Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1937, Page 5

. BRITONS EXPLAIN TRADE UNION ACT Statute Held More Friendly to Labor Than Gener- ally Supposed. Bs the Assoctated Press NEW YORK. July 31.—The British trade union act to which President Roosevelt referred in his Tuesday press ronference on labor legislation is far more friendly to unions than is gen- erally supposed, British experts said today. A misconception concerning the stringency of its rules was laid by the New York staff of the British Library of Public Information to a misreading of the law. A chief argument of some propo- nents of a similar law for the United States is that itgwould stop “sympa- thy" strikes and ‘“general” strikes which often result from them, but this is not generally true. ympathy” Strike Ruling. The English law only outlaws “sym- pathy” strikes if they are “designed or calculated to coerce the govern- ment.” The act only bans primary strikes | it they are “designed or calculated to | coerce the government” and if the strikes are not connected with disputes over wages, hours or other conditions of employment. How big those ifs are in England 1s shown by the fact that score trikes, “sympathy” and primar: oecl d since the law was passed in 1927, without that part of the act be- ing once invoked. Even if the government acted under the “coercion” clause, there would be no punishment for workers who mere- Iv refused to work. Only picketers, violent agitators and union officials | could be fined or imprisoned. Curb on Union Activity. Nevertheless the British act does provide a definite curb on certain | phases of union activity. It: 1. Makes union funds liable to dam- age claims from employers as the re- eult of strikes. 2. Gives union members who are expelled for failure to answer a strike call the right to sue the union for damages. | 3. Prohibits unions from using their | funds for political purposes, such as supporting candidates or parties. 4. Prohibits government employes from joining any union not confined to emploves of the crown, and denies that union the right to political ob- jectives or membership in larger un- ions and political groups such as the Labor party Gives the Attorney General the power to interfere in union affairs| by seeking court action to restrain zm“ expenditure of union funds in il-| legal strikes Roosevelt Statement. Ax President Roosevelt pointed out fn his press conference, the trade union act is not directed solely against . but provides “mutual respon- v" for both employes and em- | plovers. Just as workers are prohibited by its provisions from striking to “co- erce the Government,” employers are | prohibited from locking out workers | for a similar purpose. Reference in the British act to ‘o= | ercing the government” has a very practical meaning in England, where unions are strong and collective bar- gaining has long been the accepted means of settling industrial disputes. | The British government has taken | #an active hand in arbitration em- | ployer-union troubles since the early 19005, acting generally through labor boards set up for individual indus- | tries. Although most cases are set- | tled by voluntary agreement between ! representatives of employe and em- plover unions (the employer unions | began springing up in 1896 to keep pace with employe unions) the gov- ernment from time to time finds it necessary to step in decisively. Strike of Coal Miners. This happened in 1926, when Eng- | lisn coal miners struck for higher pav. The employers did not supply | the wage increase at first. so the gov- | ernment supplied the money to save the industry from collapse during a deadlock in negotiations. Finally a royal commission recommended a pay cut. and the general strike followed | | awards in each of the grades of the Religious Riots in Belgrade Police with fived bayonets mass demonstration ageinst the ratification of san accord with the Vatican. would place the Catholic Chur¢ Wild disorder as police brok hoon an equal footing with the “official’” Greek Orthodox Church. THE SUNDAY STAR holding back crowd in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, as they breai up a The concordat e up a procession through the streets. The riots occurred as the EAGLISH PRENIER WRTESTOILDUCE Chamberlain Note Thought Move to Better Anglo- Italian Relations. By the Associnted Press. LONDON, July 31.—A personal let- ter from Prime Minister Neville Cham- berlain to Premier Benito Mussolini | reached Rome today and persons close | to the government considered it a significant effort to improve Anglo- Italian relations. They said it indicated the prime minister had taken over direction of the empire’s troubled relations with | Ttaly from Foreign Secretary An- | thony Eden, whose contacts with II Duce and Italian leaders have not been cordia! since the crisis over Ethiopia two years ago. The talians considered Eden largely responsible for the League invoeation of sanctions in the effort | to halt the conquest of Ethiopia. The letter arrived at, the italian for- eign office today and was forwarded | ut once o Rimini, where Tl Duce was | vacationing. Although British gov- | ernment