THE CENTRE
Strike—Senator Lewis
Says Democrats Don’t
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT took a
hand in the textile strike by ap-
pointing a board of Inquiry. The mem-
bers he named are Gov. John G. Wigant
g ; of New Hampshire,
Marion Smith of At
lanta, Ga., and Ray-
mond V. Ingersoll,
borough president of
Brooklyn, N. XY. Mr.
Smith is an attorney
and the son of the late
Senator Hoke Smith,
This boafd was ap
pointed on the recom-
i mendation of the na-
tional labor relations
John G. Wigant board and Its duties
were thus outlined:
1. To Inquire into the general char.
acter and extent of the complaints of
workers in the cotton textile, wool,
rayon, silk and allied industries,
2. Inquire into problems confronting
the employers in sald industries.
3. Consider ways and means of meet-
ing sald problems and compiaints,
4. Exercise in connection with sald
industries powers authorized to be con.
ferred by the first section of public
resolution 44.
5. On request of the parties to labor
dispute, act as a board of voluntary
arbitration or select a person or agency
for voluntary arbitration.
The President directed that the board
should report to him, through the sec
retary of labor, not later than Octo-
ber 1.
Starting Immediately after Labor
day, the strike spread rapidly and with-
in a short time about 886,000 workers
had quit their Jobs. This would indl-
cate the walkout was approximately
50 per cent effective over the entire
cotton, woolen and silk Industry, which
normally employs in the neighborhood
of 650.000 workers.
Leaders of the strike claimed that
450,000 had quit at that time and that
more were joining the walkout daily.
Predictions of violence were fulfilled,
for there were bloody riots around the
mills in New England, Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina and sev-
ernl deaths resnited. Tn the southern
states the National Guard was mob
flized,
EORGE A, SLOAN, president of
Cotton Textile Institute, who at
first claimed that two-thirds of the
workers had refused to join the strike,
later admitted that he ra
was wrong and sald:
*This thing is getting
worse by the hour.”
He added that the re-
ports he had received
showed that additional
milis were closing, and
said:
“I am deeply dis
tvessed to learn that
blood has been shed J
in Georgia. These sad
events make It plain G. A. Sloan
that the forces unleashed by the strike
leaders are now out of their control
*“This 1s no longer to be viewed as
the ordinary Industrial warfare which
the term ‘strike’ implies in America
It is not a matter of leaving work and
of peaceful picketing,
“The strike call was an appeal for
confidence. The appeal was denied by
& vast majority of our workers.
“Now lawless bands of misled people,
thousands In number, move across wide
areas, against whole communities,
smash mill doors, drag men and women
from work they wish to perform, and
threaten with violence all who do not
yield. This ia an assault on fundamen.
tal American rights”
Francis J. Gorman, director of the
strike, announced that he would not
revoke the strike call until the employ-
ers had accepted these demands:
1. Recognition of the United Textile
Workers,
2. Reduction of working hours to 30
per week.
8. Machine load limit and wage
scale yet to be determined
4. Promise by the companies not to
interfere with union activities.
B. Provision for a mediation board
within the Industry to adjust disputes
between employer and employee.
6. Promise by the workers and em-
ployers that there shall be no strikes
nor lockouts during the life of the
agreement, :
7. An understanding by both parties
on the length of time the agreement
shall be effective,
Frank Schweitzer, general secretary
of the American Federation of Silk
Workers, announced that with the
walkout of 17.000 silk workers in the
Paterson (N. J.) district and with
mills closing in other sections, the silk
industry was approximately 80 per cent
shut down, Schweltzer disclosed that
many unions In other not.
ably the Amalgamated Clothing Work.
ers, were offering material ald to the
strikers and supplying organizers,
The belief of the strikers that the
government would indirectly finance
their walkout 17 placing them on the
relief lists was only partially justified
by Relief Administrator Hopkins, He
sald the government took no sides in
the matter and that relief would be
given to strikers as to other Indiyid-
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uals when it appeared they were des-
titute,
RA was dealt a severe blow when
the Retall Coal Code authority
resigned in a body in protest against
the way the NRA is handling the code.
The seven members, who were the rul-
Ing body under the Blue Eagle for 80.
