1941 CONGRESSIONAL -RECORD-HOUSE 10073 control of marihuana; without amendment of the Navy; to the Committee on Naval to be made openly or through subterfuge and (Rept. No. -1552). Referred to the Committee Affairs. indirection; to the Committee on the of the Whole House on the state of the Union. By Mr. COOLEY: Judiciary. Mr. TOLAN: Select Committee to Inves H. R. 6282. A bill relating to the penalty 2196. Also, resolutions of Italian-American tigate National Defense Migration. House for the marketing of tobacco in excess of Club of Beloit, Wis., pledging themselves in Resolution 113. Resolution to inquire into · the fa,rm-marketing quota; to the Commit a body to support the United States Govern the interstate migration of citizens, empha tee on Agriculture. ment, and State and city governments, the de sizing the present and potential consequences By Mr. ANDERSON of New Mexico: fense council, and all civic organizations that of the migration caused by the national H. Res. 395. Resolution to investigate what stand for the defense of the United States and defense program; without ame-nd:r;nent (Rept. methods will best instire the continued pro . its final victory in the present World War; No. 1553). Referred to the Committee of the duction of essential minerals after the war to the Committee on Military Affairs. Whole House on the state of the Union. shall have ended; to the Committee on Rules. 2197. Also, resolution of the Kenosha Chap Mr. MAY: Committee of conference on the ter, No. 20, Disabled American Veterans of disagreeing votes of the two Houses. H. R. the World War, Kenosha, Wis., placing their 6215. A b1ll to amend the Selective Training PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS services at the call of the United States Gov and Service Act of 1940, to aid in insuring the Under clause 1 of rule XXII; private ernment during the present World War; to defeat of all the enemies of the United States the Committee on Military Affairs. through the extension of liabllity for military bills and resolutions were introduced and 2198. By Mr. FLAHERTY: Petition of the service and the registration of the manpower severally referred a.s follows: Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, cambridge, of the Nation, and for other purposes (Rept.. By Mr. KEOGH: Mass., regarding views on price-control legis No. 1554). Ordered to be printed. H. R. 6283. A bill for the rellef of Franklin lation; to the Committee on Banking and Mr. MAY: Committee nf conference on tlie E. Ludwig, Mary Taylor, and Frank A. Tay Currency. disagreeing votes of the two Houses. S. 793. lor; to the Committee on Claims. 2199. Also, petition of the Cambridge An act to provide for a national cemetery in By Mr. KLEIN: Chamber of Commerce, Cambridge, Mass., op-: the vicinity of Portland, Oreg. (Rept. No. H. R. 6284. A bill for the relief of Abraham posing the construction of the St. Lawrence 1555) . Ordered to be printed. Gaber; to the Committee on Claims. waterway and power project; to the Commit Mr. RANDOLPH: ·committef' of conference By Mr. McGEHEE: . tee on Rivers and Harbors. on the disagreeing -votes of the two Houses. H. R. 6285. A bill for the relief of Clarance H. R. 5558. A bill increasing motor-vehicle A. Houser and his wife, Mrs. Jewel Houser; fuel taxes in the District of Columbia for the to the Committee on Claims. period January 1, 1942, to June 30, 1949 By Mr. VOORHIS of California: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (Rept. No 1556). Orderec to be printed. H. R. 6286. A bill for the relief of Lee Watts; to the Committee on Claims. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1941
PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS The House met at 12 o'clock noon. PETITIONS, ETC. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions Montgomery, D. D., offered the following bills and resolutions were introduced and prayer: severally referred as follows: and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk and referred as follows: 0 God, our everlasting Father, we By Mr. O'NEAL: H. R. 6273. A bill to amend the provisions 2192. By Mr. CULKIN: Resolution of citi pray that Thou wilt accept the thanks of the Internal Revenue Code by setting new zens' public expenditure survey of New York and praise of our grateful hearts. Do · maximum limits on allowances for losses of State, urging that Congress effect all possible Thou sanctify our joys and add to them distilled spirits by leakage or evaporation savings in Federal nonessential, nondefense sincerity, deep earnestness, and conse ·while in internal-revenue bonded warehouses, spending; to the Committer on Appropria ·crated endeavor, making these days a and for other purposes; to the Committee on tions. season of faith and t-rust in Thee, heal Ways and Means. 2193. By Mr. MERRITI': Resolution of the ing the wounded arteries of 'human · By Mr. DIMOND: New York State taxpayers rally on nonde H. R. 6274. A bill to extend the provisions fense governmental spending, urging Con-· breasts everywhere. Grant that the ad of certain laws relating to vocational reba~ gress to effect all possible savings in Federal vent of Mary's Holy Child may soften bilitation of persons disabled in industry to nonessential, nondefense spending in the in the asperities of war and hate, casting the Territory of Alaska; to the Committee on terest of national defense and the general wel beams of luster and' hope through the Education. fare of the public; to the Committee on Ap- shadowy times of an uncertain future. _ By Mr MAAS: propriations. _ We pray that peace, brotherhood, and H. R. 6275. A bill providing for the issuance 2194. Also, resolution of the Queens County of a sailor's medal and a marine's medal, and Council and Postal Garrison, No. 1639, Army confidence and all the fruits of the spirit for other purposes; to the Committee on and Navy Union, Department of New York may blossom in the soil of the Christ Naval Affairs. City, requesting that under the revised edi garden. In Him how beautiful are pa By Mr. WILLIAM T. PHEIFFER: tion of Veterans' Benefits of the Seventy-sixth tience and long-suffering, and how un H. R. 6276. A b111 to provide that no person Congress, third session, House Document 666, speakable is the wonder of His love! shall be barred from enlisting, or serving, in paragraph ( 5) , shall be amended to read as When once the Star of Bethlehem ceases the military or naval forces of the United follows: "Hospital or domiciliary care for vet to shine, what a black socket there will States because of having been previously dis erans who served in the armed forces of the honorably discharged therefrom on the United States ot America regardless of length be in the sky of this torn world! Oh, ·ground of mieconduct in the nature of· a mis of service during peace- or war-time who (a) may He be born in us and formed in us, demeanor and providing further that a con- were not dishonorably discharged from their the hope of glory, our Lord Immanuel. viction for a misdemeanor or a felony under last period of service; (b) swear that they Amen. civil law shall not constitute a bar to such are unable to defray the expenses of hos enlistment and service, under certain circum pitalization or domiciliary care, including The Journal of the proceedings of yes stances; to the Committee on Military Affairs. the expenses of transportation to and from a terday was read and approved. By Mr. RAMSEY: Veterans' Administration facility; and (c) MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE H. R. 6277. A bill relative to granting and are suffering with a disability, disease, or de ·giving instructions in civil .and criminal fect which, being susceptible of cure or de A message from the Senate, by Mr. cases in the district courts of continental cided improvement, indicates need for hos Baldridge, one of its clerks, announced United States; to the Committee on the pital care, or which, being essentially chronic that the Senate had passed bills of the Judiciary. in type and not susceptible of cure or decided following titles, in which the concurrence By Mr. STEAGALL: improvement by hospital mire, Is producing H. R. 6278. A bill to amend title IV of the disablement of such degree and of such proba of the House is requested: National Housing Act, as amended, and for ble persistency as will incapacitate from earn S. 1936. An act to provide protection of other purposes; to the Committee on Banking . ing a living for a prospective period, and persons and property from bombing attacks and currency. thereby indicates need· for domiciliary care"; in the United States, and for other purposes; H. R. 6279. A bill to amend the Federal to the Committee on Military Affairs. S. 2060. An act to amend the act entitled Home Loan !Bank Act, as amended, and for · 2195. By Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin: Reso "An act to require the registration of certain other purposes; to the Committee on Bank lutions of the Governor of the State of Wis persons employed by agencies to disseminate ing and Currency. consin, Julius P. Hell, and the State Advisory propaganda in the United States, and for H. R. 6280. A bill to amend the Home Own Committee on Unemployment Compensation, other purpose_s,'' approved June 8, 1938, as ·ers Loan Act of 1933, as amended; to the representing both employer and labor repre amended; and Committee on Banking and Currency. sentatives, opposing any and all proposals to s. 2082. An act extending the provisions of By Mr. IZAC: transfer authority from the States to the Fed~ Public Law 47, Seventy-seventh Congress, to H. R. 6281. A bill to regulate the promotion eral Government in the field of employment State directors of selective service and mem and retirement of certain officers of the line security, whether such transfer be proposed bers of alien enemy hearing boards. 