Show U W A summarizes THE WORLDS WEEK 4 western newspaper union industry asks new deal MERICAN industry demands a anew AMERICAN new deal tor for the new year in its platform for 1938 it asks the government to repeal unfair air labor relations laws and unduly burdensome den some taxes which it says threaten t to 0 reverse a cent trend of improved living standards the platform was submitted to the national association of manufacturers rs by charles R hook president of the american rolling min mill company and chairman of the N A M s resolutions resolution committee and was adopted by the more than 2000 persons at the annual convention in new york asserting that the onward march of the american people can be resumed and continued only it if american industry produces more so that all can have more the platform declarations were grouped under these headings no employer should be penalized for failure to deal with any labor organization organizing supporting or maintaining a strike for illegal purposes or by illegal means among his employees employment promotion and retention of employees on the basis of merit with due regard for length of service legal and social responsibility of both employers and employees for their commitments and their acts the platform condemned child labor and urged the enactment of federal legislation to support state child labor laws enactment of state legislation against sweatshops also was urged to promote pramot e free domestic competition based on private initiative and energy the platform proposed limitation of government regulation to the prevention of abuses inimical to the public interest freedom from federal control of prices wages and hours fair taxes and constantly increasing research to pr produce aduce new and wanted products and new jobs encouragement of private initiative maintenance and extension of sound industrial practices equitable employment relations throughout industry creation of new and broader markets constructive efforts to alleviate depression effects sound government policies cooper co oper aaion with agriculture peace japs enter JAPANS invading armies reached and smashed their way through several gates of the cites wall their complete occupation of the capital was imminent the chinese put up a spirited defense in the suburbs and nearby towns but it was unavailing generalissimo chiang kai shek and his wife were reported to have escaped in an airplane which must have been a great disappointment to the japanese who are determined to capture chiang diplomatic changes EVERAL major changes in the IS SEVERAL diplomatic service are scheduled tor for the near future it was learned that william E dodd had resigned as ambassador to germany and in washington it was said that hugh it 11 1 wilson now assistant secretary of state would be given the post in ber alln dodd has found his duties difficult be because aus e of 0 his ad i 1 1 fr bitted led dislike of the nazi aai policies and W E dodd 0 r some time has I 1 been regarded as persona non grata by the german government he ha was a professor of history in the U university diversity of chicago when appointed and says he intends to resume work on a history of the old south robert W bingham of louisville ambassador to great britain also has submitted his resignation because oi of ill III health his successor it is believed will be joseph P kennedy now chairman of the federal maritime commission and formerly head ot of the SEC mr bingham recently returned to the united states to undergo treatment for malaria at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore the state department expects he will go back to L ondon london after the holidays to pay his official calls oi of farewell profits tax impossible T REPEAL of the undistributed JL profits tax as a levy impossible of equitable and effective 1 application to the complex and varied pattern of american industry is recommended in a report published by the brookings institution based on a study of the actual effects ol of the tax on 1560 corporations prepared by dr M slade kendrick of cornell university in cooperation with the staff of the institution the study was made frog from data obtained from the results of some questionnaires sent out by senator frederick republican of oregon designed to provide detailed case experience on the controversial tax as far as obtainable tai in the first year of its operation era tion U S steel readjustment THE HE united states steel corporation announced formation of a new company united states steel stee I 1 corporation of delaware to supervise a number of subsidiaries of the parent corporation the new corporation which will come into existence january 1 will be organized with nominal capital benjamin F fairless will be president of the company and all the capital stock is owned and held by the united states steel corporation of new jersey headquarters for the management company will be at pittsburgh myron C taylor chairman of the board in announcing formation of the new corporation said that this was the final move in the vast plan or of readjustment of the corporation green defies C 1 0 admitting that recent meent VIRTUALLY peace negotiations between the A F of L and the C 1 I 0 were a failure president green ot of the tha federation in a speech in buffalo defied the lewis organization and predicted that real violence between the two rival labor bodies may ensue unless settlement is reached soon green declared the A F of L will arm its forces and turn them loose against this raiding organization lots of people think the reason a settlement cant be reached is because some one has designs on dictating the policy of the american labor movement and 1 