The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-28


 Southern Democrats h a d planned to stage great ovation for Rayburn as the main speaker, bring him to the fore as FDR's next running mate. So when Northern Democrats insisted that Wallace also be invited to speak the usually genial Sam was boil ing mad. Even in the reception room, just outside the ballroom, where Mrs. Roosevelt, Postmaster General Frank Walker and other honored guests assembled, the Speaker of the House was still swearing quietly under his breath.
 Wallace's friends, in turn, had urged that he shouldn't risk of lending the President by coming out for the New Deal, which the President himself had declared dead. Despite this, the Vice President prepared very brief speech to the general effect that the age-old struggle between hu- man rights and property rights was still continuing and would continue until human rights came out on top.
 Without exactly saying so, he conveyed the impression that no man or President had a trade mark on the name of that strug- gle, and that the ''New DeaP had Chad been promoted under Wash ington, Jackson. Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt.
 Wallace also decided to memor- ize his speech - much against the advice of his close friends. It turned out to be fighting speech, only flaw being that the Vice President got few lines twisted near the end.
 However, that was nothing com pared with the way Speaker Sam Rayburn, who read his speech, stumbled. Nobody knew why Rayburn had such a hard time. He did not even use up all his ra- dio period. Afterward, however, the Vice President gave the ex- planation.
 "YOu told me I should not memOrize my speech" he gently chided one adviser. But it was lucky did, for there was no light on the reading stand, and the glare of the spotlight was so bad I couldn't read thing. If I hadn't memorized the speech, would have had the some trouble Sam Rayburn had" GREEN AND LEWIS SHAKE
 One of the longest and bitter est feuds in American labor his- tory came to an end when Will liam Green, president of the AFL and John Lewis, dynamic boss of the United Mine WorEers-who parted company in 1885 - met secretly the other day and decided to bury the hatchet.
 Here is the way close friends of the two labor chiefs reconstruct the meeting:
 Lewis shook hands with Green and said: Bill, neither of us is gaining anything by remaining apart. We are only hurting the labor movement. I know I've said lot of uncOmpIimentary things about you in the past, but I'm ready to be friends again if you are."
 'T guess I'm as guilty as you are when it came to calling names, JOhn," Green replied, with grin. 'T've said some pretty disparaging things about you, but that's all over now" DEMOCRATIC HARMONY
 Here is the inside story of why that threatened revolt by Mid western Democratic leaders at the Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington last week fiZzled.
 National Committeeman James c. Quigley of Nebraska, the num- Der one insurgent, served notice when he arrived in Washington that he was going to touch off some bombShel's against the Ad- ministration's farm program, going to demand the removal of against its patronage, and was Claude Wickard as Secretary of Agriculture.
 However, the rebellion fell through at two-hour secret meeting of the Midwestern group where hard-hitting Governor Bob Kerr of Oklahoma got chief credit for nipping the revolt in the bud. Governor Kerr told Judge Quigley through the whole of life and there would be no periods of peace