The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-28

record in very short time. An derson is an Albuquerque insurance man who voted against the insur- ance companies consistently when legislation amied to exempt insur- ance companies from the Sherman Antitrust Law was before Congress He is one of the toughest, most liberal members of Congress, has ar Al standing with his colleagues and was given the two important jobs of Investigating food and also probing campaign expenditures last year. !. . In the latter job he did his best to expose wealthy flag-Wavine groups which tried to get around in- come taxes by making political con- tributions in the guise of education al gifts. Anderson's appointment will be blow to New Mexico's Gov ernor Jack Dempsey, whose place ir Congress he took when Dempsey be- came Under Secretary of the Inter. for. The two have long been arden' political enemies. On the other hane Anderson is close to New Mexico idealistic Senator Carl Hatch. . . Anderson is crack horseman, like to relax on his ranch near Albu querque.
 Though successful businessman Anderson has been a consistent bat. tier for labor. One remarkable speech got absolutely no publicity shortly after Pearl Harbor when he accused big business of a carefully planned conspiracy to crack doWr on labor to divert public attention from huge war profiteering, refusa, by business to convert to war pro- duction and the operations of dol lar-a-year men in the War Produc. tion Board. . Anderson especially blasted Arthur Bunker of Lehman Brothers for operating inside tht WIPE to hold up government mag nesium plant because it would com pete with the Dow Chemical Com pany.
 New Labor Secretary
 New Labor Secretary Lew Schwel- lenbach was one of the so-calleo Young Turks during the early days of the Roosevelt Administration Along with Senator Sherman Min ton of Indiana there was almost nc job too liberal or too politically dan gerous for Schwellenbach to tackle He was especially vigorous in sup porting Roosevelt in his Supreme Court battle at which time he also had the support of Senator Truman The Washington Senator alsC served with Senator Hugo Black (now Justice Black) in his lobbying investigation which eventually sent Howard Hopson of Associated Gas to jail. Schwellenbach's appoint. ment to the Cabinet will bring nc joy to Seattle Collector of Customs Saul Haas, formerly Schwellenbach'; campaign manager, who turned against him. It was partly because Haas vowed to defeat Schwellenbacf for reelection, and because the Democratic party in Washington State would have been split wide open that Lew retired from the Sen- ate to the Federal Bench.
 Schwellenbach's most notable Senate achievement was breaking z filibuster by the late Huey Long. II those days almost no one dared brave the Kingfish's vitriolic tongue He had veteran Senate leaders com. pletely cowed by threatening to en. ter their states to defeat them. Once when Long was. staging one of hi filibusters and other Senate leader had thrown up their hands in des pair, Schwellenbach took command of the fight, forced Huey to stay or his feet for IA hours and final. drove him from the floor. Sch wellenbach was proposed for tn, Labor post by Dave Beck of tn, Teamster's Union. Originally, tn, AFL wanted Dan Tobin to get tn job, but the 10 was opposed. There fore, the AFL, fearing a CIO candi date might be appointed, withdrew Tobins name, and got behind Sch wellenbach.
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