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N. L. R. B. Is Biased,
Stupid, Incompetent,
A. f. L. Heads Charge
Is Unfit, Not Impartial,
Has Guile and Abuses
Power, They Add
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 3 —The Ameri
can Federation of Labor high com
mand accused the National Labor
Relations Board today of “bias, stu
pidity and incompetence” and called
for sharp curtailment of its power.
In a statement made public by
President William Green, the Fed
eration said labor, industry and the
public had lost confidence in the
board, as now constituted, and
» added:
“The present board and its staff
are totally unfit for their important
duties.
“This governmental agency has
never been an . impartial umpire but
has guilefully and deliberately
sought to destroy the American
Federation of Labor and promote
the interests of the C. I. O.
“The members of the board have
abused their discretionary powers
and have assumed powers never
granted to them by law in an effort
to impose their own particular
philosophies on labor and industry.”
Mr. Green urged that the Walsh
Barden bill to amend the National
Labor Relations Act be passed at
this session of Congress. He said
it would abolish the present three
man board, provide “a complete
house-cleaning of its staff,” and
create a new five-man board.
He said the new board then would
be required to let the workers pick
their own bargaining agency, would
be bound to recognize bona fide
contracts, and would be compelled
to avoid delays now charged against
the board.
The A. F. L. expressed sharp oppo
, Rition to amendments backed by
employer groups, “because we be
lieve they are intended to nullify
the basic principles of the law.”
Mr. Green urged immediate ac
tion by Congress so the issue would
not become a "political football” in
the forthcoming campaign.
Jury Frees Wife Who Slew
To Get Quiet for Husband
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Feb. 3.—Mrs. Matilda
Loura, 65-year-old housewife who
shot a young man to death last sum
mer because boys at play in a vacant
lot disturbed her sick husband, was
found innocent of a murder charge
“by reason of insanity” tonight in
Circuit Court.
A jury of six men and six women,
Which for five days had heard wit
nesses tell a bitter story of disputes
between the elderly woman and
romping children, returned its ver
dict after having had the case nearly
24 hours.
Driven to distraction, her attorney
claimed, Mrs. Loura last August 31
shot Robert Genaw, 23, the chil
dren's accepted guide and counselor,
► during a baseball game on a vacant
lot close to her home in River
Rouge.
“I done it all for my husband’s
sake,” Mrs. Loura testified. Her hus
band, Edmund, 72, has a heart ail
xnent.
Under the verdict, Mrs. Loura must
go to a State institution, but Arthur
Willard, her counsel, said he would
challenge constitutionality of the law
which will send her there. Michi
gan's new “insanity plea” law, which
took effect last fall, provides that
any defendant pleading insanity in
a murder case must be placed in an
institution if found innocent.
Finland
(Continued From First Page.)
high commend announced the en
emy had suffered “heavy" losses at
Summa in day and night assaults
and more than 550 dead on other
fronts.
On the flank of the Mannerheim
Line, north of Lake Ladoga, the
Finns estimated the Red Army dead
1 after futile attacks in two sectors
at more than 350. In the Arctic
Salla region, the Finns said, the
Russians left 200 dead on the field.
On still another front, near
Kuhmo, in Central Finland, the
Finns announced the destruction of
several supply columns, 11 tanks
and 3 guns.
Red Stronghold Taken.
An unidentified Red Army strong
hold was captured in the fighting
northeast of Lake Ladoga, last
night's Finnish communique dis
closed, with more than 200 Rus
sian dead and 70 prisoners taken,
along with 25 tanks—some of them
already wrecked—three cannon and
several machine guns.
On the solid ice about the islands
near the eastern shore of the lake
the Russians left 150 dead.
(In striking contrast, official
reports from the Red Army's
Leningrad military area described
both the Mannerheim line fight
ing and the long Lake Ladoga
struggle as merely “partial
clashes by several companies of
a purely local nature, accom
panied by artillery firing of short
duration.”
(The communique described re
ports of “big offensives” by the
Red Army in this sector as the
work of "mercenary agents of
enemies of the U. S. S. R.” It
also described as “fabrications”
reports that Finnish planes had
raided the Kronstadt naval base
and other Soviet districts.
