Show ROUND MERRY Vote Vate Record Scrutinized By President By fly DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Senators Pepper Pepper of or Florida SparKman of ot Alabama plus Russell and George of Georgia called on n President Truman last week to him him to the Valdosta Georgia fair As they entered they found him reading the Congressional Con Con- Congressional gon- gon gressional Record I He laid it down to greet his hs callers but Senator Russell ll peering at the page page n noticed it was the record of Monday J June e 22 Looking more closely R Russell Russell Rus s- s sell saw lieU saw the tal tally y of ot the 68 68 25 25 roll call vote by which the senate senate senate sen sen- ate overrode the veto of tho the labor bill Having been one of those who voted against the president Russell asked him if it he was studying the voting record No I was Just r reading ading Bob Tafts Taft's speech on the bill the president laughed After Ater all aU Dick I spent pent ten years In the senate and I know I cant can't have all you fellows voting with me all the time But If it I lose you Democrats Democrats' one time I have you the next Note Note While While this explanation may have satisfied Russell other senators noted that in order to rc read d Tafts Taft's speech the president dent would have had to turn the page on which the voting record was printed It was definitely the voting record page not Tafts Taft's speech on which the presIdential presidential pres pres- eye was was fixed as his visitors entered so maybe he hc was studying the he deserting Democrats after all aU Lest Les we e forget Some congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen gremen seem apathetic about their colleague Representative Robert F. F Jones Ohio Republican Republican lican and his former membership membership membership member member- ship In the Black Legion Perhaps Perhaps Per Perhaps haps they have forgotten d depres depression sion days when the Black Legion Le- Le Legion Legion Le Le- gion was to the ICu Ku Klux Klan what a cobra is to a garter snake Here Her Is Is- part of th the Black Legions Legion's Legions Legion's Legions Legion's Le Le- Le- Le gions gion's crime score in Ohio and Michigan Murdered Negro hod carrier Silas Coleman because legi legionnaire legionnaire legion legion- on- on Colonel Harvey Davis wanted to know how it felt to shoot a Negro Eleven members members members mem mem- bers convicted Murdered John Bielak and George Marchuk of the Auto Workers Workers' union Threatened to kidnap Ohio Gov Coy Davey's daughter Nine members convicted for threatening death to Arthur Kingsl Kingsley y Highland Park Mich publisher 1 Eight legionnaires all officers of the the Wolverine Republican club club convicted for killing Detroit Detroit Detroit De De- De- De troit W P A worker Charles Poole because neighbors falsely reported report report- ed he beat his wife Black legion started after Ku Klux Klan got smoked out by too much publicity but proved it U was a a. good money racket Dr William Shepherd Bellaire 0 O. health commissioner explains the legions legion's origin as follows I Iwas Iwas Iwas was exalted Cyclops of K K K but wit withdrew h d I e w when Grand Dragon Colescott objected to tomy tomy tomy my wearing a black robe So I organized a black guard in Ohio Pretty soon the darn thing grew by leaps and bounds Everybody around here wanted to be one of of my blacks and andst st started organizing black groups groups groups' You have to have mystery In a fraternal thing to keep it alive The folks folks' eat it up Came the depression With jobs scarce the Black Legion got out of ot hand Many labor people joined and escorted small businessmen busi busi- n before eerie night meetIngs meetIngs meetings meet meet- ings to threaten them with fires or bodily harm if they discharged discharged dis dis- dis- dis charged men joining men joining the Black Legion was one way to keep your job In Detroit however industrialists industrialists indus indus- were we're accused of using the Bl Black ck Legion as Vigilantes to combat organized labor Heart of Ohio's Black Legion was Lima home of Congressman Jones now nominated to th the federal federal federal fed fed- eral communications commission Also living In Lima Is former Natio National National Na Na- tio al Commander Virgil H. H Effinger who signed signe an affidavit affidavit affi affi- davit in 19 1938 8 naming Jones as a aBlack aBlack aBlack Black Legionnaire Do Farmers Strike Farm Farm Bureau President Ed ONeal long one of ot the smoothest lobbyIsts lobbyIsts' lobbyIsts lobbyists lobby lobby- at the capitol was almost but not quite set back on his heels last week by young Representative Representative Representative Walter Huber of Akron O. O 01 during testimony be before before before be- be fore th the joint congressional mal committee committee com corn on on the economic report Huber stopped ONeal to take up the question of strikes the farm chieftain having said he might favor an even more more drastic labor Jabor measure than the Taft- Taft Hartley HarUey bill How then do you justify the strike having been called by the producing meat-producing f farmers ar m mer e r s last fall faU 1 Huber asked the strike- strike hating bating ONeal ONeal replied that it was not any strike They just wouldn't get out meat js is that It Huber persisted per per- listed The law of supply and de demand and ruled said ONeal If It you can compel the thc workIngman workIngman work- work Ingman to sell seU his labor for a certain certain tain thin price under certain conditions conditions conditions condi condi- persisted the Ohio congressman congressman congressman con con- gressman then could you not compel the fanner farmer to sell his produce which he produces through his sweat with the help of God and nature for a certain price also I 1 say we believe In collective bargaining sure we do ONeal replied Copyright 1947 Bell BeU Syndicate |