The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-23

business had not succeeded in
driving a majority of the repre-
sentatives to commit political
suicide. The House voted to go
into committee of the whole for
the formal debate on the bill and
amendments
Johnson of South Dakota made the
first tricky move in opposition, by
raising parliamentary question and
permitting the railroad crowd to con-
sumo half an hour in a quorum CALL
Then Longworth and Sanders Of In
diana-the same Sanders whom GER
tain officers of the United Mine
Workers have endorsed for the fed
eral judgeship at Indianapolis-beg
new obstruction. When the House
voted to take up the bill in committee
of the whole, this pair loudly an
nounced that there could be no agree
ment as to division of the time of
debate. The meanness of their at
titude was SO evident, however, that
Longworth presently yielded, and the
Scbate began.
Winslow, chairman Of the interstate
commerce committee, opened with a
general denunciation of the bill and
of the methods used by organized la
Dor to call to the attention of the
country the votes cast by the indi-
vidual members of the House, on
May 5th, for or against the cause of
the railroad workers. Reading a let
ter which was issued by the federated
shop crafts on the Pennsylvania
lines-the strikers who have been
out for two years because the Rail
road Labor Board betrayed them
Winslow beloved the opinion that
"That letter means Hands up!'
That's ALL"
Representative Nelson of Wiscon-
sin, chairman of the progressive
group, took the floor Immediately
after Winslow, and presented docu-
mentary proof that while the labor
elements have openly and sincerely
been pleading with Congress to pass
this remedial bill, the railroad COM
panies have been using underground
influences and secret plotters to
coerce Congress to save the rail mag
mates once more at the expense Of
the workers.
More Fall Fruit.
He offered first, in code, telegram
sent by M. L. Countryman, general
counsel for the Great Northern rail-
way, on April 2S, to H. E. Judge at ST.
oux Falls, S. Oak: House bill intro
duced by Barley abolishes labor board
and puts national labor unions in
very powerful position as against
railroads. Under new rules, bill has
been called out of committee for con-
sideration by House and comes up on
or about May 5th. Please confer
with other railroad counsel in your
state and see whether thru cody
plaster and mattings in your stroll
abide by leach craft cars drunk time
rebuke chide. :. +. At conference of
railroad counsel today all agreed
if any useful results are possible they
will be obtained thru remit stoles
thinly by sex filch."
A week later, April 30, the Sioux
Falls Press reported that Mr.. Judge
had addressed the local Traffic Bureau
on the previous day, denouncing the
Barley bill, and charging that it
would add s1,O0O,000 a year to the
taxpayers burden. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted to telegraph the
South Dakota congressman urging
them to work and vote against the
measure. Individual members of the
bureau were likewise pledged to send
kilograms to Washington. On May
5th, all three South Dakota members
voted with the railroads, and one Of
them, Royal Johnson, opened the
fight with filibuster game.
Nelson offered in evidence circu-
lar issued to all local surgeons Of the
Santa Fe system, by w. p. Waggener,
general attorney for the road, dated
March 9TH, notifying them to pro-
coed at once and secure letters from
business men, farmers and others, di-
rected to the congressman from your
districts" opposing the Barley mea-
sure. A list of suggestions for the
text Of these protest letters was in
cluded, with promise to refund
necessary canvassing expenses.
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