(It said the Finnish air force,
although reported using up-to
date planes irom Britain, rrance,
the United States, Sweden and
Italy, could not even protect its
own headquarters at various
points, “which were demolished
by Soviet aviation.”)
Last night's Finnish communique
gave a detailed picture of the de
struction wrought Friday by the 400
winged raiders from across the So
viet frontier, but said 19 of these
now were believed to have been shot
down in numerous air fights.
Thirteen localities and three hos
pitals were listed as bombed, with
a score known dead and 31 wounded
in the “home area” of Southern
Finland.
Natives Kept Informed
* Propaganda pamphlets in five
native languages are being dis
tributed among natives of Johannes
burg, South Africa, and .vicinity to
give the correct prices of com
modities and thus stop unscrupulous
profiteering.
La Mont Boilers Given Careful Test by Navy,
Found Wanting, Secretary Edison Reveals
Refutes Charges
Contained in Series
Of Franklin Articles
Boilers now being used by the
United States Navy in its new
fighting ships are superior to the
La Mont type as exploited in
Europe, according to Secretary
of the Navy Charles Edison, and
there is no basis for any state
ment that "German warships,
ship for ship, are the superiors
of American vessels.
The Navy Department has
made lengthy tests of the La
Mont boiler and has been guided
in its adoption of boilers for its
new ships by the results of these
tests and tests of other boilers of
competitive design. It is the sin
cere belief of Navy leaders that the
boilers which have been adopted as
the result of these tests are the best
which have yet been developed to
meet the needs of the American
Navy.
As a result of tests which have
been in progress for several years,
Secretary Edison stated, the La
Mont boiler has not been approved
as satisfactory for naval use, nor
has it revealed superior character
istics which warranted special con
sideration by the Navy Department
in the way of sponsoring further
development of the La Mont boiler.
Moreover, Mr. Edison declared, the
German Navy, after starting out ex
perimentally with the extremely
high boiler pressures, which are an
outstanding feature of the original
La Mont boiler design, have been
backing away from these high pres
sures and now are working with
pressures reported to be identical
with. those employed in our latest
naval vessels.
rests Authorized in 1933.
Mr. Edison pointed out that the
La Mont boiler situation has been
“a long drawn out procedure, and
this isn’t the first time the question
has come up.” The use of high-pres
sure and high-temperature boilers,
he said, is not limited to the La
Mont type of boiler.
Naval records show that the Naval
Boiler Laboratory was authorized
on October 20, 1933, to test the La
Mont boiler and that necessary con
! struction at the laboratory, in the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, was begun
I shortly thereafter. The inventor,
! former Lt. Comdr. Walter Douglas
La Mont, graduate of the United
States Naval Academy in 1910, be
gan experimental work in the field
of high-pressure steam generation
in 1918.
“With reference to the bureau’s
authorization of the test of the La
Mont boiler," the Navy Bureau of
Engineering stated in an official re
port signed by its then chief, Rear
Admiral Harold G. Bowen, now head
of the Naval Research Laboratory,
to Senator Walsh of Massachusetts,
chairman of the Senate Naval Af
fairs Committee, released for pub
lication for the first time, “it is
the policy of the bureau to require
that equipment to be tested at naval
laboratories to determine suitability
for naval use be completely devel
oped beyond the experimental stage.
Inventor Used Laboratory.
“The La Mont test was author
ized under special conditions not
ordinarily accorded other exhibitors
in that the La Mont boiler was en
tirely experimental and had not
been erected or tested prior to in
stallation at the boiler laboratory.
A section of the boiler laboratory
was assigned to Mr. La Mont for the
erection of his boiler, which was
occupied without cost to Mr. La
Mont for a period of over three
years.
“To operate his boiler makeshift
pumps and other auxiliaries were
employed by Mr. La Mont. Air for
combustion was supplied from the
navy yard mains rather than by a
blower, as in a shipboard installa
tion. Under these conditions it was
impossible to get complete data dur
ing the test of the La Mont boiler
to determine its suitability for naval
use.
