| Show news review 0 of curi current ent L 11 events even 1 Ls the world over E effect erect of wagner 0 act validation on national lalor labor policy and Sup supreme reline court controversy president orders curtailment of E expenditures x P by EDWARD W PICKARD Q western watern newspaper union validation of tile tho wagner net act V brought the administration up tip nga dinst ho file necessity of formulating now new national labor policy to pro a vent strikes end and to ILL N ine w what h a t I 1 I 1 1 I 1 a course shall be followed when collective barg bargaining aaning Is W N 40 unsuccessful r F 0 r 4 I 1 this purpose secretary ai 0 of labor parkins 1 I 1 invited sa V leaders 11 00 4 I 1 of industry and 4 labor to attend y I 1 n vate meetings in L I 1 1 1 t 1 sis washington stating perkins they y would be bc asked see sec to discuss the need of now safeguards for industry to balance the gains achieved by labor under tinder the wagner act among those madeline perkins invited were william green president of the american federation of labor john L lewis chairman of tho the committee for industrial organization myron C taylor board chairman of united states steel corporation gerard swope board chairman of general electric corporation ila harper aper sibley president of the united states chamber of corn com morce and government officials certain of tho the presidents advisers have told him a law requiring the incorporation of labor unions should bo be passed or that at least there should bo be a law similar to the british trades tr ades union act which provides that all union funds must be accounted for to the government and that unions cantle cannot t participate tn sympathy or general eral strikes organized labor always has opposed any such legislation and probably would continue to ight fight against it john L lewis thinks one result of the wagner act decisions may be the abandonment ol of the sit do down wn strike though this he says depends on tile the attitude taken by employers employer s in the operation of the act under the courts decision says lewis workers now have machinery for adjudication of disputes desput es and the making of contracts with employers rivery thing depends on the attitude of employers who showed no dis disposition to be generous although h the right of labor to gather together for its protection had been conceded for a lifetime does tho the upholding of the HOW wagner labor relations act affect the battle over the presidents plan to enlarge the supreme court that question arose at once on announcement no of the decisions and received various answers opponents of the presidents bill declared the necessity tor for such a measure it if it ever existed was entirely removed by this showing of liberal tendencies by a majority of the court a and nd many supporters of mr roosevelt admitted that some compromise such as tile the appointment now new justices instead of six might be advisable but the president himself let it be known that he wished his program pushed through without modification the favorable majority of 0 one created by the shift of justice roberts did not seem to him sate safe enough this position of the president was taken also by some of his cabinet t members secretary of agriculture wallace declared that agriculture could expect nothing from the supreme court as now constituted an and d urged american farmers to give the roosevelt plan their earnest support actor attorney general cummings declared that the four justices who dissented from the c courts decision that the wagner act Is constitutional still constitute a battalion of death and will continue to oppose nil all major new deal social legislation john L lewis head of 0 the C I 1 0 asserted the supreme court had demonstrated its instability anew allow and that the wagner act et decisions only made more imperative the need for enlarging the court sen senator aitor jarms james ha hamilton milton lewis ot of illinois whip ol of the senate predicted that the presidents court plan would emerge from tho the judiciary committee a much compromised amm ambled led and generally transformed 11 neasure measure i of executive departments C CHIEFS independent and other spending units of the government were called on n by president roosevelt to reduce expenditures up to the end ot of the fiscal year june 30 in his letter to them the president ont said it Is apparent at this time that the revenues ot of tho the government for the present year will bo be magerl materially less than the amount estimated in my budget message of laba january end and hence the deficit will be tar far greater than was anticipated unless there Is an immediate curtailment of expenditure you will carefully examine the status ol of appropriations tor for your activity wi walh h a view to making a sub arving by eliminating or do dc arine all expenditures tures which are not absolutely necessary at this time you will report to mo me through the acting director of tho the budget not later than may 1 1037 tho the steps which you are arc undertaking und er taking to r educe expenditures and the amount of the estimated s saving resulting congressmen found 15 l 5 they were no longer in the saddle when tile the house by a vote of to passed the anti bill tile the debate was furious and the representatives from the south were deeply resentful tor for more than ye years irs the people of the south have kept life in tile tho democratic party declared representative E E cox of georgia rind ond now that that party has grown powerful it turns upon tho south and proposes to pass this wicked and cowardly law this bill Is directed just as much against the south as any reconstruction bill passed after tho the civil war the bill w was is sponsored by representative senta tive tivo joseph gavagan of now new york whose district includes the big negro city of harlem it provides that any state officer who surrenders a prisoner to a mob shall bo be guilty of a felony and subject to prosecution and severe penalties in addition tile the county in which a lynching lunching lyn ching occurs shall be liable tor for to damages to be paid to tho the family of the lynched person proponents ts of the measure were greatly aided by a mob in mississippi that took two negroes from a sheriff and tortured et and nd burned them to death the local authorities au thorl were supine and called the shocking affair a ITCHELL HEPBURN p premier r e MITCHELL M of ontario reiterating his determination not to permit C 1 I 0 representatives from the united states to take i part in negotiations I 1 for settlement of the 1 strike in the general 5 I 1 motors of canada I 1 plant at joshawa oshawa 1 promised to call out tin an army hicl essary to protect s I 1 the property of the corporation hugh I 1 rh thompson ompson U A W A organizer barred 11 by hepburn threatened hepburn that every general motors plant in america would be closed unless the oshawa joshawa strike were set settled tied soon with recognition of the union demands homer martin president ot of the U A W A called hepburn a number of unpleasant names tile the toronto trades and labor council pledged the su support P of its members to the