Show news review of current events the world over president calls for truce between labor and industry convention of A F of li L air combat forces taken away from foulois by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by western newspaper union P PRESIDENT RESIDENT ROOSEVELT S latest radio talk with ith his tellow fellow citizens was well written well delivered and peculiarly vague as to his future in tensions tent lons ions ue ile sought to reassure business and labor both of which are questioning him anxiously but he made no definite re plies piles to their category leal teal queries his one specific statement was that within a month he would seek to ne be gollate a truce be tween large groups of president d e n t and employers large roose roosevelt V elt groups ot of employees through which there would be a cessa tion of the strikes that have been dis erupting the nation nations s business he said he would ask the representatives of those forces to agree temporarily on questions of wages ages hours and working conditions and that with such agreements in force he expected further ad Just ments would be made peaceably through governmental or private atlon I 1 shall not ast either employers or employees permanently to lay aside the weapons common to industrial war he added but I 1 shall ask both groups to give a fair trial to peaceful methods of adjusting their conal acts of opinion and interest and to experiment tor for a reasonable time with measures suitable to civilize our industrial civilization by way of reply to the appeals of many business industrial and f financial in ancial leaders that the more rad cal measures of the administrations program be abandoned mr air roosevelt declared the new deal Is to go on to the ques eions of those leaders concerning bal anding of the budget goern government ment ex anses further devaluation of the dol doi lar or return to the gold standard he made no reply however he did declare himself in favor of a system of business based on private profit then he said I 1 am not for a return to that deft of liberty under which for many years a free people were being bradu ally regimented into the service of the privileged few I 1 prefer and I 1 am sure you prefer that broader definition of lib erty under which we are moving tor for ward to greater tree free lorn lom to greater se carity for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of america concerning the the president gave praise to general johnson and said the national recovery tra tion was entering its second phase which Is in turn a it period of tion for legislation which will deter mine its permanent form he lie admit ted there was a question as to the wisdom of some of the devices em aloyed during the first phase of the but decried the attacks on the constitutionality of many of the things his administration nas done we are not he said frightened by reaction ary lawyers or political editors all these cries erles have hane been heard before near the beg nning of his address the president said 1 I am happy to report t atiat I 1 at after years of uncertainty culminating in the collapse of the spring of 1933 we are bringing order out of the old chaos with a licater gi eater certainty of the employ ment of labor at a 11 reasonable wage and of more bus nes at a fair profit these governmental and industrial developments hold promise se of new achievements for the nation first formal response to the dents speech came from the national association of manufacturers which urged him to issue a proclamation for a truce on industrial warfare durin during which existing employment relations would be continued and challenged the american rede federation ration of la labor bor io to take like action its statement said the president will find findt employers willing to sit down with him as he proposes to devise means for ending the constant series of strikes which have been me ne of the major obstacles to recovery green and morrison Morr lson respectively president and secretary of the federa tion said this was a subterfuge and that the manufacturers should first publicly announce they would obey the decisions of constituted authorities es specially pec lally ally concerning discrimination and collective bargaining RILE president william green WHILE wand and some other leaders of the american federation of cibor J ibor just convened in san francisco expressed approval of what mr roosevelt said in his radio address addres many others prom anent in the federation are far from satisfied with the way th are go ing the executive coune Is 1 s annual report devoted pages to an analysts anal sis of the effect of the upon the inter esti of labor almost without excel tion the effects were nere found either dl di erectly harmful or at least tory the criticism was directed at the workings of the recovery program in actual operation the and the new deal itself were not condemned but the committee indicted the pro gram on these main grounds that it has failed to increase Inc the burcl ising power of vi arkers W I 1 ahat hat because it has failed to hours of labor sufficiently it has also failed to create a satisfactory number of new jobs that its compliance machinery Is in effective with nith the result that vl vi la ia eions of the spirit of the codes are aas lly accomplished and quite general I 1 abor labor does not have proper representation sent sen tation atlon in either code enforcement or administration in one N w ay the report says point ing to what seems to be viewed as the only satisfactory accomplishment thus far under the codes have ful filled expectations they hive have with few exceptions wiped out child labor RESIDENT GREEN in his ad address dress ato PRESIDENT to the federation of labor declared the establishment of the 30 hour week was as one of the possible means of wiping out unemployment arid said those appos ing it have offered no other remedy first actual results in the campaign for this were ere announced later to the convention by frank feeney dent of the elevator constructors u union n I 1 0 n what he called the greatest labor docu willlam william green ment ever written has been signed a five year agreement with contractor employers providing the six hour day five day week for the 19 members of the union on a pay basis of the eight hour day the contract will become effective im med mediately lately feeney said in any locality in which any other four of the build in ing trades unions negotiate similar agreements ahe document also provides for an absolutely closed shop and gives I 1 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 jy 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 dent of the united mine workers of america gave impetus to