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FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1Ö37 THE B O N N E V IL L E DAM CHRONICLE TWO reasons that obscured its real pur and 14 per cent over 1935. Labor’ s slice of the national income was the pose. “ It would not banish age from biggest on record, greater even than the bench nor abolish divided de its share in 1929. Dividends of $4,573,000,000 were cisions. “ It would not affect the power of half again as much as those of the before, but still 23 per cent Nine Shot as Violence Continues ... Coal Strikers Aid any court to hold laws unconstitu year tional, nor withdraw from any judge below 1929. They amounted to 7.4 Steel Pickets...Bilbao's End Nears...Hopkins Checked the authority to issue injunctions. per cent of the national income as “ It would not reduce the expense compared with 5.6 per cent in 1935 of litigation nor speed the decision and 7.6 per cent in 1929. of cases. “ It is a proposal without prece Social Justice for Ford dent and without justification. ATHER COUGHLIN. Detroit’ s “ It would subjugate the courts to radio priest, refused to confirm the will of congress and the Presi dent and thereby destroy the inde or deny that he was entering the pendence of the judiciary, the only field of labor organization by spon soring the new union which has certain shield of individual rights. “ It contains the germ of a system sprung up at the Ford plant in op of centralized administration of law position to C. I. O. efforts. The that would enable an executive so union is called the Workers’ Coun minded to send his judges into ev cil for Social Justice, and incor ery judicial district in the land to porates the principles of Father sit in judgment on controversies be Coughlin’ s National Union for Social Justice. U. A. W. A. leaders, also tween government and citizens. “ It points the way to the evasion attempting to organize the 90,000 of the Constitution and establishes men in the River Rouge plant, de the method whereby the people may nounced the newcomer as a “ com be deprived of their right to pass pany union.” “ The name,” said the upon all amendments of the funda local U. A. W. A. secretary, mental law. “ smacks of ‘Coughlinism,’ its pro “ It stands now before the coun gram of company unionism, and its try, acknowledged by its proponents officers of company ‘stoogism.’ ” as a plan to force judicial interpre tation of the Constitution, a pro Monroe (Mich.) Women Defended Their Husbands’ Right to Strike. posal that violates every sacred tra U. S. A. for Rebel Parson dition of American democracy. EV. R. ANDERSON JARDINE, “ Under the form of the Constitu plucky little minister who de tion it seeks to do that which is un fied the archbishop of Canterbury constitutional. and endeared himself to millions by “ Its ultimate operation would be giving to the duke of Windsor and ' X‘ SUMMARIZES THE WORIiD’S WEEK to make this government one of men Wallis Warfield the religious mar © Western Newspaper Union. rather than one of law, and its prac riage ceremony of the Church of tical operation would be to make IOLENCE and threats con Evans to hire and equip what addi the Constitution what the executive England despite the fact that the tinued to break forth on the tional emergency police he thought or legislative branches of the gov church forbade it, has quit his job. The “ poor man’ s parson” whose • strike front as the battle between would be necessary. Labor unions in ernment choose to say it is—an in- surprise move skyrocketed him c e r t a i n industries, particular sympathy with C. I. O. threatened terpretion to be changed with each from obscurity to international to retaliate by declaring a city change of administration. ly steel, and John fame resigned as vicar of St. Paul’ s L. Lewis’ committee wide “ labor holiday” or general "It is a measure which should be church in Darlington, England. Al for Industrial Organ- strike. Unions in Canton, Ohio, did so emphatically rejected that its though he had returned f r o m i z a t i o n became likewise. parallel will never again be pre France, where he married modern moreandmore tense. —* — sented to the free representatives of history’ s most romantic figures, the free people of America.” only a few days before, he declared C I O Starts at Bottom his latest act had “ nothing to do OHN L. LEWIS aimed another with events which have taken blow at steel through the United place lately.” The London Daily Mine Workers, of which he is pres Patrolling Powers Agree A BOUT the same time, the diplo- Mirror reported that the former ident. Workers in the captive mines mats of Great Britain, France, vicar plans a two-month vacation (mines operated by an individual steel concern which is the sole user Italy and Germany were signing lecturing and preaching in the Unit Governor of the coal brought to the surface) an agreement which brought the ed States and will visit an uncle, in Pennsylvania walked out of the latter two back into the Internation Sen. W. D. Rogers, in Coronado, Nine men were shot shafts and joined the steel picket al Non-Intervention committee. It Calif. and wounded at An lines. The purpose was to cripple has to be accepted by both factions derson, Ind., as