Show - SOEaEN" hM&d around the NATIONAL JCAPITAL Field $ Carter Washington — Congress U all headed for a big high tariff drive So far it has no head no organization But that is bound to come Up to date it la an individual industry and district situation Some hundreds of different industries which compete with imported products are pounding away on their senators and representatives insisting that amendments to the tariff law be passed They want the rates on their products boosted high enough to make up for the increases in cost of production since the present rates were written plus the increased costs to come when the :pending wages and hours legislation is written into law For instance take the manufacturers of women's shoes up in Edith Nourse Rogers’ Massachusetts district Their principal foreign competition comes from Czechoslovakia They had a duty of 20 per cent on women’s shoes ‘ Some time back they made a case before the tariff commission and succeeded in conso comvincing the commission pletely that the commission gave them as big a boost as the law would permit— fifty per cent This made the duty on sewn women's shoes 30 per cent But even this is not enough even for present conditions to equalize costs of production the manufacturers say Besides which the Czechs have been sending in cemented instead of sewn shoes lately and these have to pay only 20 per cent But when the new wages and hours law goes into effect they point out they will simply have to close down unless the tariff is boosted beyond the present legal capacity of the tariff commission to raise it In short they must have an act of congress It Doesn't Happen Politically speaking the idea of putting through a bill to raise the duty on shoes and shoes alone is almost unthinkable It simply does not happen Always there are more representatives from districts which buy shoes but do not make them and who therefore are inclined to vote against a measure which would have the effect of increasing the cost of living for their constituents This apparently docs not occur to the shoe manufacturers But it will to the representatives of shoe mandistricts before many ufacturing days pass For the interesting part of the situation is that shoes are just one of about a hundred industries which are worried to death by the increased costs the wages and hours bill is going to Impose on them All of them are screaming to their friends on Capitol Hill that they will have to close down when the wages and hours bill goes into effect— unless they can get enough additional tariff protection to deprive the foreign manufacturers of this advantage The late Representative William of Massachusetts who introduced the wages and hours bill in the house attempted to meet the His bill would bar goods problem produced without regard for the wages and hours restrictions of the bill The senate draft has the words "in any state’ after the word' "production" Connery left these out But no one takes this seriously They think it would be impossible to enforce and they are certain his idea will disappear before the final passage of the bill P Connery V Worries Treasury I One trcuble about the gold situation— which is causing flareups on Capitol Hill and gray hairs in the Treasury department— is that the gold producing and holding nations just don’t believe us I If they could be sure that Uncle Sam was not going to reduce the price of gold— in dollars— from thirty-an ounce the desire to sell Just might tall off amazingly Of course it’s true that gold is worth a little less to a good many foreign seUers than thirty-fiv- e good American dollars They want the dollars and what with tariffs and quotas and reciprocal trade treaties and whatnot it is not so easy for them to get the dollars any other way than by shipping gold for them But nobody can estimate what the situation would really be if all the gold producers and holders in the world- outside the United States could be convinced in some way that Roosevelt and Morgenthau were not going to reduce the price At present and for some months there has been an uneasy feeling that the price would be reduced by the world’s biggest gold buyer Hence there was the urge to get under the wire before the price was lowered It’s simpler when put the other way round What the foreign chaps are really doing ia not so much selling gold as buying dollars For Urvcle Sam to reduce the price of gold would mean to them simply that they would have to pay mort for these dollars So the present situation is' much like what wouU happen in a small town if all the housewives suddenly began to believe that canned milk was going to advance three or four cents a can without warping but very soon All the housewives In town save a few who would be very hard up would be at the grocer’s next morning laying in a supply Very provident ones would ask the price of a case And incidentally such a movement If sufficiently widespread would have the effect of pushing the price of canned milk up anyhow even if the rumor