By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S Intest
radio talk with his fellow citizens
was well written, well delivered and
peculiarly vague as to his future in
tentions. He sought to
reassure business and
labor, both of which
are questioning him
anxiously, but he
made no definite re
plies to their categor
ileal queries. His one
specific statement was
that within a month
he would seek to ne
gotinte a truce be
tween large groups of
employers and large
groups of employees
through which there would be a cessa
tion of the strikes that have been dis
rupting the nation’s business. He sald
he would ask the representatives of
Prusident
Roosevelt
questions of wages, hours and working
conditions, and that with such agree
ments in force he expected further ad-
justments would be made peaceably,
through governmental or private medi-
ation,
“1 shall not ask either employers or
weapons common to industrial war,” he
added. “But I shall ask both groups
to give a fair trial to peaceful methods
of adjusting their conflicts of opinion
and interest, and to experiment for a
reasonable time with measures suitable
to civilize our industrial civilization.”
By way of reply to the appeals of
many business,
leaders that the more
of the administration's
abandoned, Mr. Roosevelt declared the
New Deal is to go on. To the ques
tions of those leaders concerning bal
ancing of the budget, government ex-
penses, further devaluation of the dol
lar or return to the gold standard, he
made no reply. However, he did de
clare himself in favor of a system of
business based on private profit. Then
he said:
“l am not for a return to that def)
nition of liberty under which for many
years a free people were being gradu
ally regimented into the service of the
privileged few, 1 prefer and I am sure
you prefer that broader definition of lib
erty under which we are moving for
ward to greater freedom, to greater se
curity for the average man than he
has ever known before in the history
of America.”
Concerning the NRA, the President
gave praise to General Johnson and
sald the national recovery administra
tion was entering Its second phase,
“which is in turn a period of prepara
tion for legislation which will deter.
mine its permanent form.” He admit
ted there was a question as to the
wisdom of some of the devices em-
ployed during the first phase of the
NRA, but decried the attacks on the
constitutionality of many of the things
his administration nas done, “We are
not,” he sald, “frightened by reaction
ary lawyers or political editors. All
these cries have been heard before”
Near the beginning of his address,
the President said:
“1 am happy to report that after
years of uncertainty, culminating in
the collapse of the spring of 1933, we
are bringing order out of the old chaos
with a greater certainty of the employ-
ment of labor at a reasonable wage
and of more business at a fair profit
These governmental and industrial de
velopments hold promise of new
achievements for the nation.”
First formal response to the Presi.
dent's speech came from the National
Association of Manufacturers, which
urged him to Issue a proclamation for
a “truce on Industrial warfare” during
hich existing employment relations
would be continued, and challenged the
American Federation of Labor to take
like action. Its statement said:
“The President will find employers
willing to sit down with him, as he
proposes, to devise means for ending
the constant series of strikes which
have been ne of the major obstacles
to recovery.”
Green and Morrison, respectively
president and secretary of the federa-
tion, sald this was a subterfuge and
that the magufacturers should first
publicly announce they would obey the
decisions of constituted authorities, es
pecially concerning discrimination and
collective bargaining.
radical measures
HILE President William Green
and some other leaders of the
American Federation of Labor, just
convened In San Franclsco, expressed
approval of what Mr, Roosevelt said in
his radio address, many others prom
inent in the federation are far from
satisfled with the way things are go
ing. The executive council's annual
report devoted pages to an analysis of
the effect of the NRA upon the inter
ests of labor. Almost without excep
tion, the effects were found either di
rectly harmful or at least unsatisfac.
tory. y
The criticism was directed at the
workings of the recovery program, in
actual operation. The NRA and the
New Deal itself were not condemned,
But the committee Indicted the pro
gram on these main grounds:
That it has falled to Increase the
purchasing power of workers,
-
That because it has failed to reduce
hours of labor sufficiently it has also
falled to create a satisfactory number
of new jobs,
That its compliance machinery 1s in.
effective, with the result that viola.
tions of the spirit of the codes are eas.
ily accomplished and quite general,
Labor does not have proper repre
sentation In either code enforcement
or administration.