“Shortly after the test was au
thorized Mr. La Mont informed the
bureau that unless unforeseen de
lays occurred his boiler would be
ready for test within approximately
two months. However, it was found
that the boiler as orieinallv de
signed required numerous modifica
tions. and it was not until January
11, 1937, more than three years after
the test had been authorized, that
the development had proceeded far
enough so that Mr. La Mont was
able to present his boiler for test.
For more than three years the fa
cilities of the boiler laboratory were
available to Mr. La Mont, during
which time he had the help and ad
vice of members of the laboratory's
staff.”
Abridged tests of the La Mont
boiler were completed on February
6, 1937, according to the Navy De
partment record.
Operated Only 130 Hours.
“Since suitable auxiliaries are a
most essential part of a forced cir
culation boiler, and since the La
Mont boijer was equipped with
makeshift auxiliaries, the boilei
could not be given the usual com
plete set of laboratory tests to de
termine its suitability for naval use,’
it was explained.
It was impossible to determine the
net steam output of the unit or the
efficiency of the entire unit, nor was
information obtained concerning the
extended reliability of the unit oi
its maintenance requirements, il
was stated by the Naval Bureau ol
Engineering.
“The efficiencies obtained during
the test of the La Mont boiler were
not as high as those being obtained
with modem naval boilers employ
ing natural circulation,” the bureai
stated officially. “It is also signifi
cant that because of the large
amount of development work that
was necessary after the erection oi
the La Mont boiler at the labora
tory it was operated but 130 hours
during the intervening three years
In view of the above, the small ca
pacity of the boiler, the considerable
number of modifications that would
be required for a naval installatior
and the lack of suitably designed
auxiliaries, the unit could not be
approved as being suitable for naval
use.”
Secretary Edison said that soor
after he came to the Navy Depart
ment in 1087 his attention was
'
called to the La Mont boiler, and
that he had gone to the Philadelphia
Navy Yard.
Preliminary Design Offered.
“It was a little thing, what we
call a breadboard model, demon
strating a principle rather than be
ing a boiler,” he told newspaper
men.
Mr. Edison said he had satisfied
himself that the La Mont people
were “getting every attention from
the engineers” and were being af
forded every facility to make their
demonstrations.
After completion of the tests Mr.
La Mont submitted to the Navy De
partment a preliminary design of a
destroyer size boiler, which he pro
posed to build, and which he pro
posed the Government should pur
chase under a special arrangement,
the Bureau of Engineering reported.
There were no available funds, how
ever, for further development of the
boiler by the Navy, and Mr. La
Mont was told that if further de
velopment were accomplished com
mercially, and if the Navy’s experi
ments with the high pressure, high
temperature, forced circulation type
boiler should indicate its suitability
for naval iise, “the bureau would
then be interested in a test of a
full-size La Mont boiler and would
welcome the boiler into the com
petitive field.”
In view of the rapid developments
which were taking place in this
country and abroad in the use of
high pressures and temperatures in
both commercial and naval fields
the Navy Bureau of Engineering
carefully followed these develop
ments, having in mind the possible
naval application of machinery in
stallations employing higher pres
sures and temperatures.
oni»n flatting iesis.
Referring to the claims that the
La Mont type boiler is being used
abroad while being ignored by the
United States Navy, the Bureau of
Engineering reported that “the gen
eral situation in the German Navy
in regard to boilers, temperatures
and pressures is known to the Bu
reau of Engineering."
"The troubles and delays which
the developments in German naval
engineering have given rise to have
also come to the attention of the
bureau." it was stated. “In connec
tion with the use of the La Mont
boiler abroad it should be noted
that the designs now being em
ployed are an outgrowth of the
I original La Mont design, which the
bureau believes did not prove satis
factory. From information available
to the bureau it is apparent that the
development of the La Mont boiler
abroad has resulted in a boiler which
does not have the attractive features
of extreme low weight and low space
factors which the original La Mont
design contemplated. It is also
known that an experimental La
Mont boiler has been installed in a
British destroyer. The working
pressure of this boiler is 290 pounds
and the efficiency 71 pef cent at an
evaporation of 121,500 pounds of
steam per hour. At approximately
the same evaporation the* modern
; 600-pound natural circulation boilers
being installed in our destroyers
have by actual te&t shown an ef
ficiency of 84.5 per cent. Since
boiler efficiency is a very important
factor in the overall efficiency of a
machinery installation, a vessel fit
ted with our modem naval boilers
would show a very appreciable fuel
saving with resulting increase in
cruising radius over a vessel fitted
with boilers similar to the La Mont
boiler installed in the British de
stroyer, all other conditions being
equal.
