Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-09-20 | Page 4 | Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round

THE TUE DAILY V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON M Merry Merry R e r ry J Go GoR Roun Go-Roun R ou n n d Trade Mark MarkBy MarkBy By DREW V PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN W WASHINGTON Several WASHINGTON Several close friends of the president resident did their best to prevent him from sail- sail ng mg to jo the international yacht races on the yacht last week end To travel on Vincent Astor's Asters float floating ng palace to Newport summer mecca of millionaires while thousands of or textile workers work work- ers were o on strike seemed to toV V them bad politics What they thought was especially bad was the fact act that serious rioting in the textile strike was taking aking place in Rhode Island just a few lew miles from rom Newport Solution Some of these same advisers especially advisers especially the themore themore more adventurous liberals privately liberals privately are urging what they assert is a sure-fire sure solution of the stalemated textile strike These ele elements place the he blame for failure of settlement squarely on the shoulders of the employers They contend that only the mill min operators' operators refusal to recognize unions ions is s holding up possibility of a peace settlement ment Therefore the thing to be d done ne they contend is iso isto isto to o soften up the employers by indirect government government government govern govern- ment pressure To this end they propose the bold scheme of the he government renting idle mills in strategic strike centers putting FE FERA R A unemployed to work vork man manufacturing cotton cloth eloth for the needy F FER P E R A workers they say already are manufacturing manufacturing turing mattresses shoes furniture Why not textiles tex tex- W tiles iles V The audacity of this plan fazes fazes' administration militants not at all Probably there is no chance of Roosevelt adopting it but they thOy declare that similar tactics were responsible for breaking the deadlock in the turbulent Minneapolis teamsters' teamsters strike They claim that b blond ond statuesque Floyd Olson Laborite Farmer-Laborite governor of Minnesota after exhausting his patience with the employers finally called up Roosevelt V. V Mr President he said We are in a bad badam jam am here getting nowhere fast The R F C C is holding considerable paper of these Minneapolis banks anks And these banks have notes of most of of these hese employers V 1 V Now my suggestion for breaking this thing up ip is for Jesse Jones to get in touch with these bankers jankers and notify them that the government does toes not intend having its loans impaired by employers employers employers em em- who are willing wining to cut their throats to spite their noses Olsons Olson's friends say positively that Jones did confer with certain Minneapolis bankers What if f anything the RF C chairman said is notre notre- But it is a fact that five days after the Olson telephone talk with Roosevelt the employers employ employ- ers suddenly reversed themselves accepting a settlement proposed d by government negotiators which they had previously refused to consider C Crossed ossed Hoes The New Deal having gone gona very navy-minded navy latest innovations are official flags for the attorney attorney attorney ney general and the postmaster general to be flown by y V all naval vessels when these officials are aboard V V At which line theold theold officers of the navy have had no little laugh They point out that the postmaster generals general's flag carries carnes the figure of a pony express ss rider dashing along at a full gallop over over the ocean waves The only cabinet member who hasn't an of official official official of- of navy flag at present is the secretary of ag ag- ag- ag It ought to be no trouble to devise one chuckle several admirals Specifically they suggest Crossed hoes over a row of cotton and anda a gravestone gravestone gravestone grave grave- stone inscribed The Three Little Pigs Brutal Language The thing that got Cordell Hulls Hull's goat most in inthe inthe the senate munitions investigation was the the allega tion that George V of England had influenced the Polish ambassador to buy guns from a British rather than an American concern The liThe cable I received from the British Hull told the committee in secret session was brutal in its tone It will be a long time before the Brit British sh people forget this gratuitous slight of their king V Copyright I ht 1934 United Fe Feature ture srn Inc V I. I V V