“In one way,” the report says, point.
ing to what seems to be viewed as the
only satisfactory accomplishment thus
far under the NRA, “codes have ful.
filled expectations, They have with
few exceptions wiped out child labor,”
RESIDENT GREEN in his address
to the Federation of Labor declared
the establishment of the 30-hour week
was one of the possible means of wip
ing ont unemployment,
and sald those oppos
ing It have offered no
other remedy. First
actual results in the
campaign for this
were announced later
to the convention by
Frank Feeney, presi
dent of the Elevator
Constructors’ union
What he called the
“greatest labor docu ) F
ment ever written” William Green
has been signed-—a five-year agree
ment with contractor employers pro
viding the six-hour day, five-day week
for the 19.000 members of the union
on a pay basis of the eight-hour day.
mediately, Feeney sald, in any locality
ing trades unions
agreements,
The document also provides for an
absolutely closed shop and gives the
elevator constructors the right to
strike at any time to support any
movement for the 30-hour week.
While the delegntes were cheering
this announcement, Col. W, F. Axton,
tobacco manufacturer of Loulsville,
Ky.
in support of the 30-hour week as the
means of getting everybody back to
work.
“If we want
we must give
negotiate similar
arose
to get business back
employment to labor”
Axton sald. “Industry at the same
ime must be protected from
competition by such means as codes”
The arrival of John lL. Lewis, presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America,
extension of the A. F. of IL.
to Increase the executive council from
11 to 25 members,
Although Lewis, controlling
convention votes, was epposed
Green on the council plan, the miners’
leader removed the last doubt concern.
ing Green's reelection by announcing
that he would not only back Green
but would place him In nomination,
3.000
OLLOWING the recommendations
of a special committee appointed by
the War department and headed by
Newton D. Baker, the department has
created a general
headquarters air force,
comprising all the air
combat forces, and
placed It under the
direct command of
Gen. Douglas Mac.
Arthur, chief of staff
Thus all the fighting
planes are taken away
from Gen. Benjamin
DD. Foulols, chief of
the air corps, and he
is left In command of
only the army air schools and alr
depots. “Benny,” who flew with the
Wrights in 1009 and worked his way
to high command, has long been at
outs with the general staff, struggling
against what he considered its In.
trigues and politica. Now the general
staff is having its way with him and,
ns one Washington commentator says,
instead of the flying alr fighter which
his record fitted him to be, he has be
come a desk soldier and a school
teacher.
Just as this order was issued Brig.
Gen, Willlam Mitchell, former chief of
the air corps and a perpetual storm
center, was testifying before the com
mission appointed by the President to
study the government's aviation prob
lem,
Mitchell called the organization of
a “GHQ"” air force “a lot of bunk,” and
he deelared that all army officers who
signed the Baker report should be
“kicked out of the service” He re
ferred to army aviation plans as the
work of “Boy Scouts” In the War de
partment,
According to Mitchell, these are the
measures the country should adopt for
its aerial defense:
Merge army, navy, and all air sery
feces under one command,
Build planes with a erulsing radios
of 6,000 to 5,000 miles
Make detailed plans for war, includ.
ing the evacuation of New York city
in case of an air sttack by Japan
“from a base In Alaska.”