000 retail con] dealers, are: Roderick
Stephens, New York, chairman; Milton
E. Robinson, Jr., Chicago, vice chair
man; Clarence V. Beck, St. Louis; Wil
llam A. Clark, Boston; Charles M.
Farrar, Raleigh, N. C.; Edward B.
Jacobs, Reading, Pa.; and John Me
Lachlan, Pullman, [IL Thelr resigna-
tion was due to the NRA's claim
that it can revise any code at any
time without giving notice to the In.
dustry involved.
“As now emasculated by the NRA,
the code Is a futile and unworkable
thing, while as originally agreed upon
it represented a constructive basis for
improvement of conditions in this in-
dustry,” the members told General
Johnson.
IGHT thousand, seven hundred em-
ployees of the Aluminum Company
of American, who had been on strike for
a month, were ordered by thelr anion to
return to their jobs when an agreement
ending the walkout was signed. Both
the company and the workers accepted
concessions through the efforts of Fred
Keightly, labor department conciliator,
FTER Upton Sinclalr, ex-Socliallst
who obtained the Democratic nom-
ination for governor of California, had
called on President Roosevelt at Hyde
Park, he jubllantly as
serted that his plan to
“End Poverty in Call-
fornia” was Identical
with the New Deal
Then he went to
Washington and
sought the support of
administration lead-
ers for his campaign.
Mr. Roosevelt had
sald nothing publicly
concerning Mr. Sin
clair, but Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Ilinols
chairman of the Democratic senatorial
campaign committee, made some pun-
gent comments about the California
nominations,
“There has been no California Dem-
ocratic nomination for governor,” Sen.
ator Lewis said. “The nomination was
made by lllinois, Iowa, Indiana, Mich.
igan, Kansas and Nebraska Repub
licans who had moved to southern Cal
ifornia. It was Republicans from
these states who nominated Mr. Sin
clair, not the Democrats nor the Re
publicans of California. This gentle
man's domination can be charged to
that class of Republicans in Los Ane
geles as a general protest against con
ditions,
“Senator Johnson came out for the
whole of the Roosevelt policies, and
was nominated by all parties. We
rank him as a Democrat.
“President Roosevelt is not being
disturbed by any presumption that he
is endorsing the Individual views of
Candidate Sinclair, The President, in
fact, expects very shortly before the
congressional elections to make an ad
dress to America, In which he will ex.
press the Roosevelt policy and wherein
the real democracy he represents of.
fers remedies which prevent the radl
callsm of Socialism and the destruction
of Communism,
“We under the name of democracy
can never advocate or endorse a sys
tem which appropriates and confiseatos
honest property, whether it be the
wealth of the millionaires or the week.
ly wages of millions of tollers”
Senator Lewis
ONALD RICHBERG, secretary of
the executive council, made an-
other report to the President on the
New Deal efforts to relleve financial
pressure, showing the government has
loaned more than seven billion dollars
to save businesses and homes. Here
are the high lights of his report:
1. RFC actually has disbursed $5.
853,000,000,
2. The Home Owners’ Loan corpora.
tion has advanced $1,200.445,000, end.
ing a real estate panic and saving the
homes of. 432,000 families from fore
closure,
8. Five banks insured by the FDIC
have failed.
4. Federal home loan bank system
loans are far below capacity because
of faults now being corrected.
UEY LONG'S plans to control the
primary In Louisiana were curbed
by two Injunctions Issued by a federal
and a state court,
the administration
Mayor Walmsley a
on unhindered,
ship” laws passed by the senator's |
isiature became binding
end to much of the gay
Orleans, for the “old regu
which has ruled the city
was helpless. Governor Allen,
henchman, has full power to
the new laws through the state
or the militia, Dissemination
race news being now unla
publications specializing in
mation planned to leave the
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R= JHSFUEHRER HITLER of Ger-
many renewed his warfare on
Jews and also declared all other ele
ments opposing his regime must be
suppressed. The chancellor, address
ing the annual convention of the Nazi
party in Nuremberg, made a slashing
attack against “Jewish Influence” on
German life, He was cheered fre
quently during his impassioned ad-
dress, clarifying again his anti-Jewish,
Pan-German philosophy of political
and social science as the essence of
his national-socinlistic doctrines for
ruling Germanle races,
Earlier, a proclamation by him was
read to the delegates, warning that
those who dated oppose the Nazl state
under his rule would be ruthlessly
dealt with, and outlining his achleve
ments as head of the third reich.
