Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1935, Page 7

SNCLAR VISONS PARTY COALTON E. P. I. C. Sponsor Refuses to Deny He Will Seek Presi- dency in 1936. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, April 5—Upton Sinclair looked at his political horo- ~sope today and saw a powerful union of Democrats, Progressive Republicaus, Liberals and Leftists marching to vic- tory in the 1936 presidential campaign. The brigade, said Sinclair, would flaunt the banner of his “production- for-use” program—the backbone of his “End Poverty in California” move- ment. “We do not need a third party,” he said. “The advocates of production for use are the Democratic party in California, and we can be the Demo- cratic party of the Nation.” Sinclair declined to say whether he expected to seek the leadership of this coalition. “I cannot talk about that now, one way or the other,” the former Socialist said. “All I can say is that the move- ment will find a leader.” The white-haired writer and unsuc- cessful Democratic candidate for Gov- ernor of California last year plans a national speaking tour this Fall to tell the country about his production-for- use plan. BRITISH BLUE LAW HIT IN TWO DIRECTIONS Butchers Warned to Idleness on Sabbath Turn About on Councilmen. FARINGDON, England (#).—Far- ingdon’s butchers and council are deadlocked over the question of Sun- | day observance. For years it has been the practice of the butchers to kill their animals on Sunday. The council, quoting an ancient statute placed on the books in the reign of Charles I, which imposes a fine of $1.60, warned the butchers to stop. The butchers, however, threatened to retaliate under the same act, which imposes penalties on those who do not attend worship. They said they would keep tab on councilmen and report those who failed to go to church the number of times requjred by the ancient statute. TRANSVAAL AUTHORITY President of Chamber of Mines Believes Metal Will Always Retain High Value. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (). —Whatever money standards the nations of the world may fix, gold always will retain its high value, be- lieves John Martin, president of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines. “Even if more countries, or all coun- , tries, left the gold standard at the old parity, the part that gold would play in the monetary affairs of the world would still be pre-eminent,” he told the Imperial Press Conference here. “The hoarding of gold by govern- ments, banks, corporations and indi- viduals must mean that gold still is preferred to anything else as a store of value.” Spar;l;in:br. Advised For Boy and Girl Seeking Divorces Young Wife Declares Husband Took Tips at Night Club. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, April 5—Thirteen- year-old Mrs. Wilma McClain Kirby, check room attendant at a night club here, yesterday filed suit for divorce from her 18-year-old husband, Rob- ert C. Kirby, a “singing waiter” em- ployed at the same club. “I can't understand what their parents were thinking about,” Cir- cuit Judge Granville Hogan said. “And as for these children, I think a light barrel stave or a keen cherry switch is indicated. The girl testified she married Kirby at Waterloo, Ill, last June 7, three days before her 13th birthday. Her husband, she said, obtained employment for her at the night club, taking her, tips each night and contributing to her support only to the eytent of buying her a fur- trimmed coat. > S0 garment GROSNER of 1325 F Street » 4 Desires Up-to-Date Utopia Representative Sadowski Would Back New U. S. Money With Labor. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. STABLISHMENT of an up-to- date Utopia in these United States is contemplated by Representative George G. Sadowski, Democrat, of Mich- igan, now serving his second term in Ccagress, through a bill pending be- fore the Ways and Means Committee, which he is urging for early consid- eration. Sadowski is Detroit-born and edu- cated, although he attended a high school in Alabama. He tock his law degree when 21 years of age, and has been successful in real estate develop- ment and the building business— besides being part owner of a golf club. He is active in Democratic politics, the Polish Falcons and other societies. New Crop of Queer Bills. Each Congress brings out a flock of freak bills and the legislative drafting service is driven distracted trying to put some of the pet phobias and obsessions of fledgling members into proper legislative language in bills and resolutions than will never get any further than a committee pigeonhole. With the depression and unemployment prompting countless legislative nostrums and cure-all quackery the present Congress has brought out a new crop of queer pro- posals—but the drafting clerks have beea so busy on the