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No complaints heard yet against CIO political unit
House committee conducting hearing waits, but nothing so far has happened
Washington (UP) – (Aug. 26)
The special House committee to investigate campaign expenditures ended its first week of hearings today without a single complaint being filed with it by a House member, although previous reports indicated that several would protest political activities of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Chairman Clinton P. Anderson (D-NM) said some members has urged him to take action against the CIO and its Political Action Committee prior to his group’s organization, but since the committee opened its doors for business, no one has filed a formal protest for the record.
He said:
Upshot of all this is that probably the most the committee can accomplish will be to recommend remedial legislation where it may be found necessary to correct provisions in present law.
Members fear CIO
One such recommendation, he suggested, might be to make the Smith-Connally Act, prohibiting political campaign contributions by labor unions, corporations and other organizations, apply to primaries as well as general elections.
The CIO was recently exonerated by a Senate Investigating Committee for its primary activities.
Mr. Anderson did not account for failure of members to make formal protests, but other committee members indicated that Congressmen who had “weathered the storm” of CIO opposition did not want to “make a kick” for fear the union would throw up an even greater barrage in November.
To hear Hillman Monday
Others, they said, especially Democrats who survived CIO scraps in primaries, are reluctant to complain because they hope to get the CIO’s support against Republican candidates in the final election.
The committee is scheduled to meet Monday to hear testimony of CIO chairman Sidney Hillman, his assistant C. B. Baldwin and CIO-PAC counsel John J. Abt.
Mr. Anderson said that when hearings are concluded, the committee will have a thorough knowledge of PAC campaign efforts, the amount of money expended and how it was used and will be in a position to recommend changes in present laws.
General promised Socialists’ time
New York (UP) – (Aug. 26)
Maj. Gen. F. H. Osborn, director of the Information and Educational Division of the Army Service Forces, was the officer who promised the Socialist Party radio time for an overseas broadcast equal to that of President Roosevelt’s Bremerton speech.
Harry Fleischman, Socialist Party secretary, said Gen. Osborn made his promise in a letter to him dated Aug. 21, and referred him to Capt. Albert E. Gibson of the Army Service Forces here for assistance.
Mr. Fleischman said Gen. Osborn’s letter was in answer to Socialist Party claims that Mr. Roosevelt’s speech was political and therefore the Socialist Party was entitled to rebuttal time. Gen. Osborn suggested that “in order to comply with your request under the terms of Law Title V” the party should draw up a 38-minute script, the exact length of the President’s, which would be given free time, Mr. Fleischman said.
Mr. Fleischman said:
This letter is in direct contradiction to the statement of Paul Porter [public relations chief of the Democratic Party] that the Army’s classification [as political] of the President’s speech at Bremerton was made by a lieutenant and therefore unofficial.
Plea for Dewey radio time to be renewed
New York (UP) – (Aug. 26)
Herbert Brownell Jr., Republican National Committee chairman, said today he agreed with the Army’s first decision that President Roosevelt’s speech at the Bremerton, Washington, Navy Yard Aug. 12 was political, and disclosed he was renewing his request to the major radio networks to grant Governor Thomas E. Dewey free time on the air.
Under an FCC ruling, Governor Dewey is entitled to the same radio facilities accorded the Chief Executive “when he becomes a politician.” Mr. Brownell said his first request for free time was refused Aug. 21 by the radio stations.
Judge Blair Gunther quits Slav Congress; raps political leftists
Charges radicals are taking over group
By Kermit McFarland
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Poll: Farmers show trend away from Roosevelt; labor ‘coddling’ cited
Wastefulness and extravagance, bureaucrats and excessive regulation also emphasized
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion
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Irish wives of Yanks sail for America
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