Show ineas 4 news review of cuir current rent events I 1 GREEN SHAPES WAGE BILL ba 1 L L d dictates house flee china chin a I 1 expecting war housing measure stirs up senate md aa summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 0 Newt Poper union where was john lewis ILLIAM GREEN president of athe WILLIAM the american federation of labor emerged as the administrations favorite son in matters affecting labor as he was permitted virtually to write his own amendments to the house bouse version of the wages and hours bill the senate had passed the bill 56 to 23 only after president roosevelt had called green to the white whit e house and persuaded him to give lukewarm approval to the measure with the understanding der standing that the house would amend it southern democrats in the senate led by pat harrison of mississippi bitterly opposed the bill but their motion to recommit it to committee was defeated 48 to 36 the same vigorous opposition was expected from didies representatives in the house labor committee but the green amendments so called because of the federation presidents Cs complete domination of the committee meeting patched up the essential differences the bill as passed by the senate would create a labor standards board empowered to set minimum wags wages up to 40 cents an hour and maximum work weeks down to 40 hours bours the house committee had intended to extend the limits to permit the board to set wages at 70 cents and hours as low as 35 under er greens influence the house committee decided to accept the senate provisions on this part of the measure but the scope of the board was greatly curtailed by an amendment which would permit it to deal only y with employers who maintain sweatshops a and n d starvation wages through fake collective bargaining agencies the green amendments in met brief are 1 board jurisdiction over wages and nd hours in any industry only if it finds that collective bargaining agreements do not cover a sufficient number of employees or facilities for collective bargaining are inet binef I 1 tec fec tive 2 acceptance of wage hour standards established by collective bargaining I 1 in any occupation as prima facie acie evidence of appropriate stand 1 ards in that occupation 3 board cannot alter wage hour i standards etan dards already prevailing in occupation cu in community considered or establish classification in any community which affects adversely the prevailing standard in the tame same or other communities 4 industries are protected against t prison made goods 5 label provision of original act is eliminated to protect industry from what is considered a nui sance 6 government work is removed from the boards control and placed under the walsh healey act chairman mary T norton D N J of the labor committee indicated the bill would be brought up in the house under a special rule and speedily passed for housing H disposed of wages and hours legislation the senate up the wagner low cost housing bill this would authorize the flotation of a bond issue by a united states housing authority to meet operating expenses of the programs first year 41 would be appropriated immediately dia tely the proposed bond I 1 issue s s u e co in was cut from 1 isen 1131 wagner as a compromise with the treasury department which objected to so high a f figure the bill would aid low cost housing projects in two ways it would make loans to the full amount of contracted projects aiding the repayment of the loans by direct grants it if the sponsors kept rents sufficiently low or it would make direct grants not to exceed 25 pel per cent of the cost of a project under this latter method the president would be authorized to make an additional dit ional lonal 15 per cent grant from relief f funds to be used only tor for the employment of labor sponsors would be required to contribute at least 20 per cent of the cost the housing authority would also be permitted to spend on r demonstration projects to illustrate to communities the benefits of ellal bating slums and providing ade quate housing at low cost the projects would be sold as soon as 2 practical to local housing agencies over the protest of administration pleaders plea f leaders ders including senator wagner and majority leader barkley Bark lcy the senate adopted an amendment by harry p F byrd D va limiting the co cost t of the housing projects to a family or 1000 a room wagner objected principally on the mounds grounds that this would not be suf focient for projects in new york city caty where it is bel believed eved much of the money will be spent n K J t A F of LS WIL WILLIAM LItI GR GREEN EEN leaves white house with a smile hoe from the fhe rising sun AR was still officially unde welfred We dared lared but all signs indicated that japan was making ready to prosecute a long term conflict in north china and ry m that the chinese lall w v e ere r c everywhere 1 1 preparing to withstand the advance of nf t the he japanese army a r m y steady streams of refugees pouring out of the area while they had the chance revealed the opinion of masses of people e gen chiang that a great war wa r kai shek was inevitable tokyo was hurrying soldiers to the front in the hengtai luk district southwest of neiping Pei ping veteran japanese troops massed tor for an attack upon five divisions of chinas cainas central central government army numbering approximately including the remnants of the twenty ninth army driven from neiping by the japanese there were said to be chinese both sides were well equipped with airplanes further evidence of japans expectation pec tation of real war were the sweeping changes in military personnel made after a conference between premier konoye and emperor Hi hirohito four new division commanders were named as well as a new commander for the island of formosa it was regarded as significant ant that all of the new appointees poin tees were soldiers with extensive experience in china the government was attempting to push through an appropriation of for operations in north china in a desperate effort to stem the invaders gen chiang kai shek dictator of china and commander of the chinese army summoned into conference at national capital the warlords war lords and governors of important provinces plans were made to throw hundreds of thousands of soldiers at the japanese the provincial rulers apparently were only too anxious chow enli representing communist troops said his men were willing to become an advance guard tor for the major chinese offensive nationwide military conscription was being conducted apace japanese newspapers reported that a resolution to sever all relations with japan was before the chinese political council for consideration era tion the fear that gripped was illustrated by the governments publication of warnings against giving away military militar y secrets and the warnings which were given government officials to get their families out into the hinterlands where they might be safe from enemy bombers civilians in china needed no warning thousands upon thousands were lined up at the railroad stations in shanghai and in many were women carrying children and what belongings they could not bear to leave behind thousands of japanese civilians in china packed the docks awaiting ships which would carry them safely back to their homeland As columns of japanese soldiers pressed forward to meet advancing troops from there was waa no doubt that hostilities would continue to spread southward it was expected a real battle would ensue when the two columns came within striking distance russia protested vigorously to tho the japanese embassy in against the pillaging of the russian consulate in by white russian ruffians assisted by japanese the japanese denied that any of their countrymen were vere implicated and ridiculed the idea that the japanese planned any future attacks against russian consulates |