Show SEEN SEEN HEARD ad d HEARD around the National Capital e f By CARTER FIELD One W One would scarcely that such a commodity ria as as co co- II oil would Interest so 10 many people people peo pro hut but congress has found out that It di does In putting flitting the proposed new tux tax on n cocoanut oil oll- oll oil live five ve cents a round pound In the II hou house e bill hili and three cents a pound In the draft approved by the sen- sen fitI finance committee congress committee centres pro pro- ed a n reaction from business Interests Inter ests elliA all nil over the country that has simply aim sim ply Illy flabbergasted the senators senator and rep rep- l Even rn en the hospitals have joined In Inthe Inthe inthe the hue tore and cry Scarcely a state tote In Inthe Inthe inthe the Union hut but what nhat has hall some lome hospital many mallY of them more which have sent resolutions to their senators and members mem hers bers of the house protesting against a tax on sanitation a tax on health etc Cocoanut oil Is I. used for tor making lOoking soap It II Is also used f for r many ninny other things as al has been ben discovered by the national legislators The fhe dyestuff people are arc up In arms and aM so II is g the textile Industry Most Moat members ml of ot the house did dill not dream they would woul be Interested The tanners tan ners tiers use cod liver oil which Is Included included ed rd In the same tax They say It would Increase their costs costa enormously and this Increase would have to be passed on on onto to the shoe manufacturers So they have bave gotten In the letter writing and delegation sending battle too that Hut that Is only the beginning Manufacturers Man of ot wrappers for tor soap boxes tin in which to p cl the soap lithographs lithograph s for flit wrapping and advertising all have joined In the the protest They say illY th 1 duty dilly on soap is percent a alint that lint at the house bouse rate of live five cents this would make mak JI pie e tax fax on op oil about lh ut three times Omes the tariff dut duty I Hence they say soy foreign makers o of f cheap swap op ua away Billay with th the e American market because they would woul d be ho able to buy their cocoanut oil all at five e cents cents or or whatever the final tax shall b cheaper beA-cheaper heaper a pound Has Curious Angles The curious part of this fight Is that tha t It Is fa a growth from the Philippine In Independence independence In dependence movement Several years year s ago when most people thought th the e idea Iden of ot Philippine Independence hat hall eI I died with William Jennings Uran Bryn n there was effected an alliance between en various American Interests which h were suffering from Philippine com petition Chief among these was sugar sugar lUgar su lU- gar then affecting 15 1 states where beets were raised and two states states- state sr Florl Florida a and Louisiana where Louisiana where cane can e was raised The Ibe bitter fight between Americans American s who had big Interests In Cuba and th the e domestic and Hawaiian sugar Interests Interests Inter Inter- ests eats was turned Into a truce while both to fought vigorously to do something I about the Philippines which In ID 1029 1929 I sent half halt a million tons of ot sugar Into the United States Stotts and this year sent senta a million tons The sugar lugar Interests were joined by bythe bytho the the- dairy Interests of the Northwest anxious to eliminate the cheap Philippine Phil oil which was making oleo a sharp competitor of ot butter bulter It Is these Interests which are responsible more than all other elements and considerations considerations consider consider- put together for the fact that In the last 18 months two bills for Independence have bave been passed the latter one apparently satisfactory sat to the tile Filipinos noll who rejected reject reject- ed the first But Iut the Interests are not willing to watt wait the period of ot years before the tariff wall is erected against the Philippines Philippines Phil Phil- by their Independence Hence llene the excise tax on cocoanut oil In la the present bill bilk Strong for every phase of ot this tax apparently are only the of fats tats and oils These products are not edible The dairy and creamery Interests Interests Inter Inter- ests eats would be perfectly satisfied If tho the tax were applied only to oils But nut the commercial Interests cited do not want the tax at all aiL They think It would be a terribly unfair burden burden burden bur bur- den on a fairly large American Indus Indus- try It was this pr pressure pressure ss re that succeeded In reducing the tax from five to three cents In ID the senate committee It would not be surprising If It the pressure Is strong enough nough to force a further reduction reduction re re- despite the clamor of ot the time domestic domestic do do- sUc me-sUc re Labor Disputes Ahead Threat of ot a soft coal strike Is just one of the many labor laboe disputes In tn the many of which and the coal strike In particular will become scare headline n news ws before the tho passage of many wet weeks ka I knell Had och time there there will be bo boa a a crisis and nd the tho Presidents Ill have ha to Intervene Textiles longshoremen and shipbuilding are among those on the the- cal calendar odar t The soft coal situation Is on of the most most curious of ot all Actually the tile unions had hod taken a terrible to the time NIIA NUA was Ton Kowt o oun un union unton on lea lenders leaders J are a to tb get et tick fiat all all' th y lost II M fd the tho the tp t UC the famous famous t anymore io more r to too tob They hope for t r one one union f for or the whole soft croft coal Industry Wh happened bat t happened after the after the JacksonS Jacksonville Jackson ville as simply that hay hav- ing Ingo ed to pay the scale of ot waves wages und to work the men the the- number of r hours hoars upon upon at Jacksonville union 1 i i t found d' d themselves un uni q compete 1 with with the tIe nonunion mince jI which iwa Into activity wh tR market for tor soft lott coal Nat for tor i iJ eo ID Industrial purposes had t been i slipping for tor years years- It has been slipping ever since More Ilore and more Industries are run b by electricity generated from water water wa ter power powel More and