had been entirely false at the beginning French Premier QuIH PACED with one of those financial " crises all too frequent in recent French history Premier Leon Blum asked the senate for powers which 4 Belief HeJ$ Growi in Capital State Troops Act would make him financial dictator of For Peace in Strikes Mediation Board Hits Snags France for about six weeks He did not of Current Events F D R EYEING THIRD TERM? News Review ri J : Big Fight Ahead of labor Compulsory arbitration with government officials disputes as the referees will be the Issue In the next big labor campaign high New Deal officials predict When it comes all the present labor leaders will be in the opposition and will part company for the first time with a considerable element of the New Dealers The fight will not come New Dealers admit privately until the present campaign is over with victory perched on the banners of organized labor Some of them think this will take two years some figure it will take longer but they do not expect the opening of the compulsory arbitration fight until the entire country Is on a closed shop basis A hint of this and that the proba blllty is realized by New Dealers and labor leaders alike was manifest in the recent Consumers’ Power strike in Michigan John L Lewis rushed lieutenants to the spot by plane stressing in his public statement that the men did not know an agreement had been reached He obvidiscussion as ously did not want to the right of the men to tie up an industry and punish hundreds of thousands of Innocent bystanders in order to hurry the negotiations But Governor Frank Murphy had Just wired a demand that power be furnished without any such apology It was immediately after hearing this that Lewis' statement was issued There was a suspicion at C I O headquarters that Governor Murphy's demand would have been made regardless of this agreement having been reached That was a disturbing thought It involved not the obvious difficulty about unauthorized strikes insubordination in labor ranks etc but whether labor has the right to strike when such a strike would bring hardship and suffering— instead of merely advanced costs— to the genera public of any commuIt Is the sort" of issue Innity volved In the general strikes so much discussed a few years back and tried unsuccessfully in England Sure to Come Compulsory arbitration is coming There Is no doubt about that But it is not coming quickly It may not come for several years But the feeling even among strongly New Dealers is that someone simply must be supreme and this someone must have political responsibility— be responsive to the public But there will be no real move with any chance of success the New Dealers say until labor has won the present campaign Until then they think the government should be on the side of labor For the objective of course Is to have the principle of collective bargaining in operation In every industry with the closed shop universal When that stage Is reached they say then labor must accept its responsibilities It is almost unthinkable that Its demands In every Instance should be sound Sometimes labor leaders will demand more than they should receive— the interests of the people who buy the products of that Industry being considered In such cases it will be necessary for the government officials to decide on the merits of the dispute O Dn 8jndlttr— WNU frvic - ' ' t f 1 ‘ 4 J A: 7 r' i ’''! wf V I ' ' : believe to bring It' possible order into the treasury without so drastic a measure When It was refused be and the 20 members of his cabinet resigned j He i— I had served 117 days of his second year as Premier ftinm premier of France— something of a modern record President Albert Lebrun designated Camille Chautemps radical socialist and a former premier to attempt the formation of a new cabinet A successor to Blum was not immediately in sight The Popular Front government was one of the bulwarks of leftist tendencies in Europe as opposed to extreme Fascism and openly expressed its sympathy for the Spanish loyalists Its passing is extremely important in international affairs t AA : V Close Parallel This last Is a very close paral lei to what has happened on gold As a matter of fact there was no intention whatever of reducing the price of gold when the rumors first began to circulate in foreign capitals Some one figured out that America really didn’t need all this gold could not afford to go on bor rowing money on which interest would have to be paid to buy it So he began commenting on the possibility of a reduction in price by Washington The word went round the world like wildfire and gold began pourIt had ing to the United States been coming steadily before but now it became such a flood that the British government stepped in at the request of Washington that something be done about it and began buying The trouble really is that all the precious metal dealers in the world —and they are credited with being a pretty shrewd crowd of operators —remembered the American silver