Show N news aws review of current events the world over president still insists on supreme court bill which raymond moley scores disturbing developments in the field of organized labor by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper un on DATION of the social becu validation YALI nty rity act by the supreme court was most pleasing to president roosevelt but he did not agree with the general opinion that this would put a stop to his program for enlarge ment of the highest tribunal he m 0 r e than intimated in a press conference that the fight for his court bill would be fought to a finish and L that he was not sat isfried with the ap raymond parent ly s slender I 1 e n d e r moley liberal majority in the court since a number of im administration policies are still to be passed upon by the su preme court he cited four issues raised by the new wages and hours bill namely child labor minimum wages maximum hours and the question whether goods produced un der unfair practices can be regular 1 ed by the government he also men tinned TVA the problems of flood control on the ohio watershed the right of municipalities to borrow federal funds to construct electric light plants and whether the gov can condemn property for a hou housing ing program one of those who believe the president presidents s court plan is doomed to defeat is raymond moley for mer head of the brain trust ad dressing the illinois bankers con bention in chicago dr moley scathingly scathingly attacked the scheme the president tv ho said has spoken of the dangers of a govern ment of men well there is some thing worse than a government of men it is a government by a man most law and all constitutional government down the ages are real ly halters and check reins upon this unlovely tendency tend engy in rulers to lose their heads in the intoxication of power there are incidental factors that have contributed to the defeat of the president presidents s proposal to violate in this way the spirit of the cons titu tion the change in the philosophy dominating the majority opinion of the court has helped the scatter ing of the attorney general generals s ansin cere insubstantial statistics by the chief justice is another the retire ment of justice van devanter has helped too but behind all this has been a slow and powerful surge of public opinion the people prefer the stability of constitutional institutions as against the unpredictable will of leaders even very popular leaders IF FINAL INAL passage of the 1500 1 I 1 work relief bill by the house was delayed by rebellion against the practice of writing blank checks which give the president and harry hopkins power to spend relief funds as they deem fit the opponents of this policy found in the revolt a chance to obtain a lot of pork by the earmarking of more than half a billion from the total appropriation for projects that would get votes in a day of wild debate these major changes in the bill were voted 55 to be set aside for flood control and water conserva tion work to be earmarked for projects to be spent on high way and grade crossing elimination projects authority to use work relief money for con construction of power lines into rural sections for non profit and co operative utility groups unskilled and agricultural work ers who refuse private jobs will be ineligible for work relief as long as a private job is available continuing continuing its vigorous cam v 1 laign to organize the steel in austry the C 1 I 0 called out on strike the employees of the inde pendent companies that refused to sign contracts for collective bar gaining these companies were in land steel republic steel and youngstown sheet and tube more than 20 plants employing about 85 men were involved philip mur ray chairman of the organizing committee said it was the purpose of the committee to conduct the strike peacefully in the chicago district police arrested a ii number aber of men for violating the rule against mass picketing and for other of tenses and there was some trouble in buffalo employees of the sharon steel corporation followed the example of those of the jones laughlin con cern and voted in favor of the S W 0 C by a large majority so the C 1 I 0 gets contracts from those companies operations in the huge pittsburgh plant of the H J heinz company were interrupted by a strike of the canning and pickle workers union ja 1 the strikers demanded a 10 per cent wage increase and recognition of the union an A F of L affiliate as sole bargaining agency F f ORD employees at the rouge plant detroit took matters into their own hands and severely pum meled a number of U A W A men who undertook to distribute at the plant gates handbills designed to offset the Fordi sms card that had been given henry s workers amo among ng the union men beaten up were wal ter reuther R T J J kennedy and robert canter telegraphed john bro phy director of the committee for industrial organization at washing ton asking will the C 1 I 0 operate cooperate in simultaneous nationwide demon stra tion before ford salesrooms to pro test brutality at ford s today and establish the right to organize 9 at the same time a strike of C 1 I 0 men closed the ford assembly plant at richmond calif forc forcing 1 ng 1800 1 workers into idleness the lo 10 cal union head there predicted strikes might spread rapidly from that beginning possibly to all the ford plants H 0 EADS of unions affiliated with the A F of L meeting in cincinnati with president william green and the executive council went ahead with the plans to combat lewis and the C I 1 0 one of their first steps it was indi bated is to be an invasion of lewis own union the unit ed mine workers of america through the granting of a charter to its rival the t h e progressive william green miners umon union in il lanois drives are expected in the anthracite arth fields of pennsylvania and the soft coal fields of virginia where there is consid erable opposition to lewis the united garment workers al so declared war on the amalgamate Amalga mat ed clothing workers whose chief is sidney hillman first lieutenant of lewis in the C 1 I 0 in the cincinnati conference john P frey veteran president of the federation federations s metal trades depart ment accused the C 1 I 0 and the communist party of sleeping in the same bed and under the same tent communists had obtained such a grip on the lewis movement that C 1 I 0 leaders could not shake them off if they wanted to frey said he contended the C 1 I 0 had sixty communist organizers on its pay roll and that C 1 I 0 tactics were discussed in