Show news review of current events the world over president resident calls for truce between labor and industry convention of A F of L air combat forces taken away from foulois by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by western newspaper union RESIDENT ROOSEVEL TS latest P PRESIDENT radio talk with his fellow citizens was well written well delivered and peculiarly vague as to his future in tensions tent lons ions lie ile sought to reassure business and labor both of which are questioning him anxiously but he czi made no definite replies to their categorical A queries ills his one specific state statement ment was that within a m month anth he be would seek tone to negotiate a truce between large groups of president employers and large roosevelt groups of employees through which there would be a cessation of the strikes that have been disrupting the nations business lie ile said ile he would ask the representatives of those forces to agree temporarily on questions of wages hours and working conditions and that with such agreements in force he be expected further adjustments just ments would be made peaceably through governmental or private mediation 1 I shall not ask either employers or employees permanently to lay aside the weapons common to industrial war he added cut but I 1 shall ask both groups to give a fair trial to 10 peaceful methods of adjusting their conflicts of opinion and interest and to experiment for a reasonable time with measures sulta suitable bli to industrial civilization by way of reply to the appeals of many business industrial and financial leaders that the more radical measures of the administrations program be abandoned mr roosevelt declared the new deal Is to go on to the questions of those leaders concerning balancing of the budget government expenses further devaluation of the dollar or return to the gold standard he made no reply however he did declare himself in favor of a system of business based on private profit then he said 1 I 1 am not for a return to that definition of liberty under which for many years rears a free people were being gradually regimented into the service of the privileged few I 1 prefer and I 1 am sure you prefer that broader definition of liberty under which we are moving forward to greater freedom to greater security tor for the average man than he has ever known before in the history of america concerning the the president gave praise to general johnson jobson and said the national recovery administration was entering its second phase which Is in turn a period of preparation tor for legislation which will determine its permanent form ile he admitted there was a question as to the wisdom of some of the devices employed during the first phase of the KRA but decried the a attacks ou on the constitutionality of many of the things his administration ras nas done we are cot 11 he said frightened by reactionary lawyers or political editors all these cries have been heard before near the beginning of his address the president said 1 I am happy to report that after years of uncertainty culminating la in the collapse of the spring of 1033 we are bringing order out of the old chaos with a greater certainty of the employment of labor at a reasonable wage and of more business at a fair profit these governmental and industrial developments hold promise prom lse of new achievements for the nation first formal response to the presidents speech came from the national association of manufacturers which urged him to issue a proclamation for a truce on industrial warfare during which existing employment relations would be continued and challenged the american federation of labor to take like action its statement said the president will alna employers willing to sit down with him as he proposes to devise means for ending the constant series of strikes which have been me ne of the major obstacles to recovery green and morrison Morr lson respectively president and secretary of the federation said this was a subterfuge and that the manufacturers should first publicly announce they would obey the decisions of constituted authorities especially ally concerning discrimination and collective bargaining BILE president william green WHILE wand and some other leaders of the american federation of labor just convened in san francisco expressed approval of what mr roosevelt said in his radio address man many others prom anent in the federation are far from satisfied with the way things are going ahe executive councils annual report devoted pages to an analysis of the effect of the upon the interests of labor almost without exception tile the effects were nere found either directly harmful or at least unsatisfactory the criticism was directed nt at the workings of the recovery program in actual operation the NKA and the new deal itself were not condemned but the committee indicted the pro gram on these main grounds that it has failed to increase the pUr purchasing purchased ChaSID power of workers that because it has failed to reduce hours of labor sufficiently it has also failed to create a satisfactory number of new jobs that its compliance machinery Is ineffective with the result that violations of the spirit of the codes are easily ily accomplished and quite general labor does not have proper representation sen tation in either cither code enforcement or administration la in one way the report says pointing to what seems to be viewed as the only satisfactory accomplishment thus far under the codes have fulfilled expectations they have with few exceptions wiped out child labor RESIDENT GREEN in his address ato PRESIDENT to the federation of labor declared the establishment of the 3 SO 00 hour week was one of the possible means of wiping out unemployment and said those opposing it have offered no other remedy first actual results in the af campaign for this were announced later lt to the convention by frank feeney prest president of the elevator constructors u union n I 1 0 n P what he be called the greatest labor d docu cu william green ment ever written has been signed a five year n agreement with contractor employers providing the six hour day fire day week for the members of the union on a pay basis of the eight hour lay day the contract will become effective immediately feeney said in any locality in which any other four of the building trades unions negotiate similar a agreements ree ments the document also provides ldes tor for an absolutely closed shop and gives the elevator constructors the right to strike at any time to support any movement for the SO 30 hour week while the delegates were cheering this announcement col IV F axton aston tobacco manufacturer of louisville ky arose and made a lively speech in support of the 30 hour week as the means of getting everybody back to work it if we want to get business back we must give employment to labor axton said industry at the same time must be protected from unfair competition by such means as codes the arrival of john L lewis president of the united mine workers of america gave impetus to the fight for extension of the A F of 1 L into the industrial union field and to the plan