The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 27, 1934, Page 1

North Dakota’s 4 ESTABLISHED 1873 TO QUICK ACTION BY| To Private Carriers NEEDED BY LEMKE T) MANY BIG COMPANIES DECISION FEATURED|reoue wi port mmmea-(OBTAIN HOUSE VOTE Cleveland Firm Takes Lead With 10-Per-Cent Raise for All Workers OTHERS TALKING IT OVER General Opinion Is That 40- Hour Week Will Be Re- tained for Present Pittsburgh, March 27.—(#)—There was every indication Tuesday that steel will be the next big industry: to step out in the riaonat parade with blanket boost in wages. zs In Cleveland, the Corrigan-McKin- ney Steel company announced a 10- r-cent increase, The news was interpreted as forecast- ing a Cetin nd Og in steel plants throughout 5 A leading steel master disclosed in Pittsburgh that he had sent telegrams to members of the Iron wo ert ‘itute outlining plans comvalll the first of the month with- out any reduction in the present 40- hour week. ‘The industrialist declined to quoted “for the present” but added that he looked for srestagd nore pei action. to take similar Bodh reat ‘Other leading steel companies re- fused to discuss the proposal but they indicated that such action by one company would probably result in & general uj revision. One official said that a general raise would probably amount to a 100,000,000 addition to the pay en- velopes of the workers annually, pro- vided present production continues. ‘There has been opposition in the industry to the administrations’ von gestion for a shorter work-week, bul itn "President Roosevelt's recent ap- peal for salary increases. OUTLINE PLANS FOR GRASSHOPPER FiGHT INNORTHWEST AREA Money Became Available as President Signs Bill Appro- priating $2,340,000 ye sinks, be vaid. Sate be el or 10 local distribut- ably will ig! set up under su! ing GXsshopper control Oldest Newspaper effective April 1.|‘8% boost would be in keeping} Goy, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1934 Roosevelt Vetoes Veterans Bill Expect Blanket Pay Increase in Steel Industry INDIGATIONS PONT] Will Return Airmail ONLY 22 MORE NAMES ate Bidding on Job as Soon as Possible IN RECALL MOVEMENT REVERSED BY COURT|*-*s DISCUSSED TUESDAY High State Tribunal Disagrees With Hutchinson, - Finds for Farm Holder and Plans Other Talks on Proposition Washington, March 27—(?)—Presi- A district court decision by Judge dent Roosevelt intends to permit im- W. H. Hutchinson, which figured in | mediate bidding by private lines for movement started by the Farmers|sir mail service and to turn airmail of the air mail opposition to the Shep- pard bill to subsidise civil aviation ‘and equipment development expressed before the senate com- county merce committee by the war and navy Hutchinson with 4 in the Cepartments, while the vommerce de- st private fields and a total of $1,000,- be expended in encouarging new aircraft design. Aircraft produced would be of ‘no value” for national de- navy oni vege sald ina ‘etvillanis would be ERey= qed eivsis jum. Judge Hutchinson, ruling on the of army training statute requiring a deposit, when §| necessary, but said it would offer an advantage to persons who could af- ford to pay for private instruction in specifying that holders of department of commerce licenses should be given Preference in entrance to the army air corps. The war department said as this deficiency existed it saw for spending money for Purposes. ‘SHAM’ SAYS WAR ACE OF REBIDDING PLAN SERRE ie gE Ha it i a ot fie His Fy i ii rf i = all & ig Eg Ez 4 gz g i &é z i BE ie oF i g oF : g i i i : i § i : E E E i i g i ' My “ i : | ii it ili E i 3 : i ‘ i fi if) E H & 1 il j o Decision on Frazier Bill Looms If Matter Can Be Brought to Floor Talks With Postoffice Officials SIDETRACKED IN COMMITTEE Opponents See Possibilities for Endless Inflation If Measure Pass: Washington, March 27.