I sometimes think this too he or she who launches a movement which divides the house of labor is an enemy of labor sixty members of the unit united e d automobile to workers of america were arrested when they defied an order of mayor john L carey of dearborn forbidding the distribution 0 of f literature in a prohibited area at the gates ot of the ford motor company 11 II NO fraud by mellon months after his death THREE andrew W mellon famous industrialist dus of pittsburgh was e exonerated xon ot of income tax fraud by unanimous decision of the united states board ot of tax appeals the board threw out the fraud charges brought by the administration against the former head bead of the aluminum company of america and by an eight to seven ruling slashed the governments claim tor for additional taxes on mellons 1931 income from to about stormy dayt days in n cacila capital R D from his lal fishing hig trip rv in florida waters with an infected gum president roosevelt was waa confronted with a situation that was decidedly disconcerting what has been called the roosevelt depression was becoming still more depressed and congress seemingly make up its mind what to do about it the demand tor for tax revisions that would assist business out ot of the slump was insistent and so BO was the necessity of df balancing the budget passage ot of the four administration must measures appeared to be impossible during the extraordinary session all ot of them were opposed by various blocs 0 of the majority party as well as by the republican minority the senates farm arm bill seemed to have the best chance to get through but it differed so radically from the house bouse measure that it was certain a conference committee would have to try to find a common commod ground secretary wallace was reported dissatisfied with both senate and house bills one official close to him said wallace might urge president roosevelt to veto any bill finally enacted which approximated either the senate or house measure democrats were so badly split over the wage hour bill that hope ot of passing it before the regular session of congress was about abandoned labor too was divided concerning this measure the A F ot of L opposing it and the C 1 I 0 advocating its passage the federation offered its own version calling for a flat eat 40 cents an hour minimum wage and a 40 hour maximum work week the house bill was finally rescued from the rules committee by petition house majority leader sam rayburn democrat texas went ahead with plans to whip administration support behind the house measure 11 he e said that fewer than votes would be cast against the bill in its present form but warned that amendments which would make its wage hour provisions more rigid might shunt the measure back to the labor committee and delay a vote indefinitely X infantry comes first N WAR operations on land the infantry I 1 IN is still the most important branch of the service says gen malin craig chief of staff of the i army in his annual rae r report lessons learned by skilled observers of the civil war in spain and the chino japanese 71 I 1 war have modified the american defense program but says the general it is still th the e infantry that renders the decision in the final general analysis airplanes malm malin craig and tanks are bable auxiliaries to the infantry but they cannot bring about a decision in land operations inventories of armament motorization mechanization and equipment in the light ot of the lessons abroad show several vital needs of the first line forces general craig declared these include better weapons to combat aircraft and tanks as well as more efficient guns for the planes and tanks c LInd berghs come back FTER two years of self A AFTER imposed exile in england col and 1 mrs 1 rs charles A lindbergh returned to the united states presumably they came over to spend the holidays at the home of mrs Lind berghs mother mrs dwight morrow in englewood N J dispatches from london said the colonel also had some business to transact in america he is associated in an advisory capacity with pan american airways the landing of the Lind berghs at new york was accomplished with such secrecy that they almost escaped the notice of reporters and news photographers one of the officers of the liner on which they came said they planned to return to england immediately after christmas c edgerton backs water wafer confirmation of the appointment of henry W edgerton of cornell university as associate justice of the district of columbia court of appeals was endangered because it was thought from his writings that he did not believe in judicial review however he appeared before the senate sub com cittee consisting of senators borah burke and van nuys and repudiated his bis previous utterances of the power of courts to declare legislative enactments unconstitutional unconstitutional lle he said 1 I regard it as not only thoroughly established as a legitimate part of our constitutional system but which was intended by the great majority of 0 the men who framed our constitution I 1 think it was properly established by john marshall and I 1 the least criticism of any court for any declaration ot of the validity of that part of our constitutional tut ional system leviathan to be junked bunked APAN made a bid tor for the leviathan i JAPAN huge liner seized from ge germany r wl in the world war but the united states lines rejected it and sold the vessel to metal industries ltd of london for it will go to england under its own power and will be junked bunked the leviathan cost ten millions to build and the american government spent more than eight millions to recondition it and also paid germany tor for its seizure |