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.TO Dr» Cteffrie FROM [Chairman Eccles REMARKS: This is the matter about which I talked to you on the phone. CHAIRMAN'S OFFICE Mr. Murdock called Mr. Clayton's office this morning ana wanted your attention brought to the attached, marked in red pencil. Mr. Murdock thinks that this is a very shocking statement and that a r^uly should be made to it and inasmuch as Congress i adjourn any day now, that the reply should be ¥ ma^e immediately. He suggests that you either write a letter to him as coming from you which he could insert in the Record, or that you prepare a letter which he could use as his own and insert in the Record. He would like to have the letter by tomorrow. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL The Chickasaw Nation will always remember with gratitude the friendship you have ever manifested for our people, and wo are honored to call you brother. May the Great Spirit of our forefathers surround you with His presence always. The ChickasawB have spoken, RECORD—APPENDIX AUGUST 1,1939 ism, that the attack will come from within the United States like an evil cloud which at first appears threatening and then develops into a devastating storm, and that the base from which this evil force is operating and upon which it JESSIE B , MOORE, may rely for reserves is Sh Mexico, a country which is now Sccretary-Treasnrcr, Chickasaw Tribal Protective Association, in the nearly complete control of the Communists. Official Organ of the Chickasaw Nation. In order to clarify the issue, I shall publish a list of organig-..-s,.. ,;.'•':•::••" ••..•••..• , , :; ••:• - • • • . • , • —•. . • •• t:;;.,::, :—1— zations which are led by radicals and which will be employed Invisible Government in attempted conversion of the Government as now contemplated by the Communists and so published in their own papers. This is not a secret, for no one is bolder than the EXTENSION OF REMARKS Communist, and no one is blinder to this danger than tho OP present Executive. The organizations, their chairman and leaders, are: H O N . J. T H O R K E L S O N American League for Peace and Democracy, 268 Fourth OF MONTANA Avenue; Dr. Harry F. Ward (chairman), R. M. Lovett, Earl IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Browder, Clarence Hathaway. Tuesday, August 1,1939 Amalgamated Clothing Workers (C. I. O.), 15 Union Mr. THORKELSON. Mr. Speaker, the United States Square, New York City;-Sidney Hillman (president), Jacob Congress will haye much to answer for in its failure to S. Potofsky. American Association for Social Security, 41 Union Square^, recognize that business must be operated differently in a republican form of government than in an imperialistic form New York City; Abraham Epstein (secretary), Bishop P. J. McConnell. of government. American Civil Liberties Union, 31 Union Square, New Congress will have much to answer for in its failure to adhere strictly to the fundamental principles upon which York City; Dr. H. P. Ward, Roger N. Baldwin, Arthur Garthe Government must rely in order to be preserved as a field Hays, Robert W. Dunn. American Federation of Teachers, Local No. 5, 114 East republic; in failure to realize that we are gradually drifting away from sound regulated management, into an uncon- Sixteenth Street, New York City; C. J. Hendley (president), trolled mass management, which will be directed by theo- Rev. Jerome Davis (national president), Dr. Bernhard Stern. American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, 100 retical planning; in failure to understand that the present directing power is socialistic and that the guiding influence Fifth Avenue,. New York City; Rev. Herman F. Reissig (chairman), Charles Recht, Carol Weiss King. is communistic; in failure to understand that this moveAmerican Friends of the Chinese People, 168 West Twentyment is directed by a race that is not interested in our people but is instead set to secure a safe place for storage third Street, New York City; M. S. Stewart (chairman), M. of its gold; in failure to understand that the movement of Forsyth, Prof". R. M. Lovett, George S. Counts. American Friends of the Soviet Union, 461 Fourth Avenue, gold to the United States is deliberate and under the same management, and may be moved out faster than it came New York City; Corliss Lamont, A. A. Heller (treasurer). American Student Union, 112 East Nineteenth Street; in; in failure to understand that the gold now in the United States is here because the invisible government does not Joseph P. Lash (secretary), Celeste Strack (units in 300 control Germany, Italy, and Japan, and is therefore fearful colleges). that this gold may fall into the hands of those powers that American Youth Congress, 55 West Forty-second Street, have divorced themselves from the international money New