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The Alamance gleaner LXm GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1937 No. 20 News Review of Current Events 'ON THE LINE!' DEMANDS CIO Steel Refuses to Sign Contracts . . . And So There's a Deadlock . . . Look to U. S. for Strike Settlement Monroe (Mich.) Women Defended Their Husbands' Eight to Strike. A W. PuzLuuL * ^SUMMARIZES THE WORLD'S WEEK 0 Western Newspaper Union. TTHERE is no issue of wages, hours or other material de mands in the strife between the independent steel corporations and John L. Lewis' Committee for In dustrial Organization. The corpora tions have agreed to all of the demands of the unions ? verbally. "Verbally" ? that is the word which has for weeks kept thousands of workers in eight or ten states from returning to their jobs. The C. I. O. demands that the corporations put their agreement in the form of a written contract. The corporations refuse. And the unions have refused to call off the strikes until they get the signatures on the line. Union officials have taken the po sition that if the company officials are willing to agree orally to union demands they ought to be willing to confirm the agreement in writing. Lewis has demanded that President Roosevelt intervene to force the companies to sign. At a press con ference the President refused to say officially what was his reaction to the demand. He did say ? and emphasized that he was not speak ing "officially" ? that he could' not see why the companies would not make written agreements if they would make the same ones verbal ly Tom Girdler, chairman of the board of the Republic Steel corpora tion, explained the companies' stand: "The reason the C. I. O. wants a signed contract is because such a contract would be the first step toward the closed shop and the check-off. "Under the closed shop every worker has to belong to a union, whether he wants to or nqt. The closed shop is actually a 'deal' be tween the employer and the union whereby the employer helps to force every employee into the union. Under the checkoff the company takes unions dues out of the pay envelopes of all its employees and hands them over to the union. "Does the C. I. O. contract pre serve industrial peace? It does not. They have broken numerous con tracts." Federal Intervention Asked IT WAS virtually certain that there would be some federal action in the steel strikes, with Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio and Mayor Daniel J. Shields of Johnstown, Pa., ap pealing desperately to the President for aid. Governor Davey, in a long telegram detailing the arguments on both sides, declared that the situa tion had gone far beyond the powers of"one st?tc -ti?eotttrol. Whe?,.fl._ worker in the Johnstown steel mills was abducted by six strikers and stripped of his clothing in their auto mobile (he was later released), fol lowing weeks of rioting and blood shed, the mayor decided that kid naping was the last straw and ap pealed to Mr. Roosevelt. Secretary of Labor Frances E. Perkins named a mediation board of three to meet in Cleveland and hear the cases of the union and the companies. On the board were Charles P. Taft, son of the former President and chief justice, a Re publican and lawyer from Cincin nati; Lloyd K. Garrison, who served as the first president of the National Labor Relations board in 1934, and Edward F. McGrady, first assist ant secretary of labor, and a known enemy of company unions. la Monroe, Mich., where the C. L 0. union threatened to import thou sands of pickets from Detroit, a band of several hundred deputized vigilantes, armed, kept the peace, aided by the police force of twenty. In Youngstown, Ohio, Johnstown and other cities vigilante groups were also being form?3\ 'TPHE Republic Steel corporation filed in the federal district court in Washington a petition for a writ of mandamus compelling Postmas ter General Farley to deliver parcel post packages to steel plants in Ohio which local postmasters have re fused to deliver. . The petition charged that the local postmaster at Niles, Ohio, was re fusing to deliver packages contain ing food and clothing and addressed to the loyal workers who were be ing housed inside the Republic plant. Court Plan Walloped THE senate judiciary committee made short work of President Roosevelt's Supreme court packing plan. Its report, in summary: "We recommend the rejection of this bill as a needless, futile, and ut terly dangerous abandonment of constitutional princiDle. "It was presented to the congress in a most intricate form and for reasons that obscured its real pur pose. "It would not banish age from the bench nor abolish divided de cisions. "It would not affect the power of any court to hold laws unconstitu tional, nor withdraw from any judge the authority to issue injunctions. "It would not reduce the expense of litigation