By EDWARD
NCE more it has been demon-
strated that the general strike Is
not & successful weapon in the hands
of organized labor in the United States
a in industrial disputes.
The San Francisco
unions, dominated for
the moment by radi-
cals, undertook to use
this weapon, and with-
intwodays were
forced to admit their
failure. Governor Mer.
riam, Mayor Rossi
and other officials,
strongly backed by
public opinion, were
that San
Harry Bridges determined
the surrounding com-
should not be deprived
the necessities of life, that the em-
bargo on food shipments should be
broken and that transportation should
not be stopped. Nearly 8,000 members
of the National Guard were mobilized
to ald the and their efforts
were seconded by hastily formed bands
of vigilantes which raided the head-
quarters and gathering places of the
The central committee
the strike soon realized
Francisco and
munities of
police,
Communists.
in charge of
the movement was collapsing and the
conservative members, regaining con
trol, relaxed the restrictions, and made
an offer of arbitration under certain
conditio
On Thursday ti
formally called off
dered back to work.
General Johnson, NRA administra-
tor. acting as spokesman for the fed-
ns,
was
or-
ie general strike
i
and the men
on hand determined to bring about a
peaceful settlement. The Pacific coast
maritime behalf of which
the mass was called, re-
mained a for the
longshoremen workers
were
strike, on
walkout
a wm
ficult problem,
and maritime
insistent ths the
in their case, control of the “hiring
halls” » subjected to ar-
bitration,
To the ge person the whole
sasonable and unnec-
like their
the west
thing looked
essary, The lo
fellow workers all along
coast, have been on strike for changed
working and were
by the marine workers and teamsters,
Then Joseph P. R
dent of the :
agreement tha
to work pendir
labor disputes bo appoin
by President jut Harry
Bridges, an Australian radical who is
head maritime workers,
gained control of the and
absolutely blocked the move for arbi-
tration, persuading the men to repudi-
ate the Ryan agreement. In the unions
of the San metropolitan
area it is sald the conservatives out-
number the but the latter
are trained in the tactics of intimida-
tion and are seeking to wreck the
trades unions for the benefit of the
cause of Communism,
Mayor Angelo J. Rossi announced a
pledge to run every “Communistic ag-
ftator” out of San Francisco. The
pledge, announced through an emer-
gency citizens’ committee, said:
“1 pledge to you that I, as chief ex-
ecutive in San Francisco, to the full
extent of my authority, will run out
of San Francisco every Communistic
agitator, and this is going to be a con-
tinuing policy in San Francisco."
noremen,
conditions, joined
national presi-
signed
n would return
and a
en, an
pitration
ard was
Roosevelt.
of the local
situation
Francisco
radicals,
HERE was disquieting strike news»
from many parts of the country.
The unions of Portland, Ore, were
pushing their plans for a general
strike, and their officials sald nothing
could now be done to prevent it. The
truck drivers of Minneapolis and thelr
helpers voted for a renewal of their
strike which in May tied up trans-
portation and resulted In fatal riots.
Representatives of 40 out of 42
locals of the United Textile Workers
in Alabama decided on a statewide
strike which will affect 18,000 opera-
tives. The date was not announced.
Demands made to the employers in-
clude: Thirty hour week with $12 min-
fmum pay, abolition of the “stretch-
out” system, reinstatement of all jobs
abolished under the stretchout sys
tem; reemployment of all workers
discharged for union activity and rec-
ognition of the textile workers’ union
for collective bargaining under provi-
sions of the NRA.
Employees of Walter J. Kohler in
Kohler village, Wisconsin, are out on
strike and began picketing the plant,
though it has been closed down since
July 4. These workers for whom Koh
ter built and malntained an “ideal”
fndustrial town and who have been
treated with remarkable generosity by
the company, demand recognition of
their union, a minimum wage of 63
cents an hour and a 30-hour week.
The company has Its own employees’
union, a minimum wage of 40 cents
an hour, and a 40-hour week.
NSTITUTIONALITY of the Bank-
head cotton act Is to be tested in
the federal courts. Gaston Therrell of
Columbus, Miss, has served notice
that he will bring the sult In the
United States district court at Mer.
fdian, directing it against Henry A.
Wallace, secretary of agriculture, and
W. PICKARD
in the state charged with execution
of the act's provisions,
OUSING conditions in the United
States amply demonstrate the
need for new housing, Acting Secre-
tary Dickinson of the Commerce de-
partment sald in making public results
of a national “real property inventory,”
now being conducted by the Commerce
department.