Combined with
of those
“sensation-hungry corre
responsible for
and revolutions were ended.
N
O divisional administrator, the NRA
bus Indefinitely suspended the pro-
visions of the motion picture industry
code designed to limit salaries of stars
and executives and to eliminate al-
leged unfair competitive methods in
bidding for stars under contract with
another company. Mr. Rosenblatt made
an Investigation and In his report sald:
“A star or executive Is worth as
much as the public can be led to think
he Is worth by paying to see his offer
ings. If Individual producers find it
difficult to gauge In advance the pos
sible value of these services, it is pat.
ently impossible for a code authority
™ exercise any more effective judg
ment in the matter.” ‘
USSIA'S ambition to be given a
seal as a permanent member of
the League of Nations council, favored
by France and Great Britain, is op
posed by Switzerland, whose delegates
have been Instructed to vote “no”
when the question comes up. Turkey
has applied for a nonpayment seat in
the council, stating she seeks the place
of China, whose term is expiring.
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
WALLACE thinks It may be neces
sary to guarantees the price of corn
fodder in order to keep available sup
plies on farms In the drouth area for
relief purposes. The farm adminis
tration is to set up an office In Kansas
City for the purpose of making a sur-
vey and locating all types of animal
feed. Th office also will assist county
drouth committees in arranging pools
of Individual farmers to make pur
chases. The government will not buy
any feed itself for distribution.
B™ 'AUSE of his unwavering opposi-
tion to what he considered the ex-
travagant expenditures of the govern.
ment and to its inflationary monetary
policies, Lewis Dong- . gs
Ins has resigned as di- § :
rector of the budget
He had long been
fighting against cer.
tain of the adminis
tration's policies, with.
out avail The two
year budget plan with
its prospective deficit
of seven billion dol
lars, presented to con.
gress last January,
did not have his ap
proval; nor had the billion dollar def
ciency appropriation blll and the
schemes for the purchase of gold and
silver. It was sald his resignation was
finally brought about by the announce.
ment of Secretary Morgenthau that
the so-called profit of two billion eight
would be used to curtall the public
currency Is ultimately
rency now in circulation, the Morgen.
thau plan contemplates a 50 per cent
inflation.
The President appointed as acting
was understood In Washington that
there would be a general rearrange.
ment in the Treasury department which
would concentrate all fiscal powers In
the hands of Secretary Morgenthan,
Several officials who are not in full
sympathy with the New Deal will be
weeded out,
ANY of the dairy cattle bought
by the government In drouth
areas are of high breed and so will
not be slaughtered. The federal relief
administration gave out a sthtement
saying:
“It is planned to either exchange
some of these high breed drouth eattle
for scrub cattle now in the possession
of relief or rural rehabilitation fami.
lies, or to issue them to such families
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Washington.~The political situation
waxes warmer, It is seldom in our his-
tory where the records disclose so
much heat in the campaign fights as
may
die down some, but the wiseacres In
politics are predicting red hot battles
muck raking among individuals,
There is the speech by Secretary
tempt to show that
Campaign the New Deal has
not been so costly as
“Material”
critics of the admin
istration claim; there is the victory
eaptured the Democratic nomination
for governor of California, and there
is a growing list of social reform pro-
posals among administration advisers
which provide meat and drink for the
politicians on the opposing team,
There is the accomplished fact in this
connection of the pension legislation
which the railroads claim Is going to
cost them almost one hundred million
doliars a year,
One ean mention also the row
among cabinet and emergency officials
over the future course of NRA and
the test that is being made in the Dis
trict of Columbia courts to determine
to comply with a code which It has
definitely and continuously refused to
sign. There Is the speakership fight
among the Democrats of the house of
representatives, and the bitter attacks
that are being leveled at the treasury
by some of the senators and repre
sentatives from agricultural areas on
account of administration management
of processing taxes. Efforts of the
American Liberty league for protection
of constitutional rights are being ex
panded. All the while New Deal plan.
