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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Refusal of Postal Employees to Deliver Mail to Stricken Plants Stirs Row Labor Flare-Ups Continue Britain Blames Franco for Naval Blast. By EDWARD W. PICKARD Western Newspaper Union. ON December 15, 1936, Pilot S. J. Samson, operating a Western Air Express liner from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, with four passengers, passen-gers, co - pilot and stewardess aboard, reported by his radio to the caretaker of the airport at Milford, Utah, and asked that his position be checked. His voice was never again heard. Now after nearly six months the wreckage of the airplane air-plane has been found high in the Wasatch mountains, 25 miles southeast south-east of Salt Lake City and 35 miles off the regular airline course. So shattered was the plane that the largest single piece of debris was a part of a propeller. Bodies of all aboard were buried 25 to 50 feet in the drifts of snow. With a rich jewelry shipment reported re-ported to have been aboard the ship, a guard was placed around the wreckage and given orders to "shoot on sight" until the wreck should be recovered; four souvenir-hunters souvenir-hunters were shot at three times. Ronald Dyche, of the national forest for-est service, who aided in the long search, revealed how close the air travelers came to escaping death. "If they had just been flying 25 feet higher," he said, "they might have made it over the peak and possibly reached safety." CERTAIN British and Frenchnews-papers Frenchnews-papers of late have seen fit to "pooh-pooh" the naval strength of II Duce in the Mediterranean. It is ASA senate committee pondered the advisability of an investigation investi-gation into the attitude of the post office department with respect to Y i ! ... 6 :: deliveries of mail to strike - crippled industrial in-dustrial plants, new incidents among employers, em-ployers, loyal employes em-ployes and strikers flared up on half a dozen fronts. When John L. Lewis gave the order or-der throwing 70,000 men out of work in L ? IllWlI b2l 1 not altogether impossible im-possible that this deprecation de-precation may have made Adolf Hitler a little uneasy about his alliance with the Italians. So Premier Mussolini invited Field Marshal Werner Wer-ner von Bomberg down to the blue southern ocean to company from ten to twenty years. The organization was formed because be-cause we wanted an independent labor organization, not one affiliated with any national union." READING the election returns of of an overwhelming Democratic landslide last November, Charles Michelson, publicity director 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 of. Biggest wedge in forcing the split among the party ranks was, of course, the President's bill for the reorganization of the Supreme court. This led a long list of bills, many of them expected to evoke heated controversies con-troversies in congress, which threatened threat-ened to postpone adjournment to mid - winter. Indeed, it was believed by some that if part of the program were not postponed, this session would run continuously into the next, beginning in January. 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, reorganization re-organization of the executive branch of the government, helping farm tenants, conservation of soil, water power resources and housing. TS THE Democratic party going A Fascist?" asked Samuel B. Pettingill, (Dem., Ind.) on the floor of the house, in upbraiding Gov. Frank B. Murphy of Michigan for his sponsorship of a law in that state which would authorize him to take over industrial plants and operate op-erate 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. "If the state takes over the factories, who will fix wages then, who will fix hours then? After the state takes over a factory, will it permit its workers to strike? The state then has the opportunity op-portunity of operating the plant at a profit, without running up a deficit defi-cit for the taxpayers to absorb. Will the state then permit an interruption interrup-tion of operations?" AS THE American Federation of Labor began its "purge" to eliminate member locals suspected of dealings with the C. I. O. from -. its membership, , John L. Lewis and his Committee for ? Industrial Organiza- tion showed signs of retaliation other than snorts of disgust dis-gust and derisive laughter. The Chicago Federation Fed-eration of Labor be-I be-I gan it when, acting nn thp Ciifftrpcti'nn rf ariey lic gtee Steel and the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company, hard-boiled Tom Girdler, president of the American Steel and Iron institute and chairman chair-man of the board of the Republic Steel corporation, kept loyal workers work-ers housed in the Republic plants in Ohio and Illinois, so that despite the strike Republic was still turning out steel. 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 Farley, requesting that he issue orders to postmasters to see that all legally presented and post paid mail be delivered regardless 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 employes. em-ployes. "Four departments of the United States government are fighting fight-ing 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 gov-ernment believed to have been referred re-ferred to are the post office, labor department, labor relations board and interstate commerce commission. commis-sion. 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 reported to have enlisted the support of Democratic Sen. Jo-siah Jo-siah W. Bailey of North Carolina. REPUBLIC'S plants continued to be beehives of excitement. At Youngstown there was a pitched battle between pickets and police after a company truck carrying food for the employes in the plant had successfully run through the picket lines, accompanied by a cordon cor-don of police. As shots were exchanged ex-changed one man was wounded. A dozen others received cracked skulls. Fifty strikers, many of them suffering from tear gas, were taken to jail. In Chicago State's Attorney Courtney Court-ney continued investigations of the recent riot in which C. I. O. strikers attacked police at the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago, resulting result-ing in seven deaths. Here, also, the company was housing loyal employes em-ployes who remained at their work in its plant. Mayor Kelly ordered them removed on the grounds that such housing violated the city sanitation sani-tation code. Republic countered by having Pullman cars moved into its plant yards and housing the employes em-ployes in them. The mayor admitted ad-mitted he couldn't see anything wrong in that. FOUR hundred C. I. O. power company strikers taught the 450,000 inhabitants of the Saginaw valley in Michigan what it is like to feel the power of organized labor when they sat down at their jobs for 15 hours. Electricity was shut off from 200 communities; hospitals hospi-tals as well as factories were without with-out current before an agreement was reached and the strikers went back to work. It was a day's pay lost for 100,000 workers whose employers' em-ployers' plants depended on "juice" for life. General Motors employes alone lost $454,000. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs of Monroe, Mon-roe, Mich., called for 100 war veterans vet-erans as volunteer police to aid his force of 20 in preserving the peace as 732 strikers at the Newton Steel company returned to work. The C. I. O. had threatened to send 8,000 to 10,000 members from Detroit to enforce the employes' demands. In Detroit, the Ford Brotherhood of America, Inc., was organized with a reported 7,000 members signed in two days, as an answer to attempts of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Auto-mobile Workers' Union to unionize Ford. Byrd W. Scott, a Ford machinist ma-chinist for 20 years, explained: "Tho F. E. A. was started by myself, my-self, John B. McDowell, Benjamin Love and a number of Ford cm-ploy cm-ploy ecg who have worked for the see ior nimsen. D Duce MoTe 70 sub. marines were massed as the feature of a mock combat off Naples. The grand fleet of 150 warships summoned sum-moned for the maneuvers went through their exercieses'at a minimum mini-mum speed of 30 miles an hour. The German registered delight continually as H Duce pointed out , to him every phase of the sham battle. Italian officers boasted: "On- ly Fascist Italy can mobilize so many underwater craft at a moment's mo-ment's notice." The day before, Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's foreign minister, had informed in-formed the British ambassador, Sir Eric Drummond, that Italy accepted accept-ed in principle all points in the British proposals to assure the safety safe-ty of international naval patrols off Spain. It was understood that the Nazis had tendered the same approval. ap-proval. The three main points of the British Brit-ish proposal were: That both Spanish Span-ish belligerents be required to give formal solemn assurances that they will respect international patrol ships; that safety zones for. patrol ships be established at certain speci-1 fled ports of the two belligerent parties; and that the four naval powers engaged in patrol duties ! consult each other on measures to be taken if any of their patrol ships ' should be attacked. The Italians and Nazis wanted the third point to per- i mit any ship attacked to retaliate I at once. But they weren't insistent. THE Reich's ministry of the interior in-terior was reported considering plans to control the utterances of Roman Catholic priests of Germany and to regulate Catholic cloisters. It is believed the declaration will be that any document not pertaining entirely to church matters will be regarded as outside the concordat with the Vatican and will not be permitted per-mitted a reading from the pulpit. It was reported that five cloisters involved in immorality charges will be closed and that the Nazi govern- j ment will take over the parochial schools. Ten Roman Catholic priests were arrested as the dissention between the government and the church was fanned to a white heat, culminating in several fights in Munich. Priests replied spiritedly to charges of im- I morality within their ranks charges made by Minister of Propaganda Propa-ganda Goebbels in reply to a verbal attack upon the Nazis by Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago. Hitler, in a speech at Rcgensburg, declared: "It is not God who divides di-vides us, but human beings. The Almighty has blessed our work; therefore, it cannot be destroyed." Priests read their congregations the answer they had drafted to the immorality charges. It declared that of 25,635 priests in Germany, only 58 are involved in immorality charges, or "less than Vi of 1 per cent, or one priest in every 500." Pope Pius XI personally declared that he would continue the bitter fight for German Catholics "no matter mat-ter what becomes of us." JEAN HARLOW, one of the most glamorous characters in life to millions of Americans, died of uremic poisoning in Hollywood. The Impetuous actress who started the platinum blonde craze was only twenty - six, but she had known tragedy. Born Harlean Carpentier in Kansas City, she came to the movie capital in 1927. She had been twice divorced and once widowed. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, who died May 23, left his residuary estate, estimated at $25,000,000 In trust for his granddaughter, Mrs. Margaret Strong De Cuevas, her two young children, Elizabeth and John, and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Tho will was filed in the Westchester county surrogate's sur-rogate's court at White Plains, N. Y, John L "tot,--3 t,u" vjj- T . ' President , William Lewis Green, it ousted 27 local unions, comprising 20,000 to 30,000 members, charging that they had been active in behalf of C. I. O. A day or so later Lewis admitted in Washington that his organization may enter the field of civil service. The move, which had been discussed dis-cussed by Lewis and his associates for several weeks, would be in direct di-rect opposition of two established A. F. of L. unions. IN A scorching protest to Gen. Francisco Franco, Great Britain blamed the rebel regime for the death of eight and the wounds of 24 sailors when the destroyer Hunter Hun-ter ran into a mine off Almeria, Southern Spain, May 13. The protest called the affair an accident, but reserved the right to claim damages dam-ages of $350,000. Meanwhile rains were bogging down the rebels' northern offensive against Bilbao, but the Fascists launched a violent new offensive in the Pozoblanco sector about midway mid-way between Toledo and Seville in southern Spain, aiming for the rich mercury mines near Almaden. ASTRONOMERS were treated to the feast of a lifetime in the South Seas as they were permitted by almost perfect weather conditions condi-tions to photograph the longest total eclipse of the sun in 1,200 years. On Canton island the United States Navy and the National Geographic society, with eleven tons of equipment, equip-ment, took unusual pictures and radioed a description of the magnificent mag-nificent scene to millions of listeners listen-ers back in the states. The scholars of the American Museum of Natural History viewed the eclipse from an airplane 25,000 feet above Lima, Peru. Other scientists made observations obser-vations from ships in the Pacific. The time of the total eclipse at the various places of observation ranged from three and one-half minutes to seven minutes. It was a short show for which to travel thousands of miles with costly, cumbersome equipment, but, measured by scientific sci-entific standards, it was worth the cost and the trouble. |
