8998 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE NOVEMBER 19 PUBUC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS By Mr. DOUGLAS: adorns the pathway of our time. But H. R . 6062. A bill granting an increase of chiefly are we bound to praise Thee for Under clause 3 of rule XXII, public pension to Emma Grace Bence; t,o the Com bills and resolutions were introduced and mittee on Invalid Pensions. Him whose homeless feet have pressed severally referred as follows: By Mr. HARRIS of Arkansas: our path of pain, whose hands have borne H. R. 6063. A bill for the relief of the the burden of our sorrow, that we might !By Mr. COCHRAN: Clark County Lumber Co.; to the Committee learn to help each other in every dark H. R. 6049. A bill to exempt from State and on Claims. local taxes the sale, purchase, storage, use, or ened hour of life. By Mr. HARRIS of Virginia: Teach us, Thou Cause of· Causes, to consumption of tangible personal property H. R. 6064. A bill for the relief of Linda for use in performing defense contracts; to Wright Ward; to the Committee on Claims. thank Thee when Thy hand bestows, to the Committee on Ways and Means. By Mr. SULLIVAN: bless Thee when Thy love withdraws, and, By Mr. CRAVENS: H. R. 6065. A bill for the relief of Michael though at last our lives may seem to end H. R. 6050. ·A bill to amend paragrt>.phs 1 J. Bates; to the Committee on Naval Affairs. with dreamed of joys that still are only and 2 of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief dreams, with hopes deferred, and bless Act of 1940; to the Committee on Military ings seen for others though not on us Affairs. PETITIONS, ETC. By Mr. CULKIN: bestowed, make us content to know that H. R. 6051. A bill to enable dairy farmers in Under clause 1 of rule XXII, petitions if our souls but dwell in faith's.untroubled certain drought areas ·to maintain their pro and papers were laid on the Clerk's realm we shall one day wake to thank duction of milk needed for defense purposes; desk and referred as follows: Thee for the rapture of that radiant to the Committee on Agriculture. 2055. By Mr. CULKIN: Resolution of the morn when from every shadow of our By Mr. GOSSETT: Drought Committee of the Northern New doubt or disappointment we shall find H. R. 6052. A bill to return certain retired York Counties, urging the New York State release, and sorrow and sighing shall flee emergency officers to the rolls, with pay; to Farm Bureau Federation, the State defense away. the Committee on Military Affairs. committee and the depart.w.ent of agricul By Mr. KEFAUVER: ture and markets to go on record favoring In the Master's name, we ask it. H. R. 6053. A bill to amend section 2800 of the Fulmer bill for relief of the northern Amen. the Internal Revenue Code; to the Committee New York dairymen; to the Committee on THE JOURNAL on Ways and Means. · Agriculture. On request of Mr. McKELLAR, and by By MI. PLAUCHE: 2056. Also, resolution of the Cloth Window H. R. 6054. A bill providing a franking Shade Workers Union, No. 20684, Oswego, unanimous consent, the reading of the privilege to soldiers, sailors, and marines dur N. Y ., protesting against any and all taxes Journal of the proceedings of Monday, P1g existence of the unlimited national emer on their wages by the United States Govern November 17, 1941, was dispensed with, gency; to the Committee on the Post Oftlce ment; to the Committee on Ways and Means. and the Journal was approved. and Post Roads. 2057. By Mr. KRAMER: Petition of the MESSAGES FROM THE PRESIDENT By Mr. REECE of Tennessee: Associated Farmers of Kings County, Han APPROVAL OF A BILL H. R. 6055. A bill to amend section 2800 of ford, Calif., demanding that Congress remove the Internal Revenue Code; to the Commit the cause of much of the trouble between Messages in writing from the President tee on Ways and Means. employer and employee by the immediate of the United States were communicated ,ay Mr. WADSWORTH: repeal of the Wagner· Act; to the Committee to the Senate by Mr. Miller, one of his H. R. 6056. A bill to regulate in the United on Labor. secretaries, who aJso announced that on States Court of Claims suits for payment for 2058. Also, petition of the Democratic the use of inventions by or for the Govern Youth Federation of California, urging that November 15, 1941, the President had ment; to the Committee on the Judiciary. lend-lease aid be given nations fighting Hit approved and signed the act hat we, the Wood County Board, ·Petitions of .sundry citizens of the State of go on record as soliciting the United States The message also announced that the Maryland praying for the enactment of the Government to give manufacturers of farm Speaker had affixed his signature to the bill (S. 860) to provide for the common de implements some priority rights as it will be following enrolled bills, and they were fense in relation to the sale of alcoholic impossible for farmers to meet the required signed by the Vice President: liquors to the members of the land and naval production without the necessary machinery: forces of the United States and to provide for And be it further S. 2024. An act to authorize the incorpo the suppression of vice in the vicinity of mili Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be rated city of Ketchikan, Alaska, to undertake tary camps and naval establishments; to the sent to the United States Department of certain public works and for such purpose table. Agriculture and the Wisconsin Department to issue bonds in a sum not exceeding By Mr. WIL~: of Agriculture, to Walter F. Katterhenry, $250,000; and The petition of Arthur C. Gower and sun chairman of the U.S. D. A. Defense Board of H. R. 4795. An act to amend the Hawaiian dry clergymen and ministers of the gospel, Wisconsin, to Congressman REID MURRAY, and Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, all of Eau Claire, Wis., or its vicinity, pray to our Senators, ALEXANDER WILEY and by amending sections 203 (4) . 208 (3), 209, ing for the adoption of measures to stop the RoBERT M. LA FoLLETTE. 213, 215, 220, and 222 thereof and by adding efforts of nazi-ism to overcome Christianity thereto a new section to be numbered section and prevent the spread of the Gospel; to the BILLS INTRODUCED 225, all relating to the powers, duties, and Committee on Foreign Relations. functions of the Hawaiian Homes Commis Bills were introduced, read the first sion. FOOD PRODUCTION CAMPAIGN, WAU time, and, by unanimous consent, the PACA COUNTY, WIS. second time, and referred as f~llows: ORDER FOR ADJOURNMENT TO FRIDAY Mr. WILEY. Mr. President, I ask By Mr. McNARY: Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in S. 2062. A b111 for the relief of Thomas Jen unanim...,us consent that when the Senate the RECORD. and appropriately referred nie; to the Committee on Claims. completes its labor today it stand ad a resolution adopted at the U. S. D. A. By Mr. THOMAS of Utah: jou::-ned until 12 o'clock noon on Friday defense food production campaign S. 2063. A bill to authorize certain ofilcers next. and enlisted men of the Army of the United launching meeting at waupaca, Wis., on · States to accept emblems, medals, orders, and The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob Tuesday, October 14, 1941. decorations that have been tendered them by jection? The Chair hears none, and it is There being no objection, the resolu governments of the Western Hemisphere; to so ordered. tion· was referred to the Committee on the Committee on Military Affairs. REPORT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE Agriculture and Forestry and ordered to HOUSE BILL REFERRED COMMISSION be printed in the REcORD, as follows: The bill cotton, and killing brood sows, the We shall probably hear much of this Control the Contingent Expenses 6f the miracle of the limitations of armament, theme. It will be intoned by all who be Senate. That being so, it is not neces and the pact to outlaw war. . Everything lieve that we should share our wealth with sary to refer it to other committees in public life has its day of grace and the underprivileged nations of the world. which might have jurisdiction. By What a pity the 11 allies did not have the then gives way to some other more cur official version when they conferred recently unanimous consent the modification rent idea. Now it is the "four freedoms." in London on how to divide the resources of may be made now and the resolution Basic to all these is the economic dream the United States after the war. But they . may remain with the Committee to of those who believe that the United had one almost as good, also from Mr. Welles, Audit and Control the Contingent Ex States of America is responsible for all declaring that in order to bring the world of penses of the Senate. the woes and misery of the wide, wide four freedoms to pass, it would be necessary I suggest that the Senator modify his world, and that it is a disgrace for us to establish "fully and adequately the proposal to include membership from natural right of all people to equal economic to retain any measure of our own enjoyment." the Committee on Commerce, the Com strength while others suffer. They think We have said before that we do not know mittee on Mili~ary Affairs, and the we do an act of righteousness when we what these words mean; we doubt if Mr. Committee on Post Offices and · Post destroy our own liberty, undermine our Welles does. Roads. If such modification is made, the own privileges, and suffer loss of our own We do not believe that other people have resolution may still remain with the peculiar institutions of government in any moral right to sell goods in the American committee having jurisdiction at this order that we may prostrate ourselves market on their own terms, or to sell them at time---the Committee to Audit and Con all if we do not want them, any more than together with the rest of the world. In we possess the moral right to sell goods in trol the Contingent Expenses of the Sen my judgment, this world-wide effort to their markets if they would prefer not to buy ate---to determine whether the merits of capture America and to set upon it the them, the reason being whatever it is. If the resolution justify an allotment from errors and sorrows of all mankind is but trade is not a matter of mutual profit, it is the contingent fund of the Senate. a passing phase. The time will come bankrupt and will end in disaster; and trade That is the procedure I should fol will find that out. for itself, if only govern when we shall hear less and less about it. ments will let it alone. low. It is more simple than the one Mr. President, I ask unanimous con first suggested, and it is warranted by It was neither trade with the United States sent to have printed in the RECORD as a nor the want of it that ruined Europe. Dur the rules. part of my remarks an editorial from ing World War No. 1 and afterward Europe Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, · it the Saturday Evening Post for Novem borrowed more from us than she could afford seems to me that all the Senator from ber 22, 1941, entitled "The American to pay back. We did not push her into the California would have to do would be to abyss. She borrowed herself into it. The Guilt Theme." abyss opened when the golden stream ask unanimous consent to make the There being no objection, the editorial change he desires now. stopped-that is, when we stopped lending. was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, If our high tariffs made it impossible for Mr. McNARY. Exactly; that is what as follows: Europe to pay us back in competitive goods, I suggest-that it be made now by [From the Saturday Evening Post of Novem well then, she couldn't pay, and that was unanimous consent. ber 22, 1941) that. The loss was ours, not Europe's. She Mr. DOWNEY. Then, Mr. President, had what she had borrowed. I ask that Senate Resolution 194 be THE AMERICAN GUILT THEME But before any of this need be argued, Symptoms of that strange psychic malady there is intervening ground to cross and, we modified so as to provide that the com which may be called the American guilt regret to say, it is political and partisan mittee shall consist of seven Senators complex are beginning to appear. , ground. three from the Committee on Military Always there are those who feel guilty Observe that the sins Mr. Welles would load Mairs, two from the Committee on when Europe is in trouble. When Europe upon us are Republican Party sins. It was Commerce, and two from the Committee is not in trouble, still they find a. sense of the Republican tariff of 1930, he says, that on Post Offices and Post Roads. guilt in the fact that America is so much brought "disaster and despair to countless The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob richer. Such were the debt ·forgivers. They people," and pushed Europe into the abyss. would have forgiven the European war debts His indictment ends there. A little while jection? The Chair hears none, and the on the ground that it had been our war from later the New Deal arrived. What did the resolution will be so modified. the beginning and we were late getting ln. New Deal do about it? Did it abolish the Mr. DOWNEY. Mr. President, should The least we could do afterward was to be wicked Republican tariff? Did it embrace not the resolution be considered by the willing to pay for it from the time we entered free trade for the sake of the world? What Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and then try to forget the lives and the did it do to pull out of the abyss the people and the Committee on Commerce before sufferings that were chargeable to our tardi we had pushed into it? being heard by the Committee to Audit ness. Mr. Welles know. .. but he may have for The new theme is that we are morally re gotten. Therefore we remind him that one and Control the Contingent Expenses of sponsible for the rise of the dictators in of the early acts of the New Deal was to wreck thP. Senate? Europe. It was our fault. The