Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1940 — Page 23
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SENTIMENT FOR GHANGING LABOR ACT INCREASES
Gain Recorded Since House |,
Began Its. Inquiry of NLRB.
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J, Jan. 17.—A ‘majority of American voters ex- . pressing an opinion on the Wagner Labor Act in a nation-wide Institute survey think the labor law should be revised at this time. Sentiment for revision has increased, the poll results indicate, since the “House investiga-
tion of the Labor Board began making headlines a month
ago. With some discussion in Congress for amending the controve r sial Wagner Act, the Institute survey ‘finds that less than one-third of voters with an opinion on the act think it should be left unchanged. Of the remainder, who are critical of the act, a few favor outright repeal, while the majority are for revision. The survey, which began shortly after the House investigation opened, is the first of a series of surveys which will be conducted to measure the trend of sentiment. In this study, as in previous polls on the labor act, the Institute found a relatively high “no opinion” vote. More than half (58 per cent) of persons interviewed said they were either unfamiliar with the act or had not formed any opinion about it. The issue put to the voters from coast to coast in a national crosssection was: “Do you think the Wagner Labor Act should be revised, repealed of left unchanged?”
Those with opinions voted as follows:
Revised ......coiceeersineess 536% Repealed .........cc00000000 18 Left Unchanged .....cc.cc... 29
It is clear that while there is some difference of opinion as to whether the act should be repealed or merely amended, more than twothirds of the voters with opinions in the survey are not satisfied with the law as it stands. “Previous Institute studies indicate that this attitude has prevailed for some time past. In four studies made between May, 1938, and November, 1939, the combined vote for revision or repeal has outweighed the vote for leaving the act unchanged. During the .summer and
early autumn of last year, when the|,
war crisis overshadowed discussion of domestic issues, opposition to the act relaxed somewhat, but the vote for leaving. the law unchanged has never grown to a majority. The trend has been as follows: Revised Repealed Unchanged 1938 |
43% 19% 38% 52 18 30
34 November. 37 18 45 Today .... 53 18 29
Especially interesting is the vote by political parties on the controversial labor law. Although the Wagner Act was sponsored and passed by a Democratic Congress, - the predominant sentiment among Democratic voters with opinions on this legislation is for revision. Revised Repealed Unchanged
48 18
and former Congressman William
By LUDWELL DENNY
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Despite earlier denials, the Administration is flirting with the idea of militarizing the CCC camps on a “voluntary” basis. Appointment of a successor to the late Robert Fechner, who as head of the organization successfully opposed the military idea, is held up pending a policy decision. Hitherto the President h a s withstood Army pressure, even to the point of shifting the reser ve officer commandants of the camps to civilian sit a t us. 2 But with the death of Mr. Mr. Denny Fechner, the revival of military pressure, and the President’s own increasing emphasis on war preparedness, the question is definitely open once more. Presumably the President does not want to defy public opinion in campaign year. But public opinion on this issue is tricky. The Gallup Poll found that 90 per cent of its sampled public favored military training in the CCC on a voluntary basis. But apparently the parents and the boys concerned don’t like it—at least every time the subject has been debated publicly there has been parent protest and a sharp falling off in CCC applications. Protests are of two kinds. There is the general opposition by antimilitary and organized peace groups. And there is also the objection that the plan involves an indirect invasion of democratic rights through alleged class discrimination against boys from poor homes. . Advocates of the plan say that the latter objection might apply to compulsory service, but cannot be raised fairly against the voluntary plan.
(D) ceeees 50% 10% 40% (R) ‘eevee 58 21
Opponents reply that the voluntary plan is only a first step leading eas-
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Judge John R. Davies, president of the National Republican Club,
S. Bennet, chairman of the Lin-
coln Day Dinner Committee, are discussing plans in New York for the annual Lincoln Day dinner Feb. 12. Plans were announced, Jan. 14, in Washington by the Republican National Committee for nationwide observance of Lincoln Day, highlighted by the New York dinner, which will be addressed by outstanding party members.
Talk Revived to Place CCC on Military Basis
ily to the compulsory system. They fear that, under the voluntary system, the camps would become patrioteering centers forcing the boys to “volunteer.” So far as the President is concerned, he already has favored the Army and Navy at the expense of the CCC. His new budget would cut average CCC enrollment from 300,000to 230,000, but increase funds for Army and Navy enlistments. To that extent he is trying to force boys out of the CCC and into the miliary services. This is not an “economy” but a transfer of funds, involving a large financial increase. There is a growing movement in Congress to restore the CCC appropriation despite the President. This is partly due to the wide popularity of this particular New Deal agency in Congress. There is also a political pressure factor. Communities with nearby CCC camps benefit from the payrolls. Naturally they are fighting to keep their camps. Under the President’s proposal the 1502 camps would have to be reduced to 1227. That means a great many Congressmen from East, West, North and South have a personal political stake in this issue. This wide geographical distribution of the camps, particularly in the less populated forest regions and poorer areas, is not only a political protection to the [CCC but also is one of the strongest barriers to wholesale military| training. The present camps, in location and layout, are not practicable or efficient for military mobilization purposes. As to the civilian need for such camps, research agencies and labor organizations are stressing the danger to the nation of the present 4,000,000 young people out of work H. G. Wells says
and out of school. in his new book: “The young man surplus, if it is not consumed, is the main source (historically) of rebels, revolutionaries and disturbances of all kinds.” | Director Fechner. in his posthumous annual report, just issued, says that in its six years the CCC has given employment to (2,600,000, planted 1,855,000,000 trees and built 106,800 miles of roads and trails, 73,590 miles of telephone lines and 5575 dams, besides saving vast forest areas from fire and millions of acres from erosion. Mr. Fechner added that the CCC has |50 years work yet to do.