ners are engaged In development of
new schemes such 88 & program
signed to result in federal ownership
of the rallroads
To eay that the situation Is confus
ing Is to use the mildest sort of lan
guage. Observers in Washington who
have watched political maneuvers for
a quarter of a century and more in
sist that at no time in their recollec
tion have they seen anything similar
to present conditions. Take the Upton
Sinclalr victory itself, as an example
I am told that few times In modern
politics has It occurred that a man so
long affiliated with another partisan
group has bored his way In and seized
titular control of a8 major political
party. The observers Insist that the
resuit of the California primaries bas
placed the Roosevelt administration
on a decidedly hot spot unless, ss It
has been charged, President Roosevelt
is willing to commit the Democratic
party which he heads to the Socialist
doctrines publicized for a quarter of
& century by Mr. Binclalr,
Bome political leaders here are
whispering that the Sinclair victory
will strengthen the hand of the Amer
ican Liberty league and enable the
sponsors—Al SBmith, Jowett Shouse,
John W, Davis, former Senator Wads
worth and others—to go about the
country and obtain recruits for thelr
defense of constitutional rights. Active
efforts of this kind, of course, are like
ly to catalog the league as definitely
anti-administration, but leagne leaders
apparently do not entertuin such a
fear at this time,
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The processing tax question iz an-
other that political observers Insist is
. due to canse trouble
Processing tor the President,
Troubles They point out that
heretofore such eritd
do
tacks are being leveled at the burean
of Internal revenue, which is a part
the other. It is to be remembered that
both Secretary Morgenthau and Com
missioner Helvering of the bureau of
internal revenue are personal appoint
ments of the President. Republican
campaigners are using this as a ve
hicle to carry thelr assault on the
President himself,
Whatever the political implications
may be, It remains a fact that such
New Deal supporters as Senator James
P. Pope of Idaho have taken Mr. Hel
vering to task for his administration
of the processing taxes. Senator Pope
has written to Mr. Helvering with par
ticular respect to the processing tax
on hogs, which he charged was being
collected from farmers who slaugh-
and sold pork produced on thelr
own farms. The Idaho senator forced
a bill through congress In the closing
session which he
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as well as the producers of products
that compete with coconut ofl, It will
be recalled that there was something
of a battle In congress when an !m-
port tax was laid on coconut oll, The
industry felt it had gained a great vie
tory. Developments since have shown
Just how wrong individuals can be,
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Republican wheel-horses claim they
now have ammunition In the shape of
Mr, Morgenthau’s
Morgenthau speech on the cost
Under Fire of the New Deal, for
which they long have
awaited. The treasury secretary spoke
over the radio. His purpose obviously
was to get as wide distribution as
possible for his conclusions that the
New Deal thus far has cost only $500,
000,000, despite the fact that the treas-
ury dally statements show an addi
tion of approximately eight billion to
the national debt. The secretary was
able to show, to his way of thinking,
come back
money chest,
into
He
the government's
admitted, however,
the total as he had ealeulated it
concerning Mr. Morgenthau's
lect. He wns somewhat
of devaluation of the dollar to the
ORY
Vance Wy © Public Ledeer §
The Bed That Was Not
Occupied
OME years ago Lemuel R, Boyce
an officer on the 8t. Louls police
force, was murdered while trying ie
arrest a burglar,
He was very popular among his as
sociates, and there was an almost unl
versal desire to find the man who had
committed the deed and to give him
the full penalty of the law.
But the difficulty was to get a clue
upon which to hinge their investiga
tions,
It was learned that a number of col
ored men had been seen in the vi
cinity of the hotel where the officer
was shot, but there was nothing to
connect them with the erime,
Chief of Police Smith determined to
comb the city in order to locate the
known colored criminals.
The job was well done, bu
not bring very practical rest
about that time the chief
one of the men
loitering in the vicinity
street on the night of the murder had
been sent to the Missouri reformatory
a week later on some minor charge.
He called upon the mother of
| suspect and questioned her regard
| his movements for the previous
She admitted tha
but was
have been the murderer of Policemar
i Bovee
i yee,
lea
who had heen Bien
of Cardinal
positive
She was cross-examined, and as a
{ result of that it was found that Frank
ne-—had
of
| White—for
not slept
March 31.
This was
cause that
was shot.
