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A-2 2 JUDGE OLVANY'S SON FOUND SHOT Notes Indicate Suicide At- ztempt Following Party, at Saranac Lake. By the Associated Press. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., December 10.—Police Officer Walter Duprey sald today that George W. Olvany, jr., 22, son of a former leader of Tammany Hall, was found shot through the head and critically ‘wounded early to- day, a short time after he gave several friends a “farewell party.” Duprey said a note found in Ol vany's _clothing said: “Tais will be a lesson I won't forget.” An emergency _ operation was performed st General Hospital. - ¢ o givany, Jr. Duprey said the x young man was found lying in the snow near an abandoned hotel at Lower Saranac Lake, about 3 am. Two pistol bullets had been fired through his head. Parents Notified. His father, former Judge George Washington Olvany, and his mother have been notified of the shooting, Duprey said. Young Olvany has been a con- valescent at Saranac Lake. Last year he studied at Brown University. Notes found in his apartment were addressed to his perenis and Miss Sidney Schafer of Providence, R. L “He gave a party last night for sev- eral friends,” Duprey said. “He told one of them, Bruce Clark, & newspaper man, that it was a farewell party. He planned to leave for New York City December 18. «“Farly this morning the party sep- arated. Clark told me Olvany handed him a note and told him to open it after 2 o'clock. “The note informed Clark that a news story had ‘broken’ and directed him to go to the Amperson Boat House.” Duprey said Clark called police headquarters. Police made a fast trip to the designated boat house, but found | Olvany on the old Algonquin Hotel property instead. He was mumbling incoherently, Duprey reported. Pistol Found by Body. A .45-caliber automatic pistol was found beside the body. Duprey said he issued a pistol permit to Olvany several weeks ago. Dr. Warner Woodruff began oper- ating before daybreek, soon after the youth was taken to the hospital. Shortly afterward a “slight improve- ment” in his condition was announced. Duprey said that in one note Olvany referred to “something he couldn’t overcome.” Duprey said one bullet passed through Olvany's nose and another through his temple and the top of his head. The note found on his person said Olvany intended to fire a “test shot,” Duprey said. The police officer said the note was dated “12-?-35." And that it read: “This will explain that I took my life by my.own hand. “The first shot was a test. It lodged In a nearby object. If my eim wasn’t too bad the second shot was obvious, I hope. . “Notes to my parents and fiancee will be found in my room, G-1, Sant Anoni Apartments. Please send the corpus delecti to Connelly (a Saranac TLake undertaker). “Lesson 1 Won’t Forget.” “This will be a lesson I won’t for- get. Sorry to drag you all out in the cold and snow, but I didn’t want to mess up my room and car.” The note to Clark was written on the stationery of a Syracuse news- paper. Duprey said it read: “Dear Bruce: “The story I told you about broke this morning—inclosing taxi fare so you won't be in the hole if it isn't of interest. “Get a taxi to take you to the bench opposite the Amperson Boat House. The story should be near my car. “Couldn’t give you the details be- forehand, as I was afraid you might get hurt—and I didn't want any in- nocent parties to get the blame. “Drop over to my room later. “Tally-ho, “GEORGE.” “P. 8.—Don’t spare the hosses.” - Duprey said he did not know the names of Olvany's other companions &t last night's party, which took place in a restaurant. The police refused to divulge con- tents of the notes to Mr. and Mrs. Olvany and Miss Schafer. Scots Again WTake Snuff: Snufl-taking is being revived in :Edinburg, Scotland, and already has fmany votaries. TP BuY CHRISTMAS sstxu.@i 174" Cent. English coaches ex- changed mail -at full galiop. i [-'OACHES first came into public use ¥ in England in the seventeenth century. The rapid schedules of these coaches, which carried both passen- gers and mail, frequently carried trav- elers past inns at which they had for- merly found pleasure in stopping. As & consequence there were many pro- tests from innkeepers. The forerun- ner of the modern pick-up mail pouches by fast trains without stop- ping was inaugurated during this era. At places where the mail coach did not halt a pack containing the local mail was tossed off and the guard snatched the outgoing pack off a fofked stick held up for him by the =¥ SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS . b What’s What . Behind News . In Capital President Once Linked to Firm That Didn’t