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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN '."1 News Review Events the Franro Combating Revolt in Spanish Fascist Army Developments in Labor Situation President's Farm Purchase Plan Opposed. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. f ENERAL FRANCO'S revolution in Sp.iin, already checked by serious defeats on both the northern north-ern and the southern fronts, was further embar- j rassed by spreading revolt among the Fascist troops. His agents uncovered the plot and numerous numer-ous arrests were speedily followed by numerous execu-t execu-t i o A s by firing squads. The mutiny first broke out in SpanishA Morocco and Franco himself Gen. Franco hurried thcre by plane. There were persistent reports re-ports that 1.000 Italian soldiers had been landed at Ceuta and were facing fac-ing used to crush the mutiny. This was denied by the Fascist high commissioner com-missioner of Morocco. More than 100 high-ranking officers, offi-cers, most of them belonging to the air force, were said to have been implicated In the plot which was seemingly well laid in all parts of Spanish Morocco and the southern tip of European Spain. Government troops were said to be pushing back toward Cordoba the Fascist forces which were trying to break through for capture of the rich coal and mineral territory about Pozoblanco. The Insurgent army there, alleged to Include 10,-000 10,-000 Italians and Germans, was In -longer of befag-HrrHmd4 -and annihilated. an-nihilated. Great Britain and France officially official-ly warned Franco tkat they would no longer 'tolerate the ftopptftg and searching of British and French merchant vessels by his warships. DEADLOCK over a new wage agreement brought -about a . walkout of soft coal, miners in Use Pennsylvania ' and West Virginia fields and its spread to other fields was certain unless the controversy were settled. The mine operators and officials of the United Mine Workers of America have been long in negotiation, with John L. Lewis ' aictatins" the stand" takerT by the latter. Edward F. McGrady, assistant assist-ant secretary of labor, was trying hard to help bring about a settlement settle-ment and kept the White House informed in-formed of developments. Maintenance Mainte-nance men were ordered to. stand by in the mines, but about 400,000 men quit work. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT discussed dis-cussed the labor situation with Secretary Perkins and Sidney Hill-man, Hill-man, chief organizer of the C. I. O. drive to unionize the textile workers. work-ers. Hillman told him he was hopeful hope-ful the problems of the textile industry indus-try could be settled by co-operation and arbitration, and it was reported report-ed that he promised the textile workers would not attempt to use the sitdown strike. Senator Wagner of New York delivered de-livered an address in the senate on the sitdown strike situation, charging charg-ing that the blame of it rested on a few giant corporations which, he said, have "hamstrung" the labor relations board by invoking injunctions injunc-tions In the courts and "who have openly banded together to defy" the labor relations law. Deriding the call for new federal legislation to meet the crisis. Senator Sena-tor Wagner declared that "the lack of power in the federal government to enforce the labor relations act and not any weakness in existing law is the root cause for the present economic warfare." Representative Martin Dies of Texas appeared before the house rules committee, "and urged acton on his resolution for a congressional investigation of the strike situation. He again called upon the President to intervene and pointed to section 8299 of the revised United States statutes as giving the chief executive execu-tive authority to take action In the event of such an occurrence as the Chrysler strike. The continued silence of the President Pres-ident on the issue is "ominous," Representative Charles L. GifTord of Massachusetts told the house. He warned the President against the rise to power of John L. Lewis. Negotiations for settlement of the General Motors strike were progressing pro-gressing slowly, and officials of the corporation said that 10,100 employees em-ployees were idle in four plants because be-cause of strikes in Pontiac and Flint, Mich. UNDER pressure from his ndvis-' ndvis-' ers to take a public stand concerning con-cerning the sit-down strike, President Presi-dent Roosevelt immediately after his return from Warm Springs held a conference wih Vice President Garner, Senate Majority Leader Jue Robinson, Speaker Bankhead and Home Majority Leader Sam Ray-burn. Ray-burn. 1 its close Senator Robinson, Robin-son, presumably voicing Mr. Roosevelt's Roose-velt's views, said: "The government cannot initiate action curler the circumstances thus far presented. It is felt that