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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Speaker Rainey 's Dealh Starts Race for His Position Prominent Men Organize Liberty League to Combat Radicalism. By EDWARD W. PICKARD C by Western Newnpaper Union. THE strike of truck drivers In Minneapolis was wided when ' the men and their employers ac- I cepted a compromise agreement, and martial law in tiie city was dis- continued, business therefore speed- J Ing hack to normal conditions. The i peace plan devised by federal representatives, rep-resentatives, provided that all employees em-ployees on strike he returned to their jobs without discrimination and on basis of seniority. It included includ-ed an agreement to hold an election within ten days in each of the ir,(J firms Involved to determine wheth- 1 er their employees want the drivers" union or other representatives to ; act for them in collective bargain- i Ing, and a pledge of the 105 firms to pay for at least one year not less i than 50 cents an hour to drivers and 40 cents to helpers, platform ! men and Inside workers, these ' wages to remain In effect unless , changed by agreement or arbitration. arbitra-tion. WILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, says he hopes the general I strike of textile Industry workers HE.VItY T. RAINEY, veteran congressman from Illinois and speaker of the house, died unexpectedly unex-pectedly In a St. Louis hospital where he was be- V t ""y ft 4. ''OiiAuV'f lieved to be recovering recov-ering from an attack at-tack of bronchial pneumonia. T li e Immediate cause of hl.s death was angina an-gina pectoris. Mr. Itainey, who was within a (lay of be-1 be-1 n g seventy-four years old, was first elected to congress In 1002, and he served continuous- Donovan, former president of the NltA union, dismissed by Johnson for "inelliclency," reinstated to his position with the labor .advisory board. "The agencies which are administering adminis-tering the law should In their own dealings uphold its purposes," the board said in its decision, giving a veiled reproof to Johnson for what It Implied was a violation of section sec-tion 7a of the NKA. With rather bad grace the NRA accepted the rebuke and permitted Donovan to return to his job. Johnson John-son himself had nothing to say about It, but Dr. Gustav Peck, Donovan's Immediate superior, Issued Is-sued a statement II which he sniffed at the board's decision and warned Donovan that he would have to "toe the mark." Soon after this the NRA announced an-nounced that it does not regard itself it-self as obliged to withdraw the Blue Eagle in cases where the national labor relations board has found Henry T. Rainey ? - f "'I f ft i I f 1 t ' ' t will be averted ; but I he announces at j the same time that the federation in-dorses in-dorses the strike j and will co-operate fully with the officers offi-cers and members of the United Textile Tex-tile Workers' organization. or-ganization. He appointed ap-pointed federation committees to assist as-sist the textile William Green ly with the exception of one term, being defeated In the Harding landslide land-slide of V.YM. He was elected to the speakership when John Nance Oarner became Vice President. His control over the house during the koksIoiis of last year and this year, while the President's program was being put through, was gentle but so llrm that the legislators were kept well In line. Mr. Itainey devoted much of his service In Washington to efforts to Improve the condition of the farmers, farm-ers, for he held that farm prosperity prosper-ity was essential In nny program for national well being. He also was a student of tariff and fiscal subjects. As a Democrat he was always a "regular." He was the author of the tariff commission law and of much other Important legislation. legis-lation. Mrs. Rainey acted as her husband's hus-band's secretary for years and Is so well acquainted with congressional congres-sional work that the Democrats may select her as the candidate to complete nis term as representative from the Twentieth Illinois dis trlct. Mr. Rainey was buried In his home town, ' Cnrrollton, after services serv-ices which were attended by President Presi-dent Roosevelt and many other notable persons. SPEAKER RAINEY'S death will result In a spirited contest among a number of men who are ambitious to succeed him. First in workers and announced that he would draft trained organizers and strike specialists from other unions to assist the textile union. George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile institute and chairman chair-man of the cotton textile code authority, au-thority, said the threatened strike is not justified by the facts established estab-lished by Impartial government economists. Challenging the wage Increase demand de-mand of the United Textile Workers Work-ers of America, Mr. Sloan declared that "as a result of three basic wage provisions In the code the hourly wages paid In March, 11)34, show an increase of 7 per cent as compared with March, 1933, when there was no code. "All of this has meant a substantial sub-stantial Increase in manufacturing costs," Mr. Sloan said, "and the research re-search and planning division of the NRA found, after a comprehensive investigation last June, that 'under existing conditions there is no factual fac-tual or statistical basis for any general Increase in cotton textile code wage rates.' " companies guilty of violation of section 7A of the national Industrial Indus-trial recovery act and of subsequent failure to obey the instructions of the board. The labor board has recommended recommend-ed withdrawal of the Blue Eagle to the NRA compliance board In all cases where companies have disobeyed dis-obeyed Its instructions to reinstate rein-state discharged employees. The decision of the NRA will remove teeth from decisions by the board, since it may now hear cases, make decisions, and find that no penalties pen-alties are inflicted for disobeying its orders. OOTTON garment code amend- ments reducing the working hours and giving workers a wage increase have been signed by the President. The amendments, which affect plants in 42 states, are of far-reaching far-reaching importance. Sidney Hillman, labor advisory board member and Amalgamated Clothing union head, termed signing sign-ing of the order "the most far-reaching far-reaching move NRA has yet made to Increase employment." It was hoped that this order would avert the threatened strike of the garment gar-ment workers. TWO prominent Democrats, two Republicans almost equallyprom-inent, equallyprom-inent, and one leading Industrialist, all of them of conservative tenden- pll i vi:1 1 the line of succession, succes-sion, so to speak, Is Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, who has been serving as majority floor leader and who is head of the Democratic Demo-cratic national congressional committee. com-mittee. President Roosevelt Is going to take no part in the race, but the Joseph W. Byrns cies, have united to organize the American