Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1938 — Page 3
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U.S. Seeks
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to Indict
Hague Associates; Jury to Hear 100
\ Filuptue and Conspiracy Against C. I. O. Charged; New Jersey Voters Predict Civil Liberties Probe
Will Turn to
‘Whitewash’.
(Editorial, Page 20
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer JERSEY CITY, N. J, Oct. 28.—A bird’s-eye view of the Roosevelt. Administration as it operates in northern New Jersey is somewhat puz-
zling to the inquiring onlooker. . .
Here in Jersey City the New Deal has allied itself, for political purposes, with Mayor Frank Hague, the boss of northern Jersey who four months ago received a stinging condemnation from President Roosevelt, himself, for suppression of civil liberties revealed in several incidents ,. ~Wwidely advertised to the nation. Some of these suppressions were denounced only yesterday in the decision of Federal Judge William Clark.
Over in Newark, the Justice Department is presenting a string of witnesses to a Federal Grand Jury in the effort to punish Jersey City officials for the series of acts which Mr. Roosevelt condemned.
Jersey Citizens Cynical
!A note of cynicism creeps into the conversation of Jersey citizens as they discuss these events. “You know they won't do anything to Frank Hague or his crowd, npw that the Administration has given Hague its blessing,” is the scdmment which, in some cases is followed by outright forecasts of a “whitewash” and, in a few cases of charges that a “whitewash” is part -of the deal between the Administration and Mayor Hague for his support in the effort to elect a Democratic Senator from his State next month. This, of course, is merely talk from the man on the street. It is most unfair to the two able young men from the Justice Department at Washington who are in charge of the case before the Grand Jury. Naturally, it has come to their ears and they are working under difficult circumstances.
100 Witnesses Called
In charge of the Grand Jury presentation is W. K. Hopkins, Assistant Attorney General, a man who won high praise for his conduct of the investigation in Harlan County, Kentucky, and the mine bombings in Southern Illinois. Assisting him is Henry Schweinhaut, also an Assistant Attorney General. They have worked diligently on their case and are now parading a string of witnesses before the grand jury at Newark. = Altogether about 100 witnesses will appear. They
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The Government's case is a broad one. It covers much more thanthe alleged “kidnaping” of Norman Thomas, the Socialist leader by Jersey City policemen who put him on a ferry and sent him back to New York City. The Government is seeking to cover this case under the so-called. Lindbergh law. Mr, “Thomas is expected to testify before the grand jury next week. Under an old statute of Reconstruction days, which was used in the Harlan County case, the Government also is seeking to blanket numerous alleged violations of civil liberties in Jersey City over a period of weeks, including the ejection of C. I. O. organizers. Pinning anything on Boss Hague or any of his crowd is difficult because of the intricate control he exercises, not only through his political machine, but also through the influence he exerts on the state courts and the Legislature, even «though the latter is nominally Republican.
Senator Milton Gives Advice While Mayor Hague is the .active political operator, it is recognized that the real brains of the Hague machine is the corporation lawyer,
~ John Milton, now U. S. Senator and
his personal attorney, Only recently the courts here stopped an attempt to get the election books of Hudson County, and thus explore Mr. Hague’s methods. The decision was so broad as to keep the books locked away from all eyes. A few days ago also the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the right of Daniel Casey, Public Safety Director, to refuse a permit to Norman Thomas to hold a rally in Journal Square. The opinion, delivered by Justice Joseph L. Bodine, a classmate of the Socialist at Princeton, held that the Safety Director, in refusing the permit, was exercising valid discretion.
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‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U. P.) .— President Roosevelt announced today he had promoted John W, Hanes, fornter New York broker, om assistant secretary of the easury to Undersecretary. Mr. Hanes regarded as an important liaison between Governnent and business, recently reed from the Securities and Exchange Commission to take the easury post. Mr. Hanes’ new apintment becomes effective Nov. 1. succeeds Roswell Magill, who rdsigned to return to a Columbia miversity teaching post.
«RAIL PROBE BOARD :REPORTS TOMORROW
‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U. P.).— Piondien Roosevelt said today that ls emergency fact-finding board whuld report to him at 12:30 p. m. temorrow its recommendations for - a¥erting a threatened nation-wide strike of more than 900,000 railroad employees in protest against a 15 per cent wage cut demand. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of rth Carolina and his two colldagues—Dean James M. Landis of the Harvard Law School and Dr. . Ei y A. Millis of the University of cago—will personally carry the Hégors to Mr. Roosevelt.
