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News Review of Cunent
Events the World Over
lewis and C. I. 0. Cain Recognition From Steel Industry
and Plan to Tackle Textiles—Neutrality Meas
ure Adopted by Senate.
V
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
C W«*tern N nr • pa per Unloa.
V’OU’VE got to hand it to John L.
* Lewis. The beetle-browed lead
er of the C. ll O. is going places and
doing things! despite several set
backs in his plans
to unionize all i n •
dustry. The steel
magnates are yield
ing to a great ex
tent, and the threat
of a general strike
in that industry is
fading out..With the
Carnegie-111 i n o i s
corporation, largest
subsidiary of United
.... , States Steel, leading
JohnL.Lewis ^ wa y^ t ^ e biggest
concerns in that industry are grant
ing increases in wages and the 40
hour week, and agreeing to deal
with the unions affiliated with the
C. I. O. This is the first time in
forty-five years that “Big Steel”
has recognized union labor as a
bargaining agency for its em
ployees.
Lewis and Philip Murray, chair
man of the steel workers' organiz
ing committee, were jubilant, but
the Camegie-IUinois corporation is
sued an official statement that toned
them down a bit.
“The company will recognize any
individual, group, or organization as
the spokesmen for those employees
it represents,” the statement said,
“but it will not recognize any single
organization or group as the exclu
sive bargaining agency for all em
ployees.
“Under this policy the status of
the employee representation plan is
likewise unchanged. It will continue
as the spokesman for those of the
employees who prefer that method
of collective bargaining, which has
proved so mutually satisfactory
throughout its existence.”
The General Electric company de
clared its willingness to discuss a
national collective bargaining
agreement with the United Electric
al Workers, a C. I. O. affiliate; and
the indications were that Lewis and
the Appalachian coal operators
would be able to negotiate a new
wage and hour agreement in time to
avert a coal miners' strike.
The C. I. O. announced the forma
tion of the United Shoe Workers of
America with a nucleus of 20,000
members and went after New Eng
land’s shoe industry. Still more im
portant, Lewis and his aids let it
be known that the next target of the
C. I. O. drive would be the textile
industry.
Secretary of Commerce Roper
and Secretary of Labor Perkins ex
pressed much gratification over re
cent developments.
That the public, as usual, will
have to pay for what the worker
gains in all these negotiations was
evidenced by the action of the steel
companies which announced price
Increases of |3 to $8 a ton for semi
finished and finished steel products.
The sit-down strike policy was
tried at Sarnia, Ont., and promptly
was glean a black eye. Fifty em
ployees of the Holmes foundry there
took possession of the plant, but
100 nonstriking workers battled
vhem for two hours, threw them all
out and sent nine to the hospital.
The police did not interfere with
the fight. Shortly after negotiations
opened between the Chrysler motor
corporation and the United Auto
mobile Workers of America, the
union presented resignations of 103
of the 120 employee representatives
on work councils in Chrysler plants
in the Detroit area. The resignations
all said “the great majority of our
constituents are heartily in favor of
the U. A. W. A. as the sole bargain
ing agency to represent them.”
Sit-down strikers in the plant of
the Fansteel Metallurgical corpora
tion at North Chicago, 111., who de
fied court eviction orders, were
routed by a fo**ce of deputies and
police armed with tear gas guns, and
were arrested for . ontempt of court.
Also taken into custody was the
strike leader, Max Adelman, who
had fled to Wisconsin. The strikers
and their friends insisted they would
prevent the reopening of the plant
by strong picket lines and the cor
poration obtained an injunction
against such procedure. The sheriff
said he was prepared to deal with
any act of violence. This is another
C. I. O. strike, and Governor Horner
of Illinois gained no glory in his
efforts to settle it.
Among the many strikes in the
Detroit district was one of 150 em
ployees, mostly girls, of the largest
Woolworth store in Detroit. They
planned to extend the strike to all
other units of the company there,
meanwhile keeping the big store
closed by the sit-down method.
D USINESS men and economists
u again were talking about the
prospects ef inflation after the de
cision of the Supreme court uphold
ing ttie New Deal's gold clause abro
gation act for the second time. The
ruling was made in the case of the
Holyoke Wattr company, which,
moved by • desire to protect it
self against loss in the event that
the dollar should be debased, had
ses to the American
Writing Paper company clauses giv
ing it the privilege at demanding
from the latter payment in gold coin
or bar gold. Now the Holyoke com
pany must be content to accept pay
ment in present depreciated dollars.
