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EMPLOYES APPEAL
Argue for Representation
- Plan in Carnegie-lllinois
Steel Corp.
Claiming to represent employes of
five steel plants and Insistent that
they were not being retained by the
management, two attorneys appeared
before the National Labor Relations
Board today to ask leave to intervene
in defense of the employe representa
tion plans of the Carnegie-lllinois
Steel Corp.
Decision of the board on the peti
tion was deferred until tomorrow.
Directly afterward Elmer J. Maloy,
veteran steel worker, took the witness
atand to tell the board he had been
removed last week as chairman of
the employe group of the Pittsburgh
Council because of his membership
in the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
Vote on Removal.
The removal was voted, Maloy said,
by a count of 25 to 11, with two
delegations that had previously with
drawn from the council returning to
participate. During the days just
previous to the removal action Jan
uary 7. company officials called closed
meetings of employe delegates un
friendly to Maloy to prepare the
ouster resolution.
G. L. Patterson, counsel for the
board, called attention to a section
of the constitution of the employe
representation plan which stated that
no discrimination should be practiced
against participation in the plan on
grounds of membership in the union.
The request to defend the employe
representation set-up was made by
Alex Pendleton, of Gary, Ind., and
Benjamin Wham, of Chicago, attor
neys.
Reminded by J. Warren Madden,
chairman of the board, that the em
ploye representation groups had no
treasury and no finances with which
to engage counsel, Pendleton declared
that mo6t of the employes were per
sonal friends of his and that he and
his associates were prepared to repre
sent them without pay if necessary.
“We are entirely independent of the
steel company management,” he said.
Gives Answer.
In answer to a remark by Madden
that “somebody is always showing up
In Washington claiming to represent
a million people, more or less,” Pendle
ton said they could submit evidence of
their right to represent the employes,
although admitting he was not in a
position to prove representation of a
majority. He and Wham had been
employed by a delegation of 10 men, he
■aid.
The plants named by Pendleton and
Wham as their clients were South
Works, Gary Works, American Works,
Gary Tin Mill and Gary Sheet Mill, all
part of the Carnegie-lllinois set-up.
Approximately 45,000 men are em
ployed in the five plants named.
Roosevelt
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solidate many of the 24 lending agen
cies, for example, to prevent over
lapping and waste.
Would-be economizers in Congress
awaited further word from the Presi
dent on relief as well as reorganiza
tion before planning their tactics.
They appeared in a minority, vocal
ly at least, but nevertheless deter
mined to try to keep the immediate
work relief appropriation below the
$650,000,000 mentioned in the budget.
The House still had to organize its
committees. No important legislation
was expected to be ready for a vote
this week, but members went to work on
tn the bills to extend the President’s
monetary powers, the $2,000,000,000
stabilization fund and the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation's lending
power.
Plans to bring the proponents of con
stitutional amendment together in
conference proceeded with Senator
Norris, Independent, of Nebraska,
agreeing to head the group.
At a luncheon forum of the Inde
pendent Legislative Bureau, he sug
gested Congress take issue with Su
preme Court interpretations of labor
legislation by moving simultaneously
to restrict the court's power by statute
and amendment.
Under the projected plan the 50
Congressmen who have proposed con
stitutional amendments would be asked
to explain their views to delegations
from the major farm, labor, consumers
and business organizations and spokes
men from the States.
A vote then would be taken on
whether enlargement of Federal pow
ers, curtailment of Supreme Court
jurisdiction, giving to Congress of a
veto power over Supreme Court de
cisions or some other means would
have most chance for success.
Participants in the White House
conference, which lasted an hour and
a half, declined to discuss any of the
President’s projected recommenda
tions on reorganization.
“There was a conference about re
organization, and the President will
see you later,” was all that Senator
Robinson, Democratic leader, would
■ay.
Representative Rayburn, Democrat,
©f Texas, House floor leader, com
mented: “There was no disagree
ment.”
