Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-04-28
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President Hoover, in a third con-
ference with the House Economy
Committee, insisted that Congress
adopt his pay reduction plan of
a five-day week in "principle;"
that per diem workers be put on a
five-day week basis, that annual
employees each take a one-month
vacation without pay and that al
lowances for rural mail carriers
for vehicle maintenance be elimin-
ated. He did not agree with the
committee plan for a flat reduction
of IL per cent for all salaries over
$1,000 and the committee left the
White House conference unable to
decide whether to accept the Pres
ident's plan or go ahead with their
own plan for reducing the payroll
SCI, 900 900.
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The administration suggestion
for a five-day week for per diem
employees and a system of stagger-
ing the work of other employees
thru legislative authorization to
heads of departments, permitting
them to enforce furloughs without
pays, is thot not to alter the fact
hat, as in the case of pay cuts, the
sacrifice thus demanded would be
made by those least able to bear
it. A five-day week for per diem
employees would les the surren-
der of 81 days wages, and wages
that are already small. Enforced
furloughs would hit hardest the
army of 891 1863 Federal employees,
counting both military and civil
groups, whose annual pay is below
$500 a year. This small salar-
led group constitutes approx
mately 81 per cent of the total
number of Federal employees, in
Guiding the military, and SO per
cent, excluding all but civilians.
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A new "home rule" proposal
permitting States which want pro-
hibition to have it and States which
do not want it to be as wet as they
like was offered the Senate by Sem
ators Bingham, Connecticut, and
Tydings, Maryland, Republican and
Democrat, respectively. They pro-
pose, on the eve of starting hear
ings on repeal and a new drive to
get another beer vote in the House,
a constitutional amendment on
States rights on prohibition to be
upheld or defeated by State con-
ventions, whose delegates are ell
ected by a majority vote.
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Wet planks in political party
platforms, wet candidates, and re-
submission of the Eighteenth
Amendment were demanded in res
olutions adopted by the Women's
Organization for National Prohi-
bition Reform. Pledging itself to
desert party lines if necessary in
order to support only those candi-
dates who pledge themselves I'M
equivocally to work for prohibition
repeal, the organization in a reso-
luton directed its national chair
mar to send to "all prospective
Presidential candidates" the fol-
lowing telegram:
~Will you, if nominated for the
high office of Presidency of the
United States, support a plank in
your party platform to submit the
question of the repeal of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment and the return
to each State of its former power
to regulate the manufacture, sale
and transportation of intoxicating
beverages within its own limits to
conventions held in the several
States for ratification or rejec-
tion?"
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An undercurrent Of surprise and
some bitterness was manifested
here over the abrupt fashion in
which France rejected the propos-
ais of the American delegation at
the disarmament conference for
the outlawing of offensive weapons
such as tanks, heavy mobile guns
and gases. At the same time, min
or criticism of the State Depart
ment was heard at the Capitol. The
manner of the French press at
tacks with their implications that
Ambassador Hugh s. Gibson, head
of the American delegation, had
sighted M. Tardieu, also caused