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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over session of congress BEFORE this is probable the law pro- viding for publication of salaries of corporation employees who receive $15,000 or more a year will be repealed. The house ways and means committee already CK has voted unanimously in favor of recommending such actum and the law now has few supporters in con- about: California Condors. Effect of Wagner Act Validation on National Labor Policy CALIF. SANTA MONICA, gress. and Supreme Court Controversy President naturalists are all Chairman Robert L. Doughton explained that much criticisnv has de- agog over the discovery Orders Curtailment of Expenditures. veloped as a result of the law which that the California condor is lists in 1935. The was W. PICKARD EDWARD Wetter By e Newepeper Unioa. salary passed which have been published have been used as mailing lists by companies selling luxury articles and in the case of some huge salaries they are thought to have been used by coming back in numbers to his former haunts just up country from here. In fact, they are going out of one violent gog right into another. Because the condor, the mightiest winged creature in all North America, was supposed to be practically extinct, along with such van- ished species of native wild life as the great auk, the passenger pigeon and the lightning rod agent. Washington. Many spineless offi- plenty of grapevines by which word cials of the federal government could have been sent to the Mich, were horribly igan governor and, I truly believT Mutt Curb shocked the other that if there had been a request criminals contemplating kidnaping Lewis day when several for federal troops, there would hsv or blackmail. hundred farmers been a distinct change in the at. took matters Into their own hands titude of Labor Leader Lewis almost overnight. TpHE United States coast guard and drove a bunch of cutter Mendota paused briefly of the great Hershey out Further, I have heard frem plenty strikers during her regular ice patrol in the of in chocolate lawyers fa the house and senate Pennsylvania. is plants tive bargaining north Atlantic and, her engines TCiey thought it was terrible that that the decision that no federal law unsuccessful. For stilled and the church pennant at men who were striking for higher was being violated was wholly this purpose SecreCOUTHERN congressmen found the masthead, floated over the place should be beaten and slugged questionable. Those lawyers were Perwages of Labor tary they were no longer in the sad- where the Titanic struck an iceas the farmers at Hershey, Pennsyl- quite convinced that Mr. Roosevelt kins invited 33 lead- dle when the house by a vote of berg and sank 25 years ago, carrynew a So now we have set up strikers. had federal statutes at his comvania, treated the ers of industry and Z76 to 119 passed the ing 1,517 persons to their death. mark for envious Florida to shoot The strikers had closed the choco- mand to use as the busii for aclabor to attend pri- bill. The debate was furious and For nearly a quarter of a cen- at. For while they late plants, thus cutting off the tion fa the various sit down strikes in the representatives from the South vate meetings tury the coast guard cutters have may have croupiers daily market for thousands of gal- if he seriously wanted to get miv Washington, stating were deeply resentful. the dangerin guided shipping through at Bradleys up fa the labor row. lons of milk. asked be would they 'For more than 100 years the peo- ous ice area without an accident, Palm Beach, with the Then, I am reminded c,f the very the for country to discuss the need Fortunately as keen and ple of the South have kept life in their motto being Never another of these spineless creatures, frequent attacks which were fortnumber of new safeguards for industry to the Democratic party," declared Titanic disaster. They are on the eyes bleak as the concharged with official responsibility, hcoming from the White House and balance the gains achieved by la- Representative E. E. Cox of job until the last iceberg has dis- dors are, and e ' is very few. But I mention the fact other New Deal spokesmen when act. the Among Georgia, and now that that party appeared. bor under Wagner dealers in because therein is a key to some of employers and banks and business those Madame Perkins invited were has grown powerful it turns upon Miami as greedy as the things that have been happen- generally failed to men sure up to William Green, president of the the South and proposes to pass C IVE history - making decisions he is, our frustrated New Deal demands in ti.c recovery " were handed down by the Su- rivals will be put to ing fa the Roosevelt administraAmerican Federation of Labor; this wicked and cowardly law. This tion's treatment of the labor dis- programs. The President spoke with John L. Lewis, chairman of the bill is directed just as much against preme court, all upholding the va- it to dig up a bird emphasis on those occasions. He turbances. Committee for Industrial Organiza- the South as any reconstruction bill lidity of the Wagner labor relations with a wing spread vihas been completely silent in the can no one chairI believe board