Chairman Harrison of the Senate
Finance Committee said the Presi
dent “gave us the committee’s report
and an outline of his own views.”
Then he added that “I can’t discuss
the details until the President’s mes
sage is submitted to Congress on
Tuesday.
Chairman Doughton of the House
Ways and Means Committee, and
Chairman Buchanan of the House
Appropriation Committee were the
others attending the conference.
With his Tuesday message, the
Chief Executive will transmit a bulky
report containing recommendations of
his special committee which has been
studying for several months, man
agement of the scores of departments
and commissions of the administra
tion.
He will make his own recommenda
tions, too, aimed at modernizing and
improving the executive branch, but
is expected to leave largely to Con
gress which of the many new Federal
activities shall be continued or aban
doned, increased or curtailed.
When reorganization plans are dis
cussed with the cabinet at a private
conference today, also attending will
be two members of the President’s
committee, Louis Brownlow and
Charles E. Merriam. and their con
sultants, Joseph P. Harris, research
director for the committee; William
H. McReynolds and Clinton M. Hester,
attached to the office of Secretary
Morgenthau, and Herbert Emmerich
of the Farm Credit Administration.
Luther Gulick, third member of the
Special committee, is out of town.
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
FIELD.
ML'ENFANT’S Mall may be
a thing of beauty and a joy
forever to most citizens of
• this Republic, but Carl W.
Mitman heard it described as a waste
land the other day by a skeptic from
the farm belt.
“Boy, give me a good pair of Mis
souri mules and a plow and I’d turn
over that stuff (the greensward) and
show you the best crop of com in the
East.”
When the man’s words fell upon
his ears. Mr. Mitman turned around
for a look at the speaker. He saw
what looked like a progressive farmer:
one who’d do anything for a crop, but
nothing for a laugh.
* * * ■*
SIGN.
If this operative were a police
man he might take offense at a
sign which, although probably
meant in the right way, sticks out '
in an empty lot next to a big house
in Northwest Washington. The sign
reads:
“Keep Out. No Trespassing~
Police Take Notice."
* * * *
BAREFOOT BOY.
Tk/fILLARD PURCELL, who operates
1 * a filling station out on Bladens
burg road, removed his work shoes
the other day to send them to a re
pair shop. Beside him was another
pair—his best—which he was going
to wear while the new half-soles and
heels were being put on.
Before the change was completed,
however, he was called to the tele
phone—and, for some reason that even
he can’t explain, answered in his
stocking feet.
Purcell talked only a few minutes,
with customers entering and leaving
the station all the time. When he was
finished he sat down to complete the
change to the newer shoes, and—they
were gone!
But that didn’t feaze Purcell. He
hopped into his car, drove down to H
street northeast and, ignoring the
curious stares and giggles of passersby,
climbed out in his stocking feet and
walked nearly a block from the best
parking place he could find to the
nearest shoe store.
* * * *
THREAT.
Dan Terrell, publicity man for a
local theater chain, asked a friend
of his for a pup, thereby giving the
family an idea.
Now, whenever Tam, the family
cocker spaniel, gets out of hand
she’s threatened with, “If you don’t
behave we’ll give you to Dan Ter
rell.”
It always seems to work, too.
* * * #
ATTENTION.
^ VISITOR to Washington on a
train from the South received
first-hand information as to how some
of the legislation is introduced on Cap
itol Hill, and especially the innocent
causes for it.
‘‘I sat back of a Southern Congress
man on a train coming into Wash
ington.” the visitor told an operative.
“A few miles out of Washington the
train stopped and was delayed for
several minutes.
“'The Congressman fussed and
fumed. Finally he exploded:
“ ‘Well,’ he turned to any one who
would hear him, ‘this is a fine state
of affairs. When I get to Washing
ton I’m going to file a bill and stop
this sort of thing right away.’ ”
* * * *
ROLLING ALONG.
