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...Senate. Backing him were the Messrs. Bankhead and Pope of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Representative Marvin Jones, head of the like committee of the House. At first Mr. Wallace was reluctant to agree to what was urged upon him. He was pressed with the point that his bill would boost the Government's expenses about $100,000,000 next year, that it is late in the season and Congress is left with a great deal to do. On condition that Congressional committees would continue study of his plan this summer, have everything ready for Congressional action next January...
...step ahead of CIO's Lewis in that the employers had voluntarily formed a syndicate to bargain collectively under Mexico's 1931 Labor Law. Negotiations were stalled when the employers stuck flatly at the Oil Workers' demands: a 40-hour week instead of 44, a boost in minimum wages from roughly $1 to $1.70 a day, old-age pensions of from 75% to 100% of salary, & 6-day vacations with pay. The employers' syndicate, dismissing the pensions and vacations as "exaggerated and impossible," offered successively a $1.20 and then a $1.33 minimum wage, a 40-hour...
...mines, a tax on sugar used by national industries. A "forcible bill of exchange" for all credit sales, costing up to $200 on a transaction involving $50,000, would yield another $1,000,000, and a 5% tax on capital leaving the island $1,100,000 more. Biggest boost was suggested in the tax on resident foreigners, now $1.55 a head, which would be raised to $5 for laborers and $10 for businessmen, produce another $2,160,000. Most of Cuba's foreigners are Haitians and British West Indians, the most poverty-stricken of whom Boss Batista has been...
...corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers dislike fractions
...accused him of misbehaving as Santiago's customs administrator, stormed into Havana last year as a Senator for the first time. When Senate President Justo Luis del Pozo resigned in a huff over patronage, hard-boiled Boss Batista liked hard-boiled new Senator Illas well enough to help boost him into the Senate's presidency. First thing the Senate knew, President Illas lost his temper again. One day when his 62-year-old uncle José Hourruitinier waylaid him in the Capitol to ask about getting his daughter restored to a government stenographic job, irascible Arturo Illas savagely...