The court’s decision was regarded
as removing the last barrier to the
free exercise of authority over mone
tary matters by the administra
tion.
UESTS at “victory dinners” all
^ over the country heard Presi
dent Roosevelt deliver at the feast
in Washington a preliminary appeal
to his party and the nation to sup
port his plan to pack the Supreme
court. He said that a crisis exists
demanding immediate social and
economic legislation to improve the
lot of the common man and that
there is no time to lose, lest a great
calamity, such as a revolution or
the advent of a dictatorship, be vis
ited upon the country in the two or
three years that might be necessary
to remove the obstruction of the
New Deal in the manner prescribed
by existing law.
Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt let his
hearers understand that he has no
intention of seeking a third term in
the White House.
UR War department has finally
decided that the autogyro is s
good thing—long after European na
tions reached the same conclusion.
Secretary Woodring announced that
six autogyros had been purchased
for military purposes at a cost of
$238,482. They are the Kellett KDL
wingless planes, which have a top
speed of 125 miles, a minimum of
16 miles, a cruising speed of 103
mile^f and a cruising range of 3%
hours, or 361 miles. The plane is
powered with a Jacobs 1-4 engine,
which develops 225 b. h. p. at 2,000
r. p. m.
The army air command for years
resisted suggestions for tests of the
autogyro but for the last year it has
been tried out by all branches of the
army and the report was that it was
essential to the modernization of the
army.
Sea. Pittman
** C' REEDOM of the seas” as an
* American policy was aban
doned by the senate when it passed,
by a vote of 62 to 6, the resolution
submitted by Sena
tor Key Pittman on
behalf of the foreign
affairs committee
continuing the Pres
ident’s present pow
er to declare an em
bargo upon the ship
ments of arms, am
munition and imple
ments of war to bel-
igerent nations.
The measure also
provides that the
President may declare it unlawful
for any American vessel or air
craft to carry to warring nations
any articles whatsoever he may
enumerate. However, foreign na
tions may purchase such articles,
arms and munitions not included,
and transport them to their own
countries at their own risk. And
the act will not apply to an Ameri
can republic, such as a South Amer
ican country, engaged in war
against a non-American country
provided that the American republic
is not co-operating with a non-Amer
ican state in such a war.
Senators Borah and Johnson
fought valiantly against adoption of
the resolution but when it came to
a vote only four others supported
them. These were Austin, Bridges,
Gerry and Lodge.
TP HERE is war on between Mayor
^ Fiorella H. La Guardia of New
York and Reichsfuehrer Hitler of
Germany. The mayor, addressing
a gathering of Jewish women, pro
posed that a “Hall of Horrors” be
erected for the city’s 1939 world fair
which would include a figure of
“that brown-shirted fanatic who is
menacing the peace of the world.”
Hitler himself made no retort but
Ambassador Luther was directed to
protest to the State department. The
Berlin press raged against La Guar
dia, one of the mildest names ap
plied to him being “scoundrel super-
Jew.”
A FTER a lively debate the house
* * of commons indorsed Great
Britain’s, huge rearmament pro
gram by axvote of 243 to 134. For
eign Secretatv Anthony Eden, who
outlined the pYlpciples of the Brit
ish foreign policy, repudiated the
policy of universal military com
mitments for Europe as “unwork
able” with Germamy and other
powers absent from the League of
Nations.
Next day the navy announced that
its share of the rearmament pro
gram would cost $525,325,000. this
including the construction of 80 war
ships. Sir Samuel Hoars, first lord
of the admiralty, said only $135,-
000,000 of the cost will be borne by
Britain’s new $2,000,000,000 defense
loan, forcing the nation’s tax payers
to dip into their pockets for the ad
ditional $300425,000.
thinks
about:
Irvin S. Cobb
Privacy for tbs Whidsr*s.
S ANTA MONICA, CALIF.—
“In order to live quietly and
escape as much public attention
as possible—“ I’m quoting the
dispatch—“the duke of Windsor
and Mrs. Simpson, following
their marriage, will seek a se
cluded residence in the United
States.” _______
The idea is not new. Hoping to
kill Stanford White in some very
remote secret
nook, Harry Thaw
picked out a N e w
York roof garden on
the first night of a
big musical comedy.
