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Oecfion Spending off Labor (Unions Challenged cLty 3 ZZH
In Justice department Suit Against Auto WorEters sinedAng. 17 10.20 3SS5SEsE
By LYL.E WILSON of organizations forbidden to 000 from various union treas- long as no money went into any Practices Act and the cost of T Grate Pass The 34th annual for a student office recently at mapager-
sir ciuiri:nL. mak poiiticai - s- .v . natina; tctions continues to sffiwsii. ?slt sjsSe r typewriters & i
JhM datoS etecti0M fa,,oIvin Wenl o- c,ndidates mre chMen- Limit. Political Contribution. soar into the multi-millions. Aug. 17, through Saturday, Aug. Smith, wired President Eisen- AOniMr MaSiSbc 1
fabor union election spending fin fice- considerable accumu- There has been considerable By the Hatch Act, Congress The Michigan CIO, however, 20. hower, requesting White House WIAW1INE5
iyii. .... .i. m,,j,imx a dispute lations of union funds under the evasion of the law by all con- attempted to put a S5.000 limit did not seek to hide its 1954 ac- Featured at the fair will be endorsement of her candidate. 7IrneftPfwei
f "L-W-'-l which in its impetus of the Wagner Labor Re- cerned. The 1946 volume of on political contributions by in- tlvltv- The $5,985 was spent the Oregon State Gladiolus show, In replying, the President wrote -mllS5? JSzFmK.
f I simplest terms lations Act had long before be- "Editorial Research Reports" dividuals or groups of indivick Penly for nine television pro- the Wednesday evening corona- in part: J WUIPMENT COMPANY
f - ' i I amount to gun to flow freely into election states: uals. The language was so loose grams boosyng McNamara's can- tion of the Queen Gladys, square . . . if, evident that Paul 41 G"pu 2-4100
WOW this- campaigns. "The law does not prevent cor- that in the 1944 campaign, Edi- dlacy. Atty. Gen. Herbert dancing, 4H and FFA section " 1
2S?S 'r ' shall the John L. Lewis loaned and con- poration executives from mak- torial Research Reports said, Bv,r0.wn,ello Jr' said u appeared exhibits, horse racing, merchant I
V i ' Corrupt Prac- tributed $470,000 to FDR's 1936 ing 'personal contributions anv "six leading Republican support- that the CIO considered the law exhibit building, a new photo-
V ''. tices Act rec- re-election campaign and freely more than it prevents the rank ers made total contributions of unconstitutional and thereby not graphic division, and other en- PI X 4 nW Vm Tftk T? I Ml Mrtm
V-XSIlf ognize a dif- admitted that he expected some and file of unionists from making $150,000, an average of $25,000 enforceable. It obviously must tertainment. II II Jill M I f I rft I r I r I
J3 fere nee be- return on it. There had been up large campaign funds from apiece, by the simple device of g t0 the Supreme Court. Included in the activities will UsslW Hr U Ufl UU uUBUbU
t tween large other prohibitory legislation 'voluntary' contributions." 70 separate gifts, averaging If the union can so spend with- be the timber carnival, Davis wssk.s in- 1
I concentrations Prior to the Taft-Hartley. Act, The CIO argued in 1946 that slightly over $2,000." out channeling money directly Shows, and a Farm Bureau bar- , YOUNG AND TENDER
Lyle C Wilson of wealth be- Dut all such it failed more the Smith-Connally Act did not There was a report in 1948 into a political organization, then becue. Professional entertainers
ca e of the source and manage- often than it succeeded in pro- precisely forbid direct expendi- that one corporation favoring corporations and national banks will be featured in the after- Only 35c ID. Cut 311(1 Wrapped
me St of the accumulation' hibiting. tures by labor organizations to President Truman's reelection presumably would have the noons and evenings. j ft I AU .
The auestion arises through Tne Smith-Connally Act of publicize their political views, parcelled out sums of money to same right, unless the court de- The covered arena has been PTCC UfillVeiy Within Vlty LllYIIrS
th ndictment of the CIO United 1943 forbade union contributions If that argument were accepted, numerous individuals to be given cided there was a difference be- more than doubled in size within - , - oino A i I J
aV Workers in Michigan on to influence elections. But the corporations and national banks, as personal contributions of tween union money on the one the last month because of the PhOTlS 3-9 1 08 ASK TOP Loyfl ,
h" ees of pendin union funds CI Political Action Committee presumably, could make direct $5,000 each. Both parties find hand and financial and corpora- number of Fair entries, it was J
toYnfluence the 1954 senatorial was able in 1944 to accept $648,- expenditures on elections, so means of getting by the Corrupt tion money on the other. reported. i -
contest in which Sen. Patrick
McN'amara, Democrat, unseated -
Sen. Homer Ferguson, Republi- .
can. The sum was only $5,985.
But the principle is big and, un- . -
questionably, headed for the Su-
' preme Court. -
This indictment was brought - '
under the 1925 Corrupt Practices "-d "T1 1 M
Act as amended by the 1947 1 I I I j U & v'il '
when national banks and all cor- 0
porations were forbidden to "bbs ,
make political contributions. . ' . .
The 1925 act specifically ex
empted primary selections and
national conventions, they being ' '
acknowledged as outside the
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From E. Ron Rice
E. Ronald Rice reported to
MedforcL Kiwanians Wednesday
concerning the recent conven- .
tion of Kiwanis International at
now possible to sit in a Minnea- m . .
polis living room and watch a . '
hydrogen bomb explosion. . , , ' . " '
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