Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1938 — Page 20

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Vacationers May Learn Things Monopoly, Probers Don’t.

(Editorial, Page 22) By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—On the very day that Senator O’Mahoney’s monopoly committee opens up to begin its long investigation of .private business conduct, a group of

Senators and Representatives board

a free special train for an eight-day junket in sunny Florida as the eager and thirsty guests of business interests who will foot the bill in the hope of being well repaid when the honorable legislators return to Congress. The O'Mahoney Committee is going to find, no doubt, that American business men try to make money, and try to freeze out competitors. The committee probably will find that American business men are out

to get as much as they can, and are not too much preoccupied with the social effects of so doing. . The Senators and Representatives on the Florida junket are proceeding to demonstrate that they are no different. They and their wives boarded the special luxury train— all compartments and drawing rooms—to enjoy a lavish holiday without even having to sign the check for drinks, everything paid for. Some of the guests understood the bills were being paid by resorts, citrus growers and sugar interests combined. Invitations were extended by Governor Cone of Florida on behalf of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and were backed up by

personal invitations from Florida |

Senators and Representatives, so there was little hesitancy among Senators and Representatives about accepting, It’s Christmas Season

This trip is going to cost Florida businessmen a pretty penny and, unless they suddenly have become Santa Clauses, they will hope that the Senators and Representatives will not forget when legislation comes up in © Congress concerning sugar and citrus fruits. Senators and Representatives say that they are not influenced just because they go on junkets, not even by. such a lavish one as this. Yet after a legislator so pleasantly acquires an eight-day outdoor an : indoor tan at the expense of interests concerned in legislation, he must feel himself something of a heel if he turns and speaks and votes against such generous hosts. Congress can be squeamish. Years ago there was a terrific uproar in

‘Congress because it was discovered

that some miserably paid newspaper reporter was drawing $10 a week on the side from a stock market brokerage house. He wac turning in news he already had given to his

‘newspaper.

Legal Fees’ All Right

A Congressional investigation took place and Senators and Representatives took the high ground that a

_ newspaper reporter should have no

stock market retainers—not even little ones. Of course a lot of members of Congress are lawyers and they engage in law practice and rake in a percentage from their law firms back home. Anything can pass if it is called a “legal fee.” But this newspaper reporter, ekeing out his skimpy salary with a $10 weekly retainer outside, was practically ruined professionally. Congress insisted on a cleanup and standing rules were adopted which are in effect to this day. These rules, among other things, forbid recognized newspaper correspondents from being employed by any stock market broker, and from engaging in the prosecution of claims in Congress or before the Government departments. The idea is that newspaperment shall be just that and nothing else on the side. These rules are a good thing and are supported by the entire press corps here. They are policed by the correspondents themselves. - Senators and Congressmen harass themselves with no such restrictions. They don’t permit smoking during sessions, but otherwise everything is wide open—for junkets at public or private expense, for all sorts of petty chiselling, for outside activities, for coupling legislative favors and campaign contributions. The general rule is that anything goes if you can get away with it, and in Congress you usually do.

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Times Special : WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—An as-

atives, Government officials, their wives, Florida boosters, sugar ty-

southward today on a luxurious Atlantic Coast Lines special train. They will enjoy a week-long junket—sightseeing up and down Florida, golfing, fishing and bathing in Miami and Tampa—all free to the Congressmen and officials. They also will put in two days at the Florida plantations and refin-

eries of the United States Sugar Corp. Managers of the junket said, before leaving Washington last night,

Chamber of Commerce And will be paid for by various “big interests” in that state. They denied that sugar was one of these interests, and insisted that the hope of Florida sugar lobbyists to persuade Congress

sugar had nothing to do with it. Wives Go Along

Ten Senators and 30 Representatives, most of them with their wives are on the train, while others have arranged to board it at Jacksonville. Among them are:

Mrs. Speakman. Senator Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.)

ols (D. Okla.) and Mrs. Nichols; Rep. Phil Ferguson (D. Okla.) ans Mrs. Ferguson. Rep. Dow W. Harter (D. O.) and Mrs. Harter. ) Senator-elect James M. Mead (D. N. Y.) and Mrs. Mead; Rep. Sol Bloom (D. N. Y.) and Mrs. Bloom, | and Miss Vera Bloom; Rep. William B. Barry (D. N. Y.) and Mrs. Barry. Senator Wagner (D. N.), had reserved a place but sent word he had been delayed and would join the party in Miami, the managers said. Rep. J. Burwood Daly (D. Pa.) and Mrs. Daly; Rep. J. Harold Flannery (D. Pa.) and Mrs. Flannery and Rep. James P. McGranery (D. Pa.) and Mrs. McGranery. Rep. Luther A. Johnson (D. Tex.) and Mrs. Johnson. Among Government officials listed for the trip were Joseph B. Keenan, Assistant Attorney General, and Ashley B. Sowell, Assistant Commerce Secretary.

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| Jim” Davis, holder of a union card

sorted cargo of Senators, Represent-|

coons and sugar lobbyists sped}!

that it was arranged by the Florida | |

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Rep. John Speakman (D. Ala. and {}

and Mrs. Thomas; Rep. Jack Nich- |}

ding of Americans in California was |}

NEW YORK, Dec. 2—“Puddler

and just re-elected a Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, docked

a statement that his investigations abroad had convinced him the Government’s relations with American labor matters need drastic revision. Particularly, Senator Davis said, he believes the National Labor Relations Act must be changed to promote peace between the two great camps of organized labor, the C.I.O. and the A. F., of L. Also, he declared, employers should be given by law the right to petition the National Labor Relations Board in cases where they are caught in controversies between labor factions, or where one or the other faction ties up normal operations of industrial plants in organizing efforts. In such cases, Senator Davis. said,

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titled to the right to call in Governmental aid to determine by election what union his workmen want to join, -or whether they prefer to remain unorganized. While this point is’ not covered specificially in the Wagner law, the NLRB has ruled that employers

have no standing before it, and that only petitions fro memployees can be considered. Senator Davis, who served 10 years as Secretary of Labor under Republican Presidents Coolidge and Hoover, voted for the Wagner act and other New Deal labor legislation.

paign he was opposed by the C.I.0O.,

he believes the employer or indus-

here from England last night with

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and had the personal support of William Green, president of the

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killing of ner father-in-law, Walter Johnson, last April.

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two hours, last night acquitted the red-haired girl. She had Dleaden self defense.

favored the rival labor forces led by John L. Lewis.

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