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force ihe employers Lo concede THE KVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C.. SATURDAY, APRITIL 10, 1937. Court Move Predicted” by Reds Communist Objective Seen Paralleling Roose- velt Judiciary Plan. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. OR & long time it has been contended here that nobody knew a thing about President Roosevelt's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court until he himself aprang it as a surprise on February 5 Iast But it turns out now that the Com- munist candiaate for the presidency was 8 betier prophet even than Jim Fatley. For on Ociober 23, 1936, just be- fore the end of the presidential campaign,the foliowing news = item appeared on the front page of the New York % Sun Earl Browder, | Communist didate for Presi- dent, told 500 New York University students todav 4l ‘the number of Justices will be increased from nine to 20, with 11 good farmer-labor justices | on ihe bench’ if the United States Supreme Court ‘doesn’t stop trying to diciate economics and social security.” The Communist candidate said that parly program of ‘progressive sures under capitalism’ will tax the rich. adding that if the rich do not like taxation, the only alternative fs confiscation and revolution.’ " Now is hardly to be supposed that, Mr. Browder had any inside in formation from the Roosevelt camp! hecause he was attacking the Roose- veli, candidacy jusi as he was lam- basting ihe Landon candidacy. But the quotation may be taken to indicate how closely the Communist objective with respect the Supreme Court parallels that of the Roosevell regime The Communist purpose has always been o destroy the judiciary as an independent. branch of the Govern- ment and it was not novel (o hear the spokesmen of the Communist party calling for sn enlargement of the Supreme Court. In fact, because this bas been the sirategy all along, not much public atiention has been given to Communist uiterances. Their de- xiructive purpose so far as the Ameri- can form of Government is concerned has generally been taken for granted o can- David Luwrence, his The 1. W. W. and the C. 1 Nor is the paraliel between Com- munistic purpose and the Court en- largement pian the only coincidence in present-day events. lLooking back 1o 1918, when the Industrial Workers of the World, usually called the “1. W W, were on irial before Judge Landis n Federal Court, some exhibits were introduced into testimony which bear a strange resemblance to the “sit-down” strike technique of today. which is being heralded s something new and surprising Here is one quoiaiion evidence on I. W. W. tactics and Methods as outlined bv Vincent St John in his ireatise on the I. W. W As & revolutionary organization, the Industrial Workers of the World aims 10 use any and all tactics (hat will gey the results sought wiith the leasi. expenditure of time and energy The tactics used are determined solely by tbe power the organization 10 make good in their use. The quesi- tion of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ does not eoncern us No ierms made with an employer sre final. All peace so long as the wage sysiem lasis is bui an armed truce. At sny favorabie opportunity the struggle for more control of in- dusiry is renewed As ihe organization gains control fn industries, and the knowledge smong the workers of their power, when properly applied within the industries, becomes more general, the long drawn out strike will become a relic of the past Under all ordinary circumstances & strike that is won in four to AIX weeks cannot by remain- Ing out longer When strikes is offered in of not be won are used. il aims to paralvze all branches of the in- dustry involved, when the employers can least afford & cessation of work during the busy season when there are rush orders 1o be filled Failing 10 force concessions the employers by the strike resumed and sabotage from work s w/d w0 the demands of workers. During strikes the works are closely picketed and every effort made 1o keep the employ- ers from getting workers into the ®hops. All supplies are cut off from strike-bound shops is ‘Government “Inierference by 1= resented by Government's en masse, Interference.’ the Government violation of the going 1o jail causing expense to the open orders "taxpavers—which is but another name hibit for the employing class “In short. the 1. W. W_ advocates the use of militant ‘direct action’ tactics to the tull exient of make good.” Anotber quotation offered at the trial was from Pouget on “Sabotage.” “If iU be irue that labor produces everything, it is both moral and just that it shouid own everything. But in ex- Emile as follows * this is only an affirmation—it must be proven. We Industrial Umnionists ‘care nothing about proving it. We are ROIDE to take over ihe indusiries some day for three very good reasons: + Because we need them, because we want them and because we have the power 10 get them. e ““Whether we are ‘eihically justified’ or not i« not our concern. We will Jose no time proving title io them beforehand, bui we may, if it is neces- sary, after ibe ibing is done, hire a eouple of Jawyers aud judges 10 fix up the deed and make the transfer per- fecily legal and respectable. Also, if necessary, we will have & couple of learned bishops sprinkle holy water on it and make it sacred. Such things ean be fixred—anything that is power- ful becomes in due course of time righteous. Therefore, we industrial unionisis claim thai the social revolu- tion is not & matter of necessity, plus justice, but simply necessity, plus strength.” All one has to do to understand bow far “new concepis” of law and property as James Landis, chairman of the S. E. C. and dean-elect of the Harvard Law School, calls them, have ‘come under the powerful tactics of the «John Lewis unions is to compare the I3 disregard for law and order by the € I. O. with the avowed strategy of the I. W. W. of 20 years ago. And still not A& member of the Slates Senaie & couple decades agzo - Behind the News Lewis Reported to Have Stopped Senate Sit-Down Ban by Telephoning 30 Members. BY PAUL MALLON. T WAS not President Roosevelt who blocked ihe congressional move to outlaw coal sit-downs. Nor was it entirely Floor Leader Robinson, although he has received the credit. The job was done by a man on the telephone with the voice of 8 Hamlet in rage. No Senator needed to be introduced. There is only one voice like that in the United States. Mr. John L. Lewis has influence. He has not only introduced to America the technique of winning minority strikes against the law and court orders, by force, but he has become a major economic influence. He has raised the price of basic commodities as much as the armament boom in Europe. He has shortened hours, increased wages and consequentiy prices, in steel coal and ‘probably eventually in autos. He has done it at a time when the Government professes to be frightened by price inflation and is working to pre- vent another boom and collapse. To any one who can do these things, Senators sre not so tough. Mr. Lewis gol busy on the phone when he heard about the Byrnes amendment to his Guffey- Vinson coal bill, proposing to il- legalize sit-downs in the mines. Those around the Democratic tele- phone booths that day say he must have talked to 30 Senators. Some say he changed only half a dozen votes or so, but he strengthened many His argument was this There cannot be a sif-down in coal. The men couid not hve in underground darkness without jood or comforts. Guards at the mouth of the mine could easily 1solate the strikers. Consequently, he never intended to have a sit-down in coal. The proposai, therefore, was Just & gratuitous insult workers who had won their strike and effected a settlement. There was just enough truth in what he said about coal sit-downs o convince some wavering Senators who might otherwise have been unawed by his voice, ) SAID LA\’OFF_, to the auto * ok % Other unseen compliments 0 the talents of oped here lately. The story may be challenged, but there is mo good Teason to doubt that the President and Vice President have erchanged some warm unreported words on the subject of Mr. Lewis. 'Tis said, un~ guestionably, that Mr. Garner challenged the truth of reports being received by the President comcerning sit-downs. The Vice Presi- dent implied Mr. Roosevelt was being misled as fo the seriousness of the situation and the probable consequences of letting sit-downs encourage the flouting of laws which are enforced against citizens outside the C. I. O. The conversalion got down o the desk-pounding Garner said something like this: those factories.” The nature, if not the exact word “I cannot do it without bloodshed.” Well.” said Mr. Garner in substance, “John Lewis did makes him bigger than the President of the United States.” Despite his successes, Lewis is inwardly scared. Those who know him best vouch for that. Several things have come up which he did not reckon with in the beginning. ‘The main thing &s the little awav from his control. Mr. Lewis have devel- stage when Mr. You bave got io get those men out of ing, of the President’s reply was: I Ruess that unions affiliated with him are getting Ambitious local leaders do not realize they can destroy the whole C. 1. O. movement by carrying on sit-downs, They Want 1o get theirs. Consequently, the immediate outlook indicates & further expansion of little sit-downs, but no more big ones. 1ewis can and probably will prevent the big ones, because he knows one more big one may ruin him. cTHE opinions of the writers o necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all side. readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. n this page are their own, not s of questions of interest to its Whe_re Price- New Deal Seen Continuing Questionable Policy of | Putting Commodities on Stilts. } BY MARK SULLIVAN. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S re- mark about the prices of steel and copper being too high continues to cause agitation a week after it was made. Rumors dart throughout the whole world hinting portentous official action by the ad- ministretion. One :eh’pe(‘illlv active | rumor says the | President, in or- der to restrain j prices, is going |to do something ! about gold. That, | | it true, would in- | terest every coun- : try. This story, newspaper men in Washington are unable {o verify. Another rumor says the adminis- tration may pro- ceed vigorously | against business combinations, mon- | opolies, or what not, which raise ! prices artificially. For this surmise there is some faint evidence. The President himself, at his last two press conferences, has not amplified his original statement | It may be tihe President's early | statement was given more weight | than it was meant to have. To one | who was at the press conference when | Mr. Roosevelt spoke, it did not seem that his statement had any por- | tentous intent. It seemed off-hand. Some one had asked him something | about W. P. A. He replied that under | present conditions W. P. A. ought | not 1o direct much of its expenditures | into buildings and bridges which con- sume heavy materials, because the heavy industries are already prosper- | ous enough. He said W. P. A at this | ume should concentrate on projects in which most of ihe money goes to | labor, rather iban materials. This | would stimulate the so-called, “con- sumer goods” industries. 1In short, Mr. Roosevelt's statement about prices of steel and copper seemed merely off-hand | Mr. Roosevelt | Mark Sullivan. mav have iniended | and intricate set of stilts Fixing Leads Jately, has kept Government bonds on | stilts. ‘The administration buys its | own bonds, not because it wants the bonds, but {o keep the price from dropping too rapidly. The administration has put several commodities on stilts. By buying cot- ton and lending money on it and paying farmers for not raising it, it has put that commodity on stilts. By similar policies it has put several other farm crops on stilts. Puls Stilts Under Coal. The administration is just now put- ting stilts under soft coal. By the Guffey coal bill, now passing through Congress, the price will be raised. In this case, as in others, having put stilts under one commodity, the ad- ministration will be forced to put | stilts under others. Coal is com- | petitive with oil and patural gas. | With the price of soft coal raisec either oil and natural gas must go up too, or else the market for coal will be hurt. Also, since cost of fuel gOEs up, so must the cost of steel and | other commodities made *by use of fuel. Still more stilts 1U's the old story of attempis by | Government 1o raise prices. One stilt necessitates another. Presently, per- haps already, the administration will be like & many-legged animal trying awkwardly to walk on an immense Sooner or later, one of the stilts breaks, and when one breaks all become ertangled The result, under present conditions is not necessarily a general drop in prices. It is more likely to be a tem- porary drop followed by a runaway rise. America, due o ihe administra- tion's fiscal policies, is In an anomal- ous condition, in which disaster is likelv to take the form, not of low prices but of high, of inflation Many persons surmise that face with inflation, he will face with in flation, he will keep prices down. Just as as Mr uv to ury 1o he first | created artificially high prices. so will he now try to ¢ prices. This will effort of put ate artificially low lead him into an | on the whole world of prices. In such an effort he might forbid speculative purchases controls our power 1o | United | Things like the Senate resolution and the Hershey incident have shown popular disfavor. They also show that the growing popular tmpatience may force the Government to act more strongly next time. To get away with lawless strikes, Mr. Tewis of those in high authority have it in the next one The current flag-waving about a He bad If some of Ford's men sit down, round property. must have the sympathy it 1n the beginning, but he will not That much seems 0 be certain big Ford strike may not be justified The inside on that situation bears A distinct topographical difference from General Motors and Chrysler, It seems that all of Mr. Ford's important plants, except one, sit back far from public highways and public property. They are sur- rounded by high barbed fences a considerable distance from ihe street. The feeding of sit-downers in his plants, therefore, would be a. difficult. proposition. his ample guard force will just sur- the building and prevent outside irespassers from coming on his 1f trespassers attack the guards in trying to get food to the strikers, you will have civil warfare or something so closely related to 1t that Mr. nently, perhaps in & room with steel Lewis might find himself sitting down involuntarily and perma- wallpaper, ‘Copyright, 1937.) Nature’s Children Caprellas. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY, HINK of the joy of seeing these creatures in low-tide pools this Summer! Caprellas love to dwell in the sheltered parts of the rocks where there is an abund- ance of seaweed. Here the tiny elves cling with their preheusile legs to the | waving water plants. In the past you have been in fhe midst of thousands of small creatures, whose aptics would have entertained | vyou for hours. But the “scaies had | not as yet dropped from your eyes.” | You looked at them, but were not | even conscious they were there, Rock | crevices, shallow pools and sandy beaches are swarming with creatures, many of them performing stunts breathtaking to watch and enjoy. Upon first. inspection, pools, streams | and such places seem to have only | seaweeds, algae and waier plants. As become accustomed o the scene before you, there seem to | be numerous creatures all looking your i way. Look at the siems of eel-grass for the weird little caprellas. They cling fast to the stems with their prehensile | legs, standing almost erect or leaning | forward, bowing, and reaching their | uny arms forward. Their small beads, with waving, plumelike anten- | nae and bright biack eyes, make them | look like mischievous elves. | The caprellas are a small folk about | one and & half inches high, of a yel- | | lowish or reddish brown color. They | | are so fragile ibey appear ghostlike | | among the deep green waters about | | them. But watch how they dance. | | The male bows low before the caprella | maiden and she shyly bows her head. | | Their six legs of different lengths curl | under them, or cling fast to some ob- | | ject. Modesty, courtesy and dignity | | are expressed by their graceful move- ments. | | The head is sealed upon & slender would have hesitated to denounce the T. W. W. by resolution whereas today, due to the political dictatorship and | domination over the White House and Congress established by Mr. Lewis | and his allies, the House of Repre- sentatives hesitates to pass even a resolution of inquiry and the Senate, after much debate passes a resolution Government pronouncement. An apology is due all the I. W. W.'s who were denounced so universally 20 years Ago, for apparently they were the true liberals and progressive though a couple of decades ahead of their that is stripped of any real m:nnmzi and one shat spares Mr. Roouevelti the necessity of attaching his signa- | ture so as to give it real force as a time, Copyright, 1937.) neck. On the wee shoulders, which are stationary, are fastened iwo small arms that have two very tinv parts When held aloft, you can almost, hear the affected, “So pleased to meet you.” | Watch snd see. These arms are waving about for food, and when it is being conveyed to the mouth, the caprella smiles and bows in & most | supercillious way Mother Caprella quite = | smaller than her lord and master. You can tell her by the brood pouch at her waist line in which the young- | sters are carried. They make & mad | run for it if they are frightened or | stay in it to rest. At times they are in a playful mood and climb upon Lhflrs | | is bit mother’s back. Here they cling by their hind legs in the most laughable fashion. For hours you may watch them and have &n overwhelming desire 0 sketch them. This may be the turning point in your life, Who | KDows, in your efforts to portray these | most entertaining folks, you may find | you can draw or cartoon | Many of the most successful accom- plishments in this world are the result of an impulse o do something io please or serve another. Try this Summer, with the live models before you, to put on paper the wonderfully interesting outdoor folks about you. (Copyright. 1937.) You m: your c throug Don’t moth’s so little to have MERCHAN MOTHPROOF protection. MOTHPROOF STORAGE PRICES FUR COATS ® NECKPIECES SCARFS _e_FUR-TRIMMED GARMENTS 0 VALUE_. $1.50 .UE $200 VALUE. ~~___ ) aluations over $200, add $1.00 for each additional $100.00 FUR SCARFS AND NECKPIECES $33 VALUE __ %1.00 CLOTH COATS AND SUITS Garments (coat ‘or suit) $1.00 Value Limited to $33 Per Garment. Ezcess Valuations 1% Exlra (Minimum Charge, §1.50 Per Lot) Z.