text comes the London Economic Conference, leaving the Mr. McNARY. No, Mr. President. from Mr. Sumner Welles, the Under Secre world more bewildered and despairing than The resolution has been reported by a tary of State, who, if he was not appointed before; it repudiated the gold standard and standing committee of the Senate. The to it, has assumed the role of St. John of the debased the American dollar, on the ground Senator from California now is simply Four Freedoms. "After the last war," he that other countries were doing it and that says, "at a time when other countries were by doing it they were able to lift their goods offering a modification to include mem looking to us for help in their stupendous over the Repubiican tariff wall into the Amer bership on three committees. The reso task of economic and social reconstruction, ican market; it put into the hands of the lution should remain with the Committee the United States, suddenly became the State Department the power to control for to Audit and Control the Contingent world's greatest creditor nation and incom eign trade through a system of trade treaties, Expenses of the Senate. parably strong economically, atruck heavy which· was to do what all the rest of the world 1941 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 9001 was doing-that is, to lay the hands of· gov- I titled. "A Threa-t to Stable Jobs,!' published in game and ·deal the cards are dealing ernment upon trade and then employ it as an the Milwaukee Journal of November 17, 1941, from the top of the deck instead of from instrument of foreign policy, contrary to the which appears in the Appendix.] the bottom. sound American tradition. Within this new power to control trade the Government put IDTLER DEFEATS HITLER-ARTICLE BY This step on the part of the State special barriers against · German trade--and DAVID LAWRENCE Department, through which it has in very dghtly so, we think-on the ground that [Mr. TUNNELL asked and obtained leave public taken up an argument with a the German Government was subsidizing to have printed in the RECORD an article en friendly government, has obviously been German exports. Yet if Mr. Welles con titled "Hitler Defeats Hitler," written by taken with the intention of first pre cedes the practical necessity for retaliatory David Lawrence and published in the United paring the American public for more tariffs, or tariffs to equalize cost of pro States N~s of November 14, 1941, which ap vigorous steps against Finland on the duction, his free-trade position is in jeop pears in the Appendix.] part of this country. If that is the ardy; and, worse still, he becomes involved in the contradiction that while the New Deal The VICE PRESIDENT. The routine case, we are placed in the position of was holding barriers against the goods of morning business is closed. Uncle Sam being the errand boy for other countries because the governments of Joe Dlugashvili, alias Joe Stalin, other other countries, likt Germany, subsidized ex FINNISH-RUSSIAN WAR wise Joe the Steel Man, and Wiriston ports, the American Government itself, di Mr. SHIPSTEAD. Mr. President, some Churchill. rectly and roundabout, was doing the same time ago Secretary of State Hull an Mr. Hull warns Finland that Finland thing. Briefly, all that the New Deal did nounced through the press that he had, may be considered an enemy country if about the wicked Republican tariff was to on behalf of the Government of the let Mr. Hull put some gates in it. she continues her fight in self-defense We suggest to Mr. Welles two thoughts: United States, told Finland to quit fight against Soviet Russia. He is asking the First, what has ruined International trade is ing Russia, under a threat of losing the Finnish Government and the Finnish Government interference, carried to the point friendship of the United States. It was people to give in to the English de o:t bureaucratic administration; second, we also reported in the press that Britain mands, irrespective of the fact that pub cannot make the world richer by sharing our had threatened to declare war on Finland lic opinion in Finland, as . expressed by wealth with the underprivileged nations, but if Finland did not quit fighting Russia. the Finnish papers, considers this course we can impoverish ourselves. In this case the State Department re as suicidal to this small but valiant ARMISTICE DAY ADDRESS BY SENATOR sorted to the rather unusual course of democracy. There may, furthermore, TYDINGS making public their relation of confiden- have been the intention to split the Fin [Mr. CLARK of Missouri asked and ob . tial diplomatic conversations before a nish people, and to provoke opposition tained leave to have printed in the RECORD definite answer from the Finnish side was to the policy . followed by the Finnish an Armistice Day address delivered over the given. This was done by newspaper re Government. It is evidently the same radio by Senator TYDINGS under the auspices leases of November 3 and 7. intention that has brought the admin of the Jewish War Veterans, which appears istration to follow the example of the in the Appendix.] I have not seen, from any American official sources, the reply to Mr. Hull's propaganda machinery in the totali ADDRESS BY SENATOR HERRING ON threat. However, on November 13 I in tarian states of Joseph Stalin and Adolf UNITY FOR DEFENSE serted in the RECORD a dispatch printed Hitler, to arrange broadcasts in Finnish [Mr. McKELLAR asked and obtained leave in the New York Times of November 3 from the United States to be beamed to to have printed in the RECORD a radio address Finland. entitled "Unity for Defense," delivered by stating in unmistakable language the po sition of Finland, as expressed by its Whatever the intention has been in Senator HERRING on November 17, 1941, WhiCh giving out the releases, it is obvious that appears in Appendix.] President in writing to Mr. Henry J. Taylor, Helsinki correspondent for the they constitute a pressure upon Fin LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE land. They are, furthermore, of a na CATECHETICAL CONGRESS OF THE North American Newspaper Alliance. I assume that the position of Finland ture to provoke the impression that CONFRATERNITY OF CHRISTIAN DOC Finland has not taken into considera TRINE stated in that dispatch is clearly stated, and that the State Department has been tion a fair peace offer made to her [Mr. GUFFEY asked and obtained leave to so notified. In short, the position of though no statement is made to indicate have printed in the RtcoRD an article from that any kind of a peace offer had been the Philadelphia Record of November 13, Finland, as stated by its President, is first that there is no alinement in Finland made-and that by continuing her fight 1941, incorporating a letter from the Presi she is becoming one of the aggressor na dent -of the United States to the Seventh with Germany's ideological and totali Annual National Catechetical Congress of the tarian policy; second, that Finland is in tions which the United States is pledged Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, which volved only in the war against the Bol to crush. The assertion that Finland's pears in the Appendix.] sheviks; and third, that Finland fights military operations against Communist only for her own protection and security, Russia constitute a threat to the security A MUDDLED DECISION-EDITORIAL FROM of the United States is too preposterous NEW YORK TIMES and begs the United States to realize that Finland is still a sovereign independent to be taken seriously. [Mr. McNARY asked and obtained leave to A careful study of the text of the have printed in the RECORD an editorial from government and people, and, as such, the New York Times of November 18, 1941, release the State Department has given controls her own affairs, and fights as she out reveals some rather interesting facts. entitled "A Muddled Decision," which ap has many times in history had to fight pears in the Appendix.] First. Mr. Sumner ·welles' statement against Russian aggression, to protect her to the Finnish Minister on August 18- AID FOR STARVING PEOPLES OF own life and institutions. which we have every reason to think the EUROPE-EDITORIAL FROM THE CATH Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Mr. Presi OLIC TRANSCRIPT Finnish Minister immediately cabled to dent, will the Senator yield? his Government-as appears from Mr. [Mr. DANAHER asked and obtained leave Mr. SHIPSTEAD. I yield. to have printed in the RECORD an editorial Welles' own statement in the release of entitled "He Argues Well," published In the Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Is it not a November 17, was merely by way of in Catholic Transcript, of Hartford, - Conn., of fact that at the present moment Russia formation and was not a peace offer. So October 23, 19~1. relative to the feeding of is still in possession of the great island far as the Congress of the United States starving women and children of the occupied fortress of Hango, pointing at the heart knows, only a threat and a statement of countries of :r.urope, which appears in the of Finland, which Russia .acquired in the information were given, not a peace offer. Appendix.] unholy war of 2 years ago? simply an order to Finland to quit fight LET US GIVE THANK8-EDITORIAL FROM Mr. SHIPSTEAD. I thank the Sena ing in the defense of her country and in LIBERTY MAGAZINE tor. I intended to call attention to that an effort to reacquire territory stolen [Mr. GILLETTE asked and obtained leave fact a little later. from her by Russia. to have printed in the RECORD an editorial It must be evident that Finland, like Second. Furthermore, it is obvious entitled "Let Us Give Thanks," published in Norway, Belgium, Holland, and other from the release itself that this state the current issue of Liberty magazine, which countries, is a victim of the power poli ment contained no indication concerning appears in the Appendix.) tics of European imperial powers-a two vital and absolutely essential points. A THREAT TO STABLE JOB8-EDITORIAL game as old as humanity; a game in Nothing was said about the extent of ter FROM MILWAUKEE JOURNAL which, in the last quarter of a century, ritorial concessions Soviet Russia would [Mr. WILEY asked and obtained leave to the United States has interfered, under be disposed to make. At the time the . have printed in the RECORD an editorial en- the delusion that those who control the statement was made, the most important LXXXVII--568 9002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE NOVEMBER 19. part of what Russia in 1940 had stolen Has the Secretary of State a subtle Mr. CLARK of Missouri. The Sena from Finland was still in Russian hands. plan for following up this initial gener tor from Arizona objected on behalf of Even at the present moment they have osity with other billions of dollars to buy . the Senator from Utah [Mr. MuRDOcK]. the vital port of Hango, a part of Pet the man of steel out of Latvia, Estonia, Mr. McNARY. If the Senator will same in the north, and some islands in and Lithuania, and, further, as a mani pardon me, I was about to mention that. the Gulf of Finland. N a thing was said festation of his recently reported conver I observe that neither of them are. pres about forthcoming guaranties from the sion to Christianity to get him to liberate ent. I think it might be well for the United States of America or England the Lutherans in Latvia and Estonia and Senator to state that he has conferred against renewed Russian attacks. Rus the Roman Catholics in Lithuania from with the two Senators in question and sia, having repeatedly broken all her the ban which he placed upon trtem when that they have withdrawn their objec pledges and promises and having, dur he took their territory? tions. ing the lifetime of the present genera Will the same delicate technique be Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Mr. Presi tion of Finns, three times wantonly and turned on Mr. Shicklgruber, and Poland, dent, I conferred with the Senator from ruthlessly attacked Finland, it is only Czechoslovakia, Greece, and Yugoslav Arizona [Mr. McFARLAND] immediately natural that the Finns should want some ia be restored their freedom through after he made the objection the other security before they stop fighting. the skillful use of money? Perhaps it day, and he stated he had no personal Finland's war is a defensive war, into has been planned that way. This is an objection to the bill at all. He said he which she has been forced through the expensive program in many ways, with simply was making the objection at the renewed Russian attack. Finland's first the results in grave doubt. request of the Senator from Utah, who and foremost aim, as stated by her P.r.esi The heroic democracy of Finland is was necessarily detained in the Commit dent, is to defend herself. bravely standing on its own feet, looking tee on Privileges and Elections. Just a In her reply to England on October 6, after its own interests, with no help from little while ago I talked with the Senator 1941, Finland said: any assortment of chattering magpies from Utah [Mr. MuRDOCK], who has since Finland wages her defensive war free from and ill-mannered warmakers who under stepped off the :floor, and he stated at all political obligations, but is grateful that take to b3rate, to scold, and to mess up that time he would have no objection to she need not this time fight alone. the affairs of other people in all parts of make to the present consideration of the , While the United States is so interested the world with the most blatant vulgarity measure. in war to save democracy, why should in the use of wholesale bribery with huge Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, the American Government be used to gifts of cash or the most irresponsible. will the Senator yield? threaten the little democracy of Finland, meddling and threatening. Mr. CLARK of Missouri. The Senator fighting for its life and to recover stolen