Show news review of breir current rent events GREEN SHAPES WAGE BILL dictates house amendments thousands flee china expecting war housing measure stirs up senate fase ff SE v summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 axum newspaper union where was john lewis ILLIAM GREEN president of WILLIAM athe the american federation of labor emerged as the administrations favorite son in matters affecting labor as aa ho he was permitted virtually to write his own amendments to the house version of the wages and hours bill the senate had pissed passed the bill 56 50 to 23 only after president roosevelt had called green to the white house and persuaded him to give lukewarm approval to the measure with the understanding der dor standing that the house would amend it southern democrats in the senate led by pat harrlson harrison of mississippi bitterly opposed the bill but their motion to recommit it to committee was defeated 48 to 38 30 the same vigorous opposition was expected from didies representatives in the house labor committee but tho the green amendments so called because of the tha federation presidents complete domination of the committee meeting patched up tho the essential differences the bill as passed by the senate would create a labor standards board empowered to set minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour and maximum work weeks down to toa 40 hao hours tho the house commit committed teto had d intended to extend the limits to permit the board to set bet wages at 70 cents and hours as low as 35 under greens influence ini luence the house committee decided to accept the senate provisions on this part of the measure but the scope of the board was greatly curtailed by an amendment which would permit it to deal only with employers who maintain sweatshops a and n d starvation wages through take fake collective bargaining agencies the green amendments in brief are 1 board jurisdiction over wages and hours in any industry only if it finds that collective bargaining agreements do not cover a suM elent number of employees or facilities for collective bargaining are ineffective fec tive 2 acceptance of wage hour standards established by collective bargaining in any occupation as prima facie evidence of appropriate standards in that occupation 3 board cannot alter wage hour standards already prevailing in occupation cu in community considered or establish classification in an any Y community which affects adversely the prevailing standard in the same or other communities 4 Indu industries are protected against prison made goods 5 label provision of original act is eliminated to protect industry from what Is considered a nuisance 0 government work Is removed from the boards control and placed under the walsh healey act chairman mary T norton D N J of the labor committee indicated the bill would be brought up in th the e house under a special rule and speedily passed for housing H HAVING disposed of wages and hours legislation the senate took up the wagner low cost housing bill this would authorize the flotation of a bond issue by a united states housing authority to meet operating expenses of the programs first year would be appropriated immediately dia tely the proposed bond I 1 issue s s u e was cut from 1 I 1 sen wagner oooo as a compromise with the treasury department which objected to so high high a figure the bill would aid low cost housing projects in two ways it would make loans to the full amount of contracted projects aiding the repayment of tho the loans by direct grants if the sponsors kept rents sufficiently low or it would make direct grants not to exceed 25 per cent of the cost of a project under t this his latter method the president would be authorized to make an additional dit ional 15 per cent grant from relief funds fluids to be used only for the employment of labor sponsors would be required to contribute at least 20 per cent of the cost the housing authority would also be permitted to spend on demonstration projects to illustrate to communities the benefits of elaml eliminating slums and providing adequate housing at low cost the projects would be ba sold as soon as practical to local housing agencies over the protest of administration leaders including senator wagner and majority leader bark barkley ey the he senate adopted an amendment by harry F byrd D va limiting tin thi cost of the housing projects to 1000 a family or 1000 a wagner objected principally on the ground that this would not b i sufficient for projects in new york city where it Is believed much of the money will be spent A k I 1 0 o Q A J A F of Ls WILLIAM GREEN leaves white house with a smile flea feo from tho the rising sun art was still officially unde uncle welfred We WAR dared lared but nil all signs indicated that japan was making ready to prosecute a long term conflict in north china and that the chinese w were e r e everywhere preparing to withstand the advance of t the h a japanese 41 1 a army r my steady streams of refugees ff pouring out of the area while they had t the chance revealed reveal 0 d the opinion of masses of people people gen ged chiang that a great war kal kai shek was inevitable tokyo was hurrying soldiers to the front in the district southwest of neiping Pel Pei ping veteran japanese troops massed for an attack upon five divisions of chinas cainas central government army numbering approximately including the rem remnants nans of the twenty ninth army driven from neiping by the japanese there were said to be chinese doth both sides were well equipped with airplanes further evidence ot of japans expectation pec tation of real war were the sweeping changes in military personnel made after a conference between premier konoye and emperor Eiro hirohito hito four new division commanders were named as well as a new commander tor for the island of formosa it was regarded as significant ant that all of the new appointees poin tees were soldiers with extensive experience in china the government was attempting to push through an appropriation of for or operations in north china in a desperate effort to stem the invaders gen chiang kal kai shek dictator of china and commander of the chinese army summoned into conference at national capital the warlords war lords and governors ot of important provinces plans were made to throw hundreds of thousands of soldiers at the japanese the provincial rulers apparently were only too anxious chow en lit lal representing