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...oppose Ex Parte 103 faster than the Press could keep track of them. The gist of their argument: if rail rates went up they, the rate payers, would divert more & more of their freight traffic to motor trucks and the steam carriers would be heavy losers. To this threat was frequently added another, namely, the removal of factories to tidewater where the producers could throw their transportation business to ship lines...
...support for the railroads' rate plea finally came last week from the "Big Four" Brotherhoods (Railway Conductors, Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Trainmen, Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen). Mindful of the carriers' threat to cut wages unless they won a rate increase, the presidents of these potent labor organizations jointly declared that they felt "such action will have a beneficial effect on general business conditions...
...Doyle case the Court of Appeals issued a ruling which severely limited the committee's powers to compel reluctant witnesses to testify with immunity (TIME, Aug. 17). The whole future course of the investigation depended upon broadening the committee's authority to get information under threat of contempt action. Therefore last week the committee petitioned Governor Roosevelt to summon a special session of the Legislature to pass a bigger & better immunity bill for its use. Within 24 hours the Governor as a matter of "clear duty" issued the call for this week...
...Oklahoma Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray called out troops to shut in oil wells until the price of oil should reach $1 per bbl. (TIME, Aug. 17.) Taking cue from his neighbor, Governor Sterling last week roweled his Legislature into action one day before adjournment with a threat of martial law. To show he meant it he sent his adjutant general into the gushing East Texas fields to find quarters for 1,000 troopers. Twelve hours later the Legislature sent him a bill which he promptly signed as "satisfactory...
Declared Governor Sterling of the new law: "It's got teeth in it but I might still slap on martial law if some of these [East Texas] operators get to acting up." But martial law was no idle threat with Governor Sterling. Many an East Texas producer had begged him to shut in that field by force. After he had perused the new conservation law and received legal advice, he despatched Texas guardsmen under sealed orders to the second richest oil field in the world...