the sit-down1 strike situation in a general sens'; is improving. of Current World Over "There are two conditions under which federal action may be Invoked In-voked In case of acute strike conditions; condi-tions; namely where federal laws have been violated or where federal property, including the mails, is interfered in-terfered with. ''Unless one of these conditions exists, federal intervention or action, ac-tion, under the Constitutor) and decision de-cision of the courts, Is not warranted. "The second condition is cases where state authorities, under the federal law, ask the services of federal fed-eral agencies In the preservation of law and order and in the prevention of violence. ' "Neither condition has so far "if Is'-" en. Except in instances where interstate in-terstate commerce is interfered with, where a federal law is disre- Lgarded,, the federal government does not, and cannot under the Constitution, Con-stitution, Initiate action." SEVEN Democrats Joined the six Republicans" on the house agriculture agri-culture committee and disapproved the President's proposal to allot al-lot $50,000,000 to assist farm tenants to buy farms on easy credit terms. This majority of the committee objected ob-jected to the program because ft would put the government Into the real estate business. The proposition is contained in one section of the farm tenant bill and would authorize author-ize the secretary of agriculture to buy farms for resale to tenants on terms that would give them as long rate would be 3 per ceni Sponsors t. the. measure. ... probably .will, try to get It through the senate, and after noustf f efusalto agfefc it would then go to conference. Only the day before the President had given out his farm tenancy program as follows: 1. Continuation of rehabilitation loans,, most of which would go to people living on land which the gov--ernment believes can ba made to pay. 2. Purchase of submarglnal land so that It can be taken out of cultiva tion and put Into timber or grasses. 3. Federal purchase of land for resettSerwerit Kmt families tata-ii "off submarglnal land and purchase of tenant farms to give tenants a chance to own the land they are tilling. SENATOR GEORGE NORRIS of Nebraska Is. Intent on his plan for the creation of a national power authority similar to the Tennessee Valley authority, and he intends to introduce in-troduce a bill for this during the present pres-ent session of congress. con-gress. This he announced an-nounced after conferring con-ferring with the President, and he intimated the idea was approved by Mr. Roosevelt. He has experts at work investigating Its feasibility and map Sen. Norris ping out the details. "All rivers of the United States should be controlled by the nation if their nature is subject to it by national na-tional flood control policy," the senator sen-ator said. "Whenever the river will develop power, we should take advantage ad-vantage of it. I've always regarded regard-ed power as a subsidiary or byproduct by-product of flood control" A LINK with a past era was broken by the death in Washington Wash-ington of Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln at the age of ninety years. She was tha daughter-in-law of President Lincoln and the mother and grandfather grand-father of his only living descendants, descend-ants, Mrs. Charles Isham, Mrs. Jessie Jes-sie Randolph and their three children. chil-dren. Mrs. Lincoln was the daughter daugh-ter of James Harlan, who was a senator from Iowa and later secretary sec-retary of the interior. In 18S8 she married Robert Todd Lincoln, the martyred President's son. In the administrations of Presidents Garfield Gar-field and Arthur her husband served as secretary of war, and under President Benjamin Harrison, he served as minister to England. Afterward Aft-erward he was general counsel and then president of the Pullman company'. com-pany'. DICTATOR JOSEPH STALIN of Russia, in his official capacity as secretary of the central committee com-mittee of the Communist party, demands de-mands a new purge of the party, so we probably wHl read soon of another mass execution of hundreds under arrest. "I think it is clear." said Stalin, "that the present wreckers wreck-ers and diversionists no matter whether they have masked themselves them-selves under the flag of Trotskyism of Dukhannism have lost their influence in-fluence in the worker's movement and have become simply an unprincipled unprin-cipled and idealless band i f professional profes-sional wreckers, diversionisis, spies ajid murderer-;. "It is quite rli'ar these gentlemen should be destroyed, exterminated mercilessly as enemies of the working work-ing class and enemies of our country." A CCOHDINQ to t survey eie for the Corn Belt Farm Dailies, an Increasing share of domestic meat requirements Is coming from European countries and Canada, at the expense of American live