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Show Chieftains in House Defy Green Over Wage Bill LEADERS MOVE TO FORCE VOTE UPON MEASURE Petition Started to Blast Plan Out of Committee WASHINGTON. Nov. 23 (INS In a dramatic plea for a vot on wage-hours legislation. Representative Representa-tive Sam Rayburn of Texas, Democratic Demo-cratic leader, and Representatlvt Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, party whip, today signed a petition to bring the Black-Connery bill to the floor of the house. Defying President William Green of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor, who attacked the bill and demanded it be sent back to the labor committee, the house leaders appealed for action In the special session. The action followed formal announcement an-nouncement by Chairman O'Connor (D N. Y.I of tiie rulea committee that all efforts of house leadera to break down opposition of southern opponent on his committee bad failed. Precedent Broken In signing the petition Rayburn broke all precedent. Discharge petitions peti-tions usually are employed by "rebels" "reb-els" to fores action on bills over objections ob-jections of the leadership. Speaker Bankhead. stating that he holds a "judicial" position as speaker, declined to sign the discharge dis-charge petition. O'Connor also indicated in-dicated he would refuse to sign a petition against his own committee. O'Connor demanded that the labor committee take advantage of the situation to call the measure up on calendar Wednesday and keep the house In session until it voted on the bill. "There are two outstanding things which should be done In this special session," Rayburn told the house. "One is to pass a farm bill and tha other to pass a wage-hours bilL 111 Name Needed "Believing that every other method meth-od of gaining consideration for the wage-hours bill haa been exhausted. I have today don tha only thing I could do I have aigned the discharge dis-charge petition. I trust that 217 other also will sign, so that the bill can be considered." The blast of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor at the wage-hours bill smashed confidence of leaders in their ability to complete the petition. pe-tition. While Green demanded rewriting of the bill. John L. Lewis. CIO chieftain, joined Democratic leaders in urging members to sign the petition pe-tition so that tha measure could be called up for a vote. Representative Snell of New York. Republican leader, declared that Rayburn's action in aigning the petition waa proof that the Democrats Demo-crats "cannot efficiently run the house. Branding the Black-Connery bill a unsatisfactory to labor. Green urged congress to write minimum wagea and maximum houra into a bill, instead of giving a government bureau control over labor nd industry. |