| Show J ar news va aws review of current events the world over it franco combating revolt in spanish fascist ar army developments in labor situation presidents farm purchase plan opposed by EDWARD W PICKARD Q western newspaper un on 1 FRANCO S revolution in spain spam already checked by serious defeats on both the north ern orn and the southern front fronta was further embar by spreading revolt among the fascist troops his agents uncovered the plot and numer ous arrests were speedily followed by numerous execl eions t i n s by firing i squads the mutiny first broke out in spanish morocco gen franco and franco himself hurried there by plane there were persistent tent re ports that 1000 1 italian soldiers had been landed at ceuta ceata and were be ing used to crush the mutiny this was denied by the fascist high corn com missioner of morocco more than high ranking cers most of them belonging to the air force were said to have been implicated in the plot which was seemingly well laid in all parts of spanish morocco and the southern tip of european spain spam government troops were said to be pushing back toward cordoba the fascist forces which were trying to break through for capture of the rich coal and mineral territory about pozoblanco Pozo blanco the insurgent army there alleged to include 10 italians and germans was in danger of being surrounded and an great britain and france official ly warned franco that they would no longer tolerate the stopping and searching of british and french merchant vessels by his warships D over a new wage agreement brought about a walkout of soft coal miners in the pennsylvania and west virginia fields and its spread to other fields was certain unless the controversy were settled the mine operators and officials of the united mine workers of america have been long in negotiation with john L lewis dictating the stand taken by the latter edward F Mc mcgrad Gradl assist ant secretary of labor was trying hard to help bring about a settle ment and kept the white house in formed of developments maintien ance men were ordered to stand by in the mines but about men quit work PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT dis cussed the labor situation tua tion with secretary perkins and sidney hill man chief organizer of the C 1 I 0 drive to unionize the textile work ers hillman told him he was hopeful the problems of the textile indus try could be settled by operation cooperation co and arbitration and it was report ed that he promised the textile workers would not attempt to use the strike senator wagner of new york delivered an address in the senate on the strike situation chang ing that the blame of it rested on a few giant corporations which he said have hamstrung the labor relations board by invoking eions in the courts and who have openly banded together to defy the labor relations law deriding the call for new federal legislation to meet the crisis sena tor wagner declared that the lack of power in the federal government to enforce the labor relations act and not any weakness in existing law is the root cause for the present economic warfare representative martin dies of texas appeared before the house rules committee and urged action on chiq hi resolution for a congressional t 1 af f the strike situation he again called upon the president to intervene and pointed to section of the revised united states statutes as giving the chief execl tive authority to take action in the event of such an occurrence as the strike the continued silence of the pres ident on the issue is ominous representative Ke charles L gifford of massachusetts told the house he warned the president against the rise to power of john L lewis negotiations for settlement of the general motors strike were progressing slowly and officials of the corporation said that 10 em were idle in four plants be cause of strikes in pontiac and flint mich U T J pres pressure ure from his advis ers to take a public stand con berning the sit down strike dent roosevelt immediately after his return from warm springs held a conference with vice president garner senate majority leader joe robinson Ko binson speaker bankhead and house majority leader sam ray burn at its close senator robin son presumably voicing mr roose velt s views said the government cannot initiate action under the circumstances thus far presented it is felt that the sit down strike situation in a general bense is improving there are two conditions under which federal action may be invoked in case of acute strike condi eions namely where federal laws have been violated or where federal property including the mails is in with unless one of these conditions exist federal intervention or ac tion under the constitution and decision of the courts is not warranted the second condition is cases where state authorities under the federal law ask the services of fed eral agencies in the preservation of law and order and in the prevention of violence neither condition has so far ans aris en except in instances where interstate ter tere state tate commerce is interfered with where a federal law is diere carded the federal government does not and cannot under the con ution initiate action S EVEN democrats joined the six republicans on the house agn agri culture committee and disapproved t the h e president s proposal to al lot 50 to assist farm tenants to buy farms on easy credit terms this majority of the committee ob ejected to the program because it would put the government into the real estate business the proportion is contained in one section of the farm tenant bill and would authorize the secretary of agriculture to buy farms for resale to tenants on terms that would give them as long as 45 years to pay the interest rate would be 3 per cent sponsors of the measure probably will try to get it through the senate and after house refusal to agree it would then go to conference only the day before the president Pr eident had given out his farm tenancy program as follows I 1 continuation of rehabilitation loans most of which would go to people living on land which the gov merriment believes can be made to pay 2 purchase of land so that it can be taken out of tion and put into timber or grasses 3 federal purchase of land for resettlement of families taken off land and purchase of tenant farms to give tenants a chance to own the land they are tilling GEORGE NORRIS of nebraska is intent on his plan for the creation of a national power authority similar to the tennessee valley authority and he intends to in traduce a bill for this during the pres ent session of con gress this he