10074 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 20 The message also announced that the DEFENSE HOUSING Corps, as the case may be, to consider, adjust, determine, and make payments in final set Senate had passed, with amendments in Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Speaker, I ask tlement of bona fide claims on account of which the concurrence of the House is unanimous consent to take ,from the damages caused by Army, Navy, and Marine requested, a bill of the House of the fol Speaker's table the bill Texas? ments made by such Commissions under the has acted upon every measure the Presi [After a pause.] The Chair hears none, authority of this act shall be final and conclu dent has asked in connection with na and appoints the following conferees: sive for all purposes, notwithstanding any tional defense. If the President has any Messrs. LANHAM, BELL, and HOLMES. other provision of law to the contrary. other communication to make to the SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES SEc. 2. All payments in settlement of claims under section 1 of this act shall be made out Congress between now and the 3d of OCCASIONED BY ARMY, NAVY, AND of the appropriation "Pay, subsistence, and January, the Chair is not informed of it, MARINE FORCES IN FOREIGN COUN transportation of naval personnel", as to Navy and is of the very definite opinion that TRIES and Marine Corps claims, and out of such he has none. The President has been Mr. RAMSPECK. Mr. Speaker, I ask appropriation for the Military Establishment assured by me that if between now and unanimous consent for the immediate as may be determined by the Secretary of War the 31 of January any emergency matter as to Army claims. consideration of the bill Washington until the ·The SPEAK~. Is there objection to The bill was ordered to be read a third 3d of January, until or unless there is the request of the gentleman from time, was read the third time, and passed, further notice to the contrary. Georgia? and a motion to reconsider was laid on The Chair desires to leave this evening Mr. MICHENER. Reserving the right the table. and have a little holiday with his own to object, Mr. Speaker, 'as I understand, people down in Texas. Before a resolu this bill was reported unanimously by the EXTENSION OF REMARKS tion is o:fiered, I desire to say that I wish House committee? Mr. HOUSTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask each and every one of you a happy holi Mr. RAMSPECK. That is correct. It unanimous consent to extend my own day at home. was introduced originally at the request remarks in the RECORD and include The Chair now recognizes the gentle of the Navy Department, and, at the therein an article appearing in the Kan man from Misscuri to o:tier a resolution. request of the War Department, it was sas City Star in regard to the United Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I o:fier broadened to include them. My under- States Marine Corps. a privileged resolution Kansas? lows: . is to give the armed forces authority to There was no objection . .settle claims up to $1,000 because of oper Mr. MciNTYRE. Mr. Speaker, I ask Resolved, That Hon. WILL:A.M P. COLE, Jr., ations in foreign countries where private unanimous consent to extend my own re a Representative from the State of Maryland, be, and he is hereby, elected Speaker pro property or persons are damaged or marks in the RECORD and include therein tempore during the absence of the Speaker. injured. an article from the Do.uglas Enterprise of Resolved, That thP President and the Senate Mr. MICHENER. This bill is similar Douglas, Wyo., of December 16, 1941. be notified by the Clerk of the election of Hon. to an act that was in existence during the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to WILLIAM P. COLE, Jr., as Speaker pro tempore World War? the request of the gentleman from Wyo during the &bsence of the Speaker. Mr. RAMSPECK. Yes. ming? The resolution was agreed to. Mr. MICHENER. If there was a ne There was no objection. cessity or a reason for the law at that Mr. THOM. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani EC01.iOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE ANTHRA time, there are many more reasons for it mous consent to extend my own remarks GITE COAL PRODUCING REGIONS OF now; for instance, we are in Trinidad, in the RECORD and include therein a clip THE UN~TED STATES we are in Iceland, and we are in Egypt ping from the National Ohio Independent. The SPEAKER. Pursuant to the pro now. We shall be in every country where The SPEAKER. Is there objection to visi{)ns of Public Law No. 355, Seventy we have a base; we shall be in a great the request of the gentleman from Ohio? seventh Congress, the Chair appoints as many more countries. There was no objection. members of the Commission to Investi Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reser-va Mr. WOODRUFF of Michigan. Mr. gate Ways and Means for Improving Eco tion of objection. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex nomic Conditions in the Anthracite Coal Mr. RAMSPECK. I think the gentle tend my own remarks in the RECORD and Producing Regions of the United States man correctly expresses the situation. include therein a very able and compre the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. The SPEAKER. ·Is there objection hensive address by Virgil Jordan, presi BoLAND] and the gentleman from Penn to the request of the gentleman from dent of the National Industrial Confer sylvania [Mr. FENTON]. Georgia.? ence Board, before the Mortgage Bank There was no objection. ers Association of America in New York ADJOURNMENT OVER The Clerk read the bill, as follows: City on October 3 of this year. Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask Be it enacted, etc., That during the national The SPEAKER. Is there objection to unanimous consent that when the House emergency declared by the President on May the request of the gentleman from Michi adjourns today it adjourn to meet on 27, 1941, to exist, and for the purpose of pro gan? Tuesday next. moting and maintaining friendly relations There was no objection. by the prompt settlement of meritorious The SPEAKER. Is there objection to claims, the Secretary of War and the Secretary Mr. CANFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I ask the request of the gentleman from. Mis of the Navy are hereby authorized to appoint unanimous consent to extend my remarks souri? a Claims Commission or Commissions, com in the Appendix of the REcORD and to in There was no objection. posed of officers of the Army, Navy, or Marine clude therein an editorial. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10075 The SPEAKER. Is there objection to and I am convinced that the gentleman EXTENSION OF REMARKS the request of the gentleman from New is entirely in error. A bill of attainder Mr. PLOESER. Mr. Speaker, I ask Jersey? is a legislative act in:fiicting punishment unanimous consent to extend my own re There was no objection. without a jury trial. No such attempt marks in the Appendix of the RECORD. Mr. PLUMLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask was made by the amendments which the The SPEAKER. Is there objection to unanimous consent to extend my remarks House adopted. What I want to call to the request of the gentleman from Mis in the RECORD and to include therein cer the attention of the House is that every souri? tain editorials from the Barre Times. effort will be made to take these amend There was no objection. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to ments out of the bill in conference. I Mr. PATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I ask the request of the gentleman from ver have read the bill very carefully, and I unanimous consent to extend my own mont? can say that if these amendments are remarks in the REcORD on two different There was no objection. taken out of the bill, the measure to a subjects. PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE large extent will be ineffective. It will The SPEAKER. Is there· objection to not be enforced against these organiza the request of the gentleman from Ala Mr. PLUMLEY. Mr. Speaker, I ask tions, and, if these amendments are per bama? unanimous consent to address the House mitted to remain in the bill, I can assure There was no objection. for 1 minute. you that they will do more to protect this M-r. RANKIN of Mississippi. Mr. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to country against "fifth column" activities Speaker, I have several requests. I ask the request 6f the gentleman from Ver than any measure we can devise. unanimous consent to extend my re mont? Mr. COCHRAN. -Mr. Speaker, 1 ask marks in the RECORD on the yellow peril There was no objection. unanimous consent to proceed for 1 and to include therein a copy of a letter Mr. PLUMLEY. Mr. Speaker, I have minute. I have written to the parents of some of asked permission to proceed for 1 min The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the boys in my district who lost their ute to read a telegram I received, as the request of the gentleman from Mis lives at Pearl Harbor. follows: souri? Mr. Speaker, I also ask unanimous RUTLAND, VT., December 19, '1941. There was no objection. conE>ent to extend my remarks in the Han. CHARLES A. PLUMLEY, ' Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, we hear REcoRD and to include therein an edi Home Office Buildino. that our armed forces in Hawaii were not torial from the Tupelo Daily News. Washington, D. C.: on the alert. Whether that be true or The SPEAKER. Is there objection to We have started a movement, effective this not, we can be thankful that one indi .date, to refund to our customers 2 percent the requests of the gentleman from Mis o:t their purchases ln United States defense vidual here in Washington has been sissippi? saving stamps to aid our Government in its continually on the alert. There was no objection. In January 1939 the Navy awarded a war effort. Reta11 sales last year were $53,- PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE 000,!