Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1937, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, MARCH 929 1937. “Lynch Law” Applied to Industry Strikers Apparently Hold They Determine Constitutional Rights. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. E ARE under a Consti- tution, but the Consti- tution is what the mob {4 it is This in effect is the new version | of American law formally enunciated by the several chairmen of the com- mittees of ° - down” strikers who have I ibly seized Ix session of the Chrysler motor plants in Detroit The exact lan- guage contained in a letter dressed to the Governor of Michigan and virtually also the judicial branch of the Government 1in ad- David Lawrence. the State 1s w examining because of importance it may ass future., The letter says in cc can do one of You 1 use ye i that r the historic will and second violence 1e choice Direct Challenge. issued formal ord property lawful orders ve been ad a | flect the pro- seized but these antly ignored iment which argues of revolution is and ins widely is guuaranteed a Re- Governm by the ion there is he summoni of Governc If Gov rce the ate es T ned as a Needed. time for the n over physical force, dilemma. In processes of vocal mph of re in the cum public opinion t ad and effect recognize s to the controversy Iy one solu- con- have r labor rule to speak for a employes. Assum- mpanies have to obe aw which, <€ as will subsequently the nt of | stril that be- | oyers get court injunctions | the strikers are the law into their mpanis true strated own! ers e laws istified aking ha be recalled that there rarely ynching of a Negro in | mob has not ument. Namely slow and example for generations been | recently has | nch law become American people, where en- been pushing | hers. | 1g up the victims as an especi lighten for a prosecution of Iy Minorities in Jeopardy. Minorities religions, RTOups a of all kinds—minority minority ces, minority | danger when so-called majorities take the law unto their own hands or put themselves above courts and and attempt to say what the I is In the present situation, condemna- tion should not merely be visited on the “sit-down” strikers, but tipon the men who lead them astray. And the | labor leaders are in a sense hardly to be blamed when they read en-| couraging words for their concept of law given them by the Secretary of | Labor in the President’s cabinet, and now by Chair n James M. Landis of the Securities and Exchange Com- mission and also by Ferdinand Pecora, & local justice New York State Pecora told a Senate committee last week that business and industry had been engaged in “sit-down” strikes against various laws, his inference being that two wrongs made a right or at least that the workers could not be blamed if they adopted the same tactics. Landis, who is shortly to become dean of the Harvard Law School, told & convention of law students in a public address that the “sit-down” strike might involve new concepts of property rights and he intimated that perhaps they might ultimately be held legal. Possible Supreme Court Appointees. The significance of these comments is that Landis and Pecora are being mentioned as probable nominees for two of the six places on the Supreme Court to be created if President Roosevelt'’s plan for enlarging the highest court in the land is adopted by Congress. One Killed in Train Wreck. BLUEFIELD, W. Va, March 22 (P).—One colored man was killed and two others injured yesterday, when a | Norfolk & Western pusher engine col- lided with an electric locomotive pull- ing 15 cars of freight. The train crew escaped injury. Offi- cials stated the pusher engine backed on to the main line, causing the wreck which blocked both lines. , 10 News Behind the News Green and A. F. of L. Apparently Regaining Favor of Administration. BY PAUL MALLON. OU will soon find the new order edging around closer to A. F. of L President Bill Green and keeping its distance from C. I. O. Chief John Lewis. The reasons: Lewis let that Detroit Chrysler situation zet out of hand or, at least, he permitted the powers-that-be here to understand he could not control when control seemed necessary to them. At the same time Green took his briefcase in hand and went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to help President Roosevelt with his Supreme Court packing. Green's help was eagerly given and was needed, New ordainers never forget. They shift friendships as occasion de- mands. Just now, they are passing around word that their purposes can best be served by having two strong labor organizations in the national field. Furthermore, they do not want to bear too much responsi- bility for the widely spreading de- sire of workers to sit down every- where and anywhere. This does not necessarily mean they are going to cut away from Lewis, but that his enemy, due for a couple of al pats on the back r instance, a new meeting of the A. F. of L. crowd has been \ quietly in the making for the past week. The idea behind it is to adopt a new and settled policy toward C. I. O. and Lewis The suggestion may seem to be far-fetched right now, but you may be surprised if his right-hand men, Sidney Hillman ubinsky, are wooed back toward, if not into, the A. F. of L. fold by this new statement of policy. The matter is in the private dis- cussion stage, and some of the labor insiders are saying that, after all, the Hillman-Dubinsky crowd of garment workers has been in the A. F. of L. so long that they are nearer to the federation way of doing things. Furthermore, they have some benefit junds tied up with the federation. At any rate, the officially directed labor sword which has been cut- ting one way recently may turn around and cut in the opposite direction. Despite these prospects, not an authority can be found here who will not predict that unionization of all major industries will be accomplished within two years. The bulk is likely to be found eventually in the C. I. O. x k% x Our Moscow Ambassador, Joe Davies, is hopping back to the United tes for a “personal visit” before he has become fuily settled at his post. T old rumors are naturally recurring that he will be shifted to London and Ambassador Bingham may retire because of ill health, ‘The truth seems to be that Mr. Davies is returning in connection with the mysterious peace move which the President seems to be nursing along in com such as surrounded his Supreme Court move. Every official here ardently denies that suggestion. State Secretary Hull and all authorities are telling friends that if the President is contemplating a peace or disarmament step, they have not heard of it One thing is certain. Bingham's health is entirely satisfactory to him. He has let friends in this country know definitely the ru- mors of his retirement are false. Note—Hull said in a letter to the Communist-pursuer Ham Fish, last week there was nothing new on settlement debts, and held out no hopes of a conclusion on this subject * % %X x The Agric e Department has always taken the lead in the pro- motion of belles-lettres 1n its publ y propaganda. Back in the Hoover administration, it was the first to see that the publicity it was sending out to fa reeded more zip. Consequently, it developed and circulated pamphlets as “The Love-Life of tho Bullfrog,” “How to mfortable” and “Apricot Recipes for Inaigent Indians.” nt issue of “The Agriculture Situation” (March, 1937), ultural publicists, goes one step further. It carries fiction. That's a fact. The fiction section is called “Rural Litera- ture, 1936." A footnote promises essays and sketches in the April issue and rural poetry in May. While much of the publicity announcemenis from Government departments has smacked of very poorly disguised fiction, this is time they have gone for it open The extensive book: his reading material in the mc utive Mansion. lete secrecy Representative of Russian . Rooseve te rece: The s office are bare. He keep: of his library in the Exe Commerce Department Building is commonly referred to, e department, as “Kerlin’s Castle,” because of the influence wielded by Malcolm Kerlin, administrative assistant to Commerce Secretary Roper. Englishman is e Treasury There is an excellently managed inside campaign to make Frank hy. the Towa Legionnaire, Assistant War Secre: ate Departmentalists romped all over the suggestion from Warm Sg s that a new official school for foreign service cfficers be instituted, a sort of a West Point for the diploma service. Vacancies in the foreign service average no more than 20 a aid to be one of the experts working on hot money church schools gave the secular s an overwhelming victory in official returns announced yesterday Gov. Josef Buerckel reported to Chancellor Hitler that “oppositional attacks upon secular schools forced me to submit the question to ballot resulting in 97 per cent for secular schools.” More than proximately Catholic Saar Province Poll Reported 97 Per Cent for Secular Teaching. SAARBRUECHEK, Germany, March 22 (A).—Vc g by Saar Province whether to send their chil- dren to Nazi “secular schools on & Christian basis” or to confessional parents in the pop: half of 1.000,000 r's ap- tion is d NO OTHER BEER | IS MADE LIKE eIt is a common belief that most beers are “pretty much alike.” But that is only a belief. NO OTHER BEER can give you the special, distinctive flavor that is part of the character of Free State Beer! And remember, Free State is the beer that is Aged UNIFORMLY Always—regard- less of season! Free State Brewery Corp., Baltimore. BEER, ALE asnd HALT & HALTE REINER DISTRIBUTING CO., INC. (Distributor! West 2929-2930, 1073 31st St. N.W. Tuneln! Gordon Hittenmark—"The Man In The §treet”’—W RC—T uesday and Thursday, 7 :45 P.M. A HE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. Children and Tragedies Texas Toll Was an Accident, but Men Now Brew “Accident” of War. BY DOROTHY THOMPSON. USHING