Show news review of current events the world over general butlers fantastic story of fascist plot to seize the government 7 strike in the great steel industry becomes imminent by EDWARD W PICKARD 0 by western Ve storn N union ollen minded american citizens S SOBER find it difficult to take seriously the fantastic story that alint maj gen smedley D butler told to the congressional gressional committee investigating g un Aine american rican activities this retired officer ameer of marines charges that there Is a plot engineered by wall street men to seize the government of the united states and set up a fascist dictatorship and t the b e chairman of gen sm smedley the e committee rep hep D bu butler er john W Vc Cormack of new considered the tale of enough portent to warrant the calling of witnesses to prove or disprove it general butter butler made his story public through the columns 0 of the new york evening post as the proceedings of the committee are conducted in arl vate tate if butler Is to be believed lie be was approached by gerald P macguire bond salesman in the stock steel exchange firm arm of grayson II 11 P murphy and company and urged to accept the leadership of 0 a soldier organization of half a million men which would assemble probably a year from now in washington and that within a few days at it could take over the functions of the government Al arGuIre according to the general thought the overturn of the government might be accomplished pence frilly and suggested that we might even go along with Row rozevelt evelt and do with him what mussolini did with the king of italy butlers story continued ile he told me he believed that at least halt half of the american lesion legion and veterans of foreign wars would follow me explained to me that they had two other candidates for the position of sian ilan on tile white horse tie ile said that it if I 1 did not accept nn an offer would be made to gen douglas Ila macarthur cArthur chief of staff of tile the unitta states army and that the thirdy choice would be nanford hanford macnider former commander of the american legion so far ns I 1 know neither general macarthur nor macnider lins hia been approached their names were merely mentioned ns AS alternates 11 the general sald said he was offered considerable sums for expenses which he be did not accept ile he said maceuire Mac intimated that among the hackers backers of the plan was sir mr murphy and col robert S clark fl A vre wealthy althy new yorker with q in the stork arvelian RT change p building find tp be added that later colonel clark offered him money to go to tho the american legion in chicago last year and make a speech for retention of the got gold standard which speech macguire had previously given butler clark claris nt at present in france admitted he be had asked butler to rise Us big influence in favor of ef sound money and against inflation but strongly denied that he had sp sponsored on a fascist mo movement rement ite ile declared he be would take action for ittel II 11 against any person accusing him hlin in such a connection murphy and other wall street nen men said tile alie story was absolutely false and unutterably ridiculous and maceuire after being heard by the mccormack committee commett ee said its A jolea publicity stunt 1 I know nothing about it the matter Is made out of whole cloth I 1 deny the story completely SO S 0 iral fait ns the great creat steel indus try Is concerned it that the th industrial asked by president roosevelt cannot he arranged and the prospect of A strike ot of top the steel workers Is growing grow ln in behalf of the united states steel corporation a proposal pro posa i was made to the american Americ nn federation of libor labor that recognition of that org animation Aniza tion torild be granted but that no contract would he ha ifil this proposal it was said would he be agreed to ly by 85 per cent of the steel industry the labor spokesmen led by william groen green president of the A F r of L rejected the tender on the ground that it was hedged about in such ench a way to permit collective bar gaining with minority groups or company unions and that flint the employers were still unwilling to j accept the principle of majority rule as set forth in the national labor relations boards decision in the houde case if a rupture comes the federation of labor may find the federal government rather unsympathetic mr greens influence in the white bouse has been waning noticeably and he has had no personal contacts with the president for some time new yorkers with offices in skyscrapers cc were gladdened by the news that a threatened strike of elevator operators had been averted an and an agreement drafted by mayor Guardias la Guard las board of arbitration had been signed by representatives of the real estate interests and the union the union withdrew its demand for a closed shop and standards of wages and hours in various ta types pes of buildings will be worked out by a committee of three arbiters w with ith the union recognized as the bargaining agent for the employees plo Y ORDER of the national labor br relations board there will be held soon a great workers election which will determine whether organized labor shall dominate the count rys rubber industry the board decreed that themire the firestone tire and rubber company company and the B F goodrich company of akron ohio must allow their employees to ballot on the question of whether they want a company union pinion or an american federation of labor union to represent them in collective bargaining under the twenty one thousand workers tile the largest number dumber ever polled by the labor board on an question will participate in the election in addition another workers of the goodyear rubber company may ballot on the same question the goodyear angle of 0 the case has not yet been passed upon by the boa board rd hut but the firestone and Goodri cl cli companies have opposed the elections now ordered maintaining that conditions in their plants are satisfactory is and that electioneering electioneer election perin ing in rival unions would only disturb the pence peace among the workers philadelphia lawyers lanners are traditionally supposed to he able to unravel tile tho worst of tangles so president roosevelt has picked one to tie be chairman ot of Ws the national labor ia 7 I 1 relations board he Is francis biddle of the famous family MR of that he succeeds lloyd I 1 K garrison who retired from the tha chairmanship to resume sume his big duties as dean of the law school of the uni francis biddle versify of wisconsin from which he was called francis biddle has been engaged in law practice as 03 a member of the philadelphia firm of harries barnes diddle biddle and meyers ile he served from 1922 1022 to 1926 as assistant district ettor attorney