Show news review of current events the world over jonnson averts textile strike and tackles steel workers threat steps for drouth relief fletcher made blade republican chairman by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by estra newspaper emlon ator GENERAL JOHNSON tor of the evidently must be given credit for a skillful piece of 0 work la in negotiating the agreement which forestalled the th threatened strike ol of 11 at some workers 7 M 4 in the cotton textile industry the immediate per peril was wa to the workers themselves tor for the cotton mill owners embarrassed by over production would be willing to shut down their M u F r tighe 11 i plants for a consider able time of course the new deal would have suffered a black eye so general johnson tackled the problem energetically and persuaded thomas F mcmahon president of the united textile workers of america and george sloan head of the cotton textile institute to accept a compromise and the call tor for the strike was reNo revoked ked the employers are permitted to go ahead with their program of curtailing production 25 per cent and the laborers have the promise of an hinves tl gaton into the matter of higher wages and other points of difference the union also Is assured of increased representation on the industrial relations board of the cotton textile code authority and on the advisory board the next nest great labor trouble the dispute between the steel masters and the amalgamated association of iron steel and tin tha workers promised to be more difficult tor for general johnson to handle and it seemed that prompt action by president roosevelt would be necessary to avert the threatened strike the men demand the right of collective bargaining through the union agents michael F tig tighe he president of the amalgamated declared it was up to mr roosevelt to provide prompt and unqualified enforcement of the law on this point lie ile said the government had failed the steel workers and their patience Is exhausted general johnson offered a compromise in the form of a special labor relations board for the steel industry similar to that which was created for the automotive industry in march but the proposition was rejected by both the steel masters and the spokesmen for the union according to the american iron and steel institute the strike threats are due to the activities of union leaders who see seek government intervention to maneuver themselves into positions of power and domination over the steel workers of the nation in a formal statement the institute asserted relations of steel companies and a great mass of their employees are peaceful and that the whole difficulty lies with the amalgamated association the closed shop Is the one point at issue the statement says and for the employers to accede to such a request would be rank treachery ROUSED to action by the drouth which Is the worst the country has ever experienced president roosevelt telephoned from groton conn to the federal relief administration directing that a special relief work program be put into operation immediately in the middle western states on his bis return to washington he called a council of war to expand his plans and lear hear proposals from various government H L hopkins P officials I 1 it t was stat ed by mr roosevelt that fai mers should be given cash income from or work and also employment on projects so BO that their immediate distress might be alleviated harry L hopkins federal emergency relief administrator at once allocated to 13 states so BO that the work could start starl the states receiving allotments are wisconsin minnesota south dakota idaho kansas montana nebraska new mexico 10 north dakota utah GOO wyoming work projects mr hopkins said will be put speedily under way to employ the heads of farm families in need the projects will include the development of additional water supply through digging wells and through impounding or diverting water from aliers and lakes projects employing men and women in the canning of meat fruits and teg vegetables ge tables also will be used to conserve food resources of the area and furnish cash income for the families road work as well will provide considerable sid erable emergency employment the picture presented to the conference was one of live stock emaciated tor for want of water and food grasshoppers aud and chinch bugs doing untold damage in the wake of the beat thousands of acres of and dryness planted grain lying ung or blighted and hundreds of farm com prayers tot for rain plans of live stock owners in the most seriously affected states to drive their cattle into minnesota north dakota and wisconsin for feeding and grazing were forestalled by the action of the governors of those three states forbidding the carrying out of the scheme in minnesota governor olson mobilized the national guard to patrol the borders and enforce the embargo H EN RY P fletcher of pennsyl Penn syi i vanla tanta has been handed the rather difficult job of managing the republican party the national committee at its session in chicago elected him chairman to succeed everett sanders this would seem to be a wise choice for mr n fletcher Is an able and energetic man notable tor for his diplomacy lh and tact and also for ready wit in 1898 he abandoned law practice to be P fletcher gletne let ne come one of theod theodore re Roosevel ts rough riders and after the campaign in cuba he transferred to the infantry and served through the philippine insurrection lie ile entered the diplomatic service in lw 1002 and after valuable service in cuba china portugal and again in china he was successively ambassador to chile mexico belgium and italy for a tine time during the harding adain admin administration istra he was undersecretary of state and after his retirement from the embassy in rome he was chairman of the federal tariff commission the national committee adopted a statement of principles tor for the party in the fall campaign which in temperate but firm language condemned the d doings of the democratic adment administration stra without any personalities and more specifically set forth what nihat the republican party thinks should be done to restore the nation to prosperity opening with the statement that american institutions and american civilization are in greater danger today than at any time since the foundation of the republic the statement plunged immediately into discussion of the need for social legislation there was assurance of liberal treatment of these problems in this paragraph our nation is beset with problems of infinite complexity the problems of recovery of unemployment with its unending tale of human suffering of agriculture with its lost markets and relatively low prices of forever checking abuses and excesses that have become all too apparent and thereafter the problems of a wider spread of prosperity of relieving the hardships of unemployment and old age and of avoiding these tragic depressions these problems must be approached in a broad liberal and progressive spirit unhampered by dead formulas