Show 2 Saturday Morning- - -- Caulion Urged On Revising Wagner Law £ijc Salt £akf Tribune- ‘Little Flower’ Can’t Budge These Boys Legal Barrier Fans Debate On bird Term Confronts Cotton Plans Raises Discussion and was in touch with the author and artist of the new and Hera at the junction old worlds point of the north and of the south at the foot of one of the main arteries that led to the exciting new lands beyond the mountains the travelers and the news stopped at Y worked should realize" Wagner sard in a broadi ast address “that while labor is weakened by factional strife the minority opponents of labor's rights ”are united to destroy the labor art Ho said any weakening of the act would mean a 'long period of uncertainty fear strife and Utjga "Every 4 Utcc tion” Fair employers he added "should realize that they have long been made the unwilling victims of a reactionary minority which has forced to strife upon industry by refusing " accept the principles of peace Invite Labor's View Wagner promised that amend ments proposed bv "labor groups" and labor’s friends” would receive careful consideration Earlier the national labor relations board speaking out for the first time in the controversy over changing the act told the senate labor committee that most of the proposed amendments would nullify labor’ right to oiganize and bargain and would impair administration of the act In a voluminous report to the committee reviewing both the operd the amend ations of the ments sought by organized business the American Federation of Labor and individual senators the board said Its own mind was “wholly open" on the' amendment question But It added: law-an- “The board Is not persuaded by its experience or by any arguments which have come to its attention amendment at that the act requires the present time " On the question of receiving employer petitions for employe elections now barred by a board regulation the board said "that to permit employers the unlimited right of filing such petitions would open the election machinery of the act to possible serious abuse" Right to Petition be-li- study should be given to the feasibility of granting the right to petition subject to specific safe- guards" In his radio speech Wagner also discussed the question Of employer petitions and said he believed "that the privilege of petitioning for an em- ployer" The labor board criticised particularly an amendment offered by the A F L which would permit an employer to express to his employes opinions concerning various labor organizations if the opinions were not accompanied by threats or coer- — Coal Shortage Coiigrohsmcn Join LaGuardia in "" Appealing for Fuel (Continued From rage 0e) has been the conference long union’s insistence on either the cloned or union shop or alternativefrom district ly the elimination w'orkmg agreement of the penalty clause W ants Coal for Buffalo RepresentativeOHarter (R) New York asked Lewi and O'Neill jointly to arrange for the release of sufficient coal for shipment to Buffa-t- o relieve conditions which he described as "very acute " ‘Hospitals and other places are The seriously affected" he said Buffalo health commissioner however subsequently said he had received no previous “Intimation” of any coal shortage In the hospitals there and a vice president of the chamber of commerce announced several industries had "plenty" of coal while "the majority have switched to electric or gas energy anyway " The weekly buslmss survey of the University of Pittsburgh attributed shutdown in the eight-stat- e to the Appalachian area— a shutdown that followed the expiration of the old labor contract on March 31 —one of tho most precipitous drops in business activity in that city in a decade May Halt Shipbuilding Among other developments of the day were these: Lewis announced the receipt of a telegram from the Beriv & Foote Coal company of Philadelphia saying that unless the New York Shipbuilding company at Camden N J was allowed new' coal supplies it would be necessary to stop work April 22 o na battleship two destroyer tenders and twm seaplane tenders being built for the govern- self-refor- Bondholders Firm lleich UP-T- n -- Woman Pilot Old Dobbin In Job The Habit of Dropping-ito For A lonntain Pen OUR TEMPORARY LOCATION 261 SO MAIM ST WEST BIDE Mrs Roosevelt On Air Hop The Day in Stirs Plea to Washington Press End Deadloek President cion To permit this the board said would increase industrial strife lead to a "tremendous growth of company unionism" and destroy freedom of Joseph A Padway A F L general counsel in a statement commenting ment on the board's report said the The shoe fac lories of the big ' agency was perfoiming a tight rope Endicott Johnson corporation in walking act but with very little Binghamton Endicott and Johnson City N Y were closed Presiskill ” The A F L he added could not dent George W Johnson said for out any want of fuel trust the board to carry At Clinchco Va the Olinchfield 'Implied promises of which had conby changing its administrative reg- Coal corporation tinued opt i at iuiis win ii the United ulations Mine Workers quit woik on April 1 in the abseme of a contract shut Sue down its mines The union had U S drawn up a picket force of more than 1000 men in an effort to orArms ganize the corporations workmen There were unconfirmed reports of hc NEW YORK April 14 minor disorders in the area Forty German Krupp munitions firm was state troopers were at hand accused lh state supreme court FriA dynamite