Show T THE IDE E DAILY W WASHINGTON AS INGTON Merry Merry-Go- Round Merry Round Mark MarkBy Bj By DREW PEARSON and RO ROBERT E T ALLEN V WASHINGTON The WASHINGTON The secret fear of union leaders at this sessi session n of congress is the enactment enactment enactment enact- enact ment of a compulsory labor arbitration act This I concern has not been soothed by the private opinions of several high administration executives executives tives who favor a measure that would outlaw strikes There is powerful industrial pressure for such a a law Jaw The National Manufacturers' Manufacturers association is openly advocating it What the fear most is that the em employers employers employers em- em will demand such a concession if section is strengthened Labor wants this bitterly controversial statute fortified particularly to ban company unions It wants the majority rule interpretation of the national labor relations board in effect written into the law There is a reasonably good chance of winning winning win win- winning ning this demand But in return labor may have to give ground on unrestricted direct action This its leaders are much opposed to doing Fri jole Vice President Jack Garner and New Yorks York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia are old friends They served many years together in the house and while of often tenon on opposite sides they always maintained warm personal nal relations Last week while in the capital to confer with the president on plans for a municipal power plant La Guardia paid his respects to Garner Why the vice president shouted when he saw him how are you anyway A friend who accompanied La Guardia asked him afterward what Garner meant by Fri job Oh the mayor laughed as close as ashe ashe ashe he can come to Fiorello Grateful The re refusal of Jetty OConnor O'Connor to leave his present hot spot as comptroller of the currency for a cushy year a berth as federal re reserve reserve re- re serve agent in San Francisco has a a lot of people mystified The lowdown is that Jetty discovered the administration ad administration administration ad- ad ministration was withholding appointments to two other federal reserve Cleveland agences Cleveland and Kansas City City because because it expected to abolish them Putting two and two together reached the conclusion that if the Kansas City and Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land jobs could be abolished so could that in San Francisco With a perfectly straight face he dictated a letter expressing deep appreciation for forthe forthe forthe the high honor being conferred on him but stating stating stating stat stat- ing that he preferred not to go to San Francisco Lower rates is not the only aim of the presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's power crusading Another major objective is placing drastic curbs on holding corporations Legislation to this end is being framed by the federal power commission and shortly will be introduced Old age pension advocates are arc flooding congress with a postal card barrage The Thc cards bear two pictures one an old couple in comfortable surroundings theother the theother theother other the same couple in rags raes on their way to the poorhouse Each card bears the name of a needy couple in the members member's home district or state Miss Katherine Lenroot new children's childrens childrens children's childrens children's chil chil- drens dren's bureau chief is a South American enthusiast en enthusiast enthusiast en- en and md has mastered Spanish so well that she makes speeches in it The administration is cracking down on Huey Long with a ven yen vengeance Not only have P PV W V A grants to Louisiana Louisiana Louisi Louisi- ana been held up but the R F C has called a halt on its loans An unusual spectacle witnessed in the N R A AIS is is that of coal operators and union miners combining com corn bining in in a fight against lar large e coal buyers who w want nt code prices reduced The allies have submitted submitted submitted sub sub- an amendment to the code which would prohibit contracts being made for coal under statutory rates The recent action of the R F C in taking over o the operation of the Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver Salt SaIl Lake railway to protect the governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's equity in the line was as merely a public demonstration of the agency's extensive rail holdings Few know it but the R II F C possesses collateral on railroad loans that give it complete complete com corn or partial control of more than miles of railroad property Copyright 1235 1935 by United Future Feature Syndicate Inc IDe |