The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-04
RUSH PRESS
GAG TO BAR
BIG SCANDAL
Roosevelt G an G in
Panic to- Hide
Evidence
DOCUMENTS ARE MISSING
Foreign Complications
Are Threatened

WASHINGTON, April 3.--Iike a
bolt out Of the blue, the Democratic
leadership III the House Of Congress
today moved to suspend the rules
and brought up bill providing
heavy fines and Imprisonment for
any one who gives officisl informa-
ton to the public on acts eontem-
I plated by the government.
This is a continuation Of the war
time emergency measures that the
Roosevelt Hunger Administration has
been carrying out.
The bill came forward with a re-
port from the judiciary committee
recommending its passage as highly
essential and declaring that "the
executive branch of the government
has requested the enactment of this
legislation at the earliest practicable
date The House at once rushed the
vicious thing to vote and passed it
by a vote Of 299 to 20.
Drastic Penalties Provided
This bill to rnuzzle the press Of the
country and to enable the govern
ment to imprison anyone who ex-
poses the criminal plots Of the gov
eminent against the workers, the
farmers, the war veterans and other
sections of the oppressed population
carries the most drastic penalties
The bill reads that any government
! official, any private individual OF
publication that reveals anything the
government thinks might endangei
the safety Of the United States
shall be fined $4,000 and sent to fed
eral prison for ten years, or both.
Publication of such facts shall be
/ regarded as prima facie evidence that
the intent was to injure the govern
ment, hence all former precedent thai
specifies that the prosecution mus
prove intent is set aside and anyone
can be rsilrosded simply for conf
menting upon acts of the govern
r11ent.
Try To Head OF Big Scandal
The Roosevelt gang are in panic
because it is generally known in
Washington that startling secrets
concerning another government are
in hands of people who will reveal
them. 1t is said that important
secret documents of one foreign gov
ernment involving the Cabinet mem
berS of both the late Hoover admin
istration and the present Roosevelt
administration have been taken from
State Department archives and that
their publication will cause an inter
national upheaval.
1t was to forestall the publication
Of these documents that incriminate
prominent members of two United
States Cabinets that the bill has been
rushed through
Debate was short. only a few OBJ
jections being raised by Congressman
not in the confidence of the Repub-
lican and Democratic machines
Members of the judiciary committee
said sufficient evidence had been pre-
sented by administration officials tx
make it's immediate passage impera-
tive without a moments delay. Repre-
sentative Hooper, Republican, OF
Michigan, told the House: 1.-THE cir
cumstances under which this bill
was drawn up were so serious that
my lips are sealed"
1t was because of such matters,
involving the most underhauded in
trlgue and duplicity in the drive
toward another world war that Cor
dell Hull conferred with Henry l.,
Stirnson, Secretary of State in Hoo
ver's Cabinet, SO tl1et the Wall Street
government at Washington would
have an uninterrupted policy OF i'm
perialist war-mongering and colonial
and semi colonial pillage.