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BOARD MEDIATES STRIKE
More Deaths As Steel Riots Continue • . . Russians
Hop Over Pole to U. S. . . . New Cabinet for France
$*sat
— about:
The New NRA Bill.
OANTA MONICA, CALIF. —
^ They do say the new NRA
bill, as drawn by the Gallagher
and Shean of the administra-
tion, Messrs. Corcoran and
Cohen, is more sweeping than
was the original NRA.
Even Gen. Hugh Johnson, once as
conversational as Mrs. Astor’s par-
They flew here from Russia: (left to right) BeUakoff, Chekalov, Baidukoff.
Miss Perkins Names Three
'T'HE federal government took a
hand in the settlement of the
dispute between John L. Lewis’
Committee for Industrial Organize
tion and the big in-
dependent steel
companies, as the
mediation board of
three, appointed by
Secretary of Labor
Frances E. Perkins,
sat in Cleveland to
hear the cases of
both sides. The
government’s move
was prompted as
_ _ the steel strikes, af-
Secy. Perkins fecting plants in
several states, threatened new out-
breaks of violence which might be
beyond the powers of local or even
state governments to control.
As the mediators began their task
of effecting a compromise, a dozen
persons had been killed in strike
riots and scores more injured since
the strike against Republic, Bethle-
hem, Youngstown Sheet & Tube,
and Inland started May 26. Eighty-
five thousand workers already had
lost approximately $10,000,000 in
wages.
The climactic incident which
finally goaded the government into
some action other than occasional
“off-the-record” statements was a
widely-publicized telegram to Presi-
dent Roosevelt from Gov. Martin L.
Davey of Ohio, fearful lest the
bloodshed already occurring in
Youngstown and other cities breed
into a little civil war.
“Apparently every avenue of ap-
proach available to the state of Ohio
has been exhausted for the time be-
ing,” Governor Davey wired. “It
appears that the matter has gone
way beyond the powers and oppor-
tunities of one state to deal with it.”
Charles P. Taft II, Cincinnati
lawyer, son of the former Presi-
dent and chief justice, and a mem-
ber of the “brain trust” of Gover-
nor Landon’s presidential cam-
paign, was named chairman of the
mediation board. Appointed to sit
with him were Lloyd K. Garrison,
former president of the national la-
bor relations board, and Edward F.
McGrady, assistant secretary of la-
bor and a former A. F. of L. or-
ganizer under Samuel Gompers.
The mediation board had a job
cut out for it. It was to conduct an
investigation of the strikes and the
grievances of both sides, then make
recommendations for a settlement.
It has power to act as arbitrator
only if both sides request it to.
A mob of strikers had attacked a
company of police on guard at the
plant, forcing the latter to retali-
ate with tear gas guns. Snipers
among the mob tried to pick off
policemen from vantage points on
nearby hills.
At neighboring cities of Warren
and Canton police were apprehen-
sive because of threats by the C. I.
O. union to prevent a proposed
back-to-work movement by loyal
Republic Steel workers.
—♦—
Steel Wants Its Mail
f I' HE Republic Steel corporation
_ filed in the federal district court
Irvin S. Cobb
the
Johnstown's Martial Law
\/I AYOR DANIEL J. SHIELDS,
AT1 of Johnstown, Pa., where 15,000
were out of work because of the
forced shut - down of Bethlehem
Steel’s Cambria plant, was not so
successful in his appeal to the Pres-
ident. Federal action to prevent
recurring riots with attendant in-
juries was refused him. But Gov.
George H. Earle declared martial
law there and forced Bethlehem to
close the plant, despite vigorous
protests. Forty thousand coal min-
ers had announced they would hold
a mass meeting to decide upon ac-
tion in aiding the steel strikers;
rioting between strikers, non-strik-
ers and police seemed imminent,
but in the face of the Pennsylvania
police they did not come off.
—*—
Death Strikes for Two
'T* WO C. I. O. strikers were killed
and 25 persons were injured as
strikers and police fought for three
hours in frqnt of the Republic Steel
plant in Youngstown, Ohio, before
a truce was arranged between Sher-
iff Ralph Elser and John Steven-
son, union organizer. Gov. Davey
finally sent state troops.
in Washington a petition for a writ
of mandamus compelling Postmas-
ter General Farley to deliver parcel
post packages to steel plants in Ohio
which local postmasters have re
fused to deliver.