big administra- tive relief measures, sitting in with the committees that their time has been mortgaged to such an extent that they couldn’t be bothered with the ordinary routine bills. Contemplating the great mass of freak measures they heave a healthy sigh of relief for their surcease. But this fellow Sadowski didn't | need their help—he had his series of conferences and put his own draft jato the legislative hopper. And here is all he sought to do: “To stabilize and standardize money and labor prices by establishment of | 8 labor-hour monetary system, to guarantee work to all at all times, to | give normal prosperity, prevent de- pressions and for other purposes™— too numerous to mention here. Urges New Type Currency. His first proposal is that “there be | coined, printed and issued by the Gov. ernment of the United States of Amer- ica a new form of money to be based upon one hour’s labor as stabilized by this act.” This money would be in the same denominations as money now in use—to be “continued as the de- | mands of commerce may warrant.” | All present money would be retired | and reissued as labor-hour-dollar cur- rency—gold or other precious metal | would no longer be coined. The new standard for measuring basis of value | [of the money would be “one hour; AFFIRMS FAITH IN GOLD | . minimum unskilled or common labor in the United States, which is to be‘ $1 per hour.” | The method of stabilization Sadowski | proposes is for the Government wi “take up the slack in the labor market by offering constructive emergency 1abor to any one who asks for it at a | sliding scale low enough to compete with private industry, yet high enough | to force private industry to pay $1 per hour minimum.” | The Sadowski bill would authorize an appropriation of $10,000,000,000 of labor-hour money to carry on emer- | gency labor projects for a two-year period. The Secretary of Labor would be required to make a study of Govern- ment employment so as to recommend to Congress a wage system at rates ranging from $1 an hour minimum to $5 per hour (the compensation of a cabinet member). The Secretary of Labor would be | empowered to offer free of charge to any local or State government any | Men have taken to the ‘Chesty’ insuch a big way that we had to ‘figure’ with one of our makers so that GROSNER of 1325 | to prevent overproduction; *‘overpro- | duction” meaning— | warehouses full of merchandise and | no buyers.” | ment on a $45 check given in pay=| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, REP. GEORGE D. SADOWSKI. surplus energy labor that cannot be placed in private industry or in work planned by the Government—and the local postmaster would make out the | pay rolls, under the O. K. of the Sec- | retary of War and the Postmaster General. | The Secretary of Labor would also recommend the number of hours per | day and week industry should work Utopia. “That state of society in which | every human need and desire has been | filled, the people wanting nothing, each worker having an abundance of money and the shelves of stores and When the Secretary believes the country is approaching that Utopian state “he shall recommend to indus- try the shortening of the hours of labor and to Congress the shortening | of the number of hours of Government | employes.” | The labor-hour dollar would have 0 interest value and any one attempt- ing to collect any intrest directly or indirect alsification or misrep- | resentation, would be guilty of a felony | and lose the principals of the account. | Restoration of the “Sovereignity of | Congress” is another aim of the Sa- dowski bill: | “That the Department of Labor | shall prepare plans for reducing all boards, commissions and corporations | to departmental or interdepartmental routine and submit such plan to Con- | gress to the end that Congress shall | assume the legislation of the laws in | order that the ideals of the Constitu= | tion be rigidly adhered to.” | But this Sadowski plan for a mod- ern Utopia—as far as Congress is concerned is—just another “mere scrap of paper.” = . i Mule-Trading Game. HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (#)—Little- berry Arvin, a carpenter who has gone in for farming, was $1.50 poorer but a lot wiser today after an experience with a mule-trader. Arvin summoned aid of the law when he discovered a mule he had purchased from the trader was blind. He tried to stop pay- ment but the trader had cashed it. Vigorously protesting he had said nothing about the animal except “he works all right,” the trader at length traded back, for a difference of $1.50. AR Bulgaria Curbs Imports. Bulgaria will continue its strict gov- ernment control over imports. we could produce the ‘Chesty’...a full- chested, snug- waisted model at a feature price, $29.75. 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