Finland knew what freedom was before from Oregon has the :floor. If I have territory? It is not to be supposed that Europeans came to these shores, and Fin the :floor I shall be glad to yield to the Mr. Hull had any more intention of mis land may know what freedom is after it Senator from Michigan. leading Finland than Colonel Donovan iJ but a memory here. That is a daring Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, I had in beguiling Yugoslavia into war and statement, in view of the fact that Fin am not as familiar as I should be with disaster. The Secretary of State must land is so naive that she fights her own the details of this text. My understand .have realized that he was asking Finland battles and pays her bills at a time when ing is that, while there is no complaint to place herself in a very perilous situa the rest of the world expects democracy to be saved through national bankruptcy against the particular intrinsic purposes tion. Are we to understand that he be of the measure, there would be very se lieves that Finland has become the spe and repudiation of debts. rious objection if this were to be taken cial object of our interest in Europe and Mr. President, there is on the table a resolution which I submitted as a precedent for the progressive disin the principal motive for our participation on the lOth tegration of the Tydings-McDuffie Act, in European affairs? Is he thinking of instant, dealing with the question I have and a progressive rewriting now of the offering full and complete armed protec just discussed. I ask that the resolution terms under which the Philippine Com tion to Finland by our forces, in case be referred to the Committee on Foreign monwealth has been given its prospec Finlan·d yields to the demands of Russia Relations. tive independence. The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob and England, made through the inter Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Let me say vention of our Secretary of State? Any jection? There being no objection, the resolution to the Senator from Michigan that I thing else than such protection it would think my position on that and the posi be unreasonable to suppose would be re (S. Res. 192), concerning the attitude of the State Department toward the foreign tion as it was unanimously expressed in quired by a country exposed to rUin no the meeting of the committee is exactly matter who wins in Europe. If the prem policy of the Government of Finland, was referred the same as now expressed by the Sena ises of the Secretary of State are sound, to the Committee on Foreign tor from Michigan. In other words, I Finland will be crushed by Germany's Relations. would not be for any bill-and I am cer foes if they win, and if Finland should TAX ON EXPORTS FROM THE PHILIPPINES cease to fight her war independently and tain that such a bill could not have ob become an ally of Germany, she would Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Mr. Presi tained two . votes in the Committee on be crushed by Germany herself if she dent, on Monday I asked for the immedi Territories and Insular Affairs-which won. Clearly there is nothing for the ate consideration of Senate bill 1623, to would break down in any way the policy suspend the export tax prescribed by adopted by the Government, first in the United States to do but defend Finland, Hawes-Cutting Act, and later in the if I understand the Secretary of State section 6 of the act of March 24, 1934, correctly, since we cannot allow the world generally known as the Tydings-McDuffie Tydings-McDuffie Act, granting com to put us down as a lot of swashbuckling Act. The bill went over at the request of plete· and full independence, and insist -braggarts or officious kibitzers. Are we the Senator from Utah [Mr. MURDOCK], ing upon granting, if necessary, complete to live up to all the implications of our who was unable to be present at that time. and full independence for the Philippines admonitions to the Finns? Since we·un- I have since discussed the matter with in 1946 in accordance with the terms of those acts. It was for that reason the ~ dertake to tell them how to use their the Senator from Utah, and he states sovereign powers, evidently we mean to that he will not object at this time. committee struck out section 3, as it orig let them in on our own sovereign activi Therefore, inasmuch as the matter is of inally appeared in the measure as intro ties. pressing importance to the people or' the duced, and inserted in lieu thereof the Is Union Now to be applied to the Philippines, I ask unanimous consent for following provision: Finns? Will we at last declare a state of the present consideration of Senate bill Nothing in this act shall change in any war to exist between ourselves and the 1623. respect not herein expressly provided for the enemies of Finland? The VICE PRESIDENT. 'Is there ob provisions of the act of March 24, 1934, as Is our initial gift to Joseph Stalin of jection? amended. $1,000,000,000 really a bribe to buy sub Mr. McNARY. Mr. President, per The committee was unanimous in its stantial concessions from that chivalrous sonally I have no objection, but when the desire to serve notice on the people of champion of Christian freedom, to the matter was presented on Monday last the Philippines; upon the people of the effect that he will never again molest the objection was made through the Senator United States, and upon the world that Finns? from AriZona [Mr. McFARLAND]. the Congress has no intention of chang- 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE 9003 ing the policy of the Tydings-McDuffie have heard discuss the matter, has the and though I want to see a final sever Act. same views. That very point was dis ance of relations in 1946, I should like to This measure was occasioned simply cussed in the committee, and every mem have it on as pleasant terms as possible, and solely because the original policy for ber of the committee whom I heard dis and be able to say that we have been a progressive severing of the economic cuss it feels exactly the same way about what any good guardian ought to be to ties between the people of the Philippines the matter, and we have undertaken to his ward, and that we have accorded and the people of the United States was safeguard those points in this bill. them justice; indeed, t:!Ven leaned a little , based on a contemplation of normal eco Mr. VANDENBERG. With the Sena bit backward in the effort to do so. - nomic condition·s. Now, of course, we tor's statement I am content. Mr. McKELLAR. Mr. President, will have, through no fault of the people of Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I will say that the Senator yield? I do not believe the measure could have Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I yield. the Philippines and through no fault of obtained one single vote in the commit Mr. McKELLAR. I ought to know, but the people of the United States, a very tee except for that very definite under I have forgotten-About-how much is the abnormal economic situation existing in standing. tax estimated to be? the Philippines, and all over the world. Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. President, will Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I am Owing to our own exigencies and through the Senator yield? ashamed to say that I cannot tell the no fault of anybody, for our own pur Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I yield to Senator with any degree of accuracy. In poses-for entirely justifiable and laud the Senator from Texas. any event, it is not a tax that accrues to able purposes-the United States has Mr. CONNALLY. I know the Senator the United States, the Senator under been compelled to divert much of the from Missouri has the information I stands. shipping which formerly brought the seek. I inquire on what is the export tax The VICE PRESIDENT. Is there ob products of the Philippine Islands to this levied? Is it a tax on commodities jection to the present consideration of country. shipped to the United States? the bill? So long as they remain a dependency Mr. CLARK of Missouri. On com There being no objection, the Senate of the United States-until such time as modities shipped from the Philippines. proc~eded to consider the bill cs. 1623) to the complete independence contemplated. Mr. CONNALLY. On commodities suspend the export tax prescribed by in the Tydings-McDuffie Act may be shipped from the Philippines to the section 6 of the act of March 24, 1934 (48 effected-the Philippines, of course, are United States? Stat. 456), as amended, for a period of 1 completely dependent in an economic Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Yes. That year commencing July 1, 1941, and for sense on the United States. They can is the only form of shipment to which other purposes; which had. been reported not make any arrangements for other the tax can apply. from the Committee on Territories and shipping. The very ·great dislocation Mr. CONNALLY. Under the act pro Insular Affairs with an amendment, to in their economic structure has been viding for the ultimate independence of strike out all after the enacting clause brought about, first, because they have the Philippine Islands it was provided and insert; · not been able. to export their quota by that a certain export tax should be paid, That the imposition and collection of the and the Filipinos have been paying such export tax prescribed by section 6 of the act reason of not being able to secure bot oi March 24, 1934, entitled "An act to pro toms; arid, secondly, because such sugar tax? Mr. CLARK of Missouri. Yes; the act vide for the complete independence of the and other commodities as they have been Philippine Is~ands, to provide for the adop able to export bear much higher freight provided that they should pay an export tion of a constitution and a form of govern rates than they formerly did. Therefore, tax. That was for the purpose of amor ment for the Philippine Islands, and for all this measure does is simply to suspend tization of certain bonds. I will say to other purposes" (48 Stat. 456), as amended the export tax until December 31, 1942, the Senator that this measure has the by the act of August 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 1226; very strong support of the Department of U. S. C., Supp. V, title 48, sec. 1236), shall be which is slightly over 1 year. Of course, the Interior, which has exclusive juris suspended for a period commencing on and the export tax is for the amortization and diction over the Philippines at the pres after the date following the approval of this payment of certain bonds which are out ent time, and of every other agency of act and ending on December 31, 1942. standing. The committee was advised the United States Government which On January 1, i943, the imposition of such by the competent Government authori export tax shall be resumed, the tax rate was consulted . . effective for said calendar year to be the same ties that there is ample money to pay Mr. CONNALLY. Let m,e ask the Sen as the rate "in effect at the time the tax was those bonds, and that the only effect of ator one other question. The measure suspended; on each succeeding January 1 this measure would simply be to sus does not in any wise affect, does it, the thereafter the export tax shall be increased pend the operation of the export tax for duties which the United States has im progressively by an additional 5 percent of 1 year because of the abnormal economic posed on vegetable oils and similar com the United States duty, except that during situation. the period January 1, 1946, through July 3, modities, the proceeds of which duties are 1946, the export tax shall remain at 15 percent Mr. VANDENBERG. Mr. President, handed over to the Philippine Islands? of the United States duty. will the Senator yield further? Mr. CLARK of Missouri. It has noth SEc. 2. That the progressive reduction of Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I yield to the ing to do with that matter. It. simply the quotas of the Philippine· articles of a class Senator from Michigan. suspends the export tax because of the or kind in respect of which a quota is estab Mr. VANDENBERG. I have no quar present very abnormal situation which lished by subdivision 3, subsection b, section rel with the intrinsic purpose of the bill has created an emergency in the eco 6 of the said act of March 24, 1934, as amended, shall be suspended for a period itself, and I entirely agree with the state nomics of the Philippines. commencing on and after the date following ment of necessity, as submitted by the Mr. CONNALLY. The Senator is the approval of this act and ending on De able Senator from Missouri. I simply aware, is he not, that the Philippine cember 31, 1942: the original quotas estab think it is vitally necessary that it should Islands, by reason of getting the benefit. lished by that subdivision for the year 1940 be made unquestionably plain to all con of the import duty or tax on vegetable shall be in effect during the suspension. cerned that the proposed action does not oils imported into the United States from On January 1, 1943, the progressive re mean that we are entering upon the the islands have been able very largely duction of the quotas provided for in sub piecemeal revision of. the Tydings-Mc to finance the. operations of their gov division 3, subsection b, section 6 of the said act of March 24, 1934, as amended, shall Duffie Act-- ernment out of those very large revenues. be resumed, the rate of reduction effective Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I agree with Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I understand. for said calendar year to be the same as the the Senator from Michigan on that I think I know all the peculiar circum rate in· effect at the time the said quotas 1,000 percent. stances of the relationship between the were suspended; for each calendar year there Mr .. VANDENBERG. And that it does Philippines and the people of the United after through the calendar year 1945, each not mean a piecemeal revision · of the States, and I can say to the Senator that of the said quotas shall be the same as the Philippine independence formula which there is no one more anxious than am I corresponding quota for the immediately pre ceding calendar year, less 5 percent of the has been written. to have that relationship terminate. On corresponding original quota. Mr. CLARK of Missouri. I agree with the other hand, while the Philippines re For the period January 1, 1946, through the Senator on that 1,000 percent, and main a dependency of the United States July 3, 1946, each of said quotas shall be one• I am c~rtain that every member of the they are more or less in the position to half of the corresponding quota specified for committee, at least everyone whom I the United States of ward to guardian, the calendar year 1945. 