for the suburban train Friday night, hastening to catch it in order to spend an hour with my little boy before he went to bed, I snatched the evening newspapers from the stand. The news of the great world was off | the front page. On it were 400 chil- dren more or less, , | 400 dead chil- | dren, the victims of the school ex- plosion. In the train I read as much as T could. There Wwere pic- tures. A small boy with a black- {ened face and | gasping mouth, lying on a stretcher. A lit- tle lad swathed in bandages with his mother lean- ‘]mg over him i They were digging a history | class out of the ground, from under the bricks. Parents took home the | "OW® o daniir wrong children, they said, frantic, | | hysterical parents. It was hard to "’:l‘:p | know what had been one’s own child. | (8 PP S0 Rk ] |I read as much as I could. One | % planes, with tanks. Thousands of | feels such a fool, in a train, with | people all around, when tears are|Germsns. A terrific clvil war, an [ B2oRs oG b international war. There is no im- jmacEine Howa Gare thoe mediate danger, they assure us, that Zhen L remembered ' verse from | o1¢ the 'world/ior ‘all the! world will T think | 1104 be the same People debate ideologies. Are you | for order with Franco or for free- dom. Democracy and the rights of | workers with the Loyalists? For the | sake of order let us make a shambles For the sake of the workers let us | blow up other workers' children be no intervention. So, you guard the seas most | open to you—and under that guard send in another 10, another 20,000 troops. Eat margarine and eschew butter in Germany and starve your | own child to bring order into Spain And, by all means, let us raise a few battalions in this country. Join a league against war and fascism &nd espouse war, if it's only a civil war Civil wars have some sort of special | holiness. | Today, for the sake of the “na- tional honor,” mothers again dole out the jam or the margarine. Cannons instead of butter, says Gen. Goering. Go slow on fats, go slow on sugar, bacon is a luxury, citrus fruits are unpatriotic. Eat more rhubarb—when there is rhubarb, Purposeful Tragedy. Children blown to bits. It was an accident, perhaps an accident, plus ; | carelessness, plus human error. But | an accident. Nobody did it on pur- |pose. In Spain they are blowing § | children to bits. day in, day out, not | | from carelessness. On purpose. A bomb from an Italian airplane—or | from a Russian—drops in the street. | A little black-eyed boy, creeping along the wall, sent on a quick errand for a loaf of bread, lives half a second | of horror. Perhaps his mother finds ;| what is left of him later. A bomb | crashes through a roof, into a room- ful of sleeping children, and there is a lurid flare where a house and its occupants stood. In Spain, now Dorothy Thompson. come ““There is no im- of war,” they say One hundred thousand Italians in, 20,000 French, a few British, Newspaper correspondents home from Europe. | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | it is in “Aurora Leigh.” “A red-haired child Sick in if you touch him once, Though but so little as a finger tip, | | Will set you weeping; but a million | sick . . | You could as soon weep for the rule | of three | a fever, Or compound fractions.” One weeps for the children blown | to bits in Texas. One aches in one's | very bones for their mothers, for their | fathers. One rages at human errors | Were the pipes laid was the heating apparatus fa did no | one check on it? | One wonders at the irony of a situ- | ation, where the wealth of a com- | munity, the oil and gas in the ground, the resources that supported the | school itself, explode to confound |men. There must have been care- | lessness, somewhere, one thinks, rag- |ing that there is ever carelessness | where children’s lives are concerned. But, listen. Childrenn starved Germany from 1914 to 1918, and then | they starved for mon more, after the war was over, after the armistice was signed, with ships blockading the r ports through which food might have | Law and order must be maintained! come to them. Mothers tried to find | Don't compromise! Vigilantes, arm | some new way of cooking the wat yourselves! For the defense of the | turnips, some new way of dressing |home. If the law fails, lynch! |the kraut. Fathers pushed the tiny | Hundreds of children were killed in | pat of butter across the table. Let the great blast. Killed by a freak. | the kids have it, they s Sac- lied by an accident, by forces c charin in the g: carrots in | Of the bowels of the earth. Had t the marmalade; lived, only t ey mig In Vienna the hosp: been blown to bits for an ideology. crowded with pallid, (Copyrigh! 7 | dren. “Tuberculosis f Cold Harbor they killed 10,000 men Men eds of and 1 boys. | hild labor | own Civil War, |in 20 minu them were 16 Children, accor | amendment, Get your rights the factories defy the law! Economic Jomn the epidemic. Thi new heaven and the new ea workers! barricade the in Occupy door: wards were ing chil- This Changing World Armed Protection for Whom, and How, Is Latest Talk in Critical Europe. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. HILE Europe's dictators are proceeding methodically with their plans for & “settlement” of the outstanding world problems in the course of this year, the great democracies are arguing back and forth as to when, how and if their various military and political understandings could come into force. The greatest ar ent is going on right now in Great Britain. There is a more or less general agreement that France and Belgium must be aided automatically if they become the victims of an aggression. ‘The general approval given to such a support is based on two facts—Great Britain cannot afford to have these two countries de- feated by any nation and the chances of Germany or Italy start- ing an unprovoked attack against the French is extremely remote But when it comes to Eastern Europe, the public opinion in Great Britain is divided, with a large majority of the people, cabi- net officers and parliamentarians strongly in favor of keeping out of trouble. Why should the xpight of the British Empire be put to test for Czechoslovakia and Austria, countries which have “more frontiers than territories?” The problem is not as simple as all that, however. The French government is tied up to Russia and Czechoslovakia by definite mili- tary agreements providing assistance in case of an aggression from outside. If the French were to cve up to these agreements, and thus lay themselves open to a German or Italian attack, would Britain's promise to assist France still work? On this subject there is a pro- tracted controversy in London. Some say yes and some say no What the attitude of the government will be, nobody can quite say at present The only thing known is that when last August the Prench government asked the British whether if she were attacked by either Germany or It as a result of helping the legal government in Spain the British government would honor its pledge, the answer was no. This was disclosed some time ago by the French foreign secretary, Yvon Delbos, at the League's assembly. It is possible that the same answer might be given France if she wanted to assist Czechoslovakia or the .98 SOR. * % x % Mussolini was beaming when he traveled over the “blockade road,” the new 850-mile asphalt highway which his proconsul in Libia, Marshal Italo Balbo, constructed in the last 18 months The new road whs begun in October, 1935, the day the Leagu Nations decided to enforce a blockade on Italy because of her aggr against Ethiopia. There have been sections built before, but the entire work had to be done over again. Despite climatic handicaps and the difficulties of bringing into the country the necessary construction material, Balbo managed to finish the work in time for Mussolini to open it last week. There is a political significance attached to this new highway. 1t begins at the borders of Tunis—a French protectorate coveted by Mussolini—and ends at the confines of Egypt. It represents to many political observers the link between the countries under the Britis and the French flag which Mussolini would like to add to the jewei of the croun of Italy, as he has recently added Ethiopia. It is great dream the Italian dictator is having, dificult to realize, under the present set-up. But what will happen later mo prophet can Joretell The protocol department of the British foreign office is having trouble, not only because of the difficulties encountered when Selassie was invited to the coronation festivities, but because it does not know where to find adequate living quar- ters for the distinguished guests. The protocol officials have passed the buck on to the home office, but that makes matters worse They go on inviting all who are included in official t One of the invited gues wah of Zamban, accepted with acrity the kind invitation of the British government and added that he will be delighted to come. He sent in his list of attendants which contains, among other members of his staff, two cooks for ev day in the week and 50 bodyguards who, he insists, must be sheitered under the same roof as himself, * o ox % The Com ee on Non-Intervention in the Spa: ivil war, which was set up a few months ago in London, is having other troubles besides the political ones The cost of keeping hands off Spain has been distributed among the various participating countries represented in that committee. The Ger- man government was invited to pony-up 135,000 pounds (about $700,000 for the cost of supervising the neutrality agreement. The German ernment was astc hed at this waste of money and offered to pay $10.000 cash, in foreign currency, and the balance either in blocked mar manufactured products. me Mot hes to perfe ranger Are you going Could you take you? 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