Murray Claims Graft Stymies Defense Orders
Murray Claims Graft Stymies Defense Orders The army, navy and defense commission have exercised "the rankest kind of discrimination" in awarding defense contracts, Philip Murray, CIO president,...
...Fred M. Risser, Madison...
...U. S. Farm Cash Income Over 9 Billion In 1940 Farmers' cash income for 1940 received from marketings, commodity loans and government payments was $9,120,000,000, nearly $452,000,000 more than in 1932, the U. S. bureau of agricultural economics estimates...
...It cannot hope to perform these contracts within three and a half years...
...Louis J. Fellenz, Fond du Lac...
...James H. Carroll, Glid-den...
...Prof...
...Approved by the Progressive caucus, the amendment boosts old age pension appropriation for 1941-42 from $4300,000 to $10,800,000 and raises the 1942-43 appropriations from $5,100,000 to $11,000,000...
...all Republicans, and Anthony Gaw-ronski and Cornelius T. Young, both of Milwaukee, Democrats...
...Progressives last week also cut off senate action on an administration bill permitting the $190,000 annually appropriated to the Wisconsin national guard to be used for the Wisconsin state guard...
...Reeder declared...
...Otto Mueller, Wausau...
...New Germany will be the most important buyer in the new European order," the ambassador said...
...Max Yergan are co-chairmen, will be held March 2930 in Atlantic City...
...Milton T. Murray, Milwaukee...
...La Follette because of the pending vote on the measure in the U. S. Senate...
...Our strength and our vitality as a democracy has come from the fusion of many cultures, many tongues, many creeds," the Committee says in its conference announcement...
...Kenneth Greenquist, Racine...
...H. A. Lewis, Boscobel...
...As the only remedy to drag Peru out of her alleged backward development North American capital is being offered...
...Thus Ibero-America is just good enough to provide a pretext for the warmongering of certain government circles and their collaborators from New York...
...He said postwar Germany would become Argentina's best customer and asked that Argentines treat Germans in their country with "common respect...
...In history classes, he said, "the real facts about the political campaigns of our national history...
...Foreign Born Group To Hold Conference Fifth national conference of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, of which Carey McWilliams, Prof...
...Earlier in the week, Republicans in the senate, over bitter opposition from Progressives, passed, 24-5, the Heil administration bill authorizing Gov...
...Murray told the American Association of School Adm in is trators that large corporations were "grabbing most of the defense contracts...
...This state guard could be sent to other states to quell insurrections and other state guards can be brought into Wisconsin...
...They are: A. J. Busby, Milwaukee...
...Here's the complete text of the resolution: WHEREAS, there is pending before* the Congress of the United States HR 1776, also known as the Lease-Lend bill...
...Jesse M. Peters, Hartford...
...The petition asks Sen...
...and WHEREAS, said bill has been passed by the House of Representatives and is now before the United States Senate...
...Badger Senate Kills Little Dies' Proposal Action in Wisconsin's senate on the "little Dies committee' resolution to investigate un-American activities in Wisconsin factories handling defense orders was killed in a surprise move this week as eight Republicans joined Progressives to scuttle the measure, 15-13...
...The PPC pointed out that "the demand for power is growing more rapidly than the utility systems expected...
...They are...
...Margins of error of this order in planning to meet power demands two years hence, when the expanding defense program will be pressing the country's generating capacity, would mean serious power shortages such as threatened the defense effort in 1918...
...Maurice P. Coakley, Beloit...
...Runs For Judge With a record of successive service as District Attorney in Ashland county for 14 years, Attorney G. Arthur Johnson, Ashland...
...Philip E. Nelson, Progressive floor leader and veteran of overseas service in the World War, the resolution was sentenced to slow death when the Senate voted 16 to 12 to place it on the table...
...Rudolph M. Schlabach, La Crosse...
...John W. Byrnes, Green Bay...
...A. J. Connors, Barron...
...This increase exceeded by 472,440 kilowatts or 22 per cent the estimates in the September reports of the utilities...
...Conrad Shearer, Kenosha...
...Mike Mack, Shiocton...
...now, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the senate, the assembly concurring, that this legislature extend its commendation and appreciation to the Wisconsin Congressmen aforesaid who have voted against BiR 1776 in the House of Representatives...
...Bernhard Gettelman, Milwaukee Republican sought action on the resolution as soon as it came over the assembly, Sen...
...The six Senate Progressives present in the chamber voted unanimously in favor of the resolution...
...Members of the guard are free from legal punishment except for treason or felonies...
...George H. Hipke, Stanley...
...Supporters of the resolution could only hope for reconsideration to revive the proposal...
...Progressives Seek Pension Increase Wisconsin appropriations for old age pensions during the 1941-43 biennium would be increased $12,000,000 over that provided in the Republican budget, under an amendment introduced last week by Ben Rubin, Milwaukee Progressive...
...be it further RESOLVED, that properly attested copies of this resolution be transmitted to each Wisoensfti member of the House of Representatives named herein and to the United States Senators from Wisconsin...
...Emphasis should be placed on the many bright spots in our national history, but history should be presented truthfully as a struggle for progress, not a triumphal march, Prof...
...Suite 1505, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York...