York City (set up by Y. C. L., 634 Sixth Avenue, New changers in the invisible government; in failure to realize York City); W. Hinckley (chairman), Joseph P. Lash. that the present agitation for war is directed by the money Young Communist League, 464 Sixth Avenue, New Yorit changers to force these rebellious powers in line so that City; .Carl Ross, Celeste Strack, Angelo Herndon. they and their own tribe may control the world by the Communist Workers School, 31 East Twelfth Street, New power of gold. York City; A. Markoff (director), J. R. Brodsky, Dr. H. In failure to realize that the President may be the instru- Selsan, L. Boudin, H. Sacker, Irving Schwab. men .he invisible government, as Kerensky was in Russia, Co-Operative League of the United States of America, 167 only to be superseded by another Lenin when. the invisible West Twelfth Street, New York City (Moscow affiliate); Dr. government's organized army, composed of the Communists J. P. Warbusse, president. and anarchists, attempts to take control of the Nation; Communist Party, United States of America, 35 East in failure to recognize that the now popular appeal to the. Twelfth Street, New York City; W. Z. Foster (chairman), masses, in which the communistic proponents advocate Gov- Earl Browder (general secretary), H. Benjamin, W. Weirier, ernment ownership, unreasonable interracial relations, li- J. W. Ford; A. W. Berry, A. MarkofL cense and immorality, dissension and strikes, are for no Congress of Industrial Organizations, New York State other purpose than to fool the American people, to keep Council, 1133 Broadway, New York City; John L. Lewis, them unorganized and weak so that they may be overpow- national president; New York State, A. S. Haywood, ered by the organized Communists led by privately employed president. stooges of the internationalists; in failure to recognize that China Aid Council, 268 Fourth Avenue, New York City; the attack upon our Government will come from within, and M. Forsyth, J. Waterman Wise, Rabbi S> S. Wise, M. Stewthat it is already well organized, subtly, to be sure, but for art, J. P. Lash, J. P. Davis. that very reason a greater menace. Communist Workers Bookshop, 50 East Thirteenth Street, In failure to understand that the so-called liberals among New York City. the teaching staffs of the colleges and in the employ of the Daily Worker, 50 East Thirteenth Street, New York City; Federal Government are deluded victims or real employees Clarence Hathaway, editor; 120,000 Sunday circulation. placed in those positions by the invisible government by Federated Press, 30 Irving Place, New York City; Prank stealth to promote their diabolical*schemes of destruction L. Palmer, president. Serves 104 newspapers. and conversion of the United States into a proletarian state; Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists, and Techin failure to understand that this movement is general, and nicians (C. L O.); M. E. Scherer, vice president; L. A. Berne, conducted through the subterfuge of radical labor organi- president. zations whose memberships may not bo actually aware of Descendants of the American Revolution (born). 126 East the real situation, and for that reason fail to recognize that Nineteenth Street, New York City; M. Hatfield, national the leadership in their own groups Is in the hands of those chairman; Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney, Headquarters, who are intimately associated with communism and anarch- 112 Park Avenue. 1942 CONGRESSIONAL R EAUGUST CORD—APPENDIX Garland Fund (American Fund for Public Service), 2 West Thirteenth Street, New York City; R. Baldwin, Morris L. Ernst. International Labor Defense, 112 East Nineteenth Street, New York City (Moscow affiliate); V. Marcantonio (president) , J. Brodsky. International Ladies Garment Workers Union, 3 West Sixteenth Street, New York City; D. Dubinsky, president.. International Publishers, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City, A. Trachtenberg. ' Jewish Daily Freiheit, 50 East Thirteenth Street; M. J. Olgin, editor. Jewish People's Committee versus Fascism and Anti-Semitism, 1133 Broadway, New York City; W. Weiner, president. Labor Research Association, 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City; R. W. Dunn, director, Garland .Fund aided. International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue, New. York City; W. Weiner (president), J. Brodsky (attorney). League for Mutual Aid, 104 Fifth Avenue, New York City; J, Davis, A. Schulkind (executive secretary), J. Baker. League of American Writers, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City; D. C. Stewart (president), M. Gold, G. Hicks, F. Fulsom (executive secretary). League of Women Shoppers, 220 Fifth Avenue, New York City; E. Preston (Mrs. R. N. Baldwin), M. Forsyth. Methodist Federation