Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-22
News Behind the News
Labor Leaders Son on a Spot :. All
Because of Lodges Action :.

WASHINGTON-One of the various ways
things seem to be going these days is indicated
by the fact that Samuel Gompers has been kick
ed out of the American Federation of Labor
and seems about to become. a member of the
c. l. o.
This Gompers is Samuel, j. .Gompers, a son
of the famous labor leader who head of
the A. F. of L. for many long years. He is chief
clerk in the Department of Labor and charter
member of Lodge No. IL of the American FEEDER
alton of Government Employees, an A. F. of L.
union.
The unions executive council has suspeced
Lodge No. IL ana several other government
employe lodges with membership of about 1000
because these lodges joined in a fight to protect
members against the administrations so-caed
economy drive without permission of the unions
national officers.
And now the suspended lodges have had a
meeting and condemned the A. F. of L. and
voted to urge the c. l. o. to start organizing
federal employees.
But if Gompers is not union man in good
standing he is at least in good company. John
Lewis and his United Mine Workers have been
suspended from the A. F. of L.. and the fedora
tions president William Green is under charges
brought by his own union, the aforesaid United
Mine Workers. =.
The people at the Rural Identification Ad-
ministration used to think they knew all about
agents keep in touch with the farm people to
whom REA brings Juice for the first time
One farmers wife bought vacuum cleaner
Immediately after her house had been wired
This seemed rather funny because there wasn't
a rug on the premises But she explained that
as the apple crop was sold she was
going to buy a rug, and that she would then
use the vacuum cleaner.
The farmer who paying electricity
bill of sis month turned out to have no eec-
trcal appliance in his house other than
frigerator. But he was leaving the refrigerator
door open all day and all night to keep the place
cool and he thought it was worth it.
One especially grateful man wrote the REA to
thank it for saving the lives of four newlyborn
calves In a moment of desperation when they
seemed to be lost he carried them from the
barn to the house and revived them with the
bathroom heater he had installed few days pre-
viously.
On the other hand REA gets quite few
compliments, indicating that smart statesmen
are selling refrigerators. vacuum cleaners and
other electrical appliances in areas where there
is no immediate hope or thought of providing
electricity.
Occasionally someone asks what has become
of Mrs. Dolly Gam, who officially became sec
ond lady of the land during the Hoover admin
istration by virtue of her position as sister of
and hostess for former Vice President Charles
Curtis. The answer is that she is living quietly
here in Washington
Sometimes however, Mrs Gam does not live
as quietly as at other times.
About O'Clock on recent morning she was
awakened by a loud crash the front porch.
Fearing that something had happened to her
nephew Harry Curtis who had been out on
late social engagement, she leaped from bed
called the maid dashed downstairs and found
figure enmeshed in tangie of rugs and potted
palms