explosion closed the tollex-Uoday of trying to prevent the bond- mouth of a small mine some 40 of $00000 due American mites from Johnstown Pa and holders by fraudulently assigning there were scattered minor disorassets here to an Amsterdam bank ders in that slate The Pan - American Securities company which said It owned $300 IKK) worth of matuied Krupp bonds Glider an which payment has been refused because of German exchange laws Sets Altitude Mark sued to revoke Krupp's assignment Orediet to the Amsterdamsche LOS ANGELES 14 HP — Maatschappij of patent royalties Riding the currents April of Thursday's due the Krupp firm from the GenLucretia Buxton gale eral Electric company of Hawthorne set a new American altitude record for women glider pilots carrying a passenger the Fails Southern California Soaring association announced Friday Test The association said that after Miss Buxton's baroROCHESTER N Y UP) -- A horse calibrating of the representatives graph a on a trial for bakery purchased American Glider association found wagon run is looking for another that she had reached an altitude of a out street First day today job f100 feet or 400 feet higher than car bell frightened the horse and the previous best achievement of a 12 the bolted wagon dragged it woman pilot with a passenger and curb a over it and feet toppled onto a fne hydrant The bakery's distribution manager Immediately dubbed the trial a failure GOOD HABIT oahjac'SACbxvv!!llfc New York City’s deader second from right so far Mayor LaGuardia wants coal without success in urging reopening of coal fields before negotiating operators and union At left is Charles O’Neill operators’ spokesman SecAt right is John L Lewis leaders ond from left is Walter L Robison chairman of the still deadlocked joint wage parley By Associated Roosevelt urged European nations to “break the bonds" of militaristic ideas and asserted the western hemisphere nations would help the old world avoid wfar thr senatq unemployment committee gave tentative approval to legislation to end the emergency relief program and set up a permanent system Farm administration lawyers advised that some legislation would be necessary before the proposed program for barter of commodities with other democracies cguld be undertaken to The house rivers and harbors committee approved a bill authorizing completion of the Florida ship canal Senate Group Okehs Rail Rale Measure Told of Strike Hears of Walk-Ou- t Too Late ” To Change IMans NEWARK N J April 14 UT)-- Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt arrived from Washington aboard an eastern air lines plane late Friday unaware she said that maintenance mpn on the line were on strike The first lady landed at the airport on the £enth regularly scheduled incoming flight Edward J Noble who resigned the chairmanauship of the civil aeronautic thority two day ago to serve as a dollar-a-yea- r executive assistant to Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins also was a passenger on the plane but Mrs Roosevelt said ehe did not know he was aboard More Men Out Eastern Air Lines official said a "few more men" went on strike Friday The company announced when the strike started at 12 01 d a m (E S T) that 62 of the maintenance men had walked A P out over a wage dispute Martin president of the Air Lane Mechanics' association an independent union of which the strikers aie member said that 98 per cent of the line's first two shifts (12 midnight and 8 a m ) of mecham-- 1 workers at Nexvark Washington Atlanta Ga and Miami had walked out Roosevelt who objected Mrs when police attempted to hustle her to a waiting automobile said she did not know of the strike "until someone handed me a paper at the airport in Washington " She said she had no time to change plans adding “If I had more time I would have tome to New York 250-od- WASHINGTON April 14 UP)- -A ocnate subcommittee approved Friday a compromise resolution seeking the removal of what southern legislators termed “discrimination!" railroad freight rates m The group headed by Senator Hill (D) Alabama submitted the measure to the full interstate commerce committee for possible inclusion in the administration’s general transportation bill Investigate Charge The compromise designed to remove objections raised against previous freight rate legislation wmuld direct the interstate commerce commission to investigate existing rail charges and to eliminate any unlawful discrimination Another section would prohibit carriers from fixing “undue or unreasonable" rates to the advantage or disadvantage of any territory shipper or specific commodity The ICC would be permitted to limit its investigation to the rates on manufactured articles Some witnesses had warned house and senate committees against upsetting existing levels on agricultural commodities by train” To Fly W eat She said she would leave by plane Saturday on another line (American Airlines' for Seattle Captain Eddie Rickenbacker president and general manager of the line said the company was standing firm awaiting a move by He said the union the strikers was asking 10 cents an hour more than the present scale for each classification of mechanics No Opposition Mai tin said the union was also Hill said there was no opposition standing firm He said 36 of 36 from tho four members who at- mechanics struck here Company tended Fridays committee session officials set the number at 32 of As the sex ent) sixth congress between 50 and 60 men southern legislators