Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1939 — Page 17
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Wants Employers to Get Representation Under Wagner Act.
WASHINGTON, ‘Feb, 9 (U.P)~—|
Senator Burke (D. Neb.), opponent of the New Deal and a bitter critic of the National Labor Relations Board, introduced in the Senate today a series of amendments “to “make the present one-sided Wagner Labor Relations Act fair to all citizens.” : He proposed to cuffail drastically the powers of the Board and would recreate the Board with one representative each of employees, employer and the public. He charged that the Board has “abused its judicial powers” and that all three present members “are organized labor partisans.” In a statement prepared to accompany his amendment, Senator Burke said that his recommended changes seek to correct many of the same points covered by amendments ‘recently offered by Senator Walsh + (D. Mass.) on behalf of the A. F. of L. Additional charges recommended, he said, would make it impossible “for this agency of Government (NLRB) to be used to build up the certain type of labor organization which it favors.” In addition to change in the Board membership, Senator Burke's amendments would: 1. Permit any respondent cited by the Board as a violator of the law to petition for removal of his hearing directly to the Federal District Court. 2. Permit either employees or employers to petition for an election to determine the collective bargaining representative. 3. Grant to employees the right to bargain collectively “free from threat, intimidation, restraint or coercion from any source.” 4. Define as “unfair labor practice” an act of a labor organization, or any officer to threaten or intimidate workers to violate a civil or criminal law in the course of a dispute, to strike without an affirmative vote of a majority of employees in an appropritae unit, to interfere with the orderly conduct of an employer's business, or to strike in violation of a valid contract or agreement. _ 5. Require labor organizations to file information regarding their groups, including the names of ail officers with a certification that each is an American citizen. .-6. Grant employers the right “to ‘counsel or advise his employes orally or in writing” about the Wagner Act. 7. Substitute “remedial severance pay” for the practice of “reinstatement of employes against the will of the employer.”
Senator Offers Bill
For Arms Conference
. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P). —Senator King (D. Utah) today introduced / a resolution authorizing ‘President Roosevelt to call an jn-
ternational conference on the réduction and)limitation of armaments.
Two Mare ICC
Members Nominated
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt today nominated U. S. District Judge Robert \P. Patterson of New York to take the seat on the Second U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated by resignation of Judge Martin Manton. He named Francis Biddle of Philadelphia, one time head of the * National Labor Board which preceded the present National Labor Relations Board, to be a judge of the Third U. S. Circuit Court. He named Herschel W. Arant, dean of the Ohio State University Law School, to be judge of the Sixth U. S. Circuit Court. . Mr. Roosevelt submitted two more nominations to the Interstate Commerce Commission. He renominated William E. Lee of Idaho, a present member of the ICC. ‘He also named J. Haden Alldredge, of Alabama, a Tennessee Valley Authority transportation economist. The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Michael L. Igoe as Federal judge for the Northern District of Illinois. Lh Confirmation of former Governor James B. Allred of Texas, as a U. S. -District Judge was delayed.
Boehne Makes First
Speech in Five Terms
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. — Although he is serving his fifth term in Congress, Rep. John W. Boehne Jr., made his first speech on the floor of the House today and there- . by established a double record. For not only is he the only fifthtermer making a maiden speech, but the first member of the House to argue for Congressmen to increase tax payments on themselves.
A member of the tax subcommit- |}
tee of Ways and Means, the Evansville Congressman took the floor to launch the bill which carries out President Roosevelt's plan for reciprocal taxation of State and Federal
‘salaries.
TVA Dam Fund
Deleted by House
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U.P) .— The Tennessee Valley Authority looked to thie Senate today to restore its appropriation for the huge ilbertsville Dam. oe passing the $1,883,809,769 Independent Officers’ Appropriation Bill yesterday, the House dropped the 17 million dollars proposed for building the dam. An amendment to
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS
' BURKE offers amendments to “make Wagner Act fair.”