nor speed decision. "It is a proposal without prece dent and without justification. "It would subjugate the courts to the will of congress and the Presi dent and thereby destroy the inde pendence of the judiciary, the only certain shield of individual rights. "It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be pre sented to the free representatives of the free people of America." u. nupkins, works progress ad ministrator, the full senate appro priation committee approved the Steel Wants Its Mail Harry Loses I st Round the pleas of Harry Byrnes amendment to the relief bill, 13 to 10. The amend ment to the $1,500, 000,000 bill requires local governments to pay at least 40 per cent_of the cost of aU WPA proTecfi, or else sign a kind of civic "pauper's oath." The South * Carolina senator's Harey amendment was Hopkins ge?n as further evi dence of the break between the ad ministration and the conservative Democrats. In the senate debate on the bill it quickly became apparent that Sen. Byrnes' "40 per cent amend ment" would not carry. Sen. Joseph T. Robinson offered a compromise which would require states to pay 25 per cent of the cost of work relief projects. President Roosevelt had repeatedly made it known that he wanted no such rider on his relief bill, and it was Sen. Robin son's first break with the White House oo an important issue. Capital on the Move ' I ' HE Spanish loyalist government, after another terrific bombing of the city by Insurgent airplanes of the German Junkers and Heinkel types, decided to move the capital from Bilbao to Santander, but to defendV Bilbao to the death. The Basque* battalions reorganized fot a last ditch stand to protect the broken "iron ring" of the city's defenses from the forces of General Francisco Franco. The latter, it was admitted, already had penetrated the first line of fortifications near Fica and Larrabezua, five miles to the east. Several persons were killed and many houses destroyed by the rebel bombs and machine guns. Meanwhile the loyalists were claim ing important advances along the Cordoba front. Reds Rub Out 8 P IGHT Soviet Russian generals, including Marshal Michail Tuk hachevsky, former vice commissar of defense, learned the wrath of the Kremlin. Condemned for treason, they were led before a firing squad and killed, by order of the military tribunal of the Soviet supreme court. The court only the day be fore had declared them guilty of 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. The Soviet purge was followed by the suicide of Alexander G. Cher viakov, forty-flve-year-old president of the White Russian Soviet Repub lic, westernmost of the Soviet Union's republics. While it was said that he had killed himself "for fam ily reasons" his death came almost immediately after his denunciation in a meeting as a plotter against the Communist party. Fiscal Dictator for France ?\VTHILE e congressional commit * ' tee in the United States pre pared to begin an investigation of alleged tax dodgers among the wealthy, Vincent Au riol, French finance minister, gave broad hints to French mil lionaires that they, too, had better get themselves square with the tax collec tor. He revealed that the tax rate will be raised on the higher bracket incomes and on products which Premier Blum are government tobacco, matches and alcohol. Meas ures will be taken, in France's finan cial crisis, to prevent frightened capitalists from exporting funds abroad. All this because the Communist party, reversing its long stand at the last minute, agreed to accept Premier's Blum's proposal that he be made financial dictator of the na tion for six weeks. In that time he hopes to raise the 30 billion francs needed to finance the government throughout the year. Most authori ties believe that six weeks will not suffice, that he will be forccd to ask for an extension of his "full emer gency powers." Blum hopes that the long awaited business revival will actually set in during that pe riod, solving the whole financial problem automatically. We're in the Money! T F YOU don't think things are 1 picking up, maybe the United States Department of Commerce can convince you. It has just re ported the national income for 1936 reached a total of $62,056,000,000, and officials predicted that the fig ure for 1937 would reach $70,000,000, 000. The all-time high was $78,632, 000,000 in the dizzy boom year of 1929, and the all-time low $44,940, 000,000 in 1933. CIO Starts at Bottom JOHN L. LEWIS aimed another ** blow at steel through the United Mine Workers, of which he is pres ident. Workers in the captive mines (mines operated by an individual steel concern which is the sole user of the coal brought to the surface) in Pennsylvania walked out of the shafts and joined the steel picket lines. The purpose was to cripple further the steel plants now shut down or operating under difficulties while