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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Calls for Truce Between LaLor and Industry Convention of A. F. of L. Air Combat Forces Taken Away From Foulois. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ) by Western Nt-wapaper Union. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S latest ruillo talk with his fallow citizens was well written, well delivered and peculiarly vague as to his future In President Roosevelt tcntlona. He sought tu reassure business and labor, both of which are questioning him anxiously, but he Hindu no definite re-piles re-piles to their categor-ical categor-ical queries. His one specific statement was that within a month he would seek to negotiate ne-gotiate a truce between be-tween large groups of employers and large (roups of employees through which there would be a cessation cessa-tion of the strikes that have been disrupting dis-rupting the nation's business. He said lie would ask the representatives of those forces to agree temporarily on question!) of wages, hours and working conditions, anil that with such agreements agree-ments In force he expected further adjustments ad-justments would be made peaceably, through governmental or private mediation. medi-ation. "I shall not asl either employers or employees permanently to lay aside the weapons common to Industrial war," be added. "But I shall ask both groups to give a fair trial to peaceful methods of adjusting their conflicts of opinion and Interest, and to experiment for a reasonable time with measures suitable to civilize our Industrial civilization." By way of reply to the appeals of many business. Industrial anil financial leaders that the more radical measures of the administration's program be abandoned, Mr. Hoosevelt declared the New Deal is to go on. To the questions ques-tions of those leaders concerning balancing bal-ancing of the budget, government expenses, ex-penses, further devaluation of the dollar dol-lar or return to the gold standard, he made no reply. However, be did declare de-clare himself in favor of a system of business based on private profit. Then he said : "1 am not for a return to that definition defi-nition of liberty under which for many years n free people were being gradually gradu-ally regimented into the service of the privileged few. I prefer and I am sure you prefer that broader definition of liberty lib-erty under which we nre moving forward for-ward to greater freedom, to greater security se-curity for the average man than he has ever known before In the history of America." Concerning the NRA, the President gave praise to General Johnson and said the national recovery administration administra-tion was entering Its second phase, "which is la turn n period of preparation prepara-tion for legislation which will determine deter-mine Its permanent form." He admitted admit-ted there was a question as to the wisdom of some of the devices employed em-ployed during the (irst phase of the IN It A, but decried the attacks on the constitutionality of many of the things his administration nas done. "We are not," he said, "frightened by reactionary reaction-ary lawyers or political editors. All these cries have been heard before." Near the beginning of his address, the President said : "I am happy to report that after years of uncertainty, culminating in the collapse of the spring of VXVA, we are bringing order out of the old chaos with a greater certainty of the employment employ-ment of labor nt a reasonable wage and of more business at a fair profit These governmental and Industrial developments de-velopments hold promise of new achievements for the nation." First formal response to the President's Presi-dent's speech came from the National Association of Manufacturers, which urged him to issue a proclamation for a "truce on industrial warfare" during which existing employment relations would be continued, and challenged the American Federation of Labor to take like action. Its statement said : "The President will finCi employers willing to sit down with him, as he proposes, to devise means for ending the constant series of strikes which have been me of the major obstacles to recovery." Green and Morrison, respectively president and secretary of the federation, federa-tion, said this was a subterfuge and that the manufacturers should first publicly announce they would obey the decisions of constituted authorities, especially es-pecially concerning discrimination and collective bargaining. WHILE President William Green and some other leaders of the American Federation of Labor, just convened In San Francisco, expressed approval of what Mr. Hoosevelt said in his radio address, many others prominent prom-inent in the federation nre far from satisfied with the way things are going. go-ing. The executive council's annual report devoted pages to an analysis of the effect of the NRA upon the interests inter-ests of labor. Almost without exception, excep-tion, the effects were found either directly di-rectly harmful or at least unsatisfactory. unsatisfac-tory. The