Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Disastrous Flood Moves Down the Mississippi — Mass Evacuation Prepared —Secretary Perkins Moves to Compel General Motors Strike Parley W PICKARD By EDWARD C Westers SnupiKT l"non of the senate she asked the prompt passage of a bill empowering her department lo subpoena persons and papers in connection with To the investigations of strikes press Miss Perkins said that once she had this power she would summon Sloan to a meeting with Lewis in but she was not Washington sure she could compel him to negotiate a strike settlement Sloan had posted in all General Motors plants a denial that the corporation was responsible for the breakdown of negotiations and was “shirking our moral responsibil111 Or- ities " He reiterated his refusal to and New treat with ' the union so long as The details leans the for this mass movestrikers held the plants ment were worked out to the last and continued with a promise to in the employees: joint by commanding officers “We shall demand that your region and thousands of motor trucks and railroad flat cars were rights and our rights be protected” collected Headquarters for the against "a small mirority who have seized at Jackson certain plants and are holdevacuation were set up Miss ing them as ransom to enforce their disdemands Lieut Col Eugene Reybold trict engineer at Memphis ordered “I say to you once more have no the prompt delivery of 5000000 bur- fear General Do not be misled lap sacks for the erection of sand- Motors will never let you down You bag bulwarks 15 cars of lumber 210 will not have to pay tribute for the 300 small privilege of working m a General outboard motorboats boats 300 life jackets and 1500 Motors plant” lanterns than Sloan contends that more The secretary of war authorized 100000 G M have exthe use of not only regular army pressed a desireemployees to return to work troops but also members of the Lewis scoffs at this claim but will Civilian Conservation corps the not countenance the holding of National Guard and the Red Cross an election to determine whether his General Craig said that if the bil- unions command the majority neclion dollar levee system erected essary to constitute them the sole after the great 1927 flood failed to collective bargaining agency The bold about the same area affected federal labor relations board could then would be inundated Many order such an election but it has thousands of people already had not intervened and probably will been removed from homes along the not like but cities Mississippi Memphis Governor Murphy of Michigan cm and Vicksburg being high had not modified his refusal to perground were believed to be safe mit the National Guardsmen staAt New Orleans river experts re- tioned In Flint to be utilized in fused to admit danger of a carrying out a judicial order that along the lower reaches of the the plants be vacated by the river But Secretary of War Woodstrikers ring in Washington had reports from engineers which said the strike of 7100 em- levee system on the lower Missis- THE ployees of the sippi probably would not be able Glass company ended with apto withstand the present flood when union committee and proval by the It reaches its crest officials of a wage agreeAt this writing the effects of the company ment giving a flat flood may be thus summarized: increase in all plants of the comHomeless nearly a million Dead pany was A probably more than 500 including signed IDO in Louisville conservDamage for apThe agreement provides atively estimated at more than pointment of a committee of five to investigate wage rates of the PittsCongress hurried through a defi- burgh Plate Glass company with a of $700000-00ciency appropriation view to establishing uniformity of which the President promised rates the flat glass inwould be made available for flood dustry throughout rehef and the American Red Cross was at high speed working raising a fund of $10000000 to which the MAYBE it was just a promotion for the book but Senator people of the entire country contributed liberally Supplies of food Joseph F Guffey'of Pennsylvania Democrat introduced in the senate water and medidrinking clothing a resolution calling cines were poured into the stricken for an investigation areas of the truth or falsiLouisville Cincinnati Portsof scurrilous ty mouth Frankfort and Evansville made charges were the worst sufferers but every against the Supreme city town and village along the Court in “Nine Old Ohio and its tributaries shared tn a Men” volume authe disaster Fires broke out in the thored by two conMill Creek district of Cincinnati and a Washof ductors destroyed property valued at $1500-COington gossip colbefore the flames could be conumn In offering the trolled Throughout the entire reresolution Guffey Sea Guffey gion transportation was crippled made a bitter attack pure water and fuel supplies were on the Supreme Court saying: shut off or greatly reduced and of the United "The President outbreaks of typhoid and pneumonia were threatened In Louisville the States with his characteristic franklight and power plant was forced ness and courage has opened for debate the most troublesome probto shut down In Frankfort Ky the state re- lem which we must solve if we are formatory was flooded and the pris- to continue a