stock producers. Importations of pork from Poland early in March were running at record rec-ord high levels, while Increased j shipments were unloaded at New . York from Denmark, Lithuania, It- ! aly, Hungary, Holland, Germany, j Estonia, Czechoslovakia, Canada, and Argentina. The United States in normal times supplies Europe with ' meat, the farm papers pointed out "It must be obvious that through restricted production and reciprocal tariff agreements we have adopted policies in this country that have opened our doors to the Importation Importa-tion of meats in substantial volume," vol-ume," the survey commented. THREE famous Americans, with their aides, will represent the United States at the coronation of King George VI of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey Ab-bey May 12. They were selected b y President Roosevelt and are: James W. Gerard, forn.er ambassador am-bassador " fd' Germany, Ger-many, special ambassador; am-bassador; Gen. John J. Pershing, i StV 1 COInmander of the R-flr I A. E. F. in the war, ana Aamirai nugn Gen. Pershing Rodmarli s. N. retired, special representatives. Curti3 Bok of Philadelphia will be secretary of mission. CoL James L. Collins will be aid to Gen. Pershing, and Commander Frank E. Beatty will be aid to Admiral Rodman. of the Sixth- battle squadron with the grand fleet In British waters during the World war, will participate partici-pate in the international naval review re-view off Spithead on May 20. THREE New Deal acts of legislation legisla-tion were upheld by the Su- ffiSSi cider togmet; howw tf almost liberal enough to suit the , is, to rrive l any sort of . con-administration. con-administration. Two of them were rthatar -concerning thetrae -state unanimous.-The tlrird and most-sig- affairs,,. .One. must , thro M, the niflcant was rendered by five of the , tal mount f government secur-lnirp secur-lnirp with f.,r rtipnHnr Thi ! Mes outstanding - something like last opinion was given in the case of the Washington state law establishing establish-ing a minimum wage for women and the court reversed its position taken a year ago in upsettirtg similar legislation leg-islation passed by the New York legislature. Justice Owen J. Roberts had swung over to the other side, but Justices Sutherland, Fuller, Mc Reynolds and Van Devanter dissented dissent-ed from the present judgment, de- .cteriBg that- ,'tba .nsaaning.. of. -the Constitution does not chantre with the ebb and flow of economic events." This was a slap at the majority opinion, which was read by Chief Justice Hughes. The court unanimously upheld the provisions of the-railway lanor act requiring railroads to engage in collective col-lective bargaining with their employees em-ployees for the purpose of settling labor disputes. The opinion was read by Justice Stone and was closely studied by leaders of the administration ad-ministration who hoped to glean from it an indication of what the court might decide concerning the Wagner labor relations act, now in litigation. The Wagner act does not apply to railway workers. The decision was handed down in the case of the Virginian Railway company and upheld a ruling by the Fourth circuit court of appeals directing di-recting the company to engage in collective bargaining. The Supreme court also upheld the constitutionality of the new Frazier Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act The decision, read j by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, whose opinion condemned the earlier Fra- j zier-Lemke act, was unanimous. The law was passed to replace a similar statute which the court held ! unconstitutional 1935. in the spring of ; j SENATORS, some fifteen in number, num-ber, who have not committed themselves on the President's bill to enlarge thj Supreme court j are earnestly trying . i to brina about a .. It compromise that would enable them to go along with Mr. Roosevelt without laying themselves open, to charges of t supporting a plan to pack the court. Sev- i rnl Pdmrrnmiea measures have been devised, one which is that of Sen- SeMlor njUch ator Carl Hatch of New Mexico, a Democrat and a member of the judiciary committee that is holding hearings on the ad- ; mmiLtritwin Kill " ministration biiL Mr. Hatch proposes to mooify the President's bill so that no more than two additional justices could be appointed in any one year Furthermore, Furth-ermore, it would provide for a flexible flex-ible court -vith a membership varying vary-ing between fifteen and nine judges. The additional appointments, made upon the failure of justices past 70 to retire, would not become permanent per-manent increases. They would be offset by failure to fill an equal number num-ber of vacancies caused by subsequent sub-sequent retirements. Further witnesses for the opposition, opposi-tion, appearing before the judiciary committee, included Or. Irving Gris- wold, professor