C. support Taylor, tion; Myron after the Civil war. act and inferentially of from nine to elevolence but there can be no doubt current situation. man of United States Steel corpora- passed inthe en feet The bill was broadening by Reprethat the federal government is tion; Gerard Swope, board chair- sentative Josephsponsored terstate commerce of New And he has been able to maintain with responsibility for proman of General Electric corpora- York whose districtGavagan charged clause of the ConstiCommunisms Gallant Foe. includes the big silence through protection given him are possessed Rights tecting rights. tion; Harper Sibley, president of negro city of Harlem. It provides immost we The tution. but HARDLY atheday passesof an ac- by everyone under our Constitution the United States Chamber of Com- that by political maportant ruling made paper any state officer who surrenand under our form of government in the merce, and government officials. neuvering of sacnine five the of. individual count of a mob to shall be heroism, a ders by prisoner and when a handful of individuals As an insenate. Certain of the President's advissomeread and to devotion of to a justices duty rifice, felony and subject of stance of this, let ers have told him a law requiring guilty of and Chief Justice thing which renews our faith in hu- assume to disregard the rights In by more becomes others efforts of Senator it the incorporation of labor unions prosecution the severe penalties. something was in the man beings and makes us realize in which a Hughes, addition, county should be passed; or that at least Recase of the Jones & that scattered through the world are than a situation about which soft McNary of Oregon, the occurs shall be liable for for the in words tears there should be a law similar to the lynchingto and the whs leader, senate, publican Steel we never to be Laughlin splendid souls of whom British trades union act which pro- $2,000 to the$10,000 damages, worker are required. attempted to put the question diheard before and probably shall pany and family of the lynched vides that all union funds must be paid The importance of the action of rectly to the President. He sought, of emerreinstatement When the the never hear again. accounted for to the government person. ten discharged em- - gency came he rose to it and thats the farmers at Hershey, Pennsyl-is when the senate was floundering Proponents of the measure were and dodging over a resolution coand that unions cannot participate vania, cannot be minimized. It deThe ployees. enough, greatly aided by a mob in Missis- cision in sympathy or general strikes, a straw that points which way the ndemning sit down strikes, to change constitutional the supported few But because fa the last that took two negroes from a ' wind blows. It means that unless the form of the resolution from one Organized labor always has op- sippi sheriff and tortured and burned basis of the Wagner act. finding- months, weve learned to expect it the and unrestrained ac- needing only concurrence of the and such probcomlegislation to posed any it a legal scheme protect 0f us tionsheadlong rm to death. The local authoriof them many thinking L. Lewis and his labor house to a joint resolution which is of John to continue would fight against ties were from injury resulting from fai to ably supine and called the merce appreciate a recurrent act of agitators are curbed, sooner or later a measure that requires the signof the denial the it right by employers 1Iant gervice b one venerable, we will closed incident" John L. Lewis thinks one result shocking affair a pay with blood; we will ature of the President. Majority of employees to organize and from nfeebled man whose name is of the Wagner act decisions may refusal of employers to accept miliar to all Christendom. From pay with lives of citizens because Leader Robinson was quick to block A 1 1TCHELL the American people always have that maneuvering. No one needs to HEPBURN, be the abandonment of the pre- - the procedure of collective bargain- time to time, triumphing by sheer insisted and always will insist upon tell you, of course, that Mr. Roosmier of Ontario, reiterating ing. strike, though this, he says, depends will power, by sheer singleness of a evelt did not want to have that resonot to permit on the attitude taken by employers his determination square deal. The broad constitutionality of the suffering O. I. C. act. from Under In treating of conditions within lution come to him. of the the act, was strongly noted by the chief purpose above his own from in the operation representatives what Pope Pius XI, speaking United States to take justice. He declared that: it is well always to the file courts decision," says Lewis, So, as a second instance of fesoon must be his deathbed, sends avoidcountry, declarations. I deral government sissiness, we see "workers now have machinery for part in negotiations We think it clear that the nainflammatory united for call a a clarion forth for settlement of the tional labor relations act may be hope I am never guilty of unfaira subservient majority of New Deaadjudication of disputes and the strike in the General construed so as to operate within front against the growing menace ness in anything I