By EDWARD
W. PICKARD
[UNLESS John L. Lewis and his
associates in the Committee for
Industrial Organization repent and
cease their ‘‘rebellious’” activities
before September 5,
the ten unions they
head will be under
suspension from the
American Federa-
tion of Labor. Such
was the verdict of
t he federation's
executive council
which passed on the
charges of John P.
~ |! Frey, president of
the metal trades
J. P. Frey givision, that the
CIO was ‘“‘fomenting insurrection
and rebellion.” David Dubinsky,
head of the garment workers, cast
the only vote against the suspen-
sion order.
Lewis having definitely set him-
self against any peace overtures,
it appeared that the suspension
certainly would be put into effect.
The next move will be up to the
Tampa convention in the fall,
which will be asked to vote the ex-
pulsion of the refractory unions.
The ten unions accused by Mr.
Frey and found guilty are:
Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
Sidney Hillman, president.
Qil Field, Gas Well, and Refinery
Workers, Harvey Fremming, pres-
ident.
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
Thomas H. Brown, president.
Ladies’ Garment Workers, David
Dubinsky, president.
Textile Workers, Thomas F. Mec-
Mahon, president.
Flat Glass Workers,
Cabe, president.
Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers, M.
F. Tighe, president.
Automobile Workers, Homer
Martin, president.
Rubber Workers, S. H. Dalrym-
ple, president.
Action on the International Typo-
graphical union, whose president,
C. P. Howard, is secretary of the
CIO; and the United Hat, Cap and
Millinery Workers, part of whom
are not associated with the CIO,
was deferred. The suspended un-
jons have a membership of about
one million, or nearly one-third of
the total in the federation.
The council stated:
“This is the first attempt ever
made, during the existence of the
A. F. of L., covering a period of
more than 50 years, to set up a
dual movement within.
“It was the opinion of the execu-
tive council that it could not con-
done the setting up of a rival organ-
ization within the officially rec-
ognized family of organized labor,
or tolerate and countenance it with-
out sacrificing its self-respect or
making an unconditional surrender
to a minority group composed of
members who are in open rebellion
to democratic procedure and ma-
jority rule, as exemplified at the
late convention of the A. F. of L.”
Lewis characterized the council's
action as one of “incredible and
crass stupidity’ and said that it
was ‘dictated by personal selfish-
ness and frantic fear.”
Glen Mec-
SX passengers and two pilots
were instantly killed when a big
Lockheed Electra plane of the Chi-
cago and Southern Airlines crashed
a few minutes after taking off from
the airport of St. Louis, Mo. At
this writing there is no explanation
for the disaster. The plane was al-
most new and the weather not bad
though skies were overcast.
The plane was bound from New
Orieans for Chicago, and five of the
victims were residents of the latter
city. One of the dead was Vernon
Omlie, a veteran pilot and husband
of Phoebe Omlie, a noted flyer.
CRARGED by the government
with conspiracy to violate the
anti-trust law by combining to dom-
inate the purchasing of oil in the
Texas, Louisiana
and Oklahoma fields
and to fix prices of
gasoline in the Mid-
dle West, 58 per-
sons, 23 petroleum
concerns and three
publishing compa-
nies were indicted
by a federal grand
jury in Madison,
Wis. Among the
prominent defend
ants are Edward G. H. M. Dawes
Seubert of Chicago, president of
the Standard Oil ny of Indi-
ana; Henry M. Dawes of Evanston,
1il., president of the Pure Oil com-
pany, and many officials of Stand.
ard Oil, Pure Oil, Deep Rock, So-
cony-Vacuum and various other oil
concerns and their subsidiaries. Al
so in the list are Warren C, Platt
of Cleveland, publisher of the Na-
tional Petroleum News and Platt's
Pilgram; his two publications and
e Chicago Journal of Commerce.
The indictment charged that the
defendant oil companies formed
pools in the east Texas and mid.
continent fields for the purpose of
purchasing, gasoline at artificially
high prices from independent pro-
ducers, and in furtherance of such
a scheme were members of associ-
ations which included the indepen-
dents. Further it was charged that
independent refiners, to aid the
plan, had curtailed their production
of gasoline.