And only lately "one
of our movie queens,
striving to get away
from, it all, put on
all her portable jew
elry and went to the
Broadway preview
of one of those colos
sal, titanic, gigantic,
mastodonic supersfcreen epics, only
to come forth comjplaining that one
could never flee to the most private
of hiding places without being an
noyed by crowds.
So America is certainly the right
place for the . newlyweds’ honey
moon—where nobody will stare at
them, or follow them, or yell at
them or ask for autographs or pho
tographs or interviews or try to
tear their clothes off for souvenirs.
Why, just off-hand, I can think
of fully three spots where famous
folks may enjoy such immunity—
Mount McKinley in the winter.
Death Valley in the summer and
Alcatraz island all the year round.
• • •
Giving Up Earl Browder.
Ip OR years it has been my regular
1 custom to give up something
during Lent. Last year I gave up
boiled turnips—I never eat boiled
turnips, anyhow—and jokes about
Mae West.
The year before, I gave up “An
thony Adverse” (at page 2,749) and
nearly all Little Theater move
ments. The year before I gave up
Upton Sinclair as my spiritual guide
in matters political.
For this year I decided to give up
Mr. Earl Browder. I don’t quarrel
with his sincerity. He happens,
though, to be the outstanding expo
nent in America of the communist
movement, which has done so much
for human happiness and human
progress in the countries that tried
it, such as Russia.
• • •
Victory Dinners.
\X7HO says New Dealers aren’t
smart business men? That
$100 victory dinner means a clear
profit of $94.70, figuring the food at
$5 a head and the combined
speeches at 30 cents, which, even if
they average up to most after-din
ner speeches, is indeed a high valu
ation.
Back in Andy Jackson’s day you
you could pay off a campaign deficit
with hoop poles and coon pelts. And
in Thomas Jefferson’s time the
strongest pack mule in Virginia
couldn’t tote $100 worth of vittles.
So, naturally Jeffersonian simplic
ity and Jacksonian thrift will be
extolled.
Presumably the Republicans will
follow suit with a nonvictory din
ner or donation shower for John
Hamilton’s hope chest. Needy
guests will wear Liberty Leaguers’
old clothes, while the idea of hav
ing Canada annex Maine and Ver
mont will be strongly opposed.
Congressman Ham Fish will
speak—such being his habit—un
less, for economy’s sake, they
switch his name around hind part
before and serve him as two
courses.
• • •
Signs of Spring.
UT here the first sign of spring
^ is not the birds coming back.
Mainly, our birds don’t flit away.
They go mute awhile, being practi
cally the only residents that even
temporarily refrain from bragging
about the climate, or, in case of a
cold snap, explaining that this is
very unusual.
With us the herald of spring is
the surf-bather—that hardy adven
turer who plunges in and comes
forth as blue as an Easter egg and
as deflated-looking as a toy balloon
on the morning after circus day. Be
cause the Pacific is never what
you’d call a real cozy ocean and
especially it isn’t following a chill-
some winter.
We make fun of the bathing suits
our mothers wore. But middle-aged
persons of both sexes disporting on
the beach in the modem skimpies
present a morbid, not to say grue
some, spectacle, except to students
of the adult human leg, including
the slabby-shanked, the full-calfed,
the bowed, the double-jointed, the
buckled, the knock-kneed, the spav
ined, the ankle-sprung, the heavy-
hocked, the varicose-veined, the
fur-bearing, etc., etc.
Sometimes a fellow gets to think
ing that right young babies and raw
oysters are almost the only things
that should ever be exhibited on the
half-eh ell
IRVIN S. COM
*»
Washington
Digest j
Usgest
National Topics internrpU’d
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
Spending Youth
Youth is- not like a new
garment, which we can keep fresh
and fair by wearing sparingly.
Youth, while we have it, we must
wear daily, and it will fast wear
away.—J. Foster.
a
Washington.—Many times in these
columns, I have called attention to
the confusion that
Afore
Confunon
has come to he ao ministration policy any more than
much a part of
the federal gov
ernment’s general administration. I
have talked about the bluster and
the ballyhoo and the cross purposes
at which so many pieces of the New
Deal program have operated, and
another outstanding example of this
condition now appears.
Two governmental agencies, one
a strictly New Deal agency, the
other with a beginning in the Hoover
administration, find themselves
working directly in opposition to
each other—and in the end taxpay
ers will pay.
