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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Ambassador Dodd's Remarkable Warning of Fascist I'Jan for United States Steel Workers' Strikes Started by tbe C. I. 0. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. WILLIAM E. DODD, American ambassador to Germany, has stepped into the limelight and the result may be embarrassing to him 5 t, r , ! and to the administration. admin-istration. In a long letter to Senators Bulkley of Ohio and Glass of Virginia he urges all Democrats to unite In support of the President and thus avert a dictatorship dicta-torship In the United States. It was assumed as-sumed he meant the President's Supreme Ambassador court enIargement W. E. Dodd bnl shoud fce sup. ported, since that Is the measure that split the party In congress. Dodd, former professor in the University Uni-versity of Chicago, said he had been told by certain friends that an American, not named, "who owns nearly a billion dollars," was prepared pre-pared to set up a fascist regime which presumably he would control. con-trol. There are not many American billionaires now, but no one has ventured to guess publicly the man Dodd has In mind. "There are Individuals of great wealth who wish a dictatorship and are ready to help a Huey Long," he wrote. "There are politicians, some in the senate, I have heard, who think they may come into power like that of the European dictators in Moscow, Berlin, and Rome." Congressional leaders were quick to take up Dodd's assertion, Senator Borah of Idaho leading of! with the declaration that the ambassador was an irresponsible scandal monger mon-ger and a disgrace to his country. "I have an idea," said Borah, "that his supposed dictatorship is the figment fig-ment of a diseased brain." Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota, radical, radi-cal, introduced a resolution calling call-ing upon the State department to demand that Dodd name the billionaire billion-aire in question. In the house Representative Fish of New York denounced Dodd, and demanded that he be recalled and forced to give the name of the man who is ready to set up a dictatorship. dictator-ship. This reaction in Washington led Ambassador Dodd to amplify his warning by a prepared statement cautioning against perils which would result from defeat of President Presi-dent Roosevelt's recovery program and reiterating the assertion that Americans of great wealth are looking look-ing toward Fascist rule; but he still disclosed no identities. 'TpHERE were persistent reports -! in Washington that the Supreme court controversy would soon be settled by the resignation of at least two of the justices, Brandeis and Van Devanter, and possibly Mc-Reynolds Mc-Reynolds and Sutherland. It was said friends of these men had urged their retirement "for the good of the court itself." It was claimed that the President would be compelled to withdraw his bill if as many as two of the associate associ-ate justices should retire, or else face defeat. Proponents of the measure, mea-sure, pending the return of Mr. Roosevelt to the capital, said there would be no compromise. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Min-nesota, Farmer-Laborite, returning to his seat after a long illness, declared himself flatly against the Supreme court enlargement bill; and his colleague. Senator Ernest Lundeen, another Farmer-Labor-r ite, said he would not support an increase of more than two in the membership of the court. DHILIP MURRAY, chairman of the steel workers' organizing committee of the C. I. O., called the first major strike in the cam paign of Lewis and his associates to unionize un-ionize the steel industry. in-dustry. On his order the employees of Jones & Laughlin Steel corporation plants in Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh and Aliquippa walked out after Murray had failed to get from the com- panv a signed collective col-lective bargaining philiP Murra!' contract. The strike call affected 27,000 men. Thousands of pickets surrounded the Jones & Laughlin mills and kept non-union workers from entering. The company announced its willingness will-ingness to sign a contract if it might grant identical terms to non-union employees and declared its disposition disposi-tion to deal solely with any group that could poll a majority of its employees em-ployees in an election supervised by the national labor board. Next day the strike spread to the plants of the Pittsburgh Steel company com-pany at Monessen and Allenport, Pa., where 5.900 men went out. Murray said it was inevitable that the Republic, Youngstown, Bethle-hem Bethle-hem aud Crucible steel concerns would be involved very soon. There was considerable disorder at Aliquippa, and the police used