write. But the lers adopting a resolution which said making of contracts with employers, of communism. Motors of Canada the cold fact is that, fa this country, fa effect, You naughty boys! You Everything depends on the attitude spirit of constitutional authorof employers, who showed no dis-- d the time has arrived when governplant at Oshawa, ity. know it is wrong to indulge in sit call is position to be generous although ment must make a choice between down strikes, to take possession of promised to Waning Merchant Marines. Hughes defined the right of emout an army if nec- ployees to the right of labor to gather together its functions as government and al- other peoples property, and we are and to AFTER weve spent billions subsidies trying to lowing autocracy of labor leaders going to slap you on the wrist for for its protection had been conceded essary to protect select their representatives for colthe property of the lective bargaining as a fundamen- build up a proper merchant fleet to destroy the rights and property it Well, that was a declaration of for a lifetime. of our own, its just a trifle discon- of the other millions of our popula- policy but when the resolution was corporation. Hugh tal right. the upholding of the Thompson, U. A. W. the vital point of the certing to read that, among the six tion. Labor has its rights and they before the senate they could not Regarding HOW does labor A. organizer, barred relations act afapplication of the interstate com- nations leading fa maritime ship- must be protected, but it is equally resist the temptation to denounce fect the battle over the Presidents by Hepburn, threat- merce clause of the Constitution, ping, the United States still ranks important that the rights of those business because they charged it ened that every Gen- hughes declared: third fa gross tonnage, fifth in ships who are not members of any union, was unfair to labor. plan to enlarge the Supreme court? That question arose at once on an- eral Motors plant in America would The congressional authority to having a speed of twelve knots or who want to work, who own propThen, we have another circumnouncement of the decisions and re- be closed unless the Oshawa strike protect interstate commerce from better, and last fa ships built within erty, be protected. Thus far fa the stance. Representative Dies, a Texsoon were settled with ceived various answers. Opponents recognition burdens and obstructions is not the last ten years. labor controversy, it must as present proposed a resolution Democrat, of the Presidents bill declared the of the union demands. Homer Mar- limited to transactions which can But, although Los Angeles is a be said that the Roosevelt adminfa the house for an investigation of W. A., U. A. of the if it such a for president tin, measure, be deemed to be an essential part necessity port, we have no time right istration and the governors of most sit down strikes. Mr. Dies was wilever existed, was entirely removed called Hepburn a number of un- of a Row' of interstate or foreign great now to pester about a comparatively of the states have fallen short fa ling to condemn sit down strikes names. Toronto The Trades commerce. Burdens or obstructions trivial by this showing of liberal tendencies pleasant thing such as the threatened their sworn duty. but he wanted to know what the by a majority of the court; and and Labor Council pledged the sup- may be due to injurious action vanishment of the American flag There has been much praise ac- facts were. Very quickly, many of of its to 40,000 members the Mr. of Roosevelt port many supporters springing from other sources." from the seven seas not while corded Governor Murphy of Michd boys on the Boor admitted that some compromise unions strike against General MoIn the case of the Associated were still so uncertain about who igan for "settling" the strikes fa the a thoroughgosmelled of house the such as the appointment of two new tors. Press, concerning the dismissal of will have the leading parts in Gone the automobile plants. Yet, I cannot organizations labor into forced two minof his ing instead of be inquiry Hepburn six, New Morris Watson, a might justices York edi- With the Wind. To date, nearly help wondering whether the term activities of into political advisable. But the President him- isters to resign, charging they were torial employee, the court was split, in the movie colony has settlement is correct when strik- generally, lady every racketeering into not labor the in groups, self let it be known that he wished supporting government 5 to 4. The majority opinion, read been suggested for Scarlett O'Hara ers thumbed their noses at the where local labor organizations are his program pushed through without its fight "against the inroads of by Justice Roberts, held that the courts West and when law Mae Jane and or enforcement Withers, except modification. The favorable ma- the Lewis organization and commuact does not abridge the freedom and as for Rhett Butler well, it officers were told by their superiors in tiie hands of irresponsible house the So. in nism radicals. are David of shift general. They one, created by the of speech or of the press jority may yet be necessary to cast that to hold off the execution of