It is not the fault of the Home
Owners Loan corporation that it
finds itself in a position where it is
going to be landlord to something
like 160,000 pieces of real , estate—
largely homes.
When the government went into
the business of loaning money on
private residence it had experience
upon which to base its program.
Many years ago the farm loan sys
tem was organized with none too
happy results. In the late days of
the Hoover administration, howev
er, three or four politicians were
able to drive through the legislation
creating a system of government
loans on residences as distinguished
from farms.
I predicted in these columns some
three years ago that the govern
ment, through the HOLC, was going
to be the proud possessor of a lot of
real estate. My statements at that
time were based upon what I had
seen happen in the case of the loans
on farms. The article brought me
direct criticism from two or three
places in the government—but at
this time I can report that the
HOLC, before another year passes,
will own something like 160,000
homes.
It is always difficult for a mort
gage or bank institution, privately
owned, to dispose of property which
it has been forced to repossess
through default of the borrowers. It
is much more difficult for the fed
eral government to dispose of that
type of property, try as it may to
get rid of the parcels.
So, we find one governmental
agency serving as a landlord on a
wholesale scale and with signs por
tending moves by politicians that
will in the end cost the taxpayers
hundreds of millions of dollars.
These politicians are proposing leg
islation in congress to cut the in
terest rate on the loans now in
default and other loans as well;
the principal of the loans on the
defaulted mortgages and they are
seeking means by which those in
default may have unlimited time in
which to make the payments in a
way that, superficially at least,
makes the proposals appear actu
ally as an outright gift to those
who have bought homes under the
government loan plan.
There is no way to tell now what
will happen to these various pro
posals. Undoubtedly, most of them
will fill by the wayside and re
ceive no consideration in congress.
Yet, on the basis of observation of
many such movements, it does not
seem far wrong to guess that the
politicians in congress will accom
plish something in the way of re
duction of these debts where the
defaulters bring pressure to bear
on the home town political ma
chines.
• • •
CrotM
Purpotet
ministration.
Now, concerning the other govern
mental agency involved in the game
of cross purposes
that I mentioned.
I refer to the fed
eral housing ad-
Like the Home Own
ers Loan corporation, it is not the
fault of the housing administration
that it finds itself in a tough spot.
It is commanded by the President
and by congress to proceed with a
gigantic housing program, to loan
money on new homes wherever it
can persuade contractors to build
and individuals to buy. ,Jt is to be
remembered also that loans on
these properties are guaranteed—
the legislation calls them insured
loaps—and that makes the federal
housing administration liable in
case the new home buyers fail to
meet their commitments.
The housing administration an
nounced its program to encourage
wholesale.home building throughout
the nation only recently and it was
by coincidence, I am sure, that the
housing program was announced al
most simultaneously with the deter
mination by the HOLC to start fore
closure proceedings ir< order to
maintain its own .solvency.
Thus, to bring the picture to a
focus, we find one governmental
agency that has loaned hundreds of
millions of dollars oa residences be
ing forced to foreclose in order to
protect the money it has spent, at
least in part, and a second govern
mental agency entering the field si
multaneously with a gigantic pro
gram io which more hundreds of
mi 11 ions will bo expoodod and more
people encouraged to place them
selves in debt.
I cannot criticize the housing ad-
I can criticize the program of the
HOLC. The point is that there is
simply no co-ordination in govern
ment policies as they concern these
two agencies, and consequently, one
group is building new homes and an
other is taking over old homes for
which the buyers have been unable
to pay. In my humble opinion, it
does not make good sense.
I have heard considerable talk
among influential New Dealers to
the effect that new homes will sell
more easily than the old ones and
therefore the housing administration
plans are held to be justified. Yet,
it does seem to be a perfectly nat
ural and logical thing that new
homes become old homes as time
elapses and there are many who
believe that the government, be
cause it has guaranteed the loans
on new homes, will have to take
over a large percentage of them as
well. That is, it will have to take
over at least a normal percentage
because whether the loans are made
by private financing companies or
by the government, a considerable
number of buyers are unable to ful
fill their obligations. It is not al
ways the fault of the buyers. Sick
ness, loss of jobs or a thousand and
one other circumstances may de
velop that prevents the buyer of a
home from carrying through his
cherished dream of own the roof
over his head. It is the way of life
that a certain percentage will, and
of necessity must, fall by the way-
side.
