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ORT VOL. L. FT. COVINGTON, N. Y., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1934. NO- 21. News Review of Current Events the World Over President Names Board to Investigate Growing Textile Strike—Senator Lewis Says Democrats Don't Support Sinclair's Socialistic Views. By EDWARD W. PICKARD © br Western Newspaper Union. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT took a •* band in the textile strike by ap- pointing a board of inquiry. The mem- bers he aamed are Gov. John G. Wigant of New Hampshire, Marion Smith of At- lanta, Ga., and Ray- mond V. IngersoU, borough president of ** Brooklyn, N. 1. Mr. Smith is an attorney 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 said industries. 3. Consider ways and means of meet- ing said problems and complaints. 4. Exercise in connection with said 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 tfme about 336,000 workers tiad quit their jobs. This would indi- cate the walkout was approximately W per cent effective over the entire •cotton, woolen and silk Industry, w,hich •normally employs in the neighborhood -of 650,000 workers. Leaders of the strike claimed that 450,000 bad quit at that time and that more were joining the walkout dally. Predictions of violence were fulfilled, for there were bloody riots around the •mills in New England, Georgia, North •Carolina and South Carolina, and sev- eral deaths res-ilted. Tn the southern -states the National Guard was mob- ilized. senator Lewis ^ A. SLOAN, president of VJ Cotton Textile Institute, who at first claimed that two-thirds of the •workers had refused to join the strike, 4ater admitted that he was wsong and said: •\This thing is getting •worse by the hour.\ ;He added that the re- ports he had received showed that additional •mills were closing, and •said: \I am deeply dis- tressed to learn that blood has been shed in Georgia. These sad .events make it plain that the forces unleashed by the strike leaders are now out of their control. \This is no longer te. be_vtewed 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 =a vast majority of our workers. \Now lawless bands of misled people, thousands in number, move across wide Areas, against whole communities, rsmasb mill doors, drag men and women from work they wish to perform, and threaten with violence all who do not yield. This is an assault on fundamen- tal American rights.' Francis J. Gorman, director of the •strike, announced that be 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. 3. Machine load limit and wage •scale yet to be determined. 4. Promise by the companies not to interfere with union activities. 5. 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 Peterson (N. J.) district and with mills closing in other sections, the silk industry was approximately 80 per cent shut down. Schweitzer disclosed that many unions in other Industries, not- ably the Amalgamated Clothing Work- en, were offering material aid to the striken and supplying organizers. The belief of the strikers that the government would indirectly finance their walkout by placing them on the relief lists was only partially Justified by Relief Administrator Hopkins, Be #ftld the government took no sides in the matter and that relief would be given to strikers as to other Individ- oals when it appeared they were des- titute. N RA was dealt a severe blow when the Retail Coal Code authority resigned in a body in protest against the way the NKA is handling the code. The seven members, who were the rul- ing body under the Blue Eagle for 80,- 000 retail coal dealers, are: Roderick Stephens, New Xork, chairman; Milton E. Robinson, Jr., Chicago, vice chair- man; Clarence V. Beck, St Louis; Wil- liam A. Clark, Boston; Charles M. Farrar, Raleigh, N. C ; Edward B. Jacobs, Reading, Pa.; and John Mc- Lachlan, Pullman, I1L Their 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 NBA, the code is a futile and unworkable thing, while as originally agreed upon it represented a constructive basis for Improvement of conditions hi this in- dustry,\ the members told General Johnson. E IGHT thousand, seven hundred em- ployees of the Aluminum Company of America, who had been on strike for a month, were ordered by their union 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. A FTER Upton Sinclair, ex-Socialist who^obtained the Democratic nom- ination for governor of California, had called on President Roosevelt at Hyde Park, he jubilantly as- serted that his plan to \End Poverty in Cali- fornia\ was identical 1th the New DeaL The n he wen t to Washington and sought the support of administration lead- era for his campaign. Mr. Roosevelt had said nothing publicly concerning Mr. Sin- clair, but Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, chairman of the Democratic senatorial campaign committee, <jnade 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 Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Mich- igan, Kansas and Nebraska Repub- licans who bad 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 nomination can be charged to that class of Republicans in Los An- 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 hi 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 radi- calism of Socialism and the destruction of Communism. \We under the name of democracy can never advocate or endorse a sys- tem which appropriates and confiscates honest property, whether it be the wealth of the millionaires or the week- ly wages of millions of * toilers.' D ONALD RIGHBERG, secretary oi the executive council, made an- other report to the President on th New Deal efforts to relieve 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. RFO actually has disbursed $5, 853,000,000. 