9004 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE NOVEMBER 19 SEc. 3. Nothing in this act shall change in The VICE PRESIDENT. TNithout ob TO BE COLONEL, WITH RANK FROM OCTOBER 29, any respect not herein expressly provided for jection, the Army nominations are con 1941 the provisions of the act of March 24, 1934, as firmed en bloc. Allan Stuart Boyd, Jr., Infantry. amended. NOTIFICATION TO THE PRESIDENT TO BE COLONELS, WITH RANK FROM NOVEMBER The amendment was agreed to. 1, 1941 The bill was ordered to be engrossed for Mr. McKELLAR. I also ask unani XFrancis Clinton Vincent clothing, food, transportation, and Corps now on duty in that branc.b shall come Mr. RICH. We have not had fair play under the command of the Chief of Engineers . its various other manifold duties. in their present rank and subject to all per since this administration came into Mr. CASE of South Dakota. It is sur manent and temporal'y advances in rank that power. prising that a proposition as far reaching may be accorded officers in the Corps of En The SPEAKER. Is there objection to as this should coMe up by unanimous gineers without additional examinations of the request of the gentleman from consent, but I think t!le record is fn any kind. Texas? favor of the legislation. I think there Mr. SHORT. Mr. Speaker, let me say The purpose of this is to assure the should be enough. put into the RECORD at to the gentleman from Pennsylvania that this point in r,n extension of the gen officers in the Quartermaster Corps that the Chief of the Engineer Corps of the are being absorbed by the consolidation tleman's remarks, or in the statement of ·united States Army is not required to the Under Secretary, Mr. Patterson, so bill that there will be no discrjmination. take these officers from the Quartermas Mr. MARTIN of Massachusetts. It that there may be some support for pass ter Corps unless he needs them. This is ing the legislation. just protects their opportunity for ad simply to protect the men if they are vancement. Mr. THOMASON. The hearings were Mr. McCORMACK. When I say there transferred. · rather exhaustive on the bill, and it was is no discrimination, I mean that they Mr. RICH. As I understood it, they the opinion of the Secretary of War, the are given fair and proper treatment. were going to take these officers in any Chief of Staff, and many other high offi Mr. THOMASON. Since the War De event. cials in the War Department that some partment approves the amendment there Mr. THOMASON. No; that is not the thing should be done about it. They is no objection on the part of the com purpose or intention. strongly favor this bill. mittee. Mr. SHORT. The·Chief of Engineers Mr. CASE of South Dakota. I under Mr. ARENDS. Does the amendment is not required to do it, but he is at liberty stand the amendment the gentleman is have the approval of the War Depart to do it; and if he does this, then the men going to offer is essential. ment? who are transferred are protected. Mr. McCORMACK. It is needed to Mr. THOMASON. Yes. Mr. THOMASON. It is purely a matter make sure that they do not do any man Mr. McCORMACK. I have a letter of intention and administration. If en in the Quartermaster Corps an injustice. here from Judge Patterson, Under Secre gineers now in the Quartermaster Corps Mr. HOWELL. Will the gentleman tary of War, and the bill has his approval. are transferred to the Corps of Engineers, state whether or not this action consti I have gone over the amendment with they are to be treated fairly and not dis tutes any reflection on the ability or effi him and we have agreed on this particu criminated against. I am sure the War ciency o_f the Quartermaster General's lar amendment and therefore the letter Department would not be unfair or un Corps? is from Judge Patterson. just, even if this bill gave them the Mr. THOMASON. Oh, no. The Mr. RICH. Mr. Speaker, w111 the gen power. Construction is now being car Quartermaster Corps has done a fine tleman yield? ried on by both the Quartermaster Corps job. I regard General Gregory, the Mr. THOMASON. I yield. and the Corps of Engineers. This bill Quartermaster General, one of the ablest Mr. RICH. As I understand the seeks to consolidate and coordinate and most efficient men in the Army. He amendment offered by the gentleman these activities in the interest of effi has made a marvelous record. There from Massachusetts, it would require the ciency and economy. Nobody in or out have been some mistakes, and some 9006 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE NOVEMBER 19 extravagance. A subcommittee of the Quartermaster Corps that are taken over Speaker's table the bill A motion to reconsider was laid en the neers, under the autho.rity of the Secretary WAR- DEPARTMENT, table. of War, is hereby charged, in addition to other OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY, FRED WEYBRET, JR. duties imposed upon him by law, with the Washington, November 18, 1941. direction of all work pertaining to the con Mr. RAMSPECK presented a confer struction, maintenance, and repair of build Transfer of construction activities to Corps ence report and statement on the bill ings, structures, and utilities for the Army; of Engineers. (H. R. 1852) for the relief of Fred Wey with the acquisition of all real estate and Hon. JOHN W. McCORMACK, bret, Jr., and others, which was referred the issuance of licenses in connection with House of Representatives, to the House Calendar and ordered to -be Government reservations; and with the op Washington, D. C. printed. eration of water, gas, electric, and sewer util DEAR MR. McCoRMACK: I suggest that the ities: Provided, That utilities pertaining ex amendment read as follows: MARGARET M. CU'ITS clusively to any branch of the Army may be "Provided, however, That all ofticers in the Mr. RAMSPECK submitted a confer operated by such branch. Construction Division of the Quartermaster . Corps now on duty in that branch shall come ence report and statement on the bill SEc. 2. All funds, property, and records per (H. R. 4270) for the relief of Margaret M. taining to the activities described in section under the command of the Chief of Engineers 1, and all civllian personnel engaged solely in their present rank, and subject to all per Cutts, which was referred to the House thereon, shall be transferred to the jurisdic manent and temporary advancement in rank calendar and ordered to be printed. tion of the Chief of Engineers. that may be accorded ofticers in the Corps of AUTOMATIC TEMPERATURE CONTROL CO., Engineers without additional examination of SEC. 3. All laws and parts of laws which INC. are inconsistent herewith or in conflict with any kind." the provisions hereof are hereby repealed. This combines in one sentence the gist of Mr. RAMSPECK submitted a confer your suggested amendment. The last part ence report and statement on the bill Mr. McCORMACK. Mr, Speaker, I of your second sentence, to the effect that Jersey. Mr. McCORMACK. No. I want that - PATRICK -MORGAN AND DANIEll CLARK FRED FARNER AND DORIS M. SCHROEDER Understood. The purpose of .this amend-· Mr.-ROBINSON ·ofUtah. Mr. Speaker; . - Mr. ·RAMSPECK. Mr. Speaker, I ask ment is to assure these omcers in the I ask unanimous consent to take from the unanimous consent to take from ~he 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9007 Speaker's table the bill dress delivered before the National Rivers The Clerk read the Senate amend that day to a nation torn asunder by and Harbors Congress at Miami a few days ago by the gentleman from Wash- ments, as follows: war and drenched with tears. ington [Mr. SMITH]. . Page 1, line 6, strike out "John K. Black More than three-quarters of a century stone, of San Antonio, Tex.," and insert has passed away, but the world has not . The SPEAKER. Without objection, it "Rhoda J. Blackstone, executrix of the estate forgotten what he said there nor has it 1s so ordered. of John K. Blackstone, deceased." forgotten what "the brave men living There wat no objection. The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes' Amend the t!tle so as to read: "An act and dead," Blue and Gray, did there. The luster of his short address shines the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. GuYERL for the relief of Rhoda J. Blackstone as Mr. GUYER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan executrix of the estate of John K. Black- brighter now than it did when uttered 78 years ago. The passage of time has imous consent to extend my own remarks stone, deceased." _ in the RECORD and include an address by The SPEAKER. Is there objection to not dimmed its beauty. and power. As long as mankind is lifted and inspired the mayor of Kansas City, Mo., at the the request of the gentleman from Trans-Mississippi Conference. Georgia? by the nobility of eloquence the simple address of Lincoln at Gettysburg will re The SPEAKER. Without objection it There was no objection. is so ordered. ' The Senate nmendments were agreed main throughout the ages . . May we today, who now serve this There was no objection. to and a motion to reconsider was laid STRIKES AND DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS on the table. Nation at a time when war again. threat ens our beloved land, like Lincoln, dedi The SPEAKER. The Chair recognizes JAMES C. HARRIS cate ourselves with increased devotion to the gentleman from California [Mr. _Mr. RAMSPECK. Mr. Speaker, I ask the unfinished task before us and pre LELAND M. F'JRD]. . . u~animpus consent to take fro~ the serve this' Republic, established on jus Mr. LELAND M. FORD. Mr. Speaker, Speaker's table the bill (H. R. 2963) for. tice and freedom for ourselves and gen I ask unanimous consent to address the the relief of the estate of James C. Harris, erations yet unborn. House for 1 minute. with a Senate amendment, and agree to' By request of the Speaker I give the ' The SPEAKER. Without objection it the Senate amendment. address. if:; so ordered. ' The Clerk read as follows: The SPEAKER. Without objection There was no objection. Page 1, lines 7 and 8, strike out "her hus ·the gentleman from Michigan may pro Mr. LELAND M. FORD. Mr. Speak band." ceed the length of time it takes to read er, yesterday I called the attention of The SPEAKER. Is there objection to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. the House to headlines appearing in the the request ·of the gentleman from There was. no objection. newspapers of that date regarding the Georgia? Mr. DONDERO (reading): seizure of industrial plants by the United There was no objection. States Government. We all know that . Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers we are soon going to be presented with The Senate amendment was agreed to, brought forth on this continent a new na a request for an additional $7 000,ooo,ooo. and a motion to reconsider was laid on tion, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the 1 the table. proposition that all men are created equal. To this date I have voted right Now we are engaged in a great civil war, straight through in support of the en ANTHONY O'HARA AND STEPH:.!:N F . testing whether that nation or any nation so tire defense program of the United MARONEY conceived and so dedicated can long endure. States. I now feel as do many of my We a.re met on a great battlefield of that war. colleagues on both sides of this House Mr. RAMSPEOK. Mr. Speakei·, I ask We have come to dedicate a portion of .that unanimous consent to take from the field, as a final resting place of those who here that we should not vote any_more money Speaker's table the bill check on Mr. HOFFMAN. Oh, there is not any Board having gone against Lewis and the a Government project. What do you question about it. Certainly an honest C. I. 0., the President now, bowing to think about that; and how long are we union has no objection to that. Lewis, suggests a second arbitration, the going to submit to it; and can the War Almost every day we hear something members of the arbitration board un Department say it does not know any about the President taking over a plant doubtedly to be appointed by the Presi thing about it? Are they not a party to and operating it, and if you will follow dent. it when the Army officers are standing by up those cases you will find that almost Recalling the President's efforts to and letting them do it? I would like to every time the Federal Government has know what you think about that. The pack the Supreme Court; x:emembering taken over a plant-and they took over that he did eventually pack that Court, article to which I refer is as follows: one, you will recall because the company there is no reason to believe that the in [From the Washington Evening Star of would not discharge all those men who dependent miners would now get a fair November 17, 1941] were back in their dues-almost every deal from any· new board he might TRUMAN SEES RACKET IN LABOR PRACTICES AT time this Government has taken over a appoint. ORDNANCE PLANT-UNION COLLECTS 5 PERCENT plant they grant the demands of the Everyone knows that the Na-tional De FROM WORKERS' PAY, SENATORS ARE TOLD union leaders. fense Mediation Board, which is the crea MEMPHIS, TENN., November 17.