Show 1 news review of current events GREEN SHAPES WAGE BILL dictates house amendments thousands flee china expecting war housing measure stirs up senate A y nl summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 0 western newspaper union where was john lewis W WILLIAM ILLIAM GREEN president of the american federation of labor emerged as the administrations favorite sort son in matters affecting labor as he was permitted virtually 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 had called green to the white house and persuaded him to give lukewarm approval to the measure with the understanding der 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 43 to 36 the same vigorous opposition was expected from didies representatives in the house ouse labor committee but the green amendments so called because of the le federation presidents complete domination of the committee meeting patched up the essential 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 committe had intended to extend the limits to permit the board to set wages at 70 cents and hours as low as 35 under greens influence the house committee decided to accept the senate provisions on this part of the measure but the scope of the board was greatly curtailed by an amendment which would permit it to deal only with employers who maintain sweatshops a and n starvation wages through fake collective bargaining 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 ineffective fec tive 2 acceptance of wage hour standards established by collective bargaining in any occupation as prima facie evidence of appropriate standards in that occupation 3 board cannot alter wage hour standards already prevailing in occupation cu in community considered or establish classification in any community which affects adversely 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 industry from what is considered a nuisance 6 government work is removed from the boards control and placed under the walsh healey act chairman mary T norton D N J of the labor committee indicated the bill would be brought up in in the house under a special rule and speedily passed 41 for housing ti t HAVING I disposed of wages and i hours legislation the senate took up the wagner low cost housing bill this would authorize the flotation of a K bond issue by a M e united states housing authority to meet operating expenses of the programs first year would be appropriated immediately dia tely the proposed bond I 1 issue s s u e was cut from 1 isen wagner as a compromise with the treasury department which objected to so high a figure the bill would aid low cost housing projects in two ways it would make loans to the full amount of contracted projects aiding the repayment of the loans by direct grants if the sponsors kept rents sufficiently low or it would make direct 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 additional dit ional 15 per cent grant from relief 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 wo would uld also be permitted to spend 25 0 on demonstration projects to illustrate to communities the benefits of eliminating slums and providing adequate housing at low cost the projects 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 a family or 1000 a room wagner objected principally on the grounds that this would not be sufficient for projects in new york city where it is believed much of the money will be spent I 1 R 0 77 pl r 41 A 2 k t A IF of Ls GREEN leaves white house with a smile flee from the rising sun WAR Wc AR was still officially undeclared but all signs indicated that japan was making ready to prosecute a long term conflict in north china and that t the h e chinese w were e r e everywhere preparing to withstand the advance of t the h e japanese army steady 0 t streams of refugees pouring out of the area while they had bad the chance revealed the opinion of masses of people that a great war gen chiang cainas kai shek was inevitable tokyo was hurrying soldiers to the front in the hengtai district southwest of neiping Pei ping veteran japanese troops massed for an attack upon five divisions of chinas cainas central government army numbering approximately 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 japans expectation pec tation of real war were the sweeping changes in military personnel made after a conference between premier konoye and emperor hirohito four new division commanders were named as well as a new commander for the island of formosa it was regarded as s significant I 1 1 g ant that all of the new appointees poin tees were soldiers with extensive sive experience in china the government 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 dictator of china and commander of the chinese army summoned into conference at national capital the warlords war lords and governors of important provinces plans were made to throw hundreds of thousands 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 nationwide military conscription was being conducted apace japanese newspapers reported that a resolution to sever all relations with japan was before the chinese political council for consideration era tion the fear that gripped was illustrated by the governments publication of warnings against giving away military secrets and the warnings which were given government officials to get their families out into the hinterlands where they might be safe from enemy bombers civilians in china needed no warning thousands upon thousands were lined up at the railroad stations in in shanghai and in many were women carrying children and what belongings they could not bear to leave behind thousands 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 continue to spread southward it was expected areal battle would ensue when the two columns came within striking distance russia protested vigorously vigorous lv to the japanese embassy in against the pillaging of the russian consulate by white russian ruffians assisted by japanese anese the japanese denied that any of their countrymen were implicated and ridiculed the idea id 1 ea that the japanese planned any future attacks against russian consulates I 1 U S keeps naval pace were that both the tha indications united states and great britain would woul d embark upon unusually large peacetime naval building programs program in 1938 britain I 1 according to reports in m 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 record it was also reported that personnel would be increased ultimately by with the placing of arditi additional 1 onal 1937 contracts britain will soon have vessels under construction these will include 5 battleships of tons 5 aircraft carriers 8 cruisers of to tons 5 cruisers of tons 7 cruisers of tons 16 super destroyers of 1650 tons 18 submarines of from to 1520 tons 12 sloops and 10 motor torpedo boats armament of the five new battleships will include 10 or 12 new type 14 inch guns 12 to 16 4 or 47 inch antiaircraft anti aircraft guns and numerous light machine guns upper deck armor will be specially specia Uy strengthened against airplane bombs and bridges and turrets will be admiral william D leahy chief of american naval operations and acting secretary of uncle sams navy said in washington that congress will be asked to provide funds for the construction of two battleships 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 planning extensive naval building the four new ships will cost and will be ready in 1942 construction is about to begin on two other battleships which will cost approximately 14 4 lost in m flying boat IT TT WAS believed 14 persons were 1 lost in the caribbean sea when the santa maria luxurious new flying boat of the pan american grace airways crashed 20 miles off cristobal in the canal zone after nearly completing a scheduled flight from guayaquil Gu ayaquil ecuador last radio reports from the pilot indicated he was trying to spiral down to the surface of the sea in in a torrential rainstorm two united states submarines cruising the area in the hope of picking up some survivors found part of the airliners 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 copilot steward and 11 passengers mostly americans were locked in in the cabin and lying on the bottom of the sea which at the point the wreckage was found reaches a depth of 1000 feet X wedge to split loyalists A A S THE battle of madrid con linued to rage gen francisco francos eastern army was driving an ever widening wedge into the territory near the junction of teruel cuenca and valencia provinces miles east of madrid his object is to impose a barrier between madrid and the loyalist governments capital at valencia government forces all along the line of advance were reported surrendering re ri or fleeing insurgents claimed to have captured large numbers 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 been repulsed by machine gunners and dynamiters dyna miters K el caudillo Is the boss I 1 INSURGENT spam spain has a head man and also has a name for him now in germany things are bossed by der fuehrer and italians scurry to obey 11 it II 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 Caud caudillo dlo obey the leader and the people salute him by raising the right arm francos 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 gals corporative government since he openly declared on july 19 that he believes the restoration of a monarchy is vital to cohesion of 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 0 NE of chinas cainas chief agitators for war was mme ame chiang kal kai shek wellesley educated wife of the dictator she urged w women omen to fight japan according to their ability citing the fashion in which the women of spain are occupying the fighting lines line in the world war the women of every country gave their best she declared the women of china are no less patriotic or capable of physical endurance china is facing the gravest crisis in its history this means we must sacrifice many of our soldiers I 1 masses of our innocent people much of the nations wealth and see ruthlessly destroyed the results of our reconstruction |