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...thing, but the others either remain in committee or have already been reported out unfavorably to the legislature. Senator Joseph A. Melley introduced this measure in support of a petition by the "Massachusetts Citizens Committee for the Repeal of Proportional Representation," headed by Miss Edna Spencer of Cambridge. Anti-PR forces in the House are led by Representative John J. Toomey, also of this city, who has introduced his own PR repeal bill-House...
According to Senator Melley and Representative Toomey, proportional representation is "Un-American" because it "does away with the two party system," and PR "accentuates minorities." They refer to the fact that under PR all citizens vote on all city Council seats, so a simple ward majority cannot elect a candidate, and candidates can run without party label. However, proponents of this method of voting state that it eliminates the evils of the ward system and destroys the power of the "ward boss" over city officials; the councilmen are responsible only to the people And, since the Council in turn appoints...
...Arevalo, up in Guatemala," he growled. Tacho had heard that Arevalo was making jokes: "Let him talk about sending me flowers. I'll send them over to him first. He plans to attack Honduras and Nicaragua. He has just made a pact with Figueres of Costa Rica, Prío Socarrás of Cuba, and the Caribbean Communist tramps to destroy the peace of Central America. He is responsible for Central America's coming...
Three days after the inaugural, Prío would have his first test. Havana bus workers were scheduled to strike for higher wages promised earlier by Grau. The company had cried that it could not afford to pay them. Grau's answer would have been a subsidy from the boom-filled treasury. In his inaugural address to congress, Prío announced that he had persuaded the country's businessmen to cut food prices 10% (thus presumably washing out the need for a wage hike). That might be enough to avert a bus strike, but such economically iffy...
Wages & Prices. Though experts grant Prío two more years of sugar prosperity (almost 80% of the national income comes from sugar), sugar prices are already off 20%. When planters last summer demanded a proportionate cut in wages, Grau ducked the issue, left it on the desk for Prío. Would he enforce a wage cut? That was the biggest question Carlos Prío would have to face...