Sixteen per cent of 1811402 dwell:
ings In 00 cities are in crowded condi-
tion “or worse,” Mr. Dickinson sald.
An additional 16.8 per cent are in need
of structural repairs and 44.7 per cent
need minor repairs. The Incomplete
returns show 32,442 houses, or 2.34 per
cent of the total, as “unfit for human
habitation.”
Nop DAKOTA was In a state of
i political chaos, with two men bat-
tiling for the governorship and the con-
trol of the state government and Na-
og ge tional Guard, William
H. Langer,
to a
State
according
ruling the
Supreme court,
was no longer entitled
to hold the office
governor because
his recent
on charges
spiracy to defraud
federal govern-
The court
that he must
his office to
Langer defied the
of
of
of
conviction
of con
the
ment, de
creed
Ole H. Olson
Gov, Ole H, Olson.
give up
moned the National Guard to support
him and session of
the legi which he dominates,
Olson countermanded these orders,
and Adit. Gen, Earle R. Sarles seemed
pgh he kept two
he National Guard on
to quell possible dis
reported that thou
were on thelr way
wey 11 ¥ +f
called a special
ture,
sands of farmers
to the capital city determined to sup-
port L sr in whi he
ght der 4 It
would
itever action
was believed
vote wholesal
nts of state officials, possi
t. who voted to oust Langer,
» Senator A. B. in
address at Biama declared
had “pret xl
Pm
JONZer,
to base
se}
MIEN
this state
decision as interpreting
constitution of
*“The
he sald,
Supreme court of this state”
itself with the
an endeavor to con
“has linked
federal courts In
tinue the persecution of one who has
dared to be a leader for the common
Gov. William Langer.
and several co-defendants
were convicted June, The federal
government charged that the Langer
group forced federal employees to con-
political fund. This fund,
it was sald, was collected supposedly
for a The government
contended that the money eventually
went into the campaign chest, Langer
soon afterward was renominated by
an vote, and following
this he was sentenced to 18 month in
prison.
people—namely, -
Langer
in
tribute to a
newspaper,
overwhelming
ENATOR WILLIAM GG. McADOO
of California was too fond of pol-
ities and travel to suit his wife, whose
interests were In sculpture, painting
and home life. So the former Eleanor
Wilson, daughter of the war-time
President, went before a judge In Los
Angeles with her complaint and in
42 minutes had been granted an inter.
locutory divorce decree. “Mental
eruelty” was the charge, and Mrs
McAdoo testified that the senator had
been living almost entirely in Wash.
ington for two years, and that it was
impossible for her to reside in the
National Capital because the climate
there was injurious to her health,
Senator McAdoo did not contest the
divorce, and there was a property set-
tlement the details of which were not
made public. The custody of the two
children was vested In both parents.
It was revealed that the McAdoos have
been separated since last December,
AYS of torrential raln In the
mountains of southern Poland re-
sulted in raging floods that poured
through the valleys, drowning perhaps
as many as three hundred persons.
More than 55,000 were without food
and shelter. The property loss was
tremendous, all the crops just har
vested being ruined.
Many popular resorts crowded by
summer vacationists were cut off.
Eighty-three camps of Boy and Girl
Scouts were evacuated, after the
youths experienced harrowing difficul-
ties,
v
IR several hours earthquakes shook
all Panama and Costa Rica, but the
Panama canal was unhurt, The most
serious damage was at David, Panama,
not far from the Costa Riean border.
There many bulldings fell and scores
of persons were injured. Considerable
losses were sustained also at Puerto
Armuelles, the United Fruit company's
Pacific side banana headquarters. One
American soldier was killed by Jump-
ing from a barracks window at Fort
Davis,
RESIDENTIAL SECRETARY MAR-
VIN MINTYRE announced that
the President had created a special
committee to formulate a new fed-
eral policy concern-
ing the generation
and distribution of
electricity, and in
Washington this was
looked upon as a
probable move for
the nationalization of
the power industry.
In a letter to Secre-
tary Ickes asking
him to head the com-
mittee, Mr. Roosevelt
sald: “Its duty win Sec'y Ickes
be to develop a plan for the closer
co-operation of the several factors in
our electrical power supply—both pub-
He and private—~whereby national pol-
fey In power matters may be unified
and electricity be made more broadly
avallable at cheaper rates to industry,
to domestic, and, particularly, to agri-
cultural consumers.
“As time goes orn, there undoubtedly
will be legislation on the subject of
holding companies and for the regula-
tion of electric current in interstate
commerce, This committee should con-
sider what lines should be followed in
shaping up this legislation, Since a
number of the states have commis-
sions having jurisdiction over Intra-
state power matters, it is necessary
that whatever plan is developed should
have regard to the powers of these
variond state commissions as well as
of the states in
go"
general.
