CASE BILL VETO SUSTAINED . . . 



HOW DID YOUR CONGRESSMAN 



CARM Bureau members have been fur- 

 ■^ nished a good opportunity in recent 

 weeks to observe their Congressmen in 

 action on such highly important legisla- 

 tion as the Case bill and OPA extension. 



The Case bill was supported by the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association and the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation. 



Stated objectives of the Case bill were 

 to encourage settlement of disputes be- 

 tween labor and management by collec- 

 tive bargaining and by conciliation, medi- 

 ation, and voluntary arbitration, thereby 

 reducing industrial strife, strikes and 

 lockouts. 



It was first introduced in the House 

 last January and was passed Feb. 7 by 

 a vote of 258 to 155. The Senate labor 

 committee then took the "teeth" out of 

 the bill, but the Senate restored them 

 May 25 by a series of Farm Bureau- 

 supported amendments. 



The measure in amended form passed 

 the Senate by a vote of 49 to 29 and on 

 May 29 the House passed the bill by a 

 vote of 230 to 106. After studying the 

 bill, the President vetoed it June 11. 



VoU? 



Following the presendential veto, the 

 House sought to override his action, but 

 failed by a slim margin of five votes. 

 The vote was 255 to override the veto 

 and 135 to sustain it. It would have 

 required a two-thirds majority, or 260 

 votes, to pass the bill over the veto. 



The voting record of Illinois Congress- 

 men and Senators on the Case bill is 

 printed here as it was taken from the 

 Congressional Record. 



While the Case bill failed to become 

 law, another piece of labor legislation 

 known as the Hobbs bill, supported by 

 the Farm Bureau, was signed by the 

 President July 3 and became law. The 

 Hobbs bill was passed by a voice vote 

 in the Senate June 21. This bill had 

 been passed by the House on April 9, 

 1943, and again on Dec. 12, 1945. 



The Hobbs bill is important to agri- 

 cultural producers because it provides 

 fines and imprisonment for interference 

 with the movement of goods (including 

 farm products) in interstate commerce. 



As the Record goes to press the OPA 

 extension bill is still being debated so 



that it is not possible to present a com- 

 plete voting record on this legislation. 

 Voting records on this legislation will 

 be carried in later issues of the Record. 



Senator Lucas 

 Senator Brooks 

 Congressional 

 District No. 



1. Dawson 



2. Rowan 



3. Kelly 



4. Gorski 

 ;. Sabath 



6. O'Brien 



7. Link 



8. Gordon 



9. Resa 



10. Church 



11. Reed 



12. Mason 



13. Allen 



14. Johnson 



15. Chiperfield 



16. Dirksen 



17. Arends 



18. Sumner 



19. McMillen 



20. Simpson 



21. Howell 



22. Price 



23. Vursell 



24. Clippinger 



25. Bishop 

 AL. Douglas 



The abbrev 

 voting; and 

 means paired 

 the measure. 



Vote to 

 Case Override 



Anti-Strike President's 

 Bill Veto 



of Case 

 Bill 

 Yea No Senate 

 Yea Vote 



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the abbreviation "P.F." 

 for, , that is, in support of 



Construction of a new river grain 

 elevator at Havana for the Havana 

 River Grain Company was scheduled 

 to begin by July 15, according to J. 

 Howard Stone, president of the new 

 cooperative. 



This construction is the latest devel- 

 opment in the grain merchandising 

 program of the Farm Bureau in Illi- 

 nois. The Havana cooperative is a 

 member of the Illinois Grain Ter- 

 minals Company, recently organized af- 

 filiate of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation. 



The Havana River Grain Company 

 by purchase recently took over all 

 property of the Havana Cooperative 

 Grain Company, including approxi- 

 mately 500 feet of river frontage, an 

 elevator and office. 



The new elevator will be located 

 west of the existing elevator, and will 

 be of concrete and steel construction. 

 The total height of the elevator will 

 be 114 feet and will have a capacity of 

 70,000 bushels. 



PIAH CONSTRUCTION OF HAVANA RIVER 

 CO-OP'S 70 WO BUSHEL ELEVATOR 



Barge loading facilities will consist 

 of an endless conveyor enclosed and 

 supported by steel framework. All 

 machinery in the new structure will be 

 of the most modern high speed type. 



Havana River Grain Company will 

 serve producers in Fulton, Schuyler, 

 McDonough, Mason, Menard, Cass and 

 Logan counties. 



Connections between the old and 

 new elevators will permit moving grain 

 from either elevator to be loaded on 

 river barges or on the railroad. 



Permit for construction of the new 

 elevator was granted by the Civilian 

 Production Administration and the 

 first load of steel has been delivered 

 to the building site. 



Oscar Athey, former manager of the 

 Havana Cooperative Grain Company, 

 was employed by the new corporation 



as temporary manager at a board meet- 

 ing July 2. 



First load of grain shipped by the 

 new company, a car of wheat, moved 

 early in July. 



Western Illinois Grain has pur- 

 chased elevators at three points with 

 the following capacities: McCall, 40,- 

 000 bushels; Ferris, 15,000 bushels, 

 and Adrian, 10,000 bushels. Head- 

 quarters of Western Grain are at Dal- 

 las City where it has a 45,000 bushel 

 elevator. 



Bureau County Grain Company, a 

 subsidiary of the Bureau County Farm 

 Bureau, which will tie in its operations 

 with Prairie Grain Company, has tak- 

 en over operations of the Larson Seed 

 Company grain and coal business. 

 These facilities include a 25,000 bushel 

 elevator. 



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