The good people of Karachi,
India, seem, to have gotten a bit
confused on their American geog
raphy—perhaps by a now-closed
chapter in history.
A letter just received at the Post
Office Department, after forward
ing, was addressed to “The Post
master General, Central Post Of
fice, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
State, on Mississippi, U. S. A."
MEANY.
A LONE automobile, driven by an
elderly man, was halted at a
red light at a busy corner in the
northwest section. Another car, oper
ated by a snappily dressed young fel
low, pulled up behind it.
The light 'Changed. The oldster’s
machine didn’t move.
The other driver tooted his horn
several times, but without result. He
could have backed a few feet and
driven around the other vehicle, but
for some reason—perhaps because
he’d lost his temper—he didn’t.
Instead, he backed just far enough
to get a fairly good start, then stepped
on the gas—apparently just about as
hard as he could.
The car shot forward and crashed
Into the rear of the other machine,
bumping it ahead with a terrific Jerk.
The elderly driver, obviously exasper
ated, opened his mouth as if to shout
something apropos and—embarrass
ment of embarrassments—his false
teeth, upper and lower, went sliding
across the street.
“I’m going to call an officer.” the
oldster almost cried. “I—I—I’ll flx
you for this, you-”
By the time the victim had clam
bered out and retrieved his teeth, how
ever, the younger driver had disap
peared.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Routine business.
TOMORROW.
Hears President Roosevelt’s message
on Government reorganisation.
LANDIS REPORTED
S. E. C. Chairman Declared
Due to Become Dean of
Law School.
By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, January 11.—Reports
that James M. Landis, chairman of
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission, would be named dean of the
Harvard Law School circulated widely
in Boston today despite lack of of
ficial confirmation.
Harvard officials declined to confirm
or deny the report that the former
Harvard professor and present high
ranking member of the Roosevelt
brain trust would succeed Dean Roscoe
Pound, whose resignation was sub
mitted last September.
Meeting This Afternoon.
The overseers of the college sched
uled a meeting this afternoon. The
overseers must confirm all such ap
pointments.
Prof. Edmund M. Morton is now
acting dean of the Law School.
Dr. Landis, although only 37 years
old. has had a brilliant career.
He was graduated from Harvard
Law School in 1924 and the following
year became a doctor of judicial
science.
In 1928 he was appointed to a full
professorship at Harvard Law School,
one of the youngest men ever to re
ceive such an appointment at Harvard.
Landis was contemplating becoming
a candidate for the Cambridge City
Council when President Roosevelt’s
attention was directed to him by
Prof. Felix Frankfurter of the original
Roosevelt brain trust.
Named to Trades Commission.
The President named him a mem
ber of the Federal Trade Commis
sion and he went to Washington. He
obtained a leave of absence from Har
vard at that time, 1933.
He helped draw up the securities
and exchange control act and because
of his knowledge of it, was suggested
for the chairmanship by Joseph P.
Kennedy when he resigned the post.
Rumor that he would follow other
leaders of the New Deal back into
private life grew strong when It was
learned he had not requested a con
tinuance of his leave of absence from
Harvard. Early this month he in
formed the President he was planning
to leave the chairmanship of the
S. E. C.
By the Associated Press.
James M. Landis, chairman of the
Securities Commission, withheld com
ment today on Boston reports that he
would become dean of Harvard Law
School.
"Until Harvard makes an official
statement, I will have nothing to say,”
Landis said.
Clark
(Continued From First Page.)
as the Territory of Columbia Com
mission. and to be composed of five
Senators, to be appointed by the
President of the Senate; five members
of the House of Representatives, to be
appointed by the Speaker of the House
of Representatives, and five persons
who are residents of the District of
Columbia, one of whom shall be a
member of the judiciary of the District
of Columbia, to be appointed by the
President. The members of the com
mission shall serve without compensa
tion and shall select one of such
members as chairman. All expenses
of the commission shall be paid upon
vouchers approved by the chairman.