or too obstinately clinging to the past solution of the problems however said the statement should be within the framework of american institutions in accordance with the spirit and principles of the founders of the republic further on the platform said bald we are opposed to revolutionary change without popular mandate and all change by usurpation the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed we believe that the present emergency laws vesting dictatorial powers in the president must never oe be permitted to become a permanent part of our governmental system during its session the committee raised more than enough money to pay au all its debts OF THE INTERIOR S SECRETARY HAROLD ICKES journeyed to chicago and testified in the disbarment proceedings proceeding brought by him against two chicago lawyers C IV larsen and J M malmin the latter once a federal judge of the virgin islands mr ickes asserted the defendants had tried to blackmail him in order to obtain for malmin tile the position of governor of the virgin islands and a federal post for larsen ile said their con conspiracy piracy was based on trumped up charges growing out of a probate court case he handled as an attorney some bonie years ago the secre charges were later flatly denied by the defendants the case was being heard by the grievance committee of the chicago bar association cia tion forward the program of C CARRYING arbitrary federal acreage control which began with passage of the cottonmill cotton bill the house voted 06 to for passage of tile the so called kerr tobacco bill vesting the AAA with statutory power to force eom om bllance aliance with its adjustment program the measure was sent to the senate over protests of republicans who denounced the plan as just another step toward regimentation of farming the house also completed legislative action on the reciprocal tariff bill and it was sent to the president for his signature GREAT gabe neat BRITAIN formally notified the united states that it would not pay anything on the war debt in tall ment due june 15 that it would make no more payments until the united states consents to a downward revision of 0 the debt and that any discussion of 0 revision at this time would be useless all ali of which means plain default the british note wa was sent in response to a blunt notification from president roosevelt as to the sums gum due it was evident from foreign dispatches that the other debtor nations except finland would follow the course adopted by the british in his war debt message to congress the president said this country expected the debtor nations to pay unless satisfactory excuses could be offered and he called attention to the vast sums those nations are expend ing in on armaments life bis plain language was not at all pleasing pleas lne to the nations that owe us nearly twelve and one halt half billion dollars THERE HERE was rejoicing in belgium when it was announced that a son had been born to the new king and queen leopold and astrid mother and child were reported to be doing well the monarchs who were married in 1920 have two other children josephine charlotte six and baudoin Bau doln three heir apparent to the throne MUCH interesting information was given the special house committee that Is investigating un american activities in the united states these being especially the 4 activities of the nazis IM facts and figures were presented showing officials of the german government had spent money for the dissemination of pro german information in this country the german ambassador dr hans luther and the german consul general in new dr hans han york dr otto klep luthr luthe r both figuring in the testimony doctor klep was said to have paid to a new york city publicity and business promotion firm to obtain publicity in this country of antl anti semitic statements ile he was said also to have contributed unofficially and in behalf of a third person in 50 bills for the publication of a pro ger man pamphlet doctor luther was described as the financial backer and sponsor of the pamphlet under examination carl dickey dicker partner in the new york firm of carl byola and associates said his firm has haa a contract with the german tourist information office receiving a month giving advice counsel and getting together material for travel information about twice a month too he testified a sheet titled germ german an american economic bulletin Is prepared and mailed to a list of about neww new papers and some few business Ins titu eions one witness rev francis gross of 0 perth amboy N J linked ambassador luther with alleged pro german cerman propaganda in a letter which he be read to the committee father gross a retired catholic priest told how bow he be had published a pamphlet entitled justice JustIC 8 to hungary germany and austria later the committee heard a story of the nationwide nation wide distribution of nazi prop propaganda aga ada some som e of it allegedly brought into the united states without customs inspection evidence was presented to show that german consuls had encouraged organization of pro german clubs to which the propaganda was sent representatives of the state post office and labor departments were interested te listeners to the testimony produced and there were hints of later deportation proceedings OUIS bartnof BART nOU foreign minister L LOUIS of france appears as the dominating figure in the negotiations that may dispel the war clouds hanging over E europe u r 0 p e thoi thi f most important tiling thing he already has accomplished complis hed Is the engineering gi of an accord between france franca and germany on conditions for the tha plebiscite and setting the date for that vote on january 13 1035 1935 the agreement gives assurance that france louis barthau under the pretext of preserving order will not use force to prevent the return of the basin to germany it also means that the germans now dow have everything to lose and nothing to gain from a putsch in the so the possibility of a clash in the near future Is I 1 virtually eliminated of special importance Is a I 1 clause that amounts to recognition of the rights of jewish and antinazi anti nazi minorities nori ties in the in the disarmament conference in I 1 geneva II 11 barthau lias has been equally forceful though not so peaceful in his hi doings ile he has stood out firmly against the german demands for arms arm equality and has greatly angered sir john simon british foreign secretary in connection with counsellor rosenberg of the soviet embassy in parti part barthau has been forming what 1 Is called an eastern locarno pact to be signed by russia rumania czechoslovakia la lithuania latvia and no ka tonia with france as its moral guarantor tills this would be rather a shock to germany and poland and the fran co russian bloc thus formed would force great britain into the background tn in matters concerning continental europe to block this scheme schema the britts british h would be glad to hive the arms conference agree on a minimum malmun dromm dro mm sad aad then adjourn |