Show aels review of current events the world over i Reu aal ot 01 postal em employees p lopees to deliver mail to stricken j plants stirs row labor flare ups continue v britain blames franco for naval blast by EDWARD W PICKARD western newspaper union AS S A senate committee pondered the advisability 0 f an anve invests sti gatlon into the attitude e e 0 of the pa post office comee department with respect to deliveries of mail to strike crippled industrial du plants new incidents among employers pl loyal em aloyes and strikers flared up on halt half a dozen fronts W whan h p n john L lewis gave the order throwing i men out of work in the plants of F I 1 rancy lie steel g inland steel and the youngstown sheet and tube company hard boiled T tom 0 m girdler president of the american steel and iron institute and chairman of the board of the republic st steel ea corporation kept loyal housed in the republic plants in ohio and illinois so that despite the strike republic was still turning out in warren and niles ohio postal authorities refused to deliver parcel post packages containing food and clothing to workers inside the plants this action brought from republic a protest to postmaster general parley requesting that he be issue orders order to postmasters to see that all legally presented and post pos t paid mall mail be delivered regardless ot of picket lines unless you see fit to comply with this request which we believe to be entirely within our legal rights the message said we shall feel compelled to take such legal steps as may be available to us in the premises capitalizing on the action of local postmasters ohio pickets issued a printed ultimatum to loyal steel em aloyes four departments of the united states government are fighting on our side it said and added extra precautions will be taken throughout the next 12 hours to guarantee your safety in leaving the plant after that time your safety will be your own responsibility the four departments of the government believed to have been referred to are the post office labor department labor relations board and interstate commerce commission it was sen H styles bridges rep N H who presented the case for an investigation to the senate committee on post offices he was wa reported to have enlisted the support of democratic sen josiah W bailey of north carolina ad REPUBLICS plants continued to L be beehives of 0 excitement at youngstown there was a pitched battle between pickets and police after a company truck carrying food fo tor r the employed emp loyes I 1 in n the plant had successfully run through the picket lines accompanied by a cordon of police As shots were exchanged one man was wounded A dozen others othen received cracked skulls fifty strikers many ot of them suffering ufler ing from tear gas were taken to jall it in chicago states attorney courtney continued investigations of the recent riot in which C 1 I 0 strikers attacked police at the republic esteel steel plant in south chicago result angin seven deaths here also the company was housing loyal em aloyes who remained at their work in its plant mayor kelly ordered them removed on the grounds that such housing violated the city sanitation code republic countered by having pullman cars moved into its it plant yards and housing the em aloyes in them the mayor ad bitted he see anything wrong in that u R hundred C 1 I 0 power fo FOUR c company or abany strikers taught the inhabitants of the saginaw valley in michigan what itis it Is like to feel the power of organized labor when they sat down at their jobs tor for 15 hours electricity wai was shut off from communities hospi tall as well as factories were without current before an agreement was wait reached and the strikers went back toworu to work it was a days pay whose e employers lost for workers plants depended on juice pl for life general motors employed emp loyes alone lost mayor daniel A knaggs of monroe mien blich called for war veterans As as volunteer police to aid his force fores of 20 20 in preserving the is as strikers stricken at the newton pec ps to work returned company steel the C L 0 had threatened to send to members from detroit to enforce the employees emp loyes demands ln in DW detroit the ford brotherhood of As america inc was organized j reported bembas with a signed in two days as an answer ts of af C I 1 0 ls s united automobile attempts to union unionize ift 6 W workers arkers union FordS Ford Byrd W scott a explained ford machinist jor for 20 years started by myself myse the ir ia B A was benjamin john johnb B mcdowell se number of ford era em and a love r worked for the p byeis I 1 company from ten to twenty years year the organization was vas formed because we wanted an independent labor organization not one affiliated with any national union the election returns ot of R READING ot of an overwhelming democratic landslide last november charles michelson publicity director ot of the democratic national committee said we will regret this the great party majorities in both houses now show signs of splitting into regional and economic blocs which is exactly what he was afraid ol of biggest wedge in forcing the split among the party ranks was of course the presidents bill tor for the reorganization of the supreme court this led a long list of bills many of them expected to evoke heated controversies trover sies stes in congress which threatened to postpone ad adjournment journ ment to mid winter indeed it IN wai a I 1 believed by some that if part of the were not postponed this session would run continuously into the next beginning in january januari besides the court bill there are to be acted upon measures for the establishment of wage and hour standards for interstate industries the curtailment of tax dodging ro of the executive branch ol of the government helping tam farm tenants tenant conservation of soil OIL water power resources and housing TS tiie THE democratic abic patty party going fascist asked samuel B dem ind on the floor 01 of the house in upbraiding gov frank B murphy of michigan for his sponsorship of a law la in that state which would authorize him to take over industrial plants and operate them when they have been closed by labor troubles let the historian note that this is the way fascism made its start in italy he said it if the state takes over the factories who will fix wages bagis then who will fix hours then after the state takes over a factory will it permit Us its workers to strike the state then has the opportunity port unity of operating the plant at a profit without running up a deficit for the taxpayers to absorb will the state then permit an interruption of operations A S THE american federation ol of AS J A labor began its purge to eliminate member locals suspected of dealings with the C 1 I 0 from its john L lewis and his committee committe for industrial organization showed signs of retaliation other than snorts of disgust and derisive laughter er J the chicago federation of labor began 11 it when acting on the suggestion of jo L pr president e aident william e 9 green it ousted 27 local unions comprising 40 to members charging that they had bad been active in behalf of C L 0 A day or so BO later lewis admitted in washington that his organization may enter the field of civil service the move which had been discussed by lewis and his associates lor ios several weeks would be in direct opposition of two established A F of L unions TN A scorching protest to gen IN A francisco franco great britain blamed the rebel regime tor for the death of eight and the wounds of 24 sailors when the destroyer hunter ran into a mine off almeria southern spain may 13 the protest called the affair an accident but reserved the right to claim dam ages of meanwhile meanwhile rains were bogging down the rebels northern offensive against bilbao but the fascists fascist launched a violent new offensive in the sector about midway between toledo and seville in southern spain aiming tor for the rich mercury mines lines near almaden astronomers were vere treated to 1 astronomers 1 the least feast of a lifetime in the south seas as they were permitted by almost perfect weather conditions to photograph the longest total eclipse of the sun in 1200 years on canton island the united states state s navy and the national geographic society with eleven tons of equipment took unusual pictures picture and radioed a description of the magnificent ent scene to millions of listeners eis back in the to states the scholars scholar ot of the american museum ot of natural history viewed the eclipse from an aa air airplane feet above lima peru other scientists dentists made obier lations from ships in the pacific thi the time ot of the total eclipse at the various places of observation ranged from three and one half minutes minute to even minutes it was a short show chow tor for which to travel thousands thousand ot of miles with costly cumbersome equipment but measured by scientific standards etwas it wa worth the cost and the trouble aay |