-Certaln ture of the President, and which expresses Just why sbould this Government, after labor practices at the Wolf Creek ordnance the President's statement that it would his will, compelled the employees to join plant "look like plain racketeering to me," the C. I. 0. when the Government took Senator TRuMAN, Democrat, of Missouri, de not force any man to join a union, con over the shipbuilding plant at Kearny clared bluntly at the opening session of a tinue the policy of the National Labor and Air Associates, Inc., at Bendix, N.J. Senate defense investigating committee Relations Board, the National Defense And at the present time the President which is conducting a hearing into charges Mediation Board, and the Labor Depart is trying to force the independent miners of waste and extravagance at the big Gov ment, a policy which has for its objective ernment project. the forcing of every worker into a union? to join the United Mine Workers. He Senator 'TRuMAN, chairman of the c.ommit characterized such a procedure as being tee, made the statement after Lt. Richard L. Mrs. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, will the like that of Hitler. He is trying to bring Pennington, of the plant's ordnance depart gentleman from Michigan yield? about the Hitlerlike result by using an ment, testified that Hugo Glatt, business Mr. HOFFMAN. I am very glad to indirect method. It is Hitler procedure, agent of the Cement Finishers' Union (Amer yield to the Member from New Jersey. ican Federation of Labor) at the shell-loading however disguised. Mrs. NORTON. I would like to observe The President is not in this instance project, collected 5 percent of the wages of union workers there. that it seems a pity the gentleman did fooling anyone by his procrastination, by "You mean he's shaking these people down not remain in the committee this morn his double talk, by his vacillation, any for 5 percent?" Senator TRUMAN asked. ing when we were discussing many of more than he did when he told us that "Well, he collects it," replied Lieutenant these questions, instead of absenting tnere was religious freedom in Russia Pennington .. "How much does it amount to a week?" himself from the committee and coming and tried to make us believe that bloody to the floor to talk about them. The Joe Stalin, the executioner of ministers interposed Senator BREWSTER, Republican, and priests, was a kind-hearted and of Maine. gentleman asked and was excused from "About $1,000 a week," the witness declared. the committee meeting this morning be faithful follower of our Christ. "What happens," asked Senator TRUMAN, cause of illness. Let the President have done with his "if a man refuses?" double talk, with his attempts to deceive. "Some of them keep on working," Lieu Mr. HOFFMAN. It may be a pity that Let him tell John L. Lewis and the Ameri tenant Pennington replied. I did not stay there. I was excused be can people that he, the President, will see Senator TRUMAN interrupted at that point cause of illness. I was ill. I was fully that every American who wants to work to declare: "This thing looks like plain rack aware of the trend the discussions in the and who has a job shall have the oppor eteering to me." committee would take, and as I stated at tunity of. going to his place of work, re Lieutenant Pennington previously had tes a committee meeting yesterday. I · am tified that cement finishers on the project quite willing, as a general proposition, to maining there at his task; have safe paid $80 initiation fees and $3 a month in conduct to and from his place of employ dues to the union in addition to the 5-percent go along with the views as expressed by ment. payment. the committeeman from Georgia [Mr. Here is another incident which shows The first witness was Maj. Joseph Herridge, RAMSPECK] and the committeeman from that this administration is not protecting former constructing quartermaster at the West Virginia [Mr. RANDOLPH]. I am the American workingman-that it is plant and now tl:ie Army's commanding officer not willing, as I stated in the committee permitting him to be robbed by business there. Major Horridge declared he had en meeting yesterday, to go along with the countered no problem of personnel labor or views of the chairman of the committee. agents of a union: equipment up until the time he left the The news dispatch is from Memphis, quartermaster's office last March. I have stayed around that committee Tenn., and is dated November 17, and it Senator BREWSTER, Republican, of Maine, for 2 years and it has produced nothing, discloses that down there Col. Richard L. told Lev V. Loring, president of the Memphis and, in my opinion, as long as the lady is Pennington seems to be in charge of the Trades and Labor Council and labor coordi the chairman of the committee it never plant ordnance department, and he tes nator for the 19 operating unions at the will produce anything in the way of fair plant, "I believe you can do labor everywhere tified...:....and you can get this from the a real service by helping us get complete labor legislation. I have seen her sit on Truman committee report-that, in addi information here." legislation and pigeonhole legislation tion to collecting the initiation fee-in Previously Senator BREWSTER had failed to from the beginning of the time I went addition to collecting the monthly dues obtain from Mr. Loring an estimate of the on the committee until this minute, and of $3 a month-in addition to that, this amount collected by unions at the plant in she has never given me a hearing on any business agent comes along and he takes dues, initiation fees, and assessments. Mr. of the bills that I have introduced, and a cut of 5 percent off the pay checks. Loring declared he had no way of knowing. never given a hearing on many other "Don't you think it's the concern of the Now, there is a new one. They get the Government how its money is being spent on bills. We may as well be frank about initiation fee, they get the dues, they get these jobs?" Senator BREWSTER asked an these things. And I say to the lady right any special assessment, and then they grily. He then requested Mr. Loring to obtain here that she is never going to hatch take a cut of 5 percent off of the pay from each of the 19 crafts at the plant rec anything worth while out of that com checks, which amounts to a thousand ords of all money collected. Mr. Loring mittee unless she changes her ideas and dollars a week in this particular instance. agreed to do so. methods. Now, is it not time that we do some Mr. RICH. Mr. Speaker, will the gen The SPEAKER pro tempore. The thing about it? Is it not time that we tleman yield? time of the gentleman from Michigan adopt legislation requiring these organi- Mr. HOFFMAN. Yes. has expired. 9012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE NOVEMBER 19
PERMISSION OF COMMITTEE ON LABOR taxation to offset inflation and pay a greater , The shoes might not be exactly according TO SIT DURING SESSIONS OF HOUSE part of defense costs. to Army standards but they would serve the purpose until others could be provided. Mrs. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I ask Mr. Speaker, I agree with the Chief unanimous consent that the Committee Executive that something must be done Mr. Speaker, that was a lot of good on Labor be permitted to sit while the to prevent inflation. The President and common sense. It has been estimated House is in session, during all of next the Secretary of the Treasury feel that that the cost of equipping one soldier week. by taking money away from the people with clothing and personal necessities for The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there through taxation they will have less to the first 6 months of service will be $45. objection? spend and that by reason thereof the On an 18-month service period the cloth There was no objection. demand for goods will not be so great as ing allowance thus would be $135 and for The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under to cause unreasonably high or inflated 3 years $270. special order heretofore made, the Chair prices because of scarcity. All of us agree WHITE UNIFORMS recognizes the gentleman from Missouri .that when demand exceeds the supply of Now, everyone knows that a regular [Mr. BENNETT] for 30 minutes. any article, the price thereof becomes soldier has never had a clothing allow EXTRAVAGANT ARMY PURCHASES INDI- high. In this connection, Mr. Speaker, ance anwhere near this sum. No Member CATE AN A. E. F., INFLATION, AND I desire to point out the fact that the of Congress knows in complete detail RUIN Government itself is doing the very thing just what quantities we are buying of Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Speaker, ruthless that brings inflation. The excessive pur personal equipment. I have studied the dictators govern many countries, and, as chases by the War Department have had purchases since August 1940 and am con a result of ambition to extend their more to do with starting the inflation vinced that the Quartermaster Corps has power, war more destructive, cruel, and spiral than anything else. I submit, be cast caution to the winds and is buying ghastly than ever seen before drenches fore you lower the American standard of in the expectation of equipping an army the earth with blood of men, women, and living by increasing the cost of living, of not less than 10,000,000 men. I base children. In a time like this no nation the Government had better put its own my belief on the great quantities of cer is safe unless well prepared to defend house in order. If the present policy of tain special equipment bought. For in itself. the War Department continues, we will stance, some one must be out to train a During the campaign of 1940 I prom have scarcity of consumer goods and thus million cooks and bakers for the Army. ised the people of my district if they inflation regardless of th3 amount of If not, why have they bought over $3,- would elect me to Congress I would sup spending money we may force from the 800,000 worth of cooks' and bakers' coats port plans for strong national defense people by taxation and in spite of any and trousers? This is really something arid that I would do ·an in my power to price-control bill. The investigation I to think about. In the old days in the keep our country from taking part in have conducted has uncovered some Regular Army the cooks, bakers, kitchen other people's wars. Mr. Speaker, I startling facts, and I am convinced that police, and everybody else who worked ·have kept that promise, I have willing- the administration is really planning an with preparation of food was satisfied to ly supported every bill for our own na expeditionary force of 10,000,000 men. use sterilized flour sacks for aprons and tional defense but I have not, and will This, or graft, or incompetency consti towels. This dolling up Army cooks and not, surrender the right to insist that we tutes the only explanation of these pur bakers in white linen every time they pre secure a dollar's worth of labor or rna- chases in view of General Marshall's as pare a meal will not be of any conse . terial for every dollar of the taxpayers' sertion before the Senate Military Affairs quence when it comes to actual war. So money we spend. I am shocked, there Committee, we can defend the Western why should we buy enough uniforms to fore, to learn, that our defense program Hemisphere with approximately 1,720,- dress up the whole Army like a bunch of is managed by bunglers and honey 000 men. You pay your money and you Chicago white wings? Imagine an army combed with graft, inefficiency, and take your choice. Bewildering as most with every other man a cook or baker. waste. Since the second World War Army purchases are, because of the im In this city of Washington, containing started, Congress has .passed bills ap:.. mensity, present purchases have never over 1,000,000 souls, there are bakers who propriating more than $47,250,000,000 been equaled before in this country, even prepare bread, cakes, and pies for the for the defense of our country and to in time of war. My information is from ' · population here each day. Do you think help friendly nations. Yet, we are far official sources only. these bakers spend a million dollars a from the goal we hope to reach. Over A GENERAL SPEAKS year for coats and trousers? Do you $7,000,000,000 more is requested of Con think all the cooks in Baltimore, Wash Gen. Johnson Hagood, speaking before ington, and Philadelphia, for that matter, gress today. the . Military Affairs Committee of this Mr. Speaker, ·I have devoted consid spend a million dollars per year for their House on April12, 1933, pointed out that coats and trousers? This is a good time erable time to a study of our whole de it was neither advisable nor necessary to fense program. Because I favor ade to think things over. Where will these accumulate huge reserve stocks of cloth cooks' and bakers' uniforms wind up? quate national defense and am the rep ing, shoes, and equipment. He said: resent~tive of 300 ,000 people, I am not Surpluses, you know where they go. content to help authorize expenditure of Reduce clothing and equipment in the When the emergency is over we will have hard-earned savings and fail to see what hands of troops to the minimum peacetime an army store in every town and city of is accomplished thereby. I do not be requirements. It is manifest that whatever the land selling the surplus stocks in a lieve that any of our people will com else the Government may do in the matter of post-war depression just as we saw fol preparedness, it should have on hand, if pos lowing World War I. plain about burdensome taxes if neces sible, a large quantity of arms, ammunition, sary for national defense. The tax load uniforms, and so forth, and of distinctive MOSQUITO NETTING is already far heavier than any of us ever articles