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FITCHBURG SENTINEL, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937 Variety of Strikes Keeps Thousands Out of Work In the New England States BOSTON, March 2 variety of strikes kept approximately 3650 to 4700 men and women on the industrial sidelines in New England today. Those idle in efforts to obtain better working conditions included-according to union estimates--2000 truck drivers in Rhode Island, 300 shoe workers In Salem and Lowell, Mass, 600 workers at the American Wringer Co. at Woonsocket, I and 1300 at the Electric Boat Co, Groton. Conn. Company officials estimated only 250 out at Groton, however.

There was no violence in any strike center. In Rhode Island, Go'-. Robert Quinn declared that while desire to take Asides, "the public must be served and all deliveries of coal, food, milk an- medicines must be made even if we have to deliver them ourselves." The dnveis demand $33 a week foi trucks of less than three tons, $34 for those from three to five tons, and $33 for tiucks heavier than tons, with each trip tcr New York calling for $10 regardless of the aize of truck Coal deliveries were the fast affected as pickets took up positions in front of freight yards and prevented drivers for scattered firms from making deliveries. Pickets also were on hand at Gtoton where workers seek recog- nition of the industrial union oi maiine and shipbuilding workers as a collective bargaining agency. Shoe and Leather Strikes In Massachusetts, the number on strike was reduced by 1400 wJven shoe workers in Chelsea returned, after a one-day layoff with a 1C per cent wage boost.

In Salem, where five plants are tied up, end Lowell where workers In one factory today the United Shoe and Leather Workers union to represent them, the demand was for a 15 per cent wage increase, the- sitme as was granted last week by a score or more Massachusetts shoe plants. At the American Wringer Co. in Woonsocket, workers have been idle since company hw announced, however, the plant will reopen tomorrow for those who care to return. It hat, lefused to meet demands for a 20 per cent wage increase and closed shop. Workers five Woonsocket mills have threatened to strike Friday unless the company's involved refrain from the alleged practice of replacing meri spinners with women workers.

The mills employ about 1500. At Fall River, Mass, 16 of 13 trucking firms signed agreements for an increase from 60 to 65 cents an hour. Union officials expressed the belief the others would sign by night. Labor Clouds Lift in U. S.

Steel Areas Outlook Brightens With Granting of Pay Raises to 190,000 Employes PITTSBURGH, March 2 Heavy labor clouds over steel's up- surging recovery activities appeared much lighter today with the granting of pay raises to more than 190,000 employes and the start of heralded wage conferences between the industry's largest producer and John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization. The wage parleys between Philip Murray, director of an intensive eight months' organization drive for Lewis, and Benjamin Fairless, president of Carnegie-IllinoJC Steel Corporation, began yesterday Murray, flanked by four other union executives, submitted during an hour's closed session his proposals for an agreement covering the union members among the corporation's 120,000 employes The union 'and company leaders wsre to meet again late today and continue which Murray Murray estimated his membership in the industry today at 200,000 but would not say how many of these were employes of Carnegie-Illinois This did in the conference, he added. Reveal Japanese Plans to Meet U. S.

Air 'Menace' TOKYO, March 2 VP) Japan's army and navy ministers disclosed to the Diet today a program oi stress on chemical warfare anc vigorous plans to meet the "menace" which the navy head said would result from increased United States air units in the Pacific. When Japan's navy and naval air force rearmament program is finished, said Navy Minister Mitsumasa Yonai, Japan need not "fear" the United States for three years. The naval minister made his statement during a discussion of tactics for a naval war in the Pacific thai brought out such detailed points that the budget subcommittee decided to go into secret session to continue the debate on the war appropriations Shortly before Admiral Yonai took the floor of the diet, the minister of war, Gen Sugiyama, disclosed that the Japanese army was concentrating on gas and other Currier said he had shot himself in the chest. A gun wai found on the floor near the chair. He was proprietor of the Magazine Athletic association, a night club, which had been closed since December, when renewal of the club's license was refused Friends said he had been in poor health for some time.

Sit-Domiers Occupy Plant; Accuse Owners DETROIT, March, 2 Sit- down strikers occupied the plant of the Motors Products Co. today, charging that the. company had refused to negotiate union de- tty mands and had discriminated against union employes. Loren Houser, organizer for the United Automobile oi America, said that ZQW men and women were in the-- plant. The strike was called as the shifts changed and Houser said many night workers joined day workers in the strike.