"(B). It shall be the duty of the
commission to prepare an organic act
providing for a territorial form of
civil government for the District of
Columbia and to submit a report
thereon to the Congress prior to the
expiration of one year after the date
of enactment of this resolution. The
commission shall include in such re
port its recommendations with respect
to the fair and equitable amount to
be paid annually by the United States
toward the expenses of such civil
government for the District of Co
lumbia. The commission is authorized
to make such surveys and conduct such
investigations as it may deem neces
sary and advisable for carrying out
the purposes of this resolution.”
It also authorized the commission
to employ experts and to call on all
Government agencies for Information.
The cost of the inquiry was left to be
determined in committee.
Dirksen for Ventilation.
Representative Dirksen, Republican,
of Illinois announced that if he is
reappointed to the House District
Committee, he will insist on a “thor
ough ventilation” of the Jacobs fiscal
relations report.
“The report and recommendations,”
Dirksen declared, “are such a wide
departure from the past fiscal relations
between the District and Federal
Governments that they will require
a very Intensive study and exhaustive
hearings.
“In my opinion, Jacobs and his ad
visory Committee should be asked to
appear before the District Committee
and testify at length relative to the
application of the proposed 3-point
formula for the guidance of future
fiscal relations between the United
States and the District.”
Dirksen was the ranking minority
member of the District Committee in
the last Congress, and his reappoint
ment is expected within the next few
days.
In the meantime, Chairman Norton
of the District Committee continued
preparations for starting hearings on
the report as soon as possible. Definite
plans cannot be made, however, until
existing vacancies on the committee
are filled and substitutes are selected
for those members who have asxed
for other committee assignments.
To Appoint Committees.
Mrs. Norton said she had definitely
decided to appoint two special sub
committees to handle the report. One
will be assigned to consider the 19
proposed statutory changes and the
other will hold hearings on the five
new tax measures recommended.
These proposed revenue bills would
provide for an increase in the gaso
line tax, a weight tax on commercial
vehicles, an income tax as a substi
tute for the present tax on intangible
personal property, and new business
taxes.
As soon as the appointments to the
District Committee are made by the
House, Mrs. Norton plans to call a
special meeting for organization pur
poses, and at the same time select
the personnel of the two special sub
committees to consider the various
features of the Jacobs report.
Mrs. Norton has made only a cur
sory examination of the report einoe
1 It was referred to her committee last
week by the House. For that reason,
she is reserving her comment on the
recommendations.
However, she said she does believe
the proposed three-point formula for
solving the fiscal relations problem is
“unfair to the District.”
“The Jacobs report has had one
good effect,” Mrs. Norton declared. “It
has aroused the people of the District.
It has been difficult to do that In the
past.”
COLLEGES ARE TOLD
NOT TO TRAIL STATE
Popular Mind Puts Politics
Over God, Convening
Churchmen Hear.
Churchmen and teachers represent
ing 23 Protestant denominations and
the Catholic Church gathered in
Washington today for the opening
sessions of the twenty-sixth annual
meeting of the Council of Church
Boards of Education and the annual
meeting of the National Conference
of Church-Related Colleges. The con
ventions, which continue through
Friday, are being held at the May
flower Hotel.
The National Luthern Educational
Conference and the Presbyterian
College Union, the first groups to meet,
assembled at 10 a.m. The former dis
cussed the general question of “The
Christian College and American Citi
zenship" under the direction of its
president, Dr. Conrad BergendoS,
president of Augustana College and
Theological Seminary, Rock Island, 111.
“The task of the Christian college
in the present day is not blindly to
be following the leadership of the
State, but to act as the conscience and
the direction finder for the State,"
Bergendoff declared.
Religion in the modem mind, he
said, is less important than politics.
This is still a day in which the State
is being defied by many who will
recognize no other God, he went on.