Complete Boiler Never Delivered.
“In connection with the use of
forced circulation boilers it is the
opinion of the Naval Boiler Labora
tory that it is quite possible by
judicious changes in design to so
raise the capacity of natural circu
lation boilers that they can suc
cessfully compete with forced circu
lation boilers in weight, space and
cost, still retaining other desirable
characteristics inherent in the nat
ural circulation boiler.”
As regards the so-called “water
wall” structure which is a prominent
feature of the La Mont design, Mr.
Edison stated that this type of boiler
was developed as early as 1850 and
is not confined, to the La Mont
boiler. The Navy Department fn
1929 authorized a test of the original
La Mont “inventions” as applied to
water walls in boilers, he said. These
tests did not demonstrate that the
La Mont water walls were suitable
for naval use, he said.
La Mont never delivered a com
plete boiler with necessary auxiliary
equipment of a size suitable for in
stallation in a naval vessel to the
Navy for test, Secretary Edison said.
Nor has there been a profitable ex
ploitation of the La Mont boiler for
commercial use, he indicated.
Secretary Edison said he had been
told by Mr. La Mont at the time
his boiler was under test at Phila
delphia that this represented a
“new” design, which was in many
respects an evasion of his previous
patents, to which rights had been
obtained abroad.
Another Design Used Abroad.
‘‘So the design of boiler that is
talked about in this article (the Jay
Franklin series) is not the La Mont
boiler that is being exploited in
Germany,” Mr. Edison commented.
Summarizing his experience with
the La Mont problem, Mr. Edison
said:
‘‘I was faced, when the final wind
up came, with this situation: We
have only limited funds to carry
on development. Mr. La Mont
asked that the Navy carry on the
development of his idea for him at
Navy expense. The tests in the lab
oratory had not progressed to a
point and were not conclusive in
any way. They did not prove any
thing, because all these auxiliaries,
such as the main circulating pumps
and that kind of thing, were make
shift. • • • It was Just a small-scale
thing that didn't show as much
promise as other types we were
working on then.
‘‘We tried to get in other com
petition, and Admiral Bowen had
A
been successful In getting Foster
Wheeler to submit a boiler, and Bab
cock & Wilcox. I was faced with
this patent situation, which wasn’t
clear at all. We could not get up
a boiler which would evade or get
around all of his previous patents.
I was faced with a complicated and
unknown patent situation, one that
was fraught with danger of suits.
I was faced with a rather curious
group of associates. I didn’t know
whether we could preserve the se
crecy, or whether this would leak
on over to foreign countries, and I
was faced with lack of funds and
an unproven article. To weigh that
against having other types which
were properly made by large com
panies which gave equal promise to
the La Mont, it just seemed useless
to go on putting up more money to
develop this.
Wanted Navy Financing.
“We made the proposition that
he go ahead and get somebody to
build his boiler and finance it. We
were interested, and if he could only
brjng it about and have it developed,
going ahead and getting himself
financed and build it, we would test
it, and if it was acceptable we would
be glad to consider the purchase
of it. He didn’t want that. He
wanted us to finance the develop
ment of it.
“Finally he came back with another
proposition, in which he said he
would get somebody to finance the
construction of a full-size boiler,
and then they would build it and
submit it for test, but if the test
proved satisfactory we would have
to buy it. • • * He might make a
thing that would fit in a ship and
still pass the engineering specifica
tions, but which would not be suit
able for us. I refused to buy a pig
in a poke. I told him to go ahead
and develop it, like everybody else
does. • • • You must create your
product, and then we will consider
buying it. We will put you on an
approved list of bidders. And that
didn't satisfy him.
