National Affairs: Miss Perkins Accused

Congressional growling at Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins last week culminated in a sharp, open bark. Republican J. Parnell Thomas, of Allendale, N. J. offered a resolution in the House instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether Miss Perkins should be impeached for failure to deport radical Labor Leader Harry Bridges, alleged Communist.

Not since 1932, when Representative Wright Patman attacked Andrew Mellon, has such a resolution been seen in Congress. Not since the Senate voted that President Coolidge should fire Secretary of the Navy Denby for his part in the oil...

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