unions strike against general mo tors hepburn forced two of his ministers to resign charging they were not supporting u ting the government in its fight against the inroads ot of the lewis organization and communism in general they are david A croll who held the labor municipal affairs and public welfare portfolios and attorney general arthur W roebuck axel hall young mayor 0 of f joshawa oshawa wl who io has been friendly to the strikers striker s and critical of Hep hepburne burns action sent an ultimatum to president 1 martin lartin of the automobile workers of america demanding that members merabe rs of the union in the united states strike in support of the oshawa joshawa local the la latter t body adopted a resolution d demanding e that premier hepburn withdraw from the negotiations to make way for intervention by the dominion authorities in montreal women garment workers members of the C 1 I 0 international ter tor national union employed in 72 plants started a strike for higher wages end and in ceriale Fe riale D B C 1000 C I 1 0 miners threatened to strike tor for union recognition george VI is brownl crowned d WHEN king of great britain on may 12 robert worth bingham our ambassador bas to london and james W gerard president Roosevel ts special ambassador to the coronation will appear in westminster abbey garbed in silk knee breeches and ordinary evening I 1 tailed ailed dress coats the state department in washington consented to a modification of the ruling which bars american diplomats dips from wearing gala clothes clothe s at state functions function a the costume decided upon Is not full court dress but the duke of norfolk who Is earl curl marshal will let it go as such tile the second time in two years FOR the house passed the bill to repeal the long and short haul h aul clause cl of the interstate inderst int erst ate commerce act this law prohibits railways from charging lower rates for a long haul than tor for a shorter one on the some same route in the same 1 el I and it hampers the roads greatly lo in their competition with water and truck carriers tor for long distance traffic this session of congress BEFORE closes it Is probable tile tho law providing tor for publication of salaries of corporation employees who receive ceide or more a year wl will 11 bo be repealed the house ways an and d means committee already ii has a 8 v voted unanimously in favor of recommending action and the such 0 om mm has bus few supporters in congress 1 law aw now chairman robert L doughton ex that mitch criticism has haa do developed as a result of the law which w was as passed in 1035 the salary lists which have been published have been used as mailing lists by companies P antes selling luxury articles and in case of 01 somo some nuu Bui unia mv aro are thought to have been used by criminals contemplating or air black blackmail mall hiie united states coast guard I 1 THE cutter mendota paused briefly during her regular ice patrol in the n north orth atlantic and her engines stilled and the church pennant at the masthead floated over the place where the titanic struck an iceberg and sank 25 years ago carrying 1517 persons to their death for nearly a quarter clu arter of a century ceni I 1 tile the coast guard cutters have guided shipping through the dangerous I 1 ice fee area without lin an accident their motto being never another titanic disaster they are on the job until the last iceberg has disappeared ilive IVE history making decisions F were handed down by y the supreme court all upholding the validity of the wagner labor relations act and inferentially 1 I 1 broadening the interstate 11 1 1 k M I 1 ter state commerce I 1 clause of the constitution 1 1 the most important inai imi I 1 11 made I 1 ruling I 1 1 1 by five of the tha nine 1 justices i and nd read 0 I 1 PIA by chief justice 4 11 hughes was in the case of the jones elat I 1 il 1 j n t N 15 F claughlin laughlan Laughl ln steel company I 1 1 1 1 and directed the t h e reinstatement of chief justice justic 0 ten discharged employees hughes plo ploy ces the de casion supported the constitutional basis of the wagner act finding it alegar a legal scheme to protect commerce from injury resulting from the dental denial by employers of the right of employees to tile the refusal 0 of f employers to accept the procedure of collective bargaining the broad constitutionality of the act was strongly noted by the chief justice lie he declared that we think it clear that the national labor relations act may be construed so as to operate ate within the spirit of constitutional authority hushes hughes defined the right of em floyces to self organization and to select their representatives for collective bargaining as a fundamental right regarding the vital point of the application of the inter interstate state commerce clause of the constitution hughes declared the congressional authority to protect interstate comm commerce erce from burdens and obstructions Is not limited to transactions which can be deemed to be an esse essential part of a low flow of interstate or foreign commerce burdens or obstructions may be due to injury injurious ous action springing from other sources in the case of the associated press concerning the morris watson a new york editorial emp employee loyee tho the court was split 5 to 4 the majority opinion read by justice R roberts held that the act does not abridge the freedom of speech or of the press safeguard safe guard ed by the first amendment to the constitution the court took the view that watson was dismissed not because his work vork was unsatisfactory but because of his activities in tho the newspaper guild and ordered his reinstatement the three other cases in each of which the wagner act was upheld involved dismissal of 18 employees by an interstate bus company a dispute b between t the h e fruehauf trailer company of detroit mich and the un united cited automobile workers union and n dispute between the harry marks cloth ing company ot of richmond va and amalgamated clothing workers in the bus case the decision was unanimous in the others the tha division was 5 to 4 representatives of diplomatic 20 latin american republics gathered in the pan american union building in celebration of pan american day and listened to an address by president roosevelt this was formal and was broadcast to oil all the republics but it was followed by an oft off tild the record talk which the reporters were not permitted to hear it was said the president sought to convince tho the diplomats of the good faith of the united states in its foreign policies and that reviewing the promises made by his administration in this respect he declared them per cent fulfilled T IS the opinion of the knights ot of I 1 IT columbus that communism is re tur fur and other strikes in the united states and canada and that national organization of catholic ren therefore has st started a rt 0 d a an n C endless adl C ss crusade aga against dinst what it terms the most damnable organization in the world the program was launched officially by delegates of councils oil s in tile the new york district and will be carried on all over t the he country by the knights |
