The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
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mands come principally from anti
labor sources.
First step in the program is calling
of public hearings on the question
of exemption from the act white col
lar employees earning under $3.50 a
month. AT this writing, these public
hearings had not obeen announced.
OF special interest is a recent state
ment made by Rep. Mary Norton,
chairman of the house labor commit
tee, to the effect that revision of GER
tain regulations under the law might
reduce much of the pressure for broad
Legislative charges and make it posi-
BILE to confine congressional action to
non-controversial amendments"
Evidently the appeasement program
| is for the purpose of satisfying those
who are pressing for statutory exemp-
lions of large groups of workers in
order to prevent fight in congress
for more drastic changes in the act,
or perhaps outright repeal which
would bring together a solid front of
reactionary Democrats and Republi-
cans
Labor Is almost certain to oppose
the appeasement program. The his
tory of appeasement shows that one
retreat merely paves the way for an
other retreat you cannot satiate the
anti-labor crowd with concessions any
more than you can satiate dictators
with concessions-they are never sat
isfied with anything short Of COM
plete capitulation.
Rep. O'Connor, Montana, wonders
why it is impossible for him to get
action on his bill, introduced in the
last regular session of congress, to do
away with tax-exempt securities. The
reason, of course, is that there are
too many in congress looking after
the interests of the fat boys and not
enough looking after the interests of
the common people.
Rural Housing Sentiment Grows
There is no disputing the fact that
local sentiment throughout the coun-
try for rural housing is definitely in
creasing. Here are a few straws in
the wind:
The Georgia Farmers union recent
ly held a statewide conference on the
subject. The meeting, in which the
county commissioners participated de-
cided to ask for a $75,OOO,0OO earmark-
ing out of total $2OO.OO0,0OO which
would be earmarked for the rural field
in the proposed $S00,000000 USHA
loan authorization bill. AS evidence
of its popularity, the Georgia Farmers
union reports steady increase in
since. making rural hous-
ing an issue.
Down in Mississippi the state legis-
lature has memorialized congress to |
pass the loan authorization bill About |
30 counties in that state have created |
county housing authorities, some hay |
ing sent in formal applications to the |
USHA for rural projects. All of which |
might make the four Of Mississippi's |
seven congressman who voted against |
the housing bill at the last regular |
session of congress see the light.
In Arkansas they have set up 10 |
county housing authorities; the Ken
lucky legislature has a bill before it
which would allow a rural program,
while the Pennsylvania state housing
board is calling a housing conference
or the purpose of formulating a pro-
gram.
The California assembly had before
{ a state housing authority bill, pro-
posed by Governor gilbert Olson. This
if enacted into law, would
enable that state to undertake rural
projects where the counties have fall
IN down.
Many of the counties in California
ire controlled by the reactionary, So
,alled Associated Farmers Very sig
lificantly the secretary of that organ
cation recently made speeches con-
aiming vague references in favor of
ural housing. This is said to be due
o developing local sentiment for rural
ousing, largely the result of the re-
ent hearings held there by the La
Gillette senate Civil Liberties COM |
littee. {
Hearings on the poll tax bill intro
uced by Rep. Lee Geyer, California,
hitch had been scheduled before
of the house Judiciary !
for March 4, will instead 5
e held on March G. The hearings
i'll be confined to the question of :
1nstitutionality of the proposed act =
It's the contention of the COP now
lat prosperity actually was "just II
'ound the corner" when the voters h
yept Herbert Hoover from office =
hat pity that the cities jobless v
lie dispossessed farmers, and the o
ankrupt small business men did not 4
allie that their rescue was so close II
hand :,
mmortalized" In Verse
An admirer Of William Dudley Pei p
y, one Robert Carlyle Summerville, o.
kes to verse to place his chiefs 81
me among the worlds "immortals." 5
ngs poet" Summerville:
/. not tall, an ordinary man to W