of equipment, such as cartridge belts. expected to see and it will be increased It is equally manifest that there is no mili During the 14 months and 10 days next year. However, the people have a tary necessity for maintaining corresponding preceding Armistice Day, 1941, the War right to complain when the administra stocks of other military supplies, such as Department spent more than $8,000,000 tion shows no genuine disposition to cur sho3s, underclothing, barb wire, typewriters, for mosquito bars and netting. The esti and similar property which the country at mated yardage is forty million, or enough tail nondefense spending and wastes a large could p:-oduce on short notice. to make two strips of cloth from Canada large percent of funds appropriated for The effort to make each soldier an indi national defense. I have complained to Mexico and two strips from the At vidual depot of reserve supp!ies was carried to lantic to the Pacific. Think of it. Thirty about this before and I shall continue to such excess in the last war that one man complain as long as this condition exists. arrived in France with nine pairs of shoes. yards of mosquito netting for each of a But even in ordinary tim<;s soldiers can be million five hundred thousand soldiers. TAXES FOR PRICE CONTROL WILL LOWER LIVING And the purchasing is still going on. STANDARDS seen with .four pairs of shoes which have never been worn. In a recent letter to the chairman· of BLANKETS AND BED CLOTHING the House Ways and Means Committee Further arguing against the building From September 1, 1940, to November the President said: up of reserve stocks of shoes, General Ha 11, 1941, the War Department purchased We must take immediate steps to absorb good, speaking of ordinary shoes avail $80,330,991 ·worth of blankets and bed a large amount of purchasing power through able in any shoe store, said: clothing. Now, no one can claim the 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9013 emergency found the Army without blan 495. Since none <>f the Army purchases put the socks into. Footwear purchases kets. There were millions of blankets of hats and caps are either felt or straw, include 14,190,-ooo pairs of service shoes, left -over from the first World War. Some it may be assumed that the hats and caps 400,000 pairs of leather boots, 2-30.000 of them were sold by the quartermaster purchased come principally from the pairs of rubber boots, 1,450,000 pairs of depot at Je1ferspnville, Ind .• last spring manufacturers indicated in the survey arctics, 6,992 pairs of ski boots, and an for as little as 15 cents each. I have seen made by the Bureau of the Census. The assortment of winter flying Ehoes, .felt these blankets. I have inspected them, Army purchases of hats and caps in the boots, and overshoes. SUfficient footwear and I know they were sold without much period from September 1, 1940, to No is on hand to provide ea.ch soldier with consideration as to the cost of replace vember 11, 1941. total $7.802,824. Thus 10 changes. ments. Army demands, as indicated by the con D;KAWERS RAINCOATS AND OVERCOATS tracts, amount to over 50 percent of the normal hat and cap purchases by the The War Department has purchased The Army officers must expect stormy almost 32,000,000 pairs of cotton drawers days ahead, for they have purchased entire civilian population, men and boys. Thus the hat and cap business has been and 10,000,000 pairs of woolen drawers. $30,484,269 worth of raincoats, overcoats, Purchases of 20,000JOOO cotton under and mackinaws during the past 14 brought a temporary boom through the bonanza of Army contracts. shirts do not match the drawer purchases, months. but no reason was given for the dis CLOTH KHAKI COTTON TROUSERS crepancy. ·These total purchases, costing When it comes to buying cloth, either The khaki cotton trousers are the sol about $27,000,000, would provide every cotton or woolen, muslin or duck, the dier's stand-by. Durable and easily enlisted man in the Army today with Quartermaster Corps has the all-time cleaned, they are one of the best items of about 50 items of underwear. record. On September 15. 1941, in one issue clothing. Between September 1, A1so ordered from Carson, Pirie & Scott single day they placed orders of 39,464,- 1940, and November 11, 1941, in addition & Co., of Chicago, were 10,678 fancy 540 yards of cotton twill uniform cloth, to the stocks on hand, the Quartermaster union suits at $6.42 each. khaki color, at a cost of $23,334,474. As Corps has bought about 14,000,000 pairs That the Army is being prepar-ed ·to near as I can estimate, the War Depart of khaki cotton trousers to take care of expect casualties is indicated in an item ment has bought over 600,000,000 yards one and a half million men. These trou for $3,042,534 worth of bath robes, of fabrics during the past 14 .months, sers, averaging 65 cents per pair, manu pajama suits, and convalescent suits. $9.511,329 enough to reach around the earth 14 facturing cost, account for of FLANNEL SHIRTING CLOTH AND SHIRTS times or manufacture 130,000,000 uni the funds spent for personal equipment. forms. The dyeing and finishing of 35,- But khaki cotton trousers are not the During the period between September 868,000 yards of cloth during October. onlY kind of trousers Uncle Sam has been 1, 1940, and November 11, 1941, the Army 1941 cost $4,303,051. buying for his boys. bought 27,198,197 yards of flannel shirt Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky. Mr. HERRINGBONE-TWILL TROUSERS ing cloth. On October 18, 1941. the War Speaker, will the gentleman yield? The Army in this same period pur Department announced the Philadelphia Mr. BENNETT. Yes. quartermaster depot was asking for in chased almost 4,000,000 pairs of herring formal bids on 12,600,000 yards of flannel Mr. ROBSION of Kentucky. Has the bone-twill trousers for $2,622.425. gentleman anything on what they paid a shirting. Thus the Army contemplates yard for the wool and cotton and other WOOL-SERGE TROUSERS the purchase of nearly 40,000,000 yards fabrics he has referred to? I would like They also bought serge and contracted <>f flannel shirting. This, I am informed, very much to have that. for the manufacture of wool trousers. is sufficient material to manufacture 30,- Mr. BENNETT. I have given the yard The contracts so ffl.r executed are for 000,000 flannel shirts. Again I say, it age of cloth together with the cost and it about 5,265,178 pairs at a cost of looks as if we are getting ready for a can be figured from that. $3,947,884. bigger Army than now authorized by law, Mr. KNUTSON. :Mr. Speaker, will the WINTER COMBAT TROUSERS The 27,079,347 yards of flannel already gentleman yield? The winter combat trousers are an bought cost the Government $48,504.~47. Mr. BENNETT. Yes. other new item. So far, <>nlY $206:260 The supply for which bids have been Mr. KNUTSON. Does it occur to the has been spent for about 240,000 pairs. asked will undoubtedly cost another $25,- gentleman that ·perhaps the ·New Deal WIN'l'Elt COl\OlAT JACKETS 000,000. Thus, the cloth alone for shirts has bought all this cloth to cover up their for our enlisted men will cost about $73.- The winter combat jacket is another 500,000. This is only part of. the cost, for mistakes? ·new item. So far, only 100,000 have been Mr. BENNE'IT. They could not hide the flannel has to be shrunk and made up ordered from the Philadelphia depot at into shirts, all of which costs more money. very well under mosquito netting but the a cost of $110,773. gentleman's point may be well taken with So far the Government has spent .$5,162.- respect to some of the other items bought · SOME SOCKS 788 for the actual manufacture and pro or "on order.'' During the last 14 months, at a cost curement of flannel shirts. S:nee the ac HUMAN BLOOD of $15,340,470, the Army has bought tual contract cost of making each shirt 77,807,626 pairs of socks, or more than is around 50 cents, the sum so far spent In United States Department of Labor 50 pairs, for each of 1,500,000 men now in ind:cates that over 10,000,000 shirts have Bulletin 260 you will find that in only 6 the Army. been turned over to the Quartermaster days, from October 20 to 25, the Army Mr. PLOESER. Mr. Speaker, will the Corps. bought $1,026,250 worth of human blood gentleman yield? KHAKI COTTON SHIRTS 'for transfusion purposes. This is only a Mr. BENNETT. Yes. small part of that already bought and yet Mr. PLOESER. Would the gentleman While the woolen or flannel OD shirt is to be purchased. Guess why? mind quoting again the :figures in re the accepted field shirt, for garrison and PEACHES spect to the tremendous number of socks summer service the khaki cotton shirt is During the week of Septerr_ber 27 to that the Army has produced? worn. Since the manufacturing cost of October 4, 1941, the Quartermaster Gen Mr. BENNETT. I say that during the khaki cotton F>hirts varies, but averages eral's office bought canned peaches in the last 14 months, at a cost of $15,340,470, about 50 cents, it is estimated that the amount o .. $877,616.79. the Army has bought 77,807,626 pairs of $7,989,254 spent for khaki cotton shirts placed not less than 15,978,508 shirts in CAP AND HAT PuRCHASES socks, or more than 50 pairs for each of the hands of the Army in the period be The Department of Commerce, Bureau the approximately 1,500,000 men now in the Army. tween September 1, 1940, and November of the Census, in a report issued Decem 11, 1941. ber 28, 1940, gave the data ~.-n the manu Mr. PLOESER. Then, Mr. Speaker, I facture of men's and boys' caps, except trust that we will get an Army with a GLOVES AND MITTENS felt and straw, for the entire United good sock. In the period from September 1, 1940, States during the year 1939. The Bureau SHOES to November 11, 1941, the sum of $12~- reported that 270 establishments were Mr. BENNETT. Mr;Speaker, the War 672,000 was expended by the War Depart engaged h manufacture of such head Department has purchased more than ment for gloves and mittens. Some of geal· and that the total value of their 16,000,000 pairs of shoes and other foot the fur gloves cost as mueh as $15.72 per products for 1939 amounted to $11,605,- gear at a cost of $59,510,075 to date, to pair and some of the cotton gloves as 9014 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE NOVEMBER 19 little as 31 cents per p:iir. The various eral is simply carrying out orders that 3,000,000 work suits______$3, 159, 979 types of gloves purchased from Septem come from above. 2,000,000 work coats______2, 580. 075 4,000,000 work trousers______4, 396, 242 ber 1, 1940, to October 23, 1941, were: · Mr. BENNETT. I thank my colleague 400,000 herringbone twill work "6,000,000 leather gloves ______$6, 494, 604 from Missouri for his contribution. suits______575,086 200,000 horsehide gloves______257, 665 I want to say that if this country keeps Miscellaneous mechanics' work 5,000,000 wool gloves______5, 079, 289 following the advice of the corLgenital suits------728, 818 230,000 cotton gloves______69, 152 spendthrifts much longer this Nation will, Fur mittens______275, 740 1rotal------11,440,200 Winter flying gloves______105, 989 indeed, be W!'ecked. Mocha leather gloves______3, 327 Mr. MICHENER. Mr. Speaker, will WOOL SERVICE COATS Total ______12,285,766 the gentleman yield? In the period from September 1, 1940, Mr. BENNETT. I yield to the gentle to November 11, 1941, the Army spent In 1939 the products of the entire glove man from Michigan. $22,801,930 for wool service coats. Since industry amounted to but $69,377,000. Mr. MICHENER. I did not hear quite · the cost averaged around $4 per coat, it The Army purchases already amount to all the gentleman said. Has· the gentle may be assumed that they have bought approximately one-fifth. of the entire man includerl in his list of purchases for over 5,700,482 wool service coats for one business. Woolen and knitted goods have the Military Establishment the item of and a half million men. been seriously affected by these great human blood? HERRINGBONE TWILL JACKETS Government purchases, and an inspec Mr. BENNETT. I gave those figures a In addition to the coats, herringbone tion of reports would make any man few moments ago. Yes, sir; they bought twill jackets numbering 3,478,000 have shudder who is acquainted with the fa $1,026,250 worth in the 6 days from Octo been bought. This, I am inclined to be miliar spiral followed by inflation. ber 20 to 25 this year. It is for trans lieve, represents only manufacturing cost, for the Army has been buying millions of BARRACKS AND FIELD BAGS fusion purposes. Mr. SHORT. If the gentleman will yards of herringbone twills. The barracks bag is used by every sol CANVAS LEGGINGS dier. A million men will need a million yield further, of course, I think the Quar termaster General is really to be con During the period under discussion the bags. The Government evideutly is look Army spent $4,860,240 for canvas leg ing ahead to big things. Between Sep gratulated upon the fine work that he is doing, because he is simply acting under gings. Since the average cost was about tember 1, 1940, and November 11, 1941, orders from someone above. I happen to 70 cents per pair, this means that in ad they have spent $3,535,2G2 for· barracks dition to the previous supply, not less bags alone. Since the barracks bags cost know General Gregory, the Quartermas ter General. I know him to be a very . than 6,900,000 pair of leggings have been about 50 cents each, this indicates that secured for present and future use. the supply now on hand is over 7,000,000. fine man and a very able man, but we might as well be frank and forthright NECKTIES During the same.Period the sum of $749,- and hon· c.;t with the American people and One million nine hundred and fifty 296 wa~ spent for field bags. This bought, accordmg to official press releases, about tell them the truth instead of trying to three thousand eight hundred and three 800,000 field bags. corkscrew them into this war through the dollars were spent for black and khaki The SPEAKER pro tempore. The back door by indirection anc: trickery. colored neckties. Since the cotton khaki time of the gentleman from Missouri has Mr. 