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TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON
Thursday, February IK, 1937
OREGON STATE NEWS
News Review of Current
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events I he World Over Brief Resume of Happenings
General Motors Strike Ended, Both Sides Yielding—
Opposition to President’s Supreme Court Plan
Inereuseg— Great Plains Drouth Program.
EDW ARD
W.
P IC K A R D
If) Wratern Newapaper Union.
D O T H Bides m aking concessions,
the Genera) M otors s trik e came
to an end in w hat G overnor M urphy
called “ on enduring
peuce.” O perations
o f the g re u t corpo
ratio n had been p a r
alyzed fo r 43 days,
and the losses to it
in business and to
w orkers in wages
hove been im m ense.
P a rtly th rough the
s k illfu l e ffo rts of
Jam es F. Dewey,
veteran fe de ra l la
bor co n c ilia to r, John
L. Lew is, head of
the C. I. O., and other union leaders,
and the o fficials of G eneral M otors
w ere persuaded to m o d ify the defi
ant stands they had m aintained
through eight duys of negotiations
in D e tro it, und the governor was
enuhled to announce the settlem ent.
U nder the te rm s of the agree
m ent :
1— The co rp oratio n recognized the
union us the co lle ctive b argaining
agency fo r those employees belong
ing to the union.
2— The corporation and the union
ugreed to comm ence co lle ctive
b argaining negotiations on Febru-
T
.11'. 18.
3— The union agreed to end the
s trik e and evacuate a ll plants occu
pied by strike rs.
4— The co rporation prom ised to
resum e operations in a ll s trik e
bound or idle plunts “ as ra p id ly as
p ossible."
5— A ll employees are to re tu rn to
w ork w ith o u t d is c rim in a tio n against
strik e rs .
6— The union agreed th a t pending
negotiations there w ill be no other
strike s or interference w ith produc
tion.
7— D u rin g existence of the co llec
tiv e barga ining agreem ent contem
plated, a ll opportunities to negotiate
shall be exhausted before any other
s trik e or production interference is
attem pted by the union.
8— A fte r evacuation of p la nts the
co rp oratio n ugreed to d ism iss the
in ju n ctio n proceedings started by
the corporation against the union or
any m em bers in F lin t, M ich.
S ecretary
of
L ab or
P erkins,
whose own efforts to end the s trik e
were fu tile , v.as h ig h ly g ra tifie d by
the settlem ent. She gave out a
statem ent pra isin g the leaders on
both sides fo r th e ir give and take
s p irit and co m p lim en ting G overnor
M urph y on his success. P robably
considerable c re d it should be given
P resident Roosevelt, who kept con
s ta n tly in close touch w ith the situ a
tion and talked w ith the conferees
by telephone fro m the W hite House.
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P R E S ID E N T R O O S E V E LT ’S pro-
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posals fo r legislation th a t would
p e rm it h im to pack the Supreme
co u rt have m et w ith such w ide
spread nnd determ ined opposition,
even fro m m any m em bers o f his
own p a rty , th a t it was suggested to
h im th a t he accept c e rta in m od ifica
tions. These include a ppointm ent of
Supreme co urt justices only when
those over seventy-five do not re
tire , and lim ita tio n o f the num ber
a President could thus appoint d u r
ing his te rm to two. H is plan as
subm itted to congress would enable
h im to nam e six new m em bers of
the co u rt if the present six justices
who are over seventy do not re
tire v o lu n ta rily .
M r. Roosevelt announced to the
correspondents th a t he was quite
aw are o f the controversy he was
confronting but would not Lack down
on his demand fo r the leg isla tion as
outlined in his message.
I t is probable th a t the President
can get his m easure through the
house w itho ut great trouble, but a
hot fig ht against it is c e rta in in the
senate. So fa r the Republicans in
congress haven’t had m uch to say
on the m a tte r, fo r the D em ocra tic
opponents o f the scheme are voci
ferous enough to su it the G. O. P.
P ro ba bly the scheme w ill be sep
arated into several b ills ; and indeed
th a t alrea d y has been sta rted , fo r
R epresentative Sum m ers o f Texas,
ch a irm a n of the house ju d ic ia ry
co m m itte e, introduced a b ill p ro vid
ing fo r vo lu n ta ry re tire m e n t fo r Su
prem e co u rt justice s w ith fu ll pay
a t the age of severity. T his was
passed q u ickly by a vote o f 315 to 75.
onclusions of the g re at plains
dro uth co m m itte e w ere la id be
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fore congress by P resident Roose
ve lt, the re p o rt being accom panied
by a special message in w hich the
P resident urged the developm ent of
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Views on P resid en t’s P lan
E nlarg e Suprem e Court
to
Senator Byrnes— I ’m fo r it.