The petition charged that the local
postmaster at Niles, Ohio, was re-
fusing to deliver packages contain-
ing food and clothing and addressed
to the loyal workers who were be-
ing housed inside the Republic plant.
Harry J. Dixon, local postmaster
of Warren, at a hearing by the sen-
ate post office committee, testified
that because of a ruling by W. W.
Howes, first assistant postmaster
general, he had refused to accept
for delivery to the plants thousands
of packages containing food, soap,
clothing or other articles considered
“abnormal.”
Short Cut from Soviet
’ I' HREE Russian airmen success-
A fully completed the first non-stop
airplane flight from the Soviet Un-
ion to the United States. Taking
the short, but hazardous, route over
the North pole, they hopped off from
Moscow to arrive in Vancouver,
Wash., 63 hours and 17 minutes lat-
er, after traveling nearly 6,000
miles. They had planned to alight
at Oakland, Calif., but poor visi-
bility drove them down 580 miles
from their goal.
The three were Pilot Valeri Chek-
aloff, Co-Pilot George Phillipovitch
Baibukoff and Navigator Alexander
Vassilievitch Beliakoff.
French Premier Quits
t^ACED with one of those financial
crises all too frequent in recent
French history, Premier Leon Blum
asked the senate for powers which
would make him
financial dictator of
France for about six
weeks. He did not
believe it possible
to bring order into
the treasury without
so drastic a meas-
ure. When it was
refused he and the 20
members of his cab-
inet resigned. He
had served 117 days
Premier Blum of his second year as
premier of France—
something of a modern record. Pres-
ident Albert Lebrun designated Ca-
mille Chautemps, radical socialist
and a former premier, to attempt the
formation of a new cabinet. A suc-
cessor to Blum was not immediately
in sight.
The Popular Front government
was one of the bulwarks of leftist
tendencies in Europe, as opposed to
extreme Fascism, and openly ex-
pressed its sympathy for the Spanish
loyalists.
—*—
Barrie's Last Curtain
C IR JAMES M. BARRIE, novelist
and playwright, whose whimsical
pen gave to the world many impor-
tant works of literature, including
“Peter Pan,” “The Little Minister,"
“Dear Brutus," and “What Every
Woman Knows," died of bronchial
pneumonia in London. He was sev*
enty-seven years old.
rot, but lately exiled
amid the uncongen-
ial silences, crawls
out from under a log
in the woods with
lichens in his hair,
but the lower jaw
still working
smoothly in the
socket, to tell how
drastic a thing it is.
Critics assert this
legislation will cov-
er business like a
wet blanket over a
sick pup, and point out that
number of sick pups benefited by
being tucked under wet blankets is
quite small.
* • •
Friendly French Visitors.
’ SEEMS we were cruelly wrong
in ascribing mercenary motives
to those French financiers who’ve
been dropping in on us lately. They
came only to establish more cordial
relations. Of course, there’s a new
French bond issue to be floated, but
these visits were purely friendly.
Still and all, I can’t help thinking
of Mr. Pincus, who invaded the east
side to invite his old neighbor, Mr.
Ginsburg, whom he hadn’t seen in
years, to be a guest at Mrs. Pincus’
birthday party.
He gave full directions for travel-
ing uptown, then added:
“Vere we lif now it’s von of dose
swell valk-up flats. So mit your
right elbow you gif a little poosh on
the thoid button in the door jam
downstairs und the lock goes glick-
glick und in you come. You go up
two floors und den, mit your other
elbow, you gif one more little poosh
on the foist door to the left und valk
in—und vill mommer be surprised!”
‘Vait,” exclaimed Mr. Ginsburg.
“I could get to that Bronnix. I got
brains, ain’t it? But ulso I got fin-
gers und thumbs. Vot is de poosh-
mit-elbows stuff?”
Murmured Mr. Pincus gently:
“Surely you vouldn’t come empty-
handed!”
• • •
Visiting Ancient Ranchos.
T 7 NDER the guidance of Leo
Carillo, that most native of all
native sons, I’ve been visiting such
of the ancient ranchos as remain
practically what they were before
the Gringos came to southern Cali-
fornia. You almost expect to find
Ramona weaving in a crumbly pa-
tio.
