Show IF IP IF F W WIRL Cala y M summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union T T HERE is no issue of wages hours or other material demands in the strife between the independent steel corporations and john L lewis committee for industrial du organization the corporations have agreed to all of the demands of the unions verbally verbally that is the word which has for weeks kept thousands of workers in eight or ten states from returning to their jobs the C 1 I 0 demands that the corporations put their agreement in the form of a written contract the corporations refuse and the unions have refused to call off the strikes until they get the signatures on the line union officials have taken the position that if the company officials are willing to agree orally to union demands they ought to be willing to confirm the agreement in writing lewis has demanded that president roosevelt intervene to force t the he companies to sign at a press conference the president refused to say officially what was his reaction to the demand he did say and emphasized that he was not speaking officially that he could not see why the companies would not make written agreements if they would make the sa verbal ly torn tom girdler chairman of the board of the republic steel corporation explained the companies stand the reason the C 1 I 0 wants a signed contract is because such a contract would be the first step toward oward the closed shop and the checkoff check off under the closed shop every worker has to belong to a union whether he wants to or not the closed shop is actually a deal be tween the employer and the union whereby the employer helps to force every employee into the union under the checkoff the company takes unions dues out of the pay envelopes of all its employees and lands hands them over to the union does the C 1 I 0 contract p preserve re industrial peace it does not they have broken broke n numerous contracts X federal intervention asked IT TT WAS virtually certain that there i would be some federal action in the steel strikes with gov martin L davey of ohio and mayor daniel J shields of johnstown pa appealing desperately to the president for cor aid governor davey in a long telegram detailing the arguments on both sides declared that the situation had gone far beyond the powers of one state to control when a worker in the johnstown steel mills was abducted by six strikers and stripped of his clothing in their automobile he was later released following weeks of rioting and bloodshed the mayor decided that was the last straw and appealed to mr roosevelt secretary of labor frances E perkins named a mediation board of three to meet in cleveland and hear the cases of the union and the companies on the board were charles P taft son of the former president and chief justice a republican and lawyer from cincinnati lloyd K garrison who served as the first president of the national labor relations board in 1934 and edward F mcgrady first assistant secretary of labor and a known enemy of company unions spy systems and the tear gas method of quelling strike riots in monroe mich where the C 1 I 0 union threatened to import impo rt thousands of pickets from detroit a band of several hundred deputized vigilantes armed kept th the e peace a aided id ed b by y t the h e p police ol 01 ic e f force 0 r c e 0 of f twenty 1 in n y youngstown ou n gs t 0 wn 0 ohio h io J johnstown 0 h n s town and other cities vigilante groups were also being formed K steel wants its mall mail THE TH E republic steel corporation M filed ed in the federal district court in washington a petition for a writ mandamus compelling ter general parley farley to deliver parcel post packages to steel plants in ohio which local postmasters have refused to deliver the petition charged that the local postmaster at niles ohio was refusing to deliver packages containing food and clothing and addressed to the loyal workers who were being housed inside the republic plant it charged that this refusal was made after the postmaster had reached an understanding with two members of the union having waited a week for a reply to our letter to mr farley and having received none we have no recourse but to such legal action as is available to us under the circumstances cum stances involved said john S brooks jr counsel for the corporation he said separate suits will be instituted in ohio against the local postmasters involved court plan walloped THE amade HE senate judiciary committee made short work of president Roosevel ts supreme court packing plan its report in summary we recommend the rejection of this bill as a needless futile and utterly dangerous abandonment of constitutional princ principle iDle it was presented to the congress in a most intricate form and for reasons that obscured its real purpose it would not banish age from the bench nor abolish divided decisions ci ci it would not affect the power of any court to hold laws unconstitutional nor withdraw from any judge the authority to issue injunctions eions it would not reduce the expense of litigation nor speed decision it is a proposal without precedent and without justification it would subjugate the courts to the will of congress and the president and thereby destroy the independence pen dence of the judiciary the only certain shield of individual rights it is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of america informed washington correspondents were of the belief that the bill a chance of being passed even with amendments it seemed not unlikely that due to the confusion and conflict over white house proposals and statutes there would be an adjournment of this session of congress shortly perhaps to reconvene in special session begian beginning 19 i november 1 the breathing spell would give the administration an opportunity to align its majority more solidly behind the presidents desired legislation to improve the lot of the underprivileged