The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11

Byrnes not only made these recommendations on his own, but announced the fact in a jess conference.
 Furthermore EJrnes flouted one of the standing rules laid down by the White House in this and other administrations, not to issue policy recommendations affecting other departments without consult ing the departments involved.
 In his recommendations to Con- gress, the popular South Caro- lima jurist abruptly threw all this to the winds. He talked about taxes without even a whisper of consultation with Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau, the man who has to handle taxes.
 He let loose on. labor strikes
 without a word to chairman of
 the War Labor Board, Will
 Davis, the man who has to
 handle strikes. He even made a
 crack indirectly against Davis
 about handling the PetrilloS in
 the same way as the Averys,
 despite the fact that Byrnes
 himself had advised Davis not to
 crack down on PetrillO when the
 musicians union chief got out of
 bounds.
 The result is Morgenthau is irked, Will Davis is irked, and most of all the President is irked. ROOSEVELT'S HANDS TIED
 However, there isn't much the President can do about it. He per- Suaded Byrnes to remain oL the job as war mobilizer after the National Democratic Convention in Chicago when Jimmy's teu;in6s were hurt over vice-presidential turn-doWn. lie also went over Byrnes' head to pick Stettinius as Secretary of State when jim my thought he was going to get the No. Cabinet post.
 So Jimmy, being one of the shrewdest men in Washington,
 knows FDR can't fire him, and it looks as though he was going
 to throw his weight AiUund.
 Almost every observer who watches Washington work feels it is an excellent thing vo have No. man around the White House to handle domestic Iiob- lens provided he is pulling to- gether with the President. The President, concentrating on the war and foreign relations, now as never before needs such An ad- administrator.
 Brynes is able, aStute, influ- entiaI. The trouble is, however,
 Cabinet members are not quite
 sure at the moment whether
 Byrnes, when he makes cer- tain moves. Is really represent ing the President. Also, relations between ByrneS and Harry Hop
 kins are not too good beneath
 the surface; so with F. ID. K. frequently away or tied up with
 the war, Is harder to get CO., Ordinated decisions than at aI- most any time in years.
 NOTE-One thing which hasn't helped the Rooseyelt-Byrnes rela- tions is the suspicion that Jim- my originated the "clear 1t with Sidney" slogan which caused so much damage during the cam paign. When Jimmy aspired to be his vice-presidential running mate, F. D. R. was reported to have told him to get the OK of Sidney Hillman. Any leak from Byrnes about this probably was inadvertent, but his close friend Bernard Baruch has been given credit fol helping put the story into wide circulation.
 UNDER THE DOME
 ! Looks like some of the dicta- torial tactics previously attributed to Democrats were spreading to the other side of the aisle. Re- publican Leader Joe Martin cracked down on two COP con- gressmen, Clare Luce of COnnecti- cut and Christian Herter of Mass achusetts, when they refused to vote for a new Dies Committee. He punished them by refusing. coveted places on the House For eign Affairs Committee .. COP National Chairman Herbert Brow nell believes that the Republi. can Party should steer its own course and not tie up with the Southern Democrats. But Joe Martin doesn't agree Justice Lief Erickson will resign from the Supreme Court of Montana soon to enter the Navy. Erickson will run against Senator Burt