moscow long be fore they were discussed in lewis office PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in a 1 special message asked congress to enact a new law for the benefit of workers I 1 11 I 1 interstate industries reg elating the hours of i work the wages and the employment of children immedi abely after it was read chairman hu go L black of the senate labor corn com cittee and chair man william R connery of the house labor commit tee introduced iden bills designed senator black to carry out the proposals of the president the measure had been agreed upon in conferences at the white house and was promptly re berred to committees with prospect of quick action it had been ap proved by john L lewis head of the C 1 I 0 but since laws setting minimum wages for men have al ways been opposed by leaders of the american federation of labor it was considered probable that orga niza tion would not like the bill the twin bills originally had pro posed a forty hour maximum week and a 40 cents an hour minimum wage but at the last moment these limits were eliminated and paces in the measures left blank for congress to fill STANLEY BALDWIN prime mm min 0 ister of great britain enter tamed the king and queen at dinner and then retired from his high of fice he is succeeded as head of the government by neville chamberlain who ha hac been chancellor of the ex chequer and a few other changes in the cabinet were made if another war comes the british empire will not be caught unprepared the imperial conference in london turned its attention to this matter and a special committee was formed to organize all the empire s resources for an instant shift to war footing if it that becomes necessary A subcommittee studied the lem of american competition with british shipping in the pacific brit ish ship owners charge that the americans are driving them out of business there because the latter are heavily subsidized SAN AN FRANCISCO put on a wonder fully brilliant festival to celebrate the opening of the golden gate bridge the fulfillment of the city s dream of half a century the battle fleet of the united states navy was there and so vere mere re presenta tives of the states of numerous cities and of many foreign nations automobile cavalcades from ore gon utah wyoming mexico and canada as well as from parts of california joined in the great pa rade with bands floats and fiesta units john thomas noted baritone and a cast of 3 presented a pageant depicting the history of f california and the west and a week long program of sports events was begun the golden gate bridge is a single deck huspen suspension ion bridge the longest single clear span in the world it is 6 feet in length from end to end and 4 feet center to center of piers it crosses over san francisco bay at a height of feet and con san francisco by highway di erectly with the redwood empire of northern california T THE HE social security act which president roosevelt considers the soul of the new deal is conati tut ional in the opinion of a major ity of the supreme court the anem insurance provisions of the law were upheld by five 44 of the justices van 0 devanter butler and 11 sutherland dissent ing the old age pension provisions were declared con by all the justice justices except stith cardozo erland and van de justice cardozo wrote the two ma jonty opinions and as it chanced delivered them on his sixty seventh birthday administration leaders declared they completely justified the president presidents s broad interpretation of the general welfare clause of the constitution and his policy of ex tending federal power and it would seem that this is true in another 5 to 4 decision the court upheld the alabama state un employment insurance act beclar ing the relief of unemployment a valid alid state function yet another opinion was handed down by five of the justices upholding Wis wisconsin conin s law prohibiting injunctions adaina peaceful picket ing in labor disputes I 1 N ORDER to determine the per firmance for mance of operating cooperating farm ers in the soil conservation program the agricultural adjustment administration has employed thir teen aviation firms to make aerial maps of agricultural counties in 22 states the cost to be from a study of the photographs agricultural experts will be able to tell how much of his acreage each farmer retired from production and put into soil building legumes their reports will be the final test of claims for farm subsidies under the new AAA department of agrical ture officials estimate there may be from to overpay ments to farmers it T AM very tired said john D A rockefeller sr to his secre tary as he sat in the garden of his florida winter home at ormond beach then he went to bed soon fell into a coma and a few hours later passed away peace 41 fully and painlessly I 1 his gis wish to live to be one 0 n e hundred years old was not fulfilled but he would ha hae have ve been ninety eight on july 8 next thus died the man joh johnd n D rocke feller fe 1 ler sr who starting wi with th a 4 50 a week job fought his way to the very top of the financial world created the vast standard oil trust and built up one of the biggest vate fortunes ever recorded disturbed by ill health john D retired from active business in 1911 some time before that he had switched from accumulating wealth to giving it away the giving was done systematically and represent atiles of the family interests esti mate that his own benefactions be tween the years 1885 and 1934 both inclusive totaled mr rockefeller s body was taken from ormond beach to his estate at pocantico Po hills tarrytown N Y I 1 and there the funeral rites were conducted by dr harry emerson fosdick of new york city next day the oil king was laid to rest in lake view cemetery cleveland be side his wife who died 22 years ago only two of mr rockefeller s chil dren survive him they are john D rockefeller jr head of the busi ness since the father retired and alta wife of E parmalee prentice there are eight grandsons and five granddaughters russia is planning to es cablish regular airplane connect tion with the united states by way of the arctic ocean and in pur fuance of the plan is building an air base on the ice within a few miles of the north pole four scientists have been landed there from a plane which first flew over the pole and they will remain on the floe for a year keeping in connection with the world by a powerful radio they have named the floating ice field comrade stalin s land the con templates tem plated air route will be from moscow to san francisco |