%3.00 -$4.50 ~36.00 TEES MERCHANT DEATH CHAMBER GUARAN- Rates Include Collection and Delivery SEASON TO DEC. 1st NATION NO CLEANER WAREHOUSE IN THE WORLD | and Jimit the quantity and | all purchases. He might commodity markets That sort of prices generally 10 be—the easy A warning talk times he may have intended 1o the market down.” He some- uses his press conference for that kind of purpose. He may con- | lemplate official action about prices Or he may want the markets Lo think he contemplates sction About the merit of Mr. Roosevelt's Assertion, many agree. Heads of steel and copper companies themselves agree. But they don't admit the blame resis on them. Mainly ihey blame some pest and still continuing poli- cies of Mr. Roosevell, They say that some of the rise is due to foreign buying for armament, but most of it is due to New Deal policies. They think also that due to those policies, Mr. Roosevell and the country may have an awkward time ahead Tend to Raise Prices. It is & fact that several adminis- tration actions and policies tend to bring about abnormally high prices for nearly everything. The adminis- tration during four vesrs has set up a | large number of sults. It started when prices were abnormally low The measures laken to raise prices in 1933 and later, now keep on working after there is no need for them. Such measures usually go farther than is intended. And once under way they are almost impossible 1o swop. The administration has put gold on stilts. That is the principal stilt of all. The administration is paving $35 an ounce for gold. That is more than almost any other country or interest is willing to pay. At that prices, most, owners of gold prefer to sell. Consequently the Roosevelt ad- | ministration, maintaining a standing | offer of $35 an ounce, has had nearly | half the gold in the world dumped upon it ‘The administration has similariv put silver on stills. It has put the British | pound and the French franc on stilis: our administration, as part of its in- ternational stabilization policy, pre- sumably buys pounds and francs to heip keep them from going down. ‘The ' administration has put, and until e e e close thing or trving to rather It way appeals | lation would be as artificial doomed for trouble, as atlempt to make prices high (Copyriznt, 1837 ) London Art Prices. At an auction in London drawing by Birket Foster $919, while a painting by G 11665) measuring 7 by 6 knocked down for only $45 feet | | | | | Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St N.W. Corner of 12th and “L” Circles Daily, 2:30 & 7:30 P.M. Grace Gray DeLonr Resder Personsl interviews for spiritual heip and zuidance may be arranged by a visit ta the Council House or Telephone mewuwlitan 5234 Consultation $1 ay be glad to get $1.50 for oal after the moths get h with it this Summer. bet your coat against = ravenous hunger. It co: ‘tg MOTHPROOF STORAGE AL 6900 TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO. 920 ESTREET NW. range of some fix seems i & politicallv-minded person more than | the hard way, which is to stop inflation | by reducing Government expenditures | But an attempt &t general price regu- | and as the previous a small brought de Fal was We, the People Court Seen Forcing Attention on Need for Complete Revision of Constitution. BY JAY FRANKLIN. UST as Herbert Hoover, in 1932, geve Roosevelt his mandate for the New Deal, and as Landon in 1638 enlarged that mandate to include what is known as the “New Order,” by drawing the issues which F. D. R. was too wise or too timid to introduce himself, so is the Supreme Court the stepfather of its own and the Nation's reformation. For the past two years—really since the N. R. A. was outlawed— the decisions of the nine old men have been pointing toward a retreat 1o State’s rights as the answer to the new centralization at Washington. The recent decision on the railway labor case, the Virginia milk case and the Washington State mini- mum wage law, led the New Deal- ers to anticipate that the cases considered under the Wagner la- bor relations act would be divided by the court into two classes: the one involving interstate commerce (as defined by the court) and those involving intrastate com- merce This is written before the court has spoken, s0 I will set down as \ a matter of record the administration's belief that the court will uphold the national labor relations act in the Greyhound bus case, will declare that the Jones & Loughlin steel case involves intrastate commerce, while the Associated Press case is # toss-up. The A. P. may be defined as interstate commerce, in line with previous decisions, but if the court is as political as some believe it to be, the decision may exempt the news agency on grounds of “freedom of the press.” In revising itself in favor of State’s rights the Supreme Court has shown that it is truly flexible. For 70 years the court used the fourteenth amendment to centralize political power in defense of corporate wealth. It is equally capable of destroying the power it has thus vested if that power menaces corporate wealth That, at least, is the New Deal argument, and they point to the extraordinary recent decision—that State legislation is “due process of law’—a theory which the court vigorously denied while the States were trving to prevent or control the gigantic monopolies of the Republican era. * o K court’s new-laid doctrine of State’s rights is simply a storm cellar. The “rights” no longer have any validity in public opinion or individual allegiance. Nobody—except perhaps a Californian or & Texan—is prepared to die for his native State or regards it with warmer feelings than friendly local pride Moreover, the