for Social Service, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Bishop F. X McConnell. National Committee for People's Rights, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City; R. Kent (chairman), M. Gold. National Lawyers Guild, 31 Union Square, New York City; national headquarters, Washington, D. C. National Maritime Union (C. I. O.), 126 Eleventh Avenue; J. Curran, president. National Mooney-Billings Committee, 112-East Nineteenth Street; Rabbi S. S. Wise. National Negro Congress, 35 East. Twelfth Street; A. P. Randolph, president, J. W. Ford, A. Herndon, J. P. Davis. National Urban League, 1133 Broadway, New York City; Rev. L. Hollingsworth Wood, W. C. Poletti. National Women's Trade Union League, 247 Lexington Avenue, -New York City; R. Schneiderman, A. Nestor, M. Schwartz. Negro Youth Congress, 35 East Twelfth Street, New York City; W. F. Richardson, chairman, E, E. Strong, secretary. New School for Social Research, 66 West Twelfth Street, New York City; A. Johnson, president; B. Bass, attorney, Heywood Broun. . North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City; Bishop F. J. McConnell. Peoples Press, 1133 Broadway, New York City; Corliss Lamont (owners), J. Waterman Wise, R. S. Childs* Progressive Women's Council, 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City; C. Shavelson, president; Rose Nelson, secretary, R. Chaikin. Rand School of Social Science (socialist), 7 East Fifteenth Street, New York City; D. Alexander, Norman Thomas. Social Economic Foundation, Inc.; C. Lamont, A, A. Heller, C. Recht, M. Van Kleek, directors. Social Work Today (magazine), 112 East Nineteenth Street; B. Goldman, S. M. Isaacs, L. Merrill, M. Van Kleek. Scottsboro Defense Committee, 112 East Nineteenth Street, New York City; Rev. A. K. Chalmers, chairman. Socialist Parts', United States of America, 11 West. Seventeenth Street, New York City; Norman Thomas, J. Altman. Southern Tenant Farmers Union (C. I. O.), 112 East Nineteenth Street or 50 East Twelfth Street, New York City; H. Kester. Transport Workers Union (C. I. O.), 80 East Eleventh Street, New York City; M. Quill, president, A. Hogan, T. Santo. United Christian Couhcil for Democracy, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City; W. F. Cochran, president, R, Niebuhr. United Office and Professional Workers of America ,<C. I. O.), 30 East Twentieth Street, New York City; L. Merrill, president. 1,1939 Workers Library Publishers, Inc„ 3D East Twelfth Street, New York City (specializes in party propaganda). Workers Defense League, 112 East Nineteenth Street; J. Davis, R. Morss Lovett, M. Shapiro, N. Thomas. Workers Alliance, New York State Section, 731 Broadway, New York City; S. Weisman, president, D. Lesser. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Young Pioneers, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City (Communist subsidiary). Bookniga Corporation, 245 Fifth Avenue, New York City. I have here named a number of pink, red, and scarlet organizations which arer directly or indirectly engaged in destructive activities against the Government of the United States. It is the President's duty to see that the law is faithfully obeyed, and I here and now call his attention to the fact that there is a definite plan on foot by the Communists to undermine and destroy our GovernmentIn such event, armed forces may be used to bring those who are guilty to the bar of justice: (3) Whenever insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful c o m binations, or conspiracies in any State so obstruct or hinder the execution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as t o deprive any portion or class of t h e people of s u c h State of any of t h e rights, privileges, or immunities, or protection, named i n t h e Constitution and secured by laws for the protection of s u c h rights, privileges, or immunities, and the constituted authorities of such State are unable t o protect, or, from any cause, fall In or refuse protection of t h e people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by s u c h State of the equal protection of the laws t o w h i c h t h e y are entitled under t h e Constitution of t h e United States; and In all such cases, or whenever any such Insurrection; violence, u n l a w f u l combination, or conspiracy, opposes or obstructs t h e laws of t h e United States, or tho due execution thereof, or impedes or obstructs the due course of justice under the same, it shall be lawful for t h e President, and it shall be h i s duty, t o take such measures by t h e employment of the militia or t h e land and naval forces of t h e United States, or of either, or by other means, as he may deem necessary, for t h e suppression of s u c h insurrection, domestic violence, or combinations, B . S. 5299, U. S. C. 50: 203; sees. 504, 1298, M. L., 1929. Congress