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"The Beat Little Town
In North Carolina"
VOL. No. XXVI. No. 21
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Washington, April s.—President
Roosevelt came back from his
Warm Springs vacation to find a
confused and difficult matter of
public policy demanding imme
diate attention. That is the la
bor situation, which presents so
many angles that it has called
for many White House conferen-
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ces and may result in a public
conference being called by the
President, to which industrial and
labor leaders will be summoned.
No one can do more than specu
late on the outcome, bvt it begins
to look as If a real national labor
policy were in the making.
What that policy will be de
pends upon many things. First,
the question whether the Federal
government has power to regu
late labor relations at all except
where Government work is con-
cerned, awaits the decision o1 the
Supreme Court in the cases pend
ing before it in which the con
stitutionality of the Wagner La
bor Relations Act has been chal
lenged. Until that decision is
ELKTN. N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1937
I LOS ANGELES . . . This Stout Moblio Homo is a complete throe room
i houne that can be folded up into a trailer. It wan designed and invented
by William B. Stout of aeronautics fame and offers n radical departure
I in homo designing.
handed down, neither Congress
nor the President knows how far
or in what direction it will be
possible to go in legislation on
Labor. At any rate, the Court's
decision will clear the air to some
extent.
Legal questions, however, are
less important in shaping a Gov
ernment Labor program than are
political considerations. There is
no general agreement with Mad
am Perkins, the Secretary of La
bor, who has said that "sit-down"
strikes may be legal. They are
violations of state laws, but the
failure of state authorities to en
force the laws raises the ques
tion whether, in such cases, it is
the duty of the Federal govern
ment to intervene. If a state's
effort to enforce the law against
sit-down strikers should result in
rioting and bloodshed and a situ
tion were cheated beyond the
power of state authorities to con
trol, then there is no question, le
gal authorities here say, that the
Federal government would be
obliged to respond to a call for
help by the Governor. But that
would give the Labor situation the
aspect of a civil war, or at least
of an armed rebellion to be put
down by force, and that is a con
dition all concerned ardently de
sire to avert at any cost.
That the President could, if he
would, in a few words, cut the
ground out from under the C. I.
O. and its program of sit-down
strikes, is regarded as quite cer
tain. But if he did that, he
would incur the active enmity of
John Lewis, the C. I. O. leader,
who collected from his United
Mine Workers and other unions
$480,000 for Mr- Roosevelt's Pres
idential campaign last year, the
largest campaign fund contribu
tion from any source. On the
other hand, the President cannot
exhibit too mu!h sympathy with
Mr. Lewis and his program, with
out incurring the hostility of the
American Federation of Labor,
whose president, William Green,
has spoken lor his three million
or so organized craft unionists in
denouncing the sit-down strike
tactics of the rival Lewis organ
ization.
The Federation's chief enjoys a
personal prestige and respect
which Mr. Lewis envies. He would
like to be asked to the White
House oftener than he is. It is
said by newspaper men who keep
tab on Presidential callers that
John Lewis has seen the President
only twice since election, and
then for very brief visits, while
Mr. Green has been welcomed a
dozen times or more, and never
has to wait long for an appoint
ment when he expresses a desire
to see Mr. Roosevelt.
The feeling is gaining ground
rapidly that the sit-down strikes
and the threat of further Labor
disturbances have forced the
Government's hand and that ac
tion of some kind to clarify the
Government's labor policy must
take precedence over almost all
other public business. How to
shape such a policy without giv
ing either Labor faction a slap
in the face is a problem. The
President is said to feel that a
way must be found to give the
Lewis organization a chance to
"«».ve its face" by appearing to
ditch the sit-down strike policy
voluntarily. Then, whatever
shape new Labor legislation may
take, it is certain that it will be
based upon the absolute right of
collective bargaining; but it is
nrobable that some restraint upon
the right of Labor to strike with
out warning will be Included, and
also the rieht to invoke Govern
ment mediation will be given to
fivnnlnvers 3P
istrator, would provide for a
"waiting period" between any
Labor demand and action by eith
er party to a labor dispute. In this
waiting period it would be illegal
for workers to strike or for em
ployers tq lock them out.
The intense interest Washing
ton is displaying in the Labor
question arises from a growing
feeling that the militant Labor
movement Initiated by the C. I.
O. is getting rapidly out of hand.
Mr. Lewis and his lieutenants are
finding it more and more diffi
cult to keep their more hot-head
ed followers under control, thus
creating a Situation which has al
ready started whispers of "revolu
tion." That anything like a rev
olution is imminent no one in
Washington seriously admits, but
the danger in the Labor crisis is
admitted on all sides.
Budget planners learned with a
bit of a shock that the income tax
collections of March 15 were far
below the Treasury's calculations,
and on the basis of returns al
ready filed it looks as if the defi
cit at the end of the fiscal year,
June 30, would be five" hundred
million dollars more than had
been estimated. The new tax
on undistributed corporate earn
ings, enacted last summer, has
not yielded nearly as much as
had been anticipated. With a
deficit for 1937 of three billions,
Congress is faced with an impera
tive need for economy in the 1938
budget or for more taxes. It is
anybody's guess which course will
be taken.