This, said Mr. Platt, is exactly
what the oil companies did with the
approval of Secretary of the Interi-
or Harold L. Ickes, administrator
of the NRA petroleum code, when
efforts were being made to limit the
production of gasoline, prevent the
flow of excess quota oil into mar-
ket channels, and raise prices in
that turbulent industry.
“The government's charge turns
on whether a practice legally start-
ed and carried on under the recent
NRA petroleum code was continued
in illegal manner after the NRA
was killed by the United States Su-
preme court,” Mr, Platt said.
JCXPERT crop statisticians esti-
mate that, as a result of the
record breaking drouth, this year’s
corn crop will be reduced to 1,572,-
000,000 bushels, which would be the
smallest yield since 1881 except for
the disastrous drouth year of 1034.
In that year total production was
1,478,000,000, but the acreage was
smaller than it is this season.
Argentine farmers are expected
to profit to the extent of $50,000,000
or more as a result of the keen
competition for corn between the
United States and Europe, which
has recently lifted prices about 17
cents per bushel in the Buenos
Aires market.
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was
visibly aroused by Republican
charges that the New Dealers were
seeking to reap political profit from
the drouth conditions. At his press
conference he broke with the usual
rule by permitting himself to be
directly quoted as saying:
“It is a great disservice to the
proper administration of any gov-
ernment to link up human misery
with partisan politics.”
"THERE is another dictatorship in
Europe, this time in Greece.
Gen. John Metaxas, premier, an-
nounced that a general strike fos-
tered by com
munists was likely
to lead to serious
disturbances, so,
with the approval
of King George II,
he declared martial
law, dissolved par-
liament, postponed
elections indefinite.
ly and mobilized all
workers in essential
4 services such as
Gen. Metaxas ways, in order
that, called to the colors, they
would be directly under govern-
ment control.
Strong guards were mounted at
power stations, gas works and other
vital points and all soidiers and po-
lice not on guard duty were held
in barracks ready for action.
Metaxas promised the enforce-
ment of an eight hour day, a min-
imum wage and a social insurance
system. He remodeledfthe cab-
inet, taking for himself the army,
navy, air and foreign affairs port.
folios. Dispatches to Bucharest
said there had been clashes in the
northern provinces of Greece be-
tween workers and the military
forces.
DESPERATE fighting for posses-
gion of the passes in the
Guadarrama mountains north of
Madrid was going on between the
government forces and the rebel
troops. Loyalist soldiers were hur-
ried to that region, and Madrid
claimed some victories. However,
the Fascists on the northern side
of the range were said to be within
sight of the capital and in position
for a vigorous advance.
The rebels scored in the south by
landing 2,000 Moroccan troops from
Ceuta after a lively sea and air
fight in which two loyalist warships
were driven off. The loyalists were
also reported to have met defeat
near Avila, losing 600 men and
some tanks and trucks.
On the twentieth day of the re-
bellion the government announced
it had captured the provinces of
Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, Mala-
ga, Ciudad Real, Guadalajara,
Badajoz and the northern resort
of San Sebastian,
De a
and
ENATOR HENRY W. KEYES o!
New Hampshire has announced
that he is not a candidate for re-
election by the Republicans, prefer-
ring ‘to retire from active partici
pation in public affairs.” The Re-
publicans therefore will choose be-
tween former Senator George H.
Moses and Gov. H. Styles Bridges,
both of whom have announced their
candidacy for the nomination.
Kansas Republicans renominated
Senator Arthur Capper, and the
Democrats picked Omar Ketchum
of Topeka. In Kentucky the Demo-
crats renominated Senator M. M.
Logan, whose Republican opponent
in November will be Robert H.
Lucas.
Marion A. Zioncheck, the eccen-
tric congressman from Seattle, re-
considered his decision to retire
and announced that, at the request
of his mother, he would be a can-
didate to succeed himself, ‘‘to show
the people that I am neither crazy
nor foolish.”
