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Show After Labor Kacketeers I?OR four months Eliot Ness, tha " young safety director of Cleve land, Ohio, has been investigating labor racketeering in Cleveland, es- Netts Review of Current Events VANDENBERG'S PROGRAM Michigan Senator's Plan to Give Honest Business a Chance . . . President Talks Peace with Utility Chiefs pecially in the building build-ing trades, and then he made a report of his findings that resulted re-sulted in a special session of the Cuyahoga Cuya-hoga county grand jury to hear the stories of scores of business men who allegedly have been terrorized by labor union officials. Ness said these men were Eihut Ness Representative J. R. Mitchell of Tennessee (left), and Representative Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the house agriculture committee, discussing farm problems at a meeting of the committee to draft the new farm bill. SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. prompted to volunteer their information infor-mation because of the security offered of-fered them and the knowledge that many others were prepared to testify. tes-tify. In addition to protests from business busi-ness men that they were being shaken shak-en down, Ness also had numerous complaints from rank and file union men that their leaders had obtained dictatorial control of the unions and had used it for racketeering purposes. pur-poses. . This resulted in hundreds of men being thrown out of work, impeded legitimate business, and kept hun- . dreds of thousands of dollars in new industries out of the city, the Ness report was said to have stated. Governors Ask Tax Repeal GOVERNORS of the six New England states, in conference in Boston, adopted resolutions severely se-verely criticizing the tax and tariff policies of the administration. They demanded repeal of the capital gains tax and the tax on undistributed undistrib-uted corporate profits, and denounced de-nounced the pending reciprocal trade agreement with Czechoslovakia Czechoslo-vakia as imperiling the jobs of thousands of American citizens. The governors who took this action ac-tion were Lewis O. Barrows, Republican, Re-publican, Maine; F. P. Murphy, Republican, Re-publican, New Hampshire; George D. Aiken, Republican, Vermont; Charles F. Hurley, Democrat, Massachusetts; Wilbur L. Cross, Democrat, Connecticut, and Robert E. Quinn, Democrat, Rhode Island. Trade Treaty with Britain IN WASHINGTON and London it was officially announced that the United States and Great Britain had agreed to negotiate a reciprocal Vandenberg's Program SENATOR VANDENBERG of Michigan didn't wait for the leaders of the Republican party to formulate a program on which to That the prudent investment method of determining the rate base might well be used for determining values to be added hereafter and that it could be studied as a means of finding present value, that in any case no system of valuation does or should bring about the highly watered capitalization which the President condemned in a number of examples which he cited at a recent press conference. Ch no-Japanese War JAPAN'S armies were slowed up by rain and mud in their advance ad-vance up the Yangtse valley, but as there seemed no likelihood that the Chinese line of defense would hold, the Nationalist government r ) A, r 4 ' battle the Democrats. Demo-crats. He broke out with a ten-point program pro-gram designed to "give honest business busi-ness a chance to create stable prosperity." pros-perity." His ten points were: 1. An end to governmental gov-ernmental "hymns of hate" and bitter attacks on business men. Senator Vandenberg r . -n trade treaty, which has been sought by Secretary of State Hull ever since he started his reciprocal recipro-cal program in 1934. The negotiations are expected to begin before the close of the year. American administration admin-istration officials believe be-lieve such a pact may lead to a corn- moved out of Nanking, scattering its departments among a number of cities. American Ambassador Johnson John-son and his staff moved to Hankow. The Japanese commanders in Shanghai took over full control of most of the city and its customs office. of-fice. They demanded that the international in-ternational settlement and French concessions officials hand over the city's four leading citizens as hostages. hos-tages. Most prominent of these was T. V. Soong, brother-in-law of Dictator Dic-tator Chiang Kai-Shek. The Far East conference in Brussels, Brus-sels, unable to accomplish anything to end the Chino-Japanese conflict, was- on the point of final adjournment. adjourn-ment. After French Throne ALARM of the French government govern-ment over the plotting of the Cagoulards or "hooded ones" that led to the arrest of many rightists becretaryllull and the raiding of hidden stores of weapons and ammunition ammu-nition was far from baseless. Evidently there was a real conspiracy to overthrow over-throw the republic and set up a dictatorship dicta-torship and eventually eventu-ally a restored monarchy. mon-archy. The government govern-ment announced, however, that the merciai union of all Knglish-speak-ing peoples and will be a powerful influence in preserving world peace. London looks upon it as an instrument in-strument to form a front which all nations may enter later on conditions condi-tions of most-favored-nations reciprocity, reci-procity, and therefore as an indirect indi-rect reply to the new German-Italian-Japanese alliance. Principles said to be already agreed upon provide that Great Britain would receive reduced American tariffs on textiles and coal. In return she would grant the United States lower tariffs on foodstuffs, food-stuffs, certain raw materials, iron and steel and other essentials of a rearmament program, Immediate opposition to the proposed pro-posed pact developed among the statesmen in Washington. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, Democratic whip, protested against any British "accord until the English Eng-lish pay off their defaulted war debt to the United Slates. He called the proposed pact "trade treason." Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts Republican, served notice he would sponsor a resolution resolu-tion halting negotiation of all new trade treaties until congress can determine whether they are responsible respon-sible for the current business recession. re-cession. Representative Allen Treadway, Massachusetts Republican, denounced de-nounced the proposed treaty as certain cer-tain to prove disastrous to American Amer-ican business. He warned it would throw "more Americans out of their jobs." Due dc Guise 2. Progress as rapidly as possible toward a balanced budget. 3. Amendment or repeal of the surplus and capital gains taxes and substitution of "incentive taxation" for "punitive taxation." 4. Amendment of the social security secur-ity act to eliminate the "needless drain upon the resources of commerce com-merce and labor." 5. Revision of the Wagner labor law to make for greater certainty in "long range industrial planning." 6. Abandonment of the so-called wage-hour bill and substitution of legislation to protect states from the importation of goods produced by substandard labor. 7. Repeal of many of the President's Presi-dent's emergency powers in order to free business from "executive despotism which is at war with every ev-ery tenet of the American system." 8. Reasonable and practical farm relief, without bureaucratic controls, processing taxes, or price pegging, but with benefits for soil conservation conserva-tion practices, financing of exportable export-able surpluses, . and return of the domestic market to the producer. 9. Foreign policies that will keep America out of war through pursuing pur-suing "an insulating neutrality" rather than sanctions. 10. "Frank abandonment of all anti-constitutional activities and intrigues in-trigues which shatter democratic faith." Peace Talk with Utilities RESTRICTION of the construction construc-tion and expansion activities of the privately owned public utilities being recognized as an important factor in the current business recession, re-cession, President Roosevelt began a series of conferences with the heads of these concerns. He seemed to be in a conciliatory frame of mind and sought to lessen the utilities' utili-ties' fear of the effect of government govern-ment policies, but without making any concessions. His first caller was Wendell Wilkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern corporation, corpora-tion, and next day he talked with Floyd Carlisle of the Niagara Hudson Hud-son Power corporation. Though he appeared amiable, the President at the same time was sending to various congressional committees and federal agencies a report by the New York state power authority, whacking friends and agents of the private utilities for "propaganda" against public power development. It presented figures to show the government could produce pro-duce water power at a much lower cost than private utilities could produce pro-duce power by steam plants. It was understood Mr. Wilkie sub-milled sub-milled these points: That there is a general fear throughout the country of government govern-ment competition and Interference with private utilities which can be subdued only by concrete reassurance reassur-ance from the administration. That money for private expansion expan-sion purposes and refinancing to obtain ob-tain lower interest rates, which In turn would be reflected In lower power rates, Is hard to obtain. That the government had a right to sell power from Us dams, but a basis for marketing It could be found without frightening the- whole Industry. ' plot had been wrecked. From his place of exile in Belgium Bel-gium the Due de Guise, pretender to the throne of France, issued a manifesto announcing he had decided de-cided to try to regain the throne. "Have the moral courage not to abdicate before present difficulties," the manifesto appealed to Frenchmen. French-men. "Do not permit, in a moment of abandon, dictatorship of any kind to impose itself. "Certain of my ability to assure your happiness, I have decided to reconquer the throne of my fathers. France then again will reassume her mission in the world and again will find peace, unity and prosperity through a union of the people with a titular defender-king." -K Windsor Wins Libel Suit THE duke of Windsor won his libel suit against the author and publisher of the book "Coronation Comments," and in a settlement out of court received a substantial substan-tial sum, said to be $50,000, from them, which money he gave to charity. char-ity. Lord Chief Justice Ilcwart commented that the libels "appeared "ap-peared almost to invite a thorough and efficient horsewhipping." -K Green Opposes Labor Billl WILLIAM GREEN president of the A. F. of L practically broke with the administration by denouncing the pending wage and hour bill as unacceptable to labor and demanding that It be sent back to committee for revision. Green assailed the national labor relations board and declared it no longer Is safe to permit a government govern-ment board of that kind to administer admin-ister laws governing labor relations with employers. Rand Is Acquitted JAMES II. RAND. JR., president of Remington Rand, Inc., and Pearl L. Bergoff of New York were found not guilty of violation of the Byrnes act by a jury in the United States District court in New Haven, Conn. The verdict was a blow at the government's first attempt to enforce en-force the act, which forbids tho transportation of strikebreakers across state lines with the intent of interfering with peaceful picketing. -K Another Judge Wanted SENATOR MINTURN of Indiana introduced a bill authorizing tho President to appoint an additional Judge to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. That court has Jurisdiction over the seventh sev-enth circuit, Wisconsin, Illinois nnd Indiana, and has had one vacancy since tho retirement of Judge Samuel Sam-uel Alschuler last year. Botli Senators Lewis and Dieterlch of Illinois said they had no candidate candi-date for tho place. |