Show news review of current events the world over gain in industrial employment reported steel industry accused of price boosting 0 and fixing 0 japan and U S exchange 0 good will notes navy bill passes SECRETARY OF LABOR FRAN 0 CES PERKINS perking announces a jump of in industrial employment and a gain of in weekly pay rolls between january 15 and february 15 factory employment increased 61 per cent while pay ro rolls Is rose per c e n t 11 secretary 41 perkins IS said a I 1 d in summing up tip the developments S she 11 e ajit added that since ti teeda march j of last j year sec sectary tary workers pe berkins ins have byg returned arned to industrial du clu jobs and added to 0 o the weekly pay rolls secretary perkins pointed out that her ler survey of industrial employment corers only a small part of the total otal business field the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries covered she explained Dor normally mally employ only of the gainful workers ot of the country and therefore these totals do not indicate all changes in employment to them should be added workers that were reported by the interstate ter state commerce commission to have hare been taken on oil during the 1 last ast month by class I 1 steam railroads and gains in agricultural employment which normally take place at this time with the be beginning inning of farming activities in the southern states the increases in employment and pay roll in the automobile industry were the outstanding gains of the month tile the agricultural amplem implement ent industry reported employment gains of per cent and machine tools a rise of 15 per cent continuing the gains which have marked every mouth month since last alay may and june industries allied with building construction showed increased operations erat ions PRICE fixing and price boosting tending to discriminate against small email enterprises are current practices in the steel industry under its code the federal trade commission declares in the report to tile the senate that there has been price fixing as well as in increases creases in prices of steel products during the period covered by the inquiry the commission declares are conclusions warranted by ample facts under the provisions of the code and the methods of its application prices for any given product at any point of delivery are uniform tills this Is a direct ifo violation lation of the order to desist from the pittsburgh plus practice the steel code according to the trade commission Is devised to lodge control of the industry with the united states steel corporation and other large jarge producers to take business away from little manufacturers to dis discriminate eri minate against certain fabricators fabricatore fabrica tors and producing centers and to discriminate in favor of powerful customers like the automobile tom to industry at a press conference at th the e white house the president indicated that he was not satisfied with the way the steel code Is opera operating operated tiD there were signs the executive might reopen the code and call for drastic revisions to protect consumers and independent manufacturers from price fixing and increased costs aana assurances of cordial regard and pledges ot of a desire tor for the settlement of any differences by amicable means were expressed in an exchange of notes between secretary of 0 state hull and KOM III rota japanese foreign minister tile the ex exchange change of notes was sas tile the outcome ot of interchanges initiated by japan in furtherance of a foreign policy the general purpose of which Is to concil secretary hull late the united states japan Is intent upon persuading the united states to abandon the policy of obstruction st of japanese occupation or ot manchuria and to reco recognize theja p anese dominated state stata ot of man alan chukuro hirota expressed the firm belief that no question exists between oil our r two countries that Is fundamentally incapable of amicable solution hull in concurring with that statement said he would bo be glad to receive any suggestion calculated to maintain and to increase that friendliness and cordiality which have constantly marked since the conclusion of our first treaty the relations between our two countries counties japan let it be known unofficially recently that it desires an increase in its naval ratio with the united states and great britain un der the washington and london naval treaties and would like to enter preliminary discussions p RESIDE RESIDENT NT noo ROOSEVELT SEVELT in a i letter to the senate and house banking committees asked congress to set up tip twelve industrial credit cred it banks which he had bad been told would safeguard the jobs of persons and create work for more immediately after the presidents wishes were known legislation was introduced in both houses giving the federal reserve system authority to create the banks financing them by selling 1 of stock to the treasury the plight of the small or urn um size industrialist was w as stressed atres sed by the president and he cited results of a survey indicating that such industry was badly in need of working capital A RAY of hope for unpaid school teachers appeared when v lien a house subcommittee was ordered to draft legislation authorizing direct federal grants to needy school systems throughout the country the primary purpose of the proposed grants would be to insure tile the operation of schools for a minimum term each year benr A serious curtailment of the educational cat ional facilities in many sections of the country has been forced by luck lack of funds according to the committee with consequent result that thousands of children are not receiving celvi cig the proper amount of instruction st an inability to pay teachers is the most pressing problem A large part of the proposed federal era grants will be available for the payment of salaries to unpaid teachers and tor for the re employment of many who have been discharged be cause of lack of funds under the direct grant measure pro pr ored rosed by the education committee it was understood the necessary funds would he supplied either by the federal emergency relief administration or the public works administration PEA KING before nn an assembly of S SPEAKING cheering chief fascists premier outlined a GO 60 lear program of internal and external expansion which he predicted al would in the awen 1 ty first century give I 1 italy tile the primacy of the world that century lie he said will be a black shirt era in this age of plans 11 II duce declared 1 I want to lay before you a mussolini plan not for five alve years or ten years but for GO CO years carrying on to tile the twenty first century at which time italy will have the primacy of the world italy has no future in the west and north her future lies to the east and south in asia and africa the vast resources of africa must be valorized valori zed and aari africa ca b brought rol gilt within the civilized circle 1 I do riot not refer to conquest of territory but to natural expansion we demand that nations which have already arrived in africa do not block at every step italian expansion here it was said he was referring particularly to france internally mussolini said immediate objectives of completion of swamp reclamation by IWO 1940 new aqueducts and highways plans to recreate italian municipalities complete rebuilding of I 1 rural houses and repairs to rural houses a work of 30 years every rural person will have a clean and healthy house be a asserted only in tills this way can the rush to the city bo be combated in the midst of a pandemonium of applause mussolini said faciso became universal in 1029 but in this phenomenon he continued it Is necessary to distinguish positive from negative fascism positive fascism knows how to destroy the old and rebuild the new whereas negative fascism knows only how bow to destroy EXPANSION of the navy to treaty limitations Is now assured with the passage eby by congress of tile the vinson trammell bill tile the bill calli for the construction of warships and an increase of 1184 in the naval airplane strength at a cost estimated at between and spread over five years the bill merely authorizes a treaty navy appropriations must follow in order to translate the action into ships and planes pianos private builders of ships and planes for the navy are malted limited in tile the bill to a 10 per cent profit on the contract price excepting on contracts involving or less alternate warships must be built in government navy yards unless the president determines that emergency conditions require change of 0 that schedule |