Construct dirigibles, for 50 of them
“competently” handled could destroy
Japan within two days.
ye
Gen. Foulois
EMODE LING of the NRA by te
new Industrial recovery board
which has displaced General Johnson
Is under way. One of the board's first
official acts was to give a good Job to
Kilbourne Johnston, son of the retir
Ing administrator—~though he spells
his name differently, The young man,
who Is an army lleutenant on leave,
was made acting divisional adminis
trator in charge of manufacturing
codes,
Donald R, Richberg, director of the
Industrial emergency committee, who
clashed repeatedly with Johnson when
he was active as chief counsel of the
recovery agency, intimated if there had
been wounds they were now healed
“We have no quarrel,” Richberg sald
with a smile,
On behalf of the textile workers
Francis J. Gorman formally accepted
the President's plan for an industrial
truce, He suggested a six-months’
armistice and promised that during
that period the union would permit
“no stoppage of work” In protest
against any findings of the textile or
national labor relations boards, At
the same time Gorman warned that |
“renewnl of conflict” was imminent
unless the peaceful methods suggested
by the executive could be brought into |
"swift and effective action.”
NUE more talk of war with Rus
sia Is agitating Japan, stirred up
by a remarkably frank pamphlet put
out by the Japanese army department
“Soviet Russia possesses 3.000 war
planes, the United States 3,000 and
China, 500." the pamphlet asserted,
“If these nations combined, the alr
froces of the powers surrounding Ja-
pan would total more than 600
planes,
“Although
surance
diplomacy can give as
hat we will meet only one
enemy, we must assume that the ene
my will have at least 8.000 planes
Japan has only 1,000 planes. Can our
armaments be sald to be complete
with this poor air force?
“Constant trouble along the Soviet
Manchukuan frontier, the Increasing
ly challenging attitude of the Boviets
and Russia's traditional unreliability
make the future of Russo-Japanese re
lations uncertain”
world alr congress convened
Washington, and one of the
most important events on its program
was the award to Wiley Post of the
International Aeronautical Fedora. |
tion's annual gold medal for the out-
standing aviation feat of 1433 For
his solo flight around the world Post
was ch over Marshal Italo Balbo
ef Italy, the Lithuanlan-American
ocean flyers, Darius and Girenas, and
i ¥. sirnoff, herole Holland Dutch
Fast Indies mall pliot,
oy
ORen
sn
TING, though not highly im.
Is the report that cones |
Vienna that Mustapha Kemal
dictator-president of Turkey,
may marry one of the
four unmarried sis
ters of King Zog of
Albania, Zog is to visit
Ankara soon and the |
engagement may be
announced then, Kem
al, who Is fifty seven
years old, divorced his
first wife, Latife Ha.
noum, in 1025, and Is
said to have expressed
2a wish to remarry.
King Zog's marriage
able sisters range
twenty-three to twenty.
like
NTERES
portant,
from
Pasha,
Pretident
Kemal
in age from
six. The Albanian royal family,
Kemal, Is of the Moslem faith,
Rumors of another almost royal
marriage come from Paris. The Pariser
Tageblattt, German refugee newspa-
per, says Chancellor Hitler contem- |
plates taking as his bride a German
princess, one of the family of Saxe.
Coburg and Gotha which is allled to
the crowns of hall a dozen European
countries. It adds that the fuehrer at |
the same time will assume the title |
f “duke of the Germans.”
HARVARD university doesn’t like
Chancellor Hitler's treatment of
Germany's educational lnstitutions, Dr,
Ernst F. 8. Hanfstaengl, Hitler's con
fidential aid and himself as graduate
of Harvard, made an offer to the uni
versity of a German traveling scholar.
ship, but it was declined,
James Bryant Conant, president of
Harvard, said in a letter to Hanf !
staengl:
“We are unwilling to accept a gift
from one who has been so closely as
sociated with the leadership of a po
litical party which has inflicted dam.
age on the universities of Germany
through measures which have struck
at principles we believe to be funda. |
mental to universities throughout the
world.”
AMUEL INSULL and sixteen of his |
former associates in public utilities
are now on trial In the federal court
in Chicago, They are charged with
having used the malls to defraud in.
vestors through the sale of $143.00,
000 in securities of the Corporation
Securities company, Judge James H.
Wilkerson is presiding over the trial
and United States District Attorney
Dwight HH. Green heads the force of
prosecutors, Selection of the jury
didn't take Jong, but It was certain
the trial of the case would consume
weeks for the witnesses are numbered
by hundreds.
