The Western news., 1937-06-17
New Dealer to succeed Mr.. Roose-
Third Term Up Again

to many observers TO be q violent
assumption-that the President will
not seek a third term. Strangely
enough their very course of action,
if sufficiently successful, may force
the President to take another nom-
ination. 1t may turn out, if what he
will regard as the reactionaries IN
the Democratic party are appar-
emily in control and purpose to
name some man he will not believe
will carry out his policies, that Mr..
Roosevelt will conceive it his pa
triotic duty to run for third term.
This possibility, however, does not
seem to enter at all into the logic
of the insurging Democrats. They
are frankly hostile to the nomina-
tion of any of the men who they feel
sure would win Roosevelt's approv-
al. 1t is not so much Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace or any
other of the half dozen New Dealers
who have frequently been mentioned
for the White House in the recent
past.
Being politicians themselves, the
senators and Representatives who
hope to regain control of their party
at the next convention and put
man more satisfactory to them in
the White House, realize that any,
thing may happen in the three long
years to come to trip any particular
| candidate. So it is not individuals
| they are planning to beat-it is re-
ally, in essence, the New Deal it
self.
1t is not so much that they want
to make any move that Mr.. Roose-
velt would regard as backward
step. But they just do not yearn
to go any further forward They
think they have gone plenty far al
ready in revamping the country's
economic structure. They want a
breathing SPELL
The same logic spells plenty OF
| trouble for MIR. Roosevelt next ses-
sion unless there should be some
! convincing demonstration that the
country is behind the President, not
the insurgents.
Labor Bill Hits Snag
The whole trouble about the max
imum hours and minimum wages
bill, SO far as getting it through con-
gress is concerned, lies in that diff
ferential between wages in the
North and wages in the South.
In one way or another the gov
ernment han always avoided max
ing any move which would inter-
fere with the generally accepted
idea that the wage scale in the
South should not be SO high as it
is in the North.
| The South has drawn many indus
tries from the North as a result
of this differential, plus certain 9TH
er advantages, such as smaller cost
for heating plants due to warmer
climate, etc. 1t has been justified
by the slightly lower cost of living
in the South for the workers. For
instance, many southern mills, 10
Gated in small communities, are
worked by people who live on tiny
farms, which, through the labor OF
their wives and children-their own
when unemployed-provide them
with vegetables, chickens and some
times even little pork.
The movement of the textile in
dustry to the South is a good illus
tration.
But naturally the employers oi
the North, and the labor union lead
ers, and those who agree with Pres
ident Roosevelt and John l.. Lewis
about building up buying power
| among the classes of labor now I'm
able to buy luxuries, dissent violent
ly-
! 1t so happens that Chairman vii
liam P. Connery, of the house labol
committee, comes from Massachu
setts, which has been hard hit fol
many years by this idea of wag,
! differential in favor of the South
Naturally he is vigorously agains
making any exceptions which woult
, discriminate against New Englans
! in the new wages and hours bill HI
, has introduced at the President
request.
But just as naturally southern
senators and representatives ar
not anxious to see anything done b.
the federal government that woul
have the effect Of removing this dii
ferential, which for some years nov
has been building up southern ir
: dustry.
: Question of Politics
At the same time the souther
2 senators and representatives ar
politicians, and the workers hav
/. more votes than the employers
t even the chambers of commerce
And it might be assumed that tn
: local storekeepers would be in syn
4 pathy with the workers. So it
Just possible there may be NOR
4 votes in eliminating the differentii
S than in keeping it-even for tn
: southerners.
s That is just speculation, of cours'
t for there is no indication yet that
e is working in that direction. tn
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