>00,000; and 1:t this movement would be contract for bUilding an additional large followed by all retail merchants~ our Govern graving dock in Pearl Harbor, the con Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi. Mr. ment would sell an additional bllUon dollars' tract date of completion being in OCtober Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ad worth of United States defense saving stamps. 1942. It took about 6 years to bUild the dress the House for 1 minute and to re Suggest issue of a 2-cent United States de old graving dock out there. vise and extend my own remarks. fense saving stamp that will enable con Due to the unrelenting driving of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to sumers to save more stamps. Rear Admiral Ben Moreen, Chief of the the request of the gentleman from Mis With your help, Vermont can lead the way sissippi? In this movement. Bureau of Yards and Docks. who was at WILLIAM I. GINSBURG, one time a resident of my congressional There was no objection. President of following Rutland store8: district, who was not satisfied with the [Mr. RANKIN of Mississippi addressed Economy Department Store, Var October 1942 completion date, this new the House. His remarks appear in the sity Clothes Shop, Vogue Shop, dock was turned over completed and Appendix of the REcoRD.] Sports Shop, Outlet Trading Post. ready for use the 17th of last month, EXTENSION OF REMARKS nearly 1 year ahead of time and in time I have communicated the contents of Mr. DIES. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani this t.elegram to Secretacy Morgenthau to meet the urgent need for docking facilities mous consent to extend my remarks of and to Executive Director of Defense at that far outpost in the Pacific. a few days ago on Japanese actiVities in Savings Stamps Sales. Ben Moreell's foresight and push and the United States. There seems to me to be much merit in determination in this instance has The SPEAKER. Is there objection? the proposition. · proven of inestimable value to the Navy and national defense, and he deserves There was no objection. EXTENSION OF REMARKS the Nation's commendation. The SPEAKER. Under previous order Mr. WOODRUFF of Michigan. Mr. Mr. FADDIS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan of the House, the gentleman from Vir Speaker, I understand the address I am imous consent to address the House for ginia [Mr. S:mTBJ is recognized for 10 inserting as a part of my remarks may 1 minute. minutes. exceed the allotted amount to some ex The SPEAKER. Is there objection to THE LABOR SITUATION tent; and if so, i ask unanimous consent the request of the gentleman from Penn Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, that it may be permitted. . sylvania? in view of the fact that this House about The SPEAKER. Is there objection to There ·was no objection. 2 weeks ago passed a bill to do something the request of the gentleman from Mr. FADDIS. Mr. Speaker, if the press about the distressing labor situation in Michigan? reports of the speech of Col. H.· C. Kress, this Nation, in View of the further fact There was no objection. Muhlenberg, before the CUrtiss-Wright that that bill has been sidetracked and PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE Corporation F'Jying Club are true, they smothered in another body, and in view should entitle him to retirement for the of the fact that a conference has been Mr. DIES. Mr. Speaker-, I ask unan- good of the service. That he is not capa called by the president of labor and in imous consent to proceed for 1 minute. ble of analyzing the efficacy of long-range dustry to iron out their difficulties with The SPEAKER. Is there objection to planning is proven by the fact that he is out resorting to legislation, and in view the request of the gentleman from Texas? incapable of analyzing a situation after of the further fact that it is now reported There was no objection. it has occurred. It is quite obvious that it that that conference is deadlocked on Mr. DIES. Mr. Speaker, in the debat~ was :cot a lack of airplanes which made the question of the closed shop, I think yesterday on the Registration Act, the possible the devastating surprise attack it is well that the· House know some of gentleman from Alabama [Mr. HoBBS] of the Japanese on Honolulu December 7. the things that are happening today in stated that certain amendments o:tiered It is also quite obvious that if there had the labor world. by me violated the Constitution. I have been more planes at Hickam Field on You have heard a lot of talk that all of had occasion to make some investigations the morning of December 7 just that the strikes are over and all the labor this morning and to consUlt some au many more would have been destroyed by disputes were going to be dissolved im thorities with reference to the question, being caught helpless on the ground. mediately, and fade away, and you have . 10076 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 20 not seen much about it in the news- shop and other matters; and also copy of the workers' union ordered the drivers on strike papers. The general impression seems final decision of the Secretary imposing the and we are unable to operate. This seems to closed shop upon the company. be a direct instance of union raiding on the to be that all labor difficulties are settl e d • I tealize that that company is not in post- part of the Congress of Industrial Organiza That is not the fact. I asked the Con- tlon to complain about the closed shop, as it · tions, p,nd we are positive that no strike vote ciliation Service of the Labor Depart- could have refused to agree to having the was taken. As a matter of fact, we have not ment yesterday what was the status of closed-shop issue submitted to arbitration by in any way violated the contract under which labor disputes, and I find as of yesterday the Secretary. However, all of the operations we are operating. there are now 613 labor disputes alive of the company were tied up involving tre We assume that this is only one of many and pending before the Conciliation mendous losses, and to date there has been such instances that are occurring in the Service, notwithstanding the war with no effective procedure confirmed which· per- country, and we submit this information to mits an employer to recover his losses by you for such use as you may desire to make Japan. reason of a strike in violation of an existing of it. We will be very glad to furnish you I shall call attention to one or two contract with a labor union. In spite of rep with any additional information you may specific items that are going on now, resentations which have heretofore been require. A copy of our timetable is enclosed, today. One of them will be of particular made and since reiterated, that tl;J.e Govern so that you may be advised of our operation interest to the farming element of the ment would not force upon employees the and the territory affected. - Nation, and Mr. Speaker, I ask unant- joining of a union as a condition Of em- Respectfully yours, ployment, the award of a closed shop by the HUDSON TRANSIT LINES, mous consent that I may revise and ex- Secretary of Labor was contrary to such an- D. CLINTON DOMINICK, tend my remarks and include therein nounced policy. President. certain excerpts, and certain letters. The company teali2les the situation arising The SPEAKER. Is there objection? by reason of the existing strike on Central Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I asked the There was no objection. Greyhound Lines is exceedingly serious and is Department of Justice about a case that The letters follow: directly affecting national defense. The mo is now going on out in the West that deals torbus ~ndustry is moving thousands of serv- with the subject of farm labor in the CENTRAL GREYHOUND LINEs, icemen and selectees, especially at this time, picking and packing and transportation Cleveland, Ohio, December 14, 1941. when men are returning home for Christmas of fruits. Here is the situation in the Hon. HowARD W. SMITH, holidays, many of whom have been stopped Congress of the United States, en route and ordered to return to camp. The Yakima Valley, in the State of Washing House of Rt;presentatives, movement of servicemen from the many ton, which is a famous apple-growing Washington, D. C. camps in the South to their homes in the section. Those farmers out there have DEAR MR. SMITH: Further in acknowledge- Northern and Eastern States involves a trans- gathered their apples and have packed ment of yours of December 11, to which I portation by interline arrangements between and shipped them to the markets of Chi replied by wire yesterday; also mailed you the various carriers whose service is coordi cago, Minneapolis, and sundry other copies of the complain~s upon which tempo- nated. The stoppage of the service of cen markets. 