| Show news review of current events the world over johnson bringing basic industries into line under codes wants banks to relax credits caffery to succeed welles in cuba by EDWARD W PICKARD ODES for the oil steel and lumc her ber industries formulated in washington after hot discussions and with great travail were agreed to by the representatives of the industries and signed by president roosevelt who thereupon retired to his summer home at nyde hyde park N T y to complete hla his e interrupted vacation but general johnson Inde indefatigable fatig atile N it II A chief had to continue A the battling for there remained of the so henry fo ford d called basic g indus g tries coal and automobiles to be brought under the wings of the blue eagle despite the sometimes angry debates over main points of divergence especially the open shop question johnson was certain the automobile code would be completed within a few days donald Rl chberg general counsel asked that the open shop clause be eliminated because it left doubt as to whether the industry accepted the collective bargaining provision the motor car manufacturers seemed disposed to agree to this without surrendering the policy aery one was anxious to learn what stand henry ford would take but he maintained deep silence mr ford Is the only large automobile manufacturer who Is not dot a member of the national automobile chamber of commerce hitherto he be has insisted on his right to bargain with his workers without the intervention of unions that he may alter this policy voluntarily or otherwise was indicated by dispatches from edgewater N J which said the employees of the fora ford assembling plant there were organizing under the auspices of the amerlean american federation of labor in the past mr r ford cord has maintained the open shop by meeting or exceeding the demands of organized labor in pay and working conditions it was thought possible he would adopt a similar course in the matter of the blue eagle code coal operators according to general johnson were all displaying a coop co op spirit that insured an early agreement for the bituminous industry and the representatives of the miners appeared willing to accept compromises on the question in debate B BY Y LABOR day the oil code will go into effect and the industry generally will support it although it does not completely satisfy the trade to a very limited extent it provides for price fixing for gasoline standard oil of indiana did pot not wait for the effective date of the code but put all its refineries on code schedules of hours and wages the part time system was abandoned resulting in a 13 per cent increase in the total wage payment and a corresponding increase in the purchasing power of the refinery employees as a group base rates of pay in the various refineries fin eries were established as prescribed by the code as follows whiting ind 62 cents an hour wood river ni ill 52 cents sugar creek mo 48 cents Neo dosha nan kan 48 cents casper wyo gro 50 cents these rates are for common labor proportionate adjustments were made in rates for skilled labor T dealers who gathered in RJohn A johnsons sons office for a hearing on their code were warned by the administrator lb that the government would not countenance unreasonable price increases and were urged to resist such boosts from jobbers who supply them with their goods lie he said the national industrial recovery act would Inc increase rense prices to meet new costs imposed by compliance with the trade charters r M ary ry H but just because of this there Is no rumsey reason to go way beyond reason it if you do this you just kill the goose that lays the golden egg the house that we are trying to build will collapse like a house bouse of cards in enforcing comp compliance Ilance with the blue eagle provisions johnson asserted that there would be no violence no man hunting and no boycotting but he said the administration would move to uncover cheaters behind the blue eagle and then we are going tt moe in and take the blue eagle right off their windows human nature being what it la Is there naturally are lots of complaints of thi by persons and concerns that have received the blue eagle these come most numerously to mrs mra maty 11 II rumsey ramsey head of the committee that is supposed to protect the con seinei though professor ogburn 0 burn says it doing it and to president william wililam 0 olen en of the american federation of labor both of them have organized totems for watching and catching tho the code ev adera aders mr green has instructed til lil union men to keep an eye on things throughout the country and to report to him any suspected violation of codes he then reports to general johnson in n this way a closer scrutiny of code chiselers clil than the government could institute Is made possible SOME qomie time ago administrator johnson kj hinted that the banks were riot not doing their part in the recovery program and he has now persuaded them to relax credit extension conditions and thereby make money available 1 in the channels of general commerce e to begin with he conferred with members of the federal reserve board and jesse jones chairman of the reconstruction st finance corporation concerning methods by which the bankers might be induced to grant loans on classes of security which they have not been willing to accept bankers ought to resume the financing of ordinary commercial operations 11 general johnson said 1 I have studied the figures on commercial credit trends recently and I 1 do not think they indicate much loosening up on the part of bankers we are working on that now but listen the ordinary banker wants sound risks most of them got pretty badly burnt in past years and weve got to establish some basis for assuring them safety 1 I dont believe you can force extension of credit by flat the whole trouble in this country has been lack of confidence by all classes of people and weve got to do what we can to bring confidence in business in loans and in the future beck back again VING accomplished neatly and HAVING HApe speedily edily the job for which he was sent to cuba sumner welles will soon return to washington to take again his position of assistant secretary of state in charge of latin american affairs lie he Is to be succeeded as ambassador to the island republic by jefferson caffery who from his post in the state department so go amy ably seconded the efforts of mr air welles caffery like welles jefferson Is a career diplomat caffery and was minister to colombia before becoming assistant secretary of state last spring in the last 22 years he has held many important diplomatic positions cattery caffery Is from louisiana and the favor with which he Is looked upon by the administration Is one of the thorns in the flesh of senator huey long loag nis ills first job in havana wll will be to negotiate a new united states cuban commercial treaty