He didn’t like . . . his proposal, EDITOR'S NOTE-—~When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of the news analyst, and not necessarily of the newspaper. Europe Without waiting for Adolf Hitler's speech on April 28, President Roose- velt knew what reply to expect from his peace appeal. Benito Mussolini had already given the Rome-Berlin 1942 world fair ground. Though Il Duce publicly spurned Mr. Roose- velt’s ‘‘Messiah-like message,” he not be sinking millions into a world fair if she planned war. This sound- ed hopeful, but each day brings less diplomatic leeway to tense Europe: Mediterranean. Tangier lies opposite Gibraltar. Ob- man warships are now making un- precedented maneuvers in this area, also because Spanish troops are massed nearby and thou- sands of fresh Italian troops landing in Spain. Cruising nearby ‘‘greatest naval battle of all times" off Spain's coast. Another possibility: Powerful Por- tuguese Fascists are rumored work- ing for internal blowup of Dr. Olivi- era de Salazar’s regime, uniting the entire Spanish peninsula under Nazi- Fascist domination without risking any international repercussions from an invasion. Thus would Ger- many get Portuguese colonies in Af- rica and the East Indies. With the western Mediterranean is set for another Munich. Balkans. Chief public German ac- tivity nowadays is to recoup eastern SALAZAR AND HOMELAND (Map shows Iberian cities being visited by German warships in current mystery maneuvers. Also Tangier, international sone which the Axis may try to seize.) European losses suffered at Anglo- French hands. With Turkey, Greece and Rumania apparently under dem- ocratic protection, Hitler has unsuc- cessfully invited Rumania to join the Axis powers. Shrewd Franz von Papen, last Nazi envoy to Austria before anschluss, has been named ambassador to Turkey, Meanwhile, Italy has won a reiteration of friend- ship from Hungary's Premier Paul Teleky and begun bringing Yugo- slavia into the Rome orbit. Triple Entente. Couhtering these moves is a new effort to perfect an Anglo-French-Russian mutual as- sistance aid, stymied only by Polish and Rumanian refusal to let Soviet troops cross their soil. As a direct result of the new triple entente, em- boldened France has threatened to march if Germany seizes the Free City of Danzig by force. But France knows no such thing will happen; Poland will be frightened into begging the Reich to take it. Congress Self defense is a more basic tenet of U. 8S. foreign policy than either President Roosevelt's international- ism or congress’ isolationism. How- ever it may be accomplished, John Public wants (1) to keep out of for- eign wars, (2) to be prepared if he gets into one. Hence, despite op- timism over the President's peace appeal to dictators, congressmen, defense chiefs and tradesmen find themselves sizing up America’s po- litical, economic and military pre- paredness for a European war: Political. Under the neutrality act as finally amended, congress hopes to keep peace with the world. To the senate foreign relations commit- tee, Bryn Mawr college's Professor Charles Fenwick uttered one of the thing as neutrality.” But plans persist, chief of which are: (1) Sen. Key Pittman'’s ‘‘cash- and-carry"” principle under which war materials it wanted, provided it paid cash and hauled them away in its own ships; and (2) Sen. Elbert President could designate treaty vio- tions with them. After a week's testimony, jittery committee members were less opti- mistic about a Utopian neutrality. On the Thomas plan, Utah's wizened William E. Borah commented it would lead us into war, in fact, in itself. Reasoning: Its ““obvious purpose’ is to cut off Science In 1934 General Motors dedicated its Chicago World fair exhibit at a banquet where great industrial ad- vances were prophesied, many of which came true, eral Motors has another exhibit at New York's World fair, Giving an- other “prophecy banquet,” Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. culled statements from big U. S. corpora- tion executives, forecasting every- thing from cities lighted by artificial suns to fool-proof, self-parking auto- mobiles, Other features of tomor- row: Truck crops produced in soilless “bathtubs’’; television as vital as radio; chemically produced fuels ing from farms; clothing so inex- soiled; automatic machinery to per- ditioned homes; daily plane service from the U, S. to Europe at 500 to 600 miles per hour. Most vital prophecy: Chemical advances which will postpone old age. Labor Broadly speaking, proposed revi- sions in the Wagner labor act would cut the national labor relations board's power and give judicial col- or to decisions involving employer- employee disputes. No. 1 reason for such amendments is that em- ployers charge NLRB has not only discriminated against capital, but against the more conservative | American Federation of Labor in | favor of the newer and less ortho- | dox Congress of Industrial Organi- zations. | Called to testify before the senate labor committee, NLRB Chairman J. Warren Madden protested so ve- | hemently against employer charges that committee members were rath- er certain he favored labor instead of sitting on the fence like most judges. Yet he gave figures to back { up NLRB's fairness claim. Exam- modern war makers. man plan, California's equally wiz- ened Sen. Hiram Johnson comment- an ally In nations Britain and Japan. Reasoning: wartime, only these two could reach U. S. and-carry purchases, In the end, cash-and-carry held most favor, Testified Breckenridge Long, former ambassador to Italy and World war undersecretary of state: “I am thinking of what would be best for the U. S., not what would help any other country . . Cash- and-carry . . entails no sense of discrimination by positive act . It more nearly approximates real neutrality and does not prevent de- velopment of industry in the U. S., upon which we might some day have to rely.” Economie. ing resources in case of war. Pres- ent status: Of 7,000 industrial items needed by a marching army, con- verted private factories could pro- duce all but 55 within six months, the remainder in another six months. Present goal: six months. Biggest problem: To tional-defense raw materials which the U. 8S. lacks, including aluminum, antimony, coffee, mica, manganese and tin. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cordell Hull reviewed four years of U. 8S. reciprocal trade in contrast system. His conclusion: merce with trade-agreement coun- tries by 39.8 per cent; Nazi trade with the same nations rose only 1.8 per cent. As an instrument of for- eign policy, reciprocal trade has been successful. Not so thrilling, however, were simultaneous reports on the first two months (January, U. 8. exports to Britain dropped un- der last year. Explanation: U. S. exports in early 1938 were above normal. Military. Publicly booked to tes- tify before the house foreign af- fairs subcommittee, exiled Col. Charles A. Lindbergh sprang a sur- prise by jumping from his steam- ship to a desk in the war depart- ment, there to survey all aviation research facilities available to the army. Well posted on Russian, German, French and British air strength, Colonel Lindbergh will help the U. 8S. expand its air facili- ties under the new defense bill. Miscellany Considered by the U. S., a gov- ernment commission to explore un- official American claims in vast Antartica, where Britain, Germany and Norway are chief contenders in a race for potential raw materials. @® Planned for mid-summer release by the department of commerce, a 1,000-page industrial survey contain. ing data on all 3,000 counties, every city of more than 10,000 population, and 280 nation-wide industries. @® Lost, by Pipo, hippopotamus at Madrid's zoo, 2,000 pounds during compulsory fasting necessitated by the Spanish civil war, | NLRB’'S MADDEN Good start, questionable ending. ples: A. F. of L. and C. I. O. broke even on cases which NLRB dis- missed or were otherwise settled without the board's aid; of 94 per of cases adjusted without NLRB hearings, 42 per cent were won by employers. (Simultaneously, Secretary of Labor Perkins released figures showing 1938 had fewer strikes than any year since 1932. Figures: In 1938 there were 2.772 strikes involving 688000 workers, costing 9.000. 000 individual working davs: in 1937 there were 4,740 strikes, 1 360000 workers Madden sentiments: “Employers and employees are learning to live together within the framework of industrial democracy.” But the next | day he spoiled a good impartial | start by inferentially defending C. Again plumping for pinkish C. 1. O., he held an employer may not legally call a union leader a “communist” | because, in turn, courts have often (but not as a general rule) re- | strained unions from advertising | that an employer is unfair to or- | ganized labor, People | Accepted, by former Czech Presi- | dent Eduard Benes, leadership in a | movement to restore Hitler disrhan- { tiled Czecho-Slovakia from headquar- ters in Chicago. @® Sailing from New York on May fantile paralysis victim, Shrine of Miracles at France, despite European QUIZ If you read Weekly News Analysis, these questions will be easy: Identify: Breckenridge Long; Paul Teleky, Oliviera de Salazar, Franz von Papen. @® There were (more) (fewer) labor strikes in 1938 than in 1937, @® What nation plans a world fair in 1942? @® Name three strategic raw ma- terials which the U. S. lacks. ® How may cities be lighted in the future? @® What famous transatlantic flier now works in the U. S. War de- partment? ® U. S. exports to Britain in January and February, 1039, were (higher) (lower) than U. 8S. imports from Britain? @® What European nation’s inde- pendence is being threatened un- expectedly by Italy and Ger- many? @® What country owns Tangier? to visit Advocates of Amendment of Wagner Act Grow More WASHINGTON.-—It was only a than offend organized labor, of power. Labor unions ican Federation of Labor and gave Organizations. So, many politicians, President Roosevelt, turned to C. IL. 0., because it was modern, stream- lined, aggressive. It appeared, for a time, that C. I. O. was going to be the big power among the work- ers. Having that advantage, C. 1. O. went to town, as the football players say. Its strength was manifest in congress and under the impetus of C. 1. O. force, Senator Wagner, the New York Democrat, brought forth the national labor relations act, un- der which the national tions board was appointed and be- gan functioning. That much is history. But now there are signs of pending trouble for the national la- bor relations board. With its main support, the C. 1. O., having its trou- bles in collecting dues, and the peace efforts of President Roose- velt who sought to get union men of the United States organization having the labor board is up agains fact, to summarize the situation in the homely expression of my boy- hood home: it looks like the swash- buckling, defiant calf is just about ready to choke itself because of too much rope t may not happen in this session of congress, but it will happen before long. Why? The an- swer is that organized labor, as rep- resented by the Lewis faction, made the same mistake as greedy