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Show zCur&td IV. PidcazA SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. Industry Asks New Deal AMERICAN industry demands a new deal for the new year. In its "platform for 1938" it asks the government to repeal "unfair" labor la-bor relations laws and "unduly burdensome" bur-densome" taxes which, it says, threaten to reverse "a century's trend of improved living standards." stand-ards." The platform was submitted to the National Association of Manufacturers Manu-facturers by Charles R. Hook, president presi-dent of the American Rolling Mill company and chairman of the N. A. M.'s resolutions committee, and was adopted by the more than 2,000 persons at the annual convention in New York. Asserting that "the onward march of the American people can be resumed re-sumed and continued only if American Ameri-can industry produces more so that all can have more," the platform declarations were grouped under these headings: No employer should be penalized for failure to deal with any labor organization organizing, supporting or maintaining a strike for illegal purposes, or by illegal means among his employees; Employment, promotion and retention re-tention of employees on the basis of merit with due regard for length of service; Legal and social responsibility of both employers and employees for their commitments and their acts. The platform condemned child labor la-bor and urged the enactment of federal legislation to support state child labor laws. Enactment of state legislation against sweatshops also was urged. To promote free domestic competition compe-tition based on private initiative and energy, the platform proposed limitation limi-tation of government regulation "to the prevention of abuses inimical to the public interest, freedom from federal control of prices, wages and hours," fair taxes and "constantly increasing research to produce new and wanted products and new jobs." Encouragement of private initiative; initia-tive; maintenance and extension of sound industrial practices; equitable equita-ble employment relations throughout through-out industry; creation of new and broader markets; constructive efforts ef-forts to alleviate depression effects; sound government policies; co-operation with agriculture; peace. Japs Enter Nanking JAPAN'S invading arrnic3 reached Nanking and smashed thejr way through several gates of the city's wall. Their complete occupation of the capital was imminent. The Chinese Chi-nese put up a spirited defense in the suburbs and nearby towns but it was unavailing. Ccneralisiin.o Chiang Kai-shek and hi3 vJe were reported to have escaped in an airplane, which must have been a great disappointment to the Japanese, who are determined deter-mined to capture Chiang. Diplomatic Changes SEVERAL major changes in the diplomatic service are scheduled for the near future. It was learner that William E. Dodd had resigned r":,;,s7 ' r i f J W. V.. Dodd , as ambassador to ; Germany and In i Washington It was said that Hugh R. Vilson, now assistant assist-ant secretary of : state, would be gv-; gv-; en the post In Ber- lin. Dorid has found : his duties difficult ; because of his rnittwl dinlike of the ' Nazi policies and for some time has been ret';ard'-d es "persona non gra'a" Ly the f'Tman government. !! vas prof'-sor of hi-.!ory in th? University of f.'hieatio vb'n np-poin'e'l, np-poin'e'l, uri'l says he inl'-ri'ls to r--Riirfi- wori on a hi ;'ory of tlir, OI'J Koh'-rt V P,mi;l,.-uri of r.oni;.vile, air.ba -.sa'Ior to Great Kritain, dl.o has submitted his resignation, because be-cause of ill health. His successor, it is believed, will be Joseph P. Kennedy, Ken-nedy, now chairman of the federal maritime commission and formerly head of the SEC. Mr. Bingham recently returned to the United States to undergo treatment for malaria at Johns Hopkins Hop-kins hospital in Baltimore. The State department expects he will go back to London after the holidays to pay his official calls of farewell. Profits Tax "Impossible" REPEAL of the undistributed profits tax as a levy "impossible "impos-sible of equitable and effective" application ap-plication to the complex and varied pattern of American Industry, is recommended in a report published by the Brookings institution, based on a study of the actual effects of the tax on 1.550 corporations. Prepared by Dr. M. Slade Ken-drick Ken-drick of Cornell university, in cooperation co-operation with the staff of the institution, insti-tution, the study was made from data obtained from the results of some 3, GOO questionnaires sent out by Senator Frederick Steiwer, Republican, Re-publican, of Oregon, designed to provide detailed case experience on the controversial tax as far as obtainable ob-tainable in the first year of its operation. op-eration. U. S. Steel Readjustment THE United States S'.ee! corporation corpora-tion announced formation of a new company United States S'.eel Corporation of Delaware to supervise super-vise a number of subsidiaries of the parent corporation. The new corporation, which will come into existence January 1. will be organized with nominal capital. Eenjamin F. Fairlcss will be president presi-dent of the company and all the capital cap-ital stock is owned and held by the United States Steel corporation of New Jersey. Headquarters for the management company will be at Pittsburgh. Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the board, in announcing formation of the new corporation, said that tins was the final move in tiie vast plan of readjustment of the corporation. Green Defies C. I. O. 7"1RTUAI.LY admitting that rc- cent peace negotiations between the A. V. of L. and the C. I. O. were a failure, President Green of the federation in a speech in Buffalo defied the Levis organization and predicted that real violence between the two rival labor bodies may ensue. en-sue. "Unless settlement Is reached soon." Green declared, "the A. F. of L. will arm its forces and turn them loose against this raiding organization. organiza-tion. "Lots of people think the reason a settlement. can't be reached is be-. be-. cause some one has designs on dictating dic-tating the policy of the American labor la-bor movement, and I sometimes think this, too. "He, or she, who launches a movement move-ment which divides the house of labor la-bor 13 an enemy of labor." Sixty members of the United Automobile Au-tomobile Workers of America were arrested when they defied on order of Mayor John L. Carey of Dearborn Dear-born forbidding the distribution of literature in a prohibited area at the gates of the Ford Motor company. No Fraud by Mellon '"pHREF. months after his death I Andrew W. Mellon, famous Industrialist In-dustrialist of Pittsburgh, was exonerated exon-erated of income tax fraud by unanimous unan-imous decision of the United Slates board of tax appeals. The bo.ird threw out th'! fraud rharg'-s-bronght by the fi'Iiniiiiitration against the former head of the A lorn iuiiMi f'ompany of Ameriea and. by an eight to seven ruling. KlaUierJ Hie g O V e 1 1 1 1 1 e 1 1 1 ' S ct.liln for ji'PI. lion:, I l.,ye- on Melon's Itl'.l In-come In-come fioin Vl. 07.",. tlOO to about Vi'.'.O,. li'J. Stormv Days in Capital T ETURNING from his fishing trip in Florida waters with an Infected In-fected gum. President Roosevelt was confronted with a situation that was decidedly disconcerting. What has been called the Roosevelt depression was becoming still more depressed and congress seemingly couldn't make up its mind what to do about it The demand for tax revisions that would assist business out of the slump was insistent, and so was the necessity of balancing the budget Passage of the four administration "must" measures appeared to be impossible during the extraordinary session. All of them were opposed by various blocs of the majority party as well as by the Republican minority. The senate's farm bill seemed to have the best chance to get through, but it differed so radically from the house measure that it was certain a conference committee would have to try to find a common ground. Secretary Wallace was reported dissatisfied with both senate and house bills. One official close to him said Wallace might urge President Pres-ident Roosevelt to veto any bill finally enacted which approximated either the senate or house measure. Democrats were so badly split over the wage-hour bill that hope of passing it before the regular session of congress was about abandoned. Labor, too, was divided concerning this measure, the A. F. of L. opposing op-posing it and the C. I. O. advocating its passage. The federation offered its own version, calling for a flat 40 cents an hour minimum wage and a 40 hour maximum work week. The house bill was finally rescued from the rules committee by petition. House Majority Leader Sam Ray-burn, Ray-burn, Democrat, Texas, went ahead with plans to whip administration support behind the house measure. He said that fewer than 100 votes would be cast against the bill in its present form but warned that amendments which would make its wage-hour provisions more rigid might shunt the measure back to the labor committee and delay a vote indefinitely. Infantry Comes First IN WAR operations on land the In- j fantry is still the most important branch of the service, says Gen. j Malin Craig, chief of staff of the f ' ' . vr: - army, in his annual report Lessons : learned by skilled j observers of the civ- 1 il war in Spain and t i : e C h i n o J a p a n e s e war have mod;lkd the American defense de-fense program, but, says the general, it :s s'.ill the infantry ;hat renders the decision de-cision in the final ucnerai annly5:s. Airplanes Malin Craig and t;inks nre vlIa. uable auxiliaries to the inf.in'.ry. but ' they cannot brins about a decision ; in land operations. Inventories of armament, motorization, motori-zation, mechanization and cjinp- j mcnt, in the hcht of the lessons 1 abroad, show several vital needs of the first line forcos. General Craig declared. Thee include better 1 weapons to combat a:rcr.ift arid I tanks, as well as more efficient Kun i ' for the planes and tanks. Lindberghs Come Back A fr TEK two years of self- i , 1 imposed exile in Knnland. Col. ' and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh re- j I turned to the L'nited States. Pre- sumably they came over to spend the holidays at the home of Mrs. Lindbergh's mother, Mrs. Dwu:ht ' Morrow, in Knc'ewnod. N. J. I):s- I patches from London said the , colonel also had some business to transact in Arnerira. He is asso- , ciated in an advisory capacity With I Pan-American Airways. The landing of the Lind!rr?:hs nt New York was accomplished with , surh secrecy that they nlmost es- : caped the notice of reporters find news photographers. One of the , oMicers of the liner on whirh they came said they planned to return to txj;land immediately after Christ- : mas. i j Edqorton Backs Wafer I COa'IIlMATlON of the appoint- I merit of Henry W. KdcTlun of ; Cornell university as associate Jus- 1 tice of the Dudrict of Columbia j Court of Appeals was endangered because it was thought from his ! writings Ihat lie did not believe in ; Judicial review. However, ho np-pea np-pea red before the senate sub -com-! rnittec. consisting of Senators Borah, 1 Burke and Van Nuys and repudiated ! his previous utterances. Of the power pow-er of courts to declare leiislali vo enactments unconstitutional lie said; "I regard it as not ordy thoruueh-ly thoruueh-ly established ns a legitimate part of our constitutional system, but which was intended by the great majority ma-jority of the men who framed our Constitution. I think it was properly established by John Marshull and I haven't the least criticism of any court for any declaration of the validity of that part of our constitutional consti-tutional system." Lovlahdn to Bo Junked JAPAN made a bid for the Leviathan, Levia-than, hiiKe liner seizrd from Germany Ger-many In the World war, but thn United Sl;itrs Lines rejected It ami sold the ven'-1 to MM;i Indust i iei, Ltd.. "f London fur 5J:()).(lui). It will I'j) to Lncland under its own power and will he junked. The Leviathan cost ten million'; to ,n' and tin Aniei iran y,n i-t n-inMit n-inMit spent morn than eii;ht nnlhonr, to reerjhdil inn it; and nkn pair! tier-rnany tier-rnany $Hi.iif,i,(HK) fur its seizurp. |