Evening star., 1938-06-28
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Senate Campaign Investigating
Committee today censured as "un.
fortunate" the speech yesterday In
which Aubrey williams, deputy admin.
istrator Of the Works Progress Ad.
ministration, urged members of the
Workers Alliance to vote Ito keep our
friends in power"
The committee action was taken
after receipt Of q letter from Mr.. VIII
liams in which he said there was
nothing political in what I said, nor
were any political implications in
tended"
The Senate committee issued .
statement saying:
The committee accepts this state
ment (of Mr.. Williams), but in view
Of the instructions given. the COM
mittee by the Senate the committee
feels that. because Of his position tn
the Works Progress Administration,
the speech Of Mr.. Williams was un.
fortunate. and it hopes that all dis
pensers of Federal funds will take
note OF the obligation which has been
imposed on this committee by the
Senate to report to the Senate all
such incidents as may be deemed to
come within the scope Of the investi.
CATION"
Action Not Indicated.
Chairman Sheppard of the Senate
committee said he would ask David
LASER or some other representative
of the Workers Alliance for the steno.
graphic report Of MI. williams speech.
which the alliance circulated last
night.
At the same time, It was learned
that the alliance was preparing the
copy Tor the use Of the Senate com.
mittee, and that it would be sent to
Senator Sheppard this afternoon.
What further steps the Senate COM
mittee will take in the matter Senator
Sheppard would not predict. He said
ne would have to see, and perhaps
hear, what representatives of the Al.
lance had to say.
The letter written by Mr.. Williams
TO Senator Sheppard after the COM
mlttee chairman had inquired about
the newspaper reports of his speech Is
as follows:
Williams Letter.
MY Dear Senator:
In reference to your inquiry con.
cerning the press reports of nv con.
ference yesterday with the representa-.
tiVes OF the various unions, I am un-
able to send you q complete transcript
OF my talk, for it was extemporaneous.
What I said and what am re-
ported as saying are two different
things. was discussing the question
OF wage reductions and wage increases.
1 agreed that the wage scale was low.
and in many instances too low, but
was as high as available funds would
permit and as high as an important
segment Of public opinion would stand
for.
In discussing the efforts Of the
workers to secure higher wage pay
ment, urged upon them q strength
ening OF their organization. I pointed
out to them that in democracy it was
important for them to keep In ONCE
tnose who had their point Of view,
just as their opponents think it is
important to remove from once those
who have their point of view.
There was nothing political IN
what said, nor were any political
implications intended. It does 80 hap
pen. however, that there are q few
people 50 STEPPED in partisan politics
that they read insidious political mo-
tives into every statement Of q public
omcial.
Sincerely yours,
AUBREY WILLIAMS.
Deputy Administrator"
Wage Scales in Kentucky.
The committee in its statement
noted the receipt OF the letter from
Mr.. Williams and added:
In this statement, Mr.. Williams
(SeA w p pa0n AlN