big business frequently makes It be- came arrogant; it bit off more than it could chew. The reaction has now set in, im- Demands for Amendment of Labor Act Grow Noisier Advocates of amendment Wagner labor act have been knock- ing at the door a long time. sledge hammer pounding. sentatives have heard it. As a matter of fact, Roosevelt's efforts to get A. F. of L. tional union that has delayed the moves in congress looking to amend- ment of the labor law. C. I. O,, he was a candidate and having fought for his cause time after time, ices as a peace negotiator. persons thought there would be a happy reunion, but there was no chance at all from _the very outset did nothing to lift Mr. Roosevelt's prestige, especially in the rural areas where C. I. O. and sit-down strikes have much the same mean- ing. While the administration's plans for a union reunion were slipping, there came that sensational verdict by a federal court jury in Philadel phia which assessed $700,000 dam- ages against the sit-down strikers in a hosiery plant. The damages men who did the job, and thus for the first time a responsibility, as well as a right, was given to labor. The right to strike long has been es- never before, however, had there been a court determination that lia- bility also exists if damage is done. It is unnecessary here to review ican Federation of Labor, among Without off had all three members been It is, perhaps, as much because of inequities of the | tion. In any event, there are now | senators and representatives spon- the law, and a large number of these the A. F. of L. lobby at the capitol. There is one amendment, for in- { stance, that proposes to disband the present three-man board and sup- plant it with a five-man board. That, of course, is the political maneuver to get rid of people with whom con- gress is disgusted. The amendment is by Senator Walsh, Massachusetts Democrat. Senator Walsh also has introduced | several other amendments, one of which, in particular, is worth noting. It would attempt, at least, to elimi- nate “prejudicial delays.” That sounds rather academic. It is, how- ever, important because, according to the A. F. of L. explanation, de- lays by the board have worked, or have been used, to the advantage of C.1. O. If the C. I. O. was not sure that it had a majority, according to the other union, rather dis- guised reasons for delays were brought up. Then, C. 1. O. organiz- ers would start their drives. Whether the A. F. of L. charges | are true and whether the criticisms of employers have been justified, it remains as fact that C. I. O. is now opposing amendment to the act. Hearings Are Delayed by Various Stalling Maneuvers Supporters of the law in its pres- ent form and defenders of the board as it is now made up succeeded for example delaying hearis amendments to the act for I than a month. They urged Senator Thomas of mittee chair- man, not to hold hearings while peace negotiations were in prog- ress. They insisted that it was un fair to embarrass the Presiden 5 to restore unity in labor movement, and argued hearings would bring bitter ments into print. Mr. Thomas yiel ed to the plea for delay, but ev L ally the pressure for action became too strong even for the Utah senator | to resist. And the friends of the law were right when they anticipated bitter words. Senator Wagner in his testi- mony spoke rather blatantly about critics being unacquainted with the purposes of the law. He felt, too, that there was no need for haste about changes. He rather hinted that there were some Ethiopian gen- tilemen in the woodpile, but failed to { put his finger on them. He simply was standing pat about the whole thing. A little later, however, the C. 1. O. people named the terrible ‘“‘conspir- | ators’”’ who wanted the act changed. { The American Federation of Labor { had “conspired” with the Chamber | of Commerce of the United States. | There was the fine unseen hand, the Chamber of Commerce, big busi- ness, personified. It was the guilty | party; it was speaking for the em- | ployers who want to grind poor | workmen into the dust, destroy un- ir in wage earners—or so the C. I. O. shouted. Well, as far as I am con- cerned, I fail to see why the C. 1. O. picked the Chamber of Commerce. capitol in 10 years. | is quite beyond me. what the C. 1. O. charged. have been what Senator Wagner meant. Say Changes Would Benefit Neither Labor Nor Industry Finally, the labor board itself ap- peared before the senate commit- tee and announced it had an “open mind.” Its mind was so open that it submitted 2 document of 360 type- written pages, analyzing the pro- posals for changes and arriving gen- erally at the conclusion that the pro- posed changes were no good. In substance, the board said that the bulk of the changes being pressed “would benefit neither labor group, nor would they be of help to indus- try.” Most of all, in the labor board's mind, the amendments would “‘conflict with the basic pur- poses of the act.” cluded and the committee seeks to do some deliberating on its own ac- count, labor finds itself still fight- ing within itself, lacking direction and one could almost say, lacking It is too bad that there In Quick Stitchery Pattern No. 6242 You'll love these quaint motifs that make a hit wherever they used! The appropriate (they come in pairs) unusual as towels and equally fective re nai make as pillow-tops. to the inch of other simple variety. Th Pattern 62: pattern of 6 motifs averag small pictures or They're mainly cross-stitc ey 19 by 7% inches; color s terials stitches. 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