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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Reveals Plans for Work Relief Program Frank Walker His Chief Aid Auto Workers Strike in Toledo. By EDWARD W. PICKARD , Western Newspaper Union. FATHER COL'CIII.IN, the "ra'lio prlf.st" of Detri.it, staged the first state meeting of Ills National Union for Social Justice in Olympla ' stadium In his home town, and more than l-W'OO enthu-'iastie sup porters crowded Into the edif'ne to hear him tell how he imposed tn right the wrongs of the people. On ' the platform with the crusading cleric were Senators Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma and Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, and Representatives William Connery of Massachusetts Martin L, Sweeney of Ohio, Thomas O'Malley of Wisconsin and William Wil-liam Lemke of North Dakota. The priest put forward the Na-: Na-: tlonal union as a definite political : weapon aimed at the money power ! and at standpat partylsm. Father Coughlin has been en- dorsed by the bishop of Detroit, Rt. ' Rev. Michael Gallagher. SENATOR UUEY LONG delivered deliv-ered his much advertised attack on the President and the admin . istratiou before a crowd that pr.ANS for spending the $1,880 000,000 work relief fund are be lug made rapidly, parts of the ger cral Hehemi! being revealed to th r punnc almost ever j day. The Pres! J dent will be th 1 final arbiter bu j practically all th j federal agendo ' I will participate an 1 three new one J have been an fa n o u n c e d by Mi i Roosevelt. Thes J will handle rura ' Jammed the, senate , chamber. He was limited to 40 minutes, min-utes, but In that i time he used a lot 1 of language. After describing I c k e s, i Farley, Wallace and General Johnson In terms not very fun-' fun-' ny, the "Kingfish" assailed Mr. Roose i i Vc t s- I show no discrimination against . union men, and agreed to respect seniority rights as provided by the e automobile labor board, y Secretary Perkins sent Thomas J, . Williams, Labor department concll- e la tor, to Toledo to see what might t be done. President Green of the e A. F. of L. said there was grave s danger that the Toledo strike might i spread to other automotive plants. 3 Leo C. Wollman, chairman of the i- National Automobile Labor board, . reported that that body had com- e pleted a canvass of 103,150 work- 1 ers In American automobile plants 1 and found that 6S.0 per cent of i them Showed no affiliation with any labor organization. The various 9 employees' associations grouped to- . gether ranked second with 21,77-1 e members, equal to 13.3 per cent of j the total. The American Federation . of Labor was third with 14,057, or s 8.G per cent, while the Associated t Automobile Workers of America . were fourth with 6.0S3, or 3.7 per r cent. The remainder of the vote 8 was split between the Mechanics Educational society and ten other . unions. WITHOUT benefit of gag rule but with perfect party disol- - pllne, the administration's soda se- - curlty bill was jammed through the . i eiiiiuiiiiiiiiuii, riua Frank C. , . , ,, ... ,, electrification a n i Walker , , grade crossing elim lnatlon. Standing at the President' right hand is Frank C. Walker, for iner treasurer of the Democrats party. lie has replaced Donah Itlchlierg as chairman of the Na tlonal Emergency council and Is tin head of a new division In tha body known as1 the division of ap plication and Information. Unde. his direction all proposals will bi sorted out and data on them fron various government units will be CO ordinated. Then they will be hand ed on, with Mr. Walker's recom iuendnllons, to a new works allot incut board which Is headed by Sec rotary Harold Ickes. These two ad (111 ions to the alphabet group It Washington are known as DAI ant WAIi. In a press conference the Presl dent named these eight types o: work which will he undertaken, wit! the amount of nionty to be spent ot each : 1. Highways, roads, streets, grade crossing elimination, and express highways, $800,000,000. 