Reap Profit. BY PAUL MALLON. ROKERS are handicg around among themselves New York Curb Market listing bulletin No. 174. It is a prize antique of the pre-depression era. Current mirthful significance lies in the men- tion therea of the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a director of the Con- solidated Automatic Merchandising Corp. The bulletin is an application for listing the stock of that corpora- tion. It is dated August 8, 1928. Four pages of hopes for profits are climaxed on page five of the bulletin by a detailed citation of expected eamings each year for 10 years. For instance, the bulletin shows that this year, the company ex- pected to earn $2,017,560 from pen- ny weighing machines, $850,000 jrom -penny gum sales, $608,702 from postage stamp machines and $15,300,000 from general machine merchandising. Any investor could pencil the total up to a grand $18,776,262, which is a lot of pennies and nickels. ‘What rolls the hard-hearted brokers on the floor is to read this accounting of unhatched pennies in the light of the subsequent fate of the corporation. The profits were not to be. Some pennies must have stuck in the | machines, On July 3, 1934, the southern dis- trict court in New York approved pe- titions filed by the offering broker, F. J. Lisman & Co., and the General Vending Corp. (an almost wholly owned subsidiary) for relief under section 77B of the bankruptcy act |a decree continuing each corporation in possession of its respective assets. (Moody's Industrial Manual, 1935 edition). Mentioned in Campaign. The subject is supposed to have | been vaguely mentioned by some one | during the last campaign. | time it developed that Director Roose- velt had about as much to do with it as the average corporate director— | just a little more than nothing. But you cannot keep brokers from | having their fun. The large brick hurled by the | Bankers’ Advisory Council at the Fed- | eral Reserve Board has whistled past all official ears here without notice. Not an officfal head has been raised in acknowledgment. Not an official word spoken. Unofficially, the highest here seem to have an assured outlook on the credit situation. If they had desired to speak, they would have said something like this: Federal Reserve policy has been to encourage excess reserves in the be- lief that this would eventually bring pressure on the frozen capital mar- ket and break up the ice. First symptoms of thaw have now been | noticed. Probably the F, R. B. had | nothing to do with it, but, at any | rate, the test of the policy pressure |1s just now about to be made. pect that the board will reverse itself with vigor. If the highest further disclosed their minds on this most important issue (it involves inflationary or de- flationary pressure from Washington), they would say: It is true that the F. R. B. open market committee bought Govern- ment bonds in the open market to offset a deflationary movement which now has ceased. Instead of gold going out, it is now coming into the country. Program Completed. Likewise, it is now true that the Treasury refinancing program is com- pleted. There is no serious practical reason why the Treasury would object to a moderate selling policy. ’ _ WELL,IM GLA g(e‘;\\ THAT JOB " ~of, FINSHED / But, at the same time, the New Dealers believe the Advisory Commit- tee brick was propelled more by a desire for better interest than by any other motive power. The sum total of all these reactions to the Advisory Council demand, therefore, seems to amount to one simple word: “No.” Note—Remember, also, that the present Federal Reserve boardmen are now anxiously awaiting reappointment by the White House. The best tea-table story of the budding social season is the one about @ Washington society leader and a governmental commission. It seems that this commission is one of those obscure overworked gov- ernmental authorities that meets once a year, or thereabouts. Its August meeting for this year was held here a few weegs ago. The commissioners, including some rep= resentatives from a foreign land, were invited by the society lady to tea. The big day for the commissioners saw them properly arrayed in striped pants and suthoritative stiff collars. They made a very dignified formal appearance in the salon of their offi- cial hostess, but were somewhat dis- concerted to find her missing. Her secretary explained she had been delayed on business. Their feel began to ache after half an hour pf shifting their weight from one to the other. Then- the absent lady Jlew in through the door on a wintry blast. Explanations were not necessary, as the lady was attired in horseback riding raiment. The secre- tary took the rap, as they say in Tammany social circles, explaining that she had neglected to remind her mistress of the engagement. The lady herself made a gracious apology and said she would join the party as soon as she could dress. She must have been delayed at this, also. The commissioners, after waiting until their feet were fairly screaming, decided unanimously that they had other engagements.: They left to rest up for another next year, (Copyright, 1835.) . - { Twenty days later the court entered | At that | Thus, it is hardly reasonable to ex- | | industrialists would be on the coun- | R A, Maj. THE EVENING MRS. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 10.—De- tective Lieut. Lloyd Hurst said today | Mrs. Frances Mabel Willys had con- fessed the hammer slaying of Dr. Walter F. Hammond, 62, her common- | law husband for eight years, because | “he had it coming to him for the way | he beat me up.” ‘The woman, 38 years old and weigh- ing 170 pounds, boasted she was “a FRANCES MABEL WILLYS. | is the matter, have you gone nuts?’ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Hammer Slayer of Doctor “HAD IT COMING TO HIM,” WOMAN TELLS POLICE. good looker” eight years ago, officers said, and added, “I couldn't stand for him to have a lot of girls around his office and not let me in.” Hurst quoted her as confessing she | struck the dentist “four or five” times after he accused her of “having $5,000 hidden in the back yard,” and hit her. “Just before he died, he said, ‘Whatl and I told him I couldnt live wif him and I couldn't live without him.” LICENSE INDUSTRY, A.F.L ASKS BERRY, Green Offers Six-Point Pro- | gram—-Urges Shorter Work Week. A six-point economic program was submitted to labor groups of George L. Berry’s industrial conference today by William Green, president of the | American Federation of Labor. Shortly after Berry told business | to “quit quibbling” and asserted an | industrial council would be set up, despite opposition from business ranks, | | Green put forward the A. F. of L. | plan, which called for: 1. Shortening the work week. 2. Minimum wage standards for | | women end minors. 3. Elimination of child labor, night work for women and home work. 4. “Unstinted enforcement and un-| qualified compliance with” the Wagner | labor disputes act. Wage and Hour Standard. | 8. Formulation of wage and hour ! standards by management and labor “organized on a Nation-wide basis.” | 6. Enactment of the bill by Sen-' ator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyo- | ming to set up wage and hour stand- (ards through a system of licensing | industry. | | The mining labor group elected Thomas Kennedy, Lieutenant Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania and secretary- | treasurer of the United Mine Workers, to represent mine labor on the Berry council and gave unqualified approval to the Green program. Taking the aggressive against in- | dustry claims that groups called in conference here have almost unani- mously opposed his suggested eco- nomic council, Berry said in a state- | ment. The issues of unemployment | and a stable prosperity ‘“‘cannot be swept aside by political considera- | tion or by unreasoning opposition to | a course of action which is definite in scope with industry’s problems in the light of solutions that they best guard the entire Nation's welfare. Government Partner. Berry headquarters contended 27 business men had already been selected for the council, which Berry hopes will carry the torch of co-operation between business and labor for a na- tional industrial program. But O'Leary argued only four major groups had appointed members, and even these, he said, had instructions limiting their participation. Berry officials privately admitted they had no “big names” as yet, but, “off the record,” they maintained sev= eral men of national repute would join. Berry officials predicted at least 35 cil, and little difficulty was expected from labor organizations, which planned to name their delegates today. Subsections Hold Meetings. Afver yesterday’s general session, the parley was split up into 44 sub- sections, with meetings called for to- day. Observation of several meetings yesterday showed virtually no speak- ers strongly in favor of the projected economic council. - Failure of the Cotten Textile Insti- tute to take part in Berry's conference drew fire meanwhile from Thomas H. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers. Approximately 200 industrialists at- tended the textile meeting which sep- arated into two sections, one for dis- cussion or textiles and the other for garments. Berry Explains Efforts, In the National Radio Forum last night, Maj. Berry declared he could not believe that “any broad-visioned men of industry will remain perma- nently aloof from an enterprise that is so patently engaged in attempting to co-operate in removing some of the dangerous uncertainties from the business horizon.” The Forum, arranged by The Star, was heard over a Nation-wide network of the National Broadcasting Co. Maj. Berry's speech was an explana- tion of the program he hopes to put into effect and a defense of its prin- ciple. He made it clear that it was not an effort to pit one group against an- other, but to bring them together in the interest of a common cause—"to insure the Nation’s industrial future, to put the unemployed back to work in gainful occupations and to meet the financial problems which today are in the forefront of every business man's mind.” Declaring his purpose in calling the conference has been “misrepre- sented,” and reiterating there is no desire on his part to restore the N. Berry sald: “If there is any one thing I showld like to see revived in this country it would be an abiding feith on the part of industry, labor and the Gov- ernment in the value of teamwork, instead of pulling in a hundred dif- ferent directions to reach the same | fundamental goal The jfull tert of Maj. Berry's speech may be jound on Page A-14, 16 MINE VICTIMS’ BODIES RECOVERED Rescuers Find Comrades Mile Under Ground After Al- berta Explosion. By the Associated Press. COALHURST, Alberta, December 10.—The bodies of 16 men, victims of the first major tragedy in the half- century of coal mining in the Alberta foothills, were brought to the surface | today and the work of identification started. J. Andrews, in charge of mine rescue work for the province, simultaneously | began an investigation of yesterday's | explosion in the Lethbridge Collieries, | Ltd, mine. In addition to killing 18 miners, caught just as they were going on duty | with the night shift, the blast sent three others to the hospital. Fourteen | escaped. The explosion, swelling like a roll of | EDITOR MURDERED AS HE PREDICTED Walter Liggett, Slain in Min- neapolis, Once Was Resident Here. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, December 10— The assassination he predicted in the last issue of his wekly newspaper today had overtaken Editor Wal- ter Liggett, stormy petrol of Minne- sota politics and bitter foe of Gov. Floyd B. Olson. A killer in a darkened car last night poured five bullets into Lig- gett's back as, accompanied by his wife and 10-year-old daughter Marda, he drove into an alley near his home. Liggett, his arms full of groceries and with a pistol in his pocket, fell dying as his daughter cried, “Don’t die, daddy, don't die.” At police headquarters Mrs. Lig- gett sobbed, “I will remember the killer's face as long as I live.” Suspect 1s Held. ‘The police held Isadore Blumen- feld, alias Kid Cann, for question- ing in the case after he submitted voluntarily for examination. He was exonerated & year ago after an in- vestigation of the passing of ran- som money from the $200,000 Charles F. Urschel kidnaping case. Mrs. Liggett was called to police headquarters today to face the suspect. Blumenfeld, identified by the police as connected with the liquor busi- ness here, said he was in a barber shop shortly before the killing and could hot have reached the scene in time to fire the fatal shots. Also under investigation was a tele- phone conversation which Detective Capt. Al Marxen said Liggett had | | yesterday with Meyer Schuldberg, president of a liquor distributing com- pany. Marxen said Liggett informed Schuldberg he was writing a series of articles on Schuldberg’s activities. was wrong in his premises and sug- gested Liggett give Government oper- atives his evidence if he thought it was true. In a formal statement to police, Schuldberg said Liggett de- manded $1,500 to “lay off.” Blumenfeld said he was introduced to Liggett by Mrs. Annette Fawcett, divorced wife of Magazine Publisher Billy Fawcett, shortly before Liggett was severely beaten by unknown as- saflants in a beer parlor two months ago. Declared “Political Frame-Up.” Soon after, Liggett was acquitted of criminal charges involving two minor | girls. He branded the charges a “political frame-up.” Howard Guilford, 48, publisher of the Weekly Saturday Press, an anti- radical publication, was slain Sep- tember 6, 1934, six blocks from the spot where Liggett died. Liggett was former director of pub- licity for the North Dakota Non- | Partisan League, deputy commissioner | of immigration for North Dakota in | 11919 and a New York free lance writer. In 1926 he published the Frozen Frontier, first of several books. ‘The latest issue of his paper, the | Midwest American, said he might be killed and dared Gov. Olson to accuse him of libel. Listed 10 Accusations. Listing 10 ‘accusations sgainst the Nation's only Farmer-Labor chief executive, Liggett said “if these charges are not true, Gov. Olson should sue me for criminal libel.” The article then listed the 10 al- He | said Schuldberg bet the editor $500 he | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1935. Slain Editor after a St. Paul jury had acqui statutory charge lving a mi men in Minneapolis last night w looked on. and Family | RAILROAD UNIONS FIGHT LEWIS PLAN “Labor” Takes Up Cudgels for Green and Craft Organizations. BY DAVID LAWRENC™. Railroad labor organizations, often referred to as the aristocracy of American workers, have broken with John L. Lewis and taken up the cudgels for William Green of the American Federation of Labor. Through an editorial today in the weekly periodical published here called Labor, which is the official organ of the standard railroad labor organiza- tions of the country, Mr. Lewis is bluntly told that he is hurting the cause of working men rather than helping it. The article further dis- closes a little-known story to the efe fect that the Guffey coal law might have been killed by the craft unions, but that they stepped aside to help the mine workers. The editorial policy of Labor is dee termined by a committee from three groups of officers of the Brotherhood | of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Association of Machinists. the Railroad Telegraph= ers, the switchmen's unions and the maintenance of way employes. Workers’ Foes Delighted. “President Lewis of the United Mi Workers,” says the editorial, “should cease sniping at the American labor movement. His tactics delight the National Association of Manufac- | turers and other enemies of the work= | ers, but no one else. any surplus ammunition he should If Mr. Lewis has use it on the foes of labor, not on its friends. would have us believe inionism—that is, one union for all empl in each ine dustry—is the salvati of the Amerie can workers. There is nothing in the record of the last 50 years to sustain that claim. “Mr. Lewis’ own union, the Unit Mine Workers, is an industrial and it has had the advantage of ) Lewis’ leadership for 15 or 16 yi Surely if industrial unionism panacea for the ills that beset Ameri- can workers, then Mr. Lewis' union | will furnish a shining example. | | Marda, shown in the lower photo, with her | of successive published “exposes” of liquor and crime conditions. Bootlegging charges that he aired | | in Plain Talk. a magazine, caused the then United States Attorney Leo A. Rover to bring him before the grand | jury in November 29, when the cele- brated “Wall Street booze party” at | local hotel, described in a Senate speech by Senator Brookhart, Repub- | lican, of Iowa was under investiga- tion. Liggett was before the inquisi- tors less than 15 minutes, but said that his information came from the reports of Police Officers George S. Little and Oscar J. Lettermen, dry | raiders of those days. His testimony was not productive of any indictments. A short while afterward he was a wit- ness before a House Judiciary Sub- committee going into the liquor situa- tion. Later Liggett wrote a series on “un- solved murders” here—among them the Mary Baker and Scrivener deaths. In gathering material on these cases, iv«txrh he pointed out as examples of | police inefficiency, he was accompanied by former Policeman Robert J. Allen, thunder, occurred late yesterday, fol- | Jeged irregularities and demanded that | central figure in departmental inves- lowed by a cave-in. | Comrades of the dead miners, who formed the rescue crews, placed 15 of the bodies in a “death row” on a| 600-foot level of the mine, a mile below the surface. The sixteenth body was located in a pile of rock and coal. | . Blond in Black New Queen. Paris mannequins have chosen a blond in black Paris queen of the mannequins. She is Miss Simone Hol, who claims to be a cousin of Katherine Hepburn and Joan Crawford. | in ! { was his second. Two children ana a | pendent. & weekly newspaper pub- |is occupied. It would be a flagrant the Legislature impeach the State's Chief Executive. Liggett was born February 14, 1886, Benson, Minn. His present wife brother, Robert, St. Paul advertising executive, survive. LIGGETT ONCE LIVED HERE. ‘Walter Liggett, slain in Minneapolis last night, formerly lived in Chevy Chase and figured in the news here | half & dozen years ago as the result | tigations that had the force in a tur- moil for weeks, l Liggett also had a stormy career as editor of the Montgomery Inde- lished at Rockville, Md., which he edited