democracy “That problem is— whether the oners were removed to other court will permit congress quarters with the aid of troops The Supreme convicts took advantage of the the legislative branch of our govwhich was equally trusted ernment emergency to start a not and about a dozen were killed All of southern with the Supreme court by the Indiana was placed under martial framers of the Constitution to perform its duties in making democralaw by Governor Townsend cy workable and effective” FORTY THOUSAND employees of The senate heard Guffey’s speech General Motors returned to part In silence and referred his resolutime work in reopened plants in tion to the judiciary committee Michigan and Indiana and were unmolested by the scarcity of farm abandoned as a polBut the strikers deadlock was not icy for the time being by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace He said in broken and the strikers con- Washington that the two drouth tinued to occupy the years of 1934 and 1938 have brought had more thought on farm production by plants they Presi- consumers and farmers than ever “kidnaped" dent Alfred P Sloan before While a year or two of norMowould tumble wheat of mal weather Ceneral Jr tors had refused the prices if full acreage is planted the invitation of Secre- time has come for a lifting of the tary of Labor Per- restrictions he said kins to meet John L “In the year immediately ahead Lewis chief of the I feel that farmers should think striking unions while the strikers primarily of their duty to consumwere still in forcible possession of ers” Wallace said “I think that in plants and President Roosevelt the coming year it is wise for us ominously termed this refusal "a to produce as much as we can We very unfortunate decision on his should of course divert a certain intimating also that there amount of corn and cotton acreage part” was a prospect of labor legislation to soil conserving crops because unfavorable to the corporation and that will make for greater long time to employers generally productivity of our farm land “But for the most part let's fill Sloan persisting in his attitude Secretary' Perkins started a move up the storage bins this year It is for legislation that would compel good policy to vary the plans for him to meet Lewis In identical storage of crops in the soil accordletters to Speaker Bankhead ' and ing to the state of suppLes in the Senator Joe Robinson majority granary above the ground” the terrible flood subsided valley torrents were pouring down the lower Mississippi and the nation was mobilized to save the people there By direction of the President and Gen Malta Craig chief of staff the army made all preparations for the evacuation of all inhabitants along the river between Cairo GRADUALLY but the : i t f ' leadei yellow Artificial O of a sweeping OBTAINING against the Tennessee Valley authority by nineteen utility companies has put an form a end to efforts to power transmission pool President Roosevelt declared in a letter wTitten to federal povtfer experts and private company officials that the utility action in securing the injunction “precludes a joint transmission facility arrangement and makes it advisable to discontinue” any conferences planned to gam that end The injunction which drew M Roosevelt's fire halted the TV A from new construction or from soliciting additional customers for its power noted soviet AKL RADEK and 16 other journalist men mo4e or less prominent in the affairs of Russia went to trial as conspirators against the Stalin regime and the soviet state and all freely confessed their guilt told They readily J the details of the $ amazing plot and as- h serted that the ex- r tmmm iled Leon Trotzky was its chief mover Radek described the scheme by which the plotters hoped to overthrow Stalin and bring back a modified capitalism to Russia It involved the wreckirg of the nation’s railway system arj the bringing about of war on Russia by Japan and Germany Japan was to be in given the maritime provinces Asia and Germany was to be permitted to grab the Ukraine But Radek added that the conspirators hoped the war would result m a new revolution in Russia and that thereafter those territories could be regained “I am guilty of all the charges” said the once powerful editor Gregori Sokolmkoff former soviet ambassador to England declared he knew as early as 1932 of a plot to assassinate Stalin and admitted he was guilty of plotting to betray the Soviet union to Germany and former Japan Vladimir Romm Washington correspondent of of Moscow though not yet on the stand and trial was put on testified that he knew of the plot that he carried letters from Radek to the exiled Leon Trotzky and that he agreed to become Trotzky’ s undercover informant Scores of persons implicated by the confessions of the defendants have been arrested Among them is M A G Beloborodoff the veteran Bolshevist who ordered the execution of Czar Nicholas and his J The prosecutor asked death for ail the defendants from his haven in Leon Trotzky Mexico City sent out a specific denial of the charges that he was of the head conspiracy ROOSEVELT sent to the name of James Farley as postmaster general for and ths senate term another promptly' confirmed the nomination It is believed Mr Farley will rot long remain a membe- - of the cabinet