to increase the executive council from 11 11 to 25 members although lewis controlling convention votes was opposed by green on the council plan the miners leader removed the last doubt concerning greens reelection election re by announcing that he be would not only back green but would place him in nomination the recommendations F FOLLOWING of a special committee appointed by the war department and headed by newton D baker the department has created a general genera headquarters air force comprising all the air combat forces and placed it under the direct command of gen douglas macarthur chief of staff thus all the fighting planes are taken away from gen benjamin D foulois Fou lols chief of the air corps PS aud and he be ci gen foulois Is left in command of only the army air schools aud and air depots denny benny who flew with the wrights in 1 1903 1900 and worked his way to high command has long been at outs with the general stair struggling against what he considered ita its intrigues and politics now the general s taff stait Is having its way with him and as one washington commentator says instead of the flying air fighter which his record fitted him to be he has become a desk soldier and a school teacher just as this order was issued brig gen william mitchell matchell Ml former chief of the air corps and a perpetual storm center was testifying before the commission appointed by the president to study the governments aviation problem mitchell called the organization of a air force a lot of bunk and he declared that all army officers who signed the baker report should be kicked out of the service ue ile referred to army aviation plans as the work of boy scouts in the war department pa part rement ment according to mitchell these are the measures the country should adopt for its aerial defense merge army navy and all air services IC es under one command build planes with a cruising radius of to miles mike make detailed plans for war including I 1 ng the evacuation of new york city in case of an air attack by japan from a base in alaska construct dirigibles tor for 60 of them competently handled could destroy japan within two days anew remodeling of the by the new industrial recovery board which has displaced general johnson Is under way one of the boards first official acts was to give a good job to kilbourne johnston son of the retiring administrator though he spells his name differently the young man who la Is an army lieutenant on leave was made acting divisional administrator in charge of manufacturing codes donald R nich bere director of the industrial emergency committee who clashed repeatedly with johnson when he was active as chief counsel of the recovery agency intimated it if there had been wounds they were now healed we have no quarrel Iti chberg said with a smile on behalf of the textile workers francis J gorman german formally accepted we presidents plan for an industrial truce ile he suggested a six months armistice and promised that during that period the union would permit no stoppage of work in protest against any findings of the textile or national labor relations boards at the same time gorman german warned that renewal of conflict was imminent unless the peaceful methods suggested by the executive could be brought into s swift 1 ift a and A d effective a action 0 ONCE more talk of war with russia Is agitating japan stirred up by a remarkably frank pamphlet put out by the japanese army department soviet russia possesses war planes the united states and china BOO the pamphlet asserted it if these nations combined the air fraces of the powers surrounding japan ispan would total more than planes although diplomacy can give assurance that we will meet only one enemy we must assume that the enemy will have at least planes japan has only 1000 planes can our armaments be said to be complete with this poor air force constant trouble along the soviet frontier the increasingly challenging attitude of the soviets and dussias Rus sias traditional unreliability make the future of russo japanese relations uncertain HE world air congress convened T THE at washington and one of the most important events on its program was the award to wiley rest post of the international aeronautical federations annual gold medal for the outstanding aviation feat of 1933 for his solo flight around the world post was chosen over marshal italo balbo of italy the lithuanian american ocean flyers darius and gerenas Gl Gf renas and J V heroic holland dutch east ladles indies mall mail pilot interesting though not highly imi por tant Is the report that cornea comes from vienna that Mu mustapha gustaph kernal kemal pasha dl dictator president dent of turkey may marry one of tile the tour four unmarried sisters of king zog of albania zog is to visit ankara soon and the engagement may be announced then kemal who Is fifty seven years old divorced his first wife latefe hanoum in 1025 and la Is said to have expressed arsi a wish to remarry re marry president dent I 1 king jg bogs gg marriage kemal able a sisters I 1 a t er e r a range in age from froia twenty t three airee to twenty six the albanian royal family like kemal Is of the moslem faith rumors of another almost royal marriage come from paris the german refugee newspaper sais chancellor hitler contemplates taking as his bride a german princess one of the family of saxe coburg and gotha which is allied to the crowns of half a dozen european countries it adds that the fuehrer at the same time will assume the title of duke of the germans HARVARD university pity like chancellor hillers Hit lers treatment of germanys germanas Germ anys educational institutions dr ernst F S hillers Hit lers confidential aid and himself a graduate of harvard made an offer to the university of a german traveling scholarship but it was declined james bryant conant president ot of harvard said in a letter to hanf gl we are unwilling to accept a gift from one who has been so closely associated soc socia ted with the leadership of a political party which has inflicted damage on the universities of germany through measures which have struck at principles we believe to be fundamental to universities throughout the world AMUEL INSULL and sixteen of hla his S SAMUEL former associates in public utilities are now on trial in the federal court in chicago they are charged with having used the malls to defraud investors through the sale of in securities of the corporation securities company judge james H wilkerson Is presiding over the trial and united states district attorney dwight II 11 green heads the force of 0 prosecutors selection of the jury take long but it was certain the trial of the case would con consume sime weeks for the witnesses are numbered by hundreds RESIDENT ROOSEVELT and his naval PRESIDENT naval advisers held a conference at the white house and now norman H IL davis ambassador at large la Is on his bl way ay back across the atlantic to take part in talks in london preliminary to the international naval conf crenca presumably he Is all primed to insist on the presidents policies with mr davis goes admiral william IL standley chief of naval operations |