Show L news I 1 laws review of current events the world over speaker Ra kaines ineys death starts race for his position prominent men alen organize liberty league to combat radicalism by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by union HENRY H veteran con greman from illinois and speak er of the 1 house died unexpectedly in a st louis 1001 T hospital where he was believed to be recover ing from an attack of bronchial pneumonia the immediate cause of his death was angina pectorals ls mr air rainey who was within aday a day of 0 being seven ty 11 four years old was wag r first elected to congress in 1902 and he a served e r v e d continuously with the exception of on ry T one term being defeated rainey in the harding landslide of 1920 1020 lie he was elected to the when john nance garner became vice president nis ills control over the house during the sessions seamons of last year and this year while the presidents identa program was being put through was gentle but so BO fit firm that the legislators were kept well in une line mr rainey devoted much of his service bervice in washington to efforts to improve the condition of the farmers for he held that farm prosperity was essential in any program for national well being lie he also was a student of tariff and fiscal subjects As a democrat he was always a regular he was the author of the tariff commis slon law and of much other important legislation mrs rainey acted as her husbands secretary for years and Is so well acquainted quain ted with congressional work that the democrats may select her as the candidate to complete his term as representative from the twentieth illinois district I 1 mr hajney was burled buried in his home town carrollton after services which were attended by president roosevelt and many other stable persons SPEAKER RAINEYS RAi death will result in a spirited contest among a number of men who are ambitious to succeed him first in the line of succession so to speak Is representative joseph IV byrns of tennessee who has been serving as majority floor leader and who Is head of the democratic national congressional committee president roosevelt Is going to take no part in the race but the more liberal of the joseph W y new dealers are byrne byrn known to favor sam rayburn of texas well informed observers believe byrns will be elected speaker and rayburn floor leader other aspirants for the are john E rankin of mississippi who has announced his candidacy william B rank bankhead bead of alabama and john J oconnor of new york mr byrns has been a member of the house continuously since his big election to the sixty first COD congress gress his work a an floor leader in conjunction with raineyl raineys Ral Ra ineys rule as speaker was not especially pec ally lally pleasing to the new dealers for some months during the last session but before adjournment most of the misunderstandings were cleared up in any case the administration seldom interferes in the selection of the leaders of congress not wishing to inbur the enmity of po powerful erful of the party u r NING from his swift trip to p bettt iv attend e n d the funeral of mr rainey the president went directly back to washington instead of going to his hyde park home this change in plan was due doe it was said to the development of a bitter dispute between gen hugh S johnson on one side and donald ni chberg mr Roosevel ts chief in du adviser and secretary of labor perkins on the other over the new structure to be given the the issue it was as disclosed Is whether there shall be a board of control in authoritative management of the nua KRA or a board which i shall bo be more adre advisory in hi power leaving the real control still in the hands of the administrator and his deputies it was expected mr roosevelt would take command of the situation and determine de finitely definitely what shall be done with the recovery administration labor scored a victory 0 ORGANIZED administrator ove over r recovery johnson when the national labor relations b board ard ordered john donovan president of the NIIA union former for dis dismissed d by johnson reinstated to his position with cy board the labor advisory which are administering the agencies should in their own the law uphold its purposes the dealings dealoe decision giving a said in its board johnson for what it reproof to veiled r violation of section aa implied was a of the the NNA niia accented bad grace rather with don rebuke and permitted the to his job johnson return ovan to EO nothing to say about it himself had peck Don donovan s im fin hut but vr dr gustav issued a statement mediate superior sniffed it at t the be boards board de ta in which he be cealon and warned donoyan donovan that be would have bare to toe the mark soon after this the announced that it does not regard itself as obliged to withdraw the blue eagle in cases where the national labor relations board has found companies guilty of violation of section aa of the national industrial recovery act and of subsequent failure to obey the instructions of the board the labor board has recommended withdrawal of the blue eagle to the compliance board in all cases where companies have disobeyed its instructions to reinstate discharged employees the decision by the will remove teeth from decisions by the board since it may now hear cases make decisions and find end that no penalties are inflicted for disobeying its orders C OTTON garment code amendments reducing the working hours and giving workers a wage increase have been signed by the president the amendments which affect plants in 42 states are of far reaching importance sidney hillman nill man labor advisory board member and amalgamated clothing union head termed signing of t the h e order the most far reaching move NUA has yet made to increase employment it was hoped that this order would avert the threatened strike of the garment workers WO prominent democrats two republicans TWO public ans almost equally prominent and one leading industrialist all of them of conservative tendencies have united to organize the Amert american can liberty league dedicated to a war on radicalism in the united states the five founders of the league are alfred E smith demo cratic c r a 11 c presidential candidate in 1928 john W davis demi L A fisa socratic pres presidential id estial candidate in 1024 24 jouett nathan L miller republican shouse house ex governor of new york james IV wadsworth republican congressman from new york former senator and presidential possibility for 1936 irenee du pont font manufacturer who supported smith in 1928 and roosevelt in 1932 1032 they believe the league membership will grow into the millions and that it will become an important element in the national life for president of the organization the founders selected jouett shouse former chairman of the democratic notional national committee and president of 0 the association against the prohibition amendment until repeal was accomplished shed in a statement mr shouse set forth the purposes of the league as follows it Is a nonpartisan organization formed as stated in its charter to defend