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT and his
oaval advisers held a conference at
the White House, and now Norman H,
Davis, ambassador at large, is on his
way back across the Atlantic to take
part in talks in London preliminary to
the international navel conference
Presumably be Is all primed to insist
on the President's policies. With Mr,
Davis goes Admiral William H, Stand
ley, chief of naval operations
by William
TR ——
Washington —As the federal rellef
administration looks forward to the
winter months when
Relief Cost the relief burden ob-
Mounts viously is heaviest,
Harry L. Hopkins,
federal rellef administrator, makes
public figures showing that the aver.
ure
The statement by Mr. Hopkins be
in the
opinion of observers here, especially
with reference to the likelihood that
there will be an Increase In cost this
winter, It reflects two things. First,
administration’s drive to bring
about Increased prices through erop
Hmitation or crop destruction or any
methods employed not
with Hmited buying power but it is
compelling Uncle Sam and the states
and counties and charitable organiza
tions everywhere to pay an added price
to keep people from starving.
1¥. the Hopkins statement gives more
many addi
rolls there may be
Second
lef roils
nounting cost both
ng examined by many experts
The rellef administration has been
to make surveys of relief
in many Jurisdictions The re-
in some of the cases have been
disturbing ROY.
ment who are {
rolls
to those in the
rn wholly desirous of
but who obviously are unwill
see government funds drained off
to help themselves How far UU
ion is going, no:
anyone this time sa)
ing nig
@ can fo
at ¥
Gine
of those regard relief
as their rightful meal ticket
Some of the political
ome alarmed bed
edge of the dole s3 i
and In of the other European
countries, they know how hard it is to
separate individuals from relief after
those Individuals have lost the pride
«nd morale which causes people to sup
port themselves. Hearings before con.
winter dis
closed In numerous some
people had declined to do the odd jobs
created under the “make work™ cam-
paigns for the unemployed and had
preferred to make thelr semi-weekly
trips to the relief stores. At that time
there were relief advocates of the sob
sister type who insisted that the num
ber of such unemployed was very small
end that it would not Increase. Rellef
however, seem
who
leaders have
having knowl
stem In England
AUS,
some
cities how
wherever they may be there Iz a
certain number of the unemployed who
will remain attached to the govern.
ment relief roll until that roll is abso.
lutely liquidated,
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I have heard several members of
congress express the opinion that this
. phase of the relief
Difficult problem Is really the
Problem
most difficult of the
whole structure,
They want to see the government spend
all of the money that is necessary to
keep people from starving but they are
beginning te demand that some way
Here in Washington a taste of the
exposaed as the result of complaints by
a taxpayers’ organization. The tax.
payers’ group declared that its inves.
tigators had found many unemployed
appearing at relief headquarters driv.
ing their own automobiles, they
thought it was paradoxical that a man
could afford to maintain his automo.
bile and could not maintain his family,
Relief authorities in the local offices
denied these charges. The relief ex.
perts sald some of the destitute were
being transported to relief headquar
ters in the cars of friends, but despite
the denials there seemed to have been
some fire in all of the smoke,
Whatever the facts in the National
Capital situation may have been, the
condition itself nevertheless is attract.
ing attention for the reason that some
of the softhearted individuals who
usually do more talking than anything
else have risen to the defense of those
who ealled for their doles In their mo
tor cars,
The upshot of this and of the veiled
charges of waste—and sometimes graft
~-in other cities is that this govern.
ment Is approaching a point where it
must become more or less hardbolled
in its relief administration, If it does
not, nearly all of the observers agree,
the United States will have a relief
roll of six or eight millions which
will continue to serve as a drain upon
the treasuries, both national and local,
for a good many years to come. Some
of the authorities are growing fearful,
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too, of what may happen should the
parasitic element be separated from
its meal ticket. With winter coming
on radicals can make a fine case out of
a refusal by rellef managers to feed
this or that “starving family.” I have
even heard suggestions that the com-
ing winter may see some riots of a
character more severe than anything
we have yet known. jut if they do
come it seems to be agreed they will
not be due entirely to lack of food but
to agitation on the part of some of
those who have desires only to wreck
our present structure of government,
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With the return for the winter ses
sion of the Supreme Court of the Unit.
