Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Dies recently looked into the automobile sit-down strikes of 1937 in Michigan. The committee and its witnesses lit into C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America as Communist-ridden lawbreakers, into Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy as a weakling official who condoned Communist sit-down tactics...
Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola of Flint, whose contempt citations against General Motors strikers were ignored at the Governor's order in 1937, testified with much heat. Whereupon Representative Harold G. Mosier of Ohio, who was defeated by C. I. O. pressure in the recent Democratic primary, addressed the judge: ''Let's get this matter straight. Just to show there was no politics in it, Governor Murphy is a Democrat and you are a Democrat.'' "I am not," cried Judge Gadola. "I am a Republican! Until this New Deal coattail parade started, there wasn...
...accused him of recruiting vigilantes and fired him, was asked by Mr. Dies whether Communists inspired the strikes at Flint. "It would not have been so bad," he replied, "if it had not been for the attitude of the La Follette [Civil Liberties] Committee and the treasonable attitude of Governor Murphy...
That was steamy stuff, not to be compared with the mere wiggling of Reds. Governor Murphy is up for re-election in a key State where the Republicans have a chance to win. He also is a maybe-maybe-not prospect for the U. S. Supreme Court. At all events he is a devoted friend and follower of Franklin Roosevelt. But now one of his pet oxen was being gored. Although politicians have long assured businessmen and others that it is perfectly proper for Congressional investigations to permit biased witnesses to air scandalous charges against honest citizens, in this case...
...press conference last week United Pressman Fred Storm, whose questions Mr. Roosevelt often expects and is prepared for, asked whether the testimony about Governor Murphy gave the President concern. Mr. Roosevelt said extemporaneous remarks on the subject might not be printable, proceeded to issue an extraordinary written statement for quotation: "I was very much disturbed . . . because a Congressional committee charged with the responsibility of investigating un-American activities should have permitted itself to be used in a flagrantly unfair and un-American attempt to influence an election. . . . On the threshold of a vitally important gubernatorial election, they permitted a disgruntled...