fiasco How the same administration now in power started to put the world price of silver up to $129 an ounce starting when it was around 43 cents How they ran it to nearly up by big purchases 80 cents and then suddenly got cold feet Whereupon the price of silver dropped right back to 43 cents with Uncle Sam still holding all the silver bought st higher prices They expect the same thing again hnd it is not difficult to understand why UTAH NEWS GUNNISON THE CUKNISON VALLE-- 7 j V Xf ' ' h ' 'V ' jVi ' ' 7 ' ' tf ' ' Must Go Through C'EDERAL warrants were issued at Cleveland for six C I O Being human at bar on Island where President Roosevelt "humanized" leaders In the strike at Youngstown and Warren relations between the White House and majority members of congress: charging them with preventing of the Senators Key Pittmsn Ieft)’ of Nevada and John n Overton of Louisiana delivery United States mails to loyal emthe Apex Hosiery1 company plant at "Huftianiiing'1' the Majority ployees of the steel company plants o forced t were Philadelphia there Their names were not reMAJORITY members of con- evacuate under a federal court evicASgress vealed met on Jefferson islanc tion order During the seven weeks The order for the obtaining of the in Chesapeake bay with President the had occupied the warrant was l given by Roosevelt to have their relations had wrought damage to plant they Homer S Cummings after he with the chief execu machinery and books totaling $3000 had looked over testimony at the tive "humanized 000 according to company officials senate post office committee’s hearthe belief in Washing Charges have been made that ington circles thai Nazi Fleet Moves on Valencia C I O leaders were censoring the the President is willin Ohio cities and refusing to mail E'OR to the second time Germany ing accept a third 1 and Italy withdrew term expanded from the permit delivery of parcel post packto ages containing food clothing and the greatest propor patrol of Spain asserting that by this act other "irregular" articles for worktions it hasyetknown The spark which their "freedom of action" was re- ers in the plants "All mail that the post office de- touched off the lat- stored Hitler Immediately ordered est cloakroom whisthe strongest units of the Nazi fleet partment sees fit to attempt to perings of a third to Valencia the loyalist capital the deliver must be delivered" said President This did not conflict term was the decwhile assuring Great Britain he Cummings with the post office department’s Roosevelt laration by Gov would commit no rash act Britain to refusal deliver II in packagesJo thef turn R of be known Earle let George Pennsylvania through her but sought to prosecute perthat he would give "unqualified ambassador at Berlin that she plants sons who would prevent the delivery and final" support to a Roosewould regard any hostile act against of mail the department had okayed velt for President movement in the Spanish government "most seri1940 Further reports had it that ously" John L Lewis The reason for the Fascist nations’ Bilbao Falls at Last chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organizawithdrawal was that Great Britain tion and leader of the and France had refused to join T) ILBAO capital of the Spanish fell before an attacking strikes that have swept the nation them in a naval demonstration at was working toward the same end Valencia to protest the alleged loy- force for the first time In history it had withstood many The President has only indirectly alist submarine attack against the sieges dating from disavowed such an ambition He German cruiser Leipzig on May 18 medieval ages In said at his victory dinner: Germany and Italy who support the the bombing and ambition on "My great January rebels were assigned to patrol the shelling which broke 20 1941 is to turn over this desk eastern or loyalist coast of Spain the "iron ring" of and chair in the White House to my under the patrol agreedefense the loyalists successor whoever he may be with ment Although they have quit cohad so steadfastly the assurance that I am at the operating with the patrol their ships maintained the city same time turning over to him as remain in the patrolled waters was literally tom to — k— President a nation intact a nation shreds and the death at peace a nation prosperous s i jx Rolls Hopkins Slices WPA which included The "humanizing" on Jefferson many women and island was interpreted as attempts WORKS PROGRESS HARRY L HOPchildren was enor-to salvage the New Deal programs mom But as the which have been getting a mild KINS is busy trimming 314759 kicking around in congress of late names off the WPA rolls to shave Fascists moved In parading Jubilantly to take possession of the city to through heart heart talks the total to 1653477 by for Gen Francisco Franco not a between Mr Roosevelt and his sup- The cut was to be effected "simply The last defenders through not replacing men who shot was fired porters in the Capitol Several pieces of attempted leg