Show I I I I I NEWS fJ L r I I THE fN- fN ft i By y PAUL by bv Western Newspaper Union CIO POLITICAL COMMITTEE cO GUTS GETS G TS ACTIVE WASHINGTON Digging Digging behind most major mojor domestic news developments develop develop- developments developments I ments lately you will land find the CIO and its political action committee Behind the senate sena Ie poll pall tax con con- consideration consideration the defeat detest of Congress Congress- Congressman man Starnes In Alabama the pres pros presentation rotation of two new labor cases to I tho the Supreme court actions of the I War Labor board as well wen us the celebrated Montgomery Ward case I Is this aggressive labor lubor movement working on the one hand rand with its regular business and the other I underhand with a political business I Ito to get Mr Roosevelt elected for u a I fourth term and Itself In the Ole political political cal saddle While the nation was wall once shocked at John L L. L Lewis spending lending lending I to reelect reeled Mr Roosevelt the second time lime l I If seems likely the CIO will spend a far tar greater sum If 11 It keeps Its present unprecedented scale of political pressuring pressuring all nil of If which must come only from the workers Jt taxes with dues The man who defeated Demo Demo- Democratic Democratic cratic Representative in I Alabama for Instance was a n CIO attorney and thus on their payroll In two cases canes now presented to workers Mill Utah workers Utah Cop Cop- Copper Copper per and und Richwood Clothespin the tho I CIO is trying through the National No Labor Relations board to get et a n re re- reversal reversal reversal versal of union elections which It lost In the Montgomery Ward case It I Iwon won the election but when It lases lanes apparently a it brings the election Into question before the lubor labor board and courts In such a way as to raise doubt as to tl whether It can canever canever ever lose MORE MOKE ACTIVE E UlAN THAN PARTY lAnT Hand In hand with this wartime organizing agitation through the tho government labor boards to the Supreme court Its Sidney Hillman It is tar for more active In political com camS campaigning than the Democratic na- na national committee taking the radl radi- radical cal cl and communist line Issuing a a n weekly paper with pictures showing Mr directing negro or or- organizers organizers organizers not for the union but for tor politics and indeed pressuring oven even Mr Roosevelt himself directly I through Phil Murray to upset the tho governments government's Little Steel for tor- formula mula Jt Nr iJ in all nil the history A ry rr of ot l this 1 t democracy r e has h ha there appeared t such sucha T Q n dual business nod political move move- movement movement movement ment openly seeking spending and pressuring to dominate dom the politics the decisions and even war eco eco- i of the country cOI The rhe wolves I I of at Wall street when they had a n bite in years past were cubs by comparison on I f By Dy contrast also there has been bren little unusual political activity and no apparent agitation from the Democratic party matters have reached such a state that Senator I Bailey Dulley of North Carolina announced If ii Hillman and his CIO cra and com corns dominated the th Democratic party he will resign from It Sena Senator tor tar McKellar Mcl also has hus charged CIO cra craIs is half communist Clearly it Is I tint not only In the union anion and political but In the social reform business bus t Practically all nil the leading south south- southern southern ern senators attributed the current roll poll tax discussion to pressure from Hillmans Hillman's ClOrA CIOPA The group has caused the senate to waste wasIl a weeks week's time in III what Democratic Lender Leader I Barkley Markley conceded nt ut the outset was as waso wasa asa a o futile argument AN OUTDATED ISSUE Indeed no one except the CIO its political action und and the communist I groups seem srem nay any nn longer interested I in the poll pelt tax It 11 is tin un outdated Issue made mude even more marC obsolete by bythe b bythe I the Supreme court ruling upset upsetting ting the southern primary system No one seems to want the tho poll tax anyway Apparently these groups thought thou ht they could force the senate to fili fill filibuster buster and thus make the tile usual poli poll political hay for themselves but the southern senators decided to keep their winded long men in the back background ground and Senators Connally Connolly George Bankhead Bailey Dailey and McKellar led of off the lIe debate to argue the case on its merits I ISome Some Republicans had served private private I Inte vate notice that they the might Join the Barkley nl cloture move mo if the Bellows I boys were let It loose loo l' l but the leading southerners were willing to undertake under under- undertake undertake I take the useless us argument anyway anar an ar I Ion on a straight because of the threat of the CIOPA to constitutional government go and their party as ns well t The fourth term front offered alTered I II r I dally by Chairman Hannegan in his New York speech took no notice of human and CIOPA or its social re re- reform form line but followed an opposite one Hannegan did not mention the new dc dr l 1 which Mr Nr Roosevelt per per- personally has already announced is dead but hut founded his case on the international considerations I Thus the Roosevelt Hull Roosevell top is riding tile the fourth term horse in one direction while CIO do and the Hillman CIOPA CIOrA and nd IndI I communists are riding the same sonic sameI horse harder in the Ule opposite way I I |