LOUISIANA DRIVER {IS KILLED IN CRASH
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RICHBERG RAPS NLR ‘CLUBBING
Deplores Compulsion, Urges Mediation. Substitute For Wagner Act.
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road brotherhoods, and is a veteran pleader before the Supreme Court. He was interviewed sitting up in bed in his suburban home, to which illness has confined him for a few days. Mr. Richberg recalled that in
and labor léaders during drafting of the bill which eventually became the Wagner Act, he warned against
today not only from industry but from powerful labor groups. In general, he deplored today the predominance of compulsion in the Wagner act, in contrast to the Railroad Labor Act’s emphasis on conciliation. Specifically, he said the law would be improved by: 1. Separation of the functions of judge and prosecutor, both now exercised by the National Labor Relations Board. 2. Increased mediation powers for the Board—which he said now lacks legal authority to mediate but is active informally in this field. 3. Removal of what he called the Board’s power of “compulsory arbitration”—both the power to penalize employers, and the power to settle union disputes over the “appropriate unit” of employees for bargaining purposes. 4. Reversal of the Board's “gbsurd” refusal to let employers, as well as workers, initiate proceedings before it. “Organized labor,” he said, “has always resisted ‘compulsory arbitration.’ But that is what it-is getting under the Wagner act, except that the arbitration is one-sided—labor may win or not win, but it can’t lose. “The danger to labor from this one-sidedness lies in the possibility of a public revulsion which might go to the other extreme, and perhaps bring legislation barring strikes. Certainly if there is one Federal agency which: is getting more criticism today than any other, the Labor Board is it. “The intention of the Wagner act was to help the underdog organize. And it is all right for Congress to
set up a partisan agency with such|
a purpose. But some impartial body should pass on its judgments,
No Mediation Provisions
“What I wanted to see Congress do in the first place was simply to establish a few legal obligations for collective bargaining, to begin with —and then create a mediation machinery ‘like that of the Railroad
have confined itself to conducting elections and to mediation, and any denials of the legal obligations would have been punished in the courts. “The Wagner act, instead, set up a board to mete out penalties, and made no provision for mediation. In fact, the President emphasized on signing the act that the Board ‘will not act as mediator and conciliator’. Actually the Board was mediated in many cases. That is how it holds down the number of cases that are carried through to decisions. “I think it is a very bad thing anywhere in the Government, for a single body to be charged with prosecuting and judging at the same time. “The procedure in income-tax litigation is more logical. When the Internal Revenue Bureau goes before the Board of Tax Appeals in a proceeding against a taxpayer, it has the same standing as a private litigant, and no more. “True, you can appeal a Labor Board decision to the Circuit Courts. But the law says the Board’s find« ings of fact must be accepted by the court, if supported by evidence.
extricably interwoven in many labor cases Labor Split Adds Problem
“On the matter of ‘majority rule,’ the board should never have been given the right to designate the unit for collective bargaining. Of course the C. I. O. didn’t exist when the act was passed, and the A. F. of L. saw no cause for worry. Now that labor is split, the Board has power to choose between the factions. And right here you get into paternalism.” As an example, Mr. Richberg said that if members of 20 crafts work in a single factory, and 18 crafts want union “A” to represent them, the Board now can order the two remaining crafts also to accept representation by union “A,” even though they prefer to let unions “B” and “C” speak for them. “I oppose governmental intervention in such matters,” he said, “just as I have always opposed the ‘closed shop and the checkoff. These are offenses against fundamental economic freedom. It is this sort of thing that has come to full flower in Mexico, where if a man is kicked out of the union he simply can’t get a job at all. “Resistance to collective bargaining is 18% disappearing. - Most employers have already given in to it. But many of them are refusing to yield on stich issues as the closed shop. “I for one would like to see a less logical
one-sided and more. ose such
1934, while consulting with officials|'
some provisions which later became ; law—and which are under attack
Labor Act. The Labor Board would |
Unfortunately, fact and law are in-
: ? Times Photo. school pupils. Getting ready for the event (left to right) are Eleanor Humes, Mary Barnes, Emily Jean Lewis and Ruth Ann: Quick.-
Things are going spooky at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, where a Halloween party, complete .
with ghosts, will be held Monday night for high speaker of the Union Bus Terminal | Ft. Wayne, ohiained a license to SQUIRE DELAYS TRIP here stopped Justice of Peace W. W.|wed, only to discover that the Jus-
T0 WED C OUPLE, 69 Moberly long Snolgh to marry a. 60-|tice was about to leave town. year-old couple. They called the terminal, paged
FT. WAYNE, Oct. 28 (U. P)—A| William L. Murrey, Latham, Kas. | the squire in the nick of time, and hurry-up call through the loud-|a carpenter, and Christina Miller, he returned to unite them. :
Strauss Says:
PRANKSTERS TOLD
Police Pile Up Ev Up Evidence off
Halloween Hoodlumism.
