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WASHINGTON--House foes of the controverted wage-hour law won three important parliamentary victories today in their fight to amend the statute, shortly after President Roosevelt had urged that it be left unchanged for another year...
Last week "Judge" Smith was ready for the kill. Out of Committee he brought a bill to amend the Wagner Act. Among other changes, the amendments would...
...have at least done something. The U. S. people up to last week's end had shown no inclination to do anything for the world's refugees except read about them. If the U. S. did want to do something, obvious step would be for Congress to amend the quota law. Obvious amendments would temporarily reduce favored Great Britain's unfilled allotment, write off uninterested Yap, Bhutan etc., up the quotas for Germany, Poland, etc., without necessarily increasing the total immigrant quota...
...Washington, the C. I. 0. (which embraces fewer unions in occupations assisted by WPA) rushed to the support of A. F. of L. with a blast warning Congress to amend the new law. The Workers Alliance, whose membership is largely dependent on WPA, jumped for joy on the sidelines, being for once the prospective beneficiaries, though not the authors, of a revolt in WPA. Violence grew. In Minneapolis a policeman was killed in a row between pickets and nonstriking WPAsters. As skilled unionists walked out, WPA projects came to a halt and unskilled workers were idle willy-nilly...
...Administration wants to amend the embargo provision out of the bill-possibly by a cash & carry clause (not to be confused with the last law's cash & carry provision which applied to "nonlethal weapons"-cotton, oil, steel, etc.; this would apply to actual arms). If this should happen Britain and France would be able to count in the event of war on the armament and powder factories of the U. S. as long as they had money with which to buy. They would have enough money for a time. Together, the British and French have about...