Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-06-17
Third Term Up Again

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 r. appar.
emily in control and purpose tc
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 a 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-
ton of any of the men who they feel
sure would win Roosevelt's approx
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 a
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-
welt would regard as a backward
step. But they just do not yearn
to 60 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 Mr.. 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
eminent has 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 d~ifferential, 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, To-
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 ven a little pork.
The movement of the textile in
dustry to the South is a good illus
tration.
But naturally the employers of
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 un-
able to buy luxuries, dissent violent
ly.
1t so happens that Chairman Will
liam P. Connery, of the house labor
committee, comes from Massachu-
sets, which has been hard hit for
many years by this idea of a wage
~differential in favor of the South.
Naturally he is vigorously against
making any exceptions which would
discriminate against New England
in the new wages and hours bill he
has introduced at the Presidents
request.
But just as naturally southern
senators and representatives are
not anxious to see anything done by
the federal government that would
have the effect of removing this diff
ferential, which for some years now
has been building up southern in
dustry.
Question of Politics
At the same time the southern
senators and representatives are
politicians, and the workers have
more votes than the employers-or
I'VE the chambers of commerce.
And it might be assumed that the
local storekeepers would be in SYM
pathy with the workers. So it is
just possible there may be more
votes in eliminating the d%ifferential
than in keeping it-even for the
southerners.
That is just speculation, of course,
for there is no indication yet that it
is working in that direction. The
indications are that the southern
legislators regard the differential as