corporations are today so much more poweriul than individual State governments: operating mm a score of States themselves, the corporations can play off one State against another and thus defer or defy reguiation and control even in these rare cases where the Stete authorities Teally desire if. State's rights is thus the last refuge of the economic royalist, not a political formuln which has any real meaning in modern America The Supreme Court, I think, knows this 1o be so, knows how impossible it i= 0 thrust our tremendous, complex and vibrant economic system back into the discarded clothes of our national childhood. Some pretend io believe that the Supreme Court simply desires Lo protect the multimillion- aires and speculaiors from control in the public interest. Some of the nine old men may desire such a thing but I do not believe that this represents the opinion of the conservative majority. * ko ¥ T believe ihat the court is engaged, with President Roosevell, in ex- hibiting to the American people the colossal absurdities of our present political system. T said & little while ago that no one was prepared to die for his native State. 1 do believe that the Civil War, and its aftermath, proved that Americans could be persuaded to die for their native region We are New Englanders, Easterners, Southerners, Midwesterners, Texans and Californians (o mention iwo Stales which are regions in themselves), etc. In this view, the The country is too big to be governed from one central point neither Wall Street mor Washington can do the job, singly or to- gether. The States are now too small, too weak and too forgotien as political institutions to do the job that the centralizers have tried to do Somewhere between the State and the Nation we must find a nen regional allegiance which will do the work for which the States were responsible before the Ctvil War and which the Nation has failed to do acceptably since then. ) So the Supreme Court's sud- den conversion to State’s right amounts to a reductio ad absurdum, a practical joke on the New Deal, designed—Ilike the New Deal—to show that we need a complete re- vision of the Constitution and not just tinkering by Congress or the courts. When we get that revision, the President may take the credit but the court will have helped him by proving that the Constitution is no Jonger workable in the twentieth century. +Copyriant, 1937.) An American You Should Know Dr. Ernest Gruening Is Protector of U. S. Territories. BY DELIA PYNCHON. IVE varying percels of land nestle uneasily under Uncle Sam's protecting wing. Ernest Gruening, director of the di- vision of territories and island po: sessions, Department of Interior, | the appointed protector and co-ordi- nator of these scattered Jands and races. They spread over the map from Alaska, virgin empire ex- tending north io the Arctic Circle and west into the Eastern Hemis- phere, to tropical Puerto Rico, the Virgin Island. Hawalii, and three newly apprec ated islands the South Seas fueling stop-overs for trans-Pacific fiyers | By Presidential order this division was created in 1934 with Dr. Gruen: its first director. Heretofore the War Deartment took care of Puerto Rico The Vi n Islands fell to the Navy Department Alaska and Hawaii kicked around somewhere in Inter Dr. Gruening has welded them into & functioning whole. His world travels wide interests and education, have &iven him a penetration into complex and diverse problems. ke and fil with transforms mple statements human Dr. Gruening. ories Born in New York City of both Harvard Unive! cal School, he ear in newspaper work he wrote for representative and New York papers, ultimately | starting his own in Maine. In addi- tion, he has written two books “Mexico and Its Heritage,” and “The Public Pays” (a study of power propa- ganda). He followed his progressive ideas to become publicity director of the La Follette campaign in 1924. The President appointed in 1933 offi- cial adviser to the Pan-American con ference at Montivideo, where Dr Gruening “the good neighbor policy wok concrete form.” Our territories sions are filled w ing contrasts and comparisons, Gruening sav. ierto Rico is over populated at the rate of 520 i mile. Alaska, on t u ted, one-tenth of a pers mile. Hawaii is rich fine hot tourists, flying flelds and shipping facilities. Alaska needs them all, hopes Congress will provide them. Puerto Rico is not self-sustaining vet, while Hawalii pays more taxes into the Treasury than 19 States. Alaska's economic contribution has been $2 - 500,000 & year in furs, minerals and fish since we hought the territory for a paltry 37,200,000 a graduzie y and Mcdi- Boston says d posses- with a BEER Hors d'Ouvres . .. "Dutch Lunch” or just plain lunch. Appetite ap- -y, I Wi i) peal depends on the proper bal- ancing of ingredients to get the proper balance of flavors...the balance that has made, Senate “know" for Beer the favorite of those in the several decades. WASHINGTON, D.C.