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EVENING PRESS NEWS 
24 JULY 1938 
NATIONAL NWS 
Washington 
Chairman Morris Sheppard of the Senate's political investigat- 
ing committee called on his committee tonight to meet next 
week on a series of political charges involving federal 
agencies. Sheppard said that the committee would consider 
new charges of political impropriety revealed against WPA 
administrator Hopkins. Hopkins said at a recent news con- 
ference that he believed ninety percent of WPA workers would 
support the new deal at the polls. Another charge that will 
come before the committee was filed today by Governor Langer 
of North Dakota. Langer chairged that WPA workers had been 
subjected to intimidation in the recent Dakota, primaries. 
Langer was defeated by Senator Gerald Nye in the race for 
the Senatorial nomination. Several now deal officials were 
partial toward the Nye candidacy. The Senate's politics 
investigators will consider charges brought by Senator George 
of Georgia. George said he believes that the new deal high 
command had removed a friend of his from federal office for 
purely political reasons. George is the reputed target of 
so called now deal "purge" of conservative Congressmen. 
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Chicago 
Rail union executives George Harrison charged tonight that the 
proposal of rail management to cut wages by fifteen percent 
would undormind the growing r covery in business. The wage 
cut disputes of labor and carriers have continued a week with- 
out reports of progress toward a compromise. About 900,000 
rail workers would bo affected by the proposed wage reductions 
Harrison said, "Cuts in rail wages would start a cycle of 
wage cuts throughout the U.S. and defeat efforts of Congress 
to restore prosperity." Harrison expressed belief that rail 
earnings will rise with the general boost in business activity 
now in progress. ; The carriers have claimed they cannot 
maintain present payments without an increase in freight 
rates. 
IVashington 
President Roosevelt applauded the signing of a peace treaty 
between Bolivia and Paraguay Saturday with the statement 
that it offered concrete evidence of an increasing 'public 
demand that war be abolished from this hemisphere. The 
peace treaty binds Bolivia and Paraguay to submit their an- 
cient dispute over the Gran Chaco wilderness to arbitration 
by the President of the United States and other American 
republics. 
Chicago 
Federal Labor Conciliator Harry Schock announced settlement 
this evening of the prolonged strike at the Chicago Hardware 
Co. The strike started June sixth in a protest by the CIOs 
Association of Steel. 
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