What’s more, every one of these
lovely places is lived on by one of
Leo’s cousins. He has more kin-
folks than a microbe. They say the
early Carillos were pure Spanish,
but I insist there must have been a
strong strain of Belgian hare in the
stock. When it came to progeny,
the strain was to the Pacific coast
what the Potomac shad has been
to the eastern seaboard. It’s more
than a family—it’s a species.
• • •
Privileges of Nazidom.
*T' HE German commoner may be
shy on the food rations and have
some awkward moments unless he
conforms to the new Nazi religion.
But he enjoys complete freedom of
the press—or rather, complete free-
dom from the press. And lately an-
other precious privilege has been
accorded him.
He may fight duels. Heretofore,
this inestimable boon was exclusive-
ly reserved for the highborn. But
now he may go forth and carve and
be carved until the field of honor
looks like somebody had been clean-
ing fish.
This increase in his blessings
makes me recall a tale that Charley
Russell, the cowboy artist, used to
tell:
‘The boys were fixing to hang a
horse thief,” Charley said. “He only
weighed about ninety pounds, but
for his heft he was the champion
horse thief of Montana. The rope
was swung from the roof of a barn.
Then they balanced a long board
out of the loft window, and the con-
demned was out at the far end of it,
ready for the drop, when a stranger
busted in.
‘Everybody thought he craved to
pray, but that unknown humanita-
rian had a better notion than that.
In less’n a minute he came inching
out on that plank and there wasn’t
a dry eye in the crowd as he edged
up behind the poor trembling wretch
and slipped an anvil in the seat of
his pants."
IRVIN 8. COBB.
C-WHU Service.
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Washington.—-Two actions of sec-
tions of the congress lately deserve
- more than o r d i-
Congress nary attention.
Makes News One of these was
probably as cou-
rageous a position as any group of
senators ever has taken. The other
action—by majority of the house—
was shot through with the utmost
cowardice and selfishness.
Lately, a group of senators, near-
ly all Democrats, took their political
lives in their hands and delivered
to the senate a report from its judi-
ciary committee advising defeat of
President Roosevelt’s proposal to
add six new justices of his own
choosing to the Supreme court of
the United States.
In my time in Washington, 1 be-
lieve I can say without qualifica-
tion, there never has been a com-
mittee action in the house or sen-
ate in which the President, as the
leader of the dominant party, re-
ceived such a castigation on a legis-
lative proposal as was given Mr.
Roosevelt by Democrats who con-
stituted the majority of the senate
judiciary committee. They did not
mince words in any respect. What-
ever may be the merit of Mr. Roos-
evelt’s proposal to add six justices
of his own choosing to the highest
court, the majority report of the
judiciary committee left no stone
unturned in disclosing objections to
the proposal as opponents of the
court reorganization scheme see
them.
Almost on the same day that
senate Democrats were, in effect,
breaking or revolting from the Pres-
ident’s leadership, the Democratic
majority in the house killed off a
proposal for new taxes in the Dis-
trict of Columbia that would have
resulted in taxing the salaries of
representatives and senators and
their office staffs. They were brazen
about it. They were not going to
vote an income tax upon them-
selves and they made no effort to
conceal their reasons for refusing
to accept the recommendations of
a special tax subcommittee which
was acting for the permanent com-
mittee in the house of the District
of Columbia.
The District of Columbia com-
mittee, examining the budget for
the seat of the federal government,
was confronted with a deficit in
the district finances and instructed
its tax subcommittee to develop new
sources of revenue in order that
the District of Columbia might not
get into debt. Among the taxes pro-
posed was a tax on income of res-
idents of the District of Columbia,
which is synonymous with Wash-
ington, and it provided for taxing
earnings here whether the person
who earned the income was a resi-
dent of the capital city or not.
That was too much. The majority
in the house of representatives just
could not take it. They voiced their
objections openly and, being supe-
rior in numbers to those who be-
lieved that income in the District
of Columbia should be taxed, they
forced the tax bill back to the
District of Columbia committee for
revision. Indeed, they went further.
The line of criticism of an income
tax that would touch the sacred
salaries of congressmen and sen-
ators was such as to have the effect
of forcing the committee to bring
in a tax bill that would increase
the tax on property in the federal
area. Now, it is a fact that few
members of the house and a very
small number of senators have
bought residences in Washington.
