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pointm ents would hinge on the de­
cision of justices seventy-five or
¡Veten R e v ie w o f C u r r e n t E r e t t i h
older on retirem ent.
The
opposition
im m ediately
i i
charged that the new bill was as
offensive as the old one. Sen. Burton
K.
D em ocrat, Montana,
Treasury Report Shows $2,707,347,1 10 Deficit for '37 said: Wheeler,
“The com prom ise is not going
. . New C ou rt Bill O ffered . . Nazis Jail Church H e a d to get through. The new bill is just
as objectionable as the old, because
it seeks to pack the Supreme court
just like the original bill did.” Sen.
Edw ard R. Burke, Democrat, Neb­
raska, said the 43 senators would
vote against any kind of m easure
th a t would increase the Supreme
court.
Some of the other provisions of
the new bill were:
Authority for 20 additional ap­
pointm ents to lower courts in
the event that judges over seventy
fail to retire. The old bill would
have perm itted 50 new appoint­
m ents altogether.
Appointment of a $10,000-a-year
proctor as in the original bill to
supply the Suprem e court with in­
form ation on the volume and char­
acter of litigation.
Authority for the chief justice to
assign lower court judges to other
districts.
Speedy intervention by the gov
ernm ent in cases involving const!
tutionality of federal laws, and
speedy appeal to the Suprem e court
WE’RE STILL "IN THE RED
Ford Tests Labor Board
HE national labor relations
T
board is receiving its m ost ex­
acting test in the hearings at De­
Riots continued as steel plants attem pted reopening.
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IV. ftudo&ui
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© W estern N ew sp ap er Union.
Uncle Sam Checks Up
only an organization to officiate at
weddings, christenings, funerals
and the like. It has recently under­
gone such a revival at the hands
of one Rev M artin Niemoeller,
leader of the Confessional synod,
and his supporters th at of late the
churches w ere overcrowded. Rev.
Mr. N iem oeller fought to keep poli­
tics out of the church.
Lately the fiery m inister had been
exam ined alm ost every week by
prosecuting attorneys in Berlin.
Then at last he was arrested by the
secret police and taken to jail while
his wife and six children looked on.
He was charged with “ stirrin g up
h atred in his speeches against lead­
ing persons in the Nazi state and
m ovem ent.” The police raided his
offices and seized m any documents
and about $12,000. Said an official
com m unique after Rev. Mr. Nie-
m oeller’s arrest:
“ He has spread untrue reports
about m easures taken by Nazi au­
thorities in order to incense the
population. He also called for re­
sistance to state laws and decrees.
His statem ents w ere p art of the
steady fare of foreign new spapers
hostile to G erm any.’’
T TNCLE SAM wound up the 1937
^
fiscal year with a net deficit of
$2,707,347,110, or about $150,000,000
m ore than President Roosevelt esti­
m ated last April, according to the
report of the United States T reas­
ury.
The gross national public debt
climbed to a total of $36,424,613,732
as of June 30, it was shown.
Receipts for the period just closed
were the largest in 16 years,
amounting to $5,293,840,236, com­
pared with $4,115,956,615 for the
1936-37 y ear and about $70,000,000 in
excess of estim ates. Expenditures
were $8,105,158,547, including $103,-
933,250 for debt retirem ent origi­
nally planned for that period but
carried over into the current year.
Completion of the debt retire­
m ent program as previously con­
tem plated would have called for the
expenditure of $404,525,000 which
would have placed the gross deficit
above the $3,000,000,000 mark.
For the preceding period, expendi­
tures, including debt retirem ent and
the nonrecurring bonus paym ents,
aggregated $8,879,798,258.
In the 1936-37 period, recovery and
relief costs were m ore than $400,-
000,000 below the total for the y ear
before, am ounting to $2,846.462,932 'Compromise' Takes Bow
ENATOR M. M. LOGAN, Dem­
against $3,290,927,869.
ocrat, of Kentucky, presented the
For the year just closed the Treas- j
“ com prom ise” version of the P res­
ury borrowed from the public about
$2.475,000,000 refunded $1.821.000,000 ident’s Suprem e court D ill to the
of notes and redeem ed $900,000,000 senate, apparently
of short-term discount bills. The ! with the blessings of
total debt of $36,424,613,732 at the | M ajority L e a d e r
end of the period was $2,646,000,000 Joseph T. Robinson
and the chief execu­
larger than a y ear ago.
tive.
In form an
Reliable authorities around the
am
endm
ent to and
capitol said that as soon as all ap ­
substitute
for the old
propriation bills for the 1938 fiscal
Ashurst
ad
m in istra­
year were cleared, the President
tion
bill,
the
new
would direct the heads of all govern­
draft
authorizes
ap ­
m ent departm ents to impound 10
pointm
ent
of
one
per cent of their appropriations, ex
elusive of fixed charges, in an at new justice to t h e
court each y ear for Sen.Robinson
tempi to balance the budget. Ex
every
justice rem aining on the court
perts said that a m axim um of $400,
after
reaching
the age of seventy-
000,000 could be saved in that way
five
years.