According to police, who admit
‘they are not satisfied with the way -|things are going, Halloween prank-
sters already have worked the full
legal 44-hour week and they ought}
to come to a full stop.
Police received reports that three}.
chickens were taken from their pen at 822 Udell St., but were recovered;
|that garbage can .lids were hurled
over “trolley wires at 39th and Illinois Sts.; that boys threw a skillet through a window in the 300 block S. Harris St.; that someone shot a windoy out of a house in the 500 block Maple Road with an airgun,
land that windows were broken in “homes in the 5800 block N. Delaware
Ave., and the 900 block W. 28th St. Police have sent 15 boys tq the
Crime Prevention Department.
TRANSIT HEAD DIES AT VINCENNES HOME
VINCENNES, Oct. 28 (U. P.).— Funeral arrangements were being completed today for Henry L. Bennett, vice president and general manager of the Vincennes Transit Co. who died at his home here yesterday. He was 47.
Mr. Bennett rose to his last po-|-
sition from that of a streetcar operator in 1913. The transit eompany succeeded the Street Railway firm which recently suspended operations as the second oldest com-
‘pany of its kind in the nation.
Ducks Too Near Town, Easily Shot
FT. WAYNE; oct. 28— (U.P.).— Police today were faced with: the problem of: someone shooting the ducks that feed in ‘the river here inside the city limits. Hunters seem to have found . that the ducks are easy to bag: this close to town. Park attendent Nicholas Miller reported to police that four of his thirty fowls disappeared yesterday.
SWIMMING SEASON PLANS ARE ‘RUSHED
The Park Department, today 0 mitted it has on its hand a water= less -swimming pool in Bethel Park,
Minnesota §t. and Bethel Ave. In -
a letter to the Works Board, Park Board Engineer James E. -Perry said they built the pool and: had
intended to dig a well for the
water. He said the contractor, however, had decided after many attempts,
‘that no well of sufficient capacity
could be dug in the neighborhood. The Park Department asked the Works Board to ask the -Indian-
apolis Water Co. to extend service
to the pool by next summer.
JEWISH COMMITTEE NAMED
JERUSALEM Oct. 28 (U. P.).— American Jewish citizens today ap-
pointed a committee to. take steps
for protection of $10,000,000 of American-Jewish investments in
Palestine,
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The clothing floor is the Third (Store os tomorrow from 8 fo 6).
there ought to be ten ‘men here for every coat!
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{In-Laws Join Minor and
Miner in Log Cabin.
PAINTSVILLE, Ky, ‘Oct. ‘a8 ©. P.).—Rosie Columbus, 10-year-old bride, and her husband, Fleming Tackett, 34, a coal miner, moved into a two-room log cabin in the back-hills today with her parents, two brothers, ‘a sister. and “some in-laws.” She a flaxen-haired, slender moun girl, described by. neighbors as “just .a baby.” Tackett is tall and . sky The Rev. W. G. Ratliff, a blacksmith, married them ‘|Monday: night. Coal-blackened miners and the ‘bride's family were witnesses. The bride’s mother, Mrs. Grace Columbus, obtainéd the license for the marriage ‘last week from A. B. Meade, Floyd County : clerk. “She, told me her daughter was “That's all I know about . it. Kentucky law: provides that the bride shall be no. loss than
However, Dr. L. B. Sheppard, health ‘officer of Johnson County, where the child was born, said: his records showed she is 10. “Her birth record says she was born Feb. 12, 1928,” he said “We are checking it with state department records at Louisville before taking action.”
‘DOLL’ GIRL HAS 24th BREAK ELMIRA, N. Y., Oct. 28 (U, P.).— Clara Hall, 4-year-old “China Doll,” was “back home” in St. Joseph's Hospital today with a broken leg— ther 24th fracture. Her bon gre exceptionally brittle. -
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Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock as the doors swing open ‘we shall place on sale 100 FINE [OPCOATS. At this price they are such