Ho further the steel plants now shut In the Spanish fight before becoming mer Martin, presi down or operating under difficulties effective. The understanding i s Harry Loses 1st Round dent of the United ESPITE the pleas of Harry while picketed; the immediate ob that the two Spanish powers will be Automobile Workers L. Hopkins, works progress ad jective was the closing of the Cam requested to extend the safety zones of America, a C. I. bria plant of Bethlehem Steel. The in Spanish ports and pledge to do ministrator, the full senate appro O. affiliate, stopped effectiveness of the walkout was a their best to prevent incidents. It priation committee approved the in the city to address Byrnes amendment matter for dispute; plant officials was agreed that each commander a m a s s meeting. Murphy to the relief bill, 13 claimed all departments were in of the patrolling powers should have The wounded men, non-members the right to immediate self defense to 10. The amend operation. of the union, claimed a member ment to the $1,500,- Lewis meanwhile demanded that if he were attacked, but that he had opened Are upon them with a 000,000 bill requires the federal government order gov must not begin any retaliation be shotgun from a window in Union local governments ernors of the seven states that felt fore the four powers have had an hall after an exchange of insults. to pay at least 40 the steel strikes to close the strick opportunity to confer and decide Union members charged attempts per cent of the cost en plants until a settlement was what action is best. had been made to injure the am of all WPA projects, reached. Great satisfaction over the out plifying apparatus which was to car or else sign a kind come of the conference was in ry Martin’ s words to the throng. of civic “ pauper’ s dicated in Rome, with the news Martin was en route to Monroe, Capital on the M ove oath.” The S o u t h papers expressing a friendlier at Mich., where 200 World war vet HE Spanish loyalist government, titude toward Great Britain than Carolina senator’ s erans had been deputized to pre after another terrific bombing they had in weeks. Chief trouble amendment w as Hopkins seen ag further ev. vent picketing of the Newton steel of the city by insurgent airplanes was that until both Spanish forces plant, controlled by Republic Steel, of the German Junkers and Heinkel agree, the Spanish coast remained dence of the break between the ad whose plants have borne the brunt of types, decided to move the capital open to gun-runners. ministration and the conservative the C. I. O. campaigns in the last from Bilbao to Santander, but to Democrats. The South, especially, — * — few weeks. The vigilantes, armed defend Bilbao to the death. The has been voicing its insistence upon with shot-guns, rifles, revolvers and Basque battalions reorganized for We're in the Moneyl states’ rights as opposed to all- machine guns, were determined that a last ditch stand to protect the F YOU don’ t think things are powerful central government as ad the local Steel Workers Organizing broken "iron ring” of the city’ s picking up, maybe the United vocated by the New Deal, and the Committee was not going to make defenses from the forces of General States Department of Commerce can relief bill amendment was seen as good its threat to close the Newton Francisco Franco. The latter, it was convince you. It has just reported a case in point. Hopkins had argued plant with a mob of thousands of admitted, already had penetrated that the national income for 1936 that compelling states to contribute C. I. O. picketers from Detroit. the first line of fortifications near reached a total of $62,056,000,000. 40 per cent of the cost of WPA In other communities where Fica and Larrabezua, five miles to and officials predicted that the fig projects would virtually eliminate plants of the independent steel com the east. Several persons were killed ure for 1937 would reach $70,000,000,- such federal projects in the South panies — Republic, Youngstown and many houses destroyed by the 000. The all-time high was $78,632,- It was believed that this may be Sheet and Tube and Inland — are rebel bombs and machine guns. 000,000 in the dizzy boom year of what the southern senators want; located, citizens’ groups were re Meanwhile the loyalists were claim 1929, and the all-time low $44,940,- they claim that the payment of $12 a week to negroes cut down their la ported polishing the family shootin’ ing important advances along the 000,000 in 1933. irons in preparation for following Cordoba front, bringing them to The department’ s report said that bor pool and they want to get the Monroe’ s lead in preventing picket the rich coal districts held by the since 1933 the national income has negro workers back into the cotton insurgents. ing and keeping plants open. risen more swiftly than prices and fields. — 41 - that the real purchasing power of The Monroe deputies broke up individuals was much larger. In a picket line and re-opened the plant Reds Rub O ut 8 come, it said, increased 38 per cent to loyal employes; after that the Court Plan W alloped IGHT Soviet Russian generals. HE senate judiciary committee from 1933 to 1936. while the cost of local C. I. O. union made