—(AP)—A scant 22 signatures separated the house Tuesday from @ vote on an- other currency expansion measure op- romp by the Roosevelt administra- ti ‘Opponents of the Prasier farm-m nsion. It was the house floor. The petition requires 145 signatures. Tuesday, there were 123 names on the document. Representative Byrns of Tennessee, the Democratic floor leader, said he felt “sure the bill will not pass,” but Lemke and other inflation and farm relief advocates insisted he was wrong. Under the bill, the federal govern- ment would buy up farm mortgages, peying for them with new currency, end reissue them to the farmer, who would pay them off at the rate of 1% per cent interest and 1% per cent of the principal each year. CARE IN DRIVING IS URGED BY W. H. COOK IN TALK TO K OF Says It Takes 2,000 Nuts to Hold Car Together But One Can Wreck It It takes 2,000 nuts to hold a car to- gether, but it only takes one to scatter the | mi killed in automobile accidents during the last 15 years, with the number of soldiers killed in wars Cook, said: “The time consumed in waging all our wars, from the Revolutionary War to See seebal hl Re > proposal—the tended ‘olds, “Te measure—contended it possibil- Methods restoring ities of almost unlimited - service to private lines were withheld | pension. kadai by the house/that agriculture committee last session, but Representative Lemke (Rep., N. D.) filed @ petition to force a vote on THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Wagner Is Revising Labor Board Measure WORK TO BEGIN 0 WIDENING MEMORIAL HIGHWAY 10 BRIDGE H. C. Frahm Informs City Com- mission Preliminary Activity Will Start This Week Plans to Make Concession Per- mitting Organization of Company Unions SEVELT TO STUDY IT ROO Pi ident Plans to Take Sug- gested Legislation With Him on Fishing Trip Approval has béen granted by the} Washington, March 27.—()—Sena- Federal Bureau of Public Roads for|tor Robert F. Wagner has agreed to widening the grading of the Memorial |revise his labor board bill, on which Berit reoesiaihe ta fi: C. Prakiy industrialists have been training their chief engineer of the state highway |Heavy guns. commission, who met with the bind Senator Wagner (Dem. N. Y.) commission’ at its meeting Monday|Planned to make at least one fresh night. Concession to opponents of the meas- Frahm said he was confident funds|Ute. He said in an interview that would be available for widening the|©Me change would permit employers to paving and building a five-foot side- ‘initiate’ the formation of company walk paralleling the highway, as the|UMlons, providing the intent was to highway department had assurance be helpful to labor and provided em- congress would appropriate funds|Ployer-control of the unions is out- within a short time for this and sim- i lar projects in North Dakota. Punds|,,#e hurried the re-drafting job so now are available for grading the that President Roosevelt can take a project. copy along to study when he leaves Survey of the im .| Tuesday night for a fishing trip. ment will begin Friday of this week, he said, and the project would be let for construction at an early date. The project already let for the widening of Sixth street would be completed as soon as the contractors Gecide to begin work, said. Funds in the amount of $25,817 are available for the completion of this work. The project for widening Main avenue has not yet been approved by tne Bureau of Public Roads, he said. Forsyth Back Again R. C. Forsyth, local plumber, ap- peared before the commission and asked that it inquire of the board of examiners why his journeyman’s li- cense had not been granted. The instructed the city audi- tor to find out why his license was held up. Two assistant assessors were ap- pointed for a three-month period to help the city assessor in assessing personal property. ‘They were W. F. Jones and D. H. Hanson. ‘The report of Police Magistrate Ed- ward 8, Allen for the months of Dec- ember and January were read and ac- cepted and remittances of $2 for Dec- ember and $46.20 for January were accepted. The money represented fines collected from prisoners. An application for a beer license was received from Clinton Swett and F. A. Specht, who propose to operate a beer parlor at 212 Main Avenue. ‘The application was granted, subject to the approval of the state beer com- Consider Tax Abatement An application for tax abatement was received from H. L. Bailey on lots 19 to 24 McKenzie’s Addition, at Grif- fin St., and Avenue A. The auditor was instructed to defer action until ? | title to the property was proved. A proposal was received from Ella LL. Kruger asking that the city accept the sum of $800 as payment for taxes for the property and real estate on ‘Lot 1, Block 31, Northern Pacific Sec- ond The assessment for ion, A request for abatement of taxes by the North Dakota Light and Pow- er company on lots 1 to 4 inclusive, of the city of the city The personnel of the