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Show I NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS i Written for The Telegram ly Ray Tucker. - WASHINGTON Rule Committee Com-mittee Boss Gene Cox's hatred of the national labor relations board has precipitated a house deadlock dead-lock over all other labor legislation. legisla-tion. It explains why such important im-portant anti new deal measures as the Barden amendments of the wage-hour law and the Walter-Logan bill curbing the commissars com-missars remain on the legislation legisla-tion shelf. The hard-boiled Georgian, who runs the all-important rules committee without consulting Chairman Sabath, favors both the measurea which he is blockading. block-ading. But he la blind to any target except the NLRB: he detests that body and all Its works. He regards it a a destructive, de-structive, communistic un-American agency as now manned and operated. He also feels thst, with an election approaching,' congress la good for only one reel fight on the new deai'a labor set-up. If he give the green light to proposals to weaken the wage-hour act or restrict the authority of administrative agencies, and either should be enacted, he figures that he will lose his battle against the board. Smart administration strategists strate-gists sre aware of the Cox complex. com-plex. Therefore they are scheming schem-ing to prevent him and the house from getting any chance to consider con-sider or debate NLRB amendments. amend-ments. If they can outwait and outmaneuver him, they may prevent pre-vent any tampering with their labor law at this session, James A. Farley's If-less and but-less entry into the presidential presiden-tial race has a somewhat neglected neglect-ed aspect which solace the ' Roosevelt third-termers. It is a consideration which hss been obscured ob-scured by his admittedly sensational sensa-tional announcement that he atrings along with Vice President Presi-dent Garner in not waiting for the president to reveal his owa Intentions. Despite his resentment of presidential pres-idential snubbing, Jim Is a loyal organization man. Keeping his pledge and living in accord with the party code are the two asset as-set which make the Democratic national chairman a unique figure fig-ure in present-day politics. Therefore, in entering the contest con-test for the nomination, he has given hostages to the president. Should the Utter wrest the nomination from his rivals in a fair and honest fight Jim will be the Judge of the methods, of course Mr. Farley will probably abide by the decision. He will not take a walk. That, at least. Is the reasoning of the Roosevelt faction. They even profess to believe that a renominated Roosevelt could persuade Jim to retain the national chairmanship. They bank on the eld friendship between be-tween the two men and F. O. R.'a charm and persuasiveness. Mr. Fsrley, however, hss told friends that he would not serve as generalissimo gen-eralissimo In a third-term campaign. cam-paign. Most likely successor la the event of s Roosevelt re nomination nomi-nation is Harold L. Ickes. Capitol Hill economists have initiated a system of low-cost housing in swanky army circles, even though they won't permit Nathan Straus Jr. to expand his slum clearance program. Members of the house appro priations committee handling military funds discovered that Secretary Woodring'a officer were apendlng Uncle Sam's money rather carelessly. Although Al-though congress has fixed $14.-500 $14.-500 ss the maximum cost for officers home at army post and stations, the figure has slowly slow-ly crept up te $17,500. The military mili-tary men answered congressional congres-sional complaints by explaining that prices of materials and labor had risen, and that home fit for our heroes could not be built for the smaller sum. "Then build less fsncy houses" ordered the clvilisn commanders of the army. Latest blueprints have been drawn in accord with the economizers' dictates. Buck privates will also feel the pinch. Whereas Mr. Wood-ring's Wood-ring's men on the mainland iave been sheltered in barrack units costing $900 each, soldier in Panama and Hawaii have been well-housed at a unit cost of only $600. In view of the current cur-rent expansion of the army, the aavings will run Into big money. Secret Service Chief Frank Wilson has scrapped several moth-eaten money rules promulgated promul-gated by his venerable predecessor prede-cessor Bill Moran. The latter insisted upon a literal lit-eral Interpretation of the law forbidding the photographing of paper money. He feared that it might encourage counterfeiting by suggestion. He frequently threatened prosecution of newspapers news-papers or magazines which Inadvertently In-advertently printed a picture of a bill.' Mr. Wilson, however, has established es-tablished a lecture system designed de-signed to lesaea the dangers of counterfeiting. Several of his men are constantly on the stump, teaching people things they don't know about monev things they ought to know. He freely reprint photograph of the mazuma in documents and pamphlets utilized by his "professors." "pro-fessors." So now you may take a picture of your money If any without going to the hoose-gow. |
