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—2 & AIRBUREAU SHIFTS LAID TO POLITICS Efficient Workers Dismissed for New Dealers, Report Charges. The direct charge that efficient employes of the Bureau of Air Com- merce were forced out to make way for New Deal appointees is laid at the door of the Commerce Depart- ment in the second section of a report by the Senate Air Committee, which is being printed as a Senate | report for distribution among mem- bers of Congress. The report supplements a first sec- tion which dealt critically with the| administration of the Bureau of Air| Commerce by Eugene L. Vidal, the director, and his associates. | Among the general conclusions of | the committee were the findings that dismissal of capable men for politi- cal reasons and the lack of a merit system of promotion were the chief | factors contributing to the inefficiency | of the bureau, which has been under fire from both the manufacturing and operating airplane industry and from the public. The second section of the report deals specifically with the removal of four district managers of the bureau, Thomas Bourne, L. C. Elliot, | 1. D. Marshall and G. C. Miller managers, respectively, at Newark. Fort Worth, Chicago and Salt Lake City. These men were furloughed in- definitely without pay on February 4, Washington Wayside , Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. NO SALE. N USHER at a little church in Bethesda would enjoy greater peace of mind if he were sure that a communicant who left suddenly several weeks ago actually attended services later that day. In lieu of pew rent, the church col- lects 10 cents each from the congre- gation. The money is deposited on a table in the rear, near where the ushers stand. On this occasion & man entered, placed a dime on the table and started to walk down to a seat. Just then he realized that the service was about to end, turned about sud- denly, picked up his dime and went out the door. « s e CHOICE. A maid named Agnes, who listens to the radio while not cooking for a household in the 1900 block of R street, is glad the Republicans and Democratic con= ventions are over, but looks for- ward to a lot of campaign oratory. “Politics is all right,” said Agnes, “but I prefers swing music!” s Be 1935. Mitchell's Part Is Cited. ! Among the members of a committee | which examined the men about the| time of the furloughing, the report | £ L J stated, was ,Ewing Y. Mitchell, former | Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Concerning Mitchell's part in that inquiry, the report said: “Irrespective of the reasons which may have actuated the officials of the Bureau of Air Commerce in originally recommending the removals, Assistant Secretary Mitchell, who sat as a member of the committee while the managers were being examined, asked each and every one of them whether they did not think that the approval of the New Deal by the people of the United States as expressed in the election of President Roosevelt required a clean sweep of Government employes connected with the old deal and whether they did not think that having held their jobs for a number of years, it was time for them to get out and let others have a chanc: at these attrac- tive and lucrative Jobs. “He put the question to them re- peatedly and stated in no uncertain terms that it was his opinion that it should be answered in the affirmative, and that new people owing their ap- pointment te the new administration should be given the jobs in order that these good things might be spread around. “There can be little doubt that these questions and expressions by Assistant Secretary Mitchell addressed directly to the affected managers must leave no uncertainty in their minds that the desire to create jobs for others was the determining factor in the mind of the Assistant Secretary in charge of the bureau, irrespective of the reasons which may have operated upon the bureau officials themselves.” Roper Held Dissatisfied. + The report of the committee, of which Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, was chairman, pointed out that apparently Secretary of Com- morce Roper was not quite satisfied with the actions of his subordinates. The indefinite furlough was ordered modified and the district managers were instructed to report to Washing- ton, there to be temporarily relieved rom their duties. Subsequently, the report stated, John Dickinson, then an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, addressed this memorandum to the Secretary: “Immediately efter the issuance of the original telegraphic order of the Bureau of Air Commerce on February 4 (indefinitely furloughing the district managers without pay) certain facts tame to my attention which seemed to require that the case