automobile la- bor board, created to review contro- versial questions in that industry, was disclosed as Leo Wolman, Columbia university professor and chairman of the NRA labor advisory board, the neutral member; Nicholas Kelly, vice president of the Chrysler company, representing the industry, and Rich- ard Byrd of Pontiac, Mich., labor member. As labor adviser to NRA, Wolman frequently has drawn the criticism of union chiefs. Receives Railroad Men President Roosevelt received spokes- men for the railroad unions in a new effort to smooth out a wage dispute. The NRA, continuing a hearing on revision of the soft coal code, heard eastern operators praise that‘ docu- ment. Operators of the Appalachian coal fields hastened to avert a 350,000-man tie-up in that region by negotiating for a new wage agreement to replace the agreement expiring April 1. While Wagner worked Tuesday in reshaping his labor board bill, the senate labor committee continued hearings on it. ‘Wagner denied his bill would pro- hibit company unions, as has been widely contended. He said it was de- signed to prevent employer domina- tion of such unions and that this was the principle in the automobile agree- ment. He pointed out the wording of the president's statement: “The government makes it clear that it favors no particular union or Particular form of employe repre- sentation. The government's only duty is to secure absolute and uninfluenced freedom of choice without coercion, restraint or intimidation from any source.” James A. Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufactur- ers, told the senate committee fair decisions were not posstble by a board which represents employers and em- ployes in a controversy. Favors Nonpartisan Tribunal He said the only disinterested per- son is the member selected by these two groups and both bring influence to bear on him. “We ought to have @ non-partisan tribunal,” Emery said. Chairman Walsh (Dem., Mass.) said he is in accord with Emery’s proposal, but too often such regulatory bodies as he proposed, when created by states and the federal government are ap- ordinance | pointed “on the basis of prejudice for policing of the dumpjor against a particular group” first reading of an ordi-| As Emery spoke, Wagner said in ordi-!an interview he was prepared, if nec- intoxl-|essary, to amend his bill outlawing employer-dominated company unions city physician to permit employers to “initiate” such read showing that/ unions if intended to help employes vent control of the unions by the em- Ployers after they are created. and nine pupils} Previously he had agreed to strike lued from school. One hun-/|out an entire section abrogating calls and 78) tracts that conflict with the bill and 5 t change another clause to prevent intimidation from any source—not 400 only by employers, as the bill now %, Provides. 4 Loans} Meanwhile, Hugh 8. Johnson, NRA ay administrator, attempted to complete Since December loans aggregating |the three-man board of mediation td| 400 have been made to farmers in|be set up as a result of the automo- extending over 14 town-/bile strike settlement to arbitrate the|vorkers’ grievances. Schedule Fines for i |. Traffic Violators Ff , 5 a ce is cone | Revamping Bill if a a ae SEN. ROBERT F. WAGNER One of the bitterest legislative con- troversies in years is expected when congress considers the Wagner labor bill, sponsored by Senator Wagner (Dem. N. ¥.) above. Designed to “stabilize” industry, its opponents say it would promote the interests of the American Federation of Labor by making that organization all-power- ful in the industrial field. LAMB OPENS DRIVE TOPUT NEW FIRE IN DIVERSION CAMPAIGN Head of Taxpayers Association Says Government Owes Money to State Michigan, N. D., March 27.