court scheming and, u of Justice Roberts, did not seem to A. Croll, who held the labor, muto the role as a whole minstrel first part, decrees. It seems to me that we, as sneaked out from under by the first amendment dodged this as nicipal affairs and public welfare Constitution. The court took the view with an fateilocutor and six end a him safe enough. possible, painlessly resolunation, will have cause to regret issue This position of the President was portfolios, and Attorney General Ar- that Watson was dismissed not be- men. by depositing the Dies of that kind for "settlements" of which, W. from Roebuck. Axel thur table tion on the taken also by some of his cabinet Hall, young cause his work was unsatisfactory good many years to come. withdrawn. be never will members. Secretary of Agriculture mayor of Oshawa, who has been but because of his activities it course, in the politic Italians fa Spain. Wallace declared that agriculture friendly to the strikers and critical Newspaper Guild, and ordered his I called these policies statement I am inclining to the belief that cowardice MUST be slightly annoying to in an earlier could expect nothing from the Su- of Hepburns action, sent an "ultireinstatement. IT those Italian soldiers who were there is wily one word capable of fa this article. All of the elements preme court as now constituted, and matum to President Martin of the The three other cases, in each of .. . . describing the at-- seem to me to be present to justuy urged American farmers to give the Automobile Workers of America de- which the Wagner act was upheld, flung headlong upon Spain to fight roluieal titude of the Roos- - that a anRoosevelt plan their earnest sup- manding that members of the union involved dismissal of 18 employees in a war in which they had no perdescription. But theresituation. eve It administra Cowardice in United misin whole when the States strike sup- .by an interstate bus company; a sonal interest, through other phase of the port. i n dealing concerns the future of the poU Attorney General Cummings de- port of the Oshawa local. The lat- dispute between take, they are mown down in hun- with strikers of thetion It Fruehauf the down sit charac- ticians who have run away bo clared that the four justices who dis- ter body adopted a resolution de- Trailer Company of Detroit, Mich., dreds by their own troops, and then sented from the court's decision manding that Premier Hepburn and the United Automobile Workers the bewildered remnants find them- ter. Labor has a weapon in the the real issue this time. I am q it is entitled to use that that the Wagner act is constitution- withdraw from the negotiations to Union; and a dispute between the selves in the hands of the oppos- - strike and it will rise up to hom because too many business convinced al still constitute a "battalion of make way for intervention by the Friedmann Harry Mark3 Cloth- not too distant futurein the government forces, who have a weapon them interests have refused to be fair. a sometimes for death" and will continue to oppose dominion authorities. being ing Company of Richmond Va., and reputation of In Montreal 5,508 women garment Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In trifle rough with prisoners whom But when labor abuses, instead of all major New Deal social legislaIn the course of the discussion uses, the weapon available to it, advertefl I tion. workers, members of the C. I. O. in the bus case the decision was unani- they capture. labor controversy, then the time has come to call them the John L. Lewis, head of the C. 1. ternational union, employed in 72 mous; in the others the division several occasion Still, it must be a great com- to account as business interests just court the had plants, started a strike for higher was 5 to 4. Talk of O., asserted to the politics th Supreme fort to the confused captives and are called to account when demonstrated its instability" anew wages; and in Fernie, B. C., 1,000 they vioto the relatives of the fallen back late laws. Third Term is imbedded mtij The difference is that the and that the Wagner act decisions C. I. O. miners threatened to strike situation. IPLOMATIC representatives of home as well to have assurance ranks of labor involve millions of in the Ptu win20 Latin American only made more imperative the for union recognition. of Mussolini are that from so much politics they republics votes whereas, the ranks of business need for enlarging the court. under cunem the in in for fascist doctrines. hears one the the unway gathered ning involve only a comparatively small that discussion T HEIN George VI is crowned Senator James Hamilton Lewis of a mesion building fa celebration o Until they heard that cheering around Washington Illinois, whip of the senate, predictking of Great Britain on May and listened to an sage, those battered survivors prob- number of votes. Therefore, by any President Roosevelt's fiztiire P day of reasoning I have been able ed that the President's court plan 12, Robert Worth Bingham, our am it address by President Roosevelt. ably thought that they had been line to follow through, it seems to me It is curious, but appeart would emerge from the judiciary bassador to London, and James W, This was formal and was