and uphold the constitution of the united states and to gather and disseminate information that 1 will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government and 2 will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise to foster the right to work earn save and acquire property and to preserve the ownership an and lawful use of property when to interviewers sir air shouse declared ared the league was not ariti antl roosevelt but it seemed clear that it will be opposed to most of the major purposes of the new deal and the radical professors of the brain trust ile he said he had visited the president and informed him fully of the purposes of the league but he be would not tell what mr roose belts reaction had been I 1 IN N till nature of a reply to the formation of the american liberty league was a speech delivered in washington by secretary of commerce daniel 0 roper lie ile denied that the profit motive in american life has been or Is to be abolished by the new deal asserting that it seeks only to abolish certain profit abuses such as profits on watered stocks and disproportionate salaries private enterprise said mr roper Is getting back upon its own feet and more and more Is exerting its initiative itla tive and Is able to relieve the federal government of responsibilities which under normal conditions belong to business pardon my repenting repeating again that the roosevelt administration Is squarely behind this principle it believes to in lust just profits for management and capital and an equitable return to labor f for or its rightful rewards in the economic processes no thinking business man desires to have the old order restored tie ile does desire and la is entitled to have the new order characterized by a better control against economic cataclysms and by the freedom to exercise his bis initiative in plaun planning log for the future of his business in the light of an equitable profit system THE strike of truck track drivers driver in min was ended when the men and their employers employer accepted a compromise agreements agreement and martial law in the city was discontinued business bu lne thereafter speeding back to normal conditions the peace plan devised by federal representatives provided that all employees on strike be returned to their jobs job without discrimination and on basis of seniority it included an agreement to hold an election within ten days in each of 0 the firms involved to determine whether their employees in want the drivers union or other representatives to act for them in collective bargaining and a pledge of the firms to pay for at least ona no year not less than 60 50 cents cent in an hour hour to drivers and 40 cents to helpers platform men and inside workers W ILLIAM GREEN president ot of the american federation of labor says he hopes the general strike of textile industry workers will be aTer averted ted but he an 1 bounces at the same time that the federa tion indorses endorses Indor ses the strike and will co operate fully with the th officers and mem beri I 1 of the united textile workers organization lie appointed federa tion committees to as the textile work e erb r a a and n d announced will william I 1 am r green j a 1 that he would draft trained organizers and strike specialists from other unions to assist the textile union george A sloan president of the cotton textile institute and chairman of the cotton textile code authority said the threatened strike Is not justified by the facts established by impartial government economists challenging the wage increase demand of the united textile workers of america mr sloan declared that as a result of three basic wage provisions in the code the hourly wages paid in march 1034 1934 show an increase of 7 per cent as compared with march 1933 when there was no code all of this has meant ia substantial increase in manufacturing costs mr sloan said and the research and planning division of the found after a comprehensive investigation last i june that under existing conditions there Is no factual or statistical basis for any general increase in cotton tex tile code wage rates mr sloan estimated the present number of workers at work in some 1 1200 mills in the cotton industry at TEUT COL MARIO HERNANDEZ L organized a plot to overthrow the government of president mendieta Mend leta of cuba and establish a military dictatorship but the authorities got wind of it and frustrated the conspiracy in which a considerable part of the army was involved col fulgencio Fulgen clo batista head of the army said that major benitez and some gome soldiers were sent to arrest hernandez ernandez II and that eight men of the detachment were killed hernandez ernandez II tried to shoot benitez but was himself shot in the head and neck the official report said Hernan hernandez dei was being rushed toward havana in an automobile and that the car upset the prisoner being killed though the jtb others in the car were uninjured maj angel echevarria Echevarr la commandant of fourth infantry at camp columbia and capt augustin August ln erice chief of the signal corps conspirators with hernandez were captured later and a summary court martial sentenced them to death four thousand troops in pinar del rio are confined to barracks under arrest and a thorough reorganization of the entire high command of the cuban army Is in full swing about civilians have also been arrested as parties to the conspiracy charged with carrying messages to military plotters EIGHT soviet citizens are now under arrest in Manchu kuo charged with plotting against man chukuro and japan and sabotaging japanese military trains the russian government through acting consul general rabid at harbin has pre dented to the foreign office of man chukuro a demand tor for an explanation of the arrests and insists on prompt measures for the release of the prisoners the arrests were made without documents accompanied by searches of the apartments and offices of soviet employees of the chinese eastern railway which have not been explained rayold said the japanese allege that some of the prisoners confessed to an attack on the japanese military intelligence office at Sul tenho to sending manchurian Manc hurlan and corean communists into the territory to wrecking trains carrying japanese troops and munitions toward the frontier and to creating general disturbances along the eastern line probably before long will come the news that tile the japanese have seized the chinese eastern railway and that thai may very well result in war between japan anil ana russia Y A vote of about 10 to I 1 the people BY of germany decided that chancellor adolf hillers Hit lers action in main log ing the powers of president was all right the result of the plebiscite was yes 2709 no invalid though the yes votes were several million less les than in the november plebiscite on the withdrawal from the league of notions nations the nazis are satisfied and hitler appears to be safely fixed as tin the country count rys ruler tor for the rest of his life ills ilia power as chancellor leader is 14 creater than that of any other dictator |