ROLL CALL
ROLL CALL On MEN and Measures BY A vote of 47 to 20. the U. S. senate last week passed the La Follette-Thomas bill outlawing oppressive labor practices in industry. As adopted, the bill carried...
...Brown warned that this country is headed for another economic tailspin unless more of the proceeds of industry !?o into wages for workers rather than profits for owners...
...Profits of many Industries in the first quarter of 1940 are as much as 500 per cent above the same period in 1939, he said...
...Foe of Aliens Gov...
...Capper Hatch Murray Thomas, Utah Chavez Herring ' Norris Truman Cla-k...
...E. R. Rivers of Georgia, whose proclamation for the registering and fingerprinting of all aliens within the state has brought threatened injunction action by the American Civil Liberties Union and condemnation from the National Emergency Conference for Democratic Rights...
...Connecticut HARTFORD...
...He lauded President Roosevelt for condemning efforts ro break down labor standards...
...Many national leaders ot labor addressed the gathering, including President William Green of the A. F. of L. President Harvey W. Brgwn of the Machinists and President Dan W. Tracy of the Electrical Workers...
...Green also urged outlawing of the Communist party as a mrans of cuib-irqg "fifth column" threats and denounced the C. I. O. for permitting Communists to control some of its affiliates...
...At no time in the ast decade has there been any labor scarcity," he said...
...Labor must have a greater share of the output of Industry," Brown added...
...Smathers for, Gibson against...
...Over 1.000 delegates from A. F. of L. unions in the five New England states took a determined stand here last week against America's entry into the European war...
...Austin against...
...Conn...
...Van Nuys Burke George Overton White Byrd Gurney Radcliffe Wiley * • » NOT VOTING Andrews Glass Mead Smathers Austin Green Miller Thomas, Idaho Bank head Hayden Neely Tobey Barbour Johnson, Calif...
...Schwellenback for...
...Only by increasing labor's purchasing power can the problem of unemployment be solved and the economic system be made to function as it should...
...Green, in two talks, called for effective national preparedness, but declared that, so long as millions are unemployed hours on defense work should not be lengthened...
...Following is the roll cal' taken in trie U. S. senate on Mav 24: FOR PASSAGGE—47 Adams Downey Lodge Schwartx Ashurst Ellender Lucas Sheppa-d Barkley Gerry Lundeen Siattery Bilbo Gillette McCarran Stewart Brown Guffey McKcllar Taft Byrnes Harrison Minton Thomas, Okla...
...Glass against...
...Organized labor stands ready to provide every- skilled workman needed for the national defense program, Tracy declared...
...Nazis and other subversive elements in the United States...
...The conference, one of the biggest in New England history, also went on record as opposed to any tampering with labor laws under the guise of national defense...
...O'Mahoney Townsend Bone King Reed Walsh Clark, Mo...
...Idaho Hill Nye Vandcnberg Connally Holt Pepper Wagner Danaher Hughes Pittman Wheeler Davis La Follette Reynolds * • • AGAINST PASSAGE—20 Bailey Caraway Hale Smith Bridges Chandlr- Holman Tydings Bulow Donahr Johnson, Colo...
...Lee Russell Frazier McNary Schwellenbach Gibson Maloney Shipstead PAIRS . .Chipstead for passage...
...Tracy tssailed propaganda of army and navy officials and some reactionary industrialists that this country has a "shortage" of labor...
...As adopted, the bill carried amendments aimed at Communists...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