“As far as I know, Mr. La Mont
has just an idea about a boiler. He
tried to sell it to somebody to make
money, and he is trying to get the
Navy to finance it so that he can
sell it to make money for himself,
and the Navy doesn’t want to.”
Mr. Edison said that the Navy's
present standard of 600 pounds and
850 degrees of temperature in boiler
operation has been demonstrated
sufficiently to show “a very large
saving in fuel which means a longer
cruising radius, saving in weight and
space that can be used for military
benefits, and so is generally accept
ed now by the Navy as a perfectly
reasonable standard.”
Germans Reduce Pressure.
He said that the Germans had
started the other way, at the ex
treme upper pressure limits of
| around 3,200 pounds, but that the
! German Navy has reduced its de
signed pressures for steam installa
| tions to approximately the United
i States Navy's current practice of
600 pounds, according to currently
believed information. He indicated
that it is possible that difficulties
experienced with materials and aux
| iliary equipment when using the
high pressures and temperatures
was the cause of the reported re
duction in pressures used in the Ger
man Navy, and that gains in weight
and space through the use of high
pressures and temperatures wrere off
set by a lack of reliability and rug
gedness through trouble w-ith aux
iliary equipment and pipe lines.
Mr. Edison said there is no avail
able information indicating that the
Germans have employed the La
Mont boiler in their famous pocket
battleships, but that on the con
trary the recognized authority,
Janes Fighting Ships, states that
eight Diesel engines are used for
propulsion of these ships.
Mr. Edison's determination that
the United States Navy shall re
main abreast of all technological
developments in order that our fight
ing ships may be the most modem
in every particular it is possible to
produce is well known. He has insti
gated a renaissance and enlarge
ment of the Naval Research Labora
tory, making it independent of the
Navy Bureau of Engineering and
responsible directly to his own office.
He has added the patents section
from another bureau to the labora
tory and personally prevailed upon
Admiral Bowen, recognized as one
of the Navy’s foremost advocates of
applied research, to take over the
leadership of the unit.
Research Being Fostered.
Admiral Bowen now is building up
a national research advisory body
composed of the Nation's foremost
industrial and research leaders tc
co-operate in keeping the United
States Navy abreast of the latest
technological advances in every field
which holds promise of being useful
to the service.
Not only has Admiral Bowen used
every effort to expand our research
and make it applicable to improve
ment of our naval forces, it is point
ed out at the Navy Department,
but he also has sought to break up
monopolies in the supply of any
essential materials or equipment tc
the Navy and to introduce free and
open competition in the hope that
quality may thereby be improved
Most famous of his “monopoly
smashing” campaigns had to dc
with the supply of boilers for naval
vessels, and as a result there today
is free competition in this field
which for many decades has beer
virtually limited to one company
It is known that he welcomed the
efforts of a boiler company new tc
the naval field to obtain licenses tc
the La Mont boiler in the hope that
this boiler might be developed to s
useful stage and offered to the Navy
in a usable form.
Secretary Edison stated positively
that the new American superheat
control boiler being installed in new
United States naval vessels is su
perior to the German La Monl
boiler for pressures now being usee
in our Navy and understood to have
been adopted for the German Navy
He showed that no efforts are being
spared by the Navy to keep abreast
of all developments, and that wher
a batter boiler U produced It wii
be wed.
•v
Editor’s note: In a series of four articles published recently
in The Star, Jay Franklin discussed development of the La Mont
boiler, the invention of a former United States naval officer,
which he said has been adopted with great success by the per
man Navy after being rejected as a result of bureaucratic action
by the United States Navy, with the result that American naval
vessels are “out of date even before they are launched." The
results of an independent survey of this question by The Star,
with the co-operation of officials of the Navy Department, who
were invited by The Star to reply to the Franklin series, are
contained in the accompanying article.
.. ^
Madden Says Parleys
On Reports Are Held
Without Leiserson
Declares Latter Confers
Only After Attorneys
Submit Tentative Drafts
BACKGROUND—
Special House committee has
been investigating National La
bor Relations Board since De
cember. Evidence of dissension
on "board and .charges of par
tiality toward C. I. O. have been
heard. Object of committee is to
recommend any needed changes
in Wagner Act.