more hotels factories taco fee tories cries apartment houses once office build build- In lags Ingi a clubs club and all types tyres of large Urge structures where soft and not hard coal had b been en u used ed fd began turning to oil In fact most of ot the new structures structures structures tures put up In the last ten years lears have here oil oft and not coal burning furnaces furnace for their heating plants plant Meanwhile and even urn In advance of this steamships and steamboats had been hen turning to oil until It tins has been INn a long time now that the coal burning vessel has been considered obsolete In the navy where greater cruising range ranle and speed were so vital this has b been n true since the World war So They Cut Prices Price So with the d demand for soft coal I falling failing off the tho only way some mine owners saw V to get business was to slash prices again and arid again and In Inthis Inthis inthis this competition the union mine urine owners own own- ors ers rs were barred harred So the I Kentucky and West Virginia fields did dill most of the soft coal business that was done with donE with nonunion miners Then with the the coining com coin coming ing of NIIA and the Insistence upon collective bargaining came the hope of ot union leaders lenders that they would again be able to regain their foothold despite despite de do- spite the fact that tha t the soft coal business bush busi ness nose Is II at a far for lower tower ebb today than I It ever iver has been In fact It Is III regarded regard regard- ed Id as os not having touched bottom and I being destined to slide Illde down toward It i tor for some time to come With NHA NItA the Impossibility of a union mine attempting to compete with witha a nonunion disappeared the time moment the code for wages and hours was WIlS adopted t provision m moreover moreover assured some some sort of ot o organization So the United Mine saW W di I it tle e opportunity the Am American rl an Feder Federation of ot Labor Labor La La- bor bar officials saw law In the automobile InThe In- In try 1 Ij The same samo unity opportunity but with avery a avery tV very rY Afferent situation applies In n the M Hence the ao prompt ao- ao Lion of the steel companies In Increasing ing wages They were anxious that the dispute when It should reach Beachfront front page proportions and Presidential Interference In should b be by confined solely to the question of df Jt union recd and nd recognition of- of ofa a a particular union They wonted wanted the whole question of hours bours and wages taken take u out of of U Wed the con con- Hut nut all union leaders and all Industrialists Industrialists In In- in- in who have studied the sit situation sit sit- know that the American Federation Feder Feder- of ot Labor did make a substantial fiat gain In what nhat may be B a. a along long battle for tor control of the tho I labor bor In the time automobile automobile automo automo- automobile bile Industry In to the recent settlement So every everybody bod on both sides Bides of every other Industry save those thoroughly unionized now Is set lIet for trouble until the time battle In their thole Industry turns baa been fought or been settled d by Presidential l edict I Pleases Labor Leaders Prediction that every every labor dispute which develops from now on will be laid right on the time Presidents President's doorstep was freely made mode as the conditions of the settlement of the automobile labor dispute were studied here bere by all three types of observers those observers those In sympathy with or connected with the manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers those In tn sympathy with or connected connected con con- with labor and those whose only Interest Is In determining where the public comes out and where events are leading Generally hailed at first as a defeat for tor labor there Is not so much sureness sure surd ness about this with subsequent study One point that distresses the old rugged Individualists Is that It U puts the time government In as the deciding factor fac- fac tor In every ery dispute As the labor representative e and the representative of ot the tho employers may always be certainly certainly certainly placed In advance It Is quite obvious that each decision will wilt be made after the umpire speaks And the umpire wit wilt be the man put thereby there thereby thereby by the government This sort Of ot thing Is highly satisfactory satisfactory tor tory to the labor leaders headers It Is ts a complete complete complete com com- labor victory In a way What 1011 made de It look different at first Is that It was quite a setback for tor the Immediate Immediate Imme Imme- diate dints aspirations of ot the present group I of ot American Federation of Labor om j das They did not win the power and the dues they hind had hoped for tor when II their big gesture for tor a strike was wal planned nut Hut as as' as-a as a matter of fact tact they were I Inot not very hopeful of ot winning everything In one skirmish They IhlY wanted to gain ground They have bave done It t. t Under j the present up set-up the strong probability I ity Is la that lint the nationwide union will gain ground and the shop union will I Ilose lose ground It If this tills does dolS not happen the labor leaders will up a con con- barrage against the employers charging them every ery whipstitch with blocking the unionization of the workers work work- ors ers ers In the union minion they prefer a I I Anyone Anone who thinks the ultimate In In In- of the federation to obtain obtain I t r over the automobile workers I len smashed for all time simply i iJ I J l not know union labor methods I fight has bas only begun Y Ih t the Immediate Is tough II problem tou h tr for tor tle re manufacturers In that th theA are ore are wi so BO to speak plak In politics up up p t to their n necks It will be necessary for them to to put every try ounce of ot pressure they ton on the government go to have governmental governmental gov gov- sympathy for tor their own de- de stes In n the various arlous disputes which will arise and which will be settled under r the Presidents President's settlement by this b boa a d of three Tl That at ls Is whore where the labor leaders leader vt reo really lIy scored scored C p rl ht t wM r JL |