picketed; the immediate ob jective was the closing of the Cam bria plant of Bethlehem Steel. The effectiveness of the walkout was a matter for dispute; plant officials claimed all departments were in operation. In some plants the min ers outnumbered striking steel work ers as steel pickets. monopolies, such as " Wall of Windows" in Bryce Canyon Park Towering above the floor of Bryce Canyon National park is this huge knife-like formation, a slender ridge of eroded rock, pierced by large openings. To it has been given the name "Wall of Windows." Its fantastic min aret-like top, in varying shades of red, brown and ochre, stands brilliant in the afternoon sun in silhouette against the blue sky. This is a Union Pacific railroad photograph. Zu Thornton W Burtfess ... .U . . - . , - M * * ? M * m * A ....... W- . . ?< - - THE HERALD OF MISTRESS SPRING D ETER RABBIT was sitting in the 1 middle of the dear Old Brier Patch. Jolly, round, red Mr. Sun had just begun his daily climb up in the blue, blue sky, and Peter was wondering where he would go and what he would do when he heard a sound that caused him to suddenly sit up very straight with both ears pointing right up to the sky. Peter held his breath (or a minute and then he heard it again. This time he jumped straight up in the air and kicked his heels together for joy. It was just the softest, sweetest whis tle! It wasn't merry and it wasn't sad; it was just beautiful. And it seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere ? just out of the air. "Winsome Bluebird!" cried Peter Rabbit. "Oh, it's Winsome Blue bird! I wonder where he is! He sounds a long way off and yet he may be close by. Oh, I do wonder if I'm the first one to hear him!" "I guess you are, Peter," said a soft voice. "I guess you are, be cause you see I've just arrived and I came straight to the Old Brier Patch, because I just knew that you would be looking for me and I wanted you to have the pleasure of being the first to see me. Why "Oh, Winsome, I'm 80 Glad You've Got Here at Last; I'm So Happy I Could Sine for Joy." don't you look up in the little cherry tree over your head, Peter, and say something?" Of course, Peter felt very foolish, and he looked just as he felt, as he saw Winsome Bluebird sitting right over his head. You see that soft, beautiful voice had seemed to come from everywhere, and Peter hadn't been able to tell hist where it did come from. "Oh, Winsome!" he cried. "Oh, Winsome, I'm to Jiad you're here at last! I'm so happy I could sing for joy." "Ho, ho, Peter!" laughed Win some Bluebird. "Do try it. I should love to hear you sing." Peter grinned. "Well, anyway, if I can't sing I can dance," he cried and right away began the funniest little dance that ever was. Finally he had to stop to get his breath. "There, that's how glad I am!" he cried. "Now tell me all the news. Winsome." "Oh, I couldn't, Peter. 1 couldn't tell you all There's too much to tell and I haven't got time now. You know there are others waiting for me." "But do tell me if Mistress Spring la most here," begged Peter. "Of course she is! Don't you know I am her herald? I've come all the way up from down south just ahead of her to tell everybody that she is coming. You know, that is what a herald is (or. I had rather be the herald of Mistress Spring than anything else in all the world." Win some half lifted his beautiful blue wings as he said this. "Don't go!" cried Peter. "I guess I know how you feel. It must be perfectly splendid to make every body glad and happy as you do. I? I wish I could be a herald." Winsome Bluebird laughed? the sweetest laugh. "I guess you don't need to be a herald to make people glad to see you, Peter," he said. "Besides, you know you can be sort of a herald by telling everybody you meet that I am here." "That's so!" Peter cried. "That's one reason I like to be the first to see or hear you. It's great fun to 0%l Qt^r "There mi I time," u;i stamp ing Stella, "when a politician could imoke a farmer oat of his hole on election da y with a cheap clear." ? Bell Syndicate. ? WNU ferric*. see how pleased everybody is when they know that you have arrived. I ? I hope nothing will happen to make Mistress Spring late." ? T. W. Bur*e??. ? WNU Service. FIRST-AID TO AILING HOUSE By ROGER ?. WHITMAN PAINT AND VARNISH BEMOVERS D AINT and varnish removers do 1 not actually remove a finish; their action is to soften the oils of a finish sufficiently to permit it to be wiped and scraped off. Liquid removers are a combination of sol vents, such as wood alcohol, ben zine, amyl acetate, and other liq uids, usually combined with paraf fin to check evaporation. Liquid removers act quickly; usually in not more than 20 minutes. By that time paint and varnish will be so softened that they can be wiped off with a rough cloth. For old paint, ? second application may be neces sary, and scraping with