the fight for extension of the A r of L into the industrial union field and to the plan to increase the executive council from 11 to 25 members although lewis controlling convention votes was vias opposed by green on the council plan the miners leader removed the last doubt concern ing green greens s re election reelection by announcing that he would not only back green but would place him in nomination G the recommendations bof FOLLOWS of a special committee appointed by the war department and headed by newton D baker the department has created a general headquarters air force comprising all the air combat forces and placed it under the direct command of gen douglas mac mae arthur chief of staff thus all the fighting planes are taken away from gen benjamin D foulois chief of the air corps and he gen foulois Is g left in a command of only the army air schools and air depots benny who flew with the wrights in 1909 and worked his way to high command has long been at outs with the general staff struggling against what nhat he considered its in and politics now the general staff Is having its way with him and as one IN washington ashington commentator says instead of the flying air fighter which his record fitted him to be he has become 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 vas testifying before the corn com mission appointed by the president to studa stud the governments aviation problem mitchell called the organization of a GHQ air force a lot of bunk and he declared that all army officers who signed the bal er report should be ie kicked out of the service he re berred to army aT aviation lation plans as the work of boy scouts in the war department part ment according to mitchell these are the measures t the he country should adopt for its aerial defense merge army navy and all air sery ices under one command build planes with a cruising radius of 6 WO to miles mike make detailed plans for war including the evacuation of new york city in case ot of an at ai attack by japan from a base in alaska construct dirigibles for 50 of them competently handled could destroy japan within two ONO days 1 1 1 ang of the by the new industrial recovery board which has displaced general johnson Is under way one of the boards first 0 official acts was to give gle a good job to i kilbourne johnston son of the ing administrator though he spells his name differently the young man who Is an army lieutenant on leave was made acting divisional adminis in charge of manufacturing codes donald 4 1 director of the industrial emergency committee who clashed repeatedly with johnson when he was active as chief counsel of the recovery agency intimated it if there bad had been wounds they were now healed ile e have no quarrel said with a smile on behalf of the textile workers francis 3 german gorman formally accepted the presidents 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 boards at the same time german gorman warned that renewal of conflict was imminent unless the peaceful methods suggested by the executive could be brought into swift sift and effective action NCE more talk of war with russia 0 ONCE Is agitating japan stirred up by a remarkably frank pamphlet put out by the japanese army department soviet russ a possesses 3 war planes the united states and china the pamphlet asserted if these nations combined the air fraces of the powers surrounding ja pan would total more than planes although diplomacy can give as aurance that we will meet only one enemy vie re must assume that the enemy will have at least 3 planes japan has only 1000 planes can our armaments be said to be complete with this poor air force constant trouble aion 1 the soviet Manchu kuan frontier the increasing ly challenging attitude of the soviets and russia s traditional unreliability make the future of russo japanese re lations uncertain HE world air congress convened THE tat at washington and one of the most important events on its program was the award to wiley post of the international aeronautical federa tion alons s annual gold medal for the out standi standing nm aviation feat of 1933 for his solo flight around the world post was as chosen over marshal italo balbo of italy the lithuanian american ocean flyers darius and gisenas and J V heroic holland dutch east indies mall mail pilot though not highly im I 1 IR 1 the report that comes from vienna that mustapha kernal kemal pasha dictator president of turkey may marry one of the four unmarried els sis of 0 king ring zog of albania zog Is to visit ge ankara soon and the engagement may be announced then kern rem al who ts Is fifty seven years old divorced his first wife latife ha ila noum in 1925 and Is A said to have expressed a wish to re remarry marry president king bogs ogg marriage lemal kemal able sisters range in age from twenty three to twenty six the albanian royal family like kemal Is of the moslem faith rumors of another almost royal marriage come from paris parts the ta german refugee per says chancellor hitler bontem plates taking as his bride a german princess one of the family of saxe coburg and gotha 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 ARVARD university doesn t like HARVARD chancellor litt hillers lers treatment of germany s educational institutions dr ernst F S hanfstaengl litt hillers lers con aid and himself a graduate of harvard made an offer to the hersity of a german traveling scholar ship but it was declined james bryant conant president of harvard said in a letter to hanf we are unwilling to accept a gift from one who has been so closely as soc with ith the leadership of a po party which has inflicted dam age on the universities of germany through measures which have struck at principles we believe to be funda mental to universities throughout the world AMUEL INSULL and sixteen of his S SAMUEL former associates in public utilities are now on trial in the federal court in chicago they are charged with having used the malls to defraud in vectors through the sale of 00 in securities of the corporation securities company judge james H wilkerson Wll kerson Is presiding over the trial and united states district attorney dwight 11 II green heads the force of prosecutors selection of the jury didn dian t take long but it was certain the trial of the case would consume weel s for the witnesses are numbered by hundreds ROOSEVELT and his PRESIDENT naval advisers held a conference at the white house and now norman 11 davis ambassador at large Is on his way back across the atlantic to take part in talks in london preliminary to the international naval confere conference presumably he Is all primed to insist on the presidents policies with mr davis goes admiral william IL stand ley chief of naval operations |