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...last week Unionist Frankensteen sat in a crowded Senate committee room in Washington, listening to testimony before the La Follette subcommittee investigating violations of civil liberties and labor rights. Suddenly he heard something that jerked him up with a funny feeling in his stomach's pit. In the witness chair sat a hard-faced, scar-lipped onetime Pinkerton detective named Daniel G. Ross, sales manager of an organization called Corporations Auxiliary Co. He was talking about Richard Frankensteen's 1935 vacation, and about his friend and his friend's "millionaire uncle." But he did not refer...
Handicapped by these facts, Unionist Martin bolstered his case by charging that G. M.'s employes were not so well off as those of other motor manufacturers. Studebaker, he declared, had lately upped its 87?-per-hour average pay by increases of 5? to 25?. As for labor relations, he asserted, only Ford was worse than...
...next in Nebraska, the next in Iowa, the next in Michigan, the next in Ohio. Greatest third-party vote in recent years was that for the late great Robert Marion La Follette in 1924 when that Wisconsin Senator came within an ace of polling 5,000,000 ballots. Though Unionist Lemke really cannot hope to equal that record, he does, on the basis of straw polls, expect to outstrip every other third-party man in next week's election...
...With Unionist William Lemke barred from California's ballot, Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend decided last week to vote for Alf Landon, summoned his California disciples to do likewise. "I cannot and will not," declared the old pensioneer, "support for the Presidency the man who is our sworn enemy. I advise that we choose the lesser of the two evils. . . ." Subsequently he gave the same advice to Townsendites in eight other States where Lemke will not be on the ballot: Florida, Oklahoma, Nevada, Kansas, New Jersey, North Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland...
Miners' wives clutched their children by the hand, jeered "Scab!" at any neighboring moppets who ventured to class. One zealous unionist smashed a schoolroom window with a brick. Another threatened to horsewhip a teacher. Now thoroughly agitated, the Teachers' Association met at Jasper Courthouse, unanimously agreed to keep clear of the A. F. of L., assured Superintendent Scott that no teachers were on strike. Whereupon Superintendent Scott appealed to Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves to get the students back to school...