Evening star. [volume], October 24, 1939, Page A-7, Image 7

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Court Fight Greets
Lt. Col. Fleming in
Wage-Hour Job
New Head Prefers
Conference Table to
'Crack-Down' Methods
By the Associated Press.
The watte-hour law celebrated its
first birthday anniversary today with
a new administrator and an injunc
tion suit.
Lt. Col. Philip Fleming, the trou
ble - shooting Army engineer, who
professed no intentions to be a
"crack downer,” took over direction
of the Wage-Hour Division while
his legal staff hastened to prepare
for the first big court test of its
powers.
The anniversary was marked also
by a change in wage-and-hour
standards for thousands of workers
whose pay envelopes or work-week
are affected by the act.
Some 690.000 were in line for pay
raises as the minimum wage re
quirement changed from 25 to 30
cents an hour, where it will remain
for six years unless revised by Con
gress.
Work Week Is Narrowed.
The maximum work week was
narrowed at the same time from 44
to 42 hours for some 2.380.000 work
ers who are now entitled to time
and-a-half compensation for hours
beyond that limit.
A court action which may test
eventually the validity of the act
was under way in New Orleans, j
where three Southern cotton textile 1
manufacturers obtained from the ’
Circuit Court of Appeals a stay
against the 32'i-cents-an-hour min
imum wage put into effect by a spe
cial wage order. The rate applies
only to 175.000 workers in the textile
industry.
Chief Counsel George A. McNulty
asserted that the stay order applied
only to the three petitioning firms
and declared the Wage-Hour Ad
ministration would contest the ac
tion. The textile litigants contend
that the order, based on an indus- i
try committee recommendation, was
"arbitrarily fixed” and not sup
ported by evidence.
"Not a Crack-Downer.”
As the successor to Elmer F. An- |
drews. who guided the Wage-Hour
Act through its first year. Col. Flem
ing assumed his new duties yester
day.
At his first press conference he
said he intended to maintain the j
reputation he had acquired for “fair
dealing” with labor and industry.
“I’m not a crack-downer,'* he
said. “I think you can achieve
your ends in other wrays. There
comes a time when you might have
to crack down. But you can sit
down and talk to people across the
table and achieve your ends with
out resort to drastic means.”
Unless Congress gives special per
mission, Col. Fleming will do his
administrative work through Act
ing Administrator Harold D, Jacobs.
Army rules forbid active officers to
cicuuve ux appointive posts.
Hungarian Nazis Demand
Seizure of Jewish Land
By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Oct. 24—Hungarian
Nazis today demanded confiscation
of several hundred thousand acres
of land owned or rented by Jews.
Through their official newspaper,
Magyarsag. the Nazis accused the
government of weakness in handling
the Jewish and land problems.
In qn article by a Nazi member
of Parliament, Magyarsag said
“many Jews who long ago ingra
tiated themselves with the Hun
garian aristrocracv” had been per
mitted to retain thousands of acres
each despite land reform laws.
Apparently referring to the recent
arrest of more than 100 members
of the outlaw “Legion of Death”
alleged by the government to have
plotted a Nazi coup, Magyarsag
added:
“We've seen in the last few days
how strong the government can be
In some things. Now let's see how
strong it can be in things that mat
ter.”
No More Beer for Baby
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 (TP).—Mrs.
Lucille Hermandez told the judge
her husband Ernest put cigarettes in
the mouth of her 18-month-old
child Margaret and tried to get her
to sip beer.
"He said the baby had to learn to
smoke some time and that she was
too thin and beer would make her i
fat.” she complained.
She won a divorce—and custody of
the child.
Bridegrooms Get Break
GREENSBORO. N.*C.. Oct. 24 UP).
—Readers of the Greensboro Record
could hardly believe their eyes when
they turned to the society page.
Instead of beautiful brides and
brides-to-be, they found only pic
tures of bridegrooms and bride
grooms-to-be.
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NO “CRACK-DOWNER”—Lt. Col. Philip Fleming, who yesterday i
took over the Wage-Hour Administration and told the press he j
would achieve his ends in “other ways” than by “cracking down.” '
—A. P. Photo. i
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Captain Is Cleared
In Slaying of Mate
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 24.—The grand
jury dismissed yesterday a murder
charge placed against Capt. David
W. Hassell. 36-year-old freighter
captain, after the fatal shooting of
the boat's mate last week.
Capt. Hassell, a native of San
Francisco, said at a preliminary
hearing that the death of the mate,
Charles Anderson, 52, was “purely '
an accident,” but the case was re
ferred to the grand jury by Magis
trate Edward A. Dougherty.
