Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-10-31

the consumer. How do you like It
Johnson voted against House Reso-
luton 212, to place the surplus food
and other products in hands of the
war department to sell at cost to The
people and help lower the cost of liv-
ing to the masses, via parcel post.
Yeas 155; Noes 100. While good
for the people, it was bad for pro-
fiteers.
Johnson voted for the emergency
tariff bill in 1921. Later he voted for
the Fordney- McCumber tariff bill.
On a motion to recommit to reduce
the sugar tariff from 1.76 to 1.16,
johnson voted no! For the sugar
trust.
johnson voted for the revenue bill
as it passed the house Aug. 20, 1921.
This measure reduced the surfaces on
the larger incomes from So per cent
to 80 per cent as proposed by Presi-
dent Harding. The senate rate of
80 per cent was later adopted. It
meant more bonds and taxes for the
poor, less for the rich.
JOHNSON voted for the ship sub
sidy bill, later killed by the senate
fibuster. Shipping now with small
exceptions is in the hands of the
trust, and they have excessive rates
as it now is, and to vote more money
out of the pockets of the robbed tax
payer is going some.
Robert Dollar, of the Dollar Line,
said the shipping people need no
subsidy. They have paying for
eign and coast wise lines, and Dol
lar knows what he is talking about.
Any business that asks for subsidy
is asking an unjust advantage or spe-
cial privileges that the rest of US do
not ask, enjoy, or are entitled to, and
any business that cannot stand on its
own feet, fostered by very rich men,
has no right to ask it of the poor to
pay them a subsidy. Johnson by his
vote thinks they should gouge US for
subsidy, and once that graft is
llegalized the end of the demands
they would make never would stop.
JOHNSON voted against the Fitz-
gerald compensation bill for injured
workmen in the District of Columbia,
by supporting the Underhill substi-
tute, which meant death to the prin-
ciples of that act.
JOHNSON voted to whitewash
Harry Daugherty by voting against
the Kellar resolution Sept. IL, 1922.
Daugherty was later kicked out by
committee led by Senator Brook
hart.
In the 68th congress Johnson voted
with the old guard of reactionaries,
or our American Tories, to prevent
reforming of the rules.
JOHNSON voted for the fish trust.
Mr.. Switzerland of Alaska, offered an
amendment to the Alaskan fisheries
bill of 1905 which would make it I'M
lawful to fish with any fixed or
floating trap, weir or pound net" in
certain areas where the salmon are
supposed to run. The fish trust op-
posed the amendment. 1t passed the
house in spite of the trust with a
vote of 1872 to 139. Johnson voted no
on this bill.
johnson voted against the Howell
Barley bill. This bill is vital to the
railway employees and provides for
the repeal of the railway labor pro-
visions Of the Esch-Cummings act
and the substitution of new machin-
cry for the settlement of labor dis
putes.. This bill was defeated by
the old guard filibuster. Johnson
voted against the bin at every roll
call.
Albert johnson tried to cripple the
federal trade commission by intro
ducing a resolution that the functions
of this important branch of govern
ment be placed under Eat Less Su-
gar Hoover"
While the resolution did not fare
any better than Albert's famous
mountain resolution, his tendency
towards standpatism is clearly shown
The old guard of the house and
senate for several years have made
unsuccessful attempts to handicap the
federal trade commission by introduc-
ing bills or amendments to reduce
the working budget to hamstring the
commission. Johnson voted to crip-