should be gone Into further in order to determine whether or not the intent of the order | should be carried out. These facts| may be summerized under two heads “1—That the removals were being | made primarily or largely because the men in question had served in the bu- reau under the previous administra- tion and in order to make room for new appointees who would owe their position to the present administration, and, | “2—That insofer as the removals might be justified on the basis of lack of efficiency or competence on the| part of the employees in question, the Jjudgment of competence or imcompe- tence rested upon the reports of, and | was connected with, the relations of these men to another hold-over em- ployee of the bureau, Mr. J. A. Mount, and involved an effort on the part of Mount to secure their removal because | they were personally obnoxious to! him.” (Copyright. 1936. by the Tribune. _ MAN KILLS WOMAN, COMMITS SUICIDE 80-Year-01d Mother of Victim Is| Witness to Fatal Shooting. By ths Associated Press. POTTSVILLE, Pa, July 4—Wil- Ham H. Dishellhurst, 52, a.tobacco salesman, and Miss Mabel Humes, 45, of Girardville were shot to death to- day in the home of Miss Humes. | The 80-year-old mother of the dead | woman, Mrs. Matthew Humes, was the | only witness to the shooting. Police | said that Dishellhurst had slain Miss | Humes and then turned his gun on New York Herald- | ) BIRD. ‘THE bird sat on a fire escape out- | side a window at George Wash- | ington University Hospital. ~Appar- jently it was but half-grown, and it | must have thought it needed medical | attention. So, like the gentleman it was, it sought the men's ward and waited. | A patient in a wheel-chair saw it, | and reached a hand out, expecting the | bird to fiy away. Instead, it perched jon the hand and was taken inside the ward. first on one patient's bed and then | another. Doctor after doctor exam- |ined it. They diagnosed the bird as a chickenhawk, but could find noth- ing wrong. Finally riding on an in- | terne’s shaulder, the bird gravely in- spected the whole hospital. That night a physician living in | the country took it home, where pre- | sumably it is receiving such further professional attention as may be ex-| pected. * x ¥ % CAT NAPS. SYL\'IA SUTER, who lives at The Westmoreland, isn't quite sure if her experience of a few days ago por- tends to good or bad fortune. She wants some one to enlighten her. Even a black cat is supposed to bring good luck if it follows one home, most people say, but this one came in a bag of provisions she lugged from the corner grocery for an impromptu luncheon she was giving to some of her Gunston classmates. It was curled on some lettuce sound asleep, and when she opened the bag it stepped out leisurely, stretched and coiled itself comfortably on the kitchen table as if it had come to stay. And that is what has happened, luck or no luck, good or bad. * ¥ ¥ x COUNSEL. 'HE so-called brittleness of the vounger generation has an Iowa sheriff rather completely baffied, judg- | ing from a letter received recently by a Wasihngton girl. The letter came in response to one she had written to a college playboy, who had landed in jail for a minor breach of the peace and suggested thai she sell the family jewels to re- store him to good standing. Her letter said she would be glad to, and it wor- ried the sheriff, who intercepted the missive, 50 much he wrote immedi- ately: “Dear Madam: Your offer is most generous. but I feel it my duty to ad- vise you by all means not to sell your jewels.” * ¥ ¥ X% MUMBLER. A family in the upper reaches of Northwest Washington finally found out what its maid was say- ing when she mumbled at her work. It was a happy sort of mumbling, as mumbling goes in this world, but the housewife finally got sufficiently curious to come right out with the question: “Mamie, what are you saying under your breath all the time?” Mamie looked up from her iron= ing to explain: “I just keep saying that nobody but you all would have kept me 80 long.” * % ok X “DR. TOM.” DE, THOMAS E. LATIMER of Hy- attsvile and many Prince Georges County citizens are glad he has an M. D. It's all because there is another There it stayed all day, | __THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JULY 5, 1936—PART ONE. HOEY EASY VICTOR INNORTH CAROLINA Governorship Race étand- ing 240,598 to 181,683 With Count Near End. B) the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE. N. C,, July 4—Clyde R. Hoey, veteran party stalwart from Shelby, won an overwhelming victory | over Dr. Re/ph W. McDonald of Wins- ton-Salem in today’s run-off Demo- cratic primary for Governor on the face of incomplete, but representative returns. Reports from 1,580 of the State's 1,858 precincts tonight