sources declined to state | flatly that the letter was sent, it ad- | mitted al 10 Downing street —Cham- berlin's office—that it was “quite | likely.” WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 1, 1937—PART ONE. D. C. Living Costs Still Highest °-VE To ‘Rock InU.S., W.P. A. Survey Show San Franc While the soaring market value of | meaf was hoisting the cost of living to new highs for 1937 the Works Progress Administration reported that its survey of 59 cities recrowned | the Capital as the most expensive mu- nicipality in the country in which to | live, according to costs in March, 1935. Maintenancé’ for & family of four in | the District required $1415 a year, Harry Hopkins, W. P. A. administrator, | disclosed. Behind Washington came | San Francisco. $1389.87; Minneapolis, | $1.387.19; New York City, $1375.13,| and Chicago, $1356.11. The average | for 59 cities was $1,260.62. The figure for Baltimore, 45 miles from here, was $1300.65. Mobile, Ala, with| $1,129.81. was lowest. The W. P. A. research Workers, in bringing up to date the figures they compiled in 1935, said a “maintenance budget for a family of four would average about $1317 as of March, 1937. They concluded that the cost of living in the most expensive regions wats only $117 above the average cost of cities in the lowest-cost group. “Emergency Budget” Is $959. An “emergency” budget, “insufficient The foreign office, which disclosed that Eden was away o a three weeks' | loliday on the English south coast, | would not comment on the letter | Anglo-Italian relations have | been strained over the work of the | Committee for Non-Intervention in ! the Spanish war, headed by the Earl of Plymouth, undersecretary of for- eign affairs and Eden’s right-hand man. It was believed that Chamber- lain was trying to erase that bad feeling. BUILDERS’ WAGES S0 | Charts Show Hourly Rate In- crease in Most of 121 Cities Studied. By the Associated Press CHICAGO. Ju —The Builders' Association of Chicago released a na- tional wage chart today showing higher hourly rates compared with a year ago are bemng paid building me- chanics in most of the 121 cities surveyed. Los Angeles was one of cities reporting in which a majority {Of the tradesmen were receiving the the few nation mourned the death of the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Yugosiavia —Wide World Photos. | ercion” strike, called in an effort to promise plan for restoration of con- force the government to keep up trolled nonintervention would be of- wages either directly or through pres- sure on the employers. It was be- | cause of this strike that the trade union act was enacted the next year G. W. U. GRADUATE SAILS‘ TQ STUDY ARCHITECTURE Harlan Ewart McClure, son of Mr. | and Mrs. Alexander E. McClure, 1007 Evarts street northeast, and a grnd—} uate of George Washingion Univer- sity last June, sailed yesteraay for Stockholm, Swe- | den, where he will study on a scholarship for the next year in the Graduate School of Archi- tecture at the Royal University of Technology, McClure took his degree at George Washing- ton as a bach- elor of arts in architecture While there he won several Harlan McClure, Beaux Arts Institute of Design and was & member of the Student Coun- | cil, the Fine Arts Council and the | Scarab Fraternity. | He was accompanied to Europe by | | two other students of architecture, | Harold L. Boutin of Cape Girardeau, !to Italy today against Italian press | fered to the Neutrality Committee in London Tuesday . An official said France would FRANCE PROTEST TALIN CHARGES Press Attacks Bring Demand to Know Source, Warning of ‘“Grave Consequences.” By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 31.—France protested that “substantial progress” be made in withdrawal of foreign voluntee from Spain before belligerent rights are granted to the Spanish govern- ment or the insurgents. 'YOUNG MOTHER JAILED AS BANK BANDIT AIDE “I'm Not Bothered, Except I Can't Have My Baby With Me,” attacks. | Says Accused Woman. Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos de-| g 0o o manded that Italian Ambassador Vit- | | CLEVELAND., July 31 —Mrs torio Cerruti teil the source of Italian | Charles , 19-year-old mother of | newspaper allegations that France was| 8 4-Week-old baby, was in jail to- night as an accused accessory in a series of bank robberies which police attributed to her husband and two other men, all under arrest. “I'm not bethered.” she said as she arrived here from St. Louis, where she was arrested. “I'm not wothered by anything except that I cant have my baby with me.” The baby was placed in a delention home. Lieut. Alfred C. Jones said Charles France withdrew facilities for the | Bird: his brother, Frank Bird. and International Nonintervention Com-!James Widmer—all escaped Missouri mittee’s observers on her border after | convicts—were implicated Portugat had taken a similar step, but | confessions or identification in three specified that volunteers and war ma- | Tobberies here in which the loot to- terials would not be allowed to cross | taled $45,000. Police recovered $5,000 permitting volunteers to cross her | frontier to fight for the Spanish