criticism was directed at the workings of the recovery program, in actual operation. The NUA and the New Deal Itself were not condemned. Hut the committee indicted the program pro-gram on these main grounds: That It hai failed to Increase the purchasing power of workers. That because It has failed to reduce hours of labor sufficiently it has also failed to create a Satisfactory number of new Jobs. That its compliance machinery is In effective, with the result that violations viola-tions of the spirit of the codes are easily eas-ily accomplished and quite general. Labor does not have proper representation repre-sentation In either' code enforcement or administration. "In one way," tiie report says, pointing point-ing to what seems to be viewed as the only satisfactory accomplishment thus far under the NRA, "codes have fulfilled ful-filled expectations. They have with few exceptions wiped out child labor." PliKSIDENT Git KEN in his address to the Federation of Labor declared the establishment of the 30-hour week was one of the possible means of wip ing out unemployment, and said those opposing oppos-ing it have offered no other remedy. First actual results In the campaign for tins were announced later to the convention by Frank Feeney, president presi-dent of the Elevator Constructors' union. What he called the "greatest labor document docu-ment ever written" has been signed a five-year agreement agree-ment with contractor employers providing pro-viding the six-hour day, five-day week for the 10,000 members of the union on a pay basis of the eight-hour day. The contract will become effective immediately, im-mediately, Feeney said, In any locality in which any other four of the building build-ing trades unions negotiate similar agreements. The document also provides for an absolutely closed shop and gives the elevator constructors the right to strike at any time to support any movement for the 30-hour week. While the delegates were cheering this announcement. Col. W. F. Axton, tobacco manufacturer of Louisville, Ky., arose and made a lively speech in support of the 30-hour week as the means of getting everybody back to work. "If we want to get business back we must give employment to labor," Axton said. "Industry at the same time must be protected from unfair competition by such means as codes." The arrival of John L. Lewis, president presi-dent of the United Mine Workers of America, gave impetus to the fight for extension of the A. F. of L. into the Industrial union field and to the plan to increase the executive council from 11 to 25 members. Although Lewis, controlling 3,000 convention votes, was opposed by Green on the council plan, the miners' leader removed the last doubt concerning concern-ing Green's re-election by announcing that be would not only back Green but would place him in nomination. FOLLOWING the recommendations of a special committee appointed by the War department and headed by Newton D- Baker, the department has i Gen. Foulois pW' 'T 'WW! r.r--1 f - 4 William Green crea ted a genera) headquarters air force, comprising all the air combat forces, and placed it under the direct command of Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur, Mac-Arthur, chief of staff. '1 litis all the fighting planes are taken away from Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois. chief of the air corps, and he is left in -command of only the army air schools and air depots. "Benny," who Hew with the Wrights in 1D09 and worked his way to high command, has long been at outs with the general staff, struggling against what he considered its intrigues in-trigues and politics. Now the general staff Is having its way with him and, as one Washington commentator says, instead of the flying air fighter which his record fitted him to be, he has become be-come a desk soldier and a school teacher. Just as this order was issued Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, former chief of the air corps and a perpetual storm center, was testifying before the commission com-mission appointed by the President to study the government's aviation problem. prob-lem. Mitchell called the organization of a "GIIQ" air force "a lot of bunk," and he declared that all army officers who signed the Baker report should be "kicked out of the service." He referred re-ferred to army aviation plans as the work of "Boy Scouts" in the War department. de-partment. According to Mitchell, these are the measures the country should adopt for its aerial defense: Merge army, navy, and all uir services serv-ices under one command. Build planes with a cruising radius of 0,i00 to S.000 miles. Make detailed plans for war, Including Includ-ing the evacuation of New York city in case of an air attack by Japan "from a base In Alaska." Construct dirigibles, for 50 of them competently" handled could destroy Japan within two days. REMODKITNG of the NT. A by the new industrial recovery board which has displaced General Johnson Is under way. due of the board's tirst official acts was to give a good job to Kilhourne Johnston, Sou of the retiring retir-ing