In addition to
£ ff, ¥ *} oy f
r es 4 n the o)
aniormation, th
extreme]
was
gold.
opposing
say that the federal government had
of any kind other
and borrowing.
profit of devaluation could
described as money
could it properly be called
from taxation,
than by taxation
He suggested that the
hardly
borrowed,
receipts
that the assets of wholly government
owned agencies such as the Reconstroe
tion Finance corporation are so
only bookkeeping items
be irrefutable that
tell what the value of these assets are
going to be one, two or three years
hence, herefore, without discussing
the merits of the
noe one
argument
ed to reach and disseminate among
the voters.
of commendation for the
ments by Mr. Morgenthau, Strangely,
these commendations do not relate to
remain faithful to its pledge that the
deficit would not exceed eight billion
dollars In the period covered Wash.
ington has received numerous reac
tions from business Interests regard
irg this particular phase of the Mon
genthan speech, and business
to regard that much of Ii as reassur.
ing.
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As regards the controversy that is
raging in the administration itself. ob-
servers believe there
Real Battle
is every reason to
in Offing expect an eventual
explosion. General
Johnson, the NRA administrator, on
the one hand, and Miss Perkins the
secretary of Iabor, and Donald Rich
berg, secretary of the President's ex-
ecutive council, on the other, are all
individuals of the temperamental
makeup required as requisite to a real
battle. Thelr differences grow out of
the plans as to the future of the
NRA, which, the President has sald
Is to continue as a permanent part of
the New Deal structure. Washington
has not quite made up its mind con
cerning the delimitations laid down by
the two factions, but it is apparent
even now that Miss Perkins and Mr.
Richberg contend for expansion of the
NRA control beyond the limits to
which the bombastic General Johnson
is willing to go. Also, it is made to
appear that Miss Perking and Mr.
Richberg prefer to see NRA under the
domination of an Individual whose
mental slants are In line with thelr
own, which is to say, in the opinion
of most observers, that they favor a
radical tendency beyond General John
son's program. The general, having
been a business executive, seems to
realize that it is better to proceed
cautiously In expanding NRA super
vision, and 1s holding out for that
course,
The differences between these in.
on wae
broker and i the weapon.
and It
sliber revolver
jusriers,
Boyce had been
The proof of ti ’ liscovered by
{ means of the bullet thst had
taken from the wound,
Thus armed, the chief
i In 144, a 4 ’
{ In a position to confront
been
of police was
the suspected
| man,
He took the train
arrived at
night.
| In order to make doubly he
| took the mother of White with him.
| The superintendent was perfectly will
but
' Raum
e interviewed,
until
did
for Boonville and
late at
matory
Eure
be post poned
Chief Smith
agree
1 there were
meeting
On the contrary, he sal
several reasons why the
One of them was that the suspect
would be confronted unexpectedly and
{ without opportunity of manufacturing
an alibi,
He was roused from a solid slumber
and brought into the waiting room.
By previous arrangement, the mu
ier had been placed
' ing room.
White was surprised when confront
{ ed by the detective—but he was also
defiant,
He positively denied all knowledge
of the Boyce murder and sald that he
| was sleepy and wanted to go back
to bed.
“Where did you spend the night of
March 317" asked Chief Smith sud-
denly,
“At home In my bed-—just where I
should have spent IL”
“But you did not sleep at home that
night,” replied the detective in his
most positive manner.
*How do you know that?” he asked,
half tauntingly.
For reply his Inquisitor opened a
little window In the room and pointed
to an adjoining apartment, where sat
the mother of the sccused man.
Her unexpected presence shook his
nerve,
What had she said to the police?
How much of the truth had she re
vealed?
He was troubled and In the end ad.
mitted that his bed had not been oo
cupled that night,
A minute later, when confronted by
the revolver which had been retrieved
from the pawnshop, be broke down
and confessed that he bad killed
Officer Boyce.
WRU Service,
Deaf-Mutes' Language
Deaf-mutes seldom use the deaf-and-
dumb alphabet, except when communi.
eating names and dates that must be
spelied, writes J. F. Regan, Lawrence,
Mase, In Colller's Weekly. They em-
ploy an indicative sign or symbol lan.
the
in an adjoin-