arrange including Marshal Michail Tuk- made short work of President living advanced 3 per cent. The per ments to import pickets from out side the city. Despite the impending Roosevelt’ s Supreme court packing capita income of employees last hachevsky, former vice commissar year was listed at $1,244, which was of defense, learned the wrath of the trouble a battalion of Michigan na plan. Its report, in summary: “ We recommend the rejection of $58 more than in the preceding year Kremlin. Condemned for treason, tional guardsmen, ordered to the this bill as a needless, futile, and ut and 88.4 per cent of the figure for they were led before a firing squad scene by Gov. Frank Murphy, dis and killed, by order of the military terly dangerous abandonment of 1929. banded, leaving the task of main The $41,250,000 compensation paid tribunal of the Soviet supreme taining thr peace to the regular constitutional principle. “ It was presented to the congress to employees last year was 66.5 per court. The court only the day be police force and deputies. fore had declared them guilty of At the South Chicago plants of in a most intricate form and for cent of the entire national income Youngstown and Inland 4,000 pick ets were massed by C. I. O. leaders who anticipated that attempts would be made by independent unions to break through the lines keeping the plants closed. At Youngstown, Ohio, the city council thought it detected storm clouds of new strike violence and voted to allow Mayor Lionel News Review o f Current Events______ LABOR ’DIGS IN' FOR BATTLE F R U/, J^uJccUiA V I J — D T I T E • ¥ — conspiring with the military intelli gence service of an "unfriendly’ ' foreign power. Although the “ un friendly” power was never named by officials, correspondents in Mos cow declared indications were un mistakable that Red leaders believe the power was Nazi Germany. Most of the Russian capital was virtually certain that the eight, who had been denied appeal, had been put to death for an ambitious plot to rob the Soviet of its western prov inces and turn them over to Ger many. Immediately after the sen tences were announced, Russia be gan to strengthen its defenses along the German frontier, especially the great garrisons of White Russia and the Ukraine. In these garrisons offi cers and men were told in meetings that a thorough search would be made within their own ranks to make sure that no treasonous mem bers remained. Scores of officers who had served under the executed generals were arrested and every man who had been under their com mand was regarded as a suspect. They D O Come Back years ago a husky young F OUR professional golfer named Ralph Guldahl stood on the final green of the United States National Open championship g o l f tournament, needing to sink an easy four-foot putt to tie Johnny Goodman for the title. He missed, and quit golf to sell automobiles. Last year his love of the game overtook him and he decided upon one more try. He came back with a vengeance, cleaning up most of the money in the winter tourna ments. He climaxed his return to form by winning golf’ s most covet ed title, that of national open cham pion, at Oakland Hills country club, Birmingham, Mich., in the 1937 meet just closed. His score of 281 for 72 holes was an all-time record for open competition. — *— Tax Quiz a "D o d g e "? prepared A S the CONGRESS spotlight upon the to turn alleged wealthy taxdodgers, the Tax Re search Institute of America, Inc., accused the President of pushing the investigation to cover “ loss of face” through reversals to his Su preme court plan and government reorganization programs. The or ganization, which numbers 4,000 professional and industrial leaders in its membership, forecast the fol lowing results of the ongressional inquiry: 1. An intensive drive against tax payers in the higher brackets. 2 Curtailment of foreign personal holding corporations. 3. Sharply increased taxes on non resident aliens. 4. Retention of the undistributed corporate profits tax. 5. Consideration of a ‘m o s t drastic” change in the revenue act which would require all corpora tions distributing dividends to with hold a portion of the dividends for transmission directly to the treas ury. This would eliminate the treas ury’ s worry about securing the tax on dividends from the individual. — k— Shadow of the Moon were treated to the feast of a lifetime in the South Seas as they were permitted by almost perfect weather condi tions to photograph the longest total eclipse of the sun in 1,200 years. On Canton island the United States Navy and the National Geographic society, with eleven tons of equip ment, took unusual pictures and radioed a description of the mag nificent scene to millions of listen ers back in the states. The scholars of the American Museum of Natural History viewed the eclipse from an airplane 25,000 feet above Lima, Peru. Other scientists made obser vations from ships in the Pacific. The time of the total eclipse at the various place of observation ranged from three and one-half minutes to seven minutes. It was a short show for which to travel thousands of miles with costly, cumbersome equipment, but. measured by sci entific standards, it was worth the cost and the trouble. A stron om ers