ot constitutional law at Harvard; Dorothy Thompson, prominent journalist; Walter F. Dodd of Chicago, constitutional an-thori'v. an-thori'v. and Dean Henry M. Bates of the Michigan university law school. I . tsaii i'i-i-I ' ' I i Washington. Throughout history, unsound economic olicies have had ( . way of demon- j Experience strating their un- a$ a Teacher soundness by the I results that even- I tually become understandable to the I rank and file of the people. Llke-! Llke-! wise, throughout history the rank and file of the people have leaftied their lesson each time and have avoideaVburnlng their fingers a second sec-ond time.. Thai is. fingers were not burned a second time until a new generation came along and refused to examine and take into account the lessons of experience. Lately, we have seen another .such., demons.tr iioon- We have seen both the results and the refusal of current leaders to profit by exper-; exper-; iences of the past. I I refer particularly to conditions involving United States bonds. Those who have followed market quotations must recognize that Unit- ed States bonds and other securities I issued by the treasury have suffered ; from fluctuations in prices that portend, por-tend, if. Indeed, they do not prove that federal financial policies of the last four years were unsound. There was propaganda from official quar- - teri idurln, orK' P"i0L' condition resulted from market manipulations and the activities of "tipsters." Stories Sto-ries to this effect came directly out of the treasury although they did not carry the identity of the official who made the statements. The whole circumstance must be thirty-four-billions and one must recognize as well what is going on in commerce ai.d industry. In addition addi-tion to these factors, attention must be jven to .conditions of the, last several years when the Roosevelt administration was engaged and still is engaged in the great-es; great-es; orgy of spending that our nation na-tion ever has known. When you add up these various factors you , gpt.an., answer .which, seems, tv me to be irrefutable. In the first place, no nation nor any of its individuals can go on indefinitely spending money when it does not have that money. That is, it cannot spend more than its in- - ome -over any extended period without suffering bad results. Our nation did that. It made up the difference between its income and its spetding by borrowing. It gave government bonds to those from whom it borrowed, evidence of its debt. The immediate result of this condition was that there are millions mil-lions upon millions of government bonds held by bankscorporations and individuals. These bonds bear an exceedingly low rate of interest. It is only natural that anyone with money to lend will look for the highest interest rate they can get If they happen to hold government bonds, those bonds will be dumped in favor of securities paying higher returns. That has happened to some ! extent already. ! It is to be remembered as well that these bonds were issued in the currency of the Supply and devalued dollar, Demand the fifty-nine cent dollar as meas- ured by the value of gold. Now, the law of supply and de mand that has always operated and which always will operate places a basic value upon commodities, upon the services of labor. It is operating op-erating again and has brought about a greater demand for commodities, the things we need to eat or to wear end the countless items of modern day living. The prices of these, measured in present currency, are higher because It takes almost two of. the pxes nt day dollars to . buy the same quantity as formerly could be purchased with the dollar that was good for one-hundred cents in gold. The answer to this is that most of us can not help regarding gold as a commodity having a stable value. So. we see a result in this direction. Labor, too. is demanding more of IViB flflv.ninp rnt dollars for lt share o praducW It has a right to do so. If you measure wages as you measure commodity values, and it seems to me there can be only on-ly one yardstick, then labor is justified justi-fied in asking for higher pay. Again, a result of tinkering with the currency becomes evident because be-cause labor it forced to pay more for what it buys as a result of the reduction in the dollar's gold value. Then, finally, I am quite convinced con-vinced that in addition to the factors fac-tors I have discussed as having weight In causing fluctuation of government gov-ernment bond prices, no one can deny the iniluence that ts being ex-eried ex-eried by the radical labor element throughout t.ie strikes that have been promoted These strikes have done more thai, jis' violate law by unjustified and unwarranted seizure of the property of other persons. They have developed -mong the strikers strik-ers themselves a fesentuunt against everyone who owns a farm or a home or a