deopened manded equality of rates between sections through legislation Courting western help leaders of the Unified Relief Bill Okchcd movement m t he house formed a freight rate bloc and offered membership to all representatives ex- cept those from the northeastern or 'official" freight territory Southerners contended the north- (Continued F'rom Page One) east was given preferential treatment in rale making to the detriment of exerx other section PITTSBURGH One of the largest coal companies m western Pennsylvania the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal notified approximately 1400 emplojes Index it xxns unable to meet its pexroll foe the txxo weeks pieieding the mine March 31 The company annniini i metil coincided with a leport by the University of Pittsburgh business research bureau that business in this coal and steel district dropped shut-dow- n his door "Rightly be must have felt that his labors In the service of his state and of his nation had rounded out his contribution to the public weal Rightly he felt that he had earned the privilege of returning for all time to the private life which had been his dream “That Washington would have refused public service If the call had been a normal one has always been But the summons to my belief the presidency had come to him in a time of real crisis and deep emergency "The danger that beset the young nation were as real as though the very independence Washington had wmn it had been threatened once more by foreign foes Clear it must have been that the permanence of the republic was at stake and that if the new government under the constitution should fall in its early days the several states falling out among themselves would have become so many small and weak nations subject to attack and conquest from overseas “So it came about that once more he ppt from him the life he loved so well and took upon himself the presidency ” In the presidential party attending the Mt Vernon celebration w'ere several Roosevolt cabinet Mrs member and Governor Lloyd C Stark of Missouri would make in Its policy In view of the Hopkins letter WASHINGTON tion would be necessary before the proposal to subsidize exports of cotton from its loan atocks Legal advisers an authoritative informed source said Secretary Wallace that they believed the 1938 law barred release of government loan stocks before August 1 This development sent Wallace and agrlcultuie department advisers to Capitol Hill for a conference with Chairman Jones (D) Texas of the house agriculture committee and Senator Bankhead (D) Alabama prac-tice- Lundeberg said discontinuance of the practice would affect shipping commissioner along the Atlantic coast KANSAS CITY April 14 (AP)— d Mayor Bryce Byram Smith who built a fortune in bread before he turned to politics emerged Friday night the big man in the Kansas City administration’s effort to recover from staggering federal-stat- e blows on the city’s vice and crime Smith won the solid backing of the eouncil In his announced determination to take control of the city’s affairs and accept the resignation of white-haireHenry F Me Elroy city manager under Boss Tom Pcndcrgast since 1926 “Are you for me or against me?” Small-stature- Small Firms Florida Canal Wins Test In Committee UP) — administration couid carry out its Requested to Take Over Full Duties Of Resigned Manager McEIvoy Push Beet Quota Pleas d 16 April Farm administration lawyers were reported Friday to have ruled that a change in the 1938 farm law a well as a congressional appropria- ‘ Smith flung in the faces of his felTribune Washington Bureau low Democratic counoilmen as he demanded a showdown on his acD C- -In WASHINGTON the ceptance of McElroy’s resignation hope of avoiding a heaxry carryThursday over of 1938 sugar into 1940 H A Backed by Friend of Boss Bcnnlng of the Amalgamated Sugar WASHINGTON April 14 UP) -Charles Clark regarded as the company and Douglas E Scalley of The Florida ship canal subject of councilman closest to Pendeigast o the Sugar company are debates was rose first and addressed the mayor In many congressional to the secWashington appealing "Mr Mayor I speak for myelf approved by the house rivers and and I think for all the others in retary of agriculture for a revision harbors committee Friday by a 10 Haying we are ready to back you In the proposed sugar marketing to 6 vote In keeping Kansas City a good plan which is now nearing the state Two Republicans and eight Dem- city" of promulgation mem-ber- a one five One other the by 0 ocrats voted to revive the $200 Because thege two companies and rsicxia the' dredged attending project abandoned in 1935 beThe V°uncil hak nine the Layton and Franklin County cause congress refused to appro- their support members companies had a heaxry output last Preliminary Me Elroy's priate funds for it resignation will be season due to an increased prowork had been done with $3400000 acted upon formally Saturday duction resulting from the planting of relief funds The councilmen asked Smith to of new varieties of beet seed they The measure approved by the over the city manager’s duties find themselves with more sugar house committee was introduced by take title He is not eligible for on hand than they could market Chairman Mansfield (D) Texas af- without under the charter as during 1939 if the regulations ter President Roosevelt early in the position he had requested the Asked if drawn should go into tentatively this session urged congress to auof Otto P