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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over President Still Insists on Supreme Court Bill, Which Raymond Moley Scores Disturbing Developments Develop-ments in the Field of Organized Labor. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. SAN FRANCISCO put on a wonderfully wonder-fully brilliant festival to celebrate cele-brate the opening of the Golden Gate bridge, the fulfillment of the city's dream of half a century. Th battle fleet of the United States navy was there, and so were representatives representa-tives of the states, of numerous cities and of many foreign nations. Automobile cavalcades from Oregon, Ore-gon, Utah, Wyoming, Mexico and Canada, as well as from parts of California, joined in the great parade, pa-rade, with bands, floats and fiesta units. John Thomas, noted baritone, and a cast of 3,000 presented a pageant depicting the history of California and the West, and a week-long week-long program of sports events was begun. The Golden Gate bridge is a single deck suspension bridge, the longest single clear span in the world. It is 6,450 feet in length from end to end, and 4,200 feet center to center of piers. It crosses over San Francisco bay at a height of 250 feet and connects con-nects San Francisco by highway directly di-rectly with the redwood empire of Northern California. T,HE social security act, which President Roosevelt considers the soul of the New Deal, is constitutional, consti-tutional, in the opinion of a major- "7"ALIDATION of the social secu- rity act by the Supreme court was most pleasing to President Roosevelt, but he did not agree with the general opinion that this would put a stop to his program pro-gram for enlargement enlarge-ment of the highest tribunal. He more than Intimated in a press conference that the fight for his court bill would be fought to a finish and that he was not satisfied sat-isfied with the ap- the union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, as sole bargaining agency. T?ORD employees at the Rouge plant, Detroit, took matters into their own hands and severely pum-meled pum-meled a number of U. A. W. A. men who undertook to distribute at the plant gates handbills designed to offset the "Fordisms" card that had been given Henry's workers. Among the union men beaten up were Walter Wal-ter Reuther, R. T. Frankensteen, J. J. Kennedy and Robert Canter. Frankensteen telegraphed John Bro-phy, Bro-phy, director of the Committee for Industrial Organization, at Washington, Washing-ton, asking: "Will the C. I. O. co-operate in simultaneous nationwide demonstration demonstra-tion before Ford salesrooms to protest pro-test brutality at Ford's today and establish the right to organize?" At the same time a strike of C. I. O. men closed the Ford assembly plant at Richmond, Calif., forcing 1,800 workers into idleness. The local lo-cal union head there predicted strikes might spread rapidly from that beginning, possibly to all the Ford plants. XJ EADS of unions affiliated with -1 the A. F. of L., meeting in Cincinnati with President William Green and the executive council. jjl lb ' 'ki; ' ity of the Supreme court. The unemployment unem-ployment insurance provisions of the law were upheld by five of the justices, Van Devanter, Butler, McReynolds and Sutherland dissenting. dissent-ing. The old age pension provisions were declared constitutional con-stitutional by all the Raymond parently slender Moley "liberal" majority In the court, since a number of important im-portant administration policies are still to be passed upon by the Supreme Su-preme court He cited four issues raised by the new wages and hours bill, namely, child labor, minimum wages, maximum hours, and the question whether goods produced under un-der unfair practices can be regulated regulat-ed by the government. He also mentioned men-tioned TVA, the problems of flood control on the Ohio watershed, the right of municipalities to borrow federal funds to construct electric light plants, and whether the government gov-ernment can condemn property for a housing program. One of those who believe the Justice justices except butn- Cardozo erland and Van De" vanter. Justice Cardozo wrote the two majority ma-jority opinions, and, as it chanced, delivered them on his sixty-seventh birthday. Administration leaders declared they completely justified the President's broad interpretation of the general welfare clause of the Constitution and his policy of extending ex-tending federal power, and it would seem that this is true. In another 5 to 4 decision the court upheld the Alabama state unemployment un-employment insurance act, declaring declar-ing the relief of unemployment a valid state function. Yet another opinion was handed down by five of the justices, upholding up-holding Wisconsin's law prohibiting