'BENNETT. I thank the gentle ties cost, from 4 to 8 cents each and the expired. man. I am not attacking any individual, black ties around 23 cents each, I esti Mr. SHORT. Mr. Speaker, I ask unan but am simply giving the facts and hope mate net less than 13,000,000 ties were that whoever is at•fault will be brought bought. imous consent that the gentleman be HANDKERCHIEFS allowed to continue for 10 additional to task. Every Member of this House knows that the Quartermaster General, From my study of purchases by the minutes. War Department, I estimate that over The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there with his great responsibilities, cannot objection? personally look after all of this stuff. 20,000,000 cotton handkerchiefs were re There was no objection. But somebody in that department is ' ceived for the $1,143,459 spent for that carrying out orders and wasting the peo item. Mr. SHORT. Mr. Speaker, .will the· . • TOWELS , gentleman kindly yield? ple's substance in a manner ·never seen! before in the hi~tory of the· world. I ' Bath and face towels cost $1,481,97B, Mr. BENNETT. Yes. · agree that if the ·administration wants an to which I do not object. Since "clean Mr. SHORT. Mr. Speaker, everyone A. E. F., we ought to be told about it now~ liness is next to godliness," !.hope our . knows, of course, that statistics are more On the other hand, if w.e are not going. boys always keep clean, out of trouble, or less dry and uninteresting. No one to have an army of sufficient size for and out of other people's wars. can get very much excited or emotionall3 aggression, we C\Ught not to be buying FIELD DESKS . wrought up over a table of logarithms or equipment for one. Congress and the The troops have been provided with any set of figures that are presented, but people are not being told the whole truth, 12,000 field desks. Some cost as much it seems to me that the gentleman from jt appears. · as $20.72 each. The total spent amounts Mis~ouri has done a valuable piece of · Mr. MICHENER. I was especially im to $209,000 for this item of field equip work for the membership of this House pressed with the item of blood. We can ment. and for the country at large. It shows speak' in a .jocular way about socks and SPECIAL ITEMS OF EQUIPMENT , that he has been very diligent and pains-: mosquito netting and' 'clothes, but when Besides the . regular items purchased taking and careful in amassing this array we consider· the fact tlia:t over a million, : for the sleeping comfort of the soldi~r. of figures, and more than any speechesj . dollars' worth of human blood has beent th& War Department~ has bought sleepi~g. . that have been made by Members of .. purchased for transfusion purposes, to be; bags costing $1,431,3Q9 and waterproof Congress or by high administrative om-: - beddi_ng· rolls costing $821,459. cials, I think that the figures ·and facts,, used where the boys have been wounded• and gassed and maimed, it seems to me PARKAS . the data, that the gentleman has pre this program presents· a serious aspect to sented to us here this .afternoon speak In order to take care of the soldier in most eloquently and convincingly that our people. the frozen waste.s of Ala .sk~;~., Siberia, or we are preparing to build an army of Mr. BENNET!'. I thank the gentle elsewhere in the world, parkas, both of five or six million men, although the man from Michigan. He is right. canvas and fur, have been purchased. Chief of Staff says that an army of a WORK CLOTHING The prices vary greatly on this item, but million and a half men can successfully · During the training period and when in to November 11, 1941, the sum spent for defend the Western Hemisphere. I think the field the Army does a great deal of parkas amounts to $2,266,497. The prices that is a conclusion that all of us are work. Work clothes of various types are run from $7 to $24.25 each. It is esti forced to reach from the gentleman's provided for the men.. During the period mated that 225,000 have been acquired, very able address. I am sure that the from September 1, 1940, to October 23, including 519· fur parkas at $114.82 each. gentleman from Missouri does not want 1941, the sum of $11,400,200 was spent for FIELD JACKETS to criticize unduly the Quartermaster - work suits, coats, and trousers, as fol-· ·One of the newest items of issue to Corps, because the Quartermaster Gen- lows: .the enlisted men of the field forces is the 1941 CONGRESSIONAL RECQRD-HOUSE 9015 field jacket. While we have only about But so far I have found none of these the entire Western Hemisphere approxi one and a quarter million men in the symptoms in the Medical Corps. mates only 1,720,000 men and that he, Army who would normally be is_sued this Imagine, if you can, gentlemen, the and the Commander in Chief, have long special item of clothing, the Quarter Medical Corps spending over half a mil denied to Congress and the people any master Corps has bought them by the lion dollars for clinical thermometers intention of sending another American million. In fact, in 1 day, the orders alone. Their purchases, and these are expeditionary force of millions to the placed were for 1,633,000, which is more not all of them, between November 19, .slaughter pens of Europe, Africa, or than enough to eqUip every man in the 1940, and November 11, 1941, amounted - Asia. Army, including officers. The total pur to $600,772. These orders, and repeat or Condensed summary of clothing and personal chases of field j'ackets to October 23, 1941, ders, were divided among eight firms in comfort items purchased by Army, Sept. 1, in round numbers, were 4,225,000 for New York and New Jersey. I am in 1940. to Nov. 11. 1941 $7,425,491. formed that buying in large quantities Shoes, boots, and footwear, TABLEWARE a good clinical thermometer may be 16,000,000 pairs ______$59, 510, 075. 00 An interesting item is the tableware bought for about 33 cents. This means Underwear, shirts and draw- that has been bought. For knives, forks, that they have bought more than a mil ers, 72,000,000 items______37, 056, 905. 00 and spoons the Army has spent $1,877,660 lion and five hundred thousand ther Wool service coats, 5,700,482_ 22,801,930.00 for an estimated 12,000,000 articles of mometers, or one for each man in the Socks, wool and cotton, 77,- silver-plated ware. Army. Enough, in fact, if the truth were 807,626 pairs ------15, 340, 470. 00 Raincoats, all types, estimate, UNUSUAL PURCHASES known, to make every taxpayer's · tem perature rise a point or two. I predict 4,000,000 ------14, 099, 986. 00 Among articles of doubtful utility to a there will be a lot of skeletons in the Work clothing, approximate- fighting army we find such things have ly 10,000,000 items______11, 451, 585. 00 Medical Corps closets when this emer-· Gloves and mittens. all types, been bought as. shotguns, clay pigeons gency is over and the facts are fully re and skeet outfits. One order for clay approximately 12,000,000__ 12,672,237.00 vealed. And, by the way, they bought Barracks bags, 7,000,000_____ 3, 535, 262. 00 pigeons alone amounted to $30,520. One a few skeletons at that, $5,750 worth, to Field bags, 800,000______749, 296. 00 order for skeet outfits amounted to $9,- be exact. Khaki cotton trousers, 14,- 940. From looks of these purchases, we FOR TEETH 000,000 pairs------9, 511,320.00 are getting ready for a shotgun war Food charts have been bought for Herringbone twill trousers, somewhere on the sporting front. Or, approximately 4,000,000 maybe, a shotgun marriage of democracy $255,525. Dental chairs represent $418,- pairs______2,622,425.00 460, and other dental equipment cost $3,- Wool-serge trousers, 5,265,- and communism, all on account of a lit 837,953. Of this latter figure $1,548,953 tle monarchy. 178 pairs------3, 947,884.00 was for forceps alone. The total amount Khaki cotton shirts, 15,978,- WOOL TOQUES spent for hospital equipment and sup _508______7,989,254.00 A very recent item introduced into plies is well over $50,000,000. Not bad Flannel shirts, 10,000,000. 30,- army clothing is the wool toque de to look after the needs of a peacetime 000,000 more on order for signed by one of the men who went to army composed of only the flower of the an additional $48,712,71L_ 5, 163, 788. 00 Parkas, 225,000 ------2, 266, 497. 00 Little America with the Byrd expedi Nation's manhood. Field jackets, 4,225,000______7, 425, 491.00 tion. While I do not intimate we are ON THE HORSE AND BUGGY FRONT Canvas leggings, 6,900,000 going to send an A. E. F. to Antarctica, pairs______4,860,240.00 or even to the Arctic, nevertheless, the· Some years ago military experts said Neckties, exceeding 13,300,- Army has bought 16,444 wool toques for the horse was obsolete in modern war 000, as of Nov. 17, 194L___ 1, 953,803.00 $100,700. Now a toque is some kind of fare. They forgot the horo:;e was still a Handkerchiefs, approximate- a cross between a hood and a cape. It is polo and society necessity around Army ly 20,000,000______1, 143, 459. 00 just another piece of experimental equip posts. So, here we are preparing for a Jackets, herringbone twill, horse and buggy and polo contest. I do 3,478,000------2, 583,397.00 ment someone saw fit to have tried out Tableware, silver-plated, _12,- _ at public expense for national defense . . not know the total amount spent for horse equipment but the purchase of 000,000 articles______1, 877, 660. 00 WATCHES Cooks' and bakers' uniforms, saddles up to April 30, 1941, amounted to While nearly every man who goes into approximately 1,000,000 __ _ 3,800,000.00 over $450,000. Sixty-one thousand hal Wool torques, 16,444 ______100,700.00 the Army has some kind of a watch, the ters cost $148,000. Blankets, bedclothing, etc __ _ Army seems to need quite a few watches 80, 330, 991. 00 WHAT'S THE SCORE? Beds, cots, mattresses, etc __ 22,654,390.00 for the defense of the Nation. In fact, Overcoats and mackinaws __ _ 1'6,384,283. 00 they !Jought $396,830 worth in the last The War Department seems to have Winter combat trousers ____ _ 206,260.00 13 months. ' anticipated every possible ·want and com Caps, hats, and headgear ___ _ 7,802, 824.00 SODA FOUNTAIN fort of our soldiers, asleep or awake, from Bathrobes, pajamas, etc ____ _ 3,042,534.00 The War Department has bought some head to foot. With this policy I am Jn. Flying suits, jackets, trou- soda fountains with carbonators, to be accord. But, I ask again, in all fairness,· sers------2,364,545. 00 us€d in the District of Columbia where how many men are we buying for? The Sleeping bags ------1,431,309.00 authorized stren2th of the Regular Army, Waterproof bedding rolls ___ _ 821,459. 00 the ·brass hats live·, for· the modest sum Towels ______1, 481, 977.00 of' $73,417.50. the Regular Army Reserves, the-National Winter combat jackets ______Guard in Federal service, and the selec 110,773. 00 ORGANS AND HYMNALS Watches------ 396,830.00 tive service trainees, including officers, is Soda fountains------73, 417.50 The War Department has bought not over 1,600,000 men. 2,400 folding organs and great quanti By way of summary, I will set out here Total ______369, 565,257. 50 ties of hymnals. That is fine. I want in table form and compiled from the War our soldier sons to go to church. How Department's own releases, r_list of Army NoTE.-Purchase prices frequently include ever, I pause to wonder how much re purchases from September 1., 1940, to No only the cost of cutting, making, and trim ligion they can get from these hymnals ming the clothing items, because. the Gov vember 11, 1941. It should oe noted that, ernment supplies the cloth and linings. and word books which cost Uncle Sam this discussion and these startling figures as much as $39 each. Yes, if there is that do not include purchases by the Navy, Summary of cloth and fabrtcs purchased by much graft in buying hymn books I won Marines, and Coast Guard. Each of the United-States Army from Sept. 1, 1940, der just how qualified from a moral these branches of the service has a story to Nov. 11, 1941 standpoint the Army officers are to say all its own. Too, it should be remem Wool-serge cloth, 39,000,000 what churches our boys can and cannot bered that Army officers buy their own yards (20,500,000 yards under attend. uniforms, that these figures are for a bid Oct. 18>------$101,512, 478 MEDICAL CORPS HAS "!'HE BUYING COMPLEX 14 Flannel shirting, 27,198,197 period of less than months, that the yards· (12,600,000 yards under Usually in an organization the size of buying is still going on, and that the bid)______48,712,711 the present United States Army there Arniy had much equipment before this Wool . overcoating, 6,800,000 will be units that practice the principles current buying spree started. Further, y& ds______16,035,541 of thrift and economy. They will · spend that the size of the Army estimated by Wool lining cloth, 12,000,000 frugally and they will buy cautiously. General Marshall as adequate to defend ya~ ds------18,268,842 9016 CONGRESSI.ONAL RECORD-HOUSE NoVEMBER 19 Summary of cloth ana fabrics purchased by have also bought 9,728,552 additional LAND PURCHASES the United States Army from Sept. 1, 1940, hand and bath towels in the hist 3 days. While the Government owns hundreds to Nov. 11, 1941--Continued But, this story has no end. of millions of acres of land in the West Elastique cloth, wool, 2,000,000 CAMPS AND CANTONMENTS ern and Southwestern States, much of yards----~------$5,970,930 Mr. Speaker, I realize that the matter which would be su:table for training an Elast!que}ards______shirting, 500,000 _ army and good for little else, very .little, 837,500 of army camps and cantonments has little Melton, 2,500,000 yards ______8,746,575 to do with a bill designed to curb ex comparatively speaking, was used for Doeskin, 489,000 yards ______1,982,575 cessive purchases and thus retard or pre such purposes. On the contrary, during Mackinaw