showed Hoey leading the young ex-professor. The standing was: Hoey, 240,598; McDon- | ald, 181,683. Hoey, who campaigned on his record as a supporter of the party and de- fended the record of J. C. B. Ehring= haus and preceding Democratic Gov- ernors, was leading in most of the counties shown in-the incomplete re- turns. Machine Assailed. McDonald had attacked the record of the recent State administrations and had denounced Hoey a3 & ma- chine candidate. He had also de- manded complete répeal of the gen- eral sales tax, while Hoey had cham- pioned the tax as an emergency measure, but had favored repeal of the levy on staple foods, Polis Closed at Sunset. Hoey, a brother-in-law of Former Gov. O. Max Gardner, maintained that the sales tax could not be re- pealed entirely without disaster to government activities. There was relatively little said on the liquor question, center of a lengthy struggle in the last Legislature. Mc- Donald advocated a county store plan, while Hoey, a lifelong prohibitionist, declared he would abide by a State- wide referendum. Rivals for Senate. For Lieutenant Governor Paul Grady, President pro tem of the Sen- | ate, was opposed by & fellow Senator, | W. P. Horton of Chatham. Secretary | of State Stacey Wade, seeking renom- |ination, had Thad Eure, principal | clerk of the North Carolina House of | Representatives, as his antagonist. Owing to the primary falling on a | legal holiday, election officials said the | number of absentee votes would set a record. More than 100,000 such bal- lots were issued, or practically 20 per cent of the first primary’s total vote. LOUISIANA SESSION ADOPTS TAX SLASH | State 0il Refining Levy Is Cut to One Cent After Turbulent Debate. By the Associated Press. . BATON ROUGE. La, July 4—A turbulent session of the Louisiana | Senate reminiscent of the political | reign of the late Senator Huey P. Long, passed an act today reducing from 5 to 1 cent the State oil refining tax. | During debate on the measure, cred- | | ited with inspiring impeachment pro- | ceedings against Long when he was Governor in 1929 and a citizens’ re- ivolb in 1934, Senator James A. Noe, former Governor, hurled a charge o “dictatorship” at Lieut. Gov. Earl K. Long and Gov. Richard Leche. The reduction measure, requested by | Leche, passed 38 to 1, Noe casting the only negative vote. | After asking for a leave of absence today, Noe absented himself from the | body. Noe charged he was “criminally | 'arrested," by Joe Messina, sergeant- | at-arms of the senate and former bodyguard of the late Senator Long. and was forced to take his ceat in the | chamber for the vote on the bill. After the bill passed, the senate adopted a motion offered by admin- istration men granting Noe a leave of absence. Noe did not vote on the motion. 'BRO -— WDER'S ATTACK HITS ALL PARTIES By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 4.—Earl Brow- der, Communist presidential candi- date, loosed a broadside against all the parties in the field at a campaign meeting in suburban Broadview | Heights. He accused both the Republican and | Union parties of being the “tools of | William Randolph Heart and the Lib- erty League,” the Socialists of being “moribund and sectarian” and the | Roosevelt administration of being | “weak-kneed.” He called the Republican party “the chief menace to American liberty to- day,” while he said the Democrats, in- stead of being the main bulwark against fascism, “deal in silence and evasion” on important issues. Representative William Lemke of North Dakota, Union party candidate, he said, was “a stooge for Landon.” Democratic Nationa these party President Leads Nation in Fourth Celebration President Roosevelt shown yesterday on the portico of Monticello, Thomas Jeflerson’s home, &s he led the Roosevelt (Continued From First Page.) * | of the colony, where he will attend | religious services at Bruton Episcopal Parish Church, which dates back to the early days of the Virginia colony. It is the President’s intention to motor about Williamsburg after the church service to see what has been accomplished in reconstructing this historic town to its original physical appearance. He will then motor to Carter’s Grove, one of the noted Co- lonial homesteads on the James River which was built originally by King Carter. There Mr. Roosevelt and his party will be luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald McRea, the latter being & direct descendant of King Carter. The President then will motor to Yorktown, the scene of the surren- der of Cornwallis and of battles dur- ing the opening days of the Civil War. | There he will again board the Poto- mac, arriving back in Washington during the forenoon Monday. Cheered by Large Crowd. Mr. Roosevelt appeared happy and | in the best of health when he waved to the great crowd of cheering citizens |of Richmond as the Potomac slid quickly from the dock and started on its journey down the James. He had | experenced two happy and interest- | ing days in Virginia, visiting shrines | and bowing and waving in response | to cheering thousands along the way. He received tremendous ovations both at Big Meadows in the Sheandoah National Park Priday afternoon and at Monticello, where he made the principal address at the Fourth of | | July exercises there, but the acclaim accorded him on those occasions was nothing to compare to the tremend- ous ovation he received during his ride through this former capital of the Confederacy, on his way to the river to board his yacht. There was no mistaking the fact that this President, who is a candi- date for re-election, was deeply touched by the receptions he has re- ceived during his Virginia tour, espe- cially on his triumphant motor ride through Richmond. He made this evident when he yielded to the calls of “speech” from the throngs on the water front. Standing at the foot of the gangway of the yacht, waving his broad-brimmed Panama hat as he spoke, the President said, “My only regret is that I cannot come to Vir- ginia and stay longer. I could use a visit here profitably.” As hg arrived at the dock the Naval Band was playing gayly and then changed to the President's official piece, “Hail to the Chief.” Howitzers boomed a 21-gun salute and there was & great din of cheering. This cheering and waving lasted through- out the President's 10-mile drive through the city. He was met at the limits of the town by the mayor, Dr. J. Fulmer Bright, and a committee of city officials. At the President’s request, Mayor Bright rode beside bim in his open automobile during the ride along the boulevard, Monu- ment avenue, West Franklin street and Main street. There was .no mistaking the fact that Mr. Roosevelt enjoyed his visit to Monticello. Aside from the fact DAVID LAWRENCE To Analyze the Platforms David Lawrence, whose dispatches are printed regularly in The Star, has been making a special study of the platforms adopted by the Republican and ] Conventions. He has written a series of six special articles on the subject of campaign proposals. | the various rooms on the first floor | which Jefferson had thought out for himself. . | Thomas E. Latimer, a surveyor. Both Dishejhurst, who had been living | are active Republicans and both prac- in Girardville for the last two months, | tice their professions in the same sec~ went to Miss Humes' home early to- ' tions of the county. day. She was not in and he talked| With the “Dr.” handle to his name IN THIS SERIES HE WILL ANALYZE THE IMPORTANT PLANKS OF EACH PLAT- with Mrs. Humes while waiting for: her. Police said that when Miss Humes entered the house he opened fire upon her. She died instantly and he then shot himself. Dishellhurst was estranged from his wife and children, who live in Potts- ville, police said. He was reported to hu‘ve been jealous of Miss Humes. Bus Line Head Announced. CHICAGO, July 4 (®.—Edward Flynn, executive vice president of the Burlington Railroad, announced today H. C. Murphy had succeeded Ralph M. Budd as president of the Burlington Transportation Co., .an suxiliary bus line operating between bere and the Pacific the physiclan ma to keep his identity fairly well separated from that of the surveyor, but there are numerous mix-ups even as it is. “We would have a terrible time keeping each identified in the public | mind if it were not comparatively easy | to specify ‘Dr. Tom",” Edgar F. Czarra, president of the County Republican | Club, says. Bee Sends Man to Hospital. KEWANEE, Ill. (#).—A bee which didn’t even sting him sent Nick Ahr of Galesburg, I, to hospital. The bee buszed around a truck driver's head. The distracted driver lost con- trol of the truck, which struck Ahr's car, Ahr suffered a fracture of the arm and severe cuts on the legs Administration of Relief Great Interest to FORM, WRITING IN DETAIL AS TO PLANKS: Old Age and Unemployment Insurance Agriculture Labor Foreign Trade Policy The Constitution—Change in Form of Government The Extension of the Merit System And the Many Other Campaign Principles of All Our Readers. READ THIS IMPORTANT SERIES OF ARTICLES * Beginning in The Star Tomorrow .