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Further evidence of conflict
among members of the National
Labor Relations Board was given
yesterday by Chairman J. Warren
Madden to the House committee
investigating enforcement of the
Wagner Act.
It is the practice of the board,
Mr. Madden pointed out, to receive
from its review attorneys verbal re
ports summarizing the evidence
taken at labor-dispute hearings.
Board Member William M. Leiser
son does not take part in these
conferences, the chairman said, ad
ding:
“I think that when Dr. Leiserson
came over to the board he felt
somewhat overwhelmed at the vol
ume of our work, at the hours we
had to work and the pace, really,
with which we had to carry on.
We do spend many hours in this
conference business, and after a
few days of it, as I remember, Dr.
Leiserson said ‘I Just can't stand
this. I have got to spend more
time to myself and I have got to
make up my mind from the inter
mediate report (that of the trial
examiner who presided at the hear
ing), and the complaint and the
answer, and to whatever extent I
find it necessary from the record
in the case'."
Mr. Madden said Dr. Leiserson
did confer with the review at
torneys after the tentative draft of
a decision had been prepared by
them. "I suppose,” Mr. Madden
added, "that he does more of that
than the other members of the
board, which would be quite natural
since he wasn't in at the original
conference.
Questioned by Halleck.
Mr. Madden was questioned close
ly by Representative Halleck, Re
publican. of Indiana as to whether
| the board adequately could pass on
evidence which it has not heard,
depending on records which its
members did not have time to read
and had abstracted for them.
When the committee member
asked how the board could deter
! mine the weight of evidence without
! hearing it and with receiving only a
second-hand summary of it, Mr.
Madden said:
i "I have said many times that
when it is a problem of the credibil
! ity of the witness and we are not
satisfied from the record as a whole
as to whether the credibility is on
I this side or on that, we do expressly
I reply upon the trial examiner’s res
' olution.” ‘
! “Is that based,” Mr. Halleck in
quired, "on the theory that he prob
ably knows more about it than any
one else could possibly know from
even a reading of the record”
; "Yes.”
I "Why wouldn't it be better, if that
i is true, to call these trial examiners
in and have them report to the
■ board as to what the facts in the
; case are?”
Time Element Cited.
Mr. Madden said by the time a
trial examiner could come to Wash
ington and make his verbal report,
the record in the hearing would not
be as fresh in nis memory as in that
of a review attorney who had just
read the transcript of testimony.
The chairman added, however,
that if the board had funds to em
ploy enough trial examiners of suffi
cient competence, it might be better
to bring them before the board
after a hearing. He added:
“There is no question but what
there is a great duplication there,
and it may well be that we have
done our work too meticulously.
When we are told that our records
are better than other records which
go to court, we get a good deal of
satisfaction out of that, out of hav
ing done an orderly and workman
like job.”
I • ivii. ivinuurii ucicuucu uviuuo
review attorneys—numbering more
than 100—as an unusually intelli
gent and competent group. Against
the evidence developed by Commit
tee Counsel Edmund M. Toland
that a considerable number of them
were youthful and without legal
experience when they came to the
board, Mr. Madden said it was dif
ficult to get experienced lawyers to
abandon their practice and go to
work at the salary the board could
pay.
He denied that the review at
torneys “decide” cases, declaring
they are determined “by the board
and nobody else."
Denying the charge which Wil
liam Green, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, made
earlier in the week that the board
has discriminated against it and
favored the Congress of Industrial
Organizations, Mr. Madden said the
labor leader could not have read the
board’s record or he would not have
made such a statment.
Reminded of Green Testimony.
Mr. Madden was reminded that
Mr. Green testified the A. F. of L.
had filed petitions signed by 85,
000 miners and had failed to obtain
recognition as a collective bargain
ing agency.
“Since Mr. Green’s testimony,”
said Mr. Madden, “we have had our
files examined, and we find evi
dence of only one petition with 48
signatures on it.”
A proposal to relieve the board
of umpiring C. I. O.-A. F. L. dis
putes over employe representation
won a qualified indorsement from
Mr. Madden. He said that this
suggestion—by Dean Lloyd K. Gar
rison of the University of Wiscon
sin Law School—should have the
committee’s “most careful study”
and might have in it the solution
Congress would want to adopt.