Mr. Anderson was shot In the
abdomen while the vessel was laying
at its dock here. He was a native
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
So that business may be done by
daylight, the town council of East
Linton, England, is holding its
meetings on Sunday afternoons.
.eague for Peace
Isks Abolition of
lies Committee
Claims Prosecution
Should Rest With'
Justice Department
The American League for Peace
,nd Democracy last night called
ipon Congress to abolish the Dies
nvestigating committee, claiming
he task of prosecuting sponsors of
in-American activities properly be
ings to the Department of Justice.
The league also passed a resolution
ommending Attorney General
Yank Murphy on his speech Octo
ier 13 before the Civil Liberties
Jnion in New York City on the dual
ubject of subversive activities and
onstitutional rights.
Dr. Harry F. Ward, chairman of
he league, who appeared yesterday
efore the Dies committee as a wit
less, accused members of the com
nittee of ieciding cases before they
,re heard.
Says Facts Submerged.
“Witnesses are not permitted to
estify on facts before this commit
ee. The recorded testimony is full
f opinions and beliefs, not facts,”
le said.
Dr. Ward, who is a professor at
Jnion Theological Seminary, said
in nilLtn/l if «Un J * *- 1 1 41
lUthority to question the opinions
>r beliefs of an American citizen,
ince it had been created to investi
[ate un-American and subversive
ictivities. Dr. Ward said his own
ipinions did not necessarily reflect
hose of the league, since they had
>een stated as recommendations
vhich were never accepted officially
*y the league.
He questioned that the Dies com
nittee had shown or proven any
ittempt to overthrow, by violence or
orce, the Government of the United
States.
Concerning “raids” on offices of
he league here and in Chicago last
nonth by agents of Dies’ committee,
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Dr. Ward said It was an odd manner
of functioning, when, the committee
could have obtained the records and
papers of the league for the asking.
Sees Democracy Killed.
“If we permit the restriction of
political parties in this country,
whether they be Nazis, Communists,
Republicans or Democrats,” he
added, “then we are no longer capa
ble of governing ourselves and the
essence of American democracy has
been killed.”
Dr. Ward demanded the Un
American Committee be refused
their request for additional funds
to extend their investigations be
yond the beginning of 1940.
Representative Lee E. Geyer,
Democrat, of California sent the fol
lowing message to the Washington
chapter, which sponsored the mass
meeting last night:
“I salihe your meeting as a testi
monial of the people's will to pre
serve the fundamental principles on
which this Republic was founded
ana on which It has grown great.
Miss Mary Van Casteel presented
the apologies of Mrs. Charles Put
nam, chairman of the Descendants
of the American Revolution, who
had been scheduled to speak but
who was unable to appear.
Collects Radio Fund.
After the meeting Miss Alice Bar
rows, a member of the national com
mittee of the league and the Execu
tive Committee of the local branch,
collected a fund from the assembly
to purchase radio time “for the de
feat of Mr. Dies.” She said about
$250 was taken in.
Miss Barrows said the meeting,
which was held in the Masonic Tem
ple, had been called to tell the public
the facts about the league that the
Dies committee does not tell.
“We vigorously resent Mr. Dies
attacking our organization and giv
ing a totally false conception of it
by the simple method of calling
names, names which have no foun
dation in fact," Miss Barrows said,
adding that the aims of the league
were to keep America out of war, to
combat the destroyers of the Bill of
Rights and to battle reactionary
forces with all the progressive force
of the Nation.
The Rev. Andrew W. T. Mollegen,
associate professor of ethics at the
Theological Seminary of Virginia,
Introduced the speakers. More than
600 persons attended the meeting.
Crew Members Desert
Nazi Liner Columbus
B j the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24.—Several
crew members of the German liner
Columbus, which has been anchored
in Mexican waters southeast of
Vera Cruz since the outbreak of the
European war, were reported today
to have deserted because of condi
tions on board.
Foreign intelligence agents, who
have been watching the ship, said
food supplies were running low.
The crew has been denied shore
leave.
Postal Hazards
LINCOLN, Nebr., Oct. 24 VP).—
Lincoln postal officials investigating
the disappearance of two life in
surance policies and a death claim
mailed to Harrison, Ark., received
this explanation:
“The mall box of the addressee is
of open type and a cow went to the
box and ate all but small bits of
the insurance policies and the death
claim. A neighbor saw the cow get
the mail and eat it, but did not get
to her in time to save the mail.”
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