gn\-( ernment and furnishing arms to the | Valencia administration. The French Charge d'Affatres in Reme made & similar protest to the Ttalian government. | A source close to the French foreign office said Delbos “warned” Cerruti | that the use of such language by the | Government-controlled Italian press | “might have grave consequences.” s | structural fron work through | same pay level in 1937 as existed in 1936, the association said. | Comparing the 1937 those prevailing in 1902, when the national chart was introduced, in- creases of 200 per cent and more were indicated in most major cities Elizabeth, N. ornamental and I's are the top paid building craftsmen working eight | hours & day, the chart showed, with abor rates with $225. Hoisting engineers and plaster- ers in New York follow with a $2 rate. Chicago glaziers are the highest paid | craftsmen working 7 hours a day, with | a rate of $1.942-7. New York brick- lavers follow up with a rate of $1.884-7. Asheville, N. C.. and Savan- nah. Ga, pay the lowest rate of 25 | cents an hour to laborers, The building week ranges between 40-hour week being the generally es- tablished conditions in most cities, KILLED ON WAY TO RITES Woman Dies in Crash en Route to Brother's Funeral. | HENDERSON, Ky, July 31 (1 Mis. Alda Ferrell Devers, 54, wife of Charles Devers. Hodgenville, Ky., | was instantly killed today when the car i which she was riding to the | funeral of her brother. Rollte R. Fer- rell. Brookport, Ill. killed by a truck at Brookport vesterday, overturned 12 miles east of here. The car, driven by her son William, 19 | way depression near the approach to the Spottsville Bridge. The place had REPORTED HIGHER * {than it is hourly rates ranging between $2 and | 30 to 48 hours, an 8-hour day and | rolled over four times at a high- | to maintain health and physical effi- ciency for any considerable period of time,” averaged about $959. Officials | suid whe average pay of a W. P. A.| worker employed 12 months & year would be about $660 | Although the chief factor in District’s comparative high' cost of living is rent, which exceeds by 116 per cent the rentals in Portland, Oreg., for example, food now becomes a pocketbook problem. Serious short- ages of meat animals are boosting prices over 1936, when drought dram- atized scarcity, and the upward trend is anticipated by experts to last at least until the Fall. As the pork chop moves into the old-plate class, demand for meat naturally falls off, and Washington- ians, a survey discloses, are turning to chicken and fish, or are becoming perforce vegetarians, with corn, which the sold a month ago at four ears for 19 cents. now avallable at three ears for 10 cents Demand Tempers Price. It Washinglon citizens were &S igry for meat as they were last g, & leading butcher said, the meat price would be far higher even Price, however is tempered somewhat by demand and ris but steadily ‘The root of the meat problem is in the drought, which a bumper wheat crop this year has driven from most persons’ minds. But cattle killed by 1ousands for lack of feed a year ago limited the supply of calves last Fall and this Spring, so that beeves are scarce. Now is the time when u cheap grass-fed cattle stock yards. but these p: mals cost more than corn-feds did a few months #go. | | Lambs and hogs are following a | course similar to cattle. When feed is scarce and pastures are withered in one year, at least two years are | required for the supply once more to | become adequate. | $1013 Minimum Level Here. | The W. P. A living-cost study produced “maintainance level” and “emergency level” budgets, neither of which “represents a desirable liv- ing standard.” The cost of living for a four-member family—man, wife. child of 13 and child of 8—here | on the emergency level was $1.013.98 10 cents more than Minneapolis, in second place The maintainance budget, Hopkins | said, supposes that the famiiy in a four or five room house or flat, | | equipped with gas, electricity, an icebox and a small radio. Members of the family read a daily paper, go | to the movies once a week and enjoy & few other leisure-time activities Their food is &n adequate diet at minimum cost. The family does not have an automobile, ‘The man has a Winter and Summer suit for Sunday and holiday wear, one overcoat, a felt hat and a straw hat all of which are replaced every three years. He has three work shirts and | Lwo_dress shirts. a small supply of s slowly 50 Specializing in | dentals are included in the maintain. AS a protest. | Mo.. and Alfred H. McAdams of Here was a clear case of a ‘co- Hawesville, Ky. to Spain. Foreign office officials said a com- Part of the loot was in & safety de- posit box in Mrs. Bird's name. | been damaged by the flood, but re- paired temporarily. Perfect | 60 days” Allen said. “But we will| have to work day and night.” Under normal procedure. all funds | for the assessor's office are earmarked have been advised that because of the | {OF PArticular purposes. To meet the nature of the present tax emergency | “Meréency, Hazen said, it is proposed they would be within their powers if | !0 1umP the appropriations in one Revenue (Continued