| Show 5 TIlE THE DAILY WASHINGTON Wt Ivr Round Merry err y G 0 R 0 II 3 n d' d Trado MArkBy MarieBy Mark Marie MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON One One and one make two two two- in strikes as well as in mathematics Last Tuesday at the height of the San Francisco Francisco Fran Pram cisco general strike the White House suddenly announced that Roosevelt had empowered Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- master General Jim Farley to investigate ocean mail contracts and cancel or modify any he considered considered considered con con- unwarranted Two days later Big Jim junketing leisurely about the far west with a pocket full of political cal speeches abruptly galvanized into action and revealed he was going to the Golden Gate city as an arbitrator Two apparently unrelated incidents But behind the scenes they were parts of ofa a very carefully considered secret strategy by means of which the administration hoped to bring industrial peace to the torn strife west coast community These are arc the facts on which this program is predicted Fast No 1 The postoffice department an annually annually annually an- an ladles out in the form of ocean mail subsidies to American shipping lines It this mail were transported on a poundage e basis it would cost the government around 3 Fact No 2 Every Everyone one of the six big shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping companies involved in the protracted marItime maritime maritime mar mar- workers workers' controversy which led to the general strike is a heavy recipient of this lush government largess Fact No 3 Secretary Perkins General Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son and Assistant Secretary McGrady chairman of f the federal longshoremen's board consider these companies basically responsible for the failure of a peace agreement The government has legal power to crack crackdown crackdown crackdown down on these juicy contracts The conclusion is obvious Strike Lesson San Francisco's general strike ha served to impress one lesson on New Deal labor authorities authorities Authorities Author namely that local appointees no matter how worthy liberal and highly esteemed do not make effective arbiters It all gets down to the old truism that familiarIty familiarity fa breeds contempt Experience nce has shown that these local selections selections selections even when invested with the cloak of federal power rarely do as well as outside of of- of Personal relations friendships other factors of a similar character are arc an intangible but potent bar to forceful and decisive action Labor Secretary Perkins and Chairman V Lloyd Garrison of the new Labor Adjustment boar board I privately are agreed to this fact As a result two important changes are destined 1 I. In recommending future members to federal federal federal fed fed- eral arbitration bodies Miss Perkins can be ex expected expected ex- ex to avoid local selections as much as possible pos pos- sible i I 2 The system of regional labor boards which the Labor Adjustment board inherited from the liquidated National Labor board is to tobe tobe tobe be drastically overhauled These regional agencies agencies' made up entirely of local appointees have been a complete failure in handling really serious labor disputes Garrisons Garrison's plans for reorganizing the system are still tentative But the proposal being given give serious consideration is that the present boards be slashed to one p permanent member to handle routine matters w with th the membership to be expanded by the appointment of experienced experienced experienced federal officials in the event of a serious controversy On the other hand it is possible that after further study the entire setup may be junked Hell Bound Little haired gray Representative George Terrell Tene J who despite the fact that he is a Texas Democrat has consistently voted against the presidents president's huge r recovery covery expenditures has de decided decided decided de- de not to run for reelection But in shaking the dust of Washington Terrell Terrell Terrell Ter Ter- rell wants it known that h he is not doing so because of fear His one term on Capitol hill has hils quenched his thirst for political glory And as for voting voting voting vot vot- ing against th the presidents president's appropriations in Terrells Terrell's opinion he was acting in n the best Texas Teas tradition To prove this h he cites the case of O. O M. M Roberts time one-time governor of the Lone Star state Roberts was bitterly assailed for his rigid economy Finally a delegation of irate state legislators called on him Governor the they said you will send the st state te to hell by your our niggardly policy If lIf the state goes to hell Roberts shot back she will go according to law lawand and pay her way as she goes S S S President Roosevelt is taking no part in local campaigns but a highly laudatory letter Jetter he wrote Arizona's working hard-working Senator Ashurst may play an important role in the latter's latter's lat- lat ter's reelection fight F. F D. D R. R commended Ashurst for his excellent work in putting through the administrations administration's crime prevention b bills at the last session of oC congress Friends of are broadcasting copies of the missive missive missive mis mis- sive throughout the state 1834 jy Halted V-nUe me |
