The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-03


 shell were a group of eastern party leaders-chiefly National Committeeman Charles D. HlIlcs, of New York; J. Henry ROra- back, of Connecticut; and Daniel E. Pomeroy, of New Jersey.
 What they proposed was a coup similar to that of the pres ent national government in Great Britain when 1t swept the labor party out of; office in 1891. The COP would select a "nationar' ticket, with q republican as the standard bearer and a prominent democrat as his running mate.
 But this is not all. To give the slate . real national flavor, COP stratcgists proposed write ing q specific pledge into the tickets platform for ma. ti0nal cabinet made up Of both republicans and democrats.
 The proposal was excitedly dis cussed by executive committee members, and although no for- maj vote was taken. an informal poll revealed thirteen of the nineteen members present to be enthusiastically for it.
 A lot more will be heard of the plan. It's packers are pushing 1t vigorously. Their latest move was to dispatch a confidential letter to a number of key state and local COP leaders strongly recom- mending the maneuver and ask ing their support.
 Trying Circumstances
 On the surface all was har- mony at the meeting of the water company moguls with the securi- ties and exchange commission.
 But underneath there was an atmosphere of tension among the utility executives. Obviously they were still nursing wounds from their battle to kill the holding company act.
 Before the deliberations began, the power men sat for n photo- graph with members of the com- mission. Noting a dour expression on the visitors faces, one of the cameramen ask ked them to please look a little more pleas- ant"
 To which Sam w. Murhpy, of Electric Bond q Share, rec torted sadly:
 "We'll do the best we can--s under the circumstances"  Relief W6ykers' School
 When Hilda Smith was dean of women at Bryn Mawr college, listening to the tribulations of young girls, she thought she had a problem on her hands. But now she has traded that for the immense job of teaching 1,200 teachers how to teach 6O,000 workers.
 Dr. Smith is a mild hammered woman of fifty with greying hair and soft, kindly blue eyes. Some- times she is called Harry Hop- kins's Professor of Commun- isnn.''
 ssWe don't teach c0mmun. ism," she says, with 2 faint smile. "But we allow discussion of it-proyided the other side is presented as we'll"
 IIei. job is to take teachers off relief rolls to teach workers who are on the relief rolls. They call 1t the program for workers edu- cation, now two years old.
 nek of having workers discuss poli- tical and economic questions. But Hilda Smiths staff ignores this. They have the 100 per cent back ing of Harry Hopkins.
 In ono southern town, per. mission to use the local school house was denied. So the ZEBRA teacher got hIs workers together, piled them, plus blackboard, into his car, and drove out into the woods. Here he hung tho blackboard on the car and lccturcd to q class site ting on tree stumps.
 The big problem, however. It not finding. a class room, but kCGDlnK the CldSS HI its LhC RoPAic in this case are adults, and if they don't like school, they walk out.
 Real Hero
 The real hero of the coal strike settlement was Edward F. Me- Grady.
 The hard working assistant secretary of labor, acting as the presidents mediator. got all the brickbats and none of the credit. The operators, particularly. were sore at him. ]. J What riled them most was McGrady's statement to the press that the strike occurred only be- cause the operators had held out on a difference of h cents ton in the proposed increase in pay for loaders. Adding further fuel to their anger was McGrady's plain talking criticism of their tactics.
 Just before the dcadline for the strike call. McGrady went