Senator Nye—I th in k the Pres
ident has h it upon a m ost ingen
ious method o f speeding up the
w ork of our tribu na ls.
Senator Vandenberg—I am op
posed to ta m p ering w ith the Su
prem e court.
Senator McAdoo—The P re s i
d ent’s message receives m y un
reserved com m endation.
Senator Capper—I am c e rta in
ly opposed to increasing the n um
ber of Supreme c o u rt judges fo r
the purpose o f a llow ing the ex
ecutive d urin g any one a dm in is
tra tio n to co ntrol the decisions of
the Supreme court.
Senator H ale—Should his rec
om m endations be followed, I can
see no hope o f an independent
Supreme court.
Senator G e rry —I'm d efinitely
opposed to the P resident’s pro
posal in regard to the Supreme
court.
Senator Thom as— I th in k it is
a tim e ly and happy solution o f a
perplexing problem .
R epresentative Snell—T his is
p re tty near the beginning of the
end o f everything.
R epresentative F ish —The mes
sage is p o litic a l hypocrisy.
Speaker Bankhead—The plan
fo r udding a dd itional judges is a
sound policy.
Senator K in g —I am una lterab
ly opposed to it.
a “ new econom y” in the vast area
between the Alleghenies and the
Rockies to save the region fro m
the efTects of fu tu re drouths. The
whole m a tte r, said M r. Roose
ve lt, dovetails into the proposed six
ye a r public w orks p rogram .
The great plains com m ittee sug-
gested fo r the federal governm ent:
1. A ten ye ar p ro gram o f add i
tio n a l investigations and surveys.
2. Continued acquisition of land
in range areas w ith re h a b ilita tio n
as the objective.
3. Measures to increase size of
fa rm s too s m a ll fo r efficient opera
tion.
4. Developm ent o f w a te r re
sources.
5. R esettlem ent w ith in and w ith
out the region.
6. Compensation to local govern
m ents where federal land acquisi-
tion results in shrinkage of the local
ta x basis.
7. C ontrol and e radication of in-
sect pests.
8. E x p lo ra tio n of p ossibilities fo r
developing other resources, such as
vast lig n ite deposits to provide al-
te rn a tiv e occupation fo r some of the
people in the area.
S im ila r action was suggested fo r
states w ith the addition of sugges
tions fo r legislation to p e rm it fo rm a
tion of county soil conservation d is
tric ts , encouragem ent of co-opera-
tiv e grazing associations, revision
of the ta xing system to take account
of land income and assistance to
fa rm e rs in m eeting w ater problem s.
F o r local co-operation the com-
m itte e suggested crop ro ta tion , c re
ation of feed and seed reserves
against d ry years, conservation of
m oisture, supplem ental irrig a tio n .
fu lle r u tiliz a tio n o f springs and
w ells, p la ntin g of trees and shrubs
as w indbreaks and flexible cropping
plans to p e rm it adaptation o f each
season’s crop to the am ount o f m ois-
lu re in the land.
I> A R C ELO N A, ca p ita l of the au-
tonomous Spanish state o f C ata
lonia, was bom barded by a F ascist
w arship, and the C atalan council of
state
im m e d ia te ly
decreed a new m o-
b ilizatio n to m eet
the th re a t o f an in-
surgent a tta ck. I t
also
ordered
the
strengthening o f fo r
tifica tion s and set
up a superior de
fense council.
,
F ollow in g the cap-
'¿2SB tu re of the im p or-
tant M editerranean
Gen. F ranco
coast c ity of M alaga
by General F ra n co's F ascist troops,
a general clean up of loyalists there
was started. Gen. Gonzalo Quiepo
de Llano, rebel com m ander in
southern Spain, announced o ver the
radio th a t m ore than 150 leaciers and
m ilita ry officers of the governm ent
had been arrested and executed.
I’ll Find o u t jrrveJl
unnoticed j o y j
And mt.ke th em in to
l(< m l— Deschutes county w ill curry
burglary Insurance to protect against
loss su-h as occurred last fa ll when
the vault In the tax collection depart
ment of the s h e riff’s office was
looted.
3 O r \Q S .
Hood R iver — Hlxty Hood R iver
county potato growers are combin
ing to work out plans tirr control of
the flea beetle, which Is said to be
endangering the potato-growing In
dustry o f Hood R iver county.
W N U S ervice.
E ugene— Instructions on the pro
per care o f fire hose have been made
available to every fu ll tim e and vo l
unteer fire fig h te r In the state
through d is trib u tio n o f a pocket-
sized fo ld e r to members o f m unlcl- ;
pal fire departments by the League
o f Oregon Cities and the Bureau of
M unicipal Research of the U niversity
of Oregon.