- observance of Independence dtzy. He is flanked by Colonial guards of Monticello. The President and members of his party as they paused at the Farmington Country Club, Charlottesville, on the way to Monticello. Left to right: R. Wa lton Moore, Assistant Secretary of State; Gov. Peery of Virginia, Senator Carter Glass, the President, Col. E. M. Watson, the President’s military aide; Postmaster General Farley and Secretary Ickes. —A. P. Photos. that he received a rousing welcome | on top of that picturesque mountain ! where the home of the author of the Declaration of Independence is lo- cated, both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt have a genuine appreciation for the place. Both he and his wife | have visited Monticello many times in their lives and it was interesting to | note today, as they strolled through | before the beginning of the exercises, | their genuine delight in pointing out | to those near them the things of in- terest, particularly the ingenious household inventions of Jefferson. The President pointed to Jefferson’s clock in the main hall, which told the day of the week and month of the year, as well as the hour and minute; the dumb-waiter (first of its kind in the world), the double doors which the | sage of Monticello had devised so that they swung in opposite directions with pressure on one knob. He also pointed out some of the labor-saving devices kitchen and dining room. Mrs. Roose~ velt, in her enthusiasm, dragged Post- master General Farley, who was in the party, to several outlying rooms to show him things of interest. Some of the things in the Jefferson home were seized upon by Mr. Roose- velt to make a point in his address there. He declared that Monticello, more than any historic home in Amer- ica, appealed to him as best expressing | declared that “we acclaim you for all | fought for equal opportunity for all | | An alert and receptive audience, as- the personality of its owner. “In the very furnishings,” he said, | “which Jefferson devised, on his own | drawing board, and made in his own shop, there speaks ready capacity fori detail and, above all, a creative genius.” Jefferson 1s Lauded. ‘Mr. Roosevelt devoted a great part of his Independence day talk to the lauding of Jefferson. Probably he dis- appointed many of his politically- minded listeners by his apparent fail- ure to inject some smashing political utterances into his speech. He did, however, take pains to remind his| audience that the patriots of Jeffer- son’s day used new methods to meet the problems of that period, and he laid emphasis upon the fact that Jefferson’s principales of government were aimed to benefit the plain peo- ple, just as Mr. Roosevelt has empha- sizéd in connection with the purposes of the New Deal today. It could not but have been pleasing to the President to listen to the speak- ers preceding him at Monticello as they likened him to the “sage of Monticello,” because the President's ideas and actions have aroused storms of protests among the conservative, so-called Jeffersonian Democrats of his party. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, who has calustically ecriti- cized the Roosevelt spending and mon- etary policies, declared in introducing the President that Mr. Roosevelt pos- sesses the “love of humanity and plain people” that characterized Jef- ferson. But the peppery little Senator would not yield all the praise to the man from Hyde Park. He inserted in -his introductory remarks the opinion that Jeflerson had “the most fertile mind of any man who ever lived before him or since.” "He lauded Jefferson from his devotion to the practice of the of representative govern- 4 ment, which principles the 77-year-old | Senator declared “will ive as long as | eternity.” Peery Welcomes President. Preceding Senator Glass, Gov. George C. Peery of Virginia, in his introduction of Senator Glass and welcome to the President, threw the | mantle of Jefferson oratorically about the shoulders of Franklin D. Roose- velt. Gov. Perry asserted that “an other great liberal of the present’ had journeyed to the home of the “great liberal of the past.” Stuart G. Gibboney, president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foun- dation, who presided at the exercises, referred to President Roosevelt as “worthy successor” to Jefferson. He the devotion you have shown in your public life to the cause of the com- mon people and because you have against all special privileges.” In his address, President Roosevelt seemed to have studiously avoided drawing any invidious contrast be- tween the founding fathers of the Na- tion and the conservative anti-New Dealers of today. He did not have to. sembled on the picturesque lawn of the Jefferson Mansion, was listening attentively and did not miss a point. Cites Influences of 1776. The President was greeted with a great cheer and handclapping when, speaking of Jefferson and his asso- ciates of 1776, he told the audience that: “Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures.” Pointing out that Jefferson was only 33 years old when he wrote the Dec- laration of Independence, President Roosevelt stated to his audience that a modern