Show review of current events GREEN SHAPES WAGE BILL dictates house amendments thousands flee china expecting war housing measure stirs up senate A F P r P am I 1 W y M summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK Q western newspaper union where was john lewis WILLIAM ILLIAM GREEN president of athe the american federation of labor emerged as the adminis tra tion s favorite son in matters affect ing mg labor as he was permitted vir vit dually to write his own amendments to the house version of the wages and hours bill the senate had passed the bill 56 to 23 only after president roosevelt Hoo sevelt had called green to the white house and per him to give lukewarm ap to the measure with the un der ferstanding standing that the house would amend it southern democrats in the senate led by pat harrison of mississippi bitterly opposed the bill but their motion to recommit it to committee was defeated 48 to 36 the same vigorous opposition was expected from dixie s representatives in the house labor committee but the green amendments so callec caller be cause of the federation president presidents s complete domination of the commit tee meeting patched up the essen bial differences the bill as passed by the senate would create a labor standards board empowered to set minimum wages up to 40 cents an hour and maximum work weeks down to 40 hours the house committee had intended to extend the limits to per nut mit the board to set wages at 70 cents and hours as low as 35 un der green s influence the house corn cittee decided to accept the senate provisions on this part of the meas ure but the scope of the board was greatly curtailed by an amendment which would permit it to deal only with employers who maintain a sweatshops a and n d starvation wages through fake collective bar gaining agencies the green amendments in brief are 1 board jurisdiction over wages and hours in any industry only if it finds that collective bargaining agreements do not cover a sufficient number of employees or facilities for collective bargaining are met 2 acceptance of wage hour stand ards established by collective bar gaming gaining in any occupation as prima facie evidence of appropriate stand ards in that occupation 3 board cannot alter wage hour standards already prevailing in oc cu pation in community considered or establish classification in any community which affects adverse ly the prevailing standard in the same or other communities 4 industries are protected against prison made goods 5 label provision of original act is eliminated to protect indus try from what is considered a nui sance 6 government work is removed from the board s control and placed under the walsh healey act chairman mary T norton D N J of the labor committee ed the bill would be brought up in the house under a special rule and speedily passed K e for housing H U disposed of wages and ix hours legislation the senate took up the wagner low cost housing bill this would au theorize the flotation of a bond issue by a united states hous ing authority to meet operating ex benses of the pro gram s first year 26 would be appropriated imme the pro posed bond I 1 issue s s u e was cut from 1 sen wagner as a corn promise with the treasury depart ment which objected to so high a figure the bill would aid low cost hous ing projects in two ways it would make loans to the full amount of contracted projects aiding the re payment of the loans by direct grants if the sponsors kept rents suf low or it would make di grants not to exceed 25 per cent of the cost of a project under this latter method the president would be authorized to make an ad dit ional 15 per cent grant from re lief funds to be used only for the employment of labor sponsors would be required to contribute at least 20 per cent of the cost the housing authority would also be permitted to spend 25 on demonstration projects to illustrate to communities the benefits of alimi slums and providing adequate housing at low cost the broj acts would be sold as soon as practical to local housing agencies over the protest of administration leaders including senator wagner and majority leader barkley the senate adopted an amendment by harry F byrd D va limiting the cost of the housing projects to 4 a family or 1000 1 a room wagner objected principally on the grounds that this would not be suf focient for projects in new york city where it is believed much of thel the i money will be spent A F of Ls WILLIAM GREEN leaves white house with a smile flee from the rising sun WAR AR was still officially unde dared but all signs indicated that japan was making ready to prosecute a long term conflict in north china a and n d that the chinese w were e r e everywhere preparing to with stand the advance of t the h e japanese army steady streams of refugees pouring out of the area while they had 4 the chance revealed the opinion p i n i n of masses of people gen Gench chiang lang that a great war kal kai shek was inevitable tokyo was hurrying soldiers to the front in the hengtai district southwest of neiping 30 veteran japanese troops massed for an at tack upon five divisions of china s central government army number ing approximately 60 including the remnants of the twenty ninth army driven from neiping by the japanese there were said to be chinese both sides were well equipped with airplanes further evidence of japan s ex pec tation of real war were the sweeping changes in military per bonnel made after a conference between premier konoye and emper or Hi hirohito four new division corn manders were named as well as a new commander for the island of formosa it was regarded as sig ant that all of the new ap poin teel tees were soldiers with exten sive experience in china the gov eminent was attempting to push through an appropriation of for operations in north china in a desperate effort to stem the invaders gen chiang kai shek die dic of china and commander of the chinese army summoned into conference at national capital the warlords and governors of important provinces plans were made to throw hundreds of thou sands of soldiers at the japanese the provincial rulers apparently were only too anxious chow en lai representing communist troops said his men