Show I 4 M I jl iw J R z rf fc I IBy I By 33 Edward W Pickard Pic Q u afar Decline in Relief Relle Rolls Predicted by Hopkins HopkinsON HIS IlIS first press conference since INnIs ON IN I the thc PresIdential election HarryL Harry Barry L L Hopkins works progress admin administrator 1 asserted his belief that re relief relief lief rolls roll this winter would would be at the low low low- lowest tit low 4 est point since the Jest I tart start tart of ot the depres depres- depression t Y 4 Ion sion a ae He e estimated that I 3 families Il fr tl i and single persons 1 l would be receiving federal and local i 1 L i 1 y aid January 1 I 1937 1037 I compared to a peak II ot of In Jan JanI January I 1 uary 1935 II if I I L Hopkins I I I 1 think Hopkins sa said Id conn dently that hat we will ro 10 into Jan wary uary or of or this year caring for 1 1000 1 1000 less cases than a year ago anda an ana and d I I a reduction of about 1 fro from m II p 1835 35 The attention wa WIlS s I c to the fact that latest figure s 1 showed that 3 persons were wets employed the first two weeks of ot OcI October Oc OcI I tober an Increase of 20 29 over Dver the th e preceding half ball month He lie explaIned d I this by pointing out that the drouth drout h in the Midwest added 32 31 desti destitute tute lute farmers to his project t list I Steel Workers Ask ifor j for Legislation FIRST ot of the bIg groups that add ald added ed in the re election of at Pres I dent Roosevelt to call caU on him for fer their belr reward the steel steel workers I have asked that the Chief Executive J recommend to the next congress the I passage of legislation outlawing company unions and forbidding co of ot workers by employers rs J George A Patterson and Elmer 13 J employee representatives of 01 the CarnegIe Illinois Steel com com- company company pany carried this request to ta the White House I The Carnegie Illinois company compan 4 teas bas offered employees a 10 per centa cent 1 if a Willet wage Increase on condition that workers sign l an agreement to per per- permit per permit mit suit adjustment of wages waxes to the cost cos vS t living At his press conference e President Roosevelt said livIng livin g I costs should not be permitted to op op- crate erate to curb wage Increases Fur Furthermore Secretary of or Labor Per ikins ruled Informally that the em employee representatives had no au authority au to sign such an t for fer their fellow employees employee Labor Board Dissolves I Harvester Council Plan I EMPLOYER corporations were ere e i hit by a ruling of or the National I Labor Relations board ordering th the e dissolution of the Industrial coun aun aunI council jell I cil plan of the International Har liar Harvester vester company at the plant in Far Fort rort t I Wayne ladle Ind lad Wh While i ile le the ruling dealt only with Ith I I Ute the Indiana 1 plant the board pointed point ed cd out that the same sume plan also ilso eC exists cx- cx In the other 14 Mara ester plants ln in n the United States and It sets ets a precedent also for tor future do de elisions ns In regard to similar plans jn in other ther plants plant throughout the country The council ot of o the liar vester company is in labor 1 1 I organization under the terms of the National Labor act the board ruled Under it the employees employee possess only the not the substance of collective bargaining b according accordine to the decision Numer I Jus cus benefits conf conferred on the em employees under the plan arc are admitted emI I but the board says most of them their are granted in the form of ol pater A F of L Councils Council's Report on Social Security Act f X T HEN IEN the American VV lion tion of ot labor I abor s annual con opened In Tampa It had be before before before fore It the report of or the executive e council dealing with among many other topics the social security act The report heartily approved Cd of i a aI I federal social security program m and urged of state laws s that tha would w 11 gite e libo labo the greatest pos poi I sible benefit from the federal stat statute ute If the federal liw is unconstitutIonal the council said stud it is r that its provisions n 11 be changed or tha that t sanction must be afforded to them an n to tithe the constitution The council questioned the wisdom Is dom of obtaining the necessary funds throuGh a pa payroll roll tax ax which to a n t gre gre t patent is to be bc paid p dl di or indirectly by the workers l md aid D ld suggested that tha leon con gross res repeal this feature of the law ciS 55 soon coon a as It convenes con I In unemployment Sl since Ce s end the council S said ld I The 1 work week and the th six Ix hc hour ray day f ish sh the real solo I t on nn to th- th th problem of unemployment un unemployment employment f It is tl responsibility that private ii rust ri accept in r r to give gle xiv gl e the Ute necessary irry balance bllance o uon p c I The council reported ported d member membership ship I bil of 3 42 sin on Augu August t the 31 31 Greatest Since 1821 1021 The council dismissed J ohn hn LLewis L LLewis Leis rebellion with a dc do I tailed factual account of Its progress progress ress during durine the last year Appropriate Appropriate Appropriate action was suggested George L Berry national co or for Industrial recovery and president of or the Printing Iress Pressmen's mens men's union proposed that the con controversy controversy controversy with Lewis and his C I 0 group be ended by arbitration but bul this was rejected by President Green and other fe federation leaders John P Frey lost no time in Intro during dueing his resolution for expulsion of 01 the rebel unions with ith their mem membership membership of ot over a million President Starts on HIS Ocean Cruise PRESIDENT PRESIDENT RESIDENT VELT went by train to Charleston S C to toI board the cruiser for tor tora tori fora torI I a jaunt in n southern waters lie He said I I I II I he was not certain where the ship would take lake him but Jut In Washington V prom it was as assumed that he would pro pra coed at nt once for Buenos Duenos Aires Alres to Amers attend the opening of at the Pan Amer AmerI lean icon pace pe conference on an December Decem ber 1 In that c cise Ise he will make stops at Port Pert of ot Spam Poll Rio de Jan Jon Janeiro note eiro elro and Montevideo and will not return before December 15 It his plans are changed chanced he will merely spend two or three weeks fishing in the Caribbean At his last press conference be belore before before lore fore the President said he had about completed drafting the 1037 budget Ht lie Ht slid also ilso that he had outlined to his subordinates the things he wants ants done during his absence these Including Drafting of a farm tenancy la law t to end evils attending a n the system of ot I I I share croPPing and farm tenancy r now chiefly prevalent in the South Clarifying amendments ments to the so- so so dal security act Amendments to the Tennessee Valley Authority a act ct permitting broader social and economic Jm im of ot the regions served by bythe bythe b the TVA TVA's huge power projects Years Year's Spell 1 Likely for Far Farmers ers S 0 of ot Agriculture Wal Vial lace in an interview intimates noe that for a year there may be no nc new legislation for crop control contro along alone the lines of of the outlawed AAA AAA d for farmers would like to have one really good crop without forced cur cur- cur cur- ts 4 het ailment Bu But he added We We will need some i tion Ion e eventually un- un unless un less the wen weather ther theat at J I changes or the u J world mind di-mind foru for tor our products great great- torI t See Sec g Wallace I ely ly Jy Improves WaUn Wallace ce was asked whether the lack lach of ot a R control plan might not result ki Jn mother surplus leaving the up In the air without any machinery to cope with it He lie said he ho could not estimate t a surplus the nhe id of time and ind that he mould rather wait to see what would happen It may be possible to find Ind a tin lion that will prove better beller thin the AAA he said or the soil so act thel 11 I |