Show news reviele of current events BLASTS HALT STEEL PLANT delay thousands in return to jobs president may act in labor dispute fascists quit spanish patrol wa W 14 1 wr 0 o VP i J 10 0 WI V J k riots continued as steel plants attempted reopening A SW we IV 0 f 0 aa picket aa ito NA summarizes THE WORL WORLDS WEEK 0 western newspaper union no water no steel no jobs DYNAMITE D temporarily stopped a back to work movement in the great cambria works of the bethlehem steel corporation at johns J 0 h n s town t 0 wn pa scene of the most violent altercations among strikers loyal workers and the law in recent days two explosions crippled the principal water mains supplying the plant just as cambria once more had thrown open its doors and nearly halt half its emoy gov 1 earle arle had filed through steel workers organizing committee picket lines to resume their labors it took several days to repair the damage sufficiently to allow part of the workers to return the blasts interrupted what had been the nearest semblance of peace still not very near since the C 1 I 0 affiliate called the strike on the big steel independents who refused to sign contracts with what they dubbed john L lewis irresponsible organization the strikers committee deplored the explosions plo and hoped no strikers had bad caused them two hundred state troopers part of the state force which had enforced the martial law declared for a few days and then lifted by gov george H earle patrolled the johnstown district in an attempt to apprehend the dynamiter dyna miters s and protect the water supply of the city itself from damage mayor daniel 3 shields appealed to president roosevelt again declaring in a telegram that the majority of his citizens were opposed to the C L I 1 0 violence and if provoked much more by the minority might take the law into their own hands adding to the toll ot of deaths injuries and destruction that already has been rolled up he said the strikers were openly declaring that they had the support t of the president As the plants reopened opened re before the blasts it had seemed that the real grip of the strike had been broken although there were still some pickets on hand the day before the reopening opening re the C 1 I 0 in a last minute attempt to save its cause promised a mass meeting near the city of miners who would then aid the steel strikers in keeping the plants closed only about 1500 showed up and after listening bening to speeches by union leaders they dispersed peaceably waxes impatient IT TT WAS believed that the pressure A of public opinion in the steel strikes had driven president roosevelt close to supporting federal legislation similar to that of the amendments proposed by sen arthur H of michigan for the national labor relations act the president indicated at a press conference that he was as much put out at the C 1 I 0 for forcing organization upon the steel workers aw as he was with the corporations for refusing to negotiate in terms of a signed contract after a talk with charles P taft who had been chairman of the mediation board that failed to effect a settlement the president said mr tatt taft and I 1 talked over the whole steel situation and came to the conclusion that the na nation tion as a whole in thinking of the strikes was saying just one thing a plague on both your houses 0 1 I senator Vanden bergs proposed amendments were designed to broaden the rights of employers under the wagner act forbid sit down strikes and other unfair union union practices and provide severe penalties for unions which violated contracts with employers his amendments I 1 to give employers the same right which only employees now enjoy to appeal to the national labor relations board for an election to determine the representatives of employees 2 to require agreements m in writing and to permit strikes only after a majority vote of all employees any group which broke its contract and did not repair the break after being ordered to do so by the board would be suspended from representation sen tation 3 establish a code of practices for labor this would prohibit compulsory political assessments sess ses ments on union members require that all union officers agents and representatives be united states citizens forbid union organization by coercion prohibit damage to property strikes intended to force any person to violate a contract 0 or r federal laws and v violations io lations of any pe persons r rights in real or personal property der fuehrer scores neutrals t F PROM RO now on adolf hitler told r nazis at a party rally in we will prefer to take the freedom independence honor and security of our nation into our I 1 A own hands and protect ourselves alone disgusted germany withdrew from the non inter bention patrol of spain as italy did likewise der fuehrer warned that the nazis would take independent action to adoll adolf hitler protect themselves from attacks by the spanish government he described how germany had bad been condemned for shelling almeria after a spanish airplane had bombed the cruiser deutschland Deutsch land and how when the cruiser leipzig was attacked by a submarine while on patrol duty the intervention nonintervention non committee had done dolie nothing about it A remedy suggested by great britain a in and france was that the patrol duty be left entirely to them with italian observers on french patrol ships ship s and german observers on british ships to judge the equitable impartial im working of the system germany and italy lost little time in refusing to accept the proposal sir neville chamberlain called the british cabinet in to see what might be done but it