Under
its provisions the
The prospective net deficit for 1938
President
would
be perm itted to
was estim ated at $400,000,000.
nam e one new justice this year (be­
_
sides filling the vacancy left by the
retirem ent of Justice Willis V a n
His Sermons Were Popular
OUR years ago the Protestant Uevanter) and assure him of at
church in G erm any was thought least one new appointm ent to the
to be nearing the end; under the court in each rem aining y ear of his
Nazi government it had become present term of office. All of the ap
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FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1937
T H E B O N N E V I L L E DAM C H R O N I C L E
troit on the United Automobile
W orkers’ union com plaint that the
Ford Motor company is guilty of
unfair labor practices. The U. A.
W. U. is a C. I. O. affiliate; Ford is
opposed to the unions.
It was expected that the hearings
m ight take a long tim e and m ay
eventually reach the United States
Suprem e court. After the hearings
in D etroit a board exam iner will
draw up “interm ediate findings”
and send them to the NLRB in
Washington, accom panied by a
transcript of the evidence and briefs
of both sides. The board will then
either order the F ord Motor com­
pany to “ cease and desist” its un­
fair practices or dism iss the union’s
charges. Appeal m ay be taken to
the United States circuit court of
appeals, which has the power of
enforcem ent which NLRB lacks.
The case m ay reach the Supreme
court if the Constitution is involved.
One of the allegedly unfair practices
to which the U. A. W. A. objects is
distribution of anti-union literature
by the Ford com pany to its em ­
ployees. The com pany charges that
a denial of this would violate con­
stitutional guaranties of free speech
and a free press.
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F.D.R. W axes Impatient
I T WAS believed that the pressure
* of public opinion in the steel
strikes had driven President Roose
velt close to supporting federal leg
islation sim ilar to that in the amend
ments proposed by Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg of M ichigan for the
national labor relations act. The
P resident indicated at a press con­
ference that he was as much put out
at the C. I. O. for forcing organiza­
tion upon the steel w orkers as he
was with the corporations for refus
ing to negotiate in term s of a signed
contract.
After a talk with Charles P. Taft,
who had been chairm an of the m e­
diation board th at failed to effect
a settlem ent, the P resident said:
“ Mr. Taft and I talked over the
whole steel situation and cam e to
the conclusion that the nation as a
whole, in thinking of the strikes,
was saying ju st one thing—‘a
plague on both your houses.’ ”
Senator V andenberg’s proposed
am endm ents w e r e designed to
broaden the rights of em ployers un­
der the W agner act, forbid “ sit
down” strikes and other “ unfair"
union practices, and provide severe
penalties for unions which violated
contracts with em ployers.
Isolates Paralysis Germ
HAT the m edical profession
W
considers a m ajor step in the
conquest of infantile paralysis was
taken when Dr. Edw ard C arl Rose
now announced to 100 physicians,
resents, which could be d em onstrat­
ed by a secret ballot election, is
not the way to industrial peace.”
The report said that Tom G irdler,
chairm an of the board of Republic
Steel and leader of the com panies’
fight, stated that “ he would not
consent to a term contract because
he believed it necessary for the
proper operation of his com pany
that it should be in a position to
m eet the fluctuating price of steel
by wage variations if it becam e
necessary.”
The mediation board reported its
interpretation of two views of col­
lective bargaining taken by t h e
com panies: ,
"The Bethlehem Steel corporation
stated that under their view of col­
lective bargaining they w ere re ­
quired to m eet with the rep resen ta­
tives of any of their em ployees;
that they would not question their
authority, and that they would dis­
cuss with them wages, hours, and
working conditions.
“ The company would la te r m ake
its decision and if it involved a
change in any of these m a tters they
would give notice to all em ployees
through their printed bulletin w ith­
out any reference to the union or
other groups who had secured such
N o Water, N o Steel, No Jobs a concession. They stated th a t col­
YNAMITE tem porarily stopped lective bargaining, in their judg­
a back-to-work m ovem ent in ment, did not im ply an a rriv a l a t
the great C am bria works of the any agreem ent, oral or w ritten,
Bethlehem Steel corporation at with any representative of their em ­
ployees. Republic Steel corporation
J o h n s t o wn, Pa.,
concurred in this view.
scene of the most
“The Inland Steel com pany sta t­
violent altercations
ed
th a t they would discuss in col­
among strikers, loy­
lective
bargaining the question of
al w orkers and the
w hether or not an agreem ent should
law in recent days.
be entered into, but they would not
Two explosions crip­
enter into an agreem ent with the
pled the principal
S. W. O. C. The Youngstown Sheet
w ater m ains supply­
and Tube company concurred in this
ing the plant just as
view.”
