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Show Capital on the Move THE Spanish loyalist government, after another terrific bombing of the city by insurgent airplanes of the German Junkers and Heinkel types, decided to move the capital from Bilbao to Santander, but to defend Bilbao to the death. The Basque battalions reorganized for a last ditch stand to protect the broken "iron ring" of the city's defenses from the forces of General Francisco Franco. The latter, it was admitted, already had penetrated the first line of fortifications near Fica and Larrabezua, five miles to the east. Several persons were killed and many houses destroyed by the rebel bombs and machine guns. Meanwhile the loyalists were claiming claim-ing important advances along the Cordoba front, bringing them to the rich coal districts held by the insurgents. K . Reds Rub Out 8 ' EIGHT Soviet Russian generals, including Marshal Michail Tuk-hachevsky, Tuk-hachevsky, former vice commissar of defense, learned the wrath of the Kremlin. Condemned for treason, they were led before a firing squad and killed, by order of the military tribunal of the Soviet supreme court. The court only the day before be-fore had declared them guilty of conspiring with the military intelligence intelli-gence service of an "unfriendly" foreign power. Although the "unfriendly" "un-friendly" power was never named by officials, correspondents in Moscow Mos-cow declared indications were unmistakable un-mistakable that Red leaders believe the power was Nazi Germany. Most of the Russian capital was virtually certain that the eight, who had been denied appeal, had been put to death for an ambitious plot to rob the Soviet of its western provinces prov-inces and turn them over to Germany. Ger-many. The Soviet purge was followed by the suicide of Alexander G. Cher-viakov, Cher-viakov, forty-five-year-old president of the White Russian Soviet Republic, Repub-lic, westernmost of the Soviet Union's republics. While it was said that he had killed himself "for family fam-ily reasons" his death came almost immediately after his denunciation in a meeting as a plotter against the Communist party. Hundreds of thousands of suspects were reported removed from the Communist party rolls by the government. -K Fiscal Dictator for France WHILE a congressional committee commit-tee in the United States prepared pre-pared to begin an investigation of alleged tax dodgers among the wealthy, Vincent Au- SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK Western Newspaper Union. 1 i si L U riol, French finance minister, gave broad hints to French millionaires mil-lionaires that they, too, had better get themselves squ;ire with the tax collector. collec-tor. He revealed that the tax rate will be raised on the higher bracket incomes and 'TpHERE is no issue of wages, hours or other material demands de-mands in the strife between the independent steel corporations and John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial In-dustrial Organization. The corporations corpora-tions have agreed to all of the demands of the unions verbally. "Verbally" that is the word which has for weeks kept thousands of workers in eight or ten states from returning to their jobs. The C. I. 0. demands that the corporations put their agreement in the form of a written contract. The corporations refuse. And the unions have refused to call off the strikes until they get the signatures on the line. Union officials have taken, the position po-sition that if the company officials are willing to agree orally to union demands they ought to be willing to confirm the agreement in writing. Lewis has demanded that President Roosevelt intervene to force the companies to sign. At a press conference con-ference the President refused to say officially what was his reaction to the demand. He did say and emphasized that he was not speak-1 speak-1 ing "officially" that he could not : see why the companies would not make written agreements if they would make the same ones verbally. verbal-ly. Tom Girdler, chairman of the board of the Republic Steel corporation, corpora-tion, explained the companies' stand: "The reason the C. I. O. wants a signed contract is because such a contract would be the first step toward the closed shop and the check-off. "Under the closed shop every worker has to belong to a union, whether he wants to or not. The closed shop is actually a 'deal' between be-tween the employer and the union whereby the employer helps to force every employee into the union. Under the checkoff the company takes unions dues out of the pay envelopes of all its employees and hands them over to the union . . . "Does the C. I. O. contract preserve pre-serve industrial peace? It does not. They have broken numerous contracts." con-tracts." Federal Intervention Asked TT WAS virtually certain that there would be some federal action in the steel strikes, with Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio and Mayor Daniel J. Shields of Johnstown, Pa., appealing ap-pealing desperately to the President for aid. Governor Davey, in a long telegram detailing the arguments on both sides, declared that the situation situa-tion had gone far beyond the powers of one state to control. When a worker in the Johnstown steel mills was abducted by six strikers and stripped of his clothing in their automobile auto-mobile (he was later released), fol- post packages to steel plants In Ohio which local postmasters have refused re-fused to deliver. The petition charged that the local postmaster at Niles, Ohio, was refusing re-fusing to deliver packages containing contain-ing food and clothing and addressed to the loyal workers who were being be-ing housed inside the Republic plant. It charged that this refusal was made after the postmaster had reached an "understanding" with two members of the union. "Having waited a week for a reply re-ply to our letter ... to Mr. Farley and having received none, we have no recourse but to resort to such legal le-gal action as is available to us under the circumstances involved," said John S. Brooks, Jr., counsel for the corporation. He said separate suits will be instituted in Ohio against her local postmasters involved. Court Plan Walloped pHE senate judiciary committee made short work of President Roosevelt's Supreme court packing plan. Its report, in summary: "We recommend the rejection of this bill as a needless, futile, and utterly ut-terly dangerous abandonment of constitutional principle. "It was presented to the congress in a most intricate form and for reasons that obscured its real purpose. pur-pose. "It would not banish age from the bench nor abolish divided decisions. de-cisions. "It would not affect the power of any court to hold laws unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, nor withdraw from any judge the authority to issue injunctions. "It would not reduce the expense of litigation nor speed the decision of cases. "It Is a proposal without precedent prece-dent and without justification. "It would subjugate the courts to the will of congress and the President Presi-dent and thereby destroy the independence inde-pendence of the judiciary, the only certain shield of individual rights. "It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented pre-sented to the free representatives of the free people of America." Informed Washington correspondents correspond-ents were of the belief that the bill hasn't a chance of being passed, even with amendments. It seemed not unlikely that, due to the confusion confu-sion and conflict over White House proposals and statutes, there would be an adjournment of this session of congress shortly, perhaps to reconvene recon-vene in special session beginning November 1. The breathing spell would give the administration an opportunity to align its majority more solidly behind the President's desired legislation to improve the lot of the underprivileged. Premier Blum. are government monopolies, such as tobacco, matches and alcohol. Measures Meas-ures will be taken, in France's financial finan-cial crisis, to prevent frightened capitalists from exporting funds abroad. AU this because the Communist party, reversing its long stand at the. last minute, agreed to accept Premier Blum's proposal that he be made financial dictator of the nation na-tion for six weeks. In that time lie hopes to raise the 30 billion francs needed to finance the government throughout the year. Most authorities authori-ties believe that six weeks will not suffice, that he will be forced to ask for an extension of his "full emergency emer-gency powers." Blum hopes that the long awaited business revival will actually set in during that period, pe-riod, solving the whole financial problem automatically. We're in the Money! T F YOU don't think things are picking up, maybe the United States Department of Commerce can convince you. It has just reported that the national Income for 1!)3B reached a total of $G2,0.r)6, 000,000, and officials predicted that the figure fig-ure for 1937 would reach $70,000,000,-000. $70,000,000,-000. The all-time high was $78,632,-000.000 $78,632,-000.000 In the dizzy boom year of 1029, and the all-time low $44,040,-000,000 $44,040,-000,000 in 1933. The department's report said that since 1933 the national income has risen more swiftly than prices and that the real purchasing power of individuals was much larger. Income, In-come, it said, increased 311 per cent from 1933 to 1930. while the cost of living advanced 8 per cent. The per capita income of employees last year was listed at $1,244, which was $58 more than In the preceding year and 88.4 per cent of the figure for 1929. M CIO Starts at Bottom JOHN L. LEWIS nlmrd another " blow at steel through the United Mine Workers, of which he Is president. pres-ident. Workers In the captive mines (mines operated by nil individual steel concern which Is the sole user of the coal brought to the surface) In Pennsylvania walked out of the Khnfls and joined the steel picket lines. The purpose was to cripple further the steel plants now shut down or operating under difficulties while picketed; the Immediate objective ob-jective was the closing of the Cambria Cam-bria plant of Ilethlehein Steel. The elleel iveneiij of the walkout was n matter for dispute; plant ofllcialj claimed nil departments were In operation but this was doubtful. Harry Loses 1st Round rESPITE the picas of Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, ad-ministrator, the full senate appropriation appro-priation committee approved the j uyrnes amendment to the relief bill, 13 I to 10. The amendment amend-ment to the $1,500,-000,000 $1,500,-000,000 bill requires local governments 1 to pay at least 40 1 per cent of the cost of all WrA projects, J or else sign a kind of civic "pauper's I oath." The South lowing weeks of rioting and bloodshed, blood-shed, the mayor decided that kidnaping kid-naping was the last straw and appealed ap-pealed to Mr. Roosevelt. Secretary of Labor Frances E. Perkins named a mediation board of three to meet in Cleveland and hear the cases of the union and the companies. On the board were Charles P. Taft, son of the former President and chief justice, a Republican Re-publican and lawyer from Cincinnati; Cincin-nati; Lloyd K. Garrison, who served as the first president of the National Labor Relations board in 1934, and Edward F. McGrady, first assistant assist-ant secretary of labor, and a known enemy of company unions, spy systems sys-tems and the tear gas method of quelling strike riots. In Monroe, Mich., where the C. I. O. union threatened to import thousands thou-sands of pickets from Detroit, a band of several hundred deputized vigilantes, armed, kept the peace, aided by the police force of twenty, fn Young:;town, Ohio, Johnstown and other cities vigilante groups were also being formed. -K Steel Wanrs Its Mall 'IV IK Republic Steel corporation filed in the Fedcr.il District court in Washington a petition for a writ of ikiii'I.ioios compelling Postmaster Postmas-ter General Farley to deliver parcel I( Carolina senator's .. ir, y amendment was Hopkins , ,, seen as further evidence evi-dence of the break between the administration ad-ministration and the conservative Democralj. In the senate debate on the bill it quickly became apparent that Sen. Byrnes' "40 per cent amendment" amend-ment" would not carry. Sen. Joseph T. Robinson ottered a compromise which would require slates to pay 2,'i per cent of the cost of work relief projects. President Ituosevelt had repeatedly Hindu It known that he wanted no such rider on his relief bill, anil it was Sen, 1,'obin-son's 1,'obin-son's first break with the While House on au important Issue. |
