National Affairs: Our Hope, Our Strength

On behalf of the A. F. of L. teamsters', chauffeurs' and stablemen's union, last week hoary President Daniel J. Tobin presented James Aloysius Farley with a check for $1,000 to be used by the Democratic Party "as a mark of appreciation of what the Roosevelt Administration has accomplished for Labor." Labor's gift to the Democratic Party came at an odd time, for Mr. Tobin's boss, William Green, and Mr. Farley's boss, Franklin Roosevelt, had come politely but perilously near the parting of the ways.

When Section 7a was written into the National Industrial...

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