was generally believed lie ved that if the fascists cont continued inked in in their policy of refusing ref to coop co op antion erate with the intervention nonintervention non patrol great britain would scrap ap her entire neutrality policy she might efte extend n d the right t of belligerents to gen francisco franco and his insurgents thus for the first time recognizing that a state of war exists in spain this would be regarded as a bit of sugar for the fascist nations who recognize th the e insurgent government as the government of spain K mont agues and capulet Capul ets s W WITH ITH III all the family blessings save those of a political clas classification S miss ethel du pont font daug daughter liter of eugene du pont font and franklin delano roosevelt jr son of the president of the united states were married at christ church near wilmington del in a simple wedding attended by a handful of about picked guests bitter political hatreds were buried temporarily mediation board gives up HE mediation board of three teamed THE labor named by secretary of perkins to sit in cleveland and attempt to negotiate a settler settlement nent in the steel strike gave up in despair its chairman charles P taft or of cincinnati and the other two members lloyd garrison former president of the national labor relations board and edward F mcgrady troubleshooting trouble shooting assistant of mme ame perkins were unable even to persuade tom girdler eugene grace and other steel officials to sit around a conference table at which union leaders were present the board explained its failure the only hope of settlement lies in such a meeting in criticizing the companies tor for their stand the board said nothing can be made clearer today than that management r nana gement and organized labor when it really represents the wishes of the men have got to learn how to live together to reach agreements and to abide by them when made steel officials handed taft a written resume of their stand that they would not make any agreement with lewis irresponsible C 1 I 0 they admitted that the wagner act might force them to negotiate with the union but declared another law provides that no one need make a contract he want to make X budget trouble U S TREASURY figures indicated that the end of the fiscal year would find the presidents economy program missing its mark by about last april he warned all departments that expenditures would have to be drastically cut and revised his budget to less than the forecast in january his revised budget estimated that expenditures from july 1 1936 to june 24 1937 would be actually they turned out to be or above the estimate it was believed that at that rate there would be a difference of about in the budget I 1 and actual spending for the entire fiscal year budget trouble french BUDGET budget trouble is bothering france in a serious way in fact it led to the resi resignation nation of premier leon blum and his peoples front government to be succeeded by camille chautemps one of chautemps f first 1 r s t acts was ivas to appoint georges bonnet ambassador bas to the united states as minister of finance with orders to begin attempts to balance the budget premier bonnets f first i r s t chautemps moves were to close the stock exchange and suspend foreign exchange and commercial payments pending a decision on whether or not he would be made an economic dictator temporarily because the senate refused him this power blum and his cabinet resigned the chamber of deputies twice had approved giving it to him the senate finance committee approved virtually the same thing for chautemps 20 to 3 ten days after he had become premier it would authorize the new government to promulgate decrees tending to assure suppression of attacks on government credit fight against speculation ula tion promote economic recovery control prices and balance the budget france like the united states operates on two budgets ordinary and extraordinary frances deficit in her ordinary budget as estimated by retiring finance minister vincent At auriol is about and the deficit in her extraordinary budget approximately rene brunet bonnets undersecretary said they could be balanced in three years most of the expenditures from the extraordinary budget are for defense pen for jerseys parkers WHEN T HEN paul H wendel former trenton N J lawyer aco confessed n to the lindbergh baby the execution of bruno richard hauptmann was delayed three days now euis ellis parker sixty five chief of the burlington county detectives tec tives and his son euis ellis jr twenty six have been sentenced to serve six and three years respectively in the federal penitentiary by federal judge william clark in newark they were convicted of conspiring to seize and torture wendel to extract from him the false confession T their h e i r attorneys announced an appeal would be filed with the united states circuit court of appeals rebels again eye madrid HAVING taken take bilbao ater after months of siege ec gen francisco v franco rebel bel commander turned his guns once more upon pa madrid adrid and the sector north of guadalajara new troops T were move moved d into ia the thesel see eions 3 8 about the 1118 western and south eastern t li limits aits nits of the city the e loyalist royalist J government set out at once to strengthen its iti own lines lin although a thou 6 it t was not believed madrid ite was in much danger of 0 attack hee before the insurgents o have cleaned the up northern provinces since the capture of bilbao the basque and asturian fore C have been v valencia isolated seass ass ss from government those of the virtually madrid i |