IN THE - first few days of the
Olympic games in Berlin the
American track team piled up such
an imposing number of points that
it appeared certain none of the ri-
val teams could catch up. Jesse
Owens of Ohio State university lead
his mates in this victorious march,
winning three championships, in
the 100-meter and 200-meter runs
and the broad jump. In the longer
dash he lowered the world and
Olympic marks. Ken Carpenter of
California won the discus throw
with a new Olympic record of 50.48
meters, and Gordon Dunn, also of
California, was second. Earl Mead-
ows of Texas was first in the pole
vault with a new Olympic mark;
and points were won by various
other American athletes.
Among the women contestants
Helen Stephens of Missouri distin.
guished herself by breaking the
world record in two heats of the
100-meter dash.
NEV YORK Republicans are
to nominate a candidate for
governor at their party convention
in September, and Col. Theodore
Roosevelt has said
in a letter that was
mace public that
he is willing to ac-
cept that honor if
the party so de
sires.
Colonel Roosevelt,
n o w forty-eight
years old, was the
Republican can-
didate for governor
in 1924 and was de-
feated by Alfred E. Col. Roosevelt
Smith. Since then he has been
governor of Puerto Rico and gov-
ernor-general of the Philippines.
A VOLUNTARY cut of $25,861,038
in the debts of 33008 *‘dis-
tressed’’ farmers was reported by
the Resettlement administration.
The debts, it said, were scaled
down by creditors, through the
work of voluntary farm debt com-
mittees in bringing farmers and
their creditors ‘‘together in a neu-
tral atmosphere” during the ten
months ended June 30.
Expenses of seeking debt re-
adjustments, taken from a fund
provided by President Roosevelt
Sept. 1 last year, amounted to 1
per cent of the total amount of
debts involved, the administration
said. So far, $1,100,000 of the al-
located $2,000,000 had been ex-
pended.
ECLARING that it “will indorse
no candidate” of party in the
Presidential campaign, the Ameri-
can Liberty league states:
““The league is neither an adjunct
nor an ally of the Republican par-
ty. It is not an adjunct of the Demo-
cratic party, even though many of
its principles harmonize with the
excellent platform adopted by that
party in 1932 and proclaimed as ‘a
covenant with the people to be
faithfully kept.’
“Certainly the league is not an
adjunct of the New Deal party
which for the moment has usurped
control of the party of Jefferson,
Jackson, Cleveland, and Wilson. It
has not and will not contribute to
any campaign fund.”
HILE the nations of Europe
were worrying over the Span-
ish rebellion and the danger that it
might bring about open rupture
among the Fascist and anti-Fascist
governments of the continent, steps
were taken to assure peace. Ger-
tation of Grea. Britain, France and
Belgium to participate in a con-
ference this fall from which it is
another and better Locarno
pact will emerge.
No date 2 the conference has
been set, but it was expected to
held either just before or soon
the meeting of the league of
Hem aisembly in Geneva in
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Columbia River Cataract
There was once a mighty cataract,
aeons ago, on the Columbia river in
Washington, over which passed a
flow of water forty times the volume
of Niagara. This falls, now dry, was
hourly three miles wide and 417 feet
gh.
pe Sign of Respect
In Masa! Land, East Africa, spitting
is a token of respect. Before advanc-
ing to shake hands he will expectorate
freely into his palm. He spits before
any Important event, or at the com-
ing of a friend or superior.
City Has Pew Built
On June 20, 1698, the Common
council of New York city appointed
penters for the building of a Pew
in Trinity Church for the use of
ye Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and
Assistants of this City and for their
Successors.”
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Mexico an Immense Count
Mexico contains 28 Yo
territories and a federal district
which embraces the City of Mexico,
The country, laid across the United
States, would stretch from New
York to Salt Lake City.
Hawalian Proverb
An old Hawaiian proverb declares
that “man is like a banana the day
it bears fruit”, i. e., he dies after
his work is done. Modern Hawaii,
more than other part of the nae
tion, is rich in legends and folklore.
Benedictine Monastery
About half way between Rome
and Naples is Monte Cassio. Four.
teen centuries have passed since St.
Benedict, the monk, established a
monastery there-the beginning of
the widespread and influential Bene-
dictine order.
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