Show This Week In Washington DC D.C. Washington September 9 Auto Auto- caster caster caster-A A political angle ancle au le which has been lar largely ely overlooked but which definitely figures in the split between the two wings of the Democratic Im party y h hEs t ll N. N ig r ter to 5 t Y to the front by the primary primar campaign of Senator Ellison D. D Cotton Fd Smith of South Carolina That is the racial issue which the South refers to as the Negro Problem Probably nothing has so aroused the antagonism of Southern Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- toward the New Deal not even the invasion of state rights by Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington as the successful efforts of the national party organization to swing the Negroes of the North away from Crom their traditional allegiance allegiance alle alle- gianco to the Republican party They have been converted into Democratic voters and old lint Southern politicians do not like at atall atall atall all the Idea of accepting them as political comrades Cotton Ed in his campaign for or made the thc most of the slogan of White Supremacy and his opposition to the Federal Anti- Anti Lynching bill in the last lust Congress While he has been more vocal in public on the subject than have most other Southern leaders there is no doubt that the friendliness of th the e Administrations Administration's supporters toward the Negro as a voter rather than a aan as asan asan s an object of charity has much to d dc do o with the New Anti-New Deal sentiment t in the party in the South Party Il Rift HUt Widening All the reports reaching Washington Washing Washing- ton continue to indicate that the rift lirt I i Jin in the party is widening The latest lates t bit of Capital gossip is that the differences differences dif in outlook between th the e President and the Vice president t have reached a point where Mr Garner may IDay take a public attitude o of opposition to the President almost almost al al- al most any day if occasion offers If that situation should develop which it is not likely to until after r the November Congressional dice elec elections thins lions the anti-Administration anti group grou p in Congress would be materially strengthened Mr Garner has a ver y large personal following in both houses of ot Congress If It the elections result as expected d in a n material reduction In the Democratic Demo Denio cratic critic representation in the House and an Increase in the proportion o ol of anti-Administration anti Democrats the nation may easily witness a hand to hand struggle for personal co control o of f Congress between the President an anthe and d the Vice-President Vice of oc the United States Such an open break would no not only accentuate the battlo for party purt control in 1940 but would have a powerful effect upon legislation by bythe bythe bythe the Congress The Issue between between between be be- tween tho Administration tl l and und its opponents op Opt inside the Democratic party is a complicated one oue but in the main malu Continued tn In n last page pago I This Week In Washington D. D C C. i n Continued from page one d York who WIlO Is not only Anti Anti- AntI N t E I IDeal Deal but holds the powerful i of or Chairman of the Committee cRules o c Rules That Committee can kill a apiece af tl piece of legislation which is ious fous to o the majority of its mema member and Mr OConnor O'Connor has been an ap t jl J obstacle in the way of or m muc mutt of ot the Presidents President's pia pr gr gram TOO replacement of or half haIr a aDeal doffs New i Deal Senators by either R RE REpublicans publicans or conservative is B now considered probable On ti House side a shift of not less th th fifty seats from Democratic to publican and the election of ot co a to several of oC the se seal seas now held by New Dealers is id hf analysis of the ok made by ll ir 1 most impartial observers here j a shift could seriously compile the next session situation for tE White House not only as to le le laUon lation but as to the out look for t tS 1940 Presidential campaign 1 Many observers here believe th tha tbt a big increase in Republican me men med with the stimulation lj teat would give to New Deal Dead cratic manoeuvring for 1940 coal couk halt the Roosevelt and eliminate the possibility of i 1 Presidential third term Others e. e Democrats of at New D Dei tendencies take lake the opposite The pressure upon the PresidE to attack New Deal doubters at t Democratic primaries comes fro fr fro those of his advisers who belies belie beli II that it is good strategy for Mr Roosevelt even at the risk of losi IOS r some Congress seats to Republican to enhance his personal stand with the voters and put a position to dictate the ems ms o any party harmony p pact ct in 1918 1940 That it what all of or the D Democrat party purge is about Hour Wags a s ws Laws Difficulties r The Federal Commission to cm establish lash lish regulations for the con nil con o J o Q wages and hours in industry lI ry unit unie the new law which takes tak effect i o October 1 is having having having- considerate difficulty in working out schedule which will meet the b Labor on one oze hand and of d on the other I The matter of regional differed lial is is given a great deal of tr tro i 5 Southern employers insisting t they are entitled to a lower mi miff mid mum wage rate and longer perm sible Bible hours of work than Is I the North i Another complication ia is the Hie con ten lion of powerful labor leader that the regulations set up by h oh must be such as to pre vent any reduction of wages to th tl legal minimum by industries which are now paying more than the mid mid- mum Close a observers here see a of the feud between William Greta and his American Federation of Labor and John L. L Lewis of tb b h Committee of Industrial tion Lion over the rulings of the Coy r mission whatever those may conj tur ur out to be 1 I At present the feeling is that t J Federation F Is gaining gaining- in prestige ad ate political Influence and the C C. I I. I 0 1 is losing Further acrimony is L u J when the Presidents President's co coo coa- which has been studying E E labor laws makes its report i which is expected to point toward 1 more restrictions upon the rights c tt t unions to disregard the rights of ec ec- 1 |