MISSOURI FEDERATION OF LABOR BACKS FDR FOR THIRD TERM ASKS LABOR PEACE
Missouri Federation of Labor Backs FDR for Third Term: Asks Labor Peace Resolution for AFL, CIO Unity Is Approved JOPLIN. Mo. — A third term for Pres. Roosevelt was Indorsed by the Missouri State...
...Robert M. La Follette, Jr...
...That made a vote in the senate unnecessary, but Norris was determined to go on record in opposition to it despite his admiration for the president...
...The suit was brought by A. J. Pickett, genral chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks on the M. K. & T. He acted on instructions from Presiident George M. Harrison, who decided not to await action by the enforcement agencies of the gorarnment...
...Norris pointed to a report made by the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana in which Walsh denounced the "Red raids" ordered by Attor-ney General A. Mitchell Palmer of the Wilson administration...
...Both sides agreed that prior to the enactment of the Wage-Hour law, the red-caps had worked for tips only and that, after the law became effective, the company notified the men to tr-port the amount of tips received and promised to make up the difference so the red-caps would be asswtd #i« minimum provided by law...
...Louis...
...He is afraid something like that will happen this time...
...Wheeler of Montana supported Norris...
...Other civil liberties must be protected if this Is to continue to be a democratic government...
...With attorneys' fees added, this means that the terminal company will have to pay out $86,500...
...I left) Wisconsin Progrenuve...
...Other resolutions indorsed the 30-hour week and called for a tax on labor-displacing machinery equal to the wages of men who lose jobs...
...Rep...
...George W Norris...
...Only speaker was Joseph J. Hauser, a member of the Intl...
...The reason Is that the people of this country are overwhelmingly against Hitler, whereas up to the time we got into the last war, there was not the prejudice against the German government that exists now...
...Wallace recently . > •stffled before the La Follette civil liberties committee on the migratory worker pi it le m. Tableau Against War "Day for Peace," a tableau staged on the campus by a group of Univeratty of Chicago undergraduates aa a protest against war...
...veteran defender of civil liberties, is deeply concerned about "war hysteria'' and attacks on the bill of rights...
...Is »ho» n as b* discussed the problem of migratory workers from the dust bowl—"Oki**"— with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace...
...Cereal and Soft Drink Workers, who declared: "We need not be endowed with supreme wisdom to recognize the plain fact that during the last two years the forces of reaction have profited by this disharmony with union labor's ranks...
...Norris in WarningAbout Civil Liberties WASHINGTON, D. C—Sen...
...Hauser's union has for years been involved in a bitter jurisdictional quarrel with the teamsters...
...The trial opened on May 27...
...Sen...
...A resolution calling for early unity of the AFL and CIO was passed unanimously...
...Trying to Help rOkies' Sen...
...WASHINGTON, D. C — Settlement of the long dispute between the Maytag Washing Machine Co...
...Hauser drew chuckles of laughter when he praised Pres...
...The House had just unanimously approved the president's reorganization proposal to transfer the bureau of immigration and naturalization from the department of labor to thp department of justice...
...That will produce hysteria and we must not be hysterical now...
...It fills every man with fear that he will be snooped upon and every organization to which he might belong might be investigated...
...while it is not announced it Is accepted that the reason for the transfer is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is in the Department of Justice and J. Edgar Hoover, the man who was in charge of the 'Red raids' after the war...
...Sen...
...The workers were presented by Stewart B. Flannagan and Edwin D. Franey...
...members of the firm of Hay and Flannagan...
...is head of the F. B. I. "We don't want anything like the 'Red raids' to happen again...
...Fed-e»al judges condemned the raids as a "blot" on American justice and government...
...Roosevelt was Indorsed by the Missouri State Federation of Labor, mecing in annual convention here...
...If Congress, familiar as It 1« wish tipping, had meant to include tip* as wages, the law would have so prorM-ed," Judge Atwill declared...
...Daniel J To-bin of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters...
...During the last World war, Wheeler was U. S. District Attorney in his home state and had an opportunity to witness war hysteria at its worst...
...I am wholeheartedly in favor of building airplanes or anything else which Is necessary for the defense of this nation, but I think it is a serious mistake to whip this country into a hysteria, when no one can control the direction it may take, once it gets started...
...I give Tobin credit for a common sense position on this AFL-CIO unity question," the brewery worker said.' "I wish every delegate on this convention floor could have read the splendid unity editorial he published in his official teamsters' journal...
...and the United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers tCIO) was announced by the NLRB when the firm signed a stipulation agreeing to reinstate 36 workers and to cease antiunion practices...
...Texas DALLAS...
...Let us ferret out the spies, if they exist, but in so doing, let's not ruin the reputation of innocent people by calling them 'Nazi agents' because they disagree with us...
...Sen...
...I don't believe it should be done," he said...
...Union of the United Brewery, Flour...
...The department of justice is not equipped to handle this job as is the department of labor...
...Federal Judge William H. Atwell ruled here last week when he awarded back wages and liquidated damages to 41 red-caps employed by the Union Terminal in Dallas...
...Labor unions and farm cooperatives were among the victims...
...of Newton...
...It was also stipulated that Pick**, acting in behalf of the men, wtrrei written notice on the company that this plan was not agreeable and fliat it violated the law...
...Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers for his labor peace 3tand...
...Death" threatens four co-eds as he stands over a dummy hanging on the barbed wire...
...It is much easier to work up a war hysteria than it was from 1914 to 1916," said Wheeler...
...Reuben T. Wood, *ybo was reelected as federation president, said that "the latest developments upon the European war front and their influence upon our own country, and the brave attitude of our President, have already destined him for another four years of »ervlce in the White House...
...Tex.—Tips are not meant to be wages and cannot be so considered in applying the provisions of the Wage-Hour law...
...If there ever was s time when we should be calm and certain that the rights of our people, vital to a democracy, are preserved, it is now," Norris said...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 23
