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Politics Notes from Here and There About Solans and Citizens Bv 'OBSERVER' HARRISON FOR FDR DRAFT Sen.. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, conservative Democrat, last week called upon his state's...
...McDonald announced...
...Pat Harrison of Mississippi, conservative Democrat, last week called upon his state's delegation to the Democratic national convention to "draft Roosevelt" for a third term...
...its candidate in the third district, also won...
...If these pronounced victories in the primaries this year presage results in November, there should be a large delegation of liberals in the next congress to lighten labor's battles...
...NYA administrator, denies that a special Investigating committee in California recommed-ed further probing of charges of Communist connection among National Youth Administration personnel in California...
...Paul demands: "How any self-respecting organization of trade unionists and farmers can stomach the idea of Communists being admitted into membership in the association challenges understanding...
...With new roust ruction started under the FHA program now averaging about 600 houses per working day, the total for the year to date is noyv well beyond the 40.000 mark...
...He ran with labor's indorsement...
...The 38.743 new homes started under FHA inspection up to April 20 compare with 33.841 started in the corresponding period of 1939...
...2) There should be widespread public discussion of the problems involved in preparation for citizenship...
...DEN'ES RED CHARGES Aubrey Williams...
...Let's not add to the war psychosis already gathering in this country by building up hopes of an Allied victory on unconfirmed propaganda, only to shatter them in a few days by reports that make uncomfortable reading for Allied sympathizers—which includes most of the reading public...
...labor indorsed candidate for surrogate in Passaic county, New Jersey, won in the Democratic primaries...
...It seeks to foment race hatred among those of our own citizens whom they call the minorities— that, ts the Negroes and the foreign born...
...The only way it can be reasonably sure i* to send full quotas of delegates to the Brainerd convention pledged to definately oust every Communist and Communist sympathizer from the association...
...Year after year convention of the association have gone on record as opposed to Communism prior to 1939...
...Revision of its procedure in handling representation cases was announced by the National Labor Relations Board...
...Smith had the indorsement of the United Shoe Workers and of Labor's Non-Partisan league...
...The last is important...
...In Ohio, Tom Burke, financial secretary of local 12 of the Automobile Workers of Toledo, won the nomination for state representative...
...Tn such an effort they will have the full support and cod-operation of the rural delegations...
...The federal courts have often held the registration of aliens by states unconstitutional...
...Stassen of Minnesota as a "pretender to liberalism" who is in reality a "reactionary of the most bitter school, a foe of workers in cities and on farms alike...
...We say that will a full appreciation of the difficulties under which the foreign correspondents are working, and also of the natural competition in the home offices to be out first with the news...
...If the headlines don't product, but destroy trust, they drjij-nv mc illation...
...His selection as keynoter for the Republican national convention, says the CLU, brands that party as a "party of reaction and despair...
...Even in Maine labor made political headway...
...Last week...
...Paul Block, published of a chain of reactionary newspapers who was formerly identified with William Randolph Hearst, is stiport-ing Herbert Hoover, ex-president, for the Republican nomination for president...
...A demand that schools and colleges train for political leadership was voiced by the Conference on American Self-Government, conducted at Indiana university by the National Municipal League...
...Hoover said of Communist, propaganda in this country: "Moscow has maintained in this country a vast propaganda machine, not to make us friendly to Russia, but to control and dominate the political and economic life of America...
...Harrison, chairman of the powerful senate finance committee, is one of the most Influential members of congress...
...111., with American Legion approval...
...Paul last week went on record as opposed to the appropriation of federal funds to be use in prosecuting trade unions under the Sherman anti-trust art...
...Former Pres...
...E. D. Rivers of Georgia from enforcing his proclamation to register and fingerprint all aliens in the state will be sought by the Civil Liberties union unless the order is revoked, it yvas announced by the union early this week...
...If Ihc breathless broadcasts can't be believed from one day to the next, the dead dials will be reflected in the returns of radio advertising...
...The assembly criticised Thurman W. Arnold, U. S. assistant attorney general, for moving against unions he charged with law violations...
...On the contrary, we are impressed ivith the sincere character and devotion to the yvork of the Youth Administration upon the part of those who have been before us for this hearing...
...An "American column" organization has been formed by a group of business men in Blooming-ton...
...Included in the program adopted by the conference were such planks as the following: (1> A specific program should be developed to meet the problem of preparing youth for citizenship after the compulsory school aye...
...Deposits had jumped to $31,996,268,000 topping by $3,527.-017.00 the figure reported March 29, 1939...
...Today the world is familiar wilh the treachery of Communism operating hand in hand with fascism...
...Last December a Pennsylvania statute was similarly declared invalid...
...Yet the Rochester convention seated delegates notoriously known as communists...
...In the first congressional district, S. Stephenson Smith, president of the Oregon Commonwealth Federation, affiliated with Labor's Non-Partisan League, was the successful nominee...
...Most of these houses are small, single-family homes, he said...
...You can't expect to produce a war beat for every edition and still hope to keep the public aware of what is actually happening...
