Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-04-02

together. and Labor leaders, fearing
the end of protective legislation OF
June 10th, are moving to secure pas
sage of the Wheeler-C roSser bill ii
Congress. This would protect en-
ployes affected by consultations by
giving them new jobs or two-third:
pay while idle, or a years wages if the
employee leaves the service. The neg
citations may break down before this
is printed but il is encouraging tina,
both sides prefer a voluntary arrange
ment.
The question is extremely complex
with many factors involved. The rail-
roads, facing acute bus competition,
find economies necessary in order to
secure and hold business. Employees,
many unframed for other work, face
hardships if they lose their jobs. The
question must be settled somehow, be-
cause otherwise it is quite possible
hat the inroads of other forms OF
transportation will prove more dan
gerous, and mean greater losses, to
both the Management and Labor than
the proposed economies.
With the Senate Committee begin
ming its work of studying government
reorganization in the interest of econ
omy, in accordance with the sugges-
ton of Senator Byrd, of Virginia, the
President, last week, wrote practically
Identical letters to Speaker Byrns and
Vice-President Garner, advising them
that he had appointed a special COM
mittee of three to make a survey to
ascertain which of the New Deal agen-
cies shall be scrapped and which shall
be welded into the permanent execu-
tive structure.
Mr.. Roosevelt named on his COM
mittee two of those acting as advisors
to the Byrd committee, expressing the
hope that the House would also name
a committee and hat the three bodies
would coordinate their research and
avoid duplication Senator Byrd, who
conferred with the President some
time ago, said his committee will pro-
coed with its investigation as directed,
but intimated that the task would be
accomplished without a spirit of rival
ry. The President wants the special
committee to report to him in time for
recommendations to Congress next
January. His critics term the nov a
skillful and adroit plan to head of
hostile conclusions.
The President, now on the Atlantic
on a fishing trip, left the Capital
sured by reports that his opposition in
the Democratic party is impotent, and
by an apparent upward swing of his
popularity in the United States. Close
observers have noticed that for many
months after the 1884 elections the
prestige of the President seemed to
suffer and during the same period the
spirit and prospects of his opponents
improved. No one can say how far the
drift extended, and while many OBJ
servers see it reversed today, there is
no method of computing his present
position or of telling how the public
fancy will swing between now and
November.
Senator Borah, opening his western
campaign last week, made a bitter at
tack on corporate interests. Continu-
ing his fight against the domination
Vi ule Ilell WIZ plOuSllt Tic ioSPuD-
lican party TO its present condition"
which, he describes as without inhu-
ence in the nation" the Idahoan
blamed old party leaders for not re-
spending to the Humanitarian de-
mands of the American people" De-
claring that 100000 Republicans
went over to the Democrats in 1882, he
insisted that the party will not get
them back by putting in power those
who drove them away"
While Mr.. Borah defended the
Courts, advocating economy, attacked
.monopolies, and proclaimed his own
ideas for solving the nations ills, the
politicians paid most attention to his
statement about party leadership.
They do not think he has any chance
of winning eastern support and little
prospect of dominating the party him
self, and, therefore, fear that continu-
alton of his present campaign has a
tendency to divide the party into two
wings and thus to facilitate the reel
ection Of President Roosevelt.
The view expressed by many OBJ
some months ago that the
Borah campaign for the Presidency
was intended to strengthen the Borah
influence at the convention, has been )