The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-15

reported 1aVOfaDly the Dill 10 eH-
tend nuisance taxes and the three
cent postage rate.
The committee however amend
ed the bill to limit the extension
to one year instead of two as
contained in the house measure.
Nuisance taxes are on amuSe-
ments, luxuries, sporting goods,
and the like, and raise $3.50, O0O,-
600 annually.
WASHINGTON, June Is. -
(UP)-George B. Chandler, sec.
rotary of the Ohio Chamber of
Commerce, denounced the Black
Connery wage-hom bill yesterday
as an "incxcustable" invasion Of
states rights of the kind that caus-
ed the Civil war.
South Carolina fired on Fort
Sumter for a far less pretext than
this bill affords" Chandler told
the Joint senate-house labor COM
mittee which is holding public
hearings on the measure to reg
ulate minimum wages and maxi
mum hours Of work.
Chandler was followed by Ber-
nard Wittenaner, non-unlon en-
ploye of the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube company, who said he
was thrown out Of work by the
current steel strike and "took the
last dollar out of the house to get
here"
Wittenaner protested that "on-
~ 500" employees had brought, on
the strike but that $4,000 had
been thrown out Of work. He
was questioned at length by COM
mittce members.
Chandler, speaking "from the
point of view Of an invaded
state" urged that goods produc-
cd abroad under lower standards
than those called for in the bill
be barred from this country. he
added:
"There is a widespread convic-
ton on the part of manufacturers
that something approximatlng a
Soviet system Of espionage, with
subsequent reprisals, is either now
in actual operation in this coun-
trv or is in store for the near fu-
ture.
"Ohio resents being reduced
as is gradually being done-from
the status of sovereign state 10
that of a subject province
Wittenaner told the committee
he "came on my own hook" but
he was questioned by members as
TO whether he had discussed ms
visit with anyone connected with
the steel company. He insisted
not. and while he recalled having
talked with "Mr. Lemon who
was contact man between the
steel firm and a company organ
ization with which Wittcnaner Is
connected, he said they had not
discussed the strike. ,,.
Representative William }; fitz-
gerald, D., Conn, asked whether
he had applied to the National
; Labor Relations board to hold an
election. -
81 didn't think it was my place.
Wittenaner said. W.,
Earlier, Representative Robert
Luce, r., Mass, who operates a
Ginning bureau in which he EN-,
nloys nearly 100 girls, urged
amendments that provide for "the
little fellow like myself" He SAID
he had discovered that all his glrl
employees, properly and IN the
interest of the public good, IN,
tended to get married. and that
25 per cent of them had to be re-
placed each year. ~, n
Representative Lyle Boren' ~,
Okla. offered an amendment ior
the oil industry which would I'M
nose a 36-hour week and a $o-a-
dav minimum wage. From 70 to
an per cent of the industry has
observed these minima since MIA
days, he said. ,o,o
Other cOnSTeSSioho'
ments: =, ,;,,tod
President Roosevelt nominateu
Jouis A. Johnson Of West Vir-
pinia, former commander OF tne
American Legion, to be assistant
secretary of war. -, n,
Representative Martin Dewson'
n Tex. introduced bill in the
house to prevent the treasury
from issuing tax exempt securi,
ties to raise money for It's gold
sterilization program and compel
issuance of gold certificates Tor
the purchase OF gold. s n.
Representative John Steven NC
Groarty, D., Calf, one-time spon-
sor of a Townsend backed pen
sion bill in the house, charged IN
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