian kitten as bounty for 10 trigger fingers of Kansas hunters...
...It is to be regretted,' Baldwin said, "that a bureau of the department of justice, committed to the preservation of civil rights, should take so casual a view of practices usually justifying the severest condemnation...
...the municipal broadcasting station, sold to private operators . . . Charles A. Hauswirth, mayor of Butte and candidate for governor of Montana, is publisher of a brisk weekly newspaper, the "Eye Opener...
...Not that there is any chance of the Socialist Party electing its ticket in November...
...SEE LIBERAL TREND Says Labor's Non-Partisan League In its national bulletin: "A review of the results in the primarv elections held up to the present discloses a comforting liberal tr«-d among large sections of voters...
...The Detroit ILD has petitioned the common council of Detroit to go on record in favor of passage of the Geyer bill, and against passage of all anti-alien bills now before congress . . . After listening to the testimony given by Charles H. Mylander of the American Bankers Association in opposition to the Farm debt adjustment bill, Chairman Marvin S. Jones of the house commi.tee on agriculture declared that this was the first time he had found the Farm bureau, the Grange, and the American Bankers Association "lying in the same bed...
...only now to find that war greatly increases tha chance that he will take the nomination when given on the first ballot...
...nowcr trust executive, broucht a quick response...
...The "Grapes of Wrath" and the United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers (CIO) have evidently Influenced some agricultural labor camp operators...
...Garner is said to have i')ld colleagues that, he thinks Pres...
...Is Again Told to Stop Acts •WASHINGTON, D. C—Issuance of its fifth order against the Ford Motor Co., directing it to cease anti-union activity at its Buffalo plant and to reinstate 38 workers with back pay was announced here by the National Labor Relations board...
...Oren Root...
...Green told the New England labor conference at Hartford, Conn, in a speech there...
...But only that it Is an infinite satisfaction to have a man associated with the presidential office who has not onlv good Intentions but also a clear mind, who presents a nlatform of sound and not spurious liberalism and who would really keep his promise to keep this country out of war...
...Cases of beer may also be given the cat killers, a plan which Inspired this comment from Eleanor Booth Simmons In The New York Sun: "Wouldn't Carrie Nation love to see the Kansas game protectors and cat killers having a beer fest over heaps of bleeding tails...
...A sixth case, involving the Dallas, Tex, plant is pending before the board...
...and senate leaders hope to escape action on the measure in that body...
...Foot said . . . The Republicans of Ohio have nomlnnted Mavor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland for U. S. senator . . He defeated Rep...
...Pierce, former governor of Oregon, had earlier said that the Grange and Bureau leaders fighting this bill were "innocent tools of the banking and insurance interests," and stated that .the insurance and banking interests were resisting the liberalization of farm loan policy In order to protect "a fertile field" for investment of their funds...
...Reynolds, North Dakota Democrat, referred to Harry Bridges, west coast labor leader, as "one of the stallions in the herd of Trojan horses grazing in this country" . . . President Roosevelt has asked the transfer of the Immigration and naturalization services from the department of labor to the justice department...
...This Is true for two reasons: The vote was too light, and there were too many uncontested races...
...NORMAN THOMAS' CANDIDACY By Jonn Haynes Holmes in "Unity" magazine: "Unity hails with enthusiasm the nomination of Norman Thomas for the presidency...
...Pierce told R. E. Short of the Farm Bureau, "You and Brother Taber are just kicking up a tempest in a teapot over this innocent bill...
...California SAN FRANCISCO, Cal...
...However, the Farm Credit Adminis:ration has liberalized its amortization policy, and there is such a rush of borrowers to take advantage of these terms that Congress has been asked to provide $1,700,000 for additional personnel to handle the applications...
...Oarner is said to be unwilling to run again as vice-president . . Mayor I.a Guardin of New York Citv charged last week that private chain broadcasting interests tried to have WNYC...
...Rep...
...The suggestion in behalf of Willk'e...
...Also deportable would be aliens whom police certify to be revolutionary agitators . . . Sen...