2. The Home Owners' Loan corpora- tion has advanced $1,290,445,000, end- Ing a real estate panic and saving the homes of 432,000 families from fore- closure. 3. 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. H UEY LONG'S plans to control the primary in Louisiana were curbed by two Injunctions issued by a federal and a state court, but his exposure of the'administration of New Orleans bj Mayor Walmsley and his friends went on unhlnderftL Also the \dictator- ship\ laws passed by the senator's leg- islature became binding and put an ettd to much of the gay life in New Orleans, for the \old regular\ machine which has ruled the city for yeai was helpless. Governor Allen, Long's henchman, has full power to enforce the new laws through the state police or the militia. Dissemination of hoi race news being now unlawful, the publications specializing in such infor- mation planned to leav* the city. R EICHSFUEHRBR HITLER of Ger- many renewed his warfare on Tews and also declared all other ele- cts opposing his regime must be suppressed. The chancellor, address- Ing the annual convention of the Nazi ?arty in Nuremberg, made a slashing ttack against \Jewish influence\ on German Hfe^He was chewed fre- uently during his impassioned ad- tress, clarifying again his anti-Jewish, •an-German philosophy of political nd social science as the essence of is national-socialistic doctrines fiflfe ruling Germanic races. Earlier, a proclamation by him was read to the delegates, warning that those who dared oppose the Nazi state under his rule would be ruthlessly dealt with, and outlining his achieve- ments as head of the third reich. Combined with Hitler's attack on the Jews came a bitter denunciation of those \sensation-hungry corre- spondents interested only in external symptoms.\ Hitler declared they were responsi ble for a misconception of Germany abroad, insisted that Nazism 'as here to stay, and added violence and revolutions were ended. O N THE advice of Sol Rosenblatt divisional administrator, the NRA has 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 saM: \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 to exercise any more effective judg- ment in the matter/* R USSIA'S ambition to be given a seat 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. S ECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE thinks it may be neces- sary to guarantee 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. The 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 ECAUSE of his unwavering opposi- tion to what he considered the ex- travagant expenditures of the govern- ment and to Its inflationary monetary policies, Lewis Doug- las has resigned as di- rector of the budget He had long bee n 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- Sole Guardian of Health of 13,000,000 People proval; nor had the billion dollar defi- ciency appropriation bill and the schemes for the purchase of gold and silver. It was w^d his resignation was finally brought about by the announce- ment of Secretary Morgenthau that the so-called profit of two billion eight hundred million dollars resulting from the devaluation of the gold dollar would be used to curtail the public debt incurred by the New DeaL Since currency is ultimately to be issued against this \profit and since there is only about five billion dollars of 'cur- rency now In circulation, the Morgen- thau plan contemplates a 50 per cent inflation. The President appointed as acting budget director Daniel W. Bell, a per- manent employee of the treasury. It 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 Morgenthau. Several officials who are not In full sympathy with the New Deal will be out M ANI 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 statement saying: - \It is planned to either exchange some of these high breed drouth cattle for scrub cattle now in the possession of relief or rural rehabilitation fami- lies, or to Issue them to such families where the need has been determined. Under this program the low-grade scrub cattle would be slaughtered where exchanges were made. The ex- changes, or issuance of cattle without exchange, would be made upon recom- mendation of the various county relief administrations and county rural re- habilitation supervisors.