found jobs In private industry’’ and had fled toward Santander 45 miles to the west The Basques were esby combing the lists tor ineligibles lslatlon most notably the President’s Supreme court bill have WPA officials emphasized the need timated to have used 75000 men in for economy by comparing the esdefending Bilbao 10000 were either apparently created a split between the conservatives and liberals in timated $2175000000 spent in 1937 killed or wounded — te— the Democratic party The Presi- with the $1500000000 approved by congress for relief In fiscal 1938 Louis Is Champ by K dent’s continued silence throughout — a— the C I O strikes has been a facLOUIS f )E the "Brown Bomber" tor too Democratic members of Miss Perkins Names Three from Detroit became heavycongress are puzzled to decide "PHE federal government took weight boxing champion of the world whether the President is unwittinghand in the settlement of the when he knocked out Champion ly bringing about the split or is dispute between John L Lewis’ James J Braddock of New York with an eye Committee for Industrial Organiza- - In the eighth round of doing so deliberately a scheduled to freezing out the conservatives bout at Chicago v tion and the big in- A total and creating a completely liberal attendance dependent of paid 41675 saw the steel — companies party They would also like to know as the furious battle in which the young whether he ia silently supporting mediation board of Golden Gloves graduate came back John L Lewis or is simply giving three to win after being knocked down appointed by the C I O leader plenty of rope Secretary of Labor himself In the first round with which to hang himself — 4t— Frances E Perkins )' — isat in Cleveland to Th® Tax Paradox ' nstates Patrol Strike Areas hear the cases of A congressional AS both sides committee The A S NATIONAL guardsmen or-- 1 x opened hearings on tax x dered out evasion move government’s by Gov Martin L as and avoidance by wealthy citizens "the steelPrompted Davey arrived on the scene to pro- LLuX- Secretary of the Treasury Morgenstrikes tect the public peace In Ohio cities was Perkins thau among the first to testify fecting where C I O steel strikes have plants in He said the nation was losing huncaused bloodshed and threatened several states threatened new outbreaks of violence which might be dreds of millions of dollars in annual more violence dwindled temporarrevenue through mch tactics Then ily at least to the throwing of a beyond the powers of local or even his state governments to control Roswell Mag ill few stones and choice epithets As the mediators began their task suggested three changes in the presAt Warren troops dispersed pickets and allowed loyal workmen to of effecting a compromise' s dozen ent tax laws: That depletion reducpersons had been killed in strike tions be eliminated that community-propert- y move In and out of the Republic provisions now in effect in Steel plants A general strike which riots and scores more injured since some states be circumvented the strike against Republic Bethleend the C I O had ordered and hem that higher levies be put upon the Youngstown Sheet Si Tube claimed to be 40 to 70 per tent efAmerican-earned and Inland started May 26 Eighty-fiv- e incomes of nonfective was recalled after-day thousand workers already had resident aliens with the threat "The next time our The first names mentioned in the men are called out it will be on lost approximately $10000000 In wages hearings were connected with the even a larger scale" of forming foreign corporaCharles P Taft H practice Cincinnati At Youngstown the strikers were son of the former Presi- tions to which individual incomes are lawyer celebrating the order by which sevdent and chief Justice and a memtransferred a scheme which treaseral hundred state troops were ber of the "brain trust" of Cover-no- r ury officials said was usually within forcing the four plants of Republic Landon’a presidential cam- "the letter of the law” Among the and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube paign" was named chairman of the first names were: Philip De Ronde company to remain closed Then mediation board of the Hibemie Appointed to ait former president 3ov Davey reversed his order comwith him were Lloyd K Garrison Trust company of New York now to manding troops keep the plants former president of the national laParaguayan consul in New York open bor relations board and Edward F Jules S Bache New York banker Shortly before the arrival of the McGrady assistant Jacob Schick officer and secretary of troops in Youngstown two C I O and a former A F of L or- electric-razo- r Inventor and Charles trikers had been killed and 23 perunder Samuel Gompers Laughton actor sons Injured as strikers and local ganizer The mediation board had a Job police fought for hours in front of cut out for it It was to conduct ah Barrie's Lett Curtain a Republic plant Investigation of the strikes and the Bethlehem Steel’ plant at Johnstgrievances of both sides then make