They usually live in apartments or
hotels or lease homes for the period
that congress is in session. Conse-
quently, a real estate tax will not
concern most of the representatives
and senators.
by the addition of six new justices
was scrutinized and denounced and,
then, the committee put forth some
of its own ideas.
“It applies force to the judiciary,"
the committee said in a sentence
that constituted one paragraph and
thereby was emphasized.
“The only argument for the in-
crease which survives analysis,” the
report added, “is that congress
should enlarge the court so as to
make the policies of this administra-
tion effective.”
The bill was found by the seven
Democrats and three Republicans
who constituted a majority of the
senate judiciary committee, to be
“a needless, futile and utterly dan-
gerous abandonment of constitution-
al principle.” It charged that the
“American system” of independ-
ence of the courts would be violated
and that if the bill were to be en-
acted into law, “political control"
over the judiciary branch of the
government would pass into the
hands of the President.
With the presentation of this ter-
rific attack on the bill to the senate,,
a second unusual circumstance de-
veloped. Those Democrats who
were opposed to the President’s
proposal decided to go about the job
of fighting the measure on the floor
in a manner seldom seen in the
congress. These opponents from the
Democratic ranks got together and
chose Senator Wheeler of Montana
as leader of the Democratic oppo-
sition to the Democratic Presi-
dent’s court revision program. They
gave him full authority to act, in-
cluding the selection of a steering
committee, a committee on strat-
egy, to aid him.
Thus, in the senate now we have
three major leaders. Senator Wheel-
er will speak for the court opposi-
tion; Senator Robinson of Arkansas
as the leader of the Democratic
party in the senate will lead the
fight for passage of the court bill;
and Senator McNary of Oregon will
head up the Republicans as usual.
Since all of the Republicans and
Independents excepting only Senator
La Follette, Progressive, of Wis-
consin, are opposed to the court
revision plan, Senator McNary and
Senator Wheeler are working hand
in glove against the regular Demo-
cratic line-up headed by Senator
Robinson.
The indictment brought against
the President’s court plan by the
Court Plan
Report quite unusual i n
. , „ , many respects.
In the first instance, it was ap-
proximately fifteen thousand words
in length; being in that regard prob-
ably the longest and most com-
prehensive analysis that any con-
gressional committee ever has
made of a piece of legislation. Cer-
tainly, it is the most extensive ex-
amination to be included in a com-
mittee report in the last quarter of
a century.
Every argument advanced by the
administration in support of the
plan was picked to pieces and held
up to public gaze; epery possible
reason for expansion of the court
Speaking of taxes and the selfish-
ness that was evident in the house
u___, -j. _ action, as men-
unt 1 ax tioned earlier,
Evadert calls to mind the
investigation b y
the joint house and senate com-
mittee that is now under way. This
committee, made up of five repre-
sentatives and five senators has be-
gun a search to find out how tax-
payers avoid taxes or reduce the
amounts they would otherwise have
to pay by various trick schemes.
The committee has been given fifty
thousand dollars with which to
make the investigation and it is re-
ceiving able assistance from Under
Secretary Roswell Magill and other
Treasury experts on taxation.
Contrary to the outlook when Mr.
Roosevelt released a vicious attack
on tax dodgers and tax avoiders,
this committee is getting down to
real business and there is every
reason to believe it will be able
to recommend to congress changes
in the law that will stop some of
the schemes and tricks to which
large taxpayers have resorted.
I have sat in on a number of the
hearings thus far, including the
opening session when Secretary
Morgenthau made the opening state-
ment and disclosed to the satisfac-
tion of everyone that he was not
conversant with the problem at
hand. Like the President, Mr. Mor-
genthau attempted to place the tax
problem confronting the govern-
ment on moral grounds. His state-
ment did not click with the com-
mittee at all. With two or three ex-
ceptions, the committee members
recognized the problem as purely a
question of law and Senator Pat
Harrison, Democrat of Mississippi,
vice chairman, said that there was
no point in making the investigation
“a Roman holiday.” Therefore, the
thing settled down very quickly to
an earnest study of cases where
man have resorted to various kinds
of subterfuges of law, to reduce
their tax liability.
In this connection, it seemed to
me that too much credit cannot
be given Under Secretary Magill
who apparently is anxious to get to
the bottom of the problem.
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