Show news review of current events CONGRESS CALLED BACK president calls for crop control measure and the fhe regulation of labor s wages and hours a A a hull davis and welles going to confer with president A me a i S summarizes IZES THE TWP WORLDS WORT nt WEEK a western newspaper union special session called CONGRESS CONGRESS was called in ex ordinary tra session to start no vember 15 and immediately after ward president roosevelt explained in a fireside chat over the radio the necessity for this as he sees it report mg ing cheerfully on his western trip he out lined the legislative program which he declared the amer lean ican people need to promote prosperity these are the five measures he said president ent gould should be passed loosevelt Hoo R sevelt without delay crop production control to build an all weather farm program so that in the long run prices will be more stable wage and hour standards to make millions of our lowest paid workers actual buyers of billions of dollars of industrial and farm prod acts regional planning to conserve nat ural resources prevent floods and produce electric power for general use government reorganization to provide twentieth century machin ery cry to make the democratic proc ess work more efficiently stronger antitrust laws in fur therance of a low price policy which encourages the widest pos sible consumption chairman 0 connor of the house rules committee predicted the house would pass a farm bill in the first week of the session and then take up the wage and hour measure some democratic leaders said the labor bill which was passed by the senate in the last session but held up in the house rules committee would probably be the only one of the five measures to get through congress in the special session even that is strongly opposed by southern democrats and has been condemned by the american fed aeration of labor labor hits labor board S EVERE condemnation of the fed 1 eral labor relations board was voiced in a resolution adopted by the american federation of labor in the denver convention it was presented by john P frey head of the metal trades department and charged that the board was act ing without warrant or author ity in interfering in disputes be tween the A F of L and the C 1 I 0 and was violating I 1 the spirit and specific intent of the labor relations act with decided advantage to the C 1 I 0 affiliates and damage to the A F of L that the board has sought to destroy the validity of contracts between bona fide trade unions and employers and that such actions were taken in some in stances with full knowledge of the facts involved that the board in direct contravention of the mean ing of the law has repeatedly de rued ined employees the right of besig bating the bargaining unit and the right of selecting representatives of their own choosing with full free dom frey in his speech asked that ed win wm F smith be removed from the board and that three regional diorec tors be dismissed the convention adopted a resola tion opposing the pending wage and hours bill and one calling for a boy cott on all japanese products authority was voted the executive board to expel finally the ten C 1 I 0 unions under suspension and dent green announced plans for the attack on the rival organization in several great fields the first vig orous blow will be struck on the pacific coast in a drive to organize workers in m the cannery and agrical tural field the second battle ground will be among the white collar workers generally C 10 I 1 upholds contracts IN A tumultuous session at atlantic city leaders of the C 1 I 0 routed a left wing movement and went wept on record m favor of a policy condemning quickie strikes supporting the sanctity of collective bargaining contracts and pledging operation cooperation in safeguarding the op aeration of these agreements the delegates also condemned re cent decisions by the national labor board as being contrary to the provisions of the wagner connery act by which the board was created and approved a four point federal legis dative program this program called for a wages and hours bill licensing of all industries operating in inter state commerce appropriation of sufficient and funds to provide jobs for every american worker and expansion of the social security act K no peace for labor WAR between the rival factions in american organized labor is not going to cease in the near future the C 1 I 0 leaders gathered in atlantic city for their first war council and john L lewis their c chief h I 1 e f revealed plans for setting up a permanent dual organization he condemned the sus 04 1 pension of the C I 1 0 unions from the american federa johnl lewis tion of labor as cowardly and contemptible and said those unions considered themselves now out of the federation and awaited any further action by the federation with complete indifference big battle at shanghai SHANGHAI s was witnessing the fiercest battle of the jap anese war land and air forces of both sides were fighting furiously and the casualties were piling up hour by hour the chinese were making a great counter offensive for which they had massed men and guns about the city the japanese were ready for the attack and des pera tely battled to turn back their foes observers described the hand to hand fighting as that of madmen especially in the chinese quarter A big fleet of chinese airplanes was sent down the yingtse and bombs were showered on the japanese warships along the japanese occupied shore of the Whang poo an american navy radio man J P mcmichael of connorsville Connors ville ind was slightly wounded by japanese shrapnel as he stood on the