2. Rural rehabilitation, relief Ir veic as personally ,, , Senator Long responsible for what he called a plan to force the state of Louisiana to yield to cor ruption and debauchery. He threatened threat-ened a tax rebellion in his realm if there were further federal encroach ments In the matter of controlling the expenditure of federal loans for state projects. Huey charged that the administration adminis-tration was concerned solely with controlling the expenditures in Louisiana Lou-isiana In such a manner as to insure in-sure winning the election in 1930. "They could go down there and spend the whole five billion and they could not win that election," he said. "But they could load us with the five billion debt that we would have to pay as the result of carrying on their politics." Senator Long now Indicates that he has no desire to head a third party next year unless that should be necessary to bring about the defeat of President Roosevelt. He says he would gladly join with the. . Republicans if they would nominate nom-inate Senator Borah. i house stibstantlall 1 as President Roosi velt wants It. Th - final vote was 37 f to 33. It may b i some weeks befor i It Is passed by th senate, for the set ate finance coram! s tee, to which i was referred, I i busy Just now wit p?S -WWB e I ; t- stricken agricultural areas, wate . conservation, water diversion, lrr gatlon, reclamation, rural Indus trial communication and subslstenc homestead, ,?,"00,000,000. 3. Rural electrification, $100,000 000. 4. Housing, low cost housing 1 rural and urban n-?-:s, "rendition ing, JiU(l-reniodeling, $150,000,OOC - -"f'-" Assistance for educational - professional, and clerical person and other "white collar" uneni ployed, $:!00,000,000. t. Citizen Conservation corps $lil0,000,000. 7. Sanitation, soil erosion, strean pollution, reforestation, flood con trol, rivers and harbors, $350,000, 000. 8. Loans, grants, or both, to clt ies, counties, states, and other po litical subdivisions for public works $000,000,000. The rural rehabilitation worl will be directed by Rexford G. Tug well, undersecretary of agriculture and he will not be responsible t Secretary Wallace but will have ; free hand to carry out his scheme for moving families from margina lands, shifting stranded indtistria ir MIA extension and , , . Speaker I- veterans bonus Byrns 3- payment. e Grants to states for old age assistance as-sistance (pensions) on a 50-50 6a-sis, 6a-sis, but for no Individual will the federal E"y?inmeut's share exceed n V.Z per month. i- Compulsory old age benefits for ). persons over sixty-five on basis of I, salary earned during working life-s life-s time, payments ranging from $15 i- to $S5 a month. Income tax on pay rolls of employees starting with 1 i, per cent In 1037 and graduated upward up-ward to 3 per cent in 1949 ; excise a tax on employers in same amounts. .. This will mean a total pay roll tax ,. of 6 per cent by 1949. Unemployment insurance. Tax on :- employer of 1 per cent on pay rolls ,. in 1936, 2 per cent for 1937, and 3 !, per cent thereafter. Social security board as new bu-t bu-t reau of government in the execu-;- tive branch with three members ap-pointed ap-pointed by the President. 0 Federal grants to states for ma-a ma-a ternal and child health service, an s appropriation of $3,S0O,O00. 1 Federal grants to states for pub- lie health service, an appropriation 1 GOVERNOR TALMADGE of . Georgia, one of the most vo- : ciferous Democratic denouncers of f President Roosevelt and the New - Deal, has a strong supporter in ; Tom Linder, the Georgia commis-i commis-i sioner of agriculture. In the de- partment's ofiicial farm bulletin, that gentleman sent to the farmers of the state a message that "we still (have the right to secede from the : Union. The statement was carried in a i footnote to a long article written s by Linder in which he drew a com-! com-! parison between the Democratic administration In Washington and the Russian government. The secession reference was in - the nature of resentment against a recent ruling by the United States - Supreme court reversing Alabama i courts in the Scottsboro case on the ground colored citizens were - excluded from juries. T"ING GEORGE of England, it appears, had no desire for an elaborate and costly celebration of 1 his silver jubilee, such as was a. of $S,0O0,0O0. t- ' Speaker Byrns and other major e- ity leaders were elated by the tm mense majority by which the bll ly carried because, as they asserted d It was put through without anj n pressure from the White House. Mr it Byrns said: "We got no orders r- from the President, so help me Al 1- mighty God." ;s pEf. W. W. ATTERBURT, vet ,t vJ eran ofiicial of the Pennsyl A vanla railroad, has retired as pres s- ident of the company eight months planned by the can- 1 inet committee, and 1 now he and Prime Minister MacDon- 1 aid have