failed in its duty to the people in designating the present power to the President of the United States. There is no provision for the delegation of such power in the Constitution, and responsibility cannot in any sense be expected to rest upon those the President appoints, but must instead be assumed by Congress itself, to which the people entrust their safety. Congress failed to recognize the danger of Federal ownership of private industry, when it delegated power by special acts of Congress for the corporations nvx operated by the Federal Government in direct competition with business. Congress failed to recognize the power and rights which the people reserved to themselves in the tenth amendment of the Constitution when they allowed invasion of the States, not only in federally owned enterprises, but also in destructive taxing power. Congress failed to recognize that it has no power to delegate ^e^anization and shifting of personnel within the Federal Government except under supervision of Congress, that in the end is responsible for all departments. We are now at the end of the session, and I sincerely hope when the next session comes around that Congress will in united effort repeal all this unconstitutional power and resume its rightful relation to the people, as provided for in the Constitution of the United States. When the Federal Government is allowed to observe one business and industry after the other, when the last one is transferred under Federal control, we are no longer a republic, ruled by the people and represented by Congress, but we are instead either a monarchy or a dictatorial government, ruled by a despot. We can be right only if we rely upon the fundamental basic principles of our Government. In departing from these, we cannot escape chaos and destruction. This danger is not far off, for it is recognized by Members within the Government itself. I quote. , ( S T A N F O R D UNIVERSITY, CALIF., July, 18.—Inflation and repudiation of the public debt are ahead of the United States, W. h. Crurn, CONGRESSIONAL 1942 RECORD—APPENDIX fessor of economics and consulting expert of the United States usury, told the Stanford busfnesa eonforcnce today. Inflation is already here; rise in the public debt inflation/' tin said. '''But it has not yet taken hold enough to send com3ity prices soaring. Some set of pircumstances will set it off—don't ask me w ^ p . " !rum addressed tlie research section of the conference, which ,eluded the second day ol its week-long discussion, with an olt-reccrd after-dinner talk by former President Herbert Hoover, l i e factor tending t o conceal inflation is surplus of commodities, ping prices down. Should a sudden flare-up of public anxiety ch off Inflation fire, resulting increase of production might supenough goods t o stop or turn the rise' of prices, Crum said. le said bondholders would be nicked, and stockholders might « t part of effects of price rise by higher dividends, but corate profits probably would be taxed away. I know no protection against inflation any of us can use to e advantage of it in a big. way. The best we can do is buy a all homestead," he said. )ebt will probably keep rising, he forecast. It may reach hty, billion and the service cost rise from one billion to three, an t h e public outcry against paying so much to bondholders i bring repudiation* he declared. €his is the outlook of the Treasury Department, which iaresay every Member of Congress recognizes to be the al outcomeof the maddening spending and waste that i been In vogue for the past 10 years. Disaster may be irted, providing measures are taken now or in the next tigress. Failure to. take steps to restore economy and mdness in the Government can only end in uncontrolled Lation. The Government and the People EXTENSION OF REMARKS OV ION. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, JR. OF WISCONSIN IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Tuesday, August 1,1939 DRESS B Y H O N . L I S T E R HTTITI, NNIVERSARY OF NATIONAL EAGUE O P ALABAMA, A T SILVER POPULAR GOVERNMENT 5x. LA FOLLETTE* Mr. President, I ask unanimous cont to have inserted in the Appendix of the RECORD a very rjuent and able address delivered by the junior Senator m Alabama [Mr. HILL] at the silver anniversary* of the erican Popular Government League at Washington, D. C., April 29,. 1039. There being no objection, the address was ordered to be ated in t h e RECORD, as follows: ong ago Madam Roland exclaimed, "Oh, liberty, what crimes committed In thy name!