Besides Mr. Ickes, who Is to act as
chairman, the committee will consist
of Dr. Elwood Mead, burean of recla-
mation; Frank R. MeNinch, federal
power commission: Morris 1. Cooke,
of the PWA Mississippl valley com-
mittee: Maj Edward M. Mark.
ham, chief of army engineers; Robert
E. Healy, of the federal stock ex-
change cotnmission: David E. Lilllen-
hal, Tennessee valley authority, and
T. W, Norcross, assistant chief of the
forest service,
Gen,
K¥6 GEORGE of England offi
cially Mersey tunnel
CONNEC g Liverpool and Birkenhead,
the largest underwater highway of Hts
kind in the world. More than half &
mile longer than the Holland
of New York, the tube under the Mer-
sey river stretches 11,380 feet from the
tirkenhead., In addi-
in tunnel, which accom-
abreast,
ributaries connecting the
¢ the whole undertak-
th of 15.405 feet.
ngineers
£3 tube,
om is Sir Basil Mott,
hey owe much to the experience
n engineers gained on the Hol-
They waited until
unnel had
npleting their plans for the
oject’'s ventilation plant,
opened the
tunnel
main entrance in
tion to the m
modntes for vehicles there
for the
chief
CO.
responsible
the S060 000
the
been operated
Jaane HALL has a8 new chief
tain in the person of James J. Dool-
ing. at the urgent demand of
Postmaster General Farley. He took
his seat at the head of the once great
Democratic organization and an
» that he would undertake to
do two things. The first ig to restore
the society by ellm-
foating factional disputes: the second,
elected
harmony within
and perhaps harder task, Is to change
the New York point of view toward
Tammany.
AW Germany and most of the rest
of t world heard Adolf Hitler
justify his bloody purging of the Nazi
party, involving the violent deaths of
77 persons, and his
defiance of his ene
mies within and with
out the reich. The
chancellor In his
speech before a com-
plaisant reichstag em-
ployed his well knowa
gift of oratory to the
Hmit, and unless the
Berlin correspondents
are mistaken, he won
to his support the
Chancellor oat majority of Ger
Hitler mans who were wae
vering in their allegiance to him.
Hitler not only defended the slaugh-
ter of the alleged conspirators, but
also gave warning that a like fate
awaits all other “traitors”
“Every one is to know for all fuo-
ture times.” he said, “that, If he raises
his hand for attack mgainst the state,
certain death will be his lot.”
Far from apologizing for the Kill-
ings, he shouted: “I gave orders to
shoot those who were mainly respon.
sible for treachery. 1 gave further
orders to burn out into the raw flesh
the pest boil of our internal well
poisoning and the poisoning of foreign
countries. 1 was the supreme court of
the land for 24 hours”
His indictment of Roehm and the
circle of perverts that surrounded him
was terrific in its detalls and con
vincing to most of his countrymen.
Just before the delivery of his ad.
dress, Hitler and his government were
notified by Great Britain and Italy
that they approved the eastern Euro-
pean security pacts that France Is
fostering. These would include Rus-
gla, Poland, the Baltic states and
Czechoslovakia, and unless Germany
also signed up the result would be the
forging of an iron band around the
reich.
Hitler alluded to this plan In de
flant language. He sald:
“if our trade balance, through eco-
nomic barriers In foreign markets or
through political boycott, becomes a
passive one, we shall, through our own
ability and thanks to the genius of
our inventors and chemists, find ways
of making ourselves independent of
those raw materials which we our
_selyes are in a position to manufacture
or find substitutes for”
he
+
by William
Bruckart
=
Washington,—Unless all signs fail
there is going to be a determined
stand by many of the
Fight for country's business in
Limit on NRA terests for a limita.
tion on the provis
fons of the national industrial recov-
ery act when that question comes up
for congressional action next January
or February. An undercurrent of in-
formation, to the effect that a move-
ment to that end is under way, has
begun to seep into Washington in a
growing volume. It indicates that we
will hear much about NRA during the
coming campaigns. Indeed, some ob-
servers are convinced that President
Roosevelt already is attempting to get
the administration's side of the story
to the country by sending General
Johnson, recovery administrator, out
for a tour of speechmaking to sell the
blue eagle to the country.