were willing to become an advance guard for the major chinese offensive nation wide military conscription was be ing conducted apace japanese newspapers reported that a resolution to sev sever er all relations with japan was before the chinese political council for consid aeration the fear that gripped nan king was illustrated by the govern ment ments s publication of warnings against giving away military se crets and the warnings which were given government officials to get their families out into the hinter lands where they might be safe from enemy bombers civilians in china needed no warning thousands upon thousands were lined up at the railroad sta eions in shanghai and in many were women carrying child ren and what belongings they could not bear to leave behind thou sands of japanese civilians in china packed the docks awaiting ships which would carry them safely back to their homeland As columns of japanese soldiers pressed forward to meet advancing troops from there was no doubt that hostilities would con dinue to spread southward it was expected a real battle would ensue when the two columns came within striking distance russia pro protested jested vigorously to the japanese embassy in against the pillaging of the russian consulate by white russian ruffians assisted by japanese the japanese denied that any of their coun thymen were implicated and ridi caled the idea that the japanese planned any future attacks against russian consulates i U S keeps naval pace indications indications were that both the 1 united states and great britain would embark upon unusually large peacetime naval building program programs in 1938 britain according to reports in london will lay the keels for from three to five battleships six or seven cruisers and a proportionate quota of destroyers submarines and smaller craft to surpass the 1937 total of tons a peacetime peace tim record it was also reported that personnel would be increased ultimately by with the placing of additional 1937 contracts britain will soon have vessels under construction these will include 5 battleships of 35 tons 5 aircraft carriers carri ets 8 cruisers of 9 to 10 tons 5 cruisers of 8 tons 7 cruisers of 5 tons 16 super destroyers of 1650 1 tons 18 submarines of from to 1520 1 tons 12 sloops and 10 motor torpedo boats armament of the five new battle ships will include 10 or 12 new type 14 inch guns 12 to 16 4 or 4 7 inch anti aircraft guns and numerous light machine guns upper deck armor will be specially strength ened against airplane bombs and bridges and turrets will be gas proof admiral william D leahy chief of american naval operations and acting secretary of uncle sam s na vy said in washington that con gress will be asked to provide funds for the construction of two battle ships and two cruisers in the 1938 fiscal year the admiral inferred in a press conference that the united states expects to keep pace with other nations which are plan ning extensive naval building the four new ships will cost and will be ready in 1942 Con construe tion is about to begin on two other battleships which will cost irately 60 K 14 lost in flying boat IT TT WAS believed 14 persons were lost in the caribbean sea when the santa maria luxurious new fly ing boat of the pan american grace airways crashed 20 miles off cristobal in the canal zone after nearly completing a scheduled flight from Gu ayaquil ecuador last radio reports from the pilot indicated he was trying to spiral down to the surface of the sea in a torrential rainstorm two united states submarines cruising the area in the hope of picking up some survivors found part of the air liner s shipment of mail an engine casing a few other parts and a bucket of ice cream floating in the water it was feared the pilot co pilot steward and 11 passengers mostly americans were locked in the cabin and lying on the bottom of the sea which at the point the wreckage was found reaches a depth of 1000 1 feet wedge to split loyalists A S THE battle of madrid con rl minued to rage gen francisco franco s eastern army was driving an ever widening wedge into the ter atory near the junction of teruel cuenca and valencia provinces miles east of madrid his object is to impose a barrier between ma adrid and the loyalist government governments s capital at valencia government forces all along the line of advance were reported sur rendering or fleeing insurgents claimed to have captured large num bers of automobiles and supplies of arms munitions and clothing latest news from the madrid front indicated that a rebel attack in the usera sector southeast of the city had lia d been repulsed by machine gun ners and dynamiters el caudillo Is the boss INSURGENT INSURGENT spam spain has a head 1 man and also has a name for him now in germany things are bossed by der fuehrer and ital ians scurry to obey II 11 duce now rebel spain has dubbed gen francisco franco el caudillo throughout the realm on walls and fences are signs bearing the motto Home naje el caudillo obey the leader and the people salute him by raising the right arm franco s followers are protesting that he is not a fascist but he has never announced just what form of government he will propose for the nation there is said to be a scheme afoot to shape it along the lines of portugal s corporative government since he openly declared on july 19 that he believes the restoration of a monarchy is vital to cohesion of spam spain it is believed that this is what he will eventually effect prince juan third son of the former king alfonso XIII is the likely candidate for the crown women hear war cry ONE NE of china s chief agitators for war was mme chiang kai shek wellesley educated wife of the dictator she urged women to fight japan according to their ability citing the fashion in which the worn wom en of spam spain are occupying the fight ing lines in the world war the women of every country gave their best I 1 she declared the women of china are no less patriotic or capable of phys ical endurance china is facing the gravest crisis in its history this means we must sacrifice many of our soldiers masses of our innocent people much of the nation s wealth and see ruthlessly destroyed the results of our reconstruction |