president de cespedes of course hopes this wll will include lower duties on cuban sugar settlement of the water front strike in navana havana led the new president to believe industrial peace would soon be re dished most of the machado supporters and having been killed or captured except those who had escaped from the island the cuban mobs let up in their bloody work their last grim performance in havana was to steal and try to burn the body of antonio former chief of police who had committed suicide to avoid capture former president marlo menocal col carlos Mend mendieta leta leader of the nationalist party and many others who had bad been driven to exile by machado SIa chado returned to navana havana and were enthusiastically welcomed by the people corar N PEEK administrator got gcorge of the agricultural adjustment act put into effect at six principal live stock markets what has been called the birth control program tor for pigs the object being the elimination of about animals and the consequent raising of prices in chicago omaha sioux city st paul kansas city and st joseph sio mo the emergency relief administration began tho the purchasing of pigs between 25 and pounds in weight each and brood sows bows most of the meat accumulated was to be distributed to the poor A price schedule was fixed and the farmers were to be paid the difference between this and what they actually received from a fund of obtained from the processing tax on all pork the buying operations were to be started soon adother at other leading markets besides those named above NICHOLSON of indianapolis M di Is one fortunate author ile he has baa been appointed by president roosevelt to be minister to paraguay and he be will have in asuncion the capital a most delightful place to live among pleasant people mr meredith was summoned to washington for preparatory conferences and Is expected to leave for his post tn in the near future leo R sack a washington newspaper man was appointed minister to costa rica V ROBERT OBURT 11 GORE governor of puerto rico Is not liked by the liberal party of the island which claims to represent 46 per cent of the electorate it has sent to president roosevelt a protest against gores administration charging that he has utterly tailed failed to live up to his declarations for efficiency and nonpolitical policies and has grated on the sensibilities bili ties of the people the message concluded that as aa a man unfamiliar with our character and our problems and as we believe with the practices of government and statesmanship in general governor gore Is very much on trial before the puerto rican people has won another M contest with the british government of india imprisoned because he had renewed his civil disobedience campaign he started a new fast unto death and in a week was so near dissolution that the authorities released him unconditionally ills wife and miss madeleine slade one of his three graces were released from six months sentences at cothey go they mahat mahatma rna him could attend gandel gandhi bad been offered his freedom if he would remain in poona and rear refrain a I 1 n fr from 0 m con conducting duct ing civil disobedience propaganda ile he refused ile he demanded that he be given unlimited facilities to conduct from prison his campaign in aid of the hindu untouchables ue ile was told he could carry on the campaign only it if he kept it free of politics 1 I might as well be dead it if I 1 cant work for them he said and began his fast vowing he would maintain it until death unless the government relented DAVIS DA VIS ambassador at NORMAN elarge large called on president roosevelt in hyde park and departed with fairly complete instructions for his course in the disarmament conference which reassembles in geneva on october 16 in general mr davis will support the british plan for limitation of offensive weapons but both mr roosevelt and he be believe the french proposal for supervision and control of world armaments would be a big step toward an agreement this plan calls for a permanent disarmament commission that would act as a the official body in complaints against one signatory power by another it also would provide the manner ond and shipment of arms from one nation to another make inspections of 0 world armaments and carry out a systematic check on the manufacture of offensive and defensive weapons DOLLFUSS the dl 11 but nervy chancellor of austria assured of allied support took steps to check the german nazis along the bavarian border where he was informed the latter were fo trouble and planning invasions of 0 austrian territory for next month Doli dollfuss fuss ordered the mobilization of more than a thousand picked marksmen in the home guards and prepared to rush them to the frontier to reinforce the troops patrolling there if the nazi campaign continues the vienna home guard includes only two battalions but thousands of volunteers are being recruited in 1 eastern and southern austria and all of them are dead shots rn OWEN blue GEN national guard of ireland paraded in defiance of president do da valeras prohibition and the free state government declared it an illegal organization A military tribunal was set up under the public safety act and all blue shirts who do not resign from the guard are to be ba arraigned before it and will be liable to death sentence de valeras government charges the national guard was organized for the purpose of setting up a dictatorship minister of justice ruttledge Rutt tedge said he had evidence that the guard was heavily armed and was importing arms are not happy these thesa S socialists days and when the second inter nationale nationals nati onale opened its world congress in paris there were a lot of gloomy faces among the delegates however the executive committee firmly 11 opposed the defeatists and pessimists in the party the bright spots on the socialist map were said to be spain where here the tide of socialism Is steadily rising and the united states where in the opinion of american members the new deal Is leading to socialism OMING up from the caribbean a C COMING tremendous storm swept the atlantic coast of the united states from virginia northward about a dozen lives were lost and immense damage was done to property yachts were wera wrecked and several liners were in peril the storm played havoc in scores score or of communities in southern new jersey as well as surrounding states state from atlantic city to cape may every seashore resort had hooded flooded street and homes beach front hotels were virtually marooned ocean city N J was cut oil off from rail communication with the mainland Y A vote of about 3 to 1 missouri BY decided that prohibition should be repealed and thus became the twenty second state to line up in I 1 the wet column ratification by only fourteen more states Is needed to ro ra peal the eighteenth amendment ca C western xav union |