HEARING IS SET FOR 28 INDICTED BY U.'S.
Twenty-eight persons indicted by the Federal Grand Jury yesterday will be araigned at 9:30 a. m. Friday before Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Among those indicted was Frank Ray Updegraff, 29, of 3615 N. Temple Ave., who was charged with embezzling $9039.21 over a six-year period from the Peoples State Bank, where he was a note teller. He was arrested Nov. 5 by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and is held in Marion County Jail under $5000 hond. Other charges include alleged violations of the Dyer, Mann, White Slave and Narcotics Acts. Persons were charged with robbing United States postoffices, forging WPA checks, selling marijuana and mailing an extortion letter.
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five-year inquiry into what the district attorney’s office characterized as “the greatest empire of graft ever unearthed” resulted yesterday in the indictment of nine men for extorting about $1,000,000 a year by
garment industry. Among those indicted was Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, boss of industrial racketeering in the metropolis, who has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in Federal Court as head of an international narcotic ring Land who faces state court trial on other indictments in the flour trucking racket.
5-Year Period Covered
The indictments returned in General Sessions Court specify the extortion of only $514,000 over a five-
the garment industry, but a.member of the staff of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey cited the $1,000,-000-a-year figure and said it would be conservative to call it a $10,000,000 racket. There are 36 counts in the in-
-|dictment carrying maximum pen-
alties on conviction of 540 years in prison for each of the defendants. Ten Grand Juries heard evidence on the racket. According to information disclosed, Lepke and his partner Jacob (Gurrah) Shapiro, who is in a Federal prison, took charge of the racket in 1931 after the liquidation of Jacob (Little Augie) Orgen and Jack (Legs) Diamond.
Spies Checked Firms
They set spies in each company to gauge its relative prosperity and the amount it could be assessed. Three others indicted are under arrest.. They are Benjamin Levine, Joseph (Strawberry Face) Amoruso, and Paul Berger. Two are fugitives —Harry Yuran, alias Green, and Leo Sharf, both of whom jumped $20,000 bail each on earlier indictments. The names of two others were withheld.
FINED. ON CHARGE OF ILLEGAL VOTING
BOONEVILLE, Ind. Jan. 17 (U. P.).—C. W. Ashley of Pigeon Township was fined $10, sentenced to 30 days in the County Jail and disenfranchised for two years following his plea of guilty in Warrick Circuit Court yesterday to a charge of illegal voting. His jail sentence was suspended by Judge Union W. Youngblood providing he pay the fine and costs.
NDIANAPOLIS TIMES __ | Ford Manager Assumes Duties
NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (U.P.)—A
threatening violence to firms in the}
year period from reputable firms in
pacE 7
Inquiry Into N. Y. Garment Racket Reveals $1,000,000
with his predecessor, Ray Allen yesterday in the Hotel Lincoln.
Twin Cities branch.
‘Times Photo.
C. I. Kenney (left), new manager of the Ford Motor Co.’s Indianapolis branch, assumed his duties here today. Mr. Kenney, shown chatting
(center), and H. C. Doss, Ford's
general sales manager, was introduced to 200 Ford dealers at a meeting .Mr. Allen has been promoted to the company’s general officés. Mr. Kenney formerly was manager of the
Spirit of British Brod
By Defeat
By WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 17—The British Empire is hitting its war stride." A world-famous quotation has been changed to say that this is the Empire on which the “black out” never ends, but nevertheless the fighting forces of the empire— Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India—are converging on the European battle zone. Guns and shells are flowing in increasing numbers from factories throughout the British Isles. Airplane production has been stepped |¢ up steadily. Merchant ships to bring food and warships to convoy them are gliding down the slipways. Each day finds more men and more women in uniform. And that is only the
- | beginning.
To a foreigner who has lived with the British through the past troubled year it seems there has been in recent weeks a quickening of the national pulse. The British appear to be finding themselves now after the first bewildering months of this “bore war.” They appear to be warming up to a “moral issue” such as always has evoked response in this nation. Their political and religious leaders and King George VI himself have told them they are fighting “for Christian civilization” and “against
eat of Graf Spee
wickedness.” This “crusade” will be accelerated. Less than six months ago Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped to be remembered as the “great prime minister of peace.’ Now his
unswerving aim is to crush Nazi
Germany.
This has made it possible for him|
to work in apparent harmony with Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty who formerly was Mr. Chamberlain’s most severe critic and most dangerous rival. Led by Mr. Chamberlain, the entire war Cabinet is starting a speaking campaign to arouse the ‘crusading spirit” which helped win the World War. Such crusading spirit was entirely
lacking that clear Sunday morning|"
last September when the British nation awoke to find itself at war. Grim resolution—and later bewilcderment—was the keynote. The war was drab. No catch phrases like
“gallant little Belgium” or “making|
the war safe for ‘‘democracy” stirred the ardor of the Tommies or civilians. But defeat of the Admiral Graf Spee seems to have marked a turning point in British war spirit and effort. The three British cruisers which tore into the mighty pocket battleship and clung to it like a terrier to a wolf gave the British their first taste of what used to be called the glory of war.
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NAME FIVE TO STUDY HARRISON MEMORIAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The five Indiana citizens named by President Roosevelt to formulate plans for a permanent memorial to
President Benjamin Harrison were picked on the recommendation of Senator Sherman Minton and Rep. Louis Ludlow, it was learned today. Senator Minton said that the committee membership was not drawn on party lines, since this is to be a national memorial, The movement for the memorial
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