The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-05


 'Then why don't you take them back?" asked Dewey. Production has increased in yowr plants. You're tOOling up for defense. You have taken back hundreds of others, but re- hired only 8 few of the union men who were laid off"
 Bennet finally agreed to re- instate all JAW members vouched for personally by Dewey, provided "thGy have not been causing trou- ble." Dewey was doubtful about this condition, but said he would put 1t up to the JAW. His fears were well grounded. JAW Presi- dent R. J. Thomas indignantly re- jected the terms.
 SThat reservation gives Ben- nett just the out he needs to ex- clude anybody and everybody he wantS," Thomas declared. We can't accept 8 proposition like that. Bennett agreed to rehire all our members without ques- tion and we insist he live up to that understanding"
 So far the deadlock remains un- broken.
 NOTE = Inner Administration ire over this situation was one of the factors behind the rejec- ton of Ford's low bid on Army trucks because he would not agree to labor provisions in the con- tract.
 CAPITAL CHAFF
 When Deanna Durbin, youthful Hollywood star, called on Secre- tary of Navy Knox, he put her in his own chair behind the big desk and she wrote her autograph for him on the wing of a model airplane H. H. Bennett, Chief of Soil Conservation Service, says that if heh ever forgets about soil erosion, he merely looks out of his window to the Potomac, where the new airport is being built out of eroded soil dug up from the river bed Defense Housing Co-Ordinator Charles F. Palmer asserts that statements he has not initiated any projects for defense workers are incorrect. While none has been completed, he says 115 projects in 75 localities have been started under his direction. A total of 1257 units have been finished, but they were launched by the U. s. Housing Authority. WHEELER AND KENNEDY
 There was a time when Sena- tor Burt Wheeler, then an anti Wall Street crusader, and Joe Kennedy, newly-appointed SEC chairman just fresh from Wall Street, didn't think much of each other. But that's all changed now - thanks to Roosevelt's mili- tant British aid policies, which they both oppose.
 Kennedy called on Wheeler be- fore he made his radio attack on the lend-lease bill, and spent several hours in earnest pow-wow. Last week, the Montanan returned the visit - at the eX-AmbasSa- dor,s swanky home in Palm Beach, Florida.
 At Wheeler's office there was 8 lot of secrecy about the Palm Beach pilgrimage. First it was denied that the senator had left Washington. Then it was asserted that his whereabouts was un- known. At Wheeler's home it was admitted he had gone to Flor ida but his destination was re- fused on the ground that he de- sired a rest and did not want to be disturbed.
 To lsOlatiOnist colleagues, be- fore he departed. Wheeler was very chipper. I'm going to get a bOmbsheII," he exuIted, "that think will blow this bill out of the water"
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