in 1929, At that time Liggett campaigned actively in behalf of one faction of the Democratic party for control of Montgomery County affairs. Charges he made against E. Brooke | Lee, county Democratic leader, and | others, brought a libel suit against Sixteenth Century Bibles Are Exhibited S. W. Cockrell Wins Award for Edition Dated 1583. A number of the oldest Bibles in the city, displayed last night at the social hall of the. National City Christian Church, are here shown by their owners. They are, left to right: Miss Janet N. Butler, whose Bible was published in 1675; Miss Fleda R. Canning, owner of the Canning Bible of Bristol, England, printed in the sixteenth century; Frank J. Metcalf, owner of the Breeches Bible, published in 1610; Miss A. C. Musser, whose Bible was published in 1755; Mrs. J. A. Patterson, jr, who exhibited the Kauffmann family Bible, printed in 1729; Alfred Walford, owner of another Breeches, published in 1589, and Mrs. C. H. Cooke, who dis- played a Bible printed in 1594. HAT probably is the oldest privately owned Bible in town belongs to S. W. Cockrell of 1317 Fairmont street, It is & Latin Vulgate Bible, bearing the date 1583. it - Cockrell won the New National City Christian Church, com- the 400th anniversary of of the Bible in English. was given award for the oldest Bible printed in English, a volume dated 1592, and printed only 57 years after the first | Bible was published in English in 1535. Walford's Bible contained a concordance dated 1589. Other Bibles in the display included 18 -printed bef 1850. Mrs. C. H. Cooke exhibited’ a{ Bible printed in German in 1504 F. J. Metcalf dis- played a Bible printed in English be- gun-in 1608 and finished in 1610. Miss Janet Butler rhw an English m&dmflm 3 ." A —Star Staff Photo. in possession of Mr. R. M. Kauffmann, printed in German in 1729, was dis- played by Mrs. J. A. Patterson, jr. The 400th anniversary program was opened by Rev. F. F. Holsopple, presi- dent of the Washington Bible Society. Dr. Raphael H. Miller, pastor of the National City Christian Church; de- livered an address on the influence of the Bible on literature, art and the development of Christian civilization. Page McK. Etchison, president of the Bible Class Association, presi The song service was led by Liggett and three other editors of | the Independent. It was after his association with Independent that Lig ing for Plain Talk. He sold his home at Chevy Chase in 1931, - G-Men (Contirued From First Page.) he vigorously, insisting that Congress meant to apply no such restriction to | situations such as they described. “It is submitted that the use of Pullman compartments is the only possible means of transporting heavy firearms in & manner that is com- | mensurate with the secrecy and pre- caution that must be taken in the | conduct of criminal investigation by this tureau,” the department said. “When special agents of this bureau are required. to undertake dangerous investigations it is frequently neces- sary for them to be supplied with such firearms as Colt Monitor rifies, packed in cases measuring 44 inches in length, | or gas projectile guns, Winchester | i riot or sub-machine guns, each hich requires a large case. | | “It is impossible for such cases to | be piaced in a Pullman berth when it disregard of duty to leave such fire- | | arms on the floor while the traveler | slept. Furthermore, such cases do | not resemble ordinary baggage of a | traveler and would attract consider- able attention. The nature of their i contents would be quite apparent to | underworld characters.” | | McCarl went down with his flag | | fiying. Under the circumstances, he | said, the economy act bars payment | | from travel funds, but “it would ap- | pear that in any such case and upon | | a showing of the facts of necessity the | excess costs cauld properly be con- | sidered as for the transportation of the | firearms and be payable under jour | appropriation for contingent ex- penses.” | STAMP MAY REMAIN House Told Need of 3-Cent De- nomination—Service in Red. Post Office Department officials have told a. House Appropriations Subcommittee that postal service again is “in the red” and indefinite retention of the 3-cent postage rate | is desirable. Chairman Ludlow, Democrat, of In- diana, of a subcommittee conducting hearings on the Treasury-Post Office appropriations bill for 1936, said he | could not divulge the exact figure. Irvin S. Cobb Says: I Know the Debt-Booming Banker—But Then, Maybe Not. CULVER CITY, Calif, December 10.