The President, it will be remem-
bered, already has declared that NRA
must be made a permanent part of our
economic structure, 1 have found few
persons who disagree with that. There
is a difference of views, however, and
it is emphatic, as to the extent to
which NRA should go in managing the
business on a permanent
It is upon that question, there
From what I ean pick up around
here, it is certain that a considerable
siness interests is de
I apply
maxi
and min
the
child labor.
hours of labor
and to abolition of
and elimination
sweat
of
in their opposi-
act of
that give fix
prices, to control production and to
grants of authority that bring p
power to
rivate
en
ever snooping government agents want
to dig into private affairs o
Frankly, 1 thin
-
A |
BCTeG
t wh
f ind
uals or corporations,
feature has done more to ¢
any other phase of the
under which it operates the
hand,
cheapest of individuals can oppose any
tn
only the meanest and
move that is designed to provide better
i “ : : § » $Y PH is
working conditions and hours of labor
se who live by the sweat
While obviously n
result of this
date, the opinions
ohservers bes
that there is quite a popular ap
peal in the argument h is being
revision
and limitation ©
generally will go
propositions that work for betterment,
but which do not at the same time in
clude invasion of what they believe to
be their personal rights, The
tration contends, b that exten
sion of the recovery act powers—or at
least, retention of the powers now ex-
fstant in NRA-—are not an invasion of
personal rights beyond the necessity
for creating greater human happiness
But the hard-headed man,
great or small, is going to be hard to
convince, it seems to me, that govern
ment control to the extent of fixing his
prices and doing some of the other
things now permitted is not an undue
messing with his personal affairs,
The lessons of the four-year depres
gion have been so severe that there is
little evidence of Important opposition
to curtailment of hours of labor. Like
wise, sound business leaders cannot
Justify opposition to minimum wages
nor can they find a safe ground upon
which to propose use of child labor or
operation under sweat shop conditions.
Politically, therefore, labor will be in
terested only In those four items; the
women vote of the country probably
will be interested only In accomplish:
ment of those ends, and business in
terests worthwhile will not object.
» . »
ttention was called above to the
tour which General Johnson is making
in behalf of the
blue eagle of the
NRA. and it will
be recalled that
some months ago 1 reported on the
probability of changes In NRA man
agement. During General Johnson's
absence, & board of five men consti
tutes the administrative authority of
NRA. It seems to be in the nature
of an experiment. If it works out sat.
fsfactorily, we may expect to see the
veteran army officer retire to private
life. He has said as much. He wants
to get back into private business, Mr.
Roosevelt, however, likes the fighting
qualities of General Johnson, and it
is still possible that he will remain
on the job. He is responsible for the
general plan of NRA administration
and the theories embodied in the va
rious codes. It would seem, therefore,
that the man who worked out the
codes should stay along and sift
them down to the permanent level, if
permanency be the goal,
Whether General Johnson continues
at the helm, or whether the manage
ment of that work is entrusted finally
to Qeneral Johnson's hand-picked
group of five, it is certain that the
summer and autuinn will witness elim:
ination of many petty features of
codes that have proved to be only an:
noyances. I belicve there Is agree.
ment among unbiased thinkers that
Gevelopment of codes at the rate nec
essary to make the Initial drive for
RIODE
adminis
‘2
t
IWEver,
business
Johnson Wants
to Retire
recovery naturally brought many pro-
visions of a worthless character. Many
times, it has been shown, those pro-
visions have very nearly upset the
good that was obviously going to re
sult from fair practice agreements,
The job the five-man board has to do,
if it remains as a successor to Gen-
eral Johnson, is to go through the
codes with a fine-toothed comb and
eliminate all of the questionable and
useless provisions, My opinion is, If
this were done, there would be much
less opposition to the codes and con-
sequently to continuation of the In-
dustrial recovery act
The prevalent thought In Washing-
ton, then, is that as a result of
annoying features contained in
codes, the administration is likely
pull hard to revise as many of
is possible before next winter,
of this work obviously will have to be
al
effect as may be will be reaped in the
ballot
done before election and such politic
boxes,
» ® *.
valid who Is
Invalid
Perks Up
ervthing hits him
not right and medic
and a thousand
furnish
convalescing
through
a stage
genuine grouch,
wrongly.
ines are
and one other thi
grounds for :
condition nearly
time when the pati
and takes a few steps again,
The which 1 have
referred is such 8 common occurrence
that it seems to me
illustration of the condition In which
American business now 1s represented
to be, It is highly signific In the
according
husiness has encugl
no good,
YE precedes
gets out of
circumstance to
there Is no better
ant.