MONOPOLY probers study charges of insurance ballot forgeries.
‘DIES Committee gets grant of $100,000 for next year.
GLASS charges Roosevelt with -planning 1940 “purge.”
M’HALE boosts McNutt in Washington. ; BOEHNE makes first speech for reciprocal taxation. ROOSEVELT nominates Biddle for Circuit Court. TVA dam fund voted down in House.
SENATOR KING proposes arms conference.
EX-SOCIALIST
House Votes $100,000 to Continue Probe After Appointment.
By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.). —The appointment of Rep. Jerry Voorhis (D. Cal) to fill a vacancy on the Dies Committee was regarded today as further evidence, if any was needed, of President Roosevelt's chip-on-the-shoulder attitude toward conservative Democrats in Congress. The House today voted $100,000 to continue the Dies investigation for one year Not a single voice was raised in dissent. The House approved continuation of the inquiry itself last Friday and today’s action provided the money. Mr. Voorhis, a left-wing New Dealer and former Socialist, was one of the handful who voted last week against continuing the Dies inquiry another year. . The President’s opinion of the Dies Committee is well known. Last October he charged that the committee had “permitted itself to be used in a flagrantly unfair and unAmerican attempt to influence an election.” He was particularly incensed at what he called the “absurdly false charges” against Frank Murphy, received by the Committee from “a coterie of disgruntled Republican officeholders.” (Mr, Murphy’s subsequent defeat for re-election as Governor of Michigan was attributed, in part at least, to the publicity given this testimony.) ! First Choices Overruled Mr. Dies, on the other hand, attacked the Administration for declining to lend personnel to assist the investigation. He accused Secretaries Ickes and Perkins of joining in a “campaign of misrepresentation, sarcasm and ridicule” against the Committee. The Committee apparently got the better of the argument as far as public opinion went. A Gallup poll showed 74 per cent of the people in favor of continuing the inquiry. ' Sentiment in the House, measured by last week’s vote, was even more decisive. The President’s original choice for the vacancy on the seven-man committee is said to have been Rep. T. V. Smith (D. 111), freshman Congressman who came here from a professorship of philosophy at the University of Illinois. Speaker Bankhead is said to have demurred at appointing a first-termer, no matter how able, since numerous members with longer service were seeking the post. Rep. Dies’ own candidate was reputedly Rep. John W. McCormack (D. Mass). Dies to Submit Mr. Dies said today he planned no protest against the appointment, despite Rep. Voorhis’y previous attack on the Committee. : Mr. Voorhis, who is 37, and a sec-ond-termer, said: “I want the Committee to uncover all the facts regarding any group that seeks to upset our form of Government by extra-constitutional means—by force or violence. “But I feel very deeply that the Committee must be extremely careful in all its procedure, and that it must do nothing to harm reputations unjustly or to stir up bitter feeling in the country.” . Mr. Voorhis said he was a Socialist about 1931-32, in the depth of the depression, because “at that time it looked as if neither major party had anything to offer toward solving the economic problems of the people.” With the emergence of the New Deal he shifted to the Democratic Party. But some of his views are much more radical than the President’s.
———— lL KANSAS EDUCATOR DIES LAWRENCE, Kas., Feb. 9 (U. PJ). —William A, Dill, 57, associate professor of journalism and director of publicity at the University of Kansas since 1921, died late yesterday from a heart attack. :
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Metropolitan Agent Says||E® Bosses Knew; Gives || No Names.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 9 (U. P)— Earl Steele, a Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. agent, told the. Temporary National Economic Committee today that ballots in the company’s directomate elections were forged “practically under the assist-{} ant manager’s nose.” Mr. Steele testified in the committee’s inquiry into the 110 billion dollar insurance busine He was called specifically to aid determination of the extent to which mutual-
‘Senator Glass (D. Va.) ity is preserved in the $4,972,000,000 Metropolitan Company's elections
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mony followed assertions by two :
other Metropolitan agents yesterdaygs: ON H ATRON AGE
that names of policyholders were forged to ballots in the company’s Charges Roosevelt Wants To Continue ‘Purge’ in
biennial elections. 1940 Campaign.
