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Show After Labor Racketeers t?OR four months Eliot Ness, thu T young safety director of Cleveland, Cleve-land, Ohio, has been investigating Tabor racketeering in Cleveland, es pecially in the build' ing trades, and then he made a report of his findings that resulted re-sulted in a special session of the Cuyahoga Cuya-hoga county grand jury to hear the stories of scores of business men who allegedly have been trrnri7Pfi bv labor union officials. Ness Kegs said these men were prompted to volunteer their information infor-mation because of the security offered of-fered them and the knowledge that many others were prepared to tes- tify- . In addition to protests from business busi-ness men that they were being shaken shak-en down, Ness also had numerous complaints from rank and file union men that their leaders had obtained dictatorial control of the unions and had used it for racketeering purposes. pur-poses. This resulted in hundreds of men being thrown out of work, impeded legitimate business, and kept hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of dollars in new industries out of the city, the Ness report was said to have stated. Governors Ask Tax Repeal GOVERNORS of the six New England states, in conference in Boston, adopted resolutions severely se-verely criticizing the tax and tariff policies of the administration. They demanded repeal of ' the capital gains tax and the tax on undistributed undistrib-uted corporate profits, and denounced de-nounced the pending reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia as imperiling the jobs of thousands of American citizens. The governors who took this action ac-tion were Lewis O. Barrows, Republican, Re-publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Republican, Re-publican, New Hampshire; George D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont; Charles F. Hurley, Democrat, Massachusetts; Wilbur L. Cross, Democrat, Connecticut, and Robert E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Island. Trade Treaty with Britain IN WASHINGTON and London it was officially announced that the United States and Great Britain had agreed to negotiate a reciprocal h -1 n i !' "w-j if . it: trade treaty, whicn has been sought by Secretary of State Hull ever since he started his reciprocal recipro-cal program in 1934. The negotiations are expected to begin before the close of the year. American administration admin-istration officials be- " N lieve such a pact SecretaryHuU m-y ead to a com. mercial union of all English-speaking peoples and will be a powerful influence in preserving world peace. London looks upon it as an instrument in-strument to form a front which all nations may enter later on conditions condi-tions of most-favored-nations reciprocity, reci-procity, and therefore as an indirect indi-rect reply to the new German-Italian-Japanese alliance. . Principles said to be already agreed upon provide tnat ureat Britain would receive reduced American tariffs on textiles and coal. In return she would grant the United States lower tariffs on foodstuffs, food-stuffs, certain raw materials, iron and steel and other essentials of a rearmament program, Immediate opposition to the proposed pro-posed pact developed among the statesmen in Washington. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, protested against any British accord until the English Eng-lish pay off their defaulted war debt to the United States. He called the proposed pact "trade treason." Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts Republican, served notice he would sponsor a resolution resolu-tion halting negotiation of all new trade treaties until congress can determine whether they are responsible respon-sible for the current business recession. re-cession. Representative Allen Treadway, Massachusetts Republican, denounced de-nounced the proposed treaty as certain cer-tain to prove disastrous to American Amer-ican business. He warned it would throw "more Americans out of their jobs." Rand Is Acquitted TAMES H. RAND, JR., president J of Remington Rand, Inc., and Pearl L. Bergoff of New York were found not guilty of violation of the Byrnes act by a jury in the United States District court in New Haven, Conn. The verdict was a blow at the government's first attempt to enforce en-force the act, which forbids the transportation of strikebreakers across state lines with the intent of interfering with peaceful picketing. Another Judge Wanted CENATOR MINTURN of Indiana introduced a bill authorizing the President to appoint an additional judge to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. That court has jurisdiction over the seventh sev-enth circuit, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana, and has had one vacancy since the retirement of Judge Samuel Sam-uel Alschuler last year. Both Senators Lewis and Dieterich of Illinois said they had no candidate candi-date for the place. |