tear gas bombs to disperse the pick- ets. Governor Earle hurried to the region to help settle the trouble, and he ordered the sale of liquor stopped in western Pennsylvania areas affected af-fected by the strike. Employees of Fisher Body and Chevrolet in Detroit returned to work pending a conference with the management; but the plants of those concerns in Janesville, Wis., were closed by a dispute over the status of 14 non-union workers. Their plants in Flint and Saginaw also were shut down, as was the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O., apparently killed any chances for peace with the A. F. of L. when, addressing the Lady Garment Workers' Work-ers' union convention at Atlantic City, he called President Green a traitor to organized labor and declared de-clared neither he nor any of the workers unionized in the C. I. O. campaign wants peace with the federation. fed-eration. Lewis charged that Green tried to prevent Governor Murphy of Michigan from settling the General Gen-eral Motors and Chrysler strikes. TECHNICAL workers in the movie industry at Hollywood were disappointed when the screen actors' guild, settling its own troubles trou-bles with the producers, refused to support their strike. But the C. I. O. took up their cause, assured them of active support and promised to place 340,000 men on picket duty in important cities throughout the country. At least, that is the assertion as-sertion of Charles E. Lessing, head of the striking unions. Lessing said the film boycott would be directed at theaters in industrial in-dustrial areas where unions are strong. He selected New York, Chicago, Chi-cago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, De-troit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and St. Paul as key cities for picketing. rRITISH royalty and the British government are at outs concerning con-cerning the wedding of the duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. I A The duke wishes it to be public and officially of-ficially supported by King George and Mary, the queen mother, with whom Edward discussed the affair by telephone. tele-phone. The cabinet insists the marriage should be strictly private and not at tended by any mem-Duke mem-Duke of ber of tne royal Windsor family except as a private person. Edward postponed the marriage until June at the request re-quest of his brother the king, and it is said he would yield to the demand de-mand of the government and have a private wedding; but Queen Mary and King George believe the ceremony cere-mony should be public and recognized recog-nized as a matter of "fair treatment" treat-ment" for the duke, and that his bride should be formally recognized as the duchess of Windsor. 0 EMEMBER, this is the Presi-dent's Presi-dent's pet project. He wants the CCC made perinaasnt, not extended ex-tended for a two year period." So shouted Representative William Wil-liam P. Connery of Massachusetts at the members of the house. But the house would not heed the implied im-plied warning and voted, 224 to 34, in favor of giving the CCC two more years of life. This was in committee of the whole, and next day this action was confirmed. The senate, forgetting all about economy, approved, 46 to 29, an amendment to the second deficiency appropriation bill which commits the government to the expenditure of 112 millions on a new Tennessee river dam at Gilbertsville, Ky. REPRESENTATIVE DIES of Texas Tex-as has proposed to congress that President Roosevelt call an international in-ternational monetary conference for the purpose of seeking an equitable distribution of the world's supply of gold and silver. Specifically, he would have the conference: 1. Stabilize currencies on some permanent basis that would prevent wide fluctuations in their purchasing power. 2. Establish a bimetallic gold and silver base for the currencies. 3. Distribute the world's gold and silver supply more equitably so as to give each nation proper support for its currency and an adequate medium of international exchange. 4. Make available to the countries involved the raw materials they need. TO SETTLE the long pension controversy con-troversy between railroad operators oper-ators and their employees, a compromise com-promise bill was introduced by Senator Sen-ator Wagner and Representative Crosser amending the railway retirement re-tirement act. Fundamental concessions conces-sions to workers include eligibility for pensions for employees absent on account of sickness, increases in death benefits, and authority to include prior service in calculating length of service upon which annuities an-nuities are based. IN RESPONSE to the recent request re-quest of a foreign government, reported to be France, the administration adminis-tration has taken the position that