'I'he labor diSpute there is this: rary injunctions were issued against the tral Greyhound Lines has resulted in passen Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric gers moving into joint terminal points in the That these farmers out there who like to Railway and Motor Coach Employees of Amer- territory of Central Greyhound Lines having have their children, and perhaps their lea in the State courts of Massachusetts and their journey by motorbus interrupted at -wives and daughters and neighbors, help New York. I am enclosing herewith copy of the transfer points and the passengers com them pick their apples in the busy sea the order which was issued in the Supreme pelled to seek other means of transportation son, have declined to agree to a closed Court of the State of New York yesterday for the continuance of their journey for ·shop agreement with the migratory fruit upon the complaint before that court. which they held through tickets. pickers' union. The result of that is that Although the pickets in the States of Mas- So far as we have knowledge there is no the teamsters' union, whlch seems to be sachusetts and New York hav!'! been with- disposition on the part of the union to per drawn in accordance with these restrai.ning mit their employees to return to employment a sort of a parent of this migratory fruit orders, the union still refuses to authorize the at the strike centers on Central Greyhound pickers' union, has proceeded to boycott men to return to work, and the operations Lines, although the company has solicited apples from the Yakima Valley, in the of Central Greyhound Lines out of Cleveland, the return of the men to employment. State of Washington. There are carloads and between Cleveland and New York, be- , Sincerely yours, of fruit rotting in Chicago today which tween New York and Boston, between Boston IVAN BOWEN. these little farmers, through the year's and Albany, and between Albany and New effort and hard work, have raised and York are still suspended due to the refusal of HUDSON TRANSIT LINES, the union to permit its employees to return sent to market, because the teamsters' Hackensack, N.J., December 16, 1941. union refuses to permit them to be un to work. Han. HOWARD W. SMITH, Also, the busses of other lines operating loaded in the Chicago-market and vari House of Representatives, ous and · sundry other large markets, into the city of Cleveland are not allowed to Washington, D. C. run into the large motorbus terminal in DEAR Sm: Knowing of your excellent ef where they have been shipped for the that city. The terminal and garage in Cleve forts to stabilize labor conditions in this Christmas trade. · That is the sort of con land are still picketed due to the dismissal of country, and at the suggestion of Grey dition growing out of the closed-shop the plaintiff's complaint seeking an injunc hound, we are submitting to you the follow argument that exists in your Nation not tion by the Cleveland court. There are a ing information as to our own situation. 2 weeks ago but today simpiy because th~ number of other bus lines operating into Our operators were members of the Broth farmers of that section will not agree to Cleveland besides Central Greyhound Lines erhood of Railroad Trainmen, ·which organi which ordinarily use the terminal and the a closed shop .with these migratory fruit zation has a contract with us in full force pickers. operation of all of these lines, not involved and effect until December 31 of this year. in any controversy in and out of the Cleve Last Wednesday we met with a c:ommittee Mr. ROBERTSON of Virginia. Will land terminal are stopped. Within this ter ill connection with the negotiation of a new the gentleman yield? . minal there has recently been fitted out ac contract. On Friday morning, without any Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I yield. commodations for servicemen by the United previous warning, a representative of the Mr. ROBERTSON of Virginia. Does Service Organizations. These accommoda transport workers' union of the Congress of the gentleman know that on yesterday, tions are rendered practically useless by rea Industrial Organizations called on us and at the request of the International Apple son of the stoppage of motorbus service into advised us that this union had a majority the terminal and the surrounding of the Association, representing these Yakima of our employees as members. We advised shippers whose fruit j.s being destroyed, building by pickets. him of the contract in effect, and that we In reference to the closed shop, I recall the would honor that contract until its comple the Department of Justice was requested, statement which you made to me when I was tion. Two of our garage force had been dis through its Mr. Arnold, to take some in your office during the time this same union charged for failure to report for work, and action to protect the damage that wa.s had in effect a strike on Pennsylvania Grey after their discharge had apparently joined being done to the apple shippers, and hound Lines in violation of its existing con the transport workers' union. At the time of that he reported the Government had no tract. This issue, together with the other their discharge, and prior thereto, our garage power under the law under which he issues, had then been referred to the Secre men had no union affiliation. The transport could operate? tary of Labor at Washington as the arbi workers' union insisted that we reinstate Mr. SMITH of Virginia. That is just trator. In the award handed down by the these two men at once, but on account of United States Secretary of Labor the closed their previous record with the company, we what I am talking about. If the Senate shop was imposed upon Pennsylvania Grey took the position that the act of our superin had passed the bill which we passed 2 hound Lines. I enclose herewith copy of the tendent in discharging them was justified, weeks ago, we would have a law that original decision of the Secretary, copy of and we refused to override him and order would stop this foolishness. the exceptions and objections of the com their reinstatement. This took place yes I have received a letter from the De pany to the award as it related to the closed terday afternoon. Last night the transport partment of Justice which sets out the 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10077 matter in detail The Department of shall not have peace in the labor field the unions, no matter how good his in Justice is powerless without legislation. unless we shall have the closed shop in tentions may be, to say that he cannot Now, the representative of these poor defense industries." reemploy that man because he has a little f:ui.t farmers out there in the ·State But I told you about the teamsters' closed shop, that the man has got to of Washington came on here, and he has union and what they are doing in this apply to the union and get a permit. been wearing out his shoe leathers for circumstance. The teamsters' union is When he applies to the union the union 3 or 4 days going from one department to headed by a gentleman named Daniel wm·tell him they cannot take in any new the other, trying to see if there was not Tobin. While these members of the members, that they already have two or some power in this Government to stop teamsters' union are committing these three millions unemployed. There will this outrage and permit these people to outrages upon the farmers of America be no way for him to get in the unions sell their fruit. I atn informed that he today that I have just told you about, or for him to get employment. lt is a went to the 0. P. M. and saw Mr. Sidney the head of that union, Daniel Tobin, monopoly that is simply going to be ter Hillman. Sidney Hillman simply said, selected by the President as one of the rible in this country, and yet we do not "We do not have anything to do with representatives to settle this question, is seem to be doing anything about it. · apples. You will have to go somewhere also sitting around the table with John L. Mr. HARE. Mr. Speaker, will the gen else." He went to the Department of Lewis, saying to the American farmers tleman yield? Agriculture, and they sent hin:t some and the American people, "You shall not Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Briefly, but where else. He went to the Department market your products unless you give us I want to touch on the question of of Justice, and they were candid and the closed shop and submit to our will." transportation. honest enough to say that "Unless we Now, the plain question is, How long Mr. HARE. I just want to make an get some law there is nothing we can do · are the American people going to per observation supplementing the statement about it." mit themselves to be subjected to such of the gentleman from Mississippi. Does Mr. BUCK. Mr. Speaker, will the gen dictatorship? not the gentleman from Virginia believe tleman yield? There are one or two others that I that these three, four, six, or eight million Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I yield. would like to mention. My time has ex men, when they return to civil life after Mr. BUCK. The gentleman will recall pired, but I want to go into the trans this emergency, will have the training to that the Ways and Means Committee in portation question. Transportation is enable them to write a formula that will its amendments to the Social SecuritY probably more serious than the food take care of this conflict we are having Act defined the words "agricultural question, and I have not raised the trans between industry and labor? labor," which the gentleman .from Vir portation question yet. Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Perhaps so: ginia incorporated in his bill last year. Mr. ROBERTSON of Virginia. Mr. Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. Would not that law have settled the Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Speaker, will the gentleman yield? question? the gentleman from Virginia may pro Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Briefly, but Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Exactly. ceed for 5 additional minutes. my time is running. That is just what I am coming to. Two The SPEAKER. Without objection, Mr. CASE of South Dakota. I wanted years ago this House passed an amend it is so ordered. to make a further observation on the ment to the National Labor Relations There was no objection. question raised by the gentleman from Act and that went to another body and Mr. LEA. Mr. Speaker, will the gen Mississippi, and that is that if the situa it underwent the same chloroforming op tleman yield? tion continues that long, when these men eration which the bill we passed 2 weeks Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I yield. come back, they are going to join with ago underwent. If that bill had been Mr. LEA. I just wanted to call atten the farmers of this country in fixing the enacted into law, this condition could tion to the fact in connection with this responsibility for the continuance of this not exist today, because, as the gentle threatened strike affecting the fruit in situation directly where it belongs-at man from California just said, we put in the Northwest, that the strike is so timed the White House. Of course, I do not a definition of "agricultural worker," as to prevent this fruit from reaching see how we can wait that long for a which would stop not only the National the Christmas market and therefore sub solution. Labor Relations Board but would stop jects the farmers to acute need for some Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Perhaps they the Wage and Hour Board from assum relief. will believe that some of the responsibil ing jurisdiction that Congress never gave Mr. SMITH of Virginia. The gentle ity lies with the Congress of the United them, namely, to interfere with farm man is correct. States, which is supposed to make the labor. Now, that is the situation with Mr. COLMER. Mr. Speaker, will the laws of this Nation. regard to fruit. gentleman yield? Mr. CASE of South Dakota. The That condition is going on all over the Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I yield. House has repeatedly tried to do its duty. United States today. The farmers of this Mr. COLMER. I am sure the gentle Mr. SMITH of Virginia. They cer Nation, if that is to be permitted to con man is familiar with the point I am going tainly have. tinue, will suffer a serious loss. I have to raise, but I wanted to emphasize and Mr. CASE of South Dakota. And so numerous letters, telegrams, other com bring out the suggestion that if these has the gentleman from Virginia. munications, and personal calls from up labor agitators succeed in getting the Mr. SMITH of Virginia. I have and down the west coast of this Nation closed shop during this great national tried to. where these migratory fruit pickers have emergency a terrible problem will face Now, Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about formed a union and where the team the millions of young men we are draft the transportation situation a little. The sters' union will not ·permit the products ing into the service, for when they are Greyhound Lines had a strike on their of those farms to go upon the markets released after the war they will find a system about a year ago, the employees of this Nation. closed shop and no job. · insisting upon the closed shop. The em In the· meantime we have going on Mr. SMITH of Virginia. That ques ployer-the Greyhound Lines-agreed to down here a conference of labor and in tion has not been given as much empha everything except the closed shop. Very dustry. That conference, as I said be sis as it should have been given. If the foolishly, the Greyhound Lines, not hav fore, has been deadlocked because the in unions are permitted to carry out their ing the experience we now have on the dustries just say, "We are not going to program of enforcing the closed shop in subject of arbitrating, agreed to arbitrate be a party to fastening the yoke of the all industry-and that has been the ef the question of the closed shop. closed shop on this Nation during its time fort ever since the passage of the Na [Here the gavel fell.] of peril." That is what the whole con tional Labor Relations Act, then the Mr. CASE of South Dakota. Mr. troversy is now in that conference, be five, six, seven, or eight million young Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that cause the labor representatives insist men whom we are taking out of their the gentleman from Virginia may pro upon having the right to insist upon the walks in life and forcing into the Army ceed for 5 additional minutes. closed shop, and the gentleman who did at $21 a month will come back and be The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without that at the Nation's peril 2 weeks ago the great army of the unemployed. No objection, it is so ordered. and obtained his closed shop in the coal matter what their employer may have · There was no objection. industry is sitting at the head of that told them before they left, when they Mr. SMITH of Virginia. The Grey table saying to the American people, "You get back the employer will be forced by hound Lines then did not know what 10078 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE DECEMBER 20 happened to an employer when he agreed they called a strike on the Hudson The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there to arbitrate the question of the closed Transit Lines and tied up that system of objection to the request of the gentle shop: so they agreed to arbitrate it, very transportation. That was purely and man from Alabama [Mr. HoBBS]? foolishly. The Secretary of Labor was simply a case of the C. I. 0. raiding the Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Speaker, re made the arbitrator of the question of contract of the Brotherhood of Railway serving the right to object, as I under the closed shop. You know o{ course the Trainmen. stand the House bill is like the Senate answer. The answer was that the closed Mr. Speaker, that is the kind of fool bill? shop was forced upon the Greyhound ishness that is going on in this Nation Mr. HOBBS. I am informed by the Lines. They entered into a contract in today, not 2 weeks ago when we passed clerk of our committee that they are which, among other things, they agreed much needed legislation not the day after identical. that all questions in dispute should be the war started when everybody thought Mr. MICHENER. The House bill was submitted to arbitration so that there that all labor difficulties were now going unanimously reported by the Judiciary should be no strike on the· Greyhound to fade out of the picture, but today, Committee and is now on the calendar? Lines. Since the war-not 3 weeks ago, after a war has been going on for 2 weeks. Mr. HOBBS. Yes, sir; it is No. 533 on but since the war-while this Greyhound Those kind of things are happening every the Union Calendar of the House. Bus Line has contracts with the Govern minute of the day and, as I told you Mr. MICHENER. I notice this differ ment for the transportation of troops and awhile ago, when I called the Conciliation ence: The title of the Senate bill is "A is, as you know, one of the most impor Service yesterday I found there are now bill to extend the provisions of Public tant transportation lines in the United pending unsettled 613 labor disputes. Law 47, Seventy-seventh Congress, to States, they have had strikes called where Mr. Speaker, this situation is more State directors of selective service and they refused to submit the question in serious than we realize. In the first members of alien enemy hearing boards." dispute to arbitration in violation of their place, it does not make any difference After the amendment was placed in contract. · what this conference down here agrees to, the House bill, which amendment also these fellows like Lewis, Tobin, and the appears in the Senate bill, giving certain Those strikes ·are now tying up lines. big shots in the labor movement cannot authority under the Alien Enemy Act of I am not going· to use all of my time, control these strikes. They have never 1789, the House provided for change of but will insert with my remarks a letter been able to do so. title. The House bill corrects the title from the general counsel and a telegram Let me call attention to another in while the Senate bill does not. Is the which I received on yesterday from him. stance which never got into the news gentleman prepared to say that the I will read the telegram. It is as follows: papers. I got this by telegraph. Only House committee did wrong and that we · Strike on Central Greyhound Lines stm in this past week in Youngstown, Ohio, of should pass the Senate bill without the progress; operations from Cleveland to New that vicinity, the Youngstown Sheet & House correction? York, New York to Boston, New York to Al bany, Boston to Albany, Cleveland to Buft'alo, Tube Co. had what they called an unau Mr. HOBBS. No. I think it would be Cleveland to Detroit, tied up; courts in Mas thorized strike, in which some two or good parliamentary practice if we fol sachusetts and New York issued temporary three hundred key employees of that lowed the lead of the Judiciary Commit Injunctions against picketing; unions failed concern making steel for this Govern tee of the House and amended the title, to authorize men to return to work; injunc ment now in its hour of gravest danger, but I understand the Parliamentarian of tion action in Cleveland dismissed by court. when we need every ounce of steel we can the Senate is of the opinion that this is Am forwarding copies of complaints of New get, just up and walked out and tied up not necessary. York and Massachusetts courts by air mail, this plant employing 1,800 men, which, as special delivery. Approximately 200 busses Mr. MICHENER. The Senate bill is out of operation account strike; union yes I said before, is engaged in making steel just the same without the corrected title terday ordered all our Cleveland telephone for the United States Government. as that provided by the House committee. operators to discontinue service and they to [Here the gavel fell.l Is the gentleman, as. one of the leading day failed to report for work. EXTENSION OF REMARKS members of the Judiciary Committee IVAN BOWEN. Mr. BUCK. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani and at all times a stickler in matters of The courts held that there was no labor mous consent to extend my own remarks that kind, prepared to concede that the dispute there. They had a contract in in the RECORD by inserting a letter from Senate Parliamentarian knows more which they agreed to arbitrate and which the Stockton Evening Record of Satur about this matter than does the gentle they refused to carry out; nevertheless, day, December 13, 1941. man who now has the floor, and his com the men did not go back to work on the The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there mittee? Greyhound Lines and they are tied up. objection to the request of the gentleman Mr. HOBBS. I appreciate the compli I do not know how they heard about from California [Mr. BucK]? ment of the gentleman, but I cheerfully me, but the Hudson Transit Lines sent There was no objection. concede that the able Parliamentarian me a letter on yesterday. The Hudson Mr. BUCK. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani of the Senate knows infinitely niore than Transit Lines has a network of bus op mous consent to extend my own remarks I do. I believe the procedure in our erations throughout the State of New in the RECORD and to include an editorial committee was far preferable, but, as I York. Their operations extend pretty from an American-Italian paper of understand, the rules are not as Pro well all over the State. They have a Stockton, Calif., indicating that the crustean with regard to the titles of Fed contract with the Brotherhood of Railway American-Italians of that county, some eral laws as they are with regard to State Trainmen and that contract does not ex 7,000 of them, are strongly behind the laws. If this were a State hiw, of course, pire until the 1st of January. They hap United States Government. this could not be done. The amendment pen to have two men who did not show The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there of the body of the bill would require also up for work the other day and these men objection to the request of the gentleman the amendment of the title. However, were fired .. Those two men went over and from California [Mr. BucK]? under Federal procedure and practice, I joined the·c. I. 0. So the representative · There was no objection. understand that is not required. of the C. I. 0. came over to the Hudson · Mr. MICHENER. I do not- want to .Transit Lines and told them to put these EXTENSION OF PROVISIONS OF PUBLIC hold up the bill, and I shall yield to the two men back to work or, "We will call LAW 47, SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, distinguished member of the Committee a strike on all of your lines." The com TO STATE DIRECTORS OF SELECTIVE on the Judiciary if he wants to accept pany told them that they had a contract, SERVICE AND MEMBERS OF ALIEN the judgment of the Parliamentarian of a perfectly valid bargaining contract, ENEMY BOARDS the Senate as to the proper form of with the Brotherhood of Railway Train Mr. HOBBS. Mr. Speaker, I ask . draftsmanship as against the judgment men, "And we propose to carry out that unanimous consent to take from the of the gentleman who is now making the .contract. As a matter of fact, we expect Speaker's table the bill S. 2082, extend request, plus the entire House Committee to renew the contract." ing the provisions of Public Law 47, Sev on the Judiciary. If the gentleman has What happened? That very night enty-seventh Congress, to State direc gone into this matter to such an extent without any warning or notice to the tors of selective service and members of that he wants to assume that respor..si company or to the public or to the United alien enemy hearing boards, and ask for bility and establish that precedent, then States Government which is using these its immediate consideration. far be it from -me to interfere with his lines for the transportation of troops, The Clerk read the title of the bill. plan. 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 10079 Mr. HOBBS. Mr. Speaker, I should good legislation for peacetime, but in the House, and through the House and like to invoke the ruling of the _Chair wartime. when we have the draft boards, the press to the country, that I shall fore on that point. I may say, Mr. Speaker, and alien enemy hearing boards, giving go the desire to enter upon any further that this bill was identical in the House their time unstintedly to the Federal discussion of that question. and the Senate versions, but in the House service, free gratis and for nothing, with I do want to make this observation, committee an amendment was made in no salary at all, and having nothing however, and I make it regretfully, that the body of the bill to include other whatever to do in their duties with the the record that has been made and that officers than originally were named in ordinary operations of the departments is being made on the labor question con the House bill, namely, the members of of the Government, a different situation stitutes the blackest page in the whole alien-enemy hearing boards. The House is presented. Your Committee on the history of this Republic. It makes me committee conceived it to be wise to Judiciary and the Judiciary Committee wonder just what is the matter with amend the title to show that the amend of the Senate unanimously approved those in command, just what is the objec ment had been put in the bill, but the these bills, which will broaden the scope tive they have in view when they tolerate Senate, in passing the bill, although it of the bill we passed last year, extending and in some cases encourage the per adopted the House amendment, did not to laWYers who serve the draft boards formances on the part of the gangsters amend the title. free of charge an exemption from the 2- in labor which were detailed by the gen Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Speaker, a point year inhibition. tleman from Virginia in his statement. of order. There is no controversy at all on the Here at this very moment, when this The SPEAKER. The gentleman will merit of this bill. The House committee labor-capital candy pulling is going on state it. favorably and unanimously reported the down here at the White House confer Mr. MICHENER. The gentleman bill. It is on the Calendar of the House. ence, we find labor prosecuting an appal from Alabama has not submitted a par The Senate committee reported the bill ling continental conspiracy against the liamentary inquiry. He has asked the unanimously and the Senate passed it. people of this country. The fruit grow Chair for a legal opinion on what the Therefore, I ask that the Senate bill be ers' case, to which the gentleman from gentleman himself admits is debatable. passed and that the House bill be laid Virginia referred, is one where the farm Under the rules of the House, the Speaker on the table. ers in the affected area are small growers, of the House is not required to render Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Speaker, in in the sense that their farms consist legal opinions, at least without notice. view of the lucid explanation made by usually of 10, 15, or 20 acres. There is Mr. HOBBS. I am not contending the_ distinguished gentleman, and the an average indebtedness running from that the Speaker is required to do so. I urgency of the bill, I withdraw my reser $500 to $700 per acre on these orchards. am asking as a matter of the grace and vation of objection. Some years are good and some are bad. indulgence of the Chair that he do so, The SPEAKER. Is there objection to To them this happens to have been a and advise us if the Senate version be the request of the gentleman from Ala good year. Their crops have been gath adopted, the . limited reference in the bama? ered and packed and are now moving into title would be sufticient to carry the full There was no objection. the market, but because in the processing bill as amended. . The Clerk read the bill, as follows: of those commodities they had to use their families-their wives and their chil The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks that Be it enacted, etc., That Public Law 47, the title of the bill is identification more Seventy-seventh Congress, approved May 6, dren-due to a lack of a sufficiency of . than anything else. Mr .. Justice Brewer 1941 (55 Stat. 150), be amended to read as migratory labor, which takes care of only in the case of Patterson v. Bank Eudora follows: about 40 percent of their labor needs, this (190 U. S. 169) held- "That nothing in sections 109 and 113 of confounded teamsters' union, headed by That the title is no part of the statute and the Criminal Code {U.S. C., title 18. sees. 198 Dave Beck and acting through the A. F. cannot be used to set at naught its obvious and 203) or in section 190 of the Revised of L., has come down upan them and is meaning. Statutes (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 99) shall be prohibiting the marketing of their fruits. deemed to apply to any person because of his This fruit is now at Philadelphia, Detroit, Is there objection to the request of the appointment under authority of the Selec Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, but gentleman from Alabama? tive Training and Service Act of 1940 0r the Selective Service Regulations made in pur it cannot be unloaded because the local Mr. MICHENER. Further reserving teamsters' unions, acting through the the right to object, Mr. Speaker, I notice suance thereof as a member of a local board, a board of appeal, an advisory board for regis A. F. of L., have declared these "hot that the amendment provides: · trants, as a State director, a Government goods," and they are being picketed. Or hereafter issued by the President under appeal agent, or as an individual to conduct Where any of the fruit happens to be "the authority of the Alien Enemy Act of 1798. hearings on appeals of persons clf~iming ex unloaded, these pickets follow the truck emption from combatant training and service to the retailer and picket his store. It Will the gentleman tell us what that because of conscientious objections as pro ad is? It is a long way back, and Con vided in section 5 (g) of the Selective Train all means a terrible loss to the growers, gress might be interested in knowing ing and Service Act of 1940; or because of and for no reason other than his family what powers it is reviving. his appointment as a member of an alien helped pick, wash, and pack the fruit. Mr. HOBBS. That question does not enemy hearing board to assist the Attorney Mr. Speaker, can you think of a more bother the gentleman who is now occu General in the execution of any proclama shameful situation that could exist in this pying the well, since he and the gentle tions heretofore or hereafter issued by the country of supposedly free people?. man from Michigan were both here on President under the authority of the Alien Again, I want to inquire, what is the Enemy. Act of 1798, as amended (U. S. C., purpose-what is the objective-that the floor when that act of 1798 was title 50, sees. 21-24.)" passed, if I recall correctly. However, he some people have in mind when they took at least as much part in that debate The bill was ordered to be read a third fail to use the power that is in their hands as I did, and is probably far better quali time, was read the t~rd time, and passed, to crush any such insurrection, any such fied than I to advise the House now as to and a motion to reconsider was laid on lawlessness, any such outrage against its provisions. I would be presumptions the table. honest people as is being perpetrated by were I one of the junior Members of this A similar House bill Seattle, Wash., says "No." And a matter of defense, and the Department of world. I am ashamed of it, and I can thousands of dollars' worth of fruits meant Labor says that the question is one whose not see how it should be possible that for sale for Christmas are now standing in status remains to be fought out, regardless of the freight yards at terminals because organ any proposals which may be made with re people who are seriously interested in the iZe-d labor is forbidden to touch or handle it perpetuity of this Government, as a free, gard to the stoppage of strikes because of and the message comes from Dave Beck, of the needs incurred by the country being at constitutional government, could have Seattle. He is the boss. war. These producers are told to send their the slightest tolerance for what is go The particular instance has arisen with re representatives to a tribunal of three of ing on. gard to the fruit crops grown in the Yakima whom two are Department of Labor repre . The gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Valley in the St~te of Washington. The crops sentatives to meet at Seattle at 10 o'clock SMITH] said he .had had a communica have be-en good this year, and in order to har Monday and, the case will there and then be tion from the Department of Justice. I vest them the school children and the wives closed. But the issue remains, for the fruit had a communication in response to an of the farmers have not only aided in harvest is left tied up, boycotts re!llain, thousands of ing but also in the packing and preparation dollars will be lost·. · The fruit is standing on inquiry that I made. Now, Mr. Thurman of fruits for market. the tracks. It was meant to be sold for Arnold is not a reactionary, he is not an The union has fought. since August for a Christmas. Instead of being sold, it is ac- economic royalist, but if you will pass closed shop. The chief members of the union , cumulating in the yards. And the growers the Smith bill, as public sentiment de were the migratory workers who, starting in are losing the money which they expected to mands it should be adopted, if you will California, moved northward as the crops are use for Christmas. put some power in the hands of Thur harvested and packed. It ir:. impossible to The representatives of the producers at man Arnold, he will crush this insurrec harvest the crop and pack it with help of this the request. of the committee appointed by tion against America and against the nature. It is inadequate. the Governor of the State_of Washington, The crops are now save-d. The packing have signed a statement that they will agree soldiers now in the camps whom you are house labor has practically lost the tight for · to a truce and agtee to arbitrate all differ training to bleed and die for the country. this season. But the crops must move to ences. But it is not enough for Dave Beck. Let me inquire here, is a country that market, arid this is where Dave Beck comes in, For the teamsters union, so far, has declined will tolerate conditions like these worth· for he is head of the teamsters' union. Since to accept even a certification hearing by the ·giving your young manhood to save? the growers would not recogn!ze a closed shop Labor Board. And the teamsters' union does 1That is a question that the individual for those workers who assisted in packing, not represent more than 20 percent of the must answer for himself. they are not going to be allcwed to sell the employees. concerned. The question has gone Mr. PATRICK. Mr. Speaker, will the fruit they grew. The markets are being closed beyond the point of the producers agreeing to Yakima fruit. · to a truce and to arbitrate an questions, gentleman yield?. A meeting was called at Cleveland for 9 which was requested by a ·::ommission ap Mr. COX. Yes; I yield to the gentle ,o'clock this morning, which would close all pointed by the Governor of the State, for man. · eastern markets in the United States to Beck has made up his mind that he is going Mr. PATRICK. This is a matter we Yakima fruits. The teamsters union has to "rule or ruin." He will neither submit are all trying to get at the bottom of and sent pickets who will warn all labor that the case to a certified hearing before the understand, and I think the gentleman fruits from Yakima are "hot cargo," and Labor Board, nor will he accept a truce. The will concede that the House has been must not be touched. Unless the markets question arises in the minds of these growers between Chicago and the East are available as to who is in control of the United States. very open-minded on this matter, even no producing district in the United States · The growers advise that press releases report those who usually have voted opposite can survive financially. undertakings by labor to cease strikes, yet to the gentleman from Georgia. In Minneapolis, where the strike is now on labor continues to sabotage food as indicated. Mr. COX. The House has behaved for a week, and an injunction has been se The situation is on all fours with the Jap beautifully, but another infiuence has in cured, to restrain labor from interfering with anese Ambassadors discussing peace proposals tervened. the unl_oading of cars of fruit and its sale in Washington and blasting Pearl Harbor. Mr. PATRICK. In the very matter at wholesale, the pickets have been placed to There is no difference in the minds cf the that the gentleman is talking about, follow the fruit from the wholesaler to the growers of Yakima.- would the Smith bill do the thing the retailer and to warn all purchasers that the fruit is "hot cargo" an~ the retailer had bet ENROLLED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLU gentleman has in mind ought to be done ter not buy it for sale in his store. On De TIONS SIGNED in this particular case? I may not have cember 18 the following cities were declared the same slant that the gentleman has, closed, with all fruit from Yakima to be Mr. KIRWAN, from the Committee on even with respect to the extent of the boycotted and any fruit unloaded to be Enrolled Bills, reported that that commit outrage he is referring to. These gen picketed: Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San tee had examined and found truly en tlemen or these racketeers, as he calls Francisco, Oakland, Tucson, Phoenix, Min rolled bills and joint resolutions of the neapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, St. Louis, De- them, are merely making the protest that . trait, Chicago, and all the chain stores owned House of the following titles, which were the law allows .them to manifest by say by Safeway and Kroger throughout the thereupon signed by the Speaker: ing: "We will go and picket in manifest United States. . H. R. 5558. An act increasing motor-vehicle ing our position," protesting to the There is no question of wages. Standard fuel taxes in the District of Columbia for the public." · wages were paid. The issue is confined t,o period January 1, 1942, to June 30, 1951; 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 10081 H. R. 5785. An act to fix the responsibi11ties 2205. By the SPEAKER: Petition of the MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT of disbursing and certifying o:fHcers, and for Federation of Glass, Ceramic, a.nd S111ca Sand APPROVAL. OF BILLS other purposes; Workers, Local No. 4, petitioning considera H. R. 5988. An act to amend the Sugar Act tion of their resolution with reference to Messages in writing fro:n the President of 1937, as amended, and for other purposes: 1410; to the Committee on Ways and Means. of the United States were communicated H. R. 6215. An act to amend the Selective 2206. Also, petition of the International to the Senate by Mr. Miller one of his Training and Service Act of 1940 by providing Union United Automobile Workers of Amer secretaries, who also announced that the for the extension of liability for m111tary ica, Detroit, Mich., petitioning consideration President had approved and signed the service and for the registration of th_e man of their resolution with reference to labor and following acts: power of the Nation, and for other purposes; the national-defense program; to the Com H. R. 6251. An act to amend the Federal mittee on Labor. On December 19, 1941: Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of June 25, 2207. Also, petition of the International S. 334. An act for the relief of James C. 1938, as amended, by providing for the certifi Union, United Automobile Workers of Amer Dyson; cation of batches of drugs composed wholly or ica, Lansing, Mich., petitioning consideration B. 1429. An act for the relief of William partly of insulin, and for other purposes; of their resolution with reference to labor and Corder; and H. J. Res. 41. Joint resolution making the the national defense program; to the Com S.1650. An act for the relief of Joseph V. fourth Thursday in November a legal holiday: mittee on Labor. Broderick. and 2208. Also, petition of the City Council of On ·December 20, 1941: H. J. Res. 259. Joint resolution to authorize Baltimore, Balti.inore, Md., petitioning con S. 1244. An act for the relief of the Ken the commission appointed by the President sideration of their resolution with reference to nelly Furniture Co.; to conduct an investigation in connection the national-defense program; to the Com S.1428. An act for the relief of Walter M. with the attack on Hawaii, to compel the at mittee on Military Affairs. Anderson; tendance of witnesses and the production of 2209. Also, petition of the First Baptist S. 1479. An act for the relief of Mary S. books, papers, and documents. Church of Paola, Kans., petitioning consid Gay; and eration of their resolution with reference to S. 1550. An act for the relief of Carl ADJOURNMENT the manufacture of liquors and malt bever Chalker. Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. Speaker, I move ages to the manufacture of materials for our. SHIPBUILDING RECORD AT !''ORE RIVER, that tlie House do now adjourn. common defense; to the Committee on Mili MASS. tary Affairs. The motion was agreed to; accord 2210. Also, petition of the president and Mr. LODGE. Mr. President, on Sat ingly (at 1 o'clock and 5 minutes p. m.>, fellows of Yale University, New Haven, peti urday night last, in the city of Boston, pursuant to the order heretofore adopted, tioning consideration of their resolution with an event took place which I believe is the House adjourned until Tuesday, De reference to the national-defense program to of national interest and national signifi cember 23, 1941, at 12 o'clock noon. safeguard the State and Nation; to the Com mittee on M111tary Affairs. cance. On that evening a celebration 2211. Also, petition of the Society of St. was had because of the fact that at the EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC. Vincent de Paul, Cleveland, Ohio, petitioning Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Mass., 1186. Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, a consideration of their resolution with refer the world's record for build.l.ng ships was letter from the Acting Secretary of the ence to the national-defense program to safe broken. At that yard a 10,000-ton cargo guard the State and Nation; to the Com carrier was completed in 63 working Navy, transmitting a draft of a proposed · mittee on Military Affairs. bill to amend the act approved April 22, days. ·The time of 90 days had been al 1941 (Public Law 39, 77th Cong.>, so as lotted, and that was considered remark to increase the authorized enlisted able, but, due entirely to the enthusiasm strength of the Navy and Marine Corps, SENATE and the lhdustry of the individual work was taken from the Speaker's table and ers themselves, this ship was completed referred to the Committee on Naval Af MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1941 in 63 days. fairs. That was before the war broke out; The Very Reverend Z~~arney T. Phil and if individual enthusiasm can achieve lips, D. D., Chaplain of the Senate, offered results of that kind before the war be PETITIONS, ETC. the following prayer: gan, I think there is every reason to be Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions Almighty Father, who understandest lieve, now that we are in support of our and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk all Thy children, and through whose men in the Philippines and in the Pacific gift of faith we bring our perplexities to generally, that this kind of industrial and referred as follows: record can still further be surpassed. I 2200. By Mr. ENGEL: Memorial of the the light of Thy wisdom, thereby receiv ing the blessed encouragement of Thy believe that the workers at the Fore River Muskegon ~players Association, of Muske Shipyard have set an example which is a gon, Mich., offering to lend all aid possible to sympathy and a clearer knowledge of the Federal Government in the prosecution Thy will: Open Thou our eyes, that we stimulating one for the country as a of the war and that all facil1ties be placed may behold Thy gracious hand in all Thy whole. So, for that reason, I wanted to at the disposal of the Federal Government works, and evermore give Thee thanks make mention of it here on the floor of tor such purpose; to the Committee on MiU that Thy blessed Son hath exalted lowli the Senate. tary Affairs. ness and given a new radiance to common MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE RECEIVED 2201. By Mr. GRAHAM: Petition of 86 DURING ADJOURNMENT citizens of Lawrence County, Pa., urging the eXistence by casting about it a halo of enactment of Senate bill 860 to prohibit the glory that never can grow dim. Under authority of the order of the sale of alcoholic beverages, including beer, Help us to make it the purpose of our 19th instant, within and about these camps and vice in life to redeem all untoward circum The following message from the House the vicinity of them; to the Committee on stances, to exalt all that is cast down, of Representatives was received on Military Affairs. that we may become supreme by fulfilling De 2202. By Mrs. NORTON: Petition of the the myriad claims of our destiny. And, cember 20, 1941: New Jersey Association for Health and Phys as we approach the Christmas-tide with That Hon. WILLIAM P. COLE, Jr., a Rep ical Education, informing the President of ·resentative from the State of Maryland, the United States, the Congress of the United its insistence upon purity, the rights of was elected Speaker pro tempore of the States, and the Governor of the State of New motherhood, the innate holiness of that House of Representatives during the Jersey that the entire membership of the which is begotten, let a new age dawn organization holds itself in readiness to upon us, that we may cast away the absence of the Speaker. execute any assignment allocated to it for works of darkness and put upon us the That the House had passed the follow the successful prosecution of this war; to the armor of light. We ask it in the name ing bills of the Senate, each without Committee on Military Affairs. of Him who by His birth hath cleansed amendment: 2203. By Mr. SMITH of Wisconsin: Reso our race at its fountainhead, Jesus S. 1994. An act to provide for the prompt lution by Chapter No. 14, Disabled American Christ, Thy Son, our Lord. Amen. settlement of claims for damages occasioned Veterans, Beloit, Wis., unanimously passed by by Army, Navy, and Marine Corps forces in their organization offering their services to THE JOURNAL foreign countries; -and the United States Government during the On request of Mr. BARKLEY, and by S. 2082. An act extending the provisions ot present war; to the Committee on Military unanimous consent, the reading of the Public Law 47, Seventy-seventh Congress, to Affairs. . State directors of selective service and mem 2204. By Mr. STEFAN: Resolution olf the Journal of the proceedings of the calen bers of alien enemy hearing boards. Associated Industries of Nebraska, by w. D. dar day Friday, December 19, 1941, was Lane, president; to the Committee on M111- dispensed with, and the Joutnal was ap- That the House had ·agreed to the re tary Affairs. proved. · port of the committee of conference on