signal deck of the united states cruiser augusta between admiral harry E yarnell commander in chief and capt R F mcconnell chief of staff american navy authorities immediately entered a protest and the japanese commander expressed his regret brady gang wiped out L AST of the big mobs of bank robbers and murderers the brady gang was wiped out in a gun battle with federal agents at bangor maine al brady the leader and clarence shaffer jr his lieutenant were killed and james dalhover was wounded and captured the outlaws were recognized by a clerk in a sporting goods store and the G men were summoned dalhover Dal haver was to be taken to indiana to stand trial for the murder of a state policeman li ceman one of four killings attrib buted to the gang he made a full confession and search began for persons who had been aiding them the gangsters capture was be lieveld to have nipped a potential new angland crime wave floor plans of two banks were found in dalhover s possession with maps of nearby roads may meet in brussels H LJ OW far president roosevelt is willing to go in the effort to stop japan in china is what other powers r especially great britain are eager to know the people of the united states also would like to be informed in that matter the british statesmen wish america to take the lead and also they would like the suggested confer conference erce of the nine power treaty signatories to be held in washington this latter sug is definitely opposed in our capital and so it was bel eved brussels might be selected as the meeting place mr bir roosevelt who ho conferred with secretary of state hull Under underscore secre tary sumner welles and norman davis his roving ambassador wa was represented as being strongly averse to taking a solitary lead in the action to check the japanese apparently he preferred that the quarantining of nations guilty of international lawlessness which he proposed in his chicago speech should be limited to a united inter national moral tand in his radio talk tall the president al eluded to the conict in china rath er vaguely reiterating that amer ica hates war and stating that the united states is going to operate cooperate with the other signatories to the nine power treaty in an effort to find a solution of the present situation in china he did not tell just what he proposes to do but assured his listeners that he could be trusted to do the right thing the national council for proven tion of war representing a part of the extreme peace sentiment in the united states announced that its annual meeting had declared for im mediate invocation of the neutrality law which the president has not seen fit to put in operation it italy supports japanese THERE HERE was considerable doubt Tw whether hether italy would take part in the pacific treaty conference but it was assumed that if it did it would defend the r wim IN course pursued by japan in china and would do what it could to frustrate the designs of the other conferees this was assured by the message con keyed to the tokyo government by gia cinto auriti italian ambassador to ja giacinto acinto xi pan according to auriti a japanese news agency auriti promised kensuke Horm japanese vice foreign minister that italy will never spare general support to japan japan denies violations TN A formal reply to the charges A of treaty violation the tokyo for eign office flatly denied ty for the sino japanese conflict and asserted that china not japan had violated the treaties the anti japanese attitude and the mobilizing of chinese troops said the statement forced japan to take military ac tion entirely in self defense japan disclaimed any desire to annex parts of chinese territory and de dared the accusing nations misun der stand the situation court upholds black FOR the present at any rate hugo L black s seat on the su preme court bench is secure the court refused to permit albert levitt former federal judge in the virgin islands and patrick henry kelly of boston to contest the ie bality of black s appointment the ruling was announced by chief jus tice hughes who said the two men did not have sufficient interest in the litigation ogden mills dies 0 L MILLS who succeed ved andrew mellon as secretary of the treasury and for years was a leader in the republican party died of heart disease at his home IP in new york besides being a financier mr mills was an able lawyer and busi bust ness man and had a fine record as a member of congress he served in the army through the world war K divorce rule stands C CHURCH HURCH laws against remarriage of divorced persons by episco pal clergymen stand unchanged for at least three years proposed lib of the rule was defeated by the house of deputies of the church at the general convention in cincinnati the deputies voted to continue for another three years the commission on marriage and di vorce but the question probably will not come up again for a long time the defeated proposal would have permitted bishops to allow episco pal clergymen to solemnize mar nage of persons who were divorced for any cause after study of each case U S consul murdered T THEODORE MARRINER I 1 american consul general at bel bei rut syria was assassinated by an armenian who had been refused a visa for travel to the united states the murderer was arrested and the police said he admitted having act ed for personal vengeance only marrier who was forty five years old and a bachelor was considered one of the most valuable men in our diplomatic service which he entered as third secretary of the american legation at stockholm at one time he was chief of the western europe section of the state department |