democracy “needs, above all other things, the continuance of the spirit of youth.” He added in this connection that the problems of today call as greatly for the continuance of imagination and energy and capacity for responsibility as did the age of Thomas Jefferson and his fellows. “Was the spirit of such men as Jef- ferson the spirit of a golden age, gone now and never to be repeated in our history? Was the feeling of funda- mental freedom which lighted the fire of their ability a miracle which we shall never see again? Sees No Limitations. “That is not my belief,” the Presi- dent continued with emphatic expres- sion. “It is not beyond our power to relight that sacred fire. There are no limitations upon the Nation's ca- pacity o obtain and maintain true freedom except the strength of our Nation's desire and determination.” Mrs. Roosevelt, who occupied a chair on the Monticello portico close to her husband as he spoke, was attired in colors which seemed to have been de- liberately designed in recognition of the holiday. She wore a white flat hat and white crepe frock, set off by & red and blue silk scarf and red and blue patterned leather belt. m’,‘nu back to Washington from Rich- mond are Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary of the Interior Jokes, Assistant Secretary 4 TOWNSEND GROUP HAILED BY LEMKE Intelligent” Pension Plan Urged—Nation Warned “It Is Asleep.” B3 the Associated Press. FARGO, N. Dak. July 4—William Lemke, Union party candidate for | President, demanded an “honest and intelligent” old-age pension and termed the Townsend organization the “greatest and most patriotic in America.” in an address before a Fargo Townsend Club picnic here today. The North Dakota Representative | did not give flat indorsement of the $£200-a-month plan, although he up- held many of its features. “If Dr. Townsend has done nothing else.” Lemke said, “he has implanted in the minds and hearts of American | people the true fact that they have created enough wealth to be entitled to old-age security. Sees Program “Insult.”” “If you had sent enough intelligent people to Congress we would have passed a decent old-age pension. But what did you get? Nothing but a subterfuge—an insult to our intelli- | gence.” He called the social security act an “insecurity” act and labeled it “un- Jjust” and “idiotic.” Of the Townsend plan's proposed transactions tax, he said: “Some people oppose it. But we have a sales tax now for the politi- cians. Let's haverit for the old people | for a while.” Earlier, at Moorhead, Minn., Lemke criticized the American people for being “asleep at the switch with the Nation in peril.” Fears Future Poverty. “You are selling your children and your children’s children into poverty for a Government sandwich,” he de- clared at a July Fourth celebration. “Our Government is now $36,000,000,- 000 in the red. * * * Every cent will have to be paid back. “The Government must help in a calamity, but it must help make its people self-supporting, not beggars.” of State R. Walton Moore, Miss Mar- guerite Lehand, the President’s private secretary, and Capt. Paul Bastedo, White House naval aide. Postmaster Generai Farley left the President at the river front and hurried back to Washington for a stay of only a few hours before journeying to New York. Marvin H. McIntyre of the White House secretariat, who, with Mrs. Mc- Intyre, accompanied the President as far as Richmond, remained at that city over night, but will join the Pres- ident at church services in Williams- ourg tomorrow after which he will mo- tor back to Washington. A LEWIS-GREEN FEUD - LINKED T0 POLITICS Eagerness to Gain Votes of Steel Workers Evidenced by New Deal. BY CARLISLE BARGERON. Between John L. Lewis and the New Deal, the conservative labor leader- ship which William Green has given the country since the death of Sam- uel Gompers is hanging on the ropes. The outcome of the efforts to orga«~ ize the steel workers will probably des termine whether it can battle through the present troubled state of affairs or whether it takes the count. If Lewis wins, there can be but little doubt that it takes the count. The movement against the steel in« dustry is more than a labor move- ment. It is a political movement as well. There is every indication that it has the support of the New Deal There are some observers who argue that while there is no doubt as to where the administration will be in the case of a showdown, that the movement right at this time is em- barrassing to the administration be- cause it would prefer not to be put in the position of having to choose during the campaign. The evidence to this writer is decidedly to the contrary, that instead of it being embarrassing to the administration that the New Deal is right with