V ale— Nineteen states, Alaska and
Canada sent 371 fam ilies to settle on
the Vale p roject up to the end o f
1936, according to a settlement re- '
port recently completed by Project
Superintendent C. C. Ketchum. These
371 fam ilies represent a to ta l pop
ulation Increase o f approximately
1500 persons who have settled In the
Immediate v ic in ity o f Vale since
1929.
R oseburg — Tlie R oseburg 30-30
club has offered to relieve the city
council o f the task o f conducting i
examinations fo r bicycle riders and
Issuing licenses, which w ill be re
qulred under the term s o f an o rd in
ance soon to be adopted. The club,
one of the sponsors o f the movement
to regulate bicycles on c ity streets. |
has offered to fu rn ish 150 license
plate» and reflectors.
R ainier— Farmers in this vicin ity
signed th e ir fin a l papers In the 1936
soil conservation program last week
at the city h a ll w ih Myron W hite-
beck and C. L . W ilb u rn , d is tric t
committeemen, In charge. There are ,
90 farm ers in th is community who S
w ill receive checks from the govern- ,
ment by v irtu e of th e ir having Joined
In the national program to s h ift
from soil depleting to soil building
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crops.
Enterprise— All th e proceedings
Incident to the rebonding o f W al
lowa Improvement d is tric t have been
approved and confirm ed by Judge J.
W. Knowles In c irc u it court.
A ll
th a t remains to be done Is fo r the
d is tric t to prepare Its new bonds and
take up the old bonds now held by
the Reconstruction Finance corpora
tion. Thé new bonds w ill be in the <
sum o f $60,000. The old bonds j
amount to $137,000.
years.
AP PLE MEN HEAR PLAN
Hood R iver— The successful e f
fo rts o f the I ’acific N orthwest F ruits,
Inc., to extend m arkets fo r apples
w ill be outlined before many of the
550 growers who are members of
the Apple Growers association.
Meetings w ill be held at Parkdale,
Odell, and Rockford, fr u it centers of
Hood River valley.
The problems of black smoke
and soot are not of recent origin.
Coal was discovered by Joseph of
Arimethea while out blackberry-
ing at Glastonbury, England, in
the year 687. He found a black
lump, which he took back to the
monastery, but the abbot, think
ing it to be stone, told him to
throw it on the fire. “ Seacoles”
were first burnt in London in 1228,
and by 1257 the smoke nuisance
was so great in the big towns that
Eleanor, Queen of Henry III, was
forced to leave Nottingham on
account of it. By 1306 it had
become such a curse that a royal
edict forbade artificers to use it
in their furnaces, and a man was
executed
for
causing
black
smoke!
I w ont fcnnoy the.
w e t r Y w o rld
B y h a rp in g on its
w rongs .
of the Week Collected tor
Our Readers
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Redmond — Redmond Camp F ire
' G irls have been recently recognized.
Several groups have been formed.
! Mrs. George Gates, Jr., and a num-
her o f the younger matrons are In
terested in the w ork and are acting
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as gunrdiann. “ Netappew," meaning
i
; friends, was the name chosen by 17
young g irls Just organized. Joyce
Means is president. The Gannetha
group Is busy m aking head bands and
selecting names fo r the head band
symbols.
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Coquille— Hope fo r I ’ WA assist
ance In the construction o f a new
i
high school gymnasium Is fading fo l
low ing recent word from W ashing
; ton, D. C., th a t the local project, has
been approved but th a t no money
is available u n til congress makes a
new I ’ WA appropriation.
W ith o u t
: I’ W A aid, a frame building w ill be
erected. W ith money from federal
; sources a $40,000 steel and concrete
structure la planned.
Immediate
J sta rt is desired by school officials.
;
Salem— P aroling and conditional
pardoning power of the nine Oregon
i governors d u rin g the last 2 5 years
has resulted In the release of 3738
j convicts by paroles and 742 under
the conditional pardon route, Gov
ernor M a rtin ’s prison report stated.
j Under the Oregon parole system,
j fir s t offenders who have fu lly com
| pleted th e ir sentence and demon
strated on parole an a b ility to become
model citizens are entitled to resto
ration o f c iv il rights. In th is divis
ion, 128 such pardons were granted
by Governor M artin in the last two
H anged fo r Smoking!
THE CilLERFUL C H T O
True Charities
Our true acquisitions lie only in
our charities. We gain only as we
give. There is no beggar go des
titute as he who can afford noth
ing to his neighbor.—Simms.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are an
e ffe c tiv e laxative. Sugar coated. !
Children like them. Buy now!— Adv. i
S trength in T ru th
Truth is a strong
man’s life be true!
thing—let
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