SMITHEY'S READY
FOR 3 BIG DAYS
Store is Loaded With Unusual
Values in Clothes, Piece Goods,
Etc., for Bargain Days
Smithey's Department Store is
offering unusually attractive bar
gains for Elkin Bargain Days
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The store is ready with many
attractive offerings in ready-to
wear, piece goods, spring shoes,
clothing, etc., in anticipation of a
big rush during the three trade
days.
An advertisement in this issue
of The Tribune gives full details
and prices designed to save
Smithey customers money.
PREDICTS 22 CENTS FOR
THE 1937 TOBACCO CROP
Raleigh.—Randal B. Etheridge,
head of the markets division of
the State Department of Agricul
ture, predicted today North Car
olina tobacco farmers will receive
about 22 cents a pound for their
1937 crop, the average price last
year. He based his estimate on
an indicated flue cure acreage of
968,000 acres, which would be a
10 per cent increase over 1936,
and a predicted moderate increase
in demand.
Half And Half
A Mexican gazed through the
bars at the jailer.
"Can you read and write?" de
manded the Jailer during the
booking process.
"Can write, not read," replied
the prisoner.
■'Write your name, then," said
the Jailer. Hie Mexican scrawled
huge letters across the page.
"What is that you wrote?" in
quired the puzzled jailer.
"I don't know," said the Mex
ican. "I told you I can't read."
Ha!
"listen, I wouldn't cash a check
for my own brother." Jj
HIGHWAY DEATH
TOLL INCREASES
For First Three Months of
1937 Fatalities Are Up
25 Per Cent
IN NORTH CAROLINA
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Raleigh.—Highway fatalities in
North Carolina for the first three
months of 1937 increased approx
imately 25 per cent over the cor
responding three months a year
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YM THAT WILL BRING A SMILLE TO
« EVERY FACE FOR BARGAIN DAYS!
If you are a person who insuls upon making your money go as far as possible,
then we are sure we will please you with Bargain Days values here Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday. We're featuring numerous bargains that will enable you to
spend wisely ... and you'll enjoy it, too. So make it a point to, visit this store
first thing Thursday and come back Friday and Saturday!
We're Proud of Our Shoe Values!
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We're proud of our shoe values! Plan now to see the thrill
ing new styles In men's and woitnen's fine shoes for spring AX. .
and summer. We have an unusually large stock . .• . and /
prices are very, very reasonable. Bring in the entire family I
and let us fit them. V
One Lot Women's, Men's and Children's
FINE QUALITY SHOES Wmk\
These Shoes Sold Up to $5.00 K&inu )
HERE ARE REAL Ladies' /
VALUES fdfor |
Men's Pi'iebuckle SS^
Overalls 69c
Men's Heavy Weight - . , C*" }
Overall Pants, pr. 69c Infants' Shoes
Men's Heavy Blue Co- V.
vert Work Shirts 49c matter how young or .* • \
how small, we can fit : J
Tennis Shoes, made by the baby. Ask to see J?
Ball Band, in all thenL x ""
sizes, pair 59c 5Qc Up % . ■
OK Oil Cloth, best
grade. Yard, only 20c J
Shoes for Men
One lot men s fast col
or dress shirts, all We've just received a A
i j • to- new shipment of Ply- J»
colors and sizes 79c mouth young men's
shoes In white, grey,
tan and brown. Bucks
and calfskin. Crepe
nnArmilV and leather soles. All JS/
GROCERIES attroctlve new styies .
Good Coffee, lb _> $1.98 $4.95
Crackers, 2-lb. pkg. 19c LADIES' WHITE OXFORDS
Vanilla Wafers, 1-lb. Lovely new white oxfords for ladies in buck and calfskin,
pkg. 15c etc., in spring's prettiest styles. And prices are very low,
Hollywood toilet soap, too '
3 * $1.98 Up
Corn Flakes, 2 pkgs. 15c
Large Snow King | JUST RECEIVED! MEN'S SHIRTS
Baking Powder
•41, l i on . Men's X-ACT-FIT shirts of finest quality /i* m m g*
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ago, an unofficial United Press
survey revealed.
Although official figures for
March will not be compiled by
the state highway department for
approximately two weeks, a check
of highway fatality reports in the
state showed that the final fig
ure will exceed the 71 persons
who died in automobile accidents
in the state during March last
year. Sixteen persons have been
killed in this manner during the
past five days alone.
During the first two months of
1937, a total of 161 persons were
killed on state highways, as com
pared to 121 for January and
February, 1926. Total number of
accidents for the two months in-
Gateway to Roaring Gap
and the Blue Ridge
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
creased only slightly this year,
but the number of injuries sus
tained was pp 10 per cent.
Part of the Increase, both in
deaths and injuries, can be ac
accounted for by the fact that
there are approximately 10,000
more automobiles on the state's
roads today than there were a
year ago, according to Captain
Charles D. Farmer, head of the
state highway patrol.
A balancing factor to this, how
ever, is seen in the weather con
ditions, which last winter were
much more conducive to high
way accidents, particularly in the
mountainous western part of the
state, because of heavy and con
tinued snow.