C am bria once more
On the board were Charles P.
had thrown open its
Taft,
chairm an; Lloyd K. G arrison
doors and nearly
and
Edw
ard F. McGrady.
half its 15,000 em ­ Gov. Earle
ployees had filed
through Steel W orkers’ Organizing
Comm ittee picket lines to resum e Rebels Take French Ship
HE situation in Europe was
their labors. It took several days
hardly im proved, with G erm any
to repair the dam age sufficiently to
and Italy still anxious to give the
allow p art of the workers to return.
full rights of belligerents to both
The blasts interrupted w hat had rebel and loyalist governm ents in
been the nearest sem blance of Spain. As the directing subcom m it­
peace—still not very near—since tee of the com m ittee of 27 nations
the C. I. O. affiliate called the strike for non-intervention met, B ritain
on the big steel independents who and F rance sought desperately to
refused to sign contracts with what effect some com prom ise which
they dubbed “ John L. Lewis’ irre­ would keep the entire non-interven­
sponsible organization.” The strik­ tion program from being washed
ers' com m ittee “deplored” the ex­ overboard, but the two F ascist na­
plosions and “hoped no strikers had tions w ere difficult to woo with any
caused them ."
com prom ises B ritain and F rance
Two hundred state troopers, p art could afford to make.
of the state force which had en­
Meanwhile, two French warships
forced the m a rtial law declared for were speeding for the Spanish coast
a few days and then lifted by Gov. between Bilbao and Santander,
George H. E arle, patrolled the where, according to reports, the
Johnstown district in an attem pt to Spanish rebel cruiser A lm irante
apprehend the dynam iters and pro­ C ervera had fired upon and cap­
tect the w ater supply of the city it­ tured the T regastel, a French ship
self from dam age. M ayor Daniel J. carrying loyalist refugees from
Shields
appealed to P resident Santander. The refugee ship had
Roosevelt again, declaring in a tele­ been ch artered by a F rench popu­
gram that the m ajority of his citi­ la r com m ittee to aid the loyalists.
zens were opposed to the C. I. O. It had been reported halted less
violence and, if provoked much than three m iles off shore, well with­
m ore by the m inority, “ m ight take in Spanish w aters.
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the law into their own hands,” add­
ing to the toll of deaths, injuries
and destruction that already has Pen for Jersey's Parkers
HEN P aul H. Wendel. form er
been rolled up. He said the strikers
Trenton, N. J ., law yer, “ con­
were openly declaring that they had
fessed” to the Lindbergh baby kid­
the support of the President.
naping, the execution of Bruno Rich­
ard H auptm ann was delayed three
Mediators Blame Steel
days. Now Ellis P ark er, sixty-five,
T 'H E federal mediation board chief of the Burlington county de­
nam ed by S ecretary of Labor tectives, and his son, Ellis, Jr.,
Frances Perkins, which reached a twenty-six. have been sentenced to
deadlock and gave up in its efforts serve six and three years, respec­
to help the C. I. O.-affiliated Steel tively, in the federal penitentiary
Workers Organizing Comm ittee and by F ed eral Judge William Clark in
the independent steel corporations Newark. They were convicted of
solve their difficulties, laid the conspiring to seize and torture Wen-
blam e for its failure at the door of del to ex tra ct from him the false
confession. Their attorneys an­
the steel concerns.
nounced
an appeal would be filed.
"We cannot but believe that the
bitterness and suspicion which sep-
parate the two sides would be al­
About St. P atrick
layed by a man-to-man discussion
In the Gaultie m ountains which
around the conference table between are situated between the counties of
the heads of the four companies Cork and T ipperary in Ireland there
and the union representatives, and are seven lakes. In one of these,
the only present possible hope of called Lough Dilveen, it is said Saint
settlem ent lies in such a m eeting,” P atrick when banishing the snakes
the board's report said.
and toads from Ireland, chained
“We further believe that the re­ a m onster serpent, telling him to
fusal of the four companies to enter re m rin there till Monday. Irish leg­
into any agreem ent with the S. W. end has it that every Monday m orn­
O. C., regardless of the num ber of ing the serpent calls out in Irish,
employees whom it actually rep­ “It is a long Monday, P atrick .”
surgeons and medical research
workers in Glendale, Calif., that he
had isolated the germ which causes
i t Dr. Rosenow is professor of ex­
perim ental bacteriology a t t h e
Mayo foundation in Rochester,
Minn.
Work with spinal fluid taken from
nurses who had contracted the dis­
ease at the Los Angeles general
hospital in 1934 enabled him to iso­
late the micro-organism.
Dr. Rosenow said that now the
germ has been isolated steps must
be taken to develop a serum sim ­
ilar to the serum s used in fighting
other ravaging contagious diseases.
He declared that he had been suc­
cessful in producing a composite
vaccine which has proved favorable
in prelim inary tests.
A practicing physician in Chicago
before accepting a series of uni­
versity posts, Dr. Rosenow cam e
to Los Angeles in 1934 to study
poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis)
under the intim ate conditions per­
m itted by the epidemic there in
that year. Because of lack of knowl­
edge of proper protective steps sev­
eral physicians and m ore than 150
nurses had contracted the disease
in the county hospital.
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