The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-01-05

i llOuSO lOI ILLS pOSltlOU ID MtSl
Frances Perkins, the able industrial
commissioner OF New York during
the Roosevelt regime.
/ NJ QUOTATIONS that had lasted
- ten days and appeared hope
less ended suddenly in Chicago in q
| settlement of the wage controversy
between the railroads and their
union employees. A compromise
proposal of the railroad managers
to renew for nine months the So
called Willard agreement, under
which the workers now have 10 per
cent deducted from their pay
checks. was accepted with alacrity
by the l.250 delegates representing
the 81 standard railroad unions in
the negotiations. When the Willard
agreement expires October 81 next
the basic scale is restored.
EDWARD O'NEAL, president of
IL the American Farm Bureau
federation, announced in Washing
ton that about $50 members of con,
gress had formed bipartisan
farm bloc to support demands for
agricultural relief in the short SEES
sion. Their program. he said, in
cludes measures for the expansion
of currency. for lowering the price
of the dollar. stopping farm mort
gage foreclosures and giving eco
nomic equality to agriculture and
labor.
Vigorous opposition to the farm
organizations relief bill, with it's
proposal for a tax on the process
ing of wheat. cotton, tobacco and
hogs. was voiced before the house
agricultural committee by repre-
sentatives of the packing industry.
Under the bill the receipts from
such a tax would be distributed by
commodities to farmers who had
cut production.
Frank A. Hunter, head of the
Hunter Packing company Of East
st. Louis. Ill. declared such a tax
would cost the packers 100000, 600.
George e. Putnam. economist OF
Swift & Co. of Chicago. asserted
that the packing industry could not
absorb such tax. that the consum-
ers would not, and II, therefore,
would have to be passed back to the
farmer, with the result that instead
of helping agriculture the "relief
plan" would work great damage.
DELIEVE 1t or not. the national
- government is now handing
over almost one-half of its annual
revenues to the veterans admins
tration to be paid out in benefits or
other disbursements to. or In behalf
of. war veterans and their depend
ents. William M. Bullitt. former So
licitor general of the United States,
so told the joint committee OF con-
gress that is investigating veterans
and he added that the !
peak of the huge expenditures was
not yet reached.
Payments to Spanish war veter-
ans now exceed the total cost of i
that war, while payments to or on |
behalf of World war veterans. Mr..
Bullitt said, have reached the point .
where they are about one-half the
cost of that war and this does not I
include about $2,OO0.OOO.OOO. in adj
justed compensation. the payment
Of which is standing obligation of /
The government. --...
"The Economy league" Mr. Bull
lit testified, Insists that the gov
arnment's expenses be cut $3.50, Co., /
300 a year in the veterans admin
stration alone. This can be done
BY eliminating $109,OOO.OOO paid to
veterans Of the Spanish American
war who have never suffered any |
injury or disability as a result Of
such service Secondly. we ask the
Of s34O,OOO,OO0 paid on
account Of veterans of the World
war;" ..,,....-ss
ON CHRISTMAS eve Arturo
- Alessandri assumed Presiden
tial authority in Chile, and prom
ised his country that his govern
ment would guide