a putty knife. With liquid removers, there is no raising of the grain of wood. The vapors of liquid varnish re movers are inflammable, and care must be taken to avoid fire. I know of one case, and it was not unusual, when this was overlooked with dis astrous results. Liquid varnish re mover was being used to take the finish from a table. The work was being done in a small room, and as it was winter, the windows were closed. In the middle of things the worker lighted a cigarette; there was an instant flash of fire, and the house was saved from destruc tion only by quick work with an ex tinguisher. When using a liquid remover, there should be good ventilation to carry off the vapors, and there should be no flames nearby. To avoid trouble, a liquid varnish re mover should not be used in a cel lar when the heater lire is burning, nor in a kitchen with a lighted coal range; with a gas range the pilot light should be put out. With ordi nary and common sense precau tions. liquid varnish removers can be used with complete safety. The use of a liquid paint and var nish remover should be followed by liberal washing with turpentine to take uo the paraffin. Certain alkalis have the effect of paint removers: for example, wash ing soda, trisodium phosphate, and lye. Of theae, lye has the great disadvantage of being injurious to wood fibers, and should be used only when this effect is of no importance. Washing soda and trisodium phos phate dissolved in water in the pro portion of 1 to 3 pounds to the gal lon are usually satisfactory. They may have the effect of raising the grain of wood, which calls for sand papering after the wood has dried. C By Roger B. Wnltman WKU hrrlc*. WGraphic GqlfII HI By BEST BALL ' || Gour fiupc \ fcrrciu>a??W \ry OnausKna // CumMX POB. LMttC 'HMOS.LOM FM?ut i ?oJ GRIPPING THE CLUB TP HERE are thre? ways of grip A ping the golf club; the overlap ping, interlocking and the natural, two handed grip. In the overlap ping grip the little finger of the right hand overlaps the forefinger of the left. With the interlocking grip the little finger of the right hand is in terlocked with the forefinger of the left. A large number of the good golfers today employ one or the other of these grips and their value lies largely in creating better co ordination 9f movement between the two hands. The problem is to make the hand* work as closely together as possi ble, to eliminate any tendency toward friction between the two. Good golf is a matter of smooth stroking and there is trouble enough along the swing's path without JUST GO FISHIN' By DOUGLAS MALLOCH WHEN the world is lookin' bluer Then you ever saw her, knew her. When you only stumble ^through her Day by day. When you think you're weary of her, Banker, worker, lawyer, lover, There's a way yo* can recover Eight away. When discouraged and disgusted. When you're practically busted. There's a way to git adjusted And to smile: From your cares and competition Take a little intermission. Jump the joint, and just go ftshin' For awhile. Why, ya great big mastadon ya. When your girl has gone back on ya. As she ought to do, doggone ya. You're so mean. When you're troubled in the gizzard. When you're sick from A to Izzard, When you look just like a lizard. Blue and green. Then to cure each ache and shiver, And to regulate your liver. Row a boat, or wade a river For a mile ? Yes, to feel the old ambition And to git back in condition. Jump the joint, and just go fishin' For awhile! ? Dou>u ICalloch. ? WXU hntai Short Dance Frock Short dance frocks are becoming a trend of fashion. Ibis one, which has a matching bolero jacket, is at black wrap print taffeta with pastel colored flowers. The new low waist line is an important style note. The slippers are designed especially for short evening dresses. handicapping the stroke at the start. There are craftsmen in every field who grip the tools differently and golf is no exception. Two of the greatest golfers of this era, Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen, and dif ferent grips, the former overlap ping and the latter, interlocking. Most of the good golfers at the pres ent day possess large and this makes the problem of which of these two grips to use comparative^ simple for both are suitable lor big hands and long Angers. Among the rank and file of players, however. there are many with small hands and stubby fingers. Woman hi par. ticular have a natural handirap in small hands and to overcome this the two handed grip is used. The hands placed on the dub in the manner illustrated above, cover a good portion of the shaft aid U held on the light side will co-operate together well. Many champions of the past have used this grip. The point to remember is that the hands must work in both directions equal ly well. ? Bell Syndicate. ? WNU Service. MOP??|
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