Evening star., 1937-11-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

If Joe Kennedy remains in the mill
tant mood in which his friends now
adays find him, respecting the attitude
of certain radical labor groups, next
weeks report of the chairman of the
United States Maritime Commission to
President Roosevelt will sizzle with frank
speaking Efforts of the National Mari
time Union, C. I. o. affiliate, to dictate
terms to the shipping industry stir Ken
nedy's fighting Irish blood. He holds
that the tactics which produced mutiny
on the Algic aim deadly blow at Uncle
Sans program to create q merchant
fleet. Unless established once for all
that ships In which the Government
has a stake are not subject to labor
tyranny, Chairman Kennedy contends
that the Nations ambition to come into
its own as mercantile marine power
can never be realized. He's expected to
lay down this principle in uncommonly
vigorous language in his maiden report
to the President, to whom few. New
Dealers are closer Section / Of the
Maritime Commissions code OF "Rea-
sonable Working Conditions" now ap-
plicable to all subsidized vessels, reads:
Prompt obedience shall be rendered
to the orders of the master and other
superior officers" This means in plain
English that labor leaders must not
monkey with the brass works on Ameri-
can merchantmen.
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Washingtons current political pas
time is speculation about the future OF
four men who won honors in last Tues
days elections-Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia and District Attorney-elec
Thomas E. Dewey Of New York, Cow
elect A. Harry Moore Of New Jersey
and Representative-elect Bruce Barton
of the 17th (silk-stocking) district of
Manhattan Island. For La GuArdia,
Moore and Barton 1910 booms are Al
ready under way, while Dewey looms
as the Republicans 1888 best bet for the
governorship Of New York. La Quardias
feat In tanning the Tammany Tiger
makes him a natural, his friends say,
for an American Labor" presidential
nomination, in case that group ventures
a third party movement. Some authori-
ties think Roosevelt's admiration OF "the
Little Flower" is such that F. D. r.
might even smile upon La GuArdia as
the New Deal heir to the White House
Moore's achievement in winning a
precedent breaking third term in the
Jersey governorship clearly anoints him
as a possibility for the laurels which
came Is years ago to another Demo-
cratic occupant of the Trenton State
House. Moore was Senate opponent
of Roosevelt's Supreme Court scheme
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Popular interest will be visited in
widening degree upon Dewey and Bar
ton. The racket-killing district attor-
ney-elect now mounts the ladder up
which Charles Evans Hughes began
climbing to political eminence in 1905,
as prosecutor Of crooked New York in
surance practices Dewey has long been
under the scrutiny Of certain Repub-
lican national leaders. II his record
as foe Of corruption and crime sends
him to Albany, g. o. p. presidential
nomination, by the laws Of our politics,
should some day be within his grasp.
Bruce Barton, Tennessee-born alumnus
of Calvin Coolidgeis Amherst, and frst
kidnaper of New Deal seat, comes to
Congress already well ballyhooed, as
BELTS q member of the advertising pro-
fession. His. literary works, THE Man
Nobody Knows" and "The Book Nobody
Knows" gave him countrywide repu-
tation 10 years ago, especially through
out the Bible belt. q
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