Business Session Opens.
The Lutherans’ business session
opened at 11:15 a m. with the report
of the secretary-treasurer. Dr. H. J.
Arnold of Wittenberg College. Rev.
J. C. K. Preuss, D. D„ educational
director and executive secretary of the
Board of Education, United Norwegian
Church, was to preside at a fellow
ship luncheon meeting at 12:30 p.m.
The question of “The Christian Col
lege and Citizenship” was proposed
for discussion at the second general
session this afternoon, with Dr. B.
J. Pershing, professor of church his
tory at Hamma Divinity School,
Springfield, Ohio, leading the talk.
Two Washington churchmen—Rev.
Gerhard E. Lenski, pastor of Grace
Church, and Rev. Oscar F. Black
welder, pastor of the Church of the
Reformation—were to take part in a
sectional meeting symposium on the
subject of “The Function of the
Church in Social Adjustment” at
3:45 p.m.
Consul General to Speak.
The Lutheran delegates were sched
uled to assemble at the Young
Women's Christian Association for
dinner at 6:30 p.m. to hear Baron von
Tippelskirch, German consul general
at Boston.
Tomorrow's sessions of the Council
of Church Boards of Education in
clude five separate meetings—the As
sociation of Presidents and Principals
of Northern Baptist Schools and Col
leges, the Church of the Brethren
General Board of Education, the Five
Years’ Meeting of Friends' Board of
Education, the National Lutheran Ed
ucational Conference, and the Presby
terian CoUeges, who will hold a con
vocation to consider the sesquicenten
nial fund for Christian education.
The National Conference of Church
Related Colleges opens its sessions
Wednesday afternoon, while the
Council of Church Boards of Educa
tion concludes its meetings the morn
ing of the same day.
Delegates Speak.
Several of the Lutheran delegates
spoke in Washington pulpits yester
day, among them H. W. A. Hanson,
president of Gettysburg College, Get
tysburg, Pa„ who sounded the con
ference keynote:
"The church Is vitally interested in
what is being taught to the youth of
our country. It is well that the
church should be interested, for no
single area of American life stands
to lose more or gain more than the
i church by this all-important matter.”
Pastor Puts Match to Bible
In Chagrin at Low Attendance
Rev. S. Benney Benson pictured as he set his Bible afire in
the pulpit of the Kent Avenue Reformed Presbyterian Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y., last night. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 11.—Cha
grined, he said, at the paucity of
worshipers. Rev. S. Benney Benson of
the Kent Street Reformed Church In
Brooklyn set fire to a Bible in the
pulpit in the middle of last night’s
service.
Commenting as he scanned the
congregation—about 50 persons—"we
apparently have tipped our hats and
Striking Sailors Picket Commerce Building
These striking sailors from Baltimore were among the six who started picketing the Com
merce Department Building today to protest alleged anti-labor provisions of the Copeland safety
at-sea act. —Star Staff Photo.
FISCAL STRATEGY
Will Meet Auditor for Discus-'
sion of Budget, Jacobs
Report.
A series of conferences designed to
map a plan of strategy in handling
the proposed 1938 budget and the
Jacobs fiscal relations report was in
the making today at the District
Building. The Commissioners and 1
Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and
budget officer, hope to induce Con
gress to reject the Jacobs report and
restore some Federal contribution to
the cost of the District government.
Maj. Donovan spent the week end
studying the report and the proposed
new budget, but he declined to com
ment today, pending a conference with
the Commissioners.
Plans had been made to take up the
subject Friday, but Commissioner
Hazen was confined to his home with
a cold, and Commissioner Allen was ;
in Philadelphia in connection with j
plans for the President's birthday ball. :
They were both back on the Job today, 1
however, and hoped to take up the 1
matter before closing their offices
this afternoon.