...Six Republicans joined them in supporting the resolution...
...Walter Rauten-strauch and Dr...
...John Kremer, president of the Young Progressive elub, said this week ttjat only half of the petitions had been collected, but that the 600 names were being sent immediately to Sen...
...Heil to set up a Wisconsin state guard...
...Students Laud Bob's Stand On Lend Measure More than 600 University of Wisconsin students have signed petitions, expressing opposition to the Lease-Lend bill, circulated by the University Progressive club...
...W. P. Knowles, New Richmond ;M...
...Philip E. Nelson, Maple...
...Philip E. Nelson, Progressive floorleader, attacked the measure as an attempt to set up a legislative committee "to snoop on everybody in Wisconsin...
...and WHEREAS, the following nine of Wisconsin's 10 Congressmen voted against said bill in the House of Representatives, namely: Stephen Bolles, Harry Sauthoff, Wm...
...Nazis Lure South America By Short Wave By short wave radio from Berlin and alluring promises from its ambassador to Argentina, Germany has opened a new drive to short-circuit improving relations between the United States and Latin America...
...Murray Claims Graft Stymies Defense Orders The army, navy and defense commission have exercised "the rankest kind of discrimination" in awarding defense contracts, Philip Murray, CIO president, charged in Atlantic City last week...
...R. Laird, Marsh-field...
...Under the bill, which has been sent on to the assembly, the governor is authorized to set up a state guard to take the place of the national guard, now in the service of the U. S. army...
...in the nation only 30 per cent had defense orders...
...H. Stevenson, Lewis D. Thill, Frank B. Keefe, Re id F. Murray, Joshua L. Johns, Merlin Hull, and Bernard J. Gehrmann...
...In a broadcast for South American listeners, after charging the U. S. hopes to take over the British empire, the Berlin radio criticized an article in Look magazine which it said pictures Peru as "a miserable, backward country of lazy and uneducated people...
...Turning to labor aspects of defense, he warned: "If in America national defense is menaced by industrial turmoil the condition is altogether attributable to the failure of these great employers to recognize the ordinary needs of men, women and children and their desire to supply themselves with just a little more of the sunlight which God willed them to have...
...Edwii^H...
...We found the prevailing sentiment on the campus to be against the passage of the Lend-Lease bill and any involvement in the war," Kremer said...
...John E. Cashman, Denmark...
...Reeder, professor of education at the University of Illinois, declared last week...
...has announced his candidacy for the office of Circuit Judge of the 15th judicial circuit at the spring election April 1. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Johnson has been practising law since 1922...
...When Sen...
...about our treatment of racial minorities...
...One single corporation, Murray said, apparently referring to Bethlehem Steel, has $1,250,000,000 of government business on its books now...
...He said that of 12,000 plant...
...George Hampel, Milwaukee...
...Otherwise, according to the American magazine, it serves only as a playing ground for dollar imperialism...
...German Ambassador Edmund von Thermann, just returned from Berlin to Buenos Aires, warned Argentina that her trade relations with the United States have no future...
...Additional information concerning the conference can be secured from the pre-conference headquarters...
...Philip Downing, Amberg...
...This proposal to track down alleged subversive activities in Wisconsin's national defense industries was approved, 85 to 6, by the assembly last week...
...La Follette to continue his fight against the all-aid to Britain bill and any other measures "likely to lead this country into war...
...Reeder called upon teachers to give pupils "an honest and disillusioned" picture of history and geography so that .the nation may have "intelligent and informed fol-lowership...
...I know of at least 50 small steel companies in the United States that could take these jobs and produce the same quality with dispatch and thereby, meet the immediate emergency needs of our government...
...be it further RESOLVED, that this legislature memorialize the Honorable Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and Alexander Wiley, United States Senators fr«Sm the State of Wisconsin, to vote against HR 1776 in the Senate...
...Treating Look as if it were the official organ of U. S. foreign policy, Berlin continued, this insult of a sovereign state is printed at the same moment when U. S. government authorities are starting on a crusade in favor of the status quo in South America...
...Serious Power Shortage Seen By U. S. Agency Serious power shortages will threaten the nation's defense effort if power needs continue to be underestimated as they have been in recent months, the Federal Power Commission warns...
...Fred R. Fisher, Waupaca...
...Bernhard Gettelman, Milwaukee...
...about civic corruption— these skeletons are left hanging decently in their closets...
...Their December 1940 demand of 27,752,856 kilowatts exceeded their September 1940 demand by 2,609,154 kilowatts...
...Skeletons_ Teachers Leave Too Many Hanging In Closets, Expert Says Classes in social studies in the elementary and high schools of the nation "seem to have a passion for dealing with material which is either innocuous or untrue," Dr...
...Those who voted in favor of tabling the measure were Taylor G. Brown, Oshkosh...
...Now, there is a bottleneck...
...State Senate Progressives Line Up Solidly To Laud Foes Of Lease-Lend Bill Wisconsin's Progressive state senators stuck solidly together last week in support of a resolution praising the action of the nine Wisconsin Congressmen who voted against the Lease-Lend bill and urging the state's two Senators to vote against HR 1776 . Sponsored by Sen...
...Jess Miller, Richland Center...
Vol. 5 • March 1941 • No. 10