Mr. Steele said that when he was instructed to obtain signatures on ballots he sought large policyholders, feeling that they would be more interested than minor policyholders in the elections.
Refuses to Give Names
He said he was wrong in that assumption, adding that “most of the people I approached -didn’t know the men who were running”
(Editorial and Cartoon, Page 16)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (U. P.) — Senator ' Glass (D. Va.) . today charged President Roosevelt with projecting the “purge” of conservative Democrats into the 1940 election campaign. an : With that public. accusation, the rapidly developing battle for control. of the Democratic party and power to designate the 1940 Presidential candidate became acutely alarming to some highly placed party men. The uproar may reach the Senate today. Senator Glass shot at the White House a statement that Virginia Senators’ recommendations - for judicial appointment “have been rejected by the appointive power merely through a desire to ‘purge’ the junior Senator next year and the senior Senator of Virginia later should he live longer than the intriguers hope.”
Byrd May Speak, Too
Senator Byrd (D. Va.), with whom Senator Glass consulted before issuing his statement, comes up for re-election in 1940. Senator Glass’ term expires in 1943. He is 81 years old, a fiery veteran of the political and journalistic wars. “I do not give a tinker’s dam about patronage,” Senator Glass
for someone they didn’t know. At the suggestion of John Lord O’Brian, counsel for Metropolitan, Acting Committee Chairman Hatton W. Sumners (D. Tex.) asked Mr. Steele if he could name the assistant managers who were aware that names of policyholders were being forged. Mr. Steele replied that he felt that all the assistant managers knew what was going on because all once had been ageénts. Mr. Sumners asked if he could name any of the assistant managers or could give other than his own impression that they knew. “I don’t want to swear that I know,” Mr. Steele answered.
Offers New Witness
Mr. O'Brian said that he was ready to produce Edward Cherman, an assistant manager, who, a witness testified yesterday, knew of the forgeries, to deny the charge. Mr. Sumners said he would be heard later. S. J. Bander, an agent in Metropolitan’s Somerville, Mass., office, said that managers and assistant managers could have known of the alleged ballot forgeries with a little attention because the activity was “no secret.” Mr. Steele said that the agents considered distribution of the ballots to policyholders as “something to do and. get it out of the way.” “They didn’t see any harm in it,” he said of the asserted forgeries, adding they were a “time saver.” Samuel Brodis, former assistant manager of the Logan office in Philadelphia, but now an agent, said that he “shut his eyes” to the alleged forgeries. He said other agents ‘kidded” him for. seeking the true signatures of policyholders.
FATHER OF DELAYED TWINS STILL PACING
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 9 (U. P.)—Milo C. McDonnell resumed his pacing outside the maternity ward of Research Hospital today. It was his fifth day and doctors told him to save his strength for perhaps nine more: days of walking before the second McDonnell twin arrives. Mrs. McDonnell and James Charles, who arrived early Sunday, were doing nicely. Mr. McDonnell took over the worrying. His employer, sympathetic, told him to devote his full time to waiting and to forget the office. Doctors said the record for delayed birth of a twin was 44 days. They expect the second McDonnell twin on Feb. 18.
said. The dispute is shot with politics on both sides and Washington is excitedly aware of it. Senator Byrd was expected ‘to make his own statement today. The extent to which party fabric is ripped was indicated by recalling that Mr. Roosevelt invited Senator, Glass to be Treasury Secretary in his first Administration and long before he was nominated favored Senator Byrd to succeed John J. Raskob as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Amlie Is Excused
Senator Glass protested publicly against Mr. Roosevelt’s nomination to a Federal District Court in Virginia of Floyd H. Roberts, who was rejected this week by a Senate vote of 72-to-9. Coincident with Senator Glass’ statement another of the President’s nominees,, Thomas R. Amlie, former Progressive Congressman from Wisconsin, was excused by a Senate subcommittee which will judge his fitness to be a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Mr. Amlie, an advocate of a “production for use™ society and author of a book which said it would be necessary for Left Wing groups to educate the public for constitutional change to bring that about, under Republican and Democratic ire.