broadcast licked. Mr. Roosevelt may Sue that that the federal governments posi- to run for a third term. committee a much compromised, Gerard, President Roosevelt's spe- to all the republics, but it was foltion thus far can properly be deamended and generally trans- cial ambassador to the coronation, lowed by an off the record course obviously would urea talk of Gall. The Height scribed as political cowardice. Roosevel formed measure. will appear in Westminster abbey which the reporters were not perJ. CAESAR remarked at the There are a number of reasons precedents, but Mr. garbed in silk knee breeches and mitted to hear. It was said the break dividto once was Gaul precedents. all time, ordinary evening tailed dress coats President sought to convince the ed in three parts, but it is obvious why I think this term is approHe has stated on several ojj CHIEFS of executive independent officers and The State department in Washing diplomats of the good faith of the that subsequently there was a com- priate. First, there was the famous casions his ambition to night conference when Mr. Roose- White House in 1940 with the naW other spending units of the govern- ton consented to a modification of United States in its foreign polivelt returned from his Georgia vament were called on by President the ruling which bars American dip- cies, and that, reviewing the prom- plete and economically P at When France, already fa default cation and talked over with ous.peace Roosevelt to reduce expenditures up lomats from wearing gala clothes ises made by his administration in things This observation n debt, the house and senate New Deal to the end of the fiscal year June 30. at state functions.' The costume this respect, he declared them 100 to us on one little whenever the newto peated her starts scheming leaders. They emerged from that peddle la t In his letter to them the President decided upon is not full court dress per cent fulfilled. propitious. On the est issue of government securities meeting with the President, saying but the duke of Norfolk, who said: a were lnb!,h iu that must indeed be re- that the federal government could sion, there It is apparent at this time that earl marshal, will let it go as such I T IS the opinion of the Knights of over here, of gallishness do nothing; that no federal laws servers in Washington to the as the 1 Columbus that communism height garded the revenues of the government for is rethe same reaction the present year will be materially C OR the second time in two years sponsible for sitdown end other or Gaulishness spell it either way, had been violated and that no re- tained namely, that pcrMP claration, 1 come out it'll the same. come had reader, from any proper quest the house passed the Pettingill strikes in the United States and less than the amount estimated in perhnps--M- r; and only evade to Johnson the act, authority for federal government inmy budget message of last January; bill to repeal the "long and short Canada, and that national organiza- Moreover, a had yearning in his the deficit will be far haul" clause of the interstate com- tion of 600,000 Catholic men there- she would have American investors tervention. and, her four years snother to Paris and send the r noted makes one money It buy act. This law prohibits rail- fore has started an endless crulaugh, such state- ent term expires. One greater titan was anticipated unless merce bonds there. sort French This these ments as these. If President Roosethere is an immediate curtailment ways from charging lower rates for sade against what it terms "the for his direct expressions. a long haul than for a shorter one most damnable organization in the of smacks of inviting Brr Rabbit velt and his administration had of expenditure. to curb sit down strikes, does that only by constantly cou w You Mil carefully examine the on the same route in the same di- world. The program was launched to come into camp to be massacred, .retirement status o appropriations for your ac- rection, and it hampers the roads officially by 400 delegates of coun- instead of hunting him down with anyone believe that he could not to his future President invite Rrou1 um tha dogs. in word subto a lave to their in conveyed view a w.th cils with Governor the York New making greatly competition tivity district and in demanding themselves IRVIN S. COBB. of deand or water Murphy truck Michigan for stantial saving by eliminating that he was carriers long will be carried on all over the a third term. un WNU Service. willing to help? I think there are run for country by the Knights, ferring all expenditures which are distance traffic. C WMicm NwspPr the Wagner act not absolutely necessary at this VALIDATION administration up time. You will report to me through against the necessity of formulating a new national labor policy to pre- the acting director of the budget not vent strikes and to later then May 1, 1937, the steps determine what which you are undertaking to reduce course shall be fol- expenditures and the amount of the lowed when collec- estimated saving resulting of sit-dow- n sit-dow- n anti-lynchi- real-estat- down-trodd- en : j , , fa-t- he n weak-knee- ; safe-guard- ed - H Pan-Americ- Pan-Americ- P"j AS 1 four-billio- rp?v de-iir- |