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direct answer to Guffey or reference
to what Guffey said.

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direct answer to Guffey or reference
TO what Guffey said
When the history of this Congress
Is written he said, the thoughtful
citizen will reach the sure conclusion
that the heavy hand Of responsibility
for the failure to accomplish more
IN behalf of the farmer and he in
dustrial worker must rest solely upon
those responsible for the lll-aGvised
and long continued effort TO strike
down the independence of our courts
Happily, that attack was fr'ls-
trated. Make it your task to see
that such threat is never again
brought to the 'front.'
In his discussion of labor legisla-
ton, Burke voiced sharp criticism OF
John L. Lewis and the National Labor
Relations Board. He said Lewis has
retarded the steady advance of the
great cause of organized labor"
Guffey's speech was in sharp con-
trast with recent statements by Dem
ocratic Chairman James A. Farley
that there would be no reprisals for
opposition to the court plan.
Coupled with a statement from
Lewis questioning the ability of
Democratic leaders to carry out their
program 1t aroused renewed specula-
tion of a possible new political align
ment by 1910.
Lewis, leader Of the Committee for
Industrial Organization and OF the
United Mine Workers, who contributed
S500000 to the 1886 Roosevelt cam
paign, spoke as a member of labor's
Nom Partisan League.
He asserted the Democratic pro-
gram had been sabotaged by "a small
group of its more conservative mem
bers.' The leaders, he added. faced a
challenge OF restoring party discipline
TO meet the Nations problems or mov-
Ing out to permit another vehicle to
carry out the peoples wishes.
Without mentioning President Roose-
welt specifically, he declared that the
Democratic leadership has been
Shown to be unable to carry out the
pledges made in the name of their
party during the 1886 campaign"
The leadership, he insisted, must
restore party discipline" and permit
Government to function" or confess
that their party is not the vehicle by
which the people of the country may
progress to solution of their press
ing social problems"
Dissatisfied Over Strike.
Lewis strongly-worded statement
recalled that the c. 1. O. chieftain and
his lieutenants have also been dis
satisfied for weeks with President
Roosevelt's course during recent
strikes. They contended especially
that Mr. Roosevelt should have stepped
into the recent steel strike.
Lewis views were reflected in
statement by Sidney Hillman, high
c. I. o. official, treasurer of Labors
Non-Partisan League and president
OF the Amalgamated Clothing Work.
ers
Unless this bill is brought to a
vote at this session. Hillman said,
Responsibility must rest directly upon
the individuals who have defied their
party, repudiated the pledges to which
they were bound, and condemned
workers and employers alike to a
human conditions"
Hillman said the action by the
Rules Committee lis by no means a
sectional one. Extreme North
ern conservatives, most of them in
the Republican ranks, are combined
with extreme conservatives of the
South"
Aroused by House Group.
He was aroused by the House Rules
Committees refusal to allow the wage
hour bill to reach the House floor. The
committees action also drew denun-
citation from William Green, president
Of the American Federation of Labor,
rival Of the c. l. o.
The labor leaders statements drew
added attention to a forecast from
Senator Lundeen, Farmer-Lsbor, of
Minnesota that "a national labor
party is inevitable in 1870"
He said plans for the move would
take more concrete form at confer
ence here within 10 days after the
adjournment of Congress
Guffey. in his speech last night
intimated the battle for the court bill
was not over, despite the administra-
tion's defeat in the session now
closing.
This Congress" he said, has
failed to grasp the greatest oppor-
tunity for the establishment of true
democracy in this Nation that has
ever been afforded to any Congress"
From bristling denunciation of
colleagues, Guffey turned to Chief
Justice Hughes Asserting the chief
justice in an address before Amherst
College alumni had made "sneering
reference" to temporary majority -
the Senator exclaimed:
He must mean the 100000
Americans who want the New Deal
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt made
permanent. If he does. then Justice
Hughes will find these 27,0o0,0O0 con-
stitute no temporary majority, but q