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Show Xeirs Ilcvieir of Current Events I BLASTS HALT STEEL PLANT Delay Thousands in Return to Jobs . . . President May Act in Labor Dispute . . . Fascists Quit Spanish Patrol I " ' v " I ' V - - - i "' 5 j f t 1 v. v s&. ' i v V - IA ---- -1 V ,- ja , Riots continued as steel plants attempted reopening. A SRwtUid W. PlcLaJtA v SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. No Water, No Steel, No Jobs DYNAMITE temporarily stopped a back-to-work movement in the great Cambria Works of the Bethlehem Steel corporation at J o h n s t o wn, Fa., scene of the most violent altercations among strikers, loyal loy-al workers and the law In recent days. Two explosions crippled crip-pled the principal water mains supplying supply-ing the plant just as Cambria once more had thrown open its doors and nearly half its 15,000 em- Goy Earle ployees had filed through Steel Workers' Organizing Committee picket lines to resume their labors. It took several days to repair the damage sufficiently to allow part of the workers to return. re-turn. The blasts interrupted what had been the nearest semblance of ceace still not very near since the C. I. O. affiliate called the strike on the big steel independents who refused to sign contracts with what they dubbed "John L. Lewis' irresponsible irre-sponsible organization." The strikers strik-ers committee "deplored" the explosions ex-plosions and "hoped no strikers had caused them." Two hundred state troopers, part of the state force which had enforced en-forced the martial law declared for a few days and then lifted by Gov. George H. Earle, patrolled the Johnstown district in an attempt to apprehend the dynamiters and protect pro-tect the water supply of the city itself it-self from damage. Mayor Daniel J. Shields appealed to President Roosevelt Roose-velt again, declaring in a telegram that the majority of his citizens were opposed to the C. I. O. violence and, if provoked much more by the minority, "might take the law into their own hands," adding to the toll of deaths, injuries and destruction that already has been rolled up. He said the strikers were openly declaring de-claring that they had the support of the President. As the plants re-opened before the blasts it had seemed that the real grip of the strike had been broken, although there were still some 250 pickets on hand. The day before the re-opening, the C. I. O., in a last-minute attempt to save its cause, promised a mass meeting, near the city, of 50,000 miners who would then aid the steel strikers in keeping the plants closed. Only about 1,500 showed up, and after listening lis-tening to speeches by union leaders they dispersed peaceably. K F.D.R. Waxes Impatient IT WAS believed that the pressure of public opinion in the steel strikes had driven President Roosevelt Roose-velt close to supporting federal legislation legis-lation similar to that of the amendments amend-ments proposed by Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan for the national na-tional labor relations act. The President Pres-ident indicated at a press conference confer-ence that he was as much put out at the C. I. O. for forcing organization organiza-tion upon the steel workers as he was with the corporations for refusing refus-ing to negotiate in terms of a signed contract. After a talk with Charles P. Taft, who had been chairman of the mediation me-diation board that failed to effect a settlement, the President said: "Mr. Taft and I talked over the whole steel situation and came to the conclusion that the nation as a whole, in thinking of the strikes, was saying just one thing 'a plague on both your houses.' " Senator Vandenberg's proposed amendments were designed to broaden the rights of employers under un-der the Wagner act, forbid "sit- down" strikes and other "unfair" union practices, and provide severe penalties for unions which violated contracts with employers. His amendments: 1. To give employers the same right which only employees now enjoy en-joy to appeal to the national labor relations board for an election to determine the representatives of employees. 2. To require agreements in writing writ-ing and to permit strikes only after a majority vote of all employees. Any group which broke its contract and did not repair the break after being ordered to do so by the board would be suspended from representation. repre-sentation. 3. Establish a code of practices for labor. This would: Prohibit compulsory political assessments as-sessments on union members. Require that all union officers, agents and representatives be United Unit-ed States citizens. Forbid union organization by coercion. co-ercion. Prohibit damage to property, strikes intended to force any person to violate a contract or federal laws, and violations of "any person's per-son's rights in real or personal property." prop-erty." K Der Fuehrer Scores Neutrals (( T? ROM now on," Adolf Hitler told " 200,000 Nazis at a party rally in Wurzberg, "we will prefer ... to take the freedom, independence, honor and security of our nation into our own hands and pro-tect pro-tect ourselves alone. Disgusted, Germany withdrew from the non-intervention patrol of Spain, as Italy did likewise. Der Fuehrer Fuehr-er warned that the Nazis would take independent in-dependent action to Adolf Hitler Protect themselves from attacks by the Spanish government. He described how Germany had been condemned for shelling Almeria after a Spanish airplane had bombed the cruiser Deutschland, and how, when the cruiser Leipzig was attacked by a submarine while on patrol duty, the non-intervention committee had done nothing about it. A remedy suggested by Great Britain Brit-ain and France was that the patrol duty be left entirely to them, with Italian observers on French patrol ships and German observers on British Brit-ish ships to "judge the equitable, impartial im-partial working of the system." Germany and Italy lost little time in refusing to accept the proposal. Sir Neville Chamberlain called the British cabinet in to