The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-16

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 Supporters of the Wagner-El- 1enbogen low-cost housing bill are accusing REC Chairman Jesse Jones of secretly sabotaging the measure in the House. They as- sert he persuaded Chairman f. Alan Goldsborough, of the Bank ing Committee, not to hold hear~ irgs on the bill The Na- tional Youth Administration is paying out SIS 6 month to 121,s 900 college undergraduates, $3O Q month to 5,12l graduate students and @ a month to 245,0OO high- school students {. .. Tn 1882 Dan TCbin, head of the Teanstefs' Union, chairmanned the RO0se- welt Labor Campaign Committee, and Big Jim Farley would like him to repeat this year. But the laa borite is SO irked by the Nonpartt- san Labor League, recently or. ganized by Major George Berry and John L.. Lewis, that he is tell- ing friends he will withhold de- cision until he sees the platform the two parties adopt.
 New Townsend Plan
 Townsend insiders have dropped hints in friendly quarters on Capi- toI Hill that far-reaching changes in their old-age pension scheme are under consideration. As out- lined to one Congressional leader, the new plan would reduce the monthly pension from 9200 to $60 or 470, but also lower the mini- mum age from 66 years down to 50 or 65. Senator Hugo Blacks latest bill, which makes 1t @ punishable offense for a govern ment employe to seek the aid of Q member of Congress in obtaining promotoin, has recevied no sup port from either the Administra- ton or the organized federal em- ployes' groups.
 More Peek-HOle Men
 The Antitrust Division of the Justice Department is seeking 8 $l0O,000 grant organizing a staff of economists, who would delve into the inner workings of cor- poratoins under fire in antitrust actions. Assistant Attorney Gen. eral John Dickinson, in charge of the Division, denies they would would be Q new type of G-men, asserts that the purpose of the de. sired agency Is strictly research and not law enforcement E. {. President Roosevelt has privately appealed to Senator Burt Wheeler and Representative Sam Rayburn, chAirmen of the Geante and House Interstate Commerce Committees, to push a measure extending the office of Rail CoordinAtor Joseph B. Eastman for another year. Such extension is opposed by the railroads, by members of the In. terstAte Commerce Commission and by some of the railroad unions.
 PatrOneSSeS
 The names of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Jouett ShouSe appeared on the list of the cone vention committee of the Na. tional Women's Trade Union League, which met in Washing. ton last week. Mrs. Roosevelt took an active part in the con- vention; Mrs. Shouse, wife of the head of the anti-New Deal Liberty League, did not attend the meet- ingS Francis J. German, vice president of the United Texx- tile Workers and leader in the movement to organize an Arneri- can labor party, was born In Tree land. Should the proposed party ever get anywhere he could not be its candidate for President or of Vice President .. So far the A. r. of L. has failed to put through . single piece of legisia- ton ct this session of Congress. Run.Off Election
 Representative George Huddle- ston, Alabama's bitterly anti-New Deal democrat who failed of re- nomination in the recent primary, is making strenuous efforts to get the endorsement of railroad labor to help him in the run-off elec- ton that takes place early next month In one of the Com-. merce Department bureaus is Q veteran woman clerk who insists on working with an uHnbrella sus- pended over her head Rail Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman, proponent of highspeed stream lined trains, keeps track of the time by means of an old.fashioned hour-glass on his desk .... Theo- dore Joslin, one of ex-Presidert Hoover's White House secretaries, has been made head of the two duPont-owned newspapers in Wil- mington, Del.
 Speed Savings
 Speed tests conducted by the Post Office Department on ships having ocean-mail contracts have so far resulted in savings of $l,- 304, 4,602. since a ship that fails to meet its contract speed reQuire- ments is placed in Q lower-pay classification One of the Mel- lon-owned aluminium subsidiaries has protested to the State Depart - - -
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