ed States, New
New Deal Up Dealers as well as
to High Court ©!d dealers may have
some ground for be-
in the last year soon will be answered
us when our legisiative bodies as well
as executive officers of our
yond bounds,
there has been the mounting dem
acts,
then In numbers from the
court in the land, There are sufficient
petitions before the Supreme court to
provide a rather sccurate dell
of the New Deal scope in
tutional pects.
Expert legal
lean toward boty
the New Deal activities by the
court. But the same time
of the best lega: minds in the
are maintaining that whil
New Deal props look they
outside of what has hitherto been
garded as constitutional acts
part of government and so the consen-
sus is that there many five
four ns from
Supreme court before
robes next spring
Ax the
stitu
ed as
While the court is not supposed
influenced by economic
economy of the New
ined with law
tute observers tell me there can
no segregation of those two
ments when it comes to ruling on con-
stitutional phases of the New Deal
The best available figures show that |
the government instituted about |
140 cases charging violation of NRA |
codes, It has about 37 of
high
intiation, of
at
» %
good,
on the
will be to
forthcoming
it Ia
decisio the
ie its |
¥8 asid
Supreme now is
, I think it is generally regard-
leaning to the conservative side, |
to be
the
BD
i
be
court oon.
1ted
phases,
Deal is
entw that many
elo.
has
won
these, and has lost about 15 of those |
to a decision, Private lit
brought action against the
in 830 cases and the government
won 20 of these,
Similarly, there have
thing like 20 canes in the ox
volving Agricultural Adju
ministration rules and regula 18
that have gone to a
gecigion the government has won seven
and lost three
While it must be remembered that
only a small percentage of these cases
represent clearcut Issues, the box score
certainly Indicates the New Deal to be
the winner thus far. But as sald above,
the lower court decisions mean next to
nothing on questions of such import as
these ; none of the litigants will stop
short of a final decision by the Supreme
Court of the United States,
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igants
NRA
nas |
oo v
coming
have
been
those through
A situation somewhat unique In
American politics Is developing in Wis.
consin where the La-
Wisconsin Follette brothers are
undertaking to con-
Politics
tinue the family dy-
nasty by marching under the banner
of a new organization, the progres.
sive party. It Is all being done very
quietly but the facts seep through the
national political headquarters here in
Washingtoh,
The regular Republican organization
sees an opportunity to “knock off” the
LaFoliettes by throwing their support
to John M. Callahan, the Democratic
candidate for the senate. Apparently
they have little or no hope of electing
thelr own senatorial candidate, the
Wisconsin publisher, John RB. Chap
pelle, who ended the political career
of former Senator John J. Blaine in
the primaries of 1032.
If Mr, Callahan does poll a sizeable
Republican vote the question is wheth-
er this will offset the defections in the
Democratic party. He was one of the
leading supporters of Alfred E. Smith
at the 1082 convention and neither the
President nor his lieutenants have fore
gotten that It was the present Demo
cratic senatorial candidate in Wiscon.
sin who gave publicity to charges that
Mr. Roosevelt's early campaign In the
South for Presidential nomination was
in part financed and supported by the
officers of the Kin-Klux Kian in Geor
ni of which leads to the observa.
tion that political leaders sometimes
do very strange things. They have been
known to throw their own candidates
overboard when the occasion required
if they were to hold their control of
the party machinery, state or natlonal,
Consequently, it is not particularly
strange that the Republicans will sup.
port a for the senate If it
would mean the removal of the thorn
in their sides which the LaFollette
family bas proven for several decades.
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