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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CUBRENTEVENTS Grave Warning Concerning Unemployment Is Issued by the A. F. of L. By EDWARD VV. PICKARD f JNLESS America's financial and In-dustrial In-dustrial leaders live up to their responsibility to devise a solution for the problem of recurrent periods of unemployment, the present social order or-der cannot be maintained. Such Is the dictum of the American Federation of Labor as expressed by President William Green at the convention con-vention in Boston. Labor's combined program for an ultimate solution of unemployment and for Immediate relief re-lief was favored by Mr. Green and was adopted after a debate In the course of which the federal government govern-ment and the federal reserve board were severely criticized. This program, pro-gram, suggested by the executive council, provides for the following: Reduction in hours of work, stabilization stabili-zation of industry, efficient management manage-ment in production and sales policies, establishment of a nation-wide system of unemployment exchanges, adequate records on employment, use of public works to meet cyclical unemployment, a study of all proposals for relief and education for life. To meet the immediate problem of relief the delegates instructed the federation's fed-eration's executive council to go to Washington at the conclusion of the convention and ask President Hoover to appoint a national committee which shall recommend measures that may be put Into effect at once such plans to be carried out by private and quasi-public quasi-public ' agencies, departments of the federal, state, and municipal governments, govern-ments, counties and school districts. The executive council was also instructed in-structed to call upon all state federations federa-tions of labor and all affiliated central cen-tral bodies to request their respective governors and mayors to co-operate with the national committee by state and city committees. The committee on resolutions reported re-ported that, In accord with labor's traditional policy, it was opposed to compulsory unemployment Insurance, and at its suggestion "all resolutions favoring this were referred to the executive ex-ecutive council. DURING the debates Secretary of the Navy Adams was charged with working contrary to President Hoover's policy of maintaining public pub-lic work at present wage levels, particularly par-ticularly at the Philadelphia navy yard and the Newport torpedo base. In Washington, however, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke denied any plan to reduce wages. The federation's committee on shorter work day and week reported that the shorter work week was nec-cessary nec-cessary but in view of the tremendous tremen-dous economic and social questions Involved in Its establishment proposed that the executive council give the matter of the shorter day Its immediate immedi-ate consideration, "secure all available 'statistical Information related to the problem," and then report to next year's convention on how short. In Its opinion, the work day should be. Labor La-bor is alieady pledged to the five-day week. "While this shortening of the work day may seem a radical change, it fails to parallel the drastic change which has taken place In industry which has so enormously increased per capita production," the committee report stated. Communists of Boston undertook to stage a demonstration jtist outside the convention hall where the federation , was in session, and when the police tried to disperse them the worst riot the city has bad in many years resulted. result-ed. Hundreds of men and women fought the police desperately. Monthly figures issued by the Department De-partment of Labor show that employment employ-ment in September was 1 per cent greater than in August, and that pay roll totals were 1.4 per cent greater. But with winter coming on the situation situa-tion Is decidedly gloomy, and meas ures for temporary relief are being taken by many state and municipal governments. IN GERMANY the unemployment situation sit-uation is probably more immediately immediate-ly critical than elsewhere. The government gov-ernment is determined to enforce a policy of drastic economy and in line with this the ollicial arbitrator recently recent-ly ordered a cut of 0 per cent In the wages of the metal workers of Berlin. The union ordered a strike in protest, and last week 120,000 thus were added to the 357,000 unemployed men aud women in the capital city. These workers out of work inarched about In large groups and tried to reach the parliament building, but were driven off by the police and firemen. Sessions of the reichstag were exceedingly ex-ceedingly stormy. Dr. Paul Loebe, Socialist, was re-elected speaker de-spile de-spile the opposition of the Fascists and Communists. Franz Stoehr, Fascist, Fas-cist, was chosen first vice president. The first Fascist threat to the government gov-ernment was beaten off when Ernst Scholz, Fascist candidate for speaker, lost to Loebe on the second ballot. The Fascist might have driven a wedge between the government and the Socialists If Loebe had been defeated, de-feated, for the life of the cabinet depends de-pends largely on support from the Socialists, So-cialists, numerically the largest party in the reichstag. DUAZIL'S civil war was marked by J- fierce and continuous fighting on many fronts. In their communiques both sides claimed victories, but the preponderance of evidence was rather iu favor of the revolutionists. The main efforts of the rebels were directed direct-ed toward the capture of Sao Paulo, and their bulletin said they were getting get-ting near that Important city. The insurgents also were battling their way toward Rio de Janeiro, winning a battle only 130 miles northeast of the capital city. The federal forces, according to the official notice, have maintained their lines established in the state of Minas Geraes, in no case are retreating, and in a number of Instances are making considerable gains, chief among these being the defeat of Minas Geraes