District officials are particularly
concerned with the prospect of hav
ing to raise the tax rate In order to
collect approximately $10,000,000
more than current anticipated reve
nues in order to meet the proposed
new budget.
To avoid this, means will be con
sidered to appeal to Congress to re
ject the Jacobs report wholly and to
restore the formula of past years.
Definite plans for the conferences
; between Donovan and the Commis
: sioners had not been worked out to
| day, further than that all agreed that
action will be taken as early as pos
sible and that a preliminary meeting
would be held during the course of
the day. Whether anything definite
will come from the Initial parley
could not be learned in advance of
the meeting.
Collision Kills 20.
BOGOTA, Colombia, January 11
(^Pu—Twenty persons were killed and
more than 50 injured last night In a
collision between freight and passen
ger trains near Medellin.
bowed God out of the door,” Rev. Mr.
Benson touched a match to the Bible
and dropped the flaming book into a
bucket of water which he suddenly
produced from under the pulpit.
He also Ignited a copy of his auto*
biography, explaining. “My life is
bound up with the Bible.”
Rev. Mr. Benson once tramped from
Niagara Falls to New York City, hand
ing out Bibles to mayors an rout*
M
Text of Roosevelt Letter
President Asks for $790,000,000 Supplemental
Appropriation for Works Progress Remainder
of This Fiscal Year.
Following is the letter sent by Presi
dent Roosevelt today to Speaker Bank
head concerning an additional appro
priation for the Works Progress Ad
ministration:
The Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives:
Sir—In my budget message of Jan
uary 5. 1937,1 indicated my intention
of requesting that Congress provide
an appropriation of $790,000,000 for
the purpose of carrying the Works
Progress Administration and related
programs from February I to June 30, 1
1937.
In general, the problem of relief has
diminished with the extensive re-em
ployment and recovery which has oc
curred in nearly all lines of business
and industrial activity. At the begin
ning of the present Winter at least
6.000.000 more workers were employed
in non-agricultural jobs than in
March. 1933, and of this number more
than 1,000,000 have found jobs with
private industry during the past year.
In my message of March 18, 1936,
I stated:
“The ultimate cost of the
Federal works program will thus
be determined by private enter
prise. Federal assistance which
arose as a result of industrial dis
employment can be terminated if
industry itself removes the under
lying conditions. Should industry
co-operatively achieve the goal of
re-employment, the appropriation
of $1,500,000,000, together with the
unexpended balances of previous
appropriations, will suffice to carry
the Federal works program
through the fiscal year 1937. Only
if industry fails to reduce sub
stantially the number of those
now out of work will another ap
propriation and further ptans and
policies be necessary.’’
Many private enterprises have co
operated and I hope that there will
be further sustained efforts on the part
of private employers. Great assist
ance can be given to the Government
if all private employers in every part
of the country will seek, in so far as
they reasonably can, to obtain addi
tional workers from the relief rolls.
In this connection it is worth noting
that by far the larger part of those
on the relief rolls fall into the cate
gory of unskilled workers.
As a result of the natural increase
in our population, each year at least
400.000 new workers are seeking work,
and this number of new jobs an
nually is necessary simply to prevent
an increase in unemployment.
Certain other facts are worth noting.
The tendencly toward a longer work
week has had an extremely important
effect on re-employment. Hours of
work in manufacturing industries, as
shown by the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics index, averaged 33.3 hours per
week in September. 1934. That av
erage has increased by 20 per cent
to more than 40 hours per week In
October, 1936.
While among most industries and
most employers the maximum hours
established under the national recov
ery act have not been greatly in
creased. it is worth noting that In
some industries and among some em
ployers the former maximum hours
have been unreasonably increased.
Every action of an employer along
these lines obviously tends toward the
stepping up of production without an
equivalent stepping up of employment.
It is not unfair to say that these em
ployers who are working their em
ployes unreasonably long hours are
failing to co-operate with the Govern
ment and their fellow citizens in put
ting people back to work.