From First Page.) “We will press the authority which | | the new law would give us as far as we can,” Allen said. “It has been estimated that we will be able to get only an additional $500,000 from per- | sonal tax collections. but I am con- | vinced we can uncover an extra $1,- tels, or effects, including stocks, securi ties, bank accounts, evidences of det: and credits” of any personal tax de- linquent who refused to pay and sell them at a public auction. ‘The collector would be from judgments against his personal immune | they went ahead with the hiring of §eneral account additional personnel, | Even with an increased force it will be necessary to work night and day to | prepare tax bills within 60 days after the pending tax bill is finally enacted, Tax Assessor Fred D. Allen said. Allen has estimated that he will need at least 35 additional emiployes in his office. Most of them, Allen said, would be assigned to preparing bills under the proposed new business priv- ilege levy. Needs Another Assistant. Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal has advised the Commissioners that he will need at least one additional assistant on his staff to handle legal aspects of the new tax program. Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer has estimated that he will need £6.000 for additional clerks to com- pute the new automobile weight tax for every car owner before issuance of new tags starts in December. Chatham Towers, collector of taxes, has asked for three additional em- ployes to enforce drastic provisions of the tax bill governing collection of delinquent personal taxes. All the new employes, except pos- sibly the assistant corporation coun- sel, would be selected from civil service rolls, Commissioner Hazen predicted. He pointed out that the new jobs would be only temporary under the proposed program, but said that un- doubtedy it will be found necessary to make the increases permanent when Congress returns next year. Bills’ Delivery Due in October. Allen said it would be impossible to start work on the real estate tax bills, which usually are in the mail in Au- Zust, until after the tax bill is signed by the President. He predicted that the bills would not reach taxpayers untfl early in October. Taxes heretofore have been payable | on September 1, but the pending law | authorizes the Commissioners to ex- | tend the penalty deadline for non- payment two months beyond that date, “I'm sure we will be able to get the bills out well in advance of the penalty date if the Commissioners extend it [ | an authorit; from which be drawn sums necessary to costs of the new tax program. “The law says we could go for deliberately incurring an unau- | thorized deficien Hazen said. | “But we have been advised that when | Congress passes the tax bill it could | | be assumed that it intended that | money should be spent to carry out | its provisions. However, we will get lve interpretation before would defray | to jail we proceed."” Loan Provision In. The tax bill now contains a pro- vision authorizing the Commissioners | to borrow Federal' funds to keep the | District from going into involuntary | | bankruptey before tax revenues begin to pour in in the Fall. This provision | was inserted tn the measure by the | Senate and was approved by House conferees. The tax assessor’s office was swamp- ed yesterday with citizens rushing to Deat the deadline for filing personal property tax returns. The deadline expired at midnight last night, but the assessor's office closed at 1 p.m. All returns received in the mail to- morrow and bearing a Saturday night postmark will be honored, however, Allen said. He predicted that sev- eral thousand returns would be re- | ceived in the mail tomorrow. Both Allen and Collector of Taxes Towers warned that an unrelenting | campaign against personal tax evaders { will be waged for the next several months under authority proposed in drastic provisions of the pending tax bill. Don’t be miserable with [EXCESSIVE ACID |+« . digestive upsets . . . aches . . . pains . . . stomach distress. Why be sick eliminate the excessive uric acid accumulations which may bring | really serious trouble. 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Under the mew law Allen would be given authority to compel the sppeani ance in his office of any person who failed to file a personal tax return | or whom he suspected of attempting | to evade the tax. In addition, he | could force the production of such | business and private records as he | deemed necessary. The collector of taxes new law could seize the under the | goods, chat- | gel yewr | hoce/ies EVERY monTH ! icious light tuna meat is packed. | 5 | sonal tax returns had been filed at close of business yesterday. Mailed returns will bring this year's total above that of last year, when 45,000 | returns were filed, he predicted. | All returns will be checked against duplicate Pederal income tax returns | at the Bureau of Internal Revenue, | Allen said. ' He pointed out that a 20 per cent | penalty will be levied against all citi- l ! zens who failed to file personal tax re- turns. 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