ordered 1 that the affair shall 1 be very "quiet." His majesty was not I consulted at first, a and when he heard j there were strong protests from the f I" t- if x lo Vs C 1- 1 n e. , before that woule I have been neces 1 sary under its reg i illations, because oi ill health. The di 1 rectors unanimous ly elected Martii I W. Clement to sue 1 ceed him. The new president of the great system was 1 born 53 years age : c 1 T-i ' workers to new, planned rural con munities and building cities ou side of large urban centers to n . lieve slum congestion. Asked as to how much was read to be spent the President recalle that $000,000,000 already had bee put forward for the CCC and th: Public Works Administrator Ha old C. Ickes had applications tota Ing more than $1,000,000,000. Appointment of Mr. Walker leave Mr. Richberg free, as the Presldei said, to devote his time to the NR during the period of pending legi: lation in congress aud litigation 1 the Supreme court. "v UGANIZED labor opened its a tempt to obtain recognition 1 the automobile industry with strike of workers In the Toled plant of the Chevrolet Motor con pany. The factory was closed dow 'mmediately, though only a part c Ihe force joined in the strik' Fnion pickets were placed about I hit city police and deputy sherifl kere on hand to see that there wa )o disorder. President Sloan of General Mi tors corporation issued this stati Bient In New York: "The vital question involved 1 whether General Motors corporatio is willing to sign an agreement fc a closed shop recognizing the loci union as the exclusive represent! five of all the employees of the Ti ledo plant. This General Motoi will not do." The union, in a lengthy stati nient, Raid its committee "has don everything in Its power to meet wit the management and to secure a amicable and fair adjustment of th matter of wages, hours and unio recognition and various other grle' ances. "The management refused to sig a contract of any kind and flatl refused every section of the pre posed contract with the exceptio of two minor points." The company offered to mak wage readjustments and give a jxr cent general wage lncreasi northern shires es-King es-King George , . p e c I a 1 1 y against r such a wasteful expenditure of . money in hard times, he was ex- - ceedingly irate and wanted to cali i off the whole affair. This could not . be done, but the celebration will r be nothing like what the cabinet commitee had Intended. j The king has forbidden gartei king at arms, the duke of Norfolk, 1 and other high officers of state c' the ceremonial department to havf . anything to do with the Jubilee. He has refused to have the peers of . the realm in their robes for the presentation of addresses from the r houses of parliament. He has refused re-fused to robe himself for the oc-, oc-, casion. T TNDER a new law the German Nazi4 are suppressing the en- I tire church press of the country. Catholic and Protestant, and also I all Jewish organs, either religions f or racial. The edict, signed by Max - Amann, president of the reich press : chamber and manager of the Nazi . party's publishing organization, is - designed to monopolize the reich's publications for Nazi Ideas and ) make them legally subject to Nazi dictatorship. i The law provides that "church ! or professional newspapers as well as papers Intended for groups of subscribers with certain Interests, r henceforth are forbidden." Thr I Nazi party and Its organization? are not subject to the new law. IS M- W- Clement entered the service of the road In 1901 as a rodman 3. His promotion was steady and nine 3- years ago he became the vice pres ident. Is General Atterbury had this to saj n of his successor: r "Since he became vice president U Clement has been intimately asso i- ciated with me In conducting the company's affairs and in our rela s tions with the other railroads anc with the government, j- "The remarkable results achievec ie by the company last year, one oi h the most difficult periods the rail n road has ever experienced, were ie largely due to Clement's leadership n His manifest capabilities have com r- mended him not only to his asso ciate directors and officers, but alst n to the executives of other railroads y with whom he has been working ir 3- recent years ln the interest of the n railroad Industry as a whole. "Moreover, he enjoys the confl :e dence, respect and co-operation oi 5 the entire Pennsylvania railroae 5, organization " |