In March, 1936, more than 3,400,000
employable persons were provided for
by the works program, not including
the Civilian Conservation Corps. At
the present time, as a result of an
exhaustive review of the need* of the
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families of workers on the works
program, we have found that it will
be necessary, during the Winter
months, to provide employment for
at least 2.580.000 workers, of which
number 250,000 will receive employ
ment from funds appropriated in the
emergency relief appropriation act of
1935. This represents a net reduc
tion of more than 800,000 since last
March. Further reductions will be
made in the Spring and Summer, at
the time of seasonal increases in pri
vate employment.
An unforeseen factor in Federal ex
penditures for the relief of destitu
tion has been the drought, which laid
waste large area of the country, and
brought disaster to hundreds of thou
sands of farm families. During last
Summer and Fall, an emergency pro
gram was developed to provide em
ployment for the most destitute of
the stricken families. With the ad
vent of Winter, about 250,000 of these
families are being transferred from
work projects to the Resettlement Ad
ministration, which will provide them
with direct grants for subsistence
through the Winter, and make other
provisions to get them started on an
independent basis when the planting
season arrives.
Since the balance of the present
appropriation of $1,425,000 for relief
and work relief will be barely suffi
cient to finance this program through
the month of January, I recommend
that the Congress provide a supple
mental appropriation of $790 000.000
for this purpose for the remainder of
the fiscal year 1937.
We have promised that the men,
women and children of America who
are destitute through no fault of
their own shall not be neglected. Be
fore the end of this fiscal year I shall
make specific recommendations to
the Congress, defining in detail my
views relative to the continuing prob
lem of unemployment relief and its
administration in 1938.
Respectfully,
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
Deficiency
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ministration rules to aid “drought
refugees'' from dust bowl States.
In the deficiency appropriation re
quest the President referred to the
drought as an "unforeseen factor” in
Federal relief expenditures, asserting
that about 250,000 stricken larm
families were being transferred from
work projects this Winter to the Re
settlement Administration. Under
this program, he added, they are be
ing given direct grants for subsist
ence through the Winter and other
aids “to get them started on an inde
pendent basis when the planting
season arrives.”
Problem Declared Diminished.
At the outset, the President said the
problem of relief In general had dimin
ished with the "extensive re-employ
ment and recovery which has occurred
in nearly all lines of business and in
dustrial activity.”
At the beginning of the present
Winter, he said, at least 6,000.000 more
workers were working at non-agri
cultural Jobs than four years ago. Of
this number, over 1,000,000 had found
jobs with private Industry in the past
year.
Just before the letter to Bankhead
was read to the House, the Speaker
told reporters he was "going to try
to hold appropriations to an absolute
minimum,” although he thought Con
gress would "go along with the Presi
dent's suggestions.”
He added there might be consider
able difference of opinion among
members as to the amount needed for
relief.
HOUR CUT
ADVI_AGAINST
Would Imperil Opportunity
for Industrial Expansion,
Says Brookings Report.
The Brookings Institution, private
organization of economic research, to
day warned the Nation against what
It termed the "mistaken theory” that
slashes in working hours are desirable.
Instead of raising standards of liv
ing, such cuts would imperil the op
portunity for a great industrial ex
pansion, the institution argued in a
report on essentials for further re
covery.
This stand was taken less than a
week after President Roosevelt had
reaffirmed faith in the broad objec
tives of the outlawed N. R. A., which
included shorter working hours and
higher wages.
The institution contended that re
duction of hours would cause a sharp
rise in costs. This, it said, would re
sult "either In rapid rises in indus
trial prices, with profoundly disturb
ing effects upon the operation of the
economic system as a whole, or the
immediate halting of business activ
ity with a consequent increase in un
employment."
Lists Essential Steps.
Reporting that the opportunity for
a great Industrial expansion has never
been greater than it is today, the in
stitution listed the following as es
sential steps to realize that expansion:
1. "The re-establishment of a bal
anced Federal budget.