an bounced after con ferring with t the h e president and he intimated the idea was approved by mr roosevelt he has experts at work investigating its sen norris feasibility and mapping out the details all rivers of the united states should be controlled by the nation if their nature is subject to it by na dional flood control policy the sen ator said whenever the river will develop power we should take ad vantage of it I 1 ve always regard ed power as a subsidiary or by product of flood control A LINK with a past era was lx broken by the death in wash ington of mrs robert todd lincoln at the age of ninety years she was the daughter in law of president lincoln and the mother and grand mother of his only living descend ants mrs charles isham mrs jes sie randolph and their three chil dren mrs lincoln was the daugh ter of james harlan who was a senator from iowa and later sec detary of the interior in 1868 1863 she married robert todd lincoln the martyred president presidents s son in the administrations of presidents gar field and arthur her husband served as secretary of war and under president benjamin harrison he served as minister to england aft erward he was general counsel and then president of the pullman corn com pany D JOSEPH STALIN of SJ russia in his official capacity as secretary of the central corn com cittee of the communist party demands a new purge of the party so we probably will read soon of another mass execution of hundreds under arrest I 1 think it is clear said stalin that the present wreck ers and diversionists no matter whether they have ma masked them selves under the flag of ism of have lost their in fluence in the worker s movement and have become simply an cipley and band of probes dional wreckers diversionists spies and murderers I 1 it is quite clear these gentlemen should be destroyed exterminated mercilessly as enemies of the work ing class and enemies of our coun try it A to a survey made arx for the corn belt farm dailies an increasing share of domestic meat eat requirements is coming from european m countries and canada at the he expense of american live stock producers importations of pork from poland early in march were running at rec ord high levels while increased shipments were unloaded at new york from denmark lithuania it aly hungary holland germany estonia czechoslovakia canada and argentina the united states in normal times supplies europe with meat the farm papers poin pointed out it must be obvious that through res noted production and reciprocal tariff agreements we have adopted policies in this country that have opened our doors to the imports tion of meats in substantial vol ume the survey commented T PHREE famous americans with their aides will represent the united states at the coronation of king george VI of great britain in westminster abbey may 12 they the y were selected by b president roosevelt and pre james W pl gerard fer former am i cassador bas to germany special ambassador bas gen john J pershing mg commander of the A E F in the war and admiral hugh gen r pershing rodman R U S N retired representatives curtis bok of philadelphia will be secretary of mission col james L collins will be aid to gen pershing and commander frank E beatty will be aid to admiral rodman the battleship new york flagship of the sixth battle squadron with the grand fleet in british waters during the world war will pate in the international naval re view off Spi thead on may 20 stion THREE new deal acts of legisla tion were upheld by the su preme court in decisions that indicated that tribunal was becoming almost liberal enough to suit the administration two of them were unanimous the third and most sig ant was rendered by five of the justices with four dissenting this last opinion was given in the case of the washington state law e establish ing a minimum wage for women and the court reversed its position taken a year ago in upsetting similar legislation passed by the new york legislature justice owen J roberts had swung over to the other side but justices sutherland butler and van devanter dissented from the present judgment declaring that the meaning of the constitution does not change with the ebb and flow of economic events this was a slap at the majority opinion which was read by chief justice hughes the court unanimously upheld the provisions of the railway labor act requiring railroads to engage in collective bargaining with their employees plo for the purpose of settling labor disputes toe opinion was read by justice stone and was closely studied by leaders of the ad ministration who hoped to glean from it an indication of what the court might decide concerning the wagner labor relations act now in litigation the wagner act does not apply to railway workers the decision was handed down in the case of the virginian railway company and upheld a ruling by the fourth circuit court of appeals di reeling the company to engage in collective bargaining the supreme court also upheld the constitutionality of the new frazier lemke farm mortgage moratorium act the decision read by justice louis D brandeis whose opinion condemned the earlier fra zier lemke act was unanimous the law was passed to replace a similar statute which the court held unconstitutional in the spring of 1935 0 some fifteen in num ber who have not committed themselves on the president presidents s bill to enlarge the supreme court are earnestly trying to bring about a F compromise t that h a t would enable them to go along with mr roosevelt without laying themselves open to charges of i supporting a plan to 1 pack the court several compromise measures have been devised one of which is that of sen stor S sen tor hatch batch ator carl hatch of new mexico a democrat and a member of the judiciary committee that is holding hearings on the administration bill mr hatch proposes to modify the president presidents s bill so that no more than two additional justices could be appointed in any one year furth armore it would provide for a flex ible court with a membership varying between fifteen and nine judges the additional appointments made upon the failure of justices past 70 to retire would not become per manent increases they would be off offset acet by failure to fill an equal num ber of vacancies caused by sub sequent retirements further witnesses for the tion appearing before the judiciary committee included dr irving gris wold professor of constitutional law at harvard dorothy thompson prominent journalist walter F dodd of chicago constitutional authority tho rity and dean henry M bate of the michigan university law school |
