Evening star., 1938-08-27
Tydings Cheered After Hecklers Halt Talk;
Lewis 1nuades' Reputed Enemy Territor,


Yet Secretary Roper says that Tydings
repeatedly came to his desk asking
that a scrap iron company be sold
Government-owned vessels at sl5l
ton. although the price was $l375
a ton. When doing this was the
Senator working for the people Of
Maryland and the United States who
would have saved that money, or was
he working for the scrap iron COM
pany and its tremendous profits?
He says in self-justification that
the breaking up Of the ships gave
employment to Maryland labor, yet his
own statement. which he inserted in
the Congressional Record at the time,
shows that the ships were to be broken
up. not in Maryland, but at Chester,
Pa, because it was cheaper"
Points to Druggist Affiliation.
Despite Senator Tydings' denial that
his law firm benefited in any way
through the price fixing" legislation
he sponsored, Mr.. Lewis said a grand
jury investigation in Connecticut dis
closed the National Association of Re-
tail Druggists paid $4,000 to influence
legislators in the passage of the bill
and pointed out the Tydings law firm
Is counsel for the N. A. r. D.
This is all matter of record in the
grand jury proceedings" he said, land
the record shows that the Tydings law
firm and his father-in-laws firm were
closely associated with the price fixing
scheme even before the matter came
to Congress.
The record also shows that S25, ,0OO
was paid by the Pepsodent Co alone
to secure the passage OF the Tydings
bill. I have photostat copy of the
check. Now the Tydings law firm has
stated in the press that they did not
profit through the passage of the Ty-
dings bill. But I have a statement
by Drug Topics of September, 1880
that members of the drug group have
not taken a single step except upon
the advice Of counsel and that do not
expect to do so in the future.
Despite this, the Tydings law firm
publicly denies that it received any
profits from this legislation. Lawyer.
commonly do not work for nothing. u
Charges "Clever Manipulation"
And to that statement, Representa-
tive Lewis added:
Our senior Senator, Mr.. Tydings
elected to represent the people OF
Maryland, not a drug lobby, cleverly
manipulated through the Senate bill
which the President and the Federal
Trade Commission opposed and which
even his own law partner admitted
was highly dubious character of leg.
islation. He admits that the bill might
be repealed. and he makes this admis.
sion Just three months after the bill
was passed.
rs this what one would call states.
manship? Was this what Mr.. Tydings
calls the Maryland view? Was he
when he rushed this bill through Con.
gress by what Baltimore newspape,
described editorially as Legislative
sharp practice working for the people
OF Maryland. for the farmer and the
housewife who must buy under thi.
price-fixing bill? Or was he working
for his own law firm and those specia
interests?"
Charles W. Mitzel. State representa-
tive of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen. declared today that Sena.
tor Tydings' labor record has beer
very unsatisfactory" and issued 6
statement "reaffirming our indorse.
ment" of Representative Lewis.
Mr.. Mitzel said various kinds O.
publicity had been released in Bal.
timore and the counties ito impres!
the public" that the brotherhood
was supporting Tydings. This wa
released, he said, without authority
Other Maryland political candidate!
are to appear at the mutuel tourna
ment and the tournament ball to-
night.
Mayor Howard w. Jackson of Bal
timore, Democratic gubernatorial nom
nation candidate, is to address tn,
knights" this afternoon, while Gov
Nice, who aspires to reelection b,
the Republican party, is to delive
the coronation address at the ball.
State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer
another Democratic guberna torial ss
plrant; Millard Tawes and William
G. Walsh. who are running on tn
Jackson-for- Governor ticket as can
dfdates for controller and attorne
general. respectively, also are expecte,
to appear.
Mrs. Raymond Clapper of the Mont
gomery County Lewis for Senate
Club announced today the appoint
ment of B. Stone Leizear, forme
executive director of the Nationa
Bituminous Coal Commission, q
county manager Of the Lewis cam
paign. He is = lifelong resident @
Montgomery and has been active +
Democratic politics for 20 years.