C m JAMES M BARRIE novelist own Pa was closed and kept recommendations and playwright whose whimsical for a settlement closed for several days by PennsylIt has power to act as arbitrator pen gave tp the world many imporvania state police under instructions if both sides request It to do tant works of literature including only ‘rom Governor Earle Martial law so The first stumbling block it en- "Peter Pan" "The Little Minister” was finally lifted countered was the refusal of Tom "Dear Brutus" and "What Every Any eastward movement Cirdler chairman of Republic to Woman Knows" died of bronchial strikes was given g He was pneumonia in London sit in the same room with C L O of a setback when strikers in y-seven years old representatives Ualo Wtrn 7 I U j && 77 v-— Th® Mail w ' L 6 Nawapaptf If what thinks about: I The New NRA Bill J SANTA do say the new NRA bill as drawn by the Gallagher MONICA CALIF and Shean of the administration Messrs Corcoran and Cohen is more sweeping than was the original NRA Even Gen Hugh Johnson once as conversational as Mrs Aster’s par-rbut lately exiled amid the uncongenial silences crawls out from under a log In the woods with lichens in his hair but the lower jaw still working smoothlylnthe to tell how drastic a thing it is Critics assert this socket legislation will cover business like a Irvin 8 CeQ wet blanket over a tick pup and point out that th1 number of sick pups benefited by being ticked under wet blankets is quite small However these fussy persons belong to the opposition and don’t count Anyhow they didn’t f count much at the last election ex Vermont 'and one cept in Maine backward precinct in the Ozark mountains 1 Friendly French Visitors TT SEEMS we were cruelly wrong I 1 in ascribing mercenary motive J to those French financiers who’vej been dropping in on us lately They f came only to establish more cordial relations Of course there’s a new t French bond issue to be floated but these visits were purely friendly! and altruistic Still and all I can’t help thinking J of Mr Pincus who invaded the east side to invite his old neighbor Mr Ginsburg whom he hadn’t seen ia years to be a guest at Mrs Pincus’ birthday party He gave full directions for traveling uptown then added: "Vere we lif now it’s von of dose swell valk-u- p flats So mit your right elbow you gif a little poosh on the thoid button In the door jam downstairs und the lock goes und in you come You go up two floors und den mit your other elbow you gif one more little poosh on the foist door to the left und valk in — und vill mommer be surprised 1” "Vait" exclaimed Mr Ginsburg I could get to that Bronnix I got brains ain’t it? But ulso I got fingers und thumbs Vot is de stuff?" Murmured Mr Pincus gently: "Surely you vouldn’t come 1" - Visiting Ancient Ranchos TTNDER the guidance of Leo Carillo that most native of all native sons I've been visiting such of the ancient ranchos as remain practically what they werebeforo the Gringos came to southern California You almost expect to find Ramona weaving in a crumbly pa- tio What’ more every one of these lovely places is lived on by one of Leo’s cousins He has more kinfolks than a microbe They say th early Carillos were pure Spanish but I Insist there must have been a strong strain of Belgian hare In thi stock When It came to progeny the strain was to the Pacific coast what the Potomac shad has been to the eastern seaboard It’ mor than a family— it’s a species And a mighty noble breed it is— producing even yet the fragrant essence of a time that elsewhere has vanished and a day when hospitality still ruled and a naturally kindly people had time to be mannerly and the Instinct to be both simple and grandly courteous at once ( Privileges of Nazidom ' HE German commoner may bi A shy on the food rations and havi some awkward moments unless hi conforms to th new Nazi religion But he enjoys complete freedom of the press— or rather complete freedom from the press And lately another precious privilege has been accorded him He may fight duels Heretofore this Inestimable boon was exclusive-But ly reserved for the highborn now he may go forth and carve and be canred until the field of honor looks like somebody had been clean-' lng fish This increase ' In his blessing makes me recall a tale that Charley Russell the cowboy artist used to 7 tell: - "The boy were fixing to hang a horse thief" Charley aaid "He only weighed about ninety pounds but for his heft he was the champion horse thief of Montana The rop was awung from the roof of a bam Then they balanced a long board out of the loft window and the condemned was out at the far end of it ready for the drop when a stranger busted in "Everybody thought he craved to pray but that unknown humanita-- ( rian had a better notion than that In less’n a minute he came inchinf out on that plank and there wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd as he edged up behind the poor trembling wretcb and slipped an anvil in the seat of i his pants” IRVIN S COBB ©—WNU Senrtc |