* Tonight we might exclaim, "Oh, tes' rights, what crimes are attempted in thy name!" c r m o n t j u n d o ^ ^ ^ r e s e n t control went out of the Union in 1636 under that control she thinks she la still out. She talks about tee* rights and seeks to frighten the people with such bugaboos 'Federal invasion/ 1 "the growth of bureaucracy in Washington," "the Federal Government seizing- State lands and State propfor its own benefit*" She grants private utility companies the ;er of eminent domain t o build dams for private benefit and the exploitation of the people's heritage but she would deny t power t o the Federal Government when as a servant of the pie it would build dams t o protect t h e m from the ravages, the th and destruction of floods. I would stand to the last for rights oi my State, It Is my homeland and I love it. but re is a State sovereignty and there is a Federal sovereignty. : State sovereignty cannot control floods for the very good ion t h a t a flood does not stop a t a State Une. It knows nothing ,uch a line and has no respect for It. h e Federal Government, and the Federal Government alone, control floods, and it necessarily has the power to* do the Job. alities i n which flood-control reservoirs must be constructed n o t pay the cost of rights-of-way, because most of the benefits n the reservoirs g o t o other localities. The State itself will not oish the rights-of-way if the protection is for another State, ess t h e Federal Government can condemn rights-of-way for the struct ion of reservoirs, there can toe n o check t o the fury of the d. The issue is not State rights—the issue is whether States :cr floods to reservoirs. ; was all right to build irrigation dams in the West as there no power generated at them. It was all right for the Federal •eminent to spend over $300,000,000 building low dams on t h e http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis AUGUST 1 , 1 9 3 9 River as there right for the Federal was no power generated at them, It was all Government to build low dams on many rivers, but it is all wrong and all unconstitutional for the Federal Government to build multipurpose high dams because these dams generate hydroelectric power. When we hear the cry of State rights coming from those who would deny the people's rights, we are reminded that old Dr. Johnson told us that patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. Professor Webb, of Texas, in his fascinating story, Divided We Stand, reminds us that the power companies take their toll from thowi who use heat in winter, ice in summer, or light in darkness. They fight the cities where the people want to manufacture their own light; .they get out injunctions to stop the construction of dams for the conservation of national resources; they fight the Government when it tries to set up a measuring stick to learn what it 'really costs to generate electricity; they seek to control State legislatures through lobbies and lucrative retainerships; they Inspire investigations designed to oust university professors who have the intelligence to understand them and the courage to teach young men and women the truths they have discovered; they throw about J&em the panoply of patriotism arid cry "States rights" when the Government seeks to protect the people, their lives and their property from devastating floods. If they had had their way and their cry had been heeded there could have been and would have been no Boulder Dam, no Bonneville, no Grand Coulee, no Fort Feck, no Tennessee Valley Authority. Tonight we celebrate the silver anniversary of the National Popular Government League founded to fight for the people's rights and the Nation's resources. All honor t o the brave men and splendid women who brought the association into being—all honor to JUdson King, who, as its director^ has given the best years of his life to the league and held aloft its flag in the teeth of the wild' storm; all honor to Senator Robert L. Owen, the league's first president, indomitable warrior who, though denied the light of day, still sees the better day and flghts that common men may own the land; all honor t o GEORGE W. NORBIS, whose stout heart ha* never grown faint, whose mighty arm has never been lowered in battle, and. whose white plume, like that of Henry of Navarre, is still in the thick of the light leading u s on to immortal and inevitable victory. The people's rights, the Nation's resources must and shall be preserved. Ohio LAWS RELATIVE TO THE PRINTING OF DOCUMENTS Either House may order the printing of a document not already provided for by law, but only when the same shall be accompanied by an estimate from the Public Printer as to the probable cost thereof. Any executive department, bureau, board, or independent office of the Government submitting reports or documents in response to inquiries from Congress shall submit therewith an estimate of the probable cost of printing the usual number. Nothing in this section relating to estimates shall apply to reports or documents not exceeding 50 pages (U. S. Code, title 44, sec. 140, p. 1938). 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