| Show news Ite viere of current carrent events NEW anew SPENDING PLANS billion and a half more to be asked for public works program bahle baffle over reorganization bill V W rp gin SIP i I 1 N Al members embers of thel the house DI 0 representatives were swamped with telegrams from citizens all over the country urging that they vote against the administrations reorganization bill which it was feared would pave the way to an american dictatorship above Is seen congressman john J oconnor of new york a leading foe of the bill reading some of tile the messages lie received A 0 0 IP ft 11 F F 7 we I S SUMMARIZE IS THE WORLDS WEEK 0 5 western newspaper union billion and a half wanted ARRY HOPKINS chief of the HARRY and aubrey williams his deputy had a conference with the president and immediately afterward the word went out unofficially that hat mr roosevelt contemplated offering congress a public works program calling tor for the expenditure pend iture of 1500 to end the recession and revitalize business according to the plan this money harry liopo i ns would be raised by federal bond issues and would be lent to states and cities without interest for periods as long as 50 years bears and it would be repayable in small amounts annually the president it alks was understood plans to push housing and slum clearance projects his immediate des desire ire being to stimulate heavy industries williams has said a much greater emergency relief fund than is avail able would soon be needed it if the new thousands of unemployed were to be cared for by the government jesse jcsse jones ones whose reconstruction finance corporation has been been authorized by congress to lend a billion and a half to almost anyone as jones pleases and pretty much on his own terms advised business men he ha would consider their loan applications individually the main thing this act does tor for business men said jones is to permit them to get loans from us tor for longer terms word of the administrations con templates tem plated new spending program caused great rejoicing among democratic senators and representatives who are up for reelection election re no member of congress expressed any doubt that the proposal would pass easily for spending is popular in an election year reform bill battle DY Y THE narrow margin of 22 bootes votes the administrations re organization bill was saved from immediate death in tile the house when representative notion motion to strike out the enacting clause was rejected to opponents of the so called dictator measure believed the vote shadowed foreshadowed fore the ultimate defeat of the bill but there were about eighty elghie absen absentees tem many of whom could be called to washington by tho the administration if their votes were needed radical alteration of the bill went forward in the house as amendments were accepted which had been conceded by committee with the consent of mr roosevelt one of these contained the provision that congress might by concurrent resolution disapprove any reorganization decree of the president another amendment eliminated from the duties of the proposed secretary of welfare the promotion of education this provision had been feared as leading to the federalization of education in tile the united states stales proponents of the bill though professing confidence that it would get through the house were not unmindful of the tact fact that it would still face a stiff tight fight in conference and might even yet be beaten when the senate should vote on it again I 1 railway court proposal OW to save the important rall rail eways 1 ways from bankruptcy was the subject of conferences at the white house and nd of deep by the presiding Prest dent dint ile he rejected dejected the tion of hn an outright government subsidy and then adopted and offered for legislative action the plan of creating a special unit with judicial or quasi judicial powers to speed up voluntary reorganization of the carriers and solve other of their problems the unit may take the form of a special court or d a board within the interstate commerce commission it is suggested that congress provide that appeal from the units decisions be direct to federal circuit courts of appeal the creation of the unit was recommended om mended in a report the president ordered prepared and which was made by three members member of the interstate commerce commission T these hese were chairman walter M W splawn J B eastman and C F mahafee Maha fHe other things recommended were the establishment of a transportation board to study ordination coordination co and elimination 10 I 1 1 m 1 nat 1 on of unnecessary duplication the facilitation of loans modification of the bankruptcy act to aid reorganization proceedings and means eans for accomplishing consolidations senate passes army bill A A appropriately on army day ii the twenty first anniversary of bf americas entry into the world war the senate passed the army appropriation pria tion atlon bill it Is the largest since 1921 carrying for the coming fiscal year included is an increase of in funds tor for aarand air and coast defense army day was celebrated all over the country the ceremonies in washington including a big parade of infantry cavalry machine gun units antiaircraft anti aircraft batteries and bands help business measure WHAT athe HAT sen pat harrison called the help business measure being the revenue bill as rewritten by his senate finance committee was submitted to the senate though harrison sold said he expected tits its speedy passage others bell believed eved at least a tull full week ol of