FARM TROUBLES ARE RESULT OF BUSINESS GOV'T
PENNSYLVANIAN GAVE $96,750 IN DAVIS RACE Hoover Cabinet Member Running Mate Had Aid of Rich Pittsburgh Manufacturer (Special to The Progressive) WASHINGTON. D. C—More than a dozen witnesses...
...Bonitz...
...The hearing last week by the campaign funds committee, which is headed by Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, w as the last dealing with the Pennsylvania elections...
...Berg found that the closely-knit building trades organizations arc able to retain high wages and good working conditions despite the unprecedented business depression...
...He denied Davis or Brown solicited money from him...
...I've got my own reasons for being in politics," he is reported to have asserted...
...Evidence and testimony was given regarding irregularities in the contest between former Governor Gifford Pin-chot and Francis Shunk Brown for the Republican nomination to the governorship in w-hich a recount was made which gave Pinchot the nomination...
...UNIONS AID MANY DURING DEPRESSION EDMONTON, Alberta — Unemployment in all trades and among laborers is very severe in the Northwestern States ftnd in Western Canada, according to Carl E. Berg, organizer of the International Union of Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers, in commenting on information gained from an organizing tour through Montana, Idaho and Utah...
...No State effort is being put forward to cope with unemployment...
...Chairman Nye intimated that the committee in its report to the Senate at the beginning of the next session of Congress would recommend some Federal legislation designed to keep down fraud and abuses In the conduct of primaries and elections, including excessive campaign expenditures...
...D. C—More than a dozen witnesses testified before the Senate campaign funds committee this week to the effect that a $96,750 contribution to the Davis-Brown campaigns in Pennsylvania was made by one Walter A. Bonitz, wealthy Pittsburgh brick manufacturer, and that fraud and irregularity were the order of things in the May Republican senatorial and gubernatorial primaries...
...Similarly, irregularities in the nomination of James J. Davis, now Secretary of Labor in the Hoover cabinet, were disclosed by witnesses at the hearing...
...In sonic of the cities ho visited Mr...
...Other witnesses testified as to election frauds concerning the registration of dead men and prisoners, the voting of college students, and the mishandling and mutilation of ballots...
...testifying before the committee, denied he had made the $96,750 gift to the Davis-Brown campaign in return for promises of state or county brick contracts...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 39