\ A FTER five days of deliberation, the high council of the Salvation Army, sitting In London, elected Com- mander Evangellne Booth general of titie army. Thus the supreme command of the organization is returned to the Booth family after a break of five years. Miss Booth, who is sixty-eight years old, Is the only daughter of Gen. William Booth, founder of the army. For thirty years she has been at the head of taje army in America. ' WISE OR OTHERWISE Dr. Percy T. Watson, director ot the Fenchow hospital in Shansi province, China, the sole guardian of the health of some 13,000,000 Chinese, is here shown with the members of his family after he returned to his Minnesota home at Northfleld to spend a year's vacation. AH of the children were born in China. President's Mother Judges a Baby Contest At times even our best friends make> us weary. It's queer the way a girl can wink without getting caught at i t ' Two is company but with father in the parlor there is a multitude. « One half the world gets along be* mse the other half g^ts short There are two sides J§> every story : and some have four and a ceiling: The win^ frequently turns an onv trella, but a borrower seldom returns Never look backward—unless ypn can profit by the mistake you have made. When a man starts out to took for Tun he manages to uncover a lot of trouble. If a mao Is honest yon can always (H it by the way he doesn't talk tbout it. The right kind of a man doesnt lave to spend T alf his time looking: tor a job. The man who is liberal with prom- ises Is apt to be miserly when It comes to making good. They're Calling Admiral Byrd These little penguins, natives of the South pole regions, recently gave their first radio broadcast from station KFSD at the San* Diego zoo, and were no donbt hoping that Admiral Byrd in his Little America home was listening in. Argentine Training Ship at New York The Presidente Sarmienta training ship from Argentina, photographed as the arrived in the Hudson river at New tork. She is carrying the naval cadets on a long cruise. SINCLAIR NOMINATED Upton Sinclair, Socialist, who turned Democrat and won the nomination for governor of California. CZECH CHAMPION Roderick Menzel, tennis champion of Czechoslovakia, is shown here as he arrived at New York to compete in coming net tournaments in America. Diamond-B«»rinc O»tricU« Not long ago a law was passed Ii South Africa prohibiting the shootinj of ostriches in the diamond fields o! the Kalahari desert Numerous hunt ers, even special expeditions, we; killing them rapidly for the diamond* that were sometimes found in their stomachs. One bird had seventy-one, one of which weighed more than seven carats.-rComer's Weekly. - - INFORMATION An exercising wheel for birds, to b* attached to their cages, is now oa the market Three hundred and forty million in- candescent lamps were sold in the United States last year. Apparatus to automatically purify a town's water supply by the chlorine process has been Invented in Switzer- land. Australia is estimated to contain about 3,374,000 horse power in Us wa- ter courses/of which less than one- fifth is utilized. A metal sleeve has been patented by an Idaho Inventor to protect poles from decay below ground and from grass fires above. Special cross-word puzzles In which the letters r.re \pegged\ into squares on cardboard forms, are made in Paris for the use of the blind. An automobile thief alarjn, invented, by an Australian, sounds a bell and switches on an electric sign, \stolen when an unauthorized person attempts to drive the car away. ; GEMS OF THOUGHT 111 deeds are doubled with an evil word.—Shakespeare. ~~ Y Sleep, riches and health are only truly enjoyed after they have been interrupted.—Richter. Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of hu- man liberty.—Daniel Webster. The true, strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.—Dr. Samuel Johnsoa. No nation can produce Its full com- plement of worthy citizens until all are assured of the bases of life.—E.. 1L White. I can tell you where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.— Cervantes. Men are so constituted that every- body undertakes what he sees anoth- er successful in, whether he has the> aptitude for it or not.—Goethe. SICKROOM \DON'TS\ Don't sit on the bed. Don't ask the patient how he feels every hour or so. Don't keep flowers in the room after they begin to fade. Don't fail to have plenty of ven- tilation, at the same time keeping di- rect air from the patient Don't keep the room dark and gloomy If the patient can stand the light. Sunshine is a very cheerful visitor. Don't feel you have to entertain, the patient every minute of the day with a constant chatter. You will find It will make him very nervous. OLD TIMER REMEMBERS When the homely daughter taught school instead of bridge. When they talked of hands across the sea instead of voices. When they gave kids strap ol! to make them take castor oil When a girl got more of a tHrill out of being graceful than being dis- graceful. When the pharmacopoeia was more important to a druggist than a cook- book.—Pathfinder Magazine. I