insurgent in-surgent troops at the Mantequeira tunnel. Secretary of State Stimson announced an-nounced in Washington that the United Unit-ed States would permit the Brazilian government to purchase munitions of war in this country, and that arms shipments to the revolutionists would not be allowed. The cruiser Pensa-cola Pensa-cola left Guantanamo for Brazilian waters to protect American interests. OPAIN seems to be on the verge of a revolution, the first open signs of which were anti-royalist demonstrations demon-strations by students of Barcelona university. The Institution was temporarily tem-porarily closed. This, however, Is said to be merely a symptom of the outbreak out-break that is to come. The military, the republican federals and the Catalan Cata-lan separatists are alleged to have reached an agreement to work together togeth-er for the overthrow of the monarchy, though the ultimate objectives of these groups are very divergent. Neutral Neu-tral observers in Spain, however, believe be-lieve that the Berenguer government will succeed in suppressing 'the insurgents insur-gents though the monarchy is seriously seri-ously threatened. O ELIEF for the unemployed farm-ers farm-ers and others In the drought stricken regions Is forthcoming i,, some extent through the action of the federal government. At the instance of the national drought relief committee, com-mittee, the government has made immediately im-mediately available to drought states their P.I32 allotments of its $12o.0(HI.-000 $12o.0(HI.-000 appropriation for aid to highway construction. J. B. Kincer, Agricultural department depart-ment meteorologist, says the drought has been the most prolonged and widespread wide-spread In the history of the nation's weather records. The average rainfall rain-fall of the country between January aud September was reduced to S7 per cent of the normal, and during the growing season from March to August It amounted to only 81 per cent. l ODIFICATION of the Volstead i--1 act legalizing the manufacture and sale of beer would create an add ed market for 100,000,000 bushels of small grain annually, according to B. T. Dow of Davenport, Iowa, president of the Grain and Feed Dealers' National Na-tional association. lie made the state-meut state-meut at the association's annual meeting meet-ing In Chicago, and then commented on a recent announcement of Frel Tahst, head of a Milwaukee brewing concern, that his company Is expending expend-ing nearly a million dollars on new equipment in anticipation of a possible possi-ble modification of the dry law. In the grain men's convention the federal agricultural marketing act was attacked by F. Dumont Smith as futile fu-tile and unconstitutional. In urging farmers to reduce their production to ' domestic requirements, Smith said. vv Chairman Alexander Legge of the farm board made "a complete and abject ab-ject confession that the whole schema and purpose of the farm relief act had utterly failed." D WIGHT W. MORROW7, In his opening speech of his campaign for election to the senate from New Jersey, Jer-sey, removed himself from the picture pic-ture as a candidate for the Republican Republi-can Presidential nomination In 1932 which is disappointing to a considerable consider-able number of wets. Said Mr. Morrow Mor-row : "I look forward with pleasure and confidence to the opportunity of voting vot-ing two years from now for the re-nominatlon re-nominatlon and re-election of Herbert Hoover." The United States Supreme court In effect upheld the Jones five and ten law when It denied two petitions for review of cases from Missouri la which the law was attacked as violating vio-lating the principles of the Constitution. Constitu-tion. The court gave no reason for its action. In another case the Supreme Su-preme court assured the right of federal fed-eral agents to act as state enforcement enforce-ment officials where there is no state dry law. JAL S. DAUGHERTY, brother ot former United States Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, was indicted in-dicted by a grand jury at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, on fifteen count? containing 57 separate offenses against the laws of the state of Ohio. He was arrested and held for $40,000 bonds, which were arranged for by his brother, Harry, and his mother. Daugherty was president of the defunct de-funct Ohio State bank. Into the affairs of which the state has been conducting conduct-ing an Investigation since it was closed May 12. JOSIAH H. MARVEL of Wilmington, Dela., president of the American Bar association, died suddenly from a heart attack. Recently he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Demo-cratic nomination for United States senator, losing to Thomas F. Bayard. Other deaths of the week included those of Milton A. McRae, one of the founders of the Scripps-McRae newspaper news-paper league ; Congressman C. F. Curry Cur-ry of California; Alexander Harrison, an eminent American painter who resided re-sided In Paris; Dr. Harry R. H. Hall, noted British archeologlst ; Rear Admiral Ad-miral Henry J. Zlegemeir, commandant comman-dant of the Thirteenth naval district at Bremerton, Washington, and Sir Herman Gollancz, Internationally known scholar and leader of British Jewry. CARRYING the document of Japan's ratification of the London naval treaty, Lieut. Irvln A. Woodrlng, army flyer, flow at top speed across the con- tinent from Vancouver. R. C, to New York. There it was turned over to Pierre de L. Boal, nssistaut chief of the division of western European affairs af-fairs of the State department, whe sailed for London on the Leviathan to attend the Geneva session of the league commission as an American advisor. The document will be delivered deliv-ered In London to Ambassador Matsu-daira Matsu-daira of Japan. Lieut W. v. Caldwell, also an army aviator, was accompanying Woodrlng in another plane, but crashed In rough country north of Laramie, Wyo., aud was killed. Two Catholic priests perished when the plane Marquette, recently taken to Alaska for use In mission work, fell and was destroyed. (O. 1900, Wosloid Newspaper Union.) |