for the eastern district of pennsylvania syl vanla in ID tits his new post tits his task will be the settlement of labor disputes arising out of the recovery act especially those involving collective bargaining eted PRANCE RANCE Is worried by the admit ted fact that germany has developed a military air fleet of considerable sid erable size comp composed obed of modern pursuit and bombing planes and oon gen victor dennin french minister of air estimates that by january the retell will have from 1000 to 1100 of these machines witter swifter and better than those possessed by france consequently lie he has asked the chamber of deputies for about to finance a program for recovering the ground lot lost by french aviation the task Is already nailer way having been spent out of an appropriation for modernization HUGH tl WILSON Anie american rIcan Hambas ambassador to switzerland laid before the disarmament conference in gen genva geneva va A proposal hy by the united states state for international control of arms traffic and full publicity to prevent secret arming of nations the proposal was well rp re by most of the and it will he be studied by committees in Ja january minry cy by the Amp american rican plan each ROV would license liet its manuras jurers of munitions for ove five year periods no reserve stocks would hp be allowed and manufacturers would tie be require d to present bona title orders before a license details of war vessels built for other nations would have to lie bk reported reports of licenses and orders would be turned over to a central committee at geneva and made a matter of public record A permanent commission including a member from each signatory nation nathin would be empowered to investigate transactions N NOTABLES of the catholic I 1 church gathered in chicago from all parts of the world to take part in the sliver silver jubilee of cardinal who was consecrated a bishop 25 years ago aco the pope sent seat his personal greetings and his big blessings blessing IDENT ROOSEVELT 13 pre PRESIDENT reveling eling in baths and rest at warm springs ga but he Is not neglecting the nations business keeping rn in close touch with washington and receiving many official al visitors at his first press conference there he announced with glad smiles that lie he would again lend iena his birthday january 30 to the national committee that arranges birthday balls all over the country for the benefit of iLfan para paralysis lyals sufferers comptroller GENERAL J C comptroller it mccarl has thrown a monkey wrench jinto part of the machinery of relief administrator harry L hopkins turning down a check from hopkins to the officials of the district of columbia which was to have started work on a housing development mr mccarl mccar held that the federal emergency relief act providing for the granting of funds for various relief purposes could not apply to tile the acquisition it I 1 on of real estate and the construction of homes this type of activity he said would be of a permanent and not an emergence nature and the act was adopted to meet emergencies the FERA already has under way a program of rehabilitating farm fil families milles in homes and onland on laud to be sold to io them by the government ORE and more it becomes evident M MORE that president roosevelt intends to pursue a middle of the road policy in his efforts for national recovery and that in the overwhelmingly demo batic next congress there will be noone no one faction strong elou enough gh to dictate to him the chief al executive and the business leaders of the country are gra gradually dually co in I 1 n g together and if and silas strawn ahen they reach an accord on methods it will be found that a good many of the more radical ideas of the brain tr usters will have been discarded the best minds in industry and finance are no longer standing back and merely criticizing they fire are taking an active part in planning for the future welfare of the nation herewith are summarized some of the important new developments in this direction president henry 1 I of the united states chamber of commerce in purs pursuance liance of a resolution adopted by the board of directors has appointed a committee of six men headed hy by silas strawn of colca chicago b to operate cooperate co with other othe r bir siness and a agricultural ri cultural associations in drafting plans for the recovery of business the board of the chamber endorsed the continuation of relief and housing but signified that business Is still opposed to the un unbalanced balancAd budget further reduction of working hours as embodied in the movement for a 30 hour week new and unprecedented outlays for public works continuance of the the doctrine of majority rule in collective bargaining and unemployment insurance through the Nat national ionni association of manufacturers invitations were sent to every manufacturer in the united states to attend a national industrial conference in new york on december 5 to draft constructive recon recommendations ivic ada I 1 ions for presentation sen tation to president derit roosevelt it among those signing the call for this meeting was john J raskob former chairman of the democratic party included in the questions the industrialists will try to answer are what in the future should be the relation of government Rovern ment to business blaines io how Is the gi gantle problem to be met to relieve distress and at the same time not plunge tile lie nation into bankruptcy or threaten its credit how Is the new flow of private capital into legitimate investment to IP be stimulated what new mops to curtail unemployment are practical and fens feasible in a petition addressed adar 11 used to the president find congress the national economy league lias has presented a definite program for balancing the federal budget in the coming coining fiscal bear car holding that only by balancing the hud budget et can na lionil recovery be accomplished the petition proposes beavy reductions in government expenditures and additional taxes totaling ONALD R executive director of the flip national mner geney council an and nw perhaps lle behlor nI niniver addressing the grocers of america nt at their convention in new york proposed the ere creation pation cr ot of a new federci holy body combining functions of abe and the lie federal trade commission to define anil and regulate concerted concert pd trade nellon action in the twilight zone under the antitrust laws discussing the program for per manant le Iq lation he reiterated aerated his opposition to control of prices and production ile he said the fixing of minimum wages ond and minimum hours had demonstrated its soundness for eliminating the worst forms of unfair competition in treatment of employees and that admittedly dishonest business practices should be proscribed |