for he wants to return to private work He told reporters in New York that he was looking for more than a job as a salesman “If I should return to private life" the postmaster general said "I would like an opportunity to build up an equity in a business 4o I would have something more than just a family salary for security for myoffers al“I Lave had several ready but they haven’t been just what I would want” PRESIDENT A IF REICHSFUEHRER HITLER will with other nations the interest of peace France will help Germany to overcome her present economic difficulties Such was the offer made by Premier Blum in an address at Lyons Blum however warned the Nazis that France with cannot and will not Germany economically or politically “while the possibility continues to be some exist that this help may day turned against the country which gave it” He expressed opposition to Hitler's policy of making bilateral pacts and added: “I believe I am practicing reaLsm when I declare we do not wish to separate French security from European peace” German officials were pleased by Blum’s speech and said his good intentions coirid not be doubted in Germany for HAMBURG "free city" has lost Hitler its freedom Retclsfuehrer and his cabinet have decreed that it' shall be known henceforth a s Hansa City Hamburg and placed under'control of Col Gen Hermann Wilhelm Goermg in his capacity as commissar for' the new four year plan for self - sufficiency together with Rudolf Hess deputy leader of Wilhelm Frick the Nazi party minister of interior and Count Ludwig Schwerin von Knosigk minister of finance The cabinet also took away the freedom of Luebeck and incorporated the city with Prussia and the same fate was decreed for EuLn Cuxhaven and Birkenfeld is absorbed by Oldenburg province Ask Me Another 0 A General Quix a Bell Syndicate— WNU Service masssssssureetMMans National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart Washington— The arrival of the first robin is only a sign of the comIt ing of spring not bring does Danger weather spring Signs Nevertheless we Americans watch for signs all our lives and lately there have been sevof eral them in national affairs that are worthy of notice There never has been a time in our country’s history as far as I have teen able to discover when the tension surrounding labor conditions has been as dangerous as it is right now I do not believe anyone can forecast what the results are going to be what all of these strikes and factional fights in organized labor mean and I am convinced that they represent something much deeper than just dissatisfaction with wages or growing In pains of expanding business other words there are many students of national affairs who are labor attempting to analyze current conditions as signs of rew times Most observers with whom I have discussed the present labor problems are hopeful that these troubles mean only continued increases m the demand for labor That is they want to accept these signs as indicative of a returning and sound prosperity in conanerce and industry Yet none of them is quite sure There are too many “ifs” and too many uncertainties for anyone to attempt a complete diagnosis of the circumstances Some weeks ago I ventured the opinion in these columns that the rift in organized labor between William Green as head of the American Federation of Labor and John L Lewis as sponsor of the industrial union idea likely would result in serious trouble for the labor unI was unable to ions themselves report then that which I can write at this time namely that the schism in organized labor appears certain to set back the cause of organized labor many years Indeed it seems that the split tangled as it is with partisan pohtics may prove to be the uncharted rock in union labor’s course and its ship may founder on it But the situation is fraught with graver possibilities I am sure There are ments and' influ- ences at work m PossibJitiet the labor situation today that easily could lead to riots and bloodshed From riots and bloodshed it is only a step to revolution of a political sort None here knows exactly what the administration’s labor pohces are beyond the exaggerated promises made during the last Presidential campaign Of course President Roosevelt and the bulk of his New Deal spokesmen are exceedingly friendly overfriendly some believe to organized labor The New Dealers had organized labor with Now them in the last campaign however it is made to appear that the support of labor in the campaign is proving more or less emto the administration barrassing which has just started on its second r term Some of the critics of the administration are outspoken in ther statements that Mr Roosevelt is trying to dodge trymg to avoid getting mixed up too deeply in labor’s problems Some of his subordinates have been active but the President has stayed out of the picture just as far as he could and as long as he could I sun inclined to believe that these assertions that Mr Roosevelt is afraid to take leadership too frequently in labor’s problems are unfair to the President They amount to a statement that he lacks courage — which is not true On the contrary there are many who believe with me that Mr Roosevelt senses developments yet to arise in the labor situation and he is therefore being cautious as to is steps