...Alaska, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands climbed to the highest ever .reported In the history of the national banking system--S35,-736.657.000...
...Preston Delano, comptroller of the currency, announced that as of Mar...
...He quoted from the report of the committee, composed of several prominent Californians...
...Rivers declared: "Your proclamation ordering the fingerprinting and registration of aliens strikes us as unjustifiably taking advantage of the war fever in order to circumvent the law which gives the federal government sole power over aliens...
...Pathfinder Magazine tells of the economic gains made under the New Deal as rellected by bank figures: On March 4. 1936, three years after the establishment of Federal Deposit Insurance, bank deposits in the United States soared to a neyv high record of $24,856,455,000...
...26, 1940, assets of the 5.184 active national banks in the U. S...
...The federation elected David C. Epps delegate to the Democratic national convention and two of its indorsed candidates to the state legislature...
...Arthur Robb, editor of Editor and Publisher, trade Journal of the, newspaper world, writes: "it seems to us that the paiiers, especially metropolitan evening papers, are trying to cover this war play-by-plny, In the 'he's up, he's down, no he's up again' style of the early radio announcers...
...This American public, has been so often told that II is the best informed of all I lie world that it Isn't likely to stand for newR that produces one-edition headlines, contradicted In the next, with the whole completely upset by the weekly mimmntlon...
...Irvin R. Kuenzli...
...time...
...Headlines in the Minneapolis Labor Rcvieyv: "Stas-sen Civil Service Law Is Wage Cutting Machine...
...Last week Oregon held its pre-election contests and 72 per cent of labor-farmer indorsed candidates won...
...John llaynes Holmes writes In Unity: "The more we read the newspaper reports of what is happening in Europe these days, the more we feel we are reading an H. G. Wells' horror story come to life...
...Townsend's pension organization is playing hand in glove with big mining interests in Montana...
...If organized Labor is to continue Its support of the Farmer-Labor parly H had better see to it that the thing It supports is not a part of a fifth column in the slate of Minnesota...
...He was a member of the committee of five who drafted the statement of conclusions...
...secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers...
...show that 38,743 new homes being financed under Title II of the National Housing Act had been started under FHA inspection up to that...
...GOVERNORS ON TRIP The governors of 19 stat.es, representing the national governors' conference, went on a tour of the iron ranges near Duluth, Minn., to inspect the iron ore resources which would produce a large part of the iron needed in an expanded defense program...
...RIVERS PROCLAMATION An injunction to restrain Gov...
...Margaret Chase Smith, widow of Congressman Smith, was chosen as her late husband's successor...
...3) A general program should be worked out by schools to create an understanding of the possibilities of democratic action and a desire for the better utilization of the opportunities presented by democratic institutions and this effort should be made throughout the whole American educational process...
...A prominent part in the proceedings yvas assumed by Mr...
...A. Hugh Adams and John H. Sullivan...
...Harry Joelson...
...Fine, if it is the news...
...The Union Advocate of St...
...The Young Democrats of Indiana elected Jcrdie Lewis of Terre Haute for their president for the next two years and chose Kokomo for their 1942 convention city...
...We express to the National Youth Administration our sincere interest in every effort thai maybe made through this arm of the government to aid the young people of our country in their development in personal usefulness and valuable citizenship" . . . The trades and labor assembly of St...
...an increase of 15 per cent...
...It proposes to "combat subversive and un-American activities in a sane manner as directed by legal authorities and to promote legislation for the curtailment and punishment of such activities...
...We suggest taat it's time to pull up and look around before this war news gets really serious...
...Congress cut the NLRB's appropriation by $337,000 as senate conferees bargained away action by the senate in refusing to agree to the house cut...
...Commenting on the handling of war news...
...The assignment of one staff member to ordinary representation hearings instead of both a trial examiner and a regional attorney, is expected to help the board in effecting the economics in personnel necessitated by the reduction of its budget for the next fiscal year," the announcement said...
...Jerry O'C'onnell's publication, the Montana Liberal, charges that Dr...
...Nan Wood Honeyman...
...Many county offices yvere filled by progressives...
...It can't be done that way...
...Labor's Non-Partisan League makes' the following statement: "The list of candidates in favor of progressivism and labor grows ever longer as returns from later state primaries keep coming in...
...The Central Labor Union of Minneapolis condemns Gov...
...Dangerous, if it is not...
...which said: "It is our opinion that all charges of subversive activity and Communist connection are not supported by any evidence which has been before us...
...40,000 New Homes Built Under FHA WASHINGTON, D. C—More than 40,000 new small homes have already been placed in construction under the FHA program thus far In 1940, Federal Housing Administrator Stewart...
...The union's telegram to Gov...
...That's playing Germany's game—not at all our own...
...no doubt the Brainerd convention will do likewise...
...In the future, the board announced, hearing in the field on representation cases will be conducted by a regional field officer instead of by a staff trial examiner as heretofore...
...seeks to stir up class hatred among the American people...
...Complete statistics through April 20...
...A Milwaukee CIO union is sending out chain letters to promote peace...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 24
