Show i- i to f fr r t i-t I ik k STUFF FL Politics B 01 i ti CS C'S II and Finance ri 1 1033 b Paul l r J WASHINGTON I- I I Dr By doren times Ge General eral John Johi M The be tint th d the th soft IOU coal people t 4 line liD they had a new excuse The They he J hould be del delayed J either left JeU their glasses at at home horn born id 4 R A Tho Th I N j iW her beP tare bye apen apel pen The They what they thought was the ax at anI an 4 at mt the bureau of mines mIne I i There Over Oyer they discovered production ii i 1 beta being localities was operator some 4 Obviously 1 we Were aU all the e coal the they fatall aU seal scale the higher waRe wage before effect Each Euh day of d dl de r ro Into their pockets dollars In l r scant S ThIs IbIs group was W largely heIdi fields In itt the cheap labor i t f f toll told Qu one oae f their number gleefully I hope the signing Is delayed delaye friends Christmas Maybe then I X will wll pm stoc stock stock- late jye to put In my zt i 1 The bureau figures show that coal coa hard sine sInce has bas been pushed mining I W- W SInce Inee then far the game sune period of 1931 am ani and Just about twice as high as last almost almo st back to the 1931 1930 U it is la Ia fet fad Industrial production since July 1 15 excuse for the Increase f no It has baS fallen oft off S I. I The rhe bureau of mines has a good ex 3 of ot it its cus cuse Buried down on page handout of stat statistics tt to August 26 arthe an are the statements f NotwIthstanding July Notwithstanding the market marked II upturn In consumption output was ii in inv v of current market require require require-I and substantial additions weri made to industrial inventories K t August UTo August To some extent however thi Increase during the past month If represents e purchases in anticIpation or price advances which seem assured the code of fair competition fo for t the coal Industry is adopted i In other words it is the mean mean old consumers no not the operators who an are hoarding If you take 50 per cent of oC tha statement and arid 50 per cent of i N R A suspects you will be Just just about abou aboul abour ht I r C DEVALUATION EVALUATION Financial sources close to the administration ad ministration are changing their tun tune again on dollar devaluation They an arc whispering confirmations now in instead stud stead of denials Their latest is that thai It Jt will iU come with within In thirty days da Th The g general n inside Washington vl vi view w 1 i is thit U it will be here around October 15 or sh shortly after Act Actually nc no ic specific date has been fixed by those who will do dothe the devaluing The time element will decided by results result theN N RA R I AI I e. e HITLER BITLER Oar officials are very much worried I about littler Hitler In Austria They hey smell serious trouble Theli private reports Indicate the nails arc f getting alan along fine In their efforts t to tc the Doll promote a revolution re a against IM foss government The Idea Is to force uzl control on Austria and Dd re reunite unit I U II t unofficially with Germany Seh Sach a astep step Is forbidden by the treaty of Versailles but that makes makes' II 11 all the more alluring to flitters Hitler's poorly focused vision S i j 4 The Th transatlantic official grapevine t tays Mussolini offered Austria a large lure I share of the Italian market and use of I the seaport Flume in their recent ner ne ne- ne- ne r The Italian dictator was as Germanys Germany's best friend when littler Hitler came to t power He soon found he he- he could not Dot play ball bali with a wild man With secret help from the allies alUes par par- Italy and Fr France nce the Doll Doll- f fan government may outlive the Hit flit I 1 let ler undermining Obviously Hitler Is dl his own International grave crave All the world Continued on Page Face Six 4 INSIDE STUFF Continued from Pare Pace One needs to do Is b wait walt Some day he be will jump Into It U and cover himself up e TARIFFS There is s a new reason why State Secretary Hull has resumed his daily tariff lectures to the press Millions of dollars due American firms firm are tied up south of the thc Rio Grande b by exchange restrictions Great Britain obtained an agreement ement with Argentine Argentine Argentine Argen Argen- tine recently whereby she can get her money out through a certain per per- of Argentine exchange e. e Domestic Do debtors arc are clamoring for something similar By offering some ome tariff concessions Hull thinks our people may get their mone money At least that is the theory he is using to revive his tariff thesis I e NOTES State Stale department newsmen caution visitors at press conferences not to mention tariffs to Hull His talk on that subject lasts an hour and h he starts it at the slightest provocation Our officials privately look Jook on the possibility of an Austro- Austro Austro German union or r as the worst potential blow slow to European peace since the ascendancy ascendancy as of at Hitler S 'S Norman Davis Is really going back to Geneva with his tongue in his cheek He confessed to friends before fore he sailed that our efforts toward disarmament disarmament dis dis- dis armament have reached the take it or leave it stage That means Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope will wm leave it S NEW YORK By James Ic 1 McMullin Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate The coal code jigsaw puzzle Is by byno byno byno no means as lS near solution as al It looks Its It final acceptance by the operators operators oper- oper depends on the interchange of something something- more than amenities between between between be be- tween General Johnson and Railroad Coordinator Eastman Johnson Is supposed to ask Eastman If the railroad railroads railroads rail rail- roads road will hereafter be willing to pay 2 Z a a. ton for coal They are lre payIng payIng paying pay pay- ing around now If Eastman agrees agree everything is jakc jake If It not the fat the fire and the whole ruckus starts all over again 0 What it amounts to is that the railroads rail ran roads roads being being slightly less broke than the coal companies companies are are being asked to subsidize the coal industry New v Yorkers who know Mr 1 Eastman are predicting he will say no in terms worthy of General Johnson himself The Thc reaction of railroad executives can easily be guessed The Thc point is that the coal operators are arc heavily in the red even with the thelow thelow low Jow costs now prevailing They claim they cannot possibly meet the he addi- addi costs required by the cod code without much higher prices The Th railroads are arc their biggest customers In almost every other field compel competitive tive fuels would gain a big edge if prices were jacked up The prediction is freely made by New York insiders that a lot of coa coal coalmines mines will shut down entirely rather rathe than operate at higher costs without the assurance of a market at higher prices Bethlehem Steel has already quit luit operating its mines and is 15 buying buy buy- ing ingon ng on the outside 40 MINERS The apparent concessions of the coal operators to the United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers are involved with some Machiavellian an strategy They think they hey have the U. U M. M W. W where they want them In the past union mines have ha had hadan hadan an arrangement with the Mine Workers Work Work- ers whereby the employers deducted union dues from their wages before paying them Thus union collections were assured Coal Coa was the thc only industry in which this arrangement held good The code provides that the thc unions must collect their own The operators are therefore willing to todeal todeal todeal deal with the U. U M. M W. W because they believe it cannot make mu h headway head- head I way vay on the basis of voluntary dues They may get fooled S 00 LEWIS Informed New York gives John L LLewis L. L Lewis a a. lot of ot credit for averting more serious strikes In the coal in industry industry In- In t than n actually took place There was a real danger spot there which might easily have c spread to the steel and automotive industries and jammed the recovery program badly Lewis Lewis' prestige with the miners and reputation for integrity saved the day Various coal operators have tried trice to o lure Lewis over to the management emen side of the industry several times but buthe buthe he has refused all aU offers It is 19 generally generally generally gen gen- acknowledged that he knows more about the business than the great majority of ot coal executives Lewis has taken no salary from he the unions during the depression In prosperous times he drew a arear year rear as a against dr Or- r more for many lesser leser lights lI among labor lead lead- ers erSt S 00 CHISEL The local N R A complaint committee committee committee com com- is literally flooded with protests protests pro- pro tests against violations of ot both letter and nd spirit of blue eagle regulations Action on them has been deferred until the recruiting campaign is over but jut the remiss are arc taking a lot for ranted granted if they think they are going to o get by with it Some use a chisel For instance two wo or three firms are known to have fired who were working for more than the minimum wage called for tor by the code and then hired them back at the minimum rate Also there is the straight racket of browbeating small concerns into paying tribute to a protective org organization or or- g In order to get and keep their blue eagles The department of justice has its its' eye on this one 0 0 S PLANE Others use the subtler plane around the edges instead of the crude gougIng gouging ing of the chisel In this class is the food chain which makes Its join the four hours for lunch club and the retail chain which gets around the hour provisions by openIng openIng opening open- open Ing its doors half haIt an hour later in the morning and closing them half halt an hour earlier at night These may not be literal violations but the thc chains in question are not helping to reduce the ranks of the unemployed SPLINTERS And here are a couple of ot splinters from the and chiseling oper- oper notable increase in industrial acci acci- dents The reason ascribed is that Casualty companies report a employers have tried to speed up their workers to do ten hours' hours work in eight Also you will find many trucks loaded ded beyond brake capacity to save labor costs So dont don't get Ret in the way of ot any such on a downhill grade |