cloth, wooL..: ______159,529 vent inflation. However, I do think that the fiscal year which ended last June 30 ~ersey ______---- 89,700 a few words relative to waste, graft, and the War Department acquired by pur Wool suiting, 862,146 yards ____ _ 2,102,244 inefficiency exhibited in the purchase of chase, condemnation, or transfer 7,647,- Wool cloth, 100,000 yards______264,625 land and building of training centers and 551 acres of valuable farm land, and in ~aki cotton-twill uniform ordnance plants fits very nicely with a addition thereto leased an additional cloth, 45,158,892 yards______25, 723, 448 1,177,506 acres for long terms. Some o_f Herringbone-twill cotton cloth, discussion of purchase of supplies by the 49,823,000 yards______16, 331, 864 War Department. the land under lease, however, ~as of Cotton uniform cloth, 61,060,000 The whole situation may well be sum such a character that the rents in 25 yards______28,927,79~ marized by quoting from Report No. 480, years will exceed the value of the land Wind-resistantyards ______cloth, 10,720,000 _ part 2, of the Senate committee set up itself many times over. Mr. Speaker, 5,557,447 under Senate Resolution No. 71 to investi many more instances of mismanagement, Cottonyards ______lining cloth, 32,000,000 _ gate the national-defense program. The graft, and· waste could be given, but ex 8,001,499 report says: amples serve only to confuse the subject. Cotton-twill cloth (tent), 22,- May I sum up by saying this bungling 285,000 yards ______5,540,532 The cost of World War camps per man naki cotton cloth, 48,000,000 was only $216, whic:t was the subject of great . in selection and construction of camps yards ______·------9,4~3,987 criticism at the time as being excessive in and cantonments alone is estimated by Cotton drill, bleached and un- amount. The present camps are not perma authorities to have cost our tax-burdened bleached, 32,300,000 yards___ 6, 971, 482 nent camps. Approximately 427,113 men will citizens over $100,000,000. Cotton cloth, 40',900,000 yards__ 14·, 771,933 be housed in tents, at an average cost of IN CONCLUSION $481' ·per man, and 739,324 men will be Canvas786 yards padding, ______cotton, 6,303,- _ 1,064,841 housed permanently in barracks at an aver Mr. Speaker, I .am not unmindful of Felt, under-collar lining, 12,000 age cost of $697 per man. In the opinion of the fact that remarks I have made here yards ______·------'------.72,531 the .committee, this is an extremely high today will be both approved and criti lnsigni'a felt, :5,000 yards ______·91, 398 figure. cized. I can- take it either way. Un Covert cloth, 280,000 yards ___ _ 655,841 I agree it is too high. fortunately, w~ have among us .p1any. Cotto., webbing, 8,350,000 yards. 835,509 who . are so intolerant and un-American Cotton jean cloth, 3,000,000 READING FROM THE RECORD as to brand any criticism of the current yards------~------~------ 666,057 Mr. Speaker, the manner in which in Cotton duck, tent and 0. D., administration · as political and an aid 64,000,000 yards ______22,256,845 competent men were often employed at ·to foreign powers. But, I feel that it is Silk parachute cloth ______2,107,425 high wages, paying big membership fees my duty to be informed and to inform Airplan~ cloth ______, ___ _ 477,921 and dues to private· organizations for the my constituents or employers ·as fully as Ordnance Cloth ______497,346 Muslin ______privilege of working on public projects possible. They sent me to Wash~ngton Target cloth ______62,728 being paid for with their own tax money, knowing that I would be on the job and 258,675 · is familiar to all. In this connection, I alert to protect their interests regardless Miscellaneous cloth ______104,594 shall cite only one typical but illuminat of politics and with an eye on what is Mosquito netting, 40,000,000 8,000,000 ing incident. In connection with testi best for America. yards ------mony about construction of Camp Bland I submit, Mr. Speaker, that the War Total ______363,144,944 ing, on page 1115, part IV, Hearings of Department should either voluntarily, or the Truman National Defense Investigat by compulsion, provide Congress with an Mr. Speaker, after arranging the fore ing Committee, we find the following dis accurate list of all articles bought. _If going tables I have learned that just last cussion between Senators Brewster and these abuses, a few of which I have Saturday, November 15, 1941, the War Truman and H. J. Steelman, construction pointed out in this speech, are not Department has placed another rush or manager for the contractors who were stopped now, when this emergency is der. This particular order to which I · doing this particular job on a cost-plus over there will be a repetition of the refer is for $34,000,000 additional uni fixed-fee plan, that is, the more the job scandals 'of World War· days. Already, form and shirt materials. Thus we see cost the larger their fee: I fear, the day- will return when there that t.he total expenditures which I have Senator TRUMAN. Is it true that certain men will be an Army and Navy store at every been able to discover since September 1, were induced to join the carpenters' miion cross roads in the Nation trying to un 1940, and enumerated here, amounts to and to pay a $50 fee and then were a:nowed to load these surpluses on the people as war $766,710,201.50. go out to the woods and sleep a: _d not work profiteers and millionaires sit back in This does riot include many items pur at all, yet draw their pay.? ease on the bags of money filched from Mr. STEELMAN. That i:; true. There were our pockets while attention was focused chased in the last few days as the spend men found sleeping. We had 5,000 carpenters ing and buying continues its merry pace. working, so-called carpenters. on other matters during·this emergency. For your information, a few of these Senator TRUMAN. Saw-and-hatchet men is With all of this graft and fraud tak items, however, not includeti in my sum wha't they are. · ing place you may well ask if our Army, mary include-150,000 more bathrobes, 690 Mr. STEELMAN. Well, plowboys and straw like th~t of the late Republic of France, more folding organs at $45 each; 1,046,- berry pickers. is so rotten at the heart as to jeopard~ze 000 mattress covers at $1.50 each, . and Senator BREWS!I'ER. They signed up with the the national safety? I do not think so. . tot·a.ling $1,569,000. This latter purchase union before they _went . to work on the pay However, some changes are in order. roll usually? was all made in just 3 days' time. I nnd Mr. STEELMAN. Yes, sir. After the recent maneuvers in the South, that the total expenditure to date for Senator BREWSTER. And paid $6.50 down? several officers, including some generals, clay pigeons is $45,000. ·In the last few Mr. STEELMAN. Whatever it was. were quietly fired for demonstrated in days they have bought 1,700,000 adqi Senator BREWSTER. Then a dollar a day competence. Yet, it is apparent, incom tional field caps for a total of $314,000. until they had paid their $50? petence ~Y exist in the Army an(! not Also, 50,000 aluminum stock soup pots, Mr. STEELMA,N. Either that or so much a be confined to field maneuvers. To be enough for an army of 6,000,000 men if week after .the first week's wages. specific, it would appear that some of the one soup pot is used by each company as Senator BREWSTER. Yes; and the same pro typewriter, swivel-chair generals are in cedure was followed with all other trades? is customary. The Army h~s . bought Mr. STEELMAN. Yes, sir. competent too,. if not downright dishon $251.868 worth of platinum for .the medi Senator BREWSTER. You employed all to- est. It is our duty to help expose these cal corps. That ought to make a lot of gether some.thing around 30,000? · few and their works so that the public tooth fillings. The Army has bought - Mr. STEELMAN. Thirty-five thousand, or. can have confidence in· the great major 100,000 butcher knives for $35,000. They something like that. · ity of public ··servants who are able and 1941 ·coNGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE 9017 faithful to their trust. On this evidence, cause that committee is going to con and Coast Guard disabled in line df duty Heaven help our Republic if generals, ex sider that sort of legislation very inten as a direct result of armed conflict, while . posed as incompetent, should get elected sively, engaged in extra-hazardous service or to Congress; · Mr. SHORT. Of course the gentle while the United States is engaged in More accurate words were never man is getting this permission by unani war, and for the dependents of those spoken than those uttered by candidate mous cozYsent, so I do not see how it can who die from such cause, and for other Roosevelt in 19~2. I quote: establish a precedent. purposes." Too often in recent history liberal govern Mr. SUMNERS of Texas. Well, it COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE ments have been wrecked on the rocks of does not bother me if the gentleman tells loose fiscal policy. We must avoid this me it is all right. The Committee on Agriculture will danger. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there have hearings on Monday, November 24, objection to the request of the gentleman 1941, at 10 a. m., in room 1324, House Mr. Speaker, no government has per Office Building, on various bills· pending manently survived. Shall we permit. our from Virginia? There was no objection. before the committee for relief of dis Republic to be wrecked on rocks of loose tressed agricultural areas. fiscal policy? EXTENSION OF REMARKS In the dark and difficult days which Mr. MARTIN J. KENNEDY. · Mr. CoMMITTEE ON THE MERCHANT MARINE lie ahead for our Republic, let it not be Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that A.ND FISHERIES said that the Congressman from the I may extend my own remarks in the The Committee on the Merchant ·Ma Sixth Missouri Congressional Di.strict RECORD and include therein a short eu rine and Fisheries will hold a public hear failed to recognize at a distance, and logy on former Justice Brandeis. ing on Tuesday, November 25, 1941, at 10 point out to the people, those unwelcome The SPEAKER pro tempore. • Is there a. m., on House Joint Resolution 246, to . cotisiris, excessive army purchases, infla- objection? authorize the Maritime Commission to tion, graft", debt, taxes, price control, and There was no objection. sell two merchant vessels to the Govern war, that have wrecked many a nation Mr. MARTIN J. ' KENNEDY. Mr. ment of the Republic of Eire. and which-unless the door is closed upon · ·speaker, I make the further unanimous them now-will make of the America"n re consent request that I be permitted to EXECUTIVE ·coMMUNICATIONS, ETC. publics a wreck the like of which this extend my remarks in the RECORD and . . world has nev.er seen. include therein ·a copy of a letter that I 1088. Under clause 2 of rule XXIV, a [Here the gavel fell.J am mailing tonight to the Governor of letter from the Attorney General of the REREFERENCE OF BILL -my State concerning conditions in that United States, transmitting a recommen dation with respect to the title of the Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, · part of New York called Harlem. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there United States to certain land claims by I desire to submit a unanimous-consent the Northern Pacific Railway Co., was _request. objection? There was no objection. taken from the Speaker's table and re I would like the attention of the ferred to the Committee on the Public gentleniari from Texas [Mr. SuMNERs], ENROLLED BILL SIGNED Lands. chairman of the Committee on the Judi Mr. KiRWAN, from the Committee on ciary, and the gentleman from Michigan Enrolled Bills, reported that that com REPORTS OF COMMITTEES ON PUBLIC [Mr. MICHENER]. On yesterday 1' intro mittee had examined and found truly BILLS AND RESOL~ONS duced H. R. 6066, having for its title to enrolled a bill of the House of the follow diminish the cause of labor disputes in . Under clause 2 of rule XIII, reports of ing title, which was thereupon signed by committees were delivered to the Cler}c defense industries. That bill was re the Speaker: ferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. for printing and reference to the proper H. R. 4795. An act to amend the Hawaiian calendar, as follows: After consultation with the chairman of Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended,· . the Committee on Labor, I find that it is Mr. McGEHEE: Committee of conference by amending sections 203 (4), 208 (3). 209, . on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses. the purpose of that committee to give 213, 215, 220, and 222 thereof and by adding thereto a new section to be numbered sec H. R. 1852. A bill for the relief of Fred . consideration to that type of legislation Weybret, Jr., and others (Rept. No. 1423). during the next week. The committee · tion 225, all relating to the powers, duties, and functions of the Hawaiian Homes Com Ordered to be printed. feels that it cannot give consideration Mr. McGEHEE: Committee of conference mission. to that bill because the bill is not before on the disagreeing votes of the two House~. the Labor Committee. ADJOURNMENT H. R. 4270. A bill for the relief of Margaret I therefore ask unanimous consent, Mr. Mr. SMITH of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, M. Cutts (Rept. · No. 1424}. Ordered to. be Speaker, that the Committee on the Judi I move that the House do now adjourn. printed. . Mr. McGEHEE: Committee of conference ciary be discharged 'from further consid The motion was agreed to; accord on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses.. eration of the bill H. R. 6066, and that ingly . A bill for the relief of Auto it be rereferred to the Committee on the House, pursuant to its previous order, matic Temperature Control Co., Inc. (Rept. Labor. adjourned until Friday, November 21, No. 1425) . Ordered to be printed . .The SPEAKER pro tempbre