—If the President won't name him, I shan't. But I'll bet anything—any- thing I have left, I mean—that the distinguished banker who told him this country could safely go in debt for quite & lot more billions is the same finan- clal wizard who counseled me about my dainty little investments in the blithe, braw days before 1929. It cer- tamly sounds like the same fellow. On second thought, maybe not. Becausé the last T heard of my banker, he was sitting by the steampipes at a county poor farm back East, telling the other inmates about ut less than three years ago the United Mine Workers were practically ‘on the rocks.” It was saved by the labor provisions of the N. R. A, and those labor provisions were adopted by Congress at the suggestion of the American Federation of Labor and the railroad brotherhoods Crafts Saved Lewis’ Union. “In other words, after it had been buffeted by the depression for three years, Mr. Lewis’ industrial ion was saved by the craft unions which had succeeded in holding their ranks ine tact during the most trying period in our country's history. “When the N. R. A. collapsed, Mr. Lewis asked for the enactment of the Guffey act, which insures to his mem- bers the right of collective bargaining in the coal industry. Many of the craft unions feit the proposal, as Mr, Lewis drafted it, was unjust to them. Had they pressed their opposition they could have defeated the legislation. Instead, they stepped aside and urged Congress to go to the rescue of the mine workers, “Such generous conduct would seem to merit gratitude, but, instead, Mr. Lewis is going up and down the land proclaiming that the American Fede eration of Labor is ‘too slow’ for him, and that it must change it policies to conform to his ideas. “Of course, the American labor movement will do no such thing. It will continue in the future, as in the past, to formulate its programs in an orderly way in conventions called for that purpose. Attempts to coerce it will not be effective. Both Systems Utilized. “Labor is not condemning ine dustrial unionism, and it is not exalt- ing craft unionism. For years both system have operated harmoniously within the ranks of the labor move= ment. The workers have used either system, or a combination of both, as the exigencies of a particular situa« tion seemed to require “There is no reason why that policy should not continue, and it will con= tinue if Mr. Lewis will kindly ‘check his guns at the door’ and endeavor to remember that when he enters a convention of the American la- bor movement he is ‘just another trade unionist' free to present his views with all the vigor he possesses, but clearly obligated to do noth: which will jeopardize the common good. “If Mr. Lewis continues his snip- ing he will undoubtedly annoy th American labor movement, but in the end he will be the chief sufli Unfortunately, the United Mine Worke ers may also be seriously damaged. “Labor regrets that it is com- pelled to comment on Mr. Lewis’ conduct in this blunt fashion, but when an individual, or a group of individuals, pursues a course calcu= |lated to impede the progress of the American labor movement, the time for soft words has passed.” Lewis Strength in Roosevelf. The foregoing spirited attack is an interesting illustration of how a group of craft unions, conceded to be among America’s most powerful, are begin- ning to view the internecine warfare initiated by Mr. Lewis. It may mean that, when the Guffey bill is declared invalid by the Supreme Court, as seems inevitable, opposition to an amended law, instead of support, may be forthe coming from the craft unions. Mr. Lewis’ main strength is derived from the aid given his union by the Roosevelt administration in the word- ing of the Guffey law. For, without the Guffey law, as has often been pointed out, the membership drive of the mine workers would be less effec~ tive today. The mine workers’ officers, by rea- son of increased revenue from dues, have been able to wage war on their brethren of the craft unions. The railroad brotherhoods have not taken their present stand against Mr. Lewis impuilsively. They are a deliberative body, and irrespective of how one may feel about the merits of their propos- als from time to time, their officers are by far the best class of labor lead- ers that America has today. For this reason, the editorial statement can- not but be of increasing significance as its message is spread among the hundreds of thousands of railroad workers in America. (Copyright. 1935.) e A CORRECTION A statement appearing in The Eve. an infallible system for beating those stock market boys. You see, he was sucker enough to follow his own ad- vice. Can you imagine? ning Star of December 7 that Mrs. Mabel Blair of Washington s a divorcee was erroneous, and The Star takes pleasure in making this eorrec- (oopynqt. mis, Pi E W‘ ton, A 2