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...purchase of $10,000 or more should , be made from foreigners if the foreign bid was 15% below any domestic bid. Knowing he had a good case, the President took five minutes out in a press conference to explain why the tariff-pampered steel industry had small ground for complaint. Obliged to bid 15% under domestic producers, to pay a tariff duty of roughly 25% ad valorem, to pay insurance and freight on shipments across the ocean, any foreigner who got PWA business would have to be satisfied with only about half of the fat prices demanded...
...Give no information to officers, only your name. Plead not guilty and demand a trial. Demand that the ILD defend you. Insist that you be let out on your own recognizance. If they refuse, demand that they set a low bail. Demand a copy of the complaint. Do not sign anything. Carry on the class fight in jail and in the courts...
...arrested man, peering now & then into the pamphlet, gave no information, gave his name as John H. Porter, telephoned the International Labor Defense, demanded a copy of the complaint, signed nothing. In Night Court he pleaded not guilty, insisted that he be let out on his own recognizance, was preparing to demand a low bail when the judge adjourned the case, released him on his own recognizance...
...manufacturer, Edward Porterfield of Kansas City, undertook last week to tell Mr. Vidal "the facts of life about the aircraft business." Mr. Porterfield's complaint: "I'm strong for the $700 plane when it comes, but we haven't got it and I don't believe in kidding the public instead of inspiring confidence in present planes...
Nebraska's Senator George William Norris found on his desk last week a letter from onetime President William Elmer Sealock of the Municipal University of Omaha. In it the complaint was made that Senator Norris' old enemy, the power interests, had cost Dr. Sealock his job. There was nothing Senator Norris could do, though, because William Elmer Sealock was dead...