• • •
I never have been able to agree
that the federal government has any
business in the
Wrong ^ financing
Principle homes or extend
ing credit to indi
viduals. I have always criticized
the Hoover administration for cre
ating the Reconstruction Finance
corporation and the Roosevelt ad
ministration for expanding its oper
ations. The principle is wrong be
cause it uses money either borrowed
by the government or paid into tha
Treasury by the taxpayers to fi
nance, to build up, personal funds of
individuals or corporations.
It seems quite clear to me that
the HOLC, following the experiences
of the form loan system, justifies
the conclusion that the federal-gov
ernment cannot successfully engage
in that field. In the first instance,
I think it is bad business for gov
ernment to go beyond the protection
of life, liberty and property, with
all the implications carried in those
three words as a governmental pol
icy. Further, and with much more
emphasis, 1 am sure that any time
government engages in that field it
opens the way for politicians to be
tempted, to be forced, to do things
in a legislative way that cannot be
justified as economically sound.
Earlier in this article, I suggested
the difficulty always surrounding
the sale of property that has been
taken back from the original pur
chasers. Officials of private mort
gage companies and other financial
institutions have grown many a
gray hair in their efforts to recover
money loaned in cases where the
borrowers have met with unfortu
nate circumstances. The govern
ment, finding itself in the position
of the private lender insofar as re
possession of property is concerned,
has about one-half the chance of
liquidation that the private lender
would have. And beyond that, there
is too much chance for favoritism,
scheming and even crookedness
When the government attempts to
do a job like the HOLC now is fac
ing. I say that regardless of the
honest purpose that I know char
acterizes the present HOLC man
agement. -
• • * .
It may not have occurred to soms
but the fact that the federal govern
ment through the
U. S. a HOLC will own all
Taxpayer of these houses
which had to be
taken back, means that the federal
government becomes a taxpayer in
every city, county and state where
it owns these homes. At the rate
things are going and assuming that
the ratio of delinquencies and de
faults continue as they do for pri
vate lending agencies, another four
years will see the HOLC in posses
sion of a minimum of 250,000 par
cels of real estate. Of course, I
imagine, the local tax collectors will
be glad to see the federal govern
ment taking over the property be
cause they will then collect their
taxes. But where does that money
come from? Sooner or later, di
rectly or indirectly, it comes from
the taxpayers of the nation. It is
not a pleasant outlook.
And who knows but what there
may be more decisions like that of
the Florida judge who refused tp
grant the foreclosure plea of tha
HOLC attorneys on a twelve hun
dred dollar mortgage on the boms
at a car-enter.
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How Mony
Pennies Your
Child’s Life*
Don't Try to “Save” on Home
Remedies—Ask Your Doctor
There is one point, on which prac
tically all doctors agree. That is:
Don't give uour child unknown remedies
without asking your doctor first.
All mothers know this. But some
times the instinct to save a few
pennies by buying “something just
as good” overcomes caution.
When it comes to the widely used
children’s remedy — “milk of mag
nesia” — many doctors for over half
a century have said “PHILLIPS.”
For Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia is the
standard of the world. Safe for chil
dren.
Keep this in mind, and say “PHIL
LIPS’ MILK OF MAGNESIA”
when you buy. Comes now, also in
tablet form. Get the form you prefer.
But see that what you get is labeled
“Genuine Phillips’ Milk of Mag
nesia.” 25/ for a big box of the tablets
at drug stores.
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Culture Needed
The enjoyment of art demands
a certain degree of culture.
bad Sqrain dosage
in each tablet
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cenuin'e pure aspirin
Refinement Bent
Decency arises from a natural
predilection for refinement.
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may need a physician's treatment
Cardul has two widely demon
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the monthly period; and (2) to aid
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Sentinels v
of vHealth
Don’t Neglect Them 1
Nttura designed the kidney* to do a
marveloue job. Their task ie to keep tho
flowing Mood stream free of an exeerj of
toxic Irapurltice. The act of living—Uf*
constantly producing waate
natter the kidneys must remove from
the blood U good health te to endura.
When tha kidneya fail to (unction as
Natura intandsd, there te retention of
waste that may cause body-wide dte.
trees. One may suffer nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dfssfoce^
getting up nights, awaiting. pnAnew
under the ayes—fact Ured, nervous, all
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