"The management has persistently refused tp open negotiations and has discriminated against union workmen," Houser said. At the office of A Lott, president and general manager, it was said the company would make no comment at present. The company makes instrument panels and other automobile parts, Previous strikes in the plant were settled in April, 1934, and in March, 1936. Senator Logan Will Support Roosevelt Plan WASHINGTON. March 2 W)-Senator Logan (D-Ky) told the Senate today he would support President Roosevelt's court reorganization plan to "perpetuate democracy and save the constitution and the court." Logan, a former judge, is a member of the Senate judiciary committee, where President Roosevelt rnust muster every possible vote to obtain favorable action his proposal.

Logan explained his decision to the Senate in a lengthy speech, which he confessed his first impulse was to oppose the chief executive's proposal for increasing the size of the supreme court unless older members retired. "I have never posed as a 1 Logan said, "but the United States of America cannot live unless we can find some way to enact such laws as will bring protection, peace and happiness to all of the people of the nation. "I have considered the matter as carefully as my limited knowledge will allow me to, and I can not find a better way than that which has been suggested by the president" Army Plan for Canal Ready and Waiting for Congress MMmiiiniiMimiiiiiiiinmiiimiitiiiiiiiiirnmiimmuimiiiiiiiiumiHitiiiummiitoitmiimmmim I A A A The proposed Nicaraguan canal would utilize the San Juan river bed and Lake Nicaragua. The job would rival the building of the Panama canal in magnitude. WASHINGTON, Feb 26--Should congress decide to authonbe building of another isthmian canal, through Nicaragua, to supplement the Panama canal iit would find'the U.

S. army ready. Scientific and engineering data, including information on weather, geology, equipment and man power has been assembled and one of the diplomatic steps--a treaty with Nicaragua giving the United States full rights to build such a canal--has been completed. Further diplomatic negotiations to protect interests of Costa Rica, Salvador and Honduras -would be required but no great hurdles are foreseen. Cost Set At $722,000,000 The army corps of engineers has declared itself ready, willing and eager to undertake a ditch-digging job which would rival that of building the Panama canal--which still i ranks among the greatest engineering and medical triumphs (over yellow fever) in history.

The Panama canal cost $525,812,661 and army engineers estimate that the Nicaraguan canal could be constructed for $722,000,000. The cost would be justified, they believe, because such a canal would be a second avenue of national defense between the United States east and west coasts and would promote friendly relations and trade between the United States and Central and South America. The Panama canal was begun in 1904 and opened to traffic in 1914, It has been estimated that a similar period, from 10 to 15 years, would he required to complete the Nicaraguan canal. Shipping Increase Foreseen More than 25,000,000 long tons of shipping now uses the Panama canal annually, about 80 per cent of its capacity. With a revival in world trade it is believed that the Panama canal might prove inadequate.

The Nacaraguan canal, if built, would be handled in much the same manner as the Panama canal. The latter is guarded by a combined force of the army, navy and marines, including air forces and artillery sufficient to protect it against attack until help could arrive. muiumiii'L iMfitallim hi ASK REPEAL OF TEACHERS' OATH LAW (ConUnowi from Pact Out) President Conant declared that two years ago he had protested against "the implied distrust oi which be said the bill raised. If the measure was used to "muzzle free discussion, then it is un American," Conant held. The largest auditorium in the State House, seating 850 persons was not even filled when the hearing began, in marked contrast to the throngs that jammed the same auditorium at hearings on the bill in the past two years.

As the morning wore on, however, gradually filled most of the seats. Repeatedly'Senate Chairman Albert for order and warned the audience against applause as the proponents of repeal emphasized their arguments. The committee previously had announced that only those favoring repeal would be heard. M. I.

T. President Heard President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology joined President Conant in urging repeal, declaring "no law that fails to accomplish any purpose should remain on the statute books." Compton contended that, though the law was intended to promote loyalty, it had not accomplished this purpose. Then, he added: "In order to have loyalty we must first have respect. Anything that makes for respect for our government and its institutions should be supported.

I don't believe this law makes for respect, but the reverse. It is an impl'ration, an indication that we are afraid of our own situ- aton." Taking up the same thought, Dean Henry-W. Holmes vard School of Education said, "The question is whether this law does anything- to further the loyalty of teachers. I feel it does not. It creates a bad attitude on the part of the teachers," Just before President Conant spoke Prof.

Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard tercentenary historian, threw his support to the repeal of the law and pointed out, in answer to a committee member's question, that although an American citizen who refused to take the oath would have to quit his position, an alien might take over his teaching without restrictions. "No class of people have been made more loyal to the commonwealth in war and peace than the teachers," the tