2432 · CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE IilARCH 9 Delaware, vice Charles Stewart Lynch, term Howard Arnold Craig inheritance and make l{nown Thy provi expired. David Goodwin Barr· dence in guiding the desting of our Re COLLECTORS OF INTERNAL REVENUE Howard Kendall Loughry public. As we walk humbly among men. Lipe Henslee, of Dickson, Tenn., to be col James Millikin Bevans we pray Thee to keep us true and un-· lector of internal revenue for the district of Curtis Emerson LeMay Robert Battey McClure daunted in our labors to maintain those Tennessee, in place of Joe F. Hale. institutions upon which it must forever James P. Finnegan, of St. Louis, Mo., to be Bennett Edward Meyers collector of internal revenue for the first dis George Clark Dunham rest for its perpetuity. trict of Missouri, in place of Robert E. Hanne Roderick Random Allen Blessed Lord, at times we are silent Cecil Ray Moore ~ gan, resigned. and bewildered; take Thou our chilled George Jacob Richards IN THE MARINE CORPS hearts and our determined wills and Robert Wells Harper mold the:rp in responsive devotion anj Col. Walter G. Farrell to be a brigadier ~en Daniel Noce eral in the Marine Corps, for temporary serv Hugh John Casey obedience. Whatever may betide us, ice, from the 25th day of November 1943. whatever fails us, grant 'that it shall not To be brigadier generals The below-named citizens to be second dim the insignia of our responsibility. lieutenants in the Marine Corps from the Whitfield Putnam Shepard When sorrow comes, teach us how to 7th day of August 1943: Everett Ernest Brown use it and impress us tha · the human Frank,C. Caldwell, a citizen of South Caro-· Joseph Jones Twitty Una. Russell Alger Wilson heart is built for trouble that always John T. McFadden, Jr., a citizen of Cali George Clement McDonald comes with the years; when disappoint fornia. Royal Bertrand Lord ment c:ouds the day, forbid th~.t it should William C. Hawkins, a citizen of South Jesse Auton weigh us down Nothing of great worth Carolina. Morris Williams Gilland can be accomplished with half a mind, Platoon Sgt. Ralph M. Budnick, a meri Charles Orval Thrasher with a faint heart nor with a lame en torious noncommissioned offtcer, to be a sec Murray Clarke Woodbury deavor. Almighty God, bless us with that ond lieutenant in the Marine Corps from the Ewart Gladstone Plank Joseph Franklin Battley glorious release-liberty of faith, liberty 11th day of August 1943. of conscience, .and freedom for all-and The below-named · citizens to be second Ch!'trles Yawkey Banfill 1i -utenants in the Marine Corps from the Donald Reuben Goodrich Thou shalt have the praise. We pray 29th day of October 1943: Edward Wharton Anderson in the name of Him who is the "On John C. Landrum, a citizen of Georgia. Ray Henry Clark summation of our love and hope. Amen. John L. Bricker, a citizen of Minnesota. Theodore Morrison Osborne Staff Sgt. Billy E. Horner, a meritorious Albert Daniel Smith The Journa~ of the proceedings of yes noncommissioned officer. to be a second lieu Isaac William Ott terday was read and approved. Frank Otto Bowman tenant in the Marine Corps from the 3d day SWEARI~G IN OF A MEMBER of November 1943. Arthur Thomas David W. Ketler, a citizen of Pennsylvania, Fremont Byron Hodson The SPEAKER laid before the House to be a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps William Horace Hobson the following communication from the from the 15th day of December 1943. Francis Hopkinson Griswold Clerk of the House: Charles Toma, Jr., a citizen of Ohio, to be Charles Pearre Cabell Edward Michael Powers MARCHi!, 1944. a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps from The Honorable The SPEAKER, the 4th day of February·1944. Thomas Edison Roderick Condon Carlton McCornack The House of Representatives. Harry Briggs v:aughan Sm: The certificate of election in due form of law of Hon. JAMES H. ToRRENS as a Repre CONFIRMATIONS Norris Brown Harbold Joseph Pescia Sullivan sentative-elect to the Seventy-eighth Con Executive nominations ·confirmed by Duncan Grant Richart gress from the Twenty-first Congressional the Senate March 9 '- 1944 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE Elections,'' respectively. Those writings build up our armed forces and to con of Europe, some of the erstwhile duped by Rhylick, Browder, and Dennis cut the script needed soldiers. . These men are liberals dropped away from the league. pattern for the C. I. 0. political action now . masquerading as patriots and or Now, Mr. Speaker, not only were these committee. They appeared some weeks ganizing 14 regional offices and commit leaders of the C. I. 0. political action before the formation of the Hillman or~ tees in every town and city in the coun · committee active leaders in the Ameri ganization. An examination of the views try, going from house to house, from door can League for Pea-ce and Democracy of Rhylick, Browder, and Dennis shows to door, spending the hard-earned money and later in the American Peace Mobil how they anticipate in every detail the of the workers of this cquntry who dare ization, but we find them identified with organization and activity of the C. I. 0. not refuse to pay this tribute levied by numerous other Communist organiza political action committee. a group of un-American racketeers with tions in the United States. In the re In his article entitled "Hold the Home out parallel in the history of any free port which I hope our committee will ~ront," Browder wrote as -follows: country. submit to the House we will detail the We must unite the C. I. 0. behind the lead The American League for Peace and records of every promiment leader in the ership of Phil Murray and his clear-cut pro Democracy had the distinction of having political action committee. We will gram for the labor movement, and we must been the first Communist Party's front to show that more than 500 of them are work with every honest leading element who attract to itself a large following, Our now active in the various parts of the goes along with Murray, and the fullest col committee heard voluminous testimony country stirring up hatred against Mem laboration, giving them our confidence, and concerning the American League and its bers of Congress and other public of so forth, without any regard to possible past or present ideological differences. We must activities, and by a unanimous vote found ficials who refused to be subservient to build unity of all anti-Axis elements for the that the organization was a Communist them. We will show that these leaders war now. front. The American League for Peace have been active from the very beginning and Democracy was the predecessor of . in spreading communism in the United And on and on. I have a number of the American Peace Mobilization. Many States. articles that I will not take the time of of the leaders in the C. I. 0. political Early in the present year the National the House to read, all clearly showing action committee were the moving spir Committee of the Communist Party an that it was the Communist leadership in its, leaders, and agitators in the Ameri nounced that it had decided to dissolve the United States which conceived the can League for Peace and Democracy, the party as such and to transform it strategy of building the political action unanimously found by our committee to into an organization with . some such , committee, then seizing control of it and be a Communist-controlled organization. name as the American Communist Polit levying tribute upon every worker in What was the program of the Ameri ical Association. . Earl Browder imme their organization to build a fund for the can League for Peace and Democracy? diately delivered a speech in which he purpose of destroying parliamentary Let me refresh your memories so that as elaborated this decision. This Com government in the .United States and to I bring down to current date the history munist maneuver was a first-class news bring about the election of men who will of these moving spirits in this conspiracy story. The immediate significance of sexve as their stooges in the Congress of to destroy parliamentary government the party's dissolution is that during the the United States. Other Communist you may understand the evolution of the 1944 elections Communists will throw Party publications such as the New whole organization. The program of the their entire weight into the C. I. 0. polit Masses and the Daily Worker bore down American League for Peace and Democ ical action committee. Their political heavily upon the need for an org_aniza racy was as follows, and I quote from leader will be in effect Sidney Hillman in tion like the C. I. 0. political action their own program: stead of Earl Browder. They will at· Committee in the weeks which immedi To work toward the stopping of the manu tempt, indeed they are already attempt ately preceded the formation of Hill facture and transport of munitions in time ing, to do by stealth and subterfuge man's committee. of peace or war, and in time of war the through the C. I. 0. political action Whether or not Philip Murray and transport of all other materials essential to committee what they have failed to do Sidney Hillman knowingly adopted a the conduct of war through mass demonstra wh~n functioning as a political party program of action for the 1944 elections tions, picketing, and strikes. under their own name. Communists which had been set forth by prominent Many of the most prominent C. I. 0. have long been entrenched in the leader Communist Party leaders and individ leaders were affiliated with the American ship of most of the unions which are uals, the record shows beyond the possi League for Peace and Democracy; as we affiliated with the C. I. 0. They now bility of dispute that well-known Com shall point out in citing their records aspire to more complete political control munists immediately assumed important individually. We are concerned chiefly over that organ of organized labor, the roles in the regional, State, and local ac with their support of the American Peace C. I. 0., which numbers several millions tivities of the C. I. 0. political action Mobilization. of voters. committee. Murray and Hillman may The signing of the Soviet-Nazi pact on Mr. Speaker, I do not have the time to allege that it was a mere coincidence August 23, 1939, marked a sharp turn in go into this question in detail, but as I that their organization so completely the line of the Communist Party and all have previously indicated, the report conformed to the one whose pattern had of its subservient front organizations. which I trust our committee will soon been drawn by the Communists. They Stalin's embrace of Hitler was the begin.:. issue contains conclusive proof showing cannot deny the presence of well-known ning of the end of the American League how the Communists have seized control Communists in the ranks of the C. I. 0. for Peace and Democracy. This organ of this Political Action Committee, how political action committee as it has been · ization has been found unanimously by they are now using it and the vast funds functioning from coast to coast during the members of the Special Committee which•they are raising not only for the the past 7 or 8 months. on Un-American Activities to be a front purpose of electing people friendly to One of the most striking facts con organization of the Communist Party. them, but more insidiously to create the cerning the C. I. 0. political action com Its propaganda has been especially widespread impression that in the. Con mittee is the large proportion of its lead adapted, however, to the period of Com gress of the United States a majority of ers who were affiliated not so long ago munist effort known as the People's its Memberr are Fascists and sympa with the seditioUs and Communist-con thetic with Hitler. It would seem to me, trolled American Peace Mobilization, Front. Mr. Speaker, that minority groups who these people who are now busily engaged It was practically impossible for the enjoy the protection of the American calling the gentleman from Alabama party to readapt the organization to the Constitution would be very careful not to [Mr. BOYKIN) and the gentleman from purposes of the new period of Stalin's engage in the same type of intolerance Idaho and numerous other Members of pact with Hitler. Various prominent ·and hatred that characterized their own this House Fascists and agents of Hitler. members of the American League for suffering in Europe, that they would be Prior to the invasion of Russia by Adolf Peace and Democracy found it fmpos careful to set an example of tolerance, Hitler, these same men were denouncing sible to justify Stalin's alliance with the that they would not associate with any all of us for supplying England with Nazis. When, therefore, the league's movement or any group designed to en badly needed materials to preserve her executive committee refused by a vote gage in the same strategy, the same tac self in the hour of need. They casti of 14 to 1 to condemn Stalin's and Hit tics that led to the defeat of democracy gated the Congress for voting funds to ler's wiping of Poland trom the map in Europe and the rise of totalitarianism. 2440 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE MARCH _9 The SPEAKER. The time of the gen dicates that the various departments of House and repeatedly made before the tleman has expired. Government are absorbing $584,210,717 subcommittees of the Committee on Ap Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani of the required additional cost for over propriations, we now find them able to . mous consent that the gentleman from time pay and additional compensation absorb and pay out of current funds the Texas [Mr. DIES] may be permitted to out of appropriations heretofore made. huge total of $584,000,000 necessary to continue for an additional half hour. The War and Navy Departments alone complete their responsibility for over The SPEAKER. The Chair, of course, are absorbing all of the estimated cost of time pay and additional compensation will put the request, but it is a very un additional pay to employees in those De under laws we have passed. usual thing when a Member is recognized partments tctaling $414,324,115. The Mr. LANHAM. Mr. Chairman. will for an hour on a question of personal other agencies of Government are ab the gentleman yield? privilege to extend-the time. sorbing additional costs amounting to· Mr. KEEFE. I yield to the gentleman Is there objection to the request of the $173,031,007. As a result the committee from Texas. . gentleman from New York [Mr. FISH]? recommends the appropriation of $240,- Mr. LANHAM. I wonder if that con Mr. RABAUT. Mr. Speaker, I object. 