Amer-ican Liberty league dedicated to a war on radicalism In the United States. The five founders of the league are: Alfred E. Smith, Democratic Presidential Presi-dential candidate in 1028; John W. Davis, Da-vis, Democratic Presidential candidate candi-date in 1924; Na- more liberal of the New Dealers in the house are known to favor Sam Rayburn of Texas. Well informed in-formed observers believe Byrns will be elected speaker and Rayburn floor leader. Other aspirants for the Jouett Shouse LIEUT. COL. MARIO HERNANDEZ HERNAN-DEZ organized a plot to "overthrow "over-throw the government of President Mendleta of Cuba and establish a military dictatorship, but the authorities au-thorities got wind of it and frustrated frus-trated the conspiracy, in which a considerable part of the army was Involved. Col. Fulgencio Batista, head of the army, said that Major Benitez and some soldiers were sent to arrest Hernandez and that eight men of the detachment were killed. Hernandez tried to shoot Benitez, but was himself shot in the head and neck. The official report said Hernandez was being rushed toward to-ward Havana in an automobile and that the car upset, the prisoner being be-ing killed, though the others in the car were uninjured. Maj. Angel Echevarria, commandant command-ant of Fourth Infantry at Camp Columbia, and Capt. Augustin Erice, chief of the signal corps, conspirators conspira-tors with Hernandez, were captured cap-tured later and a summary court-martial court-martial sentenced them to dealh. EIGHTY-EIGHT Soviet citizens are now under arrest in Man-chukuo, Man-chukuo, charged with plotting against Manchukuo and Japan and sabotaging Japanese military trains. The Russian government, through Acting Consul General Rayvid at Harbin, has presented to the foreign for-eign office of Manchukuo a demand for an explanation of the arrests and insists on prompt measures for the release of the prisoners. "The arrests were made without documents, accompanied by searches of the apartments and the offices of Soviet employees of the Chinese Eastern railway which have not been explained," Rayvid said. The Japanese allege that some of the prisoners confessed to an attack at-tack on the Japanese military Intel ligence office at Suifenho (Pogran ichnaya), to sending Manchurian and Corean communists into the territory, to wreck trains carrying Japanese troops and munitions toward to-ward the frontier, and to creating general disturbanees along the eastern east-ern line. Probably before long will come the news that the Japanese have seized the Chinese Easterr railway, and that may very well result in war between Japan and Russia. BROOKLYN was the scene of one of the smartest crimes of recent re-cent times. A gang of bandits with machine guns held up an armored money truck, snatched $427,000 and fled in automobiles which were afterward aft-erward abandoned for speed boats that carried the robbers and their loot out to sea. Their plans were so carefully laid and carried out with such precision that the forces of the law were at a loss for the time being. Though all avenues of escape by land and water were closely guarded, little or no trace of the bandits could be obtained. speakership are John E. Rankin of Mississippi, who has announced his candidacy ; William B. Bankhead of Alabama, and John J. O'Connor of New York. Mr. Byrns has been a member of the house continuously since his election to the Sixty-first congress. His work as floor leader, In conjunction con-junction with Rainey's rule as speaker, was not especially pleasing pleas-ing to the New Dealers, for some months during the last session, but before adjournment most of the misunderstandings were cleared up. In any case, the administration seldom interferes in the selection of the leaders of congress, not wishing wish-ing to Incur the enmity of powerful power-ful members of the party. RETURNING from his swift trip to attend the funeral of Mr. Rainey, the President went directly-back directly-back to Washington instead of going go-ing to his Hyde Park home. This change in plan was due, it was said, to the development of a bitter bit-ter dispute between Gen. Hugh S. Johnson on one side and Donald Riohberg, Mr. Roosevelt's chief industrial in-dustrial adviser, and Secretary of Labor Terkins on the other, over the new structure to be given the MIA. The issue, it was disclosed, is whether there shall be a board of control in authoritative management manage-ment of the NRA or a board which shall be more advisory In power, leaving the real control still In the hands of the administrator and his deputies. It was expected Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt would take command of the situation and determine definitely what shall be done with the recovery recov-ery administration. General Johnson has said that, at the request of the President he will remain with the N"RA after its reorganization, re-organization, and presumably he will be chairman of the board. ORGANIZED labor scored a victory vic-tory over Recovery Administrator Adminis-trator Johnson when the national labor relations board ordered John than L. Miller, Republican ex-governor of New York ; James W. Wads-worth, Wads-worth, Republican congressman from New York, former senator and Presidential possibility for 1936; and Irenee Du Pont, manufacturer, who supported Smith in 1923 and Roosevelt In 1932. They believe the league membership will grow Into the millions and that it will become an Important element In the national nation-al life. For president of the organization the founders selected Jouett Shouse, former chairman of the Democratic national committee and president of the Association Against the Prohibition Pro-hibition Amendment until repeal was accomplished. In a statement Mr. Shouse set forth the purposes of the league as follows: "It is a nonpartisan organization, formed, as stated in its charter, 'to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States and to gather and disseminate information that (1) will teach the -necessity of respect re-spect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and (2) will teach the duty of government govern-ment to encourage and protect individual in-dividual and group Initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save, and acquire property, prop-erty, and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired.' " To Interviewers Mr. Shouse declared de-clared the league was not anti-Roosevelt, anti-Roosevelt, but it seemed clear that it will be opposed to most of the major purposes of the New Deal and the radical professors of the brain trust. He said he had visited the President and Informed him fully of the purposes of the league, but he would not tell what Mr. Roosevelt's reaction had been. Mr. Shouse disclosed that the organization or-ganization will have a board of national na-tional directors, composed of outstanding out-standing men and women from every state of the nation, and that from this group will be selected an executive committee of about eighteen eight-een members. |