Show TAMMANY HALL GAINS VANTAGE Is Th Thrust Into Strategic Po Position Position Position Po- Po in House leadership LeaderS Leadership Leadership Leader leader- S ship ship Fight WASHINGTON Dec 12 UP UP- UP Tammany Hall was thrust Into a strategic position in the house leadership leadership lead lead- fight tight today with trades trade of important patronage and organization tion posts being considered secretly Representative James l M. M Mead ead D. D N. N Y Tf chairman of the house postoffice committee and aligned with the for Byrns-for speaker speaker bloc was expected to confer with Tammany leaders in New York I It was learned from a Tammany source that as result of at week week end nd conferences conferences conferences con con- here Representative John J. J OConnor O'Connor CD D D. N N. N Y Yf brother JOhn of ot President R Roosevelt's former ormer law partner Basil OConnor O'Connor n has hs been pledged nine Tammany votes from Manhattan The result of the maneuvers for Tammany support may bring the Roosevelt administration definitely into the leadership fight ight Administration tion leaders are watching anxiously the fight ight on the result of at which will largely depend whether radical inflation in in- bonus o d age pension and hour 30 week blocs in hi the next house can be kept in fri hand |