harry loses I 1 st round D ESPITE the pleas of harry L hopkins works progress administrator mini the full senate appropriation pria tion committee approved the byrnes amendment to the relief bill 13 V to 10 the amendment to the bill requires local governments IZI ed v to pay at least 40 per cent of the cost of all projects V 4 or else sign a kind V 0 of f civic haupers paupers pau pers L oath T the h e south carolina 1101 na senators harry amendment was hopkins seen as f urther further evidence of the break between the administration finist ration and the conservative democrats in the senate debate on ali the bill it quickly became apparent that sen byrnes 1140 40 per cent amendment men t would not carry sen joseph T R robinson 0 inson off offered ered a compromise which would require states to pay 25 per cent of the cost of work relief projects president roosevelt had repeatedly made it known that he wanted no such rider on his relief bill and it was sen robinsons first break with the white house on an important issue capital on the move THE PHE spanish loyalist government after ano another ther terrific bombing of the city by I 1 insurgent ns urgent airplanes of ill the e german junkers and heinkel types decided to move the capital from bilbao to santander but to defend bilbao to the death the basque battalions reorganized for a last ditch stand to protect the broken iron ring of the cites defenses from the forces of general francisco franco the latter it was adm admitted bitted already had penetrated the first line of fortifications near fica and five miles to thelast the east several persons were killed and many houses destroyed by the rebel bombs and machine guns meanwhile the loyalists were claim ing important advances along the cordoba front reds rub out 8 EIGHT PLIGHT soviet russian generals 4 including marshal michail tuk halchevsky former vice commissar of defense learned the wrath of the kremlin condemned fo for r treason they were I 1 led cd before a fir firing ing squad and killed by order of the military tribunal of the soviet supreme court the court i only the day before had declared them guilty ot of conspiring with the military intelligence service of an unfriendly foreign power although the unfriendly power was never named by officials correspondents in moscow declared indications were unmistakable that red leaders believe the power was nazi germany most of the russian capital was virtually certain that the eight who had been denied appeal had been put to death for an ambitious plot to rob the soviet of its western provinces and turn them over to ger many the soviet purge was followed by the suicide of 0 alexander G cher forty five year old president of the white russian soviet republic westernmost of the soviet unions republics while it was said that he had killed himself for family reasons his death came almost immediately after his denunciation in a meeting as a plotter against the communist party dundr hundreds eds of thousands of suspects were reported removed from the communist party rolls by the government fiscal dictator for france WHILE atee HILE a congressional committee in the united states prepared to begin an investigation of alleo alleged oed tax dodgers among the wealthy vincent auriol french finance minister gave broad hints to french millionaires lion aires that they too had better get themselves square with the tax collector he revealed that the tax rate will vill be raised on the hig higher h er bracket incomes and L on products which premier blum are s government monopolies such as tobacco matches and alcohol measures will be taken in prances frances financial crisis to prevent frightened capitalists from exporting funds abroad all this because the communist party reversing its long stand at the last minute agreed to accept premiers blums proposal that he ha be made financial dictator of the nation for six weeks in that time he ha hopes to raise the 30 billion francs needed to finance the government throughout the year most authorities believe that six weeks will not suffice that he will be forced to ask for an extension of his full emergency powers blum hopes that the long awaited business revival will actually set in during that period solving the whole financial fin ancia problem automatically were in f the he moneal I 1 T F YOU dont think things are picking up maybe the united states department of commerce can convince you it has just reported the national income for 1936 reached a total of and officials predicted that the figure for 1937 would reach the all time high was in the dizzy boom year of 1929 and the all time low 4 in 1933 the departments report said that tha since e 1933 the national income has ha risen risen more swiftly than prices and that the real purchasing power of individuals was much larger income come it said increased 38 per cent from 1933 to 1936 while the cost of living advanced 8 per cent the per capita income of employees last year was listed at 1244 which was 58 more than in the preceding year and per cent of the figure for 1929 c CIO starts at bottom JOHN L LEWIS aimed another blow at steel through the united mine workers of which he is is president workers in the captive mines mines operated by an individual steel st e el concern co n c e rn which w h ic h is i the sole user of f t the he c coal 0 a 1 br brought ou g h t t to 0 the the e surface in pennsylvania walked out of the tha shafts and joined the steel picket lines the purpose was to cripple further the steel plants now shut down or operating under difficult difficulties difficulty i es while picketed the immediate objective was the clodin closing g of the ca cambria m plant of beahl bethlehem ahem steel the tha effectiveness of the walkout was a matter for dispute plant officials claimed all departments were in operation in some plants the min miners outnumbered striking steel 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