Show Merry Merry Merry-Go- Round Merry Go Round By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN I WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The The president will personally personally per per- a ask k congress to boost his original 1000 W P A budget estimate to He will do this on top of his previous authorization authorization authorization au au- au- au to Colonel F. F C. C Harrington W P A to tell the house appropriations subcommittee that the higher relief figure is needed Roosevelt disclosed his intention to go to bat personally for relief to Representative Clifton Clifton Clifton Clif Clif- ton Woodrum chairman of the committee who chided him for a minute last-minute upward revision of his budget estimate Roosevelt pointed out that when he submitted the estimate in January he had warned that it was tentative and nd subject to change Economic conditions make an increase increase necessary necessary necessary essary he told Woodrum and he was prepared to assume personal responsibility for asking for it An ec Woodrum would not commit himself on whether he would go along with the new request 11 Labor Act Safety The secret decision reached at the house Republican Republic n caucus on the Smith amendments to the national labor relations act ct was to play it safe The G. G O. O P. P boys will take no stand for the present They will keep kep mum until public reaction can be gauged Then the next step will be decided But whatever party stand is decided I on on tIe the strategy will be to let the Democrats carry the ball in the open battling over over the amendments Their author Representative Howard Smith of Virginia is a Democrat By keeping silent and letting the Democrats scrap over the amendments amendments amend amend- ments Republicans figure that regardless of how they vote the proposals can be fixed in the mind min i of labor a ag as a Democratic baby Originator of f this strategy was Floor Leader Joe Martin who besides having his wily eye fixed on the coming elections also is personally cool to the Smith amendments Martin feels that the act should be revised but he is against anything as as drastic as Smith proposes Martins Martin's plan was approved overwhelmingly overwhelmingly overwhelm overwhelm- by bythe the caucus but not until Representative Clare H Hoffman ffman fiery Michigan had been sat upon In n. n a thundering speech Hoffman demanded that his party colleagues get behind a discharge petition to to bring out a bill he had introduced several months ago This would completely emasculate the labor act but has been getting mothball treatment from the labor committee Hoffman was wag hot under the collar about it ft Republicans ought to support a discharge petition he shouted In that way we can take full credit for amending this vicio vicious s labor act If every Republican will sign a petition I can get enough Democrats to go along to bring out my bill bilI Hoffman and the Bull No one interrupted Hoffman while he spoke but bin when he finished Representative John M. M Robison lone Kentucky Republican who had been holding a whispered consultation with Martin rose and drawled My good Michigan friend reminds me of a red bull we had down in my neck of the woods wood who had a a great antipathy to railroad trains Every time one passed his pasture he I would snort and rampage all over the place He madea made powerful lot of noise and frightened a lot of fol folks and got to thinking mighty high of himself Well one day he got to thinking so high about himself that he jumped the fence and ran up the tracks in the path of an oncoming express train He was really going to show them how tough he wa was was' Well my friends that bull derailed the train all right but you couldn't scrape tog together ther enough of the bull to make a hamburger sandwich The moral of this story for the benefit k of my good Michigan friend is that everyone admires his powerful courage but nobody ad admires ad ad- mires his judgment Hoffman HoHman was the only one who didn't join in the roar of laughter Uncertain Hold John I L. L Lewis Lewis' political hold holdon oh his C I 0 O followers see o be very uncertain Joe Salerno is head of the Massachusetts C CI I 0 O and a potent figure in New England labor During a radio debate before the Boston forum he was asked Does the rank and file support the stand of John L. L Lewis in opposing a third term for President Roosevelt Definitely no replied Salerno There are hundreds of thousands of members of the C CIO I 0 who will support the president if he runs again Distributed d by y United Unite Feature Service Vi t t 1 1 i c 11 1 1 t 1 |