Higgins po- effect thorize completion of the canal It resignation lice director Smith said he planned On the basis of present figures merely authorizes future appropria- to seek no the the 'at resignations Amalgamated would have to tions time ” carry over into 1940 some 400000 Congressional approval of the bill present Heaviest fire of the federal-stat- e combags of sugar the Utah-Idaheven though it carries no money drive has been centered on Higgins’ pany 200000 bags the Layton comwould serve however to put the C Governor Lloyd pany 20 000 and the Franklin group canal in line for a later appropria- department a legislative bill 30 000 Stark is tion and advocates of the water- that wouldpushing Kansas the wrest City Any such enforced carryover way were jubilant over the commit- police from municipal control and would not only be detrimental to tee vote place them under state department the companies now holding this Representative Green (D) Florisugar but would result in heavy da a supporter of the project said Hangs to Job urtailment in beet growing in both the committee would get house ac“I am staying right down here Utah and Idaho in 1940 if the comtion “at the earliest opportunity" and the police department panies are not allowed to market On the other hand those oppos- and running will continue to do so" Hig- the sugar now on hand ing the canal said the committee gins said Friday The Utah spokesmen are preparvote did not mean much They The mayor did not know whether ing a final appeal to the secretary said three committee members re- he had eouncil a until support corded for the bill— Representatives minute after the caucus started Angell (R) Oregon Pittenger (R) Previous indications were that four Minnesota and Barden (D) North members were holding out Catollna — reserved the light to opdeAfter a week's lapid-fir- e pose the measure in the house which saw Pendergast velopments While Green was optimistic over indicted on federal income tax the possibility of an early house a government clamp-dowvote Mansfield said there was no charges d narcotic ring on a prospect of immediate considera- radiating out of Kansas City and tion a federal illicit alcohol seizure in Under the Mansfield bill the "Little Italy” Pendergast's first canal would be constructed — when- political stronghold Smith anever congress made funds availa- nounced Thursday he was stepping ble— m accordance with plans de- outside his charter powers to take tailed in the 1937 report of Major greater control General Erward M Markham then The mayor a native of Indianap- -' chief of army engineers oils came to Kansas City as a boy He inherited a bakery from his father and developed the business into a chain of 26 bakeries Pay-Hou- r He became mayor of Kansas City in 1930 and has been reelected twice His present term expires in Utah-Idah- 000-00- o Other Opposition The administration already was confionted by strong opposition to the cotton export plan in the senate but some officials had been of the opinion it could be carried out Offiwithout further legislation cials had indicated however that the program would notbe put into effect without congress’ approval Meanwhile the state department advised farmers that the administration-backed scheme to barter surplus American cotton and wheat to the European democracies for such strategic war materials a rubber and tin would not be allowed to depress prices of the farm products in this country In a statement the department said the administration “was not seeking to press American supplies It emphainto world markets" sized that any stocks bartered would serve only as war reserve and would be used only in the event prices advanced to a fixed level Administration hopes of winning congressional backing for the cotton subsidy proposal weakened as a consequence of discovery of the possible legal barrier Stock Low The government could subsidize exports of cotton not under loan but supplies outside loan stocks are very low and will not be augmented until the new crop i harvested this fall More than 11300-00- 0 bales are stored In warehouse under loan The export plan suggested by President Roosevelt provides for to receive $1 25 a bale for selling to exporters title to cotton pledged under loan The exporter then would acquire the cotton by paying the government a sot price perhaps equivalent to current domestic prices The government would then mark the farmer's obligation paid In addition it would pay exporters a bounty of from one to three cents a pound on all sales made abroad Non-Loa- n farmer-borrowe- asking for a modification of the basis on which he determines factory quotas so that they may not be compelled to carry this enormous amount of sugar into 1940 The plan drawn by the sugar division of the department after hearings is said to discriminate against these smaller companies in favor of the larger companies A final hearing probably will be held next week but it will be early May before the new regulations are promulgated n wide-sprea- 00:Ata Sponsor -A- sub-pen- C-- 2 Dry-doc- i The shipping commissioners come under Hopkins’ jurisdiction but the maritime commission an Independent agency has used the commissioners’ seamen lists on the ground that the crew members on a commission vessel were government employes In his letter to Lundeberg Hopkins said it was an optional matter whether seamen registered with the commissioners for employment He also said he did not intend to to allow the commissioners solicit seamen to register with them and that if such hiring halls were now maintained “it is the intention of the department of ” commerce to discontinue the In Blunt Bid to Rule City Given Power )7 per cent lust week as the sult of the suspension— one of the biggest declines In 10 years Inday was pay day for most of the 225 000 idle miners in West iigimu and Peiinsvlx'flnia Afu i a long line of miners bad w ntfd boms for their pay at the Pittsburgh Terminal mines Irt Cox u dale and Mollenaur the tampan posted notices that it mild not meet the March 16 to March 31 payroll Several minor diatdi ham es were reported In the coni fields Call for Law Change Aids of re- Scheme Would K C Mayor Wins Council’s Aid the state for the care of handiThese persons are capped persons defined as those incapable of “substantial gainful employment" because of physical or mental disabiliKin ties Ship Designer The measure also provides that Vessel To old age pension under the social ATLANTA April 14 UP) dministrator security law scheduled now to begin Elmer F Andrews announced WASHINGTON April 14 UPl -Se- in 1942 shall start in 1940 he was granting to superven-year-old Donald McKay Byrnes said he was hopeful that Friday a vising inspectors the pow'er of and name- Hie new program could be enacted m cases involving the federal sake of a famous designer ofth6' before congress is called upon to wage-hou- r law original American clipper ships Iwill appropriate additional funds for the Such authority xvould speed up insponsor the first of the maritime W P A vestigations he said in an announcecommission's new cargo vesBarkley has announced that Mr ment made after a telephone consels the commission announced Roosevelt will ask $1500000000 for versation with his ofrelief fur the fiscal year beginning fice Andrews wasWashington to Friday in Atlanta The vessel the Donald McKay July 1 Byrnes said that if his address a meeting of lawyers C will be launched Saturday April 22 program is set up the money mereUnder the ruling the supervising k at the Sun Shipbuilding and ly would be allocated to the new inspectors may subpena witnesses public works agency company yards Chester Da and records he said Heretofore such authority had to come from the legal department m Washington Andrews also announced agreement on "the largest restitution ease" thus far handled by the wage-ho- Shutdown Forces Pennsylvania Coal Concern To Withhold Miners’ Pay for March Period April 14 UTI — es WASHINGTON April 14 W)— Secretary of Commerce Hopkin ruled out Friday the use of government shipping commissioners a “hiring halls" for maritime commission ships A department spokesman said Hopkins had written a letter Harry Lundeberg of the A F L sailors’ union of the Pacific that the shipping commissioners "will not be used as hiring halls for anyone" The sailors' union had threatened a strike if the commission continued to select the crews for its ships from the commissioners’ seaman list — a practice which Lundeberg said the commission had followed in the past A commission spokesman said the agency probably would disclose next week what changes it From Page One) book change IT’S A MIGHTY Lundeberg That Seaman Lists Of Federal Shipping Commissioners No Longer Will Be Used to Man Vessels In Address (Continued election should be opened to an Aih ‘Crisis’ Reference Author Says ‘w Hiring of Sailors Barred by Hopkins J WASHINGTON April 14 Wagner (0) New York au thor of the labor relatione act as sorted Friday night that many of the amendments now before congress would impair or destroy the law and called on workers and employes to look "long and at every suggested aearchingly” April 15 1939 Roosevelt Talk V S Changes Might Ruin Act “Nevertheless" it said -'- - f administration It was an Atlanta manufacturing firm he said without mentioning the name and involved 139 negro The amouht totaled employes $6416 and the case involved failure s United Mine Workers' union pickets appeared in their strongest force since the shutdown and attempted to block movement of a ti x' coal other than that for hosof the employer to pav the minimum pitals school and puhlu insti- Iwage and overtime as prescribed by tutions law Four men were held at i mi huge of ilanmging Jsalt JL'akr coal curs and tools at the John lamed esery tnnrnin l itterad Galbraith mine in Centre count sarorwl at Halt aka ‘Mv prul nfflc ha m matter under art of Marth 8 Galbraith said he suspended opHut erations Tuesday on the demand Utah Idaho Naription 1942 -- v ervW' G Kentucky Workers Battle at Mine BI NEVILLE Ky April 14 UP-- At lea-sone man was beaten and t several were “dragged away" from their jobs Friday Sheriff Martin Green said when a band of 200 or more men attempted to halt work at a nonunion Boll county mine Ihe incident was the third in Bell county in as many days Union mlnets of Ills southeastern Kentucky soft coal field have been idle nearly two weeks pending agreement on a new contract between operators and United Mine Workers of America (C I O) conferees at New York Sheriff Green said the group that arrived in automobiles at the workings of the Kentucky Cardinal Coal corporation demanded a dozen men stop work until a new contract is signed CoWParC l uon- -e ee ho i tIixPQT m Snt‘ y " - Cb SS-SsSSi- tin ebsif-- cstt lie for®1 tb' eiA 55 SSe Mil I'M ig Pc tribune Y I - A few small nonof the union union mints have been woiking tW"j In U dally and Hunrlnv month in ad am aluawhaia cuily and bund ay month $125 Wxo'nug 8 pr MLzZL J |