business. The tragedy of this condition, to leave the subject of currency for a moment, is that the strikes show how little respect for law and order exists among a segment of our population. pop-ulation. It Is not only a tragedy. It is - dangerous sign and unless somewhere in our nation, government govern-ment asserts its authority and protects pro-tects rights, we may possibly be facer" with a circumstance in which our nation will be held together again only by use of army guns. . To get back then to the bond market it seems to me there is a closely knit skein Untound 0f conditions that Ground prove where our government has gone into unsound ground. It can be pointed out how the tinkering with the currency has carried through to the ultimate consumer and the wage worker. It can be shown how the national government has disregarded dis-regarded the rights of part of the population and favored another part of the population and in doing so has created a class hatred which la liable to cause trouble in the nation fot Jhe jnext fifty years. Notwithstanding the lessons to be learned from these experiences we observe how the same mistake is being made in another way. I refer now to the attitude of administration administra-tion leaders who arc supporting President Roosevelt's program to to the Supreme court of the United States. Throughout the argument that has come from proponents of the President! paekihf plan there runs a constant and recurring appeal ap-peal that if we can only have six new Justices in the Supreme court we can do all of the things that are necessary to bring about labor peace and complete business recovery. recov-ery. ' " ' "' " Disregarding the merit or demerit of this argument, it seems to ma one cannot help looking somewhat into the future and determining on the basis of experience of the past what may happen if the Supreme court is emascuksfed as the President Presi-dent proposes. I said earlier in this article that there has grown up' a tremendous disrespect for law. The continued prattle about the necessity for "new blood", in the Supreme court is simply sim-ply and frankly another step in the direction of a government by men anc not a government by law. It is to be recalled that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt was given by his rubber stamp congress more power than any President of the United States ever has exercised before. I do not make the charge that the difficulties that I have attempted to analyze above resulted directly from according the Chief Executive so much power. But history surely teaches the lesson les-son that where one man has so much power available he always makes more mistakes than where that power is exercised by the properly prop-erly appointed or elected representatives represent-atives of the masses of the people. I recall a homely saying, often heard in my youth, that two heads are better than one even though one may be a cabbage head. I am quite convinced that the 435 members mem-bers of the house of representatives representa-tives and the 96 members of the senate have more wisdom collectively collec-tively than one man. Adverting again to the questions of currency and prices, we have only to look across the Atlantic ocean and see what happened in Italy, in Russia and in Germany where one man attempted to establish estab-lish his own ideas on the currency. From what I have heard from official offi-cial sources, it must be true that in those three countries I mentioned, there are billions of pieces of paper money that an worth altogether vljjiye moj-e than the cash value of. the paper on your walls. It always al-ways has workea out that way. Some of the business interest of the country apparently are taking time by the fore- Tahe Time lock and adjusting by Forelock themselves to conditions con-ditions where the government Is by men and not by law. A few days ago the distilled spirit institute-Announced that it had elected W. Forbes Morgan as its president. Mr. Morgan, an uncle by marriage of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt resigned as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee Commit-tee to enter the employment of the liquor Interests. While there was no official announcement concerning Mr Morgan's salary, the gossip persists per-sists that Jmis to be paid something like Five-hundred Thousand Dollars for rive years work in his new Job. His election raises two questions: What can Mr. Morgan do for the liquor industry that is worth so much money ano. secondly, whether wheth-er the selection of Mr. Morgan does not show how stupid business interests in-terests can be in that they have her' hired an Influential politician on the assumption trat he has great influence with the present administration. admin-istration. Writrrn Nrwupnper Union. From Perfectly Cut Patten ! ! . 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