communist troops said his men were willing to become an advance guard for the major maor chinese offensive nationwide military conscription was being conducted apace japanese newspapers reported that a resolution to sever all relations with japan was b before I 1 the e chinese political council tol tor consideration d era tion the fear that gripped was illustrated by the governments publication of warnings against giving away military secrets and the warnings which were given government officials to got get their famil families lei out into the hinterlands where they might be safe from enemy bombers civilians in china needed no warning thousands upon thousands i were lined up at the raier railroad 0 a d stations in shanghai and in many were women carrying children and what belongings th they ey could not bear to leave behind thousands of japanese civilians in china packed the docks awaiting ships which would carry them safely back to their homeland As columns of japanese sold soldiers lers pressed forward to meet adv advancing anding troops from there was no douht doubt that hostilities would mould continue to spread southward it was expected a real battle would when the two columns came within striking distance russia protested vigorously to the japanese embassy in against the pillaging of the russian consulate in by white russian sian ruffians assisted by japanese the flie japanese denied that any of their heir countrymen were implicated and nd rid ridiculed louled the idea th that atthe the J jap a p aliese planned any future attacks against russian consulates U S koops keeps naval paco indications indications were that both the 1 united state stales and great britain would embark upon unusually largo large peacetime naval building programs in 1038 1938 britain according to reports in london will lay the keels tor for from three to five battleships six or seven cruisers and a proportionate quota of destroyers submarines and smaller sm aller craft to surpass the 1037 1937 total of tons a peacetime record it was also reported that personnel would be increased ultimately by with the placing of additional 1037 1937 contracts britain will soon have vessels under construction these will include 5 battleships of tons 8 5 aircraft carriers 8 cruisers of to tons 6 5 cruisers of tons 7 cruisers of tons 16 10 super destroyers of 1050 tons 18 submarines of from to 1520 tons 12 sloops and 10 motor torpedo boats armament of the five new battleships will include 10 0 or 12 new type 14 inch guns 12 to 16 10 4 or 47 inch antiaircraft anti aircraft guns and numerous light machine guns upper deck armor will be specially strengthened against airplane b bombs 0 robs and bridges and turrets will bo be admiral william D leahy chief of american naval operations and acting secretary of uncle sams sam Is navy said in washington that congress will be asked to provide fu funds ads for the construction of two battleships and two cruisers in the 1038 fiscal year the admiral inferred in a press conference that the united states expects to keep pace with other nations which are planning extensive naval building the four new ships will cost and will be ready in 1912 1942 construction Is about to begin on two other battleships which will cost approximately 1 l K 14 lost in flying boat IT IT WAS believed 14 persons were lost in the tha caribbean sea when the santa maria luxurious new fly lying boat of the pan american grace airways crashed 20 miles oft off cristobal in the canal zone after nearly completing a scheduled flight from guayaquil ayaquil Gu ecuador last la st radio reports from the pilot indicated he was trying to spiral down wn to the surface of the sea in a torrential rainstorm two united states submarines cruising tho the area in the hope of picking up some survivors found part of the airliners shipment of mail an engine casing a few other parts and a bucket of ice cream floating in the water it was feared the pilot copilot steward and it 11 passengers mostly americans were locked in the cabin and lying on the bottom of the sea which at the point the wreckage was found reaches a depth of 1000 feet wedge to split loyalists S THE battle of madrid con A AS linued to rage gen francisco francos eastern army was driving an ever widening wedge into the ter citory near the junction of teruel cuenca and valencia provinces miles east of madrid his object Is to impose a barrier between madrid and the loyalist governments capital at valencia government forces all along the line of advance were reported surrendering or fleeing insurgents claimed to have captured large numbers of automobiles and supplies of arms munitions and clothing latest news from the madrid front indicated that a rebel attack in the usera sector southeast of the city had been repulsed by machine gun ners and dynamiters dyna miters K el caudillo Is tho the boss I 1 INSURGENT spain has a head man and also has a name for him now in germany things aye ave bossed by der fuehrer and ital lans ians scurry to obey 11 III II duce 11 now rebel spain has dubbed gen francisco franco IV el caudillo throughout the realm on walls and fences are signs bearing the motto Home naje el caudillo lID obey the leader and the people salute him by raising the right arm francos followers are I 1 protesting that he Is not a fascist but he has never announced just what form of government he will propose tor for the nation there is said to bo be a scheme afoot to shape it along the lines of gals corporative government since he openly declared on july 19 that he believes the restoration of a monarchy is vital to cohesion of spain it Is believed that this Is what he will eventually effect prince juan third son of the former king alfonso XIII is the likely candidate for the crown af bomon hear war cry 0 ONE NE of chinas cainas chief agitator for war was mine culang chiang kal kai wellesley educated wife of tho the dictator she urged women to fight japan according to belr ability P citing the fashion in which the women of spain are occupying tho the fighting lines in the world war the women of every country gave their best basi t I 1 she he declared the women of china are no less patriotic or capable of phys ghys leal ical endurance china Is facing vie U gravest crisis in its history this means we must sacrifice many of our soldiers masses of our innocent people much of the nations wealth and see ruthlessly desti destroyed oYed the results result of our reconstruction ot |