Under Mr. Garrison’s plan, Mr.
Madden said, the two labor groups
would have to work out a basis
on which they could “live together”
before coming to the board for set
tlement of disputes with employers.
Recommended for Study.
While commending Mr. Garrison’s
suggestion, Mr. Madden made it
plain he was recommending it only
for study.
"Hla hop* apparently would be,”
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NEW YORK.—“PHANTOM FINNS’’ ARRIVE—Paavo Nurmi (left),
once king of the distance runners, and Taisto Maki (right), pres
ent No. 1 distant runner, have arrived to do their bit for
their native land, far from the war fronts of Finland. They
are shown as they warmed up on the liner Bergensfjord.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
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Nurmi
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for track meets, not as military ex
perts. Investigation disclosed that
Maki. though he has been out of
training since last summer, is only
about five pounds overweight. How
long it takes him to get into con
dition will depend on the weather
in Los Angeles.
Will Fly to Los Angeles,
They will visit Washington Mon
day then return here to appear at
several Finnish relief shows, in
cluding a track meet in Jersey City
February 12. They plan to fly to
Los Angeles February 13 and Maki
will start his tour in a 3‘^-mile
race in the Los Angeles Coliseum
March 3.
By the time he reaches New York
around the first of April, he should
be ready to take on our best two
milers or even milers. Since the
International Amateur Athletic Fed
eration has granted an extension on
his visiting permit, there is a chance
he will be here through the summer.
The tour as now arranged, with
races in 11 cities, should bring in
$300,000 or $400,000, according to
Joe Williams, sports chairman Of
the Relief Fund Committee headed
by former President Hoover. Mr.
Williams was among those who
greeted Nurmi and Maki and ac
companied them in a parade up
Broadway to a reception by Mayor
La Guardia at City Hall. This
evening the two Finns were due to
appear at the Millrose games at
Madison Square Garden.
Mr. Madden said, "that if they (the
C. I. O. and A. F. L.) discovered
they couldn’t bring their problems
to the board and then kick the
board regardless of what solution it
might make of their problems, they
would discover a way of living to
gether, that in the meantime the
employer would be exonerated from
any duty to bargain with either of
them, and the consequence would
be that they would both lose out
unless they did discover a way of
living together.”
-The board chairman, reviewing
certain evidence produced by the
committee’s counsel, did not con
done all acts of employes, pointing
out some he regarded as tactless
or reprehensible.
Charles JFahy, general counsel of
the board, pointed out:
“Mr. Green, in his testimony,
criticised the decision of the board
in the American Can Co. case on
the question of the unit (labor or
ganization.) Was that not a case
in which the view of Dr. Leiserson,
based on the fact that it was a con
tract covering employes in the
larger units, joined with the views
of Mr. Edwin Smith, resulting in
denial of the application?'”
Mr. Madden said that was so, add
ing that he dissented from the
opinion. He favored allowing a
craft union the right to organize
within the plant.
Fellowship Tea
Three million Methodist women in
all parts of the world will participate
Tuesday in the fourth annual inter
national fellowship tea sponsored by
: the women's department of the
Methodist Million Unit Fellowship
1 Movement. The Christian faith ae
a means of international under
standing will be theme, it was an
nounced. Church leaders here are
making plans for Washington'!
, participation in the tea.
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Columbus Crew Leaves
Are Ordered Curtailed
Br the Associated Press.
The Immigration Service said yes
terday it had ordered "strict en
forcement” of regulations by officers
holding in custody crew members of
the scuttled German liner Colum
bus.
Commissioner James L. Hough
teiing said the instructions were
issued to officials at Angels Island,
Calif., after he learned that liberal
shore leaves had been granted the
crew members.
Under the order, the service said,
shore leave would be granted only
in extraordinary circumstances.
Members of the crew have been at
Angels Island since they were taken
to the West Coast from New York
several weeks ago. They are not
under Jurisdiction of the German
consul general at San Francisco,
the Immigration Service said. They
are being held in custody as "exclud
able” aliens pending their return to
Germany.
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