irst Instance, shows,
the experts, tha
new life blood
against admi
that
Vigorous
nistratio
frien ore
Cie Cramp
iE £0
ing to be a unit in any one course of
ite «¢ Prosi in. recovery
phases of the
to be attacked, even
nation
parently
al commit
is sett]
terests apparently
TT y
guishin
are distin
and reform
i the comm
security sales and
Creat
exchanges, as an
do not see how the
ship or business it
to get far in criticism of Q
it is solely a refo
the other hand, ©
and will attack su
government
electric power in
ferests oar
propositio
iness inleresis cal
ch projects as U
and
compelilaot
manufacture sale
{ pen
such
with private plants as is takin
place under the
Tennessee valley.
experiment
* ® *
Not the least
are arising out of the work so speed
fly done in
NRA and
covery
the horde
questions now on the borizon,
these stands out. It relates
rights of citizens after they
of the problems that
Legal
Questions pe
the
have
to
legal lights tell me it runs straight
back to a base iu the Constitution of
the United States,
It is an old legal maxim that after a
person has accepted benefits from a
statute or regulation, which means a
voluntary action, that person may not
be heard to question the validity of
the provision from which those benefits
accrued. Now, business men signed
the codes under what NRA lawyers
claim was a voluntary act. Having
done that, it is claimed they cannot
test the constitutionality of the law or
regulations (or the codes) written un-
der that law,
It seems, however, that there is a
difference of opinion between the law-
yers of NRA and the lawyers af the
Department of Justice. Many lawyers
outside of the government are under
stood to be gathering up all of the
pleces of argument they can find re
specting the positions of the two gov.
ernmental groups.
As 1 understand it, lawyers repre
senting code signers have put forth the
argument that the signing was not a
voluntary action. They contend that
throughout the making of codes, Gen
eral Johnson and his aides consistently
stressed the point that unless those to
whom the code was to apply, agreed
the administrator would write a code
for them and they would be bound by
it. I never heard it used as a threat,
but it nevertheless is a fact that most
of those who had dealings with the
NRA were afrald they would suffer
from the licensing of their plants If
they falied to sign the codes,
These technicalities may appear in
xperiment With Honey
as Source of Vinegar
nime—
Chemists of the United States De.
partment of Agriculture are now ex-
perimenting with the production of
vinegar from honey, This transfor
mation of the sweet to the sour may
be accomplished by fermentation, as
has long been known.
The present studies are directed
to finding just which of the honeys
not in strong demand for table use
are desirable as sources of vinegar,
and the best methods ment.
tion to produce a vinegar of such
exceptional quality that ft
command a premium on the mi
sufficient to make it profitable
use honey for the purpose
some of the aroma of the honey
be carried over into the vinegar to
give It a desirable and
make the honey vinegar a table dell.
cacy the process would not be profs
ftable there are « and
cheaper sources of vinegar,
¥
of fer
iret
to
Unless
Can
“bouquet”
because
ner
A Few Drops Every
Night and Morning
Will Promote a Clean,
Healthy Condition!
At All Drug Stores
Write Murioe Co. Dpt. W, Chicago for Free Book
And Destructive
is pr
g In the world,
I§ CRAZY WATER
EPSOM SALTS
over N.B.C. network
NOT A MAN-MADE DRUG
Idle
est thir
curiosity
Tells why natural mineral
water is so often beneficia’
for ‘rheumatic’ aches
and pains
the same effect 2
Vater Crystals.”
Da Frren:®
GENE ARNOLD:
you say that, beca
opinion is worth a g
you explain a little
What are the true facts?”
» De. Frees: “The facts are that it
has always been hard for a few doubt-
ing Thomases and skeptics to believe
that old Mother Nature knows how to
prepare and compound natural min-
eral waters in a way that cannot be
duplicated in a laboratory. In the
course of my studies 1 have found
that those same doubts were expressed
Two Thousand Years Ago, in the
early days of natural mineral water
therapy, The truth is that natural
mineral water and natural crystals
from such waters are as different
from synthetic or artificial salts as
day from night And that's why
the medical profession has always
been in favor of the Natural Wat-
ers — has always insisted that they
are the one product of Nature that
cannot be imitated successfully by
man. People have tried for many,
many years to make up synthetic con-
coctions to take their place but they
do not have the same effect. The
predominating chemical constituent of
Crazy Water Crystals is sodium sul-
phate, but it is in its Natural State,
and has a far different physiological
effect than the synthetic salts made in
a laboratory. When you buy salts for
a few cents you get just what you
pay for—a dose of salts. But
you use Crazy Water Crystals, you
get undiluted minerals in their natu-
ral state, taken from natural mineral
water by evaporation with nothing
No, 1t 1s
a
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