The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-25
SENATE MINORITY
LEADER BACKS THE
HOUSE LABOR BILL

HOUSE LABUK BILL
Continued from page one)
threats of opponents to "amend
the bill to death" and passed it in
substantially the original form.
The major fight conferred on an
amendment by Representative
Harry B. Coffee d., Neb.) to
exempt from overtime provisions
industries which process, produce,
handle and distribute livestock,
poultry, farm and dairy products.
1t was defeated 152 to 122.
The farm bloc won a partial
victory a short time later, how
ever, when the house accepted by
voice vote an amendment by Rep
resentative Mary Norton o., N.
J.) removing the time-and-one-
half pay provision for overtime
wear round for the dairy indus
try, and for any II weeks in a
wear for canneries processing sea-
sonal or perishable farm products.
This embraces dairy products,
cotton ginning, processing OF cot
ton seed, fresh fish, seafoods,
vegetables and fruits, and slaugh-
tering and dressing of poultry
and livestock.
An amendment by Rep. Charles
Kramer 3D., Calif.) exemptlng
child motion picture stars from
the bills provisions was approved
by voice vote. Accepted unanl-
mously was an amendment by
Representative Robert Crosser
ID, Ohio) to bring railroad work
erS, not provided for under the
railway labor act, within scope OF
the wa9e-hour measure. They
were exempt under the senate
approved bill and the original
draft of the house measure.
A series of other amendments
were then rejected including one
to apply the law to federal en-
ployeS, another permitting en-
ployers to include board and lodg-
ings, where customary, In the
minimum wage; a fourth exempt
ing tobacco warehouSemen, still
another exempting tobacco proc
esSorS, one fixing wage floor OF
1888 an hour and 3O-hour, SIX
day weke, and one to base wages
on costs of living.
An amendment which would
exempt weekly or Seml-weekly
newspapers of less than 5000 cir
culauon, also was rejected, lao
to SO.
Also accepted was an amend
ment bv Chairman Schuyler Otis
Bland of the house merchant ma
rine committee, to exempt the
fishing industry from provisions
OF the bill. The vote was 153 to
100.
Earlier, Mr.. Roosevelt's legions
administered a sound druDDlng to
Representative Robert Ramspeck
3D., Ca when he sought to sub
SLituIe ms own measure. 1t would
nave established universal stand
ards governed by a nve-man
board which would Xix wage-nour
scales based on sectional living
costs. The vote was l39 to ~.
Inc Dill accepted was sponsor
ed by Mrs. Norton. 1t vests ad-
mlnisIrative power in the secre-
rotary OF LABOR and enforcement
in the department of justice 1t
provides public hearings Tor in
dustIices coming under the scope
or affected commerce" permits
asgrIeved employers tod appeal to
the federal courts, and bars enid
layOr.
Mr.. Roosevelt put the bill at
the Top OF mis- legislative slate and
told congress biuntly that ne will
not counLenance sine ale ADJOURN
ment until 1t was passed. His
pleas tell on deaf ears until the
recent Florida primary In winch
Sen. Claude Pepper, ardent New
Dealer and wage-hour advocate,
was Overwhelmingly renominated.
Inc house membership, which
killed MS original oil by recount
Ting 1t, quickly joined crusade
to petition the measure from the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS rules COM
mittee which had refused to re-
port it. 1t was brought TO the floor
under a limitation of
debate rule and was opened for
today.
Ramspeck charged the bill is
because it dele
gates congressional authority.
Rep. Eugene Cox, D., Ga, a lead
ing Zoe, termed 1t a "Franken-
stein which inVades states rights
and which will lead to the nations
economic downfall"
Those advocating this BILL"
Cox said, "are holding rendez-
vous with elements which they
must soon disavow or else be con-
sumed In a contiagration of hate.
Take this fatal step and there wild
be no turning back from state
socialism"
Mrs, Norton pointed out that
organized labor had endorsed the
Dill and observed that many
things that were declared uncon-
stltutional yesterday are constitu-
tutional today"