—(®)— Claiming that the federal government owes North Dakota $25,000,000 out 6f the original public works fund of $30,- 000,000 allotied to this state, of which only $5,000,000 was used, and that it should be applied on the Garrison dam and diversion project, G. F. Lamb, president of the North Dakota Taxpayers’ association, in letters to keymen of the 48 county taxpayers units, Monday asked state-wide sup- port on this issue. He said taxpayers in townships, cities, villages and counties turned cown applications for 30-70 bond loans from the federal government, except in cases of dire necessity, and that in so doing they turned back $25,000,000 to the federal government which he said should now in turn be applied on the Missouri river diversion project and Garrison dam. “If we make this claim good and the project is granted, 1 guarantee you that it will save the people of our state another $25,000,000 in taxes by giving employment for five years to unemployed and the natural re- ection that the expenditure of $65,- 000,000 (the estimated cost of the project) will have on delinquent, cur- rent and increased state income tax payments, us the money flows back to families in every city, town and township from the men out on proj- ect,” Lamb said. Farmers Coming to Cities He asserted that in the past few years, due to drought, farmers have left their farms and thronged into the village or city where they sought relief from the county, incurring ad- ditional expense to taxpayers for re- lief of these destitute people. With this project under way, taxes would become less, due to relief expense no longer needed, income tax payments would become greater and general flow of money naturally augmented, he said, “Had not the North Dakota Tax- Payers’ association and its 48 organ- ized counties asked waiving of public/ q, works 30-70 bond loans for the purely tederal project, the Garrison dam and the diversion project, I feel sure that DISAPPROVES BOOST IN U. §. ALLOWANCE FOR EX-SERVICE MEN Points to Fact That Expenses Must Be Kept Within Federal Income FEDERAL PAY INCREASE LOST. Government Workers as Well as Veterans Are Affected by President's Act BULLETIN Washington, March 27.—(}—Vete by President Roosevelt of legislation Granting increased allowances to war veterans and government employes was over-ridden Tuesday by the house. Washington, March 27.—()—Presi- dent Roosevelt Tuesday vetoed the independent offices appropriation bill because it carried increased allowances for Ste veterans and government workers exceeding his budget $228,000,000. i I am compelled to take note of the fact,” he said in a message to con- gress, “that in creating this exces: the congress has failed at the same time to provide a similar sum by ad- ditional taxation. “Moreover, to the extent that the amount of money appropriated by the Congress is in excess of my budget es- timates, and in the absence of pro- vision for additional revenues, there must be a decrease in the funds avail- able for essential relief work.” It was the first veto of a major piece of legislation by the president and congressional leaders predicted he would be sustained. ‘The house planned to vote immedi- ately on whether to override the veto. “My disapproval of this bill” said the president in conclusion “is not based solely upon the consideration of dollars and cents. There is a deeper consideration. + Conerrned With Principles “You and I gre concerned with the Principles herein enunciated. I trust that the congress will continue to cooperate with me in our common effort to restore general prosperity and relieve distress.” The president spoke firmly about the increases voted by congress for veterans, repeating his stand for the principles outlined to the American Legion convention in Chicago last year. “I am very confident,” he said, “that the American people, including the overwhelming majority of veter- ans themselves, approve these princi- ples and in the last analysis will sup- Port them.” The president reviewed the effort of special boards to seek justice for those veterans entitled to government compensation for service-connected disabilities. He outlined the modification made by himself in the veterans economy act of a year ago and said that it justice required further would make them. Veterans Treated Well “It is a simple and undeniable fact,” he said, “that the United States, in terms of compensation and in terme of hospitalization, has done and is doing infinitely more for our veterans and their dependents than any other government. “What you and I are seeking is jus- tice and fairness in the individual case.” Meanwhile, a substitute for the house bonus bill, proposing a com- promise between cash payment of the face value of the bonus certificates and cashing their present loan value, was introduced in the senate by Sen- ator Pittman (Dem., Nev.) Pittman proposed to pay the vet- erans the amount of their adjusted service credit, plus interest at four and a half per cent nually since the armistice. i ih