The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-30
Guffey Attack on Demo Court Plan Foes Not Administration.lnspired Pennsylvanian's Labor Views Reformed .. Rush Holt in Good Boy" Role.

00y Noles
 Washington, August 30, oare- ful research reveals that Senator Joe 0uffeys speech reading leaders of the court plan opposition out of the party was not inspired by the Roosevelt administration. It was Joe'S own Idea,
 That certain persons fairly well up in the administration were not well aware of what Joe was going to do, however, Is bolder State- ment than one cares to make.
 At one time the senator was
 going to include Vlce-P President
 Jack Garner In his attack, and
 called him off on that. The war
 between Garner and Roosevelt Is
 something like the Japanese
 Chinese picnic, or whatever 1t is.
 Things happen. But nobody makes
 any declarations and ambassadors
 stay put.
 The speech was well-written and, as was asserted by Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana, was written by someone other than the senator from Pennsylvania. Careful check among some Of the capitals best ghost writers ex- tracts the story that Joe 0uffey has very good ghost of his own in Pennsylvania. This ghosts name doesn't seem to be available here,
 It's a fact that Guffey, who
 is Pennsylvania's ruling political
 boss, has. about, the toughest
 hide In the Senate. Whether or
 not his speech did have admins.
 tration approval, it's . good bet
 that the administration couldn't
 have persuaded another senator to
 make Q radio speech like tha@
 The terrific whaling he got from
 Senators Wheeler, Burke, O'Ma.
 honey, and Holt, although stretch.
 lns the Senate rules. left him un'
 moved, He had been called Tar
 worse names.
 Although duffey can deliver Q speech, he Is not quick on the up- take and so avoids debate. Alter his floor speech for the court plan he made 10 effort to answer the count attack. This gift for silence under attacks which would nave started any ordinary man swinging with both fists served duffey wei when senators answered ms raaie speech.
 Coat of Many Colors Without repeating sections Of the attack on duftey which re- ferred to his old associations with economic royalists" and his | financial troubles as alien property custodian, one still finds 1t hard to think of this Joseph of PennSyl. vAnia without recalling the Biblical Joseph who had a coat of many colors.
 Four nights after Guffey's speech about "ingrates," he made a labor radio speech defending the 0, I. 0. and attacking anu' union campaigns. He particularly denounced violence against strik. ers. Inc arming and deputizing of
 company .hired men. and attacks
 on the National Labor Relations
 Board -
 Well, about three years ago MT. ouffey was going to the White House to intercede for his steer manufacturing friend, Ernie Wer, whom the first Wagner Lapor Hoard charged with intimidaung employeS against joining unions and violating NRA's Section 7-A' One of Weir's steel companies p now accused before NLRB or nay" ing c "hatehet-gang' which paaH beats up union organizers
 And subsequently Mir. duffey
 was complaining very loudly pc.
 cause some inside information
 about Federal Laboratories n
 Pittsburgh. which does . big Dusi'
 ness in tear gas, machine Iuns,
 an dOther weapons for us against
 strikers, had been unearthed py
 the Senate munitions committee
 and made public.
 Subsequently MT. duffey has formed political alliances Witn Roosevelt and John L. Lewis and some people might think that thn was an honest conversion. But II may be also in point to recall that some politicians, given . night gown, can offer superb limitations of the whirling dervish.
 Holt's Attitude Changes
 Republican tipsters had been telling your correspondent that 1t looked as if Rush Holt, that item of flaming youth, anti-power company sentiment and whole-hon liberalism who came here only to turn anti-adminiStration and antis labor in c squabble over patronage whose merits gre Stiii obscure, was seeking to get back on the Roose- welt reservation. It was pointed out that he had been singuiariy quiet on the debate over WPA, his pet peeve, and that he had voted to confirm Senator Black to the Supreme Court and otherwise had indicated his desire to be good boy.
 Careful perusai Of Hclfs iast' day attack on 0uffey, in response to 0uffey's siurring reference 70 Holt, shows that Rusi, didn't mur- muir c word against tlfe Roosevelt administration. He didn't even take c crack ct John Lewis, which, # not significant certainly is remarkable.
 (Copyrlght, 1887, NEA Service, Incl