see what might be done, but it was generally believed be-lieved that if the Fascists continued in their policy of refusing to co-operate with the non-intervention patrol, pa-trol, Great Britain would scrap her entire neutrality policy. She might extend the right of belligerents bellig-erents to Gen. Francisco Franco and his insurgents, thus for the first time recognizing that a state of war exists in Spain. This would be regarded re-garded as a bit of sugar for the Fascist nations, who recognize the insurgent government as the government gov-ernment of Spain. Montagues and Capulets WITH all the family blessings save those of a political classification, class-ification, Miss Ethel du Pont, daughter of Eugene du Pont, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of the President of the United States, were married at Christ church near Wilmington, Del., in a "simple" weddi.ig attended by a "handful" of about 400 picked guests. Bitter political hatreds were buried temporarily. Mediation Board Gives Up THE mediation board of three, named by Secretary of Labor Perkins to sit in Cleveland and attempt at-tempt to negotiate a settlement in the steel strike, gave up m despair, lis chairman, Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, and the other two members, mem-bers, Lloyd Garrison, former president pres-ident of the national labor relations board, and Edward F. McGrady. trouble-shooting assistant of Jume. Perkins, were unable even to persuade per-suade Tom Girdler, Eugene Grace and other steel officials to sit around a conference table at which union leaders were Present The board explained its failure. "The only hope of settlement lies in such a meet- mfn criticizing the cmsJl their stand the board said. "Nothing can be made clearer today than that management and organized labor, la-bor, when it really represents the wishes of the men, have got to learn how to live together to reach agreements and to abide by them when made." Steel officials handed Taft a written writ-ten resume of their stand, that they would not make any agreement with Lewis' "irresponsible" C. I. O. They admitted that the Wagner act might force them to negotiate with the union, but declared another law provides pro-vides that no one need make a contract con-tract he doesn't want to make. Budget Trouble, U. S. TREASURY figures Indicated that the end of the fiscal year would find the President's economy program pro-gram missing its mark by about $200,000,000. Last April he warned all departments that expenditures would have to be drastically cut, and revised his budget to $295,000,-000 $295,000,-000 less than the forecast in Jan uary. His revised budget estimated that expenditures from July 1, 1938, to June 24, 1937, would be $7,781,-000,000; $7,781,-000,000; actually they turned out to be $7,883,000,000, or $102,000,000 above the estimate. It was believed that, at that rate, there would be a difference of about $200,000,000 in the budget and actual spending for the entire- fiscal year. Budget Trouble, French BUDGET trouble is bothering France in a serious way; in fact it led to the resignation of Premier Leon Blum and his Peo- pie's. Front government, govern-ment, to be succeeded suc-ceeded by Camille Chautemps. One of Chautemps' first acts was to appoint Georges Bonnet, ambassador am-bassador to the United Unit-ed States, as minister minis-ter of finance, with orders to begin attempts at-tempts to balance the budget. Premier Bonnet's first Chautemps moves were to close the stock exchange and suspend foreign exchange and commercial Davments pending a de cision on whether or not he would be made an economic dictator temporarily. Because the senate refused him this power, Blum and his cabinet resigned; the chamber of deputies twice had approved giving it to him. The senate finance committee approved ap-proved virtually the same thing for Chautemps, 20 to 3, ten days after he had become premier. It would authorize the new government to promulgate decrees "tending to assure as-sure suppression of attacks on government gov-ernment credit, fight against speculation, spec-ulation, promote economic recovery, control prices and balance the budget." France, like the United States, operates on two budgets ordinary and extraordinary. France's deficit in her ordinary budget, as estimated estimat-ed by retiring Finance Minister Vincent Vin-cent Auriol, is about $200,000,000, and the deficit in her extraordinary budget approximately $1,600,000,-' $1,600,000,-' 000. Rene Brunei. Bonnet's under secretary, said they could be bal- I anced in three years. Most of the expenditures from the extraordinary budget are for defense. de-fense. -K Pen for Jersey's Parkers Vy-HEN Paul H. Wendel, former W Trenton, N. J., lawyer, "confessed" "con-fessed" to the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, kid-naping, the execution of Bruno Richard Rich-ard Hauptmann was delayed three days. Now Ellis Parker, sixty-five, chief of the Burlington county detectives, de-tectives, and his son, Ellis, Jr., twenty-six, have been sentenced to serve six and three years, respectively, respec-tively, in the federal penitentiary by t ederal Judge William Clark in Newark. They were convicted of conspiring to seize and torture Wen-del Wen-del to extract from him the false confession. Their attorneys announced an-nounced an appeal would be filed with the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Rebels Again Eye Madrid TLTAVTNG taken Bilbao after A months of siege, Gen. Francisco Franco, rebel commander, turned his guns once more upon Madrid and the sector north of Guadalajara New troops were moved into the seel tions about the western and southeastern south-eastern limits of the city. The loyalist government set out at once to strengthen its own lines although it was not believed Madrid was in much danger of attack before he insurgents have "cleaned up" the northern provinces. Since the capture of Bilbao the Basque and As tunan forces have been virtually iso aU3d from those of the Madrid-Valencia Madrid-Valencia eovernment |