The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-03

soon after the President ret
 Drafted directly under the presidents own supervision, the measure. consists of minimum wage and hour regulations plus a ban on child labor,
 Neither labor nor business was consulted in the writing of the bill, Neither were Secretaries Per- kins and Roper; nor the one<time NRA bosses, General Johnson and Donald RichberG. Richberg, who had a hand in the writing of the Supreme Court message, tried to horn into the picture but was shooed oil. .e1s
 The decision to shoot the new labor. legislation before congress acted on the court plan was reached before the president de- parted. The strategy had been debated by the inner council for weeks. At first t was considered better policy to hold off until the court fight was finished. But re- cent developments on Capitol Hill reversed this.
 Reasons for Shift
 Three reasons prompted the shift in strategy:
 (1) Discovery of an undercover scheme in the senate to rush ad- journment of congress as soon as the court bill was voted on. Opposition leaders are. behind, this maneuver, although Jack Garner, who Is standing with the president on the court issue, also has hand in it. Although the vice president doesn't mind taking a wallop at the judiciary, he is reported to be against any new, labor legislation this session = especially since it would interfere with his fishing.
 (2) Speeding up introduction of the labor bill will demonstrate to labor and the progressives that their valuable support is appre- ciated and that they need have no doubts about their regard.
 (3) Putting the heat on waver- ing democrats and dissident liber- als in the court fight. The bill will be so liberal that it would have small chance of getting by the present court. By pushing the labor bill into the court fight, therefore, the administration can claim that 8 vote against the court bill is a vote against the labor bill. With number of the waverers coming up for election next year, an argument like that is apt to carry weight. Bum's Rush |
 White House guards still are wondering whether they will lose their jobs over an incident in- volviiag the arrival of an elderly, plainly dressed woman, who stepped out of a taxi late in the afternoon of the Sunday before the president left on his fishing trip. The guards on duty at the White House door promptly stopped her and asked what she wanted.
 "I have an engagement with
 the President and Mrs. ROOse-, velt," she informed them in a broad Irish brogue. I'm having
 tea with them"
 The guards were skeptical. 'Have you got an invitation with you?" they demanded.
 The lady did not have one, but insisted on going in anyway. The guards were just as adamant in refusing admittance, and a heated altercation resulted. Tn the end the guards, convinced the woman was a crank" forcibly elected her.
 Next morning Secretary Marvin Mcintyre had barely reached his desk when the same elderly, plainly dressed woman burst in on him and with burning indig- nation related her sad experience. Mcintyre did his best to Soothe his irate caller. He apologized pro- fusely, promised that "severc steps" would be taken to punish the offending guards.
 There was good reason for Macs" attentiveness. The lady actually did have tea engage ment with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. And she was Mrs. Nellie Sullivan, deputy collector of internal revenue in Boston and democratic national committee woman from Massachusetts.
 Mail Bag
 Mrs. A. H.. Los Angeles-When President Roosevelt, in a recent radio broadcast, said he did not want to leave his office to his successor as Buchanan had to Lincoln, he was referring to the uncertainty regarding the extent of slavery which was created by the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court.
 In this decision the court de- clared that congress was without power. to abolish slavery in the federal territories, thus opening the vast and undeveloped west to slavery even in the northwest. This, hitherto, had been barred to slavery by act of congress nr<wS ,x@svwS ~-~~~~