Evening star., 1939-01-19
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| Bailey said, that his course had
largely been dictated by sense
of loyalty to the President and that
he considered himself a member of
the team having a part to play.
mo one can complain of his
loyalty to the President. but one
having distribution of large sums
of public money for the relief of
dependent people ought to have
considered the impropriety Of at
tempting to influence people touch
ing a question of national policy
far removed from the domain of
relief. And the intimation that
the President approved his course
is a subject on which I would not
dwell. The President declared
against political use of the Works
Progress Administration
Dependent on Actions.
Senator Bailey pointed out there
were millions of persons whose sus-
tenance depended on the judgment
of Mr.. Hopkins.
Those who were dependent upon
his actions" the Senator said, must
have felt some compulsion to culti-
vate his favor. One may here in
woke the prohibition upon employers
in the Wagner Labor Relations Act
Mr.. Hopkins stated that his execu-
tive board in the field numbered
fully $4,000 salaried employees. Each
of these could have felt that it was
in some degree his duty or to his
interests to uphold the views as ex-
pressed by Mr.. Hopkins, and it is
only fair to say that Mr.. Hopkins
must have known this and made his
speeches knowing this"
Senator Bailey said Mr.. Hopkins
complained of political activities in
the relief administration in States
and localities, but disavowed direct
personal responsibility"
He can not deny, however" add
ed Senator Bailey, that he set ar
example to all the executive officers
in the relief administration through
out the country" He said Mr.. Hop.
| kins had set an example which must
be condemned by the Congress "ano
he should be commended for himself
having condemned the example thai
he set, at least to very considera-
BILE extent. Whether our condemna-
ton should 60 so far as to bar him
from the high Office to which the
President has appointed him is 9
question upon which I do not pass.
Regarding the political activity
in the w. P. A. turned up by the
Sheppard Committee, Senator
Bailey said ''it seems to me that HI
(Hopkins) should have known more
as to what was being done than hi
admits that he knew and, Ger.
tainly by the exercise of due dill.
gence, he could have known more
and that he might have made much
more emphatic efforts than he ap.
pears to have made to repress poll
cal activity in the Works Progress!
Administration organization and or
the part of those who were not il
the organization"
In this connection Senator Bale,
pointed out that Mr.. Hopkins had ,
corps of 10 or 80 investigators. HI
said Mr.. Hopkins had described "th'
partisan appeal of his assistant
Aubrey Williams, to organize relic
workers in the midst of the cam
paign as an indiscretion"
Branded as Outrage.
'It was more-it was an outrage,
the Senator said. He added tina
Mr.. Williams shou d have beer
thrown out of the org.S nization. MI
Williams, he pointed out, is no longe
in the relief administration, but nov
heads the National Youth Admins
tration. Mr.. Williams should b.
warned, Senator Bailey said, that il
his new capacity the Congress viii
not tolerate any further political &C
tivity on his part.
Taking up the charge made in sew
eral newspapers that Mr.. Hopkin
had said last summer, "We vii
spend and spend, tax and tax, an
elect and elect" Senator Bailey said
Il think the Senate must accep
the denial of Mr.. Hopkins"
Frank Kent of the Baltimore Sur
Arthur Krock of the New Yorl
Times and Joseph Alsop of the Nortl
American Newspaper Alliance mad
statements to the Senate Commerc
Committee, but no one of them coul
testify of his own knowledge tha
Mr.. Hopkins had made the state
ment attributed to him. The in
formers of Mr.. Kent remain undis
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