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[E BOOSTS MNUTTINVISIT TO WASHINGTON
Swamped With Mail, He Says, Citing ‘Wisdom’ Of Opening Drive.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY | r Times Staff Writer , WASHINGTON, . Feb. 9.—Frank McHale, in his role of attorney for the Indiana Railroad, appeared before the Interstate. Commerce Commission today to petition for permission to abandon the electric interurban line from Indianapolis to
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service. Both before and after his ICC
appearance, Mr. McHale, who also
is the Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, gave interested visitors to his Mayflower Hotel suite an optimistic report on Paul V. McNuft'’s Presidential’ possibilities. While the former Hoosier Governor remains at his post of ‘High Commissioner of the Philippines,
Mr. McHale, his campaign manager, |
has opened McNutt in 1940 headquarters in Indianapolis.
Bulky Mail Reported
“The wisdom of opening an official campaign headquarters already has been demonstrated,” Mr. McHale said. “We have a staff of seven and they are swamped with mail from every state in the Union. “In my opinion that is much better than having a dozen wildcat operations going on with nothing official about any of them.” ° A political ace cited -by Mr. McHale is the assurance that if Mr. McNutt is nominated by the Democratic convention next year Indiana is sure to vote for him. . “Hoosier pride will carry th State and help put one of the home boys in the White House,” he.asserfed. “Such certainty of carrying a borderline state in the next election should and will be given consideration.”
Notes ‘Misunderstanding’
Admitting that possible opposition of organized labor looms as the hardest hurdle for his candidate, Mr. McHale contends that this is based on misunderstanding and that when labor leaders elsewhere are as familiar with the McNutt record as are those in Indiana they also will be for him. Mr. McHale visited Attorney General Murphy, who was his roommate at the University of Michigan. He spent the evening with Senator Minton, who is confined to Naval Hospital with the flu. No decision was reached regarding the Indianapelis Internal Revenue collectorship, Mr. McHale said. A successor is to be selected for the post which is now held by Will Smith, whom Senator VanNuys wants ousted. ’ Also appearing before the ICC with Mr. McHale were Louis Rappaport and Herbert J. Patrick, Indianapolis attorneys.
AGED SISTERS DIE SAME HOUR GENOA, Feb. 9 (U., P.).—Giulia and Ofttavia Zoppi, octogenarian sisters, who lived together throughout their lives, died of natural causes yesterday at the same hour.
Stabilizing Fund Earns 12 Millions
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (U. P.).—Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau today made .public a letter to. Senator - Lodge (R. Mass) reveal that the $2,000,000,000 stabili~ zation fund has made a net profit of -12 million. Mr. Morgenthau told his ‘press conference that .the profit is now the highest it has : ever been. He emphasized that none. of it was earned by speculation. '! He reiterated his view that when the stabilization fund is \ to be liquidated it should be Hed to retire Government debt. : ;
CITES HUMAN AIMS OF TRUSTEESHIPS Banker Says Beneficiaries’ Rights Uppermost.
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benefit of the trust customer and beneficiary,” Gilbert T. Stephenson last night told 250 persons meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. His audience consisted of bankers, trust men, lawyers and life underwriters gathered for the climax meeting of a three-day program sponsored by the American Bankers’ Association. :
Trust Research Division of the Graduate School of Banking of the Association. He said that no matter how large an institution became, “It will be the greatest service in the measure that it carries out its humanitarian objective ‘to widows, orphans, wards and those others in Jive benefit trust accounts are e 92 . 4 » .
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