injunctions against peaceful picketing picket-ing in labor disputes. " s' Si 1 wen: aneaa witn tne plans to combat Lewis and the C. I. O. One of their first steps, it was indicated, indi-cated, is to be an invasion of Lewis' own union, the United Unit-ed Mine Workers of America, through the granting of a charter to its rival, the Progressive WiUiam Green Miners' union in Illinois. Il-linois. Drives are expected in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania and the soft coal fields President's court plan is doomed to defeat is Raymond Moley, former for-mer head of the "brain trust." Addressing Ad-dressing the Illinois Bankers' convention con-vention in Chicago, Dr. Moley scathingly attacked the scheme. "The President," he said, "has spoken of the dangers of a government govern-ment of men. Well, there is something some-thing worse than a government of men; It is a government by a man. "Most law. and all constitutional government down the ages are really real-ly halters and check-reins upon this unlovely tendency in rulers to lose their heads in the intoxication of power . . . "There are incidental factors that have contributed to the defeat of the President's proposal to violate in this way the spirit of the constitution. constitu-tion. The change in the philosophy dominating the majority opinion of the court has helped. The scattering scatter-ing of the attorney general's insincere, insin-cere, insubstantial statistics by the chief justice is another. The retirement retire-ment of Justice Van Devanter has helped, too. "But behind all this has been a slow and powerful surge of public opinion. The people prefer the stability of constitutional institutions as against the unpredictable will of leaders, even very popular leaders." INAL passage of the $1,500,000,- 000 work relief bill by the house was delayed by rebellion against T N ORDER to determine the per-formance per-formance of co-operating farmers farm-ers in the soil conservation program, pro-gram, the Agricultural Adjustment administration has employed thirteen thir-teen aviation firms to make aerial maps of 377 agricultural counties in 22 states, the cost to be $753,909. From a study of the photographs agricultural experts will be able to tell how much of his acreage each farmer retired from production and put into soil-building legumes. Their reports will be the final test of claims for farm subsidies under the j new AAA. Department of Agricul- ture officials estimate there may be from 200,000 to 300,000 overpayments overpay-ments to farmers. ! . I of Virginia, where there is considerable consid-erable opposition to Lewis. The United Garment Workers also al-so declared war on the Amalgamated Amalgamat-ed Clothing Workers whose chief is Sidney Hillman, first lieutenant of Lewis in the C. I. O. In the Cincinnati conference John P. Frey, veteran president of the federation's metal trades department, depart-ment, accused the C. I. O. and the communist party of "sleeping in the same bed and under the same tent." Communists had obtained such a grip on the Lewis movement that C. I. O. leaders could not shake them off if they wanted to, Frey said. He contended the C. I. O. had sixty Communist organizers on its pay roll and that C. I. O. tactics were discussed in Moscow long before be-fore they were discussed in Lewis' office. T AM very tired," said John D. A Rockefeller, Sr., to his secretary secre-tary as he sat in the garden of his Florida 'winter home at Ormond PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in a special message asked congress to enact a new law for the benefit of workers in interstate industries, reg- :: : v:-' i : t 4 Beach. Then he went to bed, soon fell into a coma, and a few hours later passed away, peacefully peace-fully and painlessly. His wish to live to be one hundred years old was not fulfilled, but he would have been ninety-eight on July 8 next. Thus died the man who, starting with a j ulating the hours of work, the wages and the employment of children. Immediately Immedi-ately after it was read, Chairman Hugo Hu-go L. Black of the senate labor committee com-mittee and Chairman Chair-man William R. Connery of the house labor committee commit-tee introduced identical iden-tical bills designed John D. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, Sr. the practice of "writing blank checks'' which give the President and Harry Hopkins power to spend relief funds as they deem fit. The opponents of this policy found in the revolt a chance to obtain a lot of "pork" by the earmarking of more than half a billion from the total appropriation for projects that would get votes. In a day of wild debate these major changes in the bill were voted: $55,000,000 to be set aside for flood control and water conservation conserva-tion work. $300,000,000 to be "earmarked" for PWA projects. $150,000,000 to be' spent on highway high-way and grade crossing elimination projects. Authority to use work-relief money for construction of power lines into rural sections for non-' profit and co - operative utility groups. Unskilled and agricultural workers work-ers who refuse private jobs will be ineligible for work-relief as long as a private job is available. Senator Black to carry out the proposals of the President The measure had been agreed upon in conferences at the White House and was promptly referred re-ferred to committees with prospect of quick action. It had been approved ap-proved by John L. Lewis, head of the C. I. O., but since laws setting minimum wages for men have always al-ways been opposed by leaders of the American Federation of Labor, it $4.50 a week job, fought his way to the very top of the financial world, created the vast Standard Oil trust and built up one of the biggest private pri-vate fortunes ever recorded. Disturbed by ill health, John D. retired from active business in 1911. Some time before that he had switched from accumulating wealth to giving it away. The giving was done systematically, and representatives represent-atives of the family interests estimate esti-mate that his own benefactions between be-tween the years 1885 and 1934, both inclusive, totaled $530,853,032. Mr. Rockefeller's body was taken from Ormond Beach to his estate at Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, N. Y., and there the funeral rites were conducted by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of New York city. Next day the oil king was laid to rest in Lake View cemetery, Cleveland, beside be-side his wife who died 22 years ago. Only two of Mr. Rockefeller's children chil-dren survive him. They are John D. Rockefeller, Jr., head of the business busi-ness since the father retired, and Alta, wife of E. Parmalce Prentice There are eight grandsons and five granddaughters. SOVIET Russia is planning to establish es-tablish regular airplane connection connec-tion with the United Stales by way of the Arctic ocean, and in pursuance pur-suance of the plan is building an air base on the Ice within a few miles of the North pole. Four scientists have been landed there from a plane which first Hew over the pole, and they will remain on the floe fr n year, keeping in connection with the world by a powerful radio. They have named the floating ice field "Comrade Stalin's Land." The contemplated con-templated air route will be from Moscow to San Francisco. ONTINUING its vigorous , cam- paign to organize the steel industry, in-dustry, the C. I. O. called out on strike the employees of the independent inde-pendent companies that refused to sign contracts for collective bargaining. bar-gaining. These companies were Inland In-land Steel, Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. More than 20 plants employing about 85,-000 85,-000 men were involved. Philip Murray, Mur-ray, chairman of the organizing committee, said it was the purpose of the committee to conduct the strike peacefully. In the Chicago district police .arrested a number of men for violating the rule against mass picketing and for other offenses, of-fenses, and there was some trouble in Buffalo. Employees of the Sharon Steel corporation followed the example of those of the Jones h Laughlin concern con-cern and voted in favor of the S. W. O. C. by a lar;;c majority, so the C I. O. gets contracts from those companies. Operations in the huge Pittsburgh plant of the H. J. Ileinz company were Interrupted by n strike of the Canning and Pickle Workers' union. The strikers demanded a 10 per cent wage increase and recognition of was considered probable that organization orga-nization would not like the bill. The twin bills originally had proposed pro-posed a forty hour maximum week and a 40 cents an hour minimum wage. But, at the last moment, these limits were eliminated and spaces in the measures left blank for congress to fill. STANLEY BALDWIN, prime minister min-ister of Great Britain, entertained enter-tained the king and queen at dinner arid then retired from his high office. of-fice. He is succeeded as head of the government by Neville Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, who has been chancellor of the exchequer, and a few other changes in the cabinet were made. If another war comes, the British empire will not be caught unprepared. unpre-pared. The imperial conference in London turned its attention to this matter and a special committee was formed to organize all the empire's resources for an instant shift to war footing if that becomes necessary. A subcommittee studied the problem prob-lem of American competition with British shipping in the Pacific. British Brit-ish Kb ip owners charge that the Americans are driving them out of business there because the latter are heavily subsidized, |