debate would be necessary son sen charles mcnary of oregon minority leader promised to support the bill saying 1 I think it is a great improvement over the house version I 1 am in favor of speeding its passage to help business plan to defend czechs czecho i JOSEPH OSEPH french w foreign minister has devised a PI plan an for an alliance linking soviet russia poland and czechoslovakia with france tor for the specific K purpose of protecting the czechs czecho from aggression on tho the part of nazi ger germany many the A 1 aa 1 french ambassadors 1 to moscow and warsaw and tb the e K ministers to prague land and bucharest who 1 had been summoned joseph 0 paris were in pul boncoeur strutted ted by paul boncoeur to sound out the governments to which they were accredited regarding the proposal efforts to bring about agreement between the government of czecho slovakia and konrad Hen heinleins leins su aeten german or nazi party broke down when premier hodza rejected the nazi demands for elections A mong among the nations ger mans to det determine irmine whether they should gain atit autonomy onomy victory for afi INLAND AND STEEL corporation was ordered dered by the national labor relations board to deal with the steel workers organizing committee an affiliate of the C 1 I 0 and to sign a wage and hour contract if 11 an an 1 agreement is reached the comp company a is expected to test tho the order in court but it if it complies the C 1 I 0 union will have won by labor board action what it lost in a long and bitterly fought strike last summer the company at that time said it would deal with the lewis union but would not sign a contract it contended this was not required by the wagner act and said it considered the S W 0 C and the C 1 I 0 irresponsible an employer Is not privileged to deny collective barga bargaining lhing to the representatives ot of his employees merely because he views the representatives senta tives as irresponsible the board held and the alleged irresponsibility is likewise irrelevant in determining whether he must embody understandings in a written agreement new wage hour bill R D EP MARY NORTON ot of new A jersey chairman of the house labor committee promised promis ed some time ago to bring in a new wage hour bill that she thought would get through congress and meet with the a approval of the president A subcommittee of her group formulated a measure and she called the full corn com cittee to consider it prolonged debate in the committee rep P norton was predicted and the bill then would require approval by a hostile rules committee where a small group of southerners killed the previous bill this new bill Is a compromise it ignores the demands of the south for wage differentials to offset lower living costs and i it is tar far from meeting the desires of the two great organized labor groups outstanding features of the meag measure are 1 creation of an independent five man agency which would be appointed by the president subject to senate confirmation to fix and administer flexible wage hour standards pointing toward the 40 40 goal as soon as possible gible 2 the board could fix wage rates on the average basic pay for each occupation in individual industries it could not fix hourly rates more than five cents over the average during the first year nor go below it it could however increase the hourly rate by five cents every year until the 40 cent level is attained 3 the board could not sot set maximum hours at more than 48 per week at the beginning and would be instructed to reduce them gradually to the 40 goal apparently as a vote getting device the subcommittee committee sub exempted agricultural seasonal railroad and many other workers and restricted the bill to industries operating in interstate commerce it changed the original measure so that appeals from board orders can be taken to federal dist district brict courts instead of circuit courts of appeals and provided that the board must report to congress annually the president also could ask the agency for reports and data bigger Dread U UNITED STATES and great britain advised each other that they would invoke the escalator clause of the london naval treaty and would build dread larger than tons the british also notified germany and soviet russia of their decision both nations based their action on japans refusal to disclose heri naval construction st plans france third sig batory treaty senator dark clark announced she woultz would continue to adhere to the ton limitation so long as no continental power departs from that standard opponents of the administrations big navy program are rather numerous in congress though probably in the minority one odthe most consistent of them Is senator dark clark of missouri commenting on the invoking of the escalator clause concerning battleships he said it is just the preliminary announcement of i a worldwide world wide naval building race loyalist spain split S SPANISH insurgents ahei are at this writing near the accomplishment of francos great objective the splitting of the territory held by the loyalists in the eastern part of the country they captured the ancient city of lealda known as the key to catalonia further south the rebels were almost mosato to tortosa and and their vanguard was actually within sight of the mediterranean sea all along the catalonian front the government troops fought desperately but it seemed their struggle was hopeless and observers believed the war was nearing its end in the battles in eastern spain it was reported the american brigades in the loyalist army were almost wiped out |
