The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-06-29

against the Walsh resolution to in tn,
vestigate the power trust, is credited tn
with having won a victory in lining Oh
up the president. Whether il be true ha
that Lenroot got Coolidge's ear, or
Coolidge was impressed by pc
other advisers, the fact remains that WI
Coolidge has done exactly what Len az
root and the power lobby wanted him hi
to do. The people lose scores of mil til
lions of dollars in excessive rates for 0C
electricity. m
Washington.-Always the people ia
have looked to their new-asembled p
congress to justify their idealistic C
hopes. And this year, as always, con- Il
gress has adjourned without satisfy e.
ing these hopes. A few bills tending il
toward social progress have passed e
one or both houses. The rest have t,
died in committee or have been LETT c
stranded on the calendar n
Iniunctions depriving the workers 5
of the right of protest against modern t
slavery have not been curbed. A bill t
will be considered by the committee Nv
next winter. c
Coal miners have been given no 5
safeguards as to regular employment, i
living wage or the ordinary civil |
rights of free speech and association
in unions. A bill has been offered
providing for a federal commission (
which shall license mergers of coal
companies and protect wage rates.
But this bill is likely to be defeated
next winter on constitutional grounds.
Farmers, seeking relief from bank
ruptcy, got nothing.
T Federal employees have received 1
/ stingy increase Of about $148 a /
year, average, for $4,000 workers.
Seamen have been refused every de- |
mand they made for rights of survival /
\ in the American merchant marine. |
Congress has enacted the Jones' White |
merchant marine bill which permits
: one-third of the crew of an American
merchant vessel to be of low-wage
alien races.
This session witnessed the stubborn
but losing battle of the Norris group
! to secure a senate investigation of the
. power trust. That investigation was
= sent to the federal trade commission
but under such a fire of protest that
;, the commission entrusted the job to
J" commissioner McCulloch, who is al
= lowing chief counsel Healy expose
~ the conditions that Norris intended to
"a bring to light.
- Congress failed to enact the Boulder
= Dam bill but left it in a position for
=, passage next December. Muscle
of Shoals operation by the government
=, is provided by the Norris-MOrin bill
~ which passed both houses and which
Of President Coolidge will pocket veto or
in will sign by June 2.
Vi On the hopeful side this session
os showed fear of the growing anti-mili-
~ tarist and anti-fasciSt sentiment
of among the workers and farmers. II
- did not seriously consider the legion'S
universal draft bill nor any of the
"a wild measures designed to authorize
~ quick deportation of radical aliens. Il
- failed to enact the big navy construc
20 Helms attacks on the CathOli
= church. 1t did not tremble at tn,
Ice spectre of Soviet Russia.
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aaS Washington (FP) - Sen. Georg
' 'nJ w. Norris, of Nebraska, leader of tn
r.; Progressive Republican forces of tn
t 90 country, will fight Herbert Hoover
~; power trust nominee for the pres
a nd dency, in this campaign just as har
az as he fought Bill Ware, corruptionis
rs rs nominee for the Pennsylvania ser
atorship, two years ago. In a STATE
nh ment June 16 Norris indicted HoovC
ent and the republican platform in tern
,rno so scathing as to leave no doubt of h
IL, determination.
onSS Norris will not head an independel
,uer presidential ticket. He knows that
nor would be futile this year. Instead
will conduct a campaign for publ
competition with the private pow
trust. He will show up Hoover as Il
darling of the forces of greed al
corruption, dominent at WashingtO
Is "This action of the republican co
~ vention at Kansas City, says h
,nce statement, "both as to platform al
'n 1ao candidate for president, will be a S
luO disappointment to every progressi
citizen of the United States.
na9e "a direct slap is administered
III the farmers of the country.
70. 1.-THE platform is silent on the do
patV ination of our politics, our social
plol- tivities our schools and our church
Aers by the secret, disgraceful methds
n, the water power trust, now being
'hce closed before the federal trade co
tries at i lil,a,y;sa s;lo,,+ ~ AZ
dol graceful and ,,rY,ot,.;ot;a ~. -; S,le :
III closed by investigation of the ma
WING oil leases. Sen. Fess, the keynoter
COZ. the convention, defended Daughe
pale on the floor of the senate and
i iic posed the investigation. The perm
INV ent chairman, Sen. Masses, was
H., ways found opposing the making
' y n.i any investigation or of giving pub
49,; 20 ity to the crimes that have been c.
! ne e. mitted by these malefactors agai
: LOT our country.
W ~ Sen. Smoot, who was chairman
,ai,Sos the platform committee, and who
neit one of Hoover's lieutenants, was
;, ~ closed in the oil investigation to h
, t the gone secretly to Falls apartment
. ! en advise with him about his defens,
$50. SSGn' I'm addition to all this, when
IN ~ psychological moment came, it
o ~ : boss Ware, leader of the PhiladelI
o"ii political machine-the man who,
account of the disgraceful proceed
.....z in the Pennsylvania primary, was
cluded from the u. S. senate-it