NEXT CONGRESS WILL CONSIDER MUSCLE SHOALS
NEXT CONGRESS WILL CONSIDER MUSCLE SHOALS Possibility of Agreement Is Enhanced by Losses of Old Guard Who Fought Measures [Special to The Progressive] WASHINGTON, D. C—A constructive agreement on...
...work, but the railroads demand "freedom of contract...
...In previous se&ions the Senate and the House of Representatives have been unable to agree as to the disposition or use of the Muscle Shoals project...
...The Muscle Shoals question Is slated to come before the conference committee which was unable to agree during the last session, and further proposals will be made to both houses of congress, according to Sen...
...Di-bware &. Hudson, Lackawanna...
...This means that the work would be done under the low-wage, long-hour system, and would disregard the industrial depression...
...io so-called "staggar plan" Is being i out both by the city and by many . ufacturers in an effort to give work the jobless...
...Senate Compromised Senator Norris, discussing the concessions made by the Senate, said, •'When the conferees met we realized as the President himself has said that all legislation is the result of compromise...
...NEXT CONGRESS WILL CONSIDER MUSCLE SHOALS Possibility of Agreement Is Enhanced by Losses of Old Guard Who Fought Measures [Special to The Progressive] WASHINGTON, D. C—A constructive agreement on tile Muscle Shoals power and nitrate plants may be reached soon after congress convenes In December it present forecasts of the defeat of Hoover supporters in congress materialize, according to political observers here...
...McNary said, "We disagree over the leasing proposition on the one hand and on the proposition for government operation and distribution on the other...
...The House, however, controlled by a substantial Old Guard and Hoover majority, rejected the measure and substituted a resolution providing for the turning over of the Muscle Shoals plants to private hands...
...President Hoover at that time made the statement that all legislation was the result of compromise, and urged the committee to work out some solution of the question...
...Cleveland Road Program to Aid 1,000 Jobless City Also Adopts Stagger Plan to Distribute Work Among the Unemployed CLEVELAND, Ohio...
...The House vote was 197 to 114...
...After we ascertained that the House conferees under no circumstances would yield, the Senate conferees made a compromise proposition to the House conferees that the nitrate plants should be leased under the Ufems...
...ot the House joint resolution, that, the power properties should be administered under the Senate joint resolution...
...In spite of this concession, no agreement was reached, the committee remaining in a deadlock...
...The Senate then agreed to allow the nitrate manufacturing plants to be operated by private interests, but desired to keep the power utilities under government ownership and control...
...McNary on last June 18 announced that the committee was deadlocked...
...We think we made a fair compromise proposal Those who are opposed to the government operating Its own property down there and experimenting in the cheapening of fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients have always contended that the government could not do that business as economically as private individuals, and hence wanted to lease these properties...
...At the conference that considered the Senate proposal, five of the eight members voted to accept the compromise— the three Senate members and two House members—but under the rules for such conferences a majority of each delegation is necessary before an agreement can be reached...
...The legislature pa«.-ed a law that calk for an eight-hour day and prevailing wage rates on this...
...The railroads are the Lo-'vj Island...
...Announcing the committee's failure to agree...
...This city has just announced that a $9,000,000 road program to extend over a period of two years will be started early in December and will provide employment for over 1.000 men...
...New York Central, Erie...
...RAILROADS FIGHT EIGHT HOUR DAY ALBANY, N. Y,— Railroads operating in this State have carried to the New York Supreme Court their fight nst application of the eight-hour and the prevailing rate of wages .-¦adc crossing elimination work...
...County commissioners came, forward With the road program this week, and stated that an original appropriation of $450,000 would be made immediately to start construction work on roads within the Greater Cleveland area...
...Meanwhile, as part of a city-wide unemployment relief program, 1,-1 '"¦ men are working on the streets, : s, and parks...
...New Haven and Staten Island Rapid Transit Company...
...Committee Deadlocked The question then went to conference, but Sen...
...State and the railroads are joint ., ¦ to the removal of grade crossing.,, which will cost $300,000,000...
...McNary, chairman of the committee...
...Attorney General Hamilton is spokesman for the various agencies, including the State Federation of Labor, that is upholding living standards...
...Lehigh Valley...
...About 6,000 men have been placed by this system, which provides for three days of work for each group, who are then replaced by others for a like period, thus having the effect of dividing up jobs and providing workers with part-time, employment sufficient to keep them from dire want...
...We think that if they want to compromise We have gone more than half way...
...The Senate, by a vote- of 45 to 23, passed legislation introduced by Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska providing that the government should operate both power and nitrate plants there...
...When we found that we had reached an impasse which it was impossible to overcome, it was stated that it was useless to stay there any longer, that we probably could not get together at this session, and that I would call a conference some time in in the next session of congress...
Vol. 1 • November 1930 • No. 48