thus early in what threatens to be a national labor crisis On the other hand it is difficult to explain why the national labor relations board has been so nearly quiescent through such strikes as the plate glass and portions of the automobile workers If there ever was a situation made to order for use of the agency set up under the Wagner law that situation was to be found in the two strikes just mentioned in cirso ltt’e did those board The cumstances that its existence can It be said to have been forgotten amounted to a dead letter insofar In as the law itself is concerned discus-socan hear some quarters one to the effect that sponsors of the national labor relations act and board were unwilling to have that agency and the law receive a real test at this time I have been unable to confirm this thought at ail but frankly the circumstances that one sees indicate there is some truth in the rumor that too much of a burden should not be unloaded on the board for its first real test Bus mess interests never have beeped the law to be constitut-ona- i ihe New Dealers however have comp1 Which famous musician a aymphony but nevar ' heard it? Is SligoT 2 In what country 3 In what presidential year did the “gold Democrat” put a ticket in the field? 4 What Is meant by osed contended vociferously that it is valid and yet we have the picture of a New Deal agency failing to perform the very functions for which it was created I mentioned earlier some of the signs and portents that are visible in the labor situa-S- it Down tion One of the most important of Strikes these is the significance of the "sit down” type of strike I find many informed authorities who refer to the “sit down” strike as a key point in present labor problems It is something new in this counIt is a program of striking in try which labor is entirely passive but by which it usurps the rights of ownThe workers simply stay in ership the plants offering no trouble and for the most part avoiding destrucBut it is the fact that tive tactics they remain in the plants the property of their employers that is causing considerable worry in government circles The reason why this phase of strike tactics is creating concern lies in the fact that it amounts to the seizure of private property by individuals who have no right or warrant in law' It would be the same thing as far as legal rights are concerned if a group of strikers went to your home or mine and announced they expected to stay There is no difference in there the two situations While the effect on you or me would be less important to the country as a whole it remains as a fact that our rights would be violated in exactly the same manner as rights of corporations were violated say in the General Motors strike After all you and I are merely units of the great mass of people that make up the Now it United States of America takes no great stretch of the imagination to recognize that if union labor establishes its ability to occupy the property of others and fixes that as a precedent then where are the rights of any person who owns It matters not whether property it is a small cottage a farm home or a great industrial plant — the right to us to own property guaranteed of the United by the Constitution States is virtually nullified One of the rights of American citizenship is a right to own propIt is a principle that has erty grown to be sacred with us since Yet it is the Boston tea party being challenged and thus far the federal government has made no As long as move to break it up employers organize and tread on labor with a steel boot just so long to organize entitled the workers are to combat mistreatment frem business But it does not seem to me to be a right of labor to actually take private property To that extent I cannot feel very kindly toward those strikers at present asserting such a right through use of the “sit down” strike Now there are reasons why the federal government has not acted If troops were sent into private factories to drive out the “sit down’ strikers one can readily see what a r:ot would result But if the federal government fails to enforce this inherent right it is not doing its sworn duty to the rest of the people And it was only a few weeks ago that Mr Roosevelt again took the oath of office as President swearing to enforce as well as defend the Constitution Then another phase of the situaThe Wagtion is being discussed ner law says employers must negotiate collectively “with the majority” organization of employees and it decrees further that the labor relations board shall determine which that is the majority organization it can decide this question on evidence or order an election among None can tell usually employees whether union or company organization employees are in the majority in some of these strikes so the labor relations board has kept out of them Taking this labor situation as a whole 1 believe 1 am justified in saying as I said earlier that it portends a crisis Preaching of class hatred has been the mam occupa-to- n of certain elements in the last three or four years and now those elements are reaping what they The tragedy of it all is sowed that the rest of us have to reap the same reward Is opulence? hero was betrayed 5 What 6 What by Delilah? 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