...WASHINGTON WHISPERS From "Washington Whispers" In the United States News: "Owing to strenuous opposi ion to some of Its sections, the Jones-Wheeler Bill to reorganize farm mortgage system and reduce interest uniformly appears to have only remote chances for enactment...
...Several letters have been received from operators who are going to erect complete new camps before the 1941 season, the report said...
...Praising the president the resolution finally adopted said, "too much praise cannot be given him for his vigorous attempts to end unemployment, to provide jobs, to provide adequate security In old age and unemployment and to provide a more equitable distribution of our national income...
...Norwalk editor...
...O. P. menus Good On Promises...
...The play Is aimed at foreign spies and saboteurs It Is reported . . . Vice Pres...
...Hartley stressed the controlling influence of congressmen from poll-tax states in passage of legislation affecting the entire country...
...of New York says he started the Wendell Wllkle for president movement by sending out a flock of postcards to Republicans...
...Roosevelt will be the Democratic nominee for president for a th'rd term...
...Whitewashing of the FBI's Detroit raids in a report bv Henrv Schwe<nhaut, head of the civil liberties unit of the department of Justice, was criticized by Director Roger N. Baldwin of the American Civil L'berties Union...
...Last week the Eye Opener's headline modestlv read: "Hauswirth Favorite Candidate...
...Feelers recently put out by Democratic leaders in congress showed strong resistance to any substantial round-figure increase in the $45,000,000,000 debt limit, the theory being that such authorizations encourage extrava-gance...
...Of greatest significance this year is thr political awakening of the southern masses...
...t-TO BACK BALDWIN Connecticut Republicans, who chose an uninstructed slate of delegates to their national convention, are said to be all set to cast their first vote for Gov...
...Walter M...
...Louis and Dearborn, Mich., plants...
...1 in improving housing and sanitary conditions in their California ramps, reports Geo-ge G. Kidwcll, director of the state department of industrial relations...
...Extensive improvements made or planned in labor camps are described in a report submitted to Kidwell by Carey McWilliams, chief of the division of immigration and housing...
...Roosevelt to its officials "for apnronrlate action at the proper time...
...By a 247 to 31 vote, the house of representatives passed a bill granting pensions to surviving dependents of all World war veterans who had at least 90 days service at home or abroad . . . Savs a Democratic spokesman: "O...
...its Long Beach, Calif...
...Sommer-ville, Mass,, St...
...ANTI-POM, TAX Bill, Car*vlng the campaign for passage of the Geyer bill to abolish poll-tax in eight Southern states as a prerequisite for participation in federal elections to the people of Michigan, the International Labor Defense of Michigan, headed by Harold Hartley, has inaugurated a series of forums on the question...
...The 2nd national convention of the steel workers organizing committee (CIO) referred action on a third term resolution for Pres...
...Employers have spent 585,000 since Jan...
...Many had given up the belief that Roosevelt would accept a third-term drafi...
...The Dearbom case Is awaiting decision in the circuit courts...
...Vic Donahey, Democrat, who is retiring . . . Renorts John Paine: "A state of war exists in Kansas, where the director of the fish and game eomm'ssion hns offered bounties of 50 to 200 pheasants to the counties that submit the largest number of cats' tails and crows' claws...
...Many of these congressmen are elected by no more than the economic top 6 per cent of the population lhat would be able to vote were the poll-taxes repealed...
...Dudley A. White...
...Although sentiment in favor of the bill to pension dependents of World War veterans was overwhelming, as demonstrated by the vote of 247 to 31, House members did not insist upon a roll call, thus sparing political em-barassment to those who opposed this expenditure...
...He said that the president will have absolute control of the Democratic national convention and events abroad and at horn" will make his nomination certain...
...New Deal group is all smiles over the turn that has come in politics...
...The Wheeler-Jones debt adjustment bill, over which this fight is being waged, is a bill that would liberalize the farm credit structure by scaling down overcapitalized farm debt in line with farm productive value, by fixing a maximum interest rate of 3 per cent, by lifting the requirement of a 5 per cent stock investment as a prerequisite to a farm loan, and by enabling foreclosed farmers whose farms have been lost during the depression years to repurchase their farms from the land banks...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 22