it will not permit the export of helium he-lium for military purposes abroad. The request was for a very large amount of the gas, presumably for a large airship, and investigation convinced officials in Washington that the nation asking it was planning plan-ning no such commercial service as was performed by the German government gov-ernment with the ill-fated Hinden-burg. Hinden-burg. CLAD In a cloth of gold robe embroidered em-broidered with colored emblems and lined with white satin. King George VI of Great Britain knelt before the archbishop archbish-op of Canterbury In Westminster abbey and the primate placed on the monarch's mon-arch's head the crown which Edward Ed-ward never wore. Then the queen's crown was placed on the head of Elizabeth, Eliz-abeth, and the two & 1 v J i .A iook tneir places on their thrones. At the Kme George same time all the v assembled peers and peeresses donned their coronets, "drums and trumpets sounded and the guns at the Tower of London boomed. This was the climax of the grand spectacle spec-tacle that had attracted many thousands thou-sands of persons to London and that held the attention of the world for a few hours. Fir,st of the day's events was the procession to the abbey, which was observed by vast throngs in the streets, windows and stands. It was two miles long The lord mayor of London, gorgeously clad and carrying carry-ing the city mace, arrived first at the annex built at the abbey entrance, en-trance, and was followed closely by the speaker of the house of commons, com-mons, representatives of foreign governments, the prime ministers of the dominions and the princes and princesses of royal blood. Next came Queen Mary, and then King George and Queen Elizabeth. When all the fortunate ones entitled en-titled to places in the abbey had taken their seats, the ceremony began be-gan with the ancient "recognition" ritual; the archbishop of Canterbury Canter-bury presented the king to the people, peo-ple, and four times the throng responded re-sponded with "God Save King George." Alter the rite of coronation corona-tion and the actual enthronement of the monarchs the doors of the abbey were thrown open, George and Elizabeth, Eliz-abeth, wearing their crowns and carrying their scepters, stepped into in-to their coach, and the second grand procession made its slow way to Buckingham palace. Every detail of the spectacle and ceremony had been rehearsed until 1 V' . . all were perfect in their parts and nothing noth-ing marred the performance per-formance upon which the British government spent about $2,000,000. It really was a gorgeous gor-geous show and no one begrudged the money it cost, especially espe-cially as visitors to London spent prob-Queen prob-Queen aDiy ten times as Elizabeth mUch. Though in general ancient routine was followed, fol-lowed, there were some notable concessions con-cessions to modernity. For instance, the abbey was equipped with telephones tele-phones and loud speakers. Another Anoth-er innovation, on the days before the coronation, was the stationing of companies of soldiers from the various dominions as sentries at Buckingham and St. James' palaces. pal-aces. Never before had this duty been entrusted to other than the British guards. Throughout the British empire coronation day was celebrated with parades and banquets, and wherever wher-ever on earth as many as two Britishers Brit-ishers came together, George VI was toasted. In a chateau near Tours, France, Edward, duke of Windsor, sat before be-fore a radio listening to a broadcast of the coronation ceremonies; and by his side was Wallis Warfield, his fiancee, for whom he surrendered his throne. It was announced that Wallis had formally dropped the name Simpson Simp-son and would be known as Mrs. Wallis Warfield. GEORGE LEONARD BERRY, veteran labor leader who has been serving as President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's "co-ordinator for industrial co-operation, whatever what-ever that may mean, is now United States senator from Tennessee, having been appointed by Governor Browning to fill out the term of the late Senator Nathan L. Bach-man. Bach-man. He will serve until the regular election in Novem- If vJs ber, 1933. George L. Mr. Berry, who is Berry fifty-three years old, is one of th largest landholders in the South. H owns a weekly newspaper at Rog-ersville, Rog-ersville, Tenn., and the International Internation-al Playing Card and Label company. com-pany. He has been president of tha International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union " of North America since he was twenty year3 old. The new senator has been one of President Roosevelt's most ardent supporters, and was himself considered con-sidered for nomination for the vice presidency in 1924. |