The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-27
-The Washington
Merry-Go-Round
by Drew Pearson and Robert s. Alle,

WAsHINGToN, April 27.-It looks as if the long
w and powerful arm of Andrew w. Mellon IA.
penetrated all the way to Texas to Nwreak noitcol
vengeance against Wright Patman, the congress-
man who once introduced resolution to impeacb
the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alex-
ander Hamilton"
Patman comes from Texarkana, Tex in which
town Mr. Melons Gulf Oil Co. once operated the
Gull Cooperage But after the Patman resolution
the plant-and Its pay rol-were moved to Port
Arthur " A'i'
Now Texas politicos report another Mellon move
against Patman. Baptist minister David M Phil
lips, appears to be financed through Uncle ANDY tn
oeIeat the man who wanted to impeach him
Friends of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury saw
That he never forgets.
RLAME for the latest labor eruption on the San
Francisco waterfront is being placed privately
on the shoulders of Uncle Dan" Roper and Miss
Frances Perkins
LABOR leaders claim that had it not been for I'M
oer-cover sabotage by these two Cabinet members a
formula might have been worked out to bring perma-
hent peace 10 the entire maritime industry. Here
is what happened:
A group of New Dealers knew that another expo-
sion was brewing on the San Francisco waterfront
AND tearing the adverse political effect which CON-
tinued labor disturbances might have ON West Coast
pohtlcal sentiment, they laid before the President
plan for permanent peace agency
Iney proposed that Congress create indie
pendent Marine Labor Authority, with powers to ar
btrate disputes in this industry lust as the United
states Mediation Board does in the railroad field
This board has virtually abolished serious railway
labor trouble
THIS was in March The President seemed
favorable to the idea; also A F. of L. leaders
ana ship operators. AS result tentative bill was
drafted and leaders Capitol Hill were asked to
put it through Congress
In fact, everything appeared "set" for speedy
actlon-when suddenly Roper and Miss Perkins be-
gan welding their hatchets behind the scenes
Reason: Under the proposed bill both the Com
merce and Labor Departments would have been
stripped OF their powers to intervene in the ship
labor field. All their authority would be transferred
to the new Labor Authority
Jealous of any curtalment of their powers the
two Cabinet members succeeded in pigeonholing
the peace plan. 1t is now sidetracked somewhere
in maze of bureaucratic red-tape.
Weeks have passed. Meanwhile, in San Fran
ERANKLIN ROOSEVELT JR. probably will not
repeat his feat of making the Harvard Deans
List for the second half of the scholastic year
Harold Wolff, Cambridge cram-school car
whose tutelage Franklin the honor at mid
years has disclosed that he thinks the scion of
Hyde Park has been spending too much time and
energy on extra -currcular activites-rowing dane
ing, and attending wrestling matches And Wolff
seldom is wrong. which is why he is so successful
at outwitting the university's scholastic require
ments.
He is none too hopeful either for John Roose-
pleasures. John never has made the Deans Eist
but Woln helps him to maintain safe interval be-
tween himself and the probation mark
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