2. “The continuance of the present
policy of maintaining a fixed price
of gold and the establishment through
International co-operation of a sys
tem of stable foreign exchanges.
3. “The extension of the program of
reciprocal trade agreements as the
most practical means of reducing ar
tificial barriers to commerce and re
opening the channels of International
trade.
4. “The preservation of the gen
erally favorable ratio of prices and
wage rates, in the Interest of progres
sively expanding the real purchasing
power of workers and creating a de
mand for added production and em
ployment—placing emphasis upon
price reductions as a means of carry
ing the benefits of technological prog
ress to all groups within the Nation.
5. “The maintenance, in general, of
prevailing hours of labor, as the only
means of meeting the production re
quirements involved in restoring dur
ing the next few years the standards
of living of the laboring masses and
promoting the economic advancement
of the Nation as a whole.
6. “The elimination of industrial
practices and policies—private and
public—which tend to restrict output
or to prevent the increase of pro
ductive efficiency.
7. "Shifting the emphasis In agri
cultural policy from restricted out
put and rising prices to the abundant
furnishing of the supplies of raw
materials and foodstuffs required by
gradually expanding markets.”
Many Favorable Factors.
The institution reported many fa
vorable factors in the present situa
tion. It said lendable funds were
abundant at low interest rates, and
the purchasing power of the laboring
population has been “steadily ex
panded.”
It attributed materia! Improvement
in the balance between agriculture
and industry “in part to normal re
covery from the extreme depths
i reached during the depression, in
part to the effects of dollar devalua
tion, which raised the prices of staple
export commodities. In part to
weather conditions and in part to
the Government program of restrict
ing agricultural production.”
The report hailed the administra
tion’s policy of “monetary stability”
| and its efforts toward stabilization of
I foreign exchange.
On “the darker side of the pic
| ture” the economists contended that
j "the possibility of a serious breakdown
in Government finance still exists.”
Concerning the international sit
uation, they reported:
"The threat of new wars not only
forecasts the possibility of renewed
wealth destruction, but also consti
tutes a barrier to the re-establish
ment of constructive international
eoonomic policies.”
Pickets
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certificate of efficiency embodied in
the Copeland bill.
The Associated Press reported that
Joseph Curren, chairman of the Joint
Strike Committee in New York, was
to address a meeting of striking sea
men in Baltimore tonight.
Contacting seven seaport cities, the
Metropolitan police were notified two
of them, Boston and Norfolk, are to
send small delegations, while police in
New Orleans, Philadelphia and
Charleston, S. C., reported they could
learn of no plans for departures from
those cities.
New York police reported that
headquarters of striking seamen there
still claimed that as many as 1,000
sailors may leave for the Capital at
the end of the week.
At headquarters of the Workers’
Alliance here it was claimed that
plans are still going forward to have
several thousand here by Friday.
Composed principally of W. P. A.
workers, this delegation is to protest
against a $650,000,000 relief appro
priation instead of $1,000,000,000,
which they believe necessary for the
remainder of the present fiscal year.
Court
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retroactivity fixed in the act (35 days)
is not unreasonable, but consistent
with the practice sustained by this
court in the cases already cited.”
During argument on the case. Gov
ernment counsel had contended the
tax was necessary to enable the Gov
ernment to effectuate its monetary
policy.
The noting of probable jurisdiction
in the milk control case indicates the
court will review this controversy.
* The case is important to the Dis
trict since the Virginia Milk Commis
sion. under the authority of the State
legislation, created the Arlington
Alexandria milk market area and pre
scribed minimum prices and certain
rules and regulations relating to the
production and distribution of milk
in this area. The Highland Farms
Dairy, which operates a milk depat
here, buys milk from dairymen id)
Maryland and Virginia, and sells its
entire output of bottled milk to High
for resale in the District.
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