Lewis in his efforts to get a showdown. Pressman Legal Adviser. Prof. Tugwell, for one thing, has been counseling with Lewis. He has been a frequent visitor in the latter's Alexandria home. Only recently one of his men, Lee Pressman, was turned over to Lewis as his chief legal ad- viser. Pressman was one of that group of brilliants that was purged from A. A. A. when Tugwell was down at Warm Springs with Mr. Roosevelt that time. He was taken over to Resettlement with Tugwell, and although the appearances have been that the professor was to be kept very quiet during the campaign, his activities apparently have not been checked in the least. Lewis' organizers already are argu- ing as they did in lining up the coal miners three years ago, that the United States Government wants them to join his union and that they will be protected even to the point of being supported with relief funds in the event of a strike, which from the attitude of the steel barons there most certainly will be if the organization movement is pressed. It is not known what is running through Mr. Roosevelt's mind in the matter. The way the more militant of his advisers are thinking is very clear. The nomination of Landon by the Republicans has turned the New Deal's strategy around. They realize now that they must have the induse trial workers of the East. Indeed, re- cent polls have shown Mr. Rooses velt skidding in the agricultural sece tions and picking up in the Eastern industrial centers. The frenzy with | which they went about getting Gov. | Lehman to stand for re-election at- | tests to the importance they attach to New York. Pennsylvania is just as important, | To insure carrying it they want to bring the steel workers under their wing. They are not under their wing now. The aristocracy of labor that 'i(he}' are, it is doubtful if the class consciousness stirred up by the New | Deal has registered very much with them. According to figures available i to this writer, they are receiving high- er wages and more men are employed in the industry than in 1929. This is no argument against unioni- zation, of course. The threat of un- 'inmzaxion has undoubtedly gotten i them to the point they are. With em- ployers so afraid of the union as are the steel barons, the threat of unioni- zation usually gets the employe more than the unionization itself. Men Fairly Content. From the fact that one hears of no pronounced unrest in the industry, the men must be fairly content. They are organized into company unions which seem to be serving them satis- | factorily now, but, to repeat, the rea- son they are, undoubtedly, is the threat of outside unionization. But as long as they are under this | sort of organization and satisfied, men | with families and homes and making good money, they are not the male contents upon which the New Deal can confidently depend. The labor leaders and the New Dealers can shout until they are blue in the face about the right of these |men to join an organization of their own choosing. It is an inalienable right. and incidentally has been writ= ten into statutory law long before the | New Deal was heard of. The trouble’ comes in enforcing it because it is also the inalienable right of an em- ployer—to stick to the legalistio phases—to fire his employes. Several States have long had laws designed to assist the working man in | organizing. Texas for years had and probably still has, a law making it |unlawful and subject to all sorts of fines and imprisonment, to discharge a man for belonging to a union. | It required that when a man left | an_employer, either voluntarily or ine voluntarily, that he be given a “clear~ | ance” telling why he had left. There was a railroad in the State notorie ously anti-union. Every time it dise charged a man it gave him thig | clearance saying that his services had been satisfactory but that he had | been let out for one reason or ane other—nothing to do with the union. The watermark of this clearance was a stork. If the stork’s head was drooping the employe was marked. | Yet you couldn't prove anything on the railroad. It was entitled to its whimsical designs in stationery. Convention Gave $10,000,000 Boost To Philadelphia ; Weekly Business Survey of Commerce Depart- ment Gives Data. | B¥ the Assocrated Press. | Federal trade experts yesterday | estimated the Demoeratic ~National | Convention was worth $10,000,000 to Philadelphia. | This total was included in & na- | tional weekly business survey of the Commerce Department, which said: | “Presence of crowds attending Dem- ocratic convention stimulated busie | ness of hotels, restaurants and liquor stores and taxis.”” Philadelphia merchants put up, | $200,000 to help the Democratic Na= tional Committee finance the convene tion. ’