108,931. dition could not be very largely corrected FIRST DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL, Mr. Chairman, this stipulation has in by the adoption of the resolution I have 1944 - spired the interest of many Members of introduced, and which has been pend Congress. ing for well over a year, to have an office Mr. CANNON of Missouri. Mr. Speak We find the various departments of of fiscal investigations as an agency of er, I move that the House resolve itself Government including the Army and the House of Representatives to· see what into the Committee of the "Whole House Navy paying to Federal employees a total is done with the money we appropriate. on the state of the Union for the further of $827,464,053. They only need $240,- Mr. KEEFE. May I say to the distin consideration of the bill COMMITTEE ON INVALID PENSIONS By Mr. KEARNEY: 5213. By ¥1'. HART: Memorial of the emer The Committee on Invalid Pensions H. R. 4370. A bill· to further amend the gency mass meeting of the communities of Servicemen's Dependents Allowance Act of northern Hudson County, N.J., memorializing will hold hearings on Thursday, March 1942, as amended, so as to provide for the the Congress to exert their best efforts to 16, 1944, at 10:30 a.m., in the committee relief of certain widows, children, and other ward the immediate passage of House Reso room, 247 House Office Building, on S. dependents of servicemen who die as a result lutions 418 and 419; to the Committee on 1225, entitled "An act granting a pension of Injury or disease incurred in or aggravated Foreign Affairs. to Constance Eager," which was intro by mil1tary or naval service, and for other 5214. By Mr. MYERS: Petition of 160 citi duced by Senator TYDINGS, and s. 662, purposes; to the Committee on Military zens of Philadelphia, Pa., protesting against entitled ''An act to authorize pensions Affairs. the passage of the Bryson bill (H. R. 2082); By Mrs. NORTON: to the Committee on the Judiciary. for certain physically or mentally help H. R. 4371. A bill to provide for cooperation 5215. By Mr. O'BRIEN of Illinois: Petition less children, and for other purposes," with State agencies administering labor laws of the delegates and electors of the American which was introduced by Senator BILBO. in establishing and maintaining safe and Jewish conference held in Chicago, Ill., March proper working conditions in industry and in 1, 1944, endorsing House Resolutions 418 and EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETO. the preparation, promulgation, and enforce 419, respectively; to the Committee on For ment of regulations to control industrial eign Affairs. Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, executive health hazards; to the Committee on Labor. 5216. By Mr. SCHIFFLER: Petition of Mrs. communications were taken from the By :M'..r. WHELCHEL: J. W. Powell and other citizens of Fairview, Speaker's table and referred as lollows: H. R. 4372. A bill requiring concurrence of W.Va., urging the passage of House bill 2082; seven Justices of the Supreme Court to re to the Committee on the Judiciary. 1269. A communication from the Presi 5217. By Mrs. SMITH of Maine: Petition of dent of the United States, transmitting sup verse prior decisions; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Rev. Nellie Lanpher and 25 other signers of plemental estimates of appropriations for Freedom, ,Maine, urging action on House bill the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal By Mr. BROOKS: H. R. 4373. A bill to provide that where the 2082, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and year 1945, totaling $40,000 (H. Doc. No. 478); transportation of alcoholic beverages for the to the Committee on Appropriations. rating of disability of a veteran of the World War as to an arm or leg is equal to the rating duration of the war; to the Committee on 1270. A letter from the President of the the Judiciary. Civil Service Commission, transmitting a for amputation at any level, the loss of use of draft of a proposed bill to amend the Classi such extremity shall be considered as estab 5218. Also, petition of Rev. Mabelle R fication Act of 1923, as amended; to the Com lished, for statutory award purposes; to the Whitney and about 40 other citizens of Win mittee on the Civil Service. Committee on World War Veterans' Legisla terport, Maine, urging action on House bill 1271. A letter from the Secretary of the tion. 2082, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and Navy, transmitting a draft of a proposed bill By Mr. MANSFIELD of Montana: transportation. of alcoholic beverages for the to· authorize Lewis Hobart Kenney, Charles H. R . 4374. A bill to modify section 4 of the duration of the war; to the Committee on the Garber, Charles Clement Goodman, and Permanent Appropriation Repeal Act, 1934, Judiciary. Henry Charles Robinson to accept decora With reference to certain funds collected in tions and orders tendered them by the Gov connection with the operation of Indian Serv &nment of the United States of Brazil; to ice irrigation projects; to the Committee on the Committee on Naval Affairs. Indian Affairs. By Mr. DIMOND: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES H. R. 4375. A bill to authorize increases in REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC wages for cer-tain employees of the Alaska FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1944 BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS Railroad for services rendered from May -1 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of to September 30, 1943, inclusive; to the Committee on tbe Civil Service. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Mont committees were delivered to the Clerk By Mr. SPENCE: gomery, D. D., offered the following for printing and reference to the proper H. R. 4376. A bill to extend the period of prayer: calendar, as follo,ws: operation of the Emergency Price Control Mr. COCHRAN·: Committee on Accounts. Act of 1942 and of the act of October 2, 1942, 0 Lord God of heaven and earth, hear House Resolution 466. Resolution providing entitled "An act to amend the Emergency our supplication and move us to pray for for the payment of the expenses of the in Price Control Act of 1942, to aid in preven the things we most need. Quicken in vestigation authorized by House Resolution ing inflation, and for other purposes"; to the us those springs by which we may dis 52; without amendment (Rept. No. 1244). Committee on Banking and Currency. cern Thee more perfectly. Grant that Referred to the House Calendar. we may not be satisfied with the things Mr. PATMAN: Special Committee on Small Business. Fifth interim report pursuant to PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS of the past; give us a more generous and . House Resolution 18, a resolution creating a Under clause 1 of rule XXII, broader understanding. Flll us with a Select Committee on Small Business of the Mr. VINSON of Georgia introduced a bill desire to possess the grace of humility House of Representatives and defining its (H. R. 4377) authorizing the President to and spiritual knowledge, out of which powers and duties; without amendment present, in the name of Congress, a Distin grow the fruits of. divine love and which (Rept. No. 1245). Referred to the Committee guished Service Medal to Admiral Chester W. make secure against the winds of fate of the Whole House on the state of the Nimitz, United States Navy, which was re and chance. Union. ferred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. MAY: Committee on Military Affairs. 0 King eternal, fulfill Thy mission; rule H. R. 3528. A bill to provide effective date of in human hearts and reign in all lands, awards of death pension or compensation in PETITIONS, ETC. pouring out Thy beneficent and reform cases of persons missing or missing in ac• .Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions ing zeal in wisdom and power, winning tion, to authorize payment of such benefits and papers were laid on the Clerk's desk victory for that righteousness and truth from the date of death of such person as re and referred as follows: which are stronger than all the schemes ported or found by the Secretary of War_ or of men. We rejoice that in these evil the Secretary of the Navy, and for other pur 5210. By Mr. JUDD: Petit~on of the Minne poses; without amendment (Rept. No. 1246). sota State Branch of the International Union days we do not mourn as those without Referred to the Committee of the Whole of Operating Engineers, opposing passage of hope and do not fear as those who have House on the state of the Union. House bill 2082, which would impose eom no faith. Let our greatest grief be lost plete prohibition for the duration of the war; in the certainty of trust and joy, putting to the Committee on the Judiciary. · PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS our lives and destiny in the enabling care 5211. By Mr. CASE: Petition ot the Rev of a good God. 0 lift all minds to Thee Under clause 3 ·of rule XXII, public erend R. B. Bonney, pastor of the Methodist and deepen within us that gratitude that bills and resolutions were introduced and Church of White Lake-Kimball-Underwood, S. Dak., and 65 citizens of these communi Thou wilt guide our desires; in using severally referred as follows: ties, urging passage of House bill 2082, pro nobly and happily our earthly years is By Mr. COLE of New York: hibiting the manufacture, sale, or transpor found that larger life beyond. In the H. R. 4368. A bill to amend section 3360 (c) tation of alcoholic liquors in the United name of our blessed Redeemer. Amen. of the Internal Revenue Code; to the Com States for the duration of the war; to the mittee on Ways and Means. Committee on the Judiciary. The Journal of the proceedings of yes By Mr. FISH: 5212. By Mr. DOUGLAS: Petition of about terday was read and approved. H. R. 4369. A bill to authorize the Admin 800 citizens of Oneida County, N. Y., Thirty MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE . istrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish seeing third Congressional District, protesting eye dogs for blind veterans; to the Committee against the enactment of any prohibition leg A message from the Senate, by Mr. on World War Veterans' Legislation. islation; to the Committee on the Judiciary. Gatling, one of its clerks, announced that
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