administrator though he spells his name differently. The young man. j who Is an army lieutenant on leave, was made acting divisional administrator adminis-trator In charge of manufacturing codes. Donald It. Itichherg. director of the Industrial emergency committee, who clashed repeatedly with Johnson when j he was active as chief counsel of the recovery agency, intimated if there had been wounds they were now healed. "We have no quarrel," Itlchberg said with a smile. On behalt of the textile workers Francis J. Gorman formally accepted the President's plan for an industrial truce. He suggested a six-months' armistice and promised that during that period the union would permit "no stoppage of work" in protest against any findings of the textile or national labor relations hoards. At the same time Gorman warned that "renewal of conllict" was imminent unless the peaceful methods suggested by the executive could be brought Into "swift and effective action." ONCE more talk of war with Russia Rus-sia is agitating Japan, stirred up by a remarkably frank pamphlet put out by the Japanese army department. "Soviet Russia possesses 3,000 war planes, the United States 3,000 and China, 500," the pamphlet asserted. "If these nations combined, the air froces of the powers surrounding Japan Ja-pan would total more than COOO planes. "Although diplomacy can give assurance as-surance that we will meet only one enemy, we must assume that the enemy ene-my will have at least 3,000 planes. Japan has only 1,000 planes. Can our armaments be said to be complete with tills poor air force? "Constant trouble along the Soviet-Manchukuan Soviet-Manchukuan frontier, the Increasingly Increasing-ly challenging attitude of the Soviets and Russia's traditional unreliability make the future of Russo-Japanese relations re-lations uncertain." THE world air congress convened at Washington, and -one of the most important events on its program was the award to Wiley Post of the International Aeronautical Federation's Federa-tion's annual gold medal for the outstanding out-standing aviation feat of 1033. For his solo (light around the world Post was chosen over Marshal Italo Balbo of Italy, the Lithuanian-American ocean flyers, Darius and Girenas, and J. V. Smirnoff, heroic Holland-Dutch East Indies mull pilot. INTERESTING, though not highly lm-1 lm-1 portant. Is the report that comes from Vienna that Mustapha Kemal Pasha, dictator-president of Turkey, President Kemal may marry one of the four unmarried sisters sis-ters of King Zog of Albania. Zog is to visit Ankara soon and the engagement may be announced then. Kemal, Kem-al, who is fifty-seven years old, divorced his first wife, Lntife Ha-noum, Ha-noum, in 1025, and Is said to have expressed a wish to re-marry. King Zog's marriageable marriage-able sisters range in age from twenty-three to twenty-six. twenty-six. The Albanian royal family, like Kemal, Is of the Moslem faith. Rumors of another almost royal marriage come from Paris. The Pariser Tageblattt, German refugee newspaper, newspa-per, says Chancellor Hitler contemplates contem-plates taking as his bride a German princess, one of the family of Saxe-Coburg Saxe-Coburg and Gotlia which is allied to the crowns of half a dozen European countries. It adds that the fuehrer at the same time will assume the title of "duke of the Germans." HARVARD university doesn't like Chancellor Hitler's treatment of Germany's educational institutions. Dr. Ernst F. S. Ilanl'staengl. Hitler's confidential con-fidential aid and himself a graduate of Harvard, made an offer to the university uni-versity of n German traveling scholar ship, but it was declined. James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard, said in a letter to Hanf-staengl Hanf-staengl : "We are unwilling to accept a gift from one who has been so closely associated as-sociated with the leadership of a political po-litical party which has inflicted damage dam-age on the universities of Germany through measures which have struck at principles we believe to be fundamental funda-mental to universities throughout the world." SAMUEL INSULL and sixteen of his former associates in public utilities are now on trial in the federal court in Chicago. They are charged with having used the mails to defraud Investors In-vestors through the sale of 143,000,-000 143,000,-000 in securities of the Corporation Securities company. Judge James H. Wilkerson is presiding over the trial and United States District Attorney Dwight H. Green heads the force of prosecutors. Selection of the jury didn't take long, but It was certain the trial of the case would consume weeks for the witnesses are numbered by hundreds. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and his naval advisers held a conference at the White House, and now Norman H. Davis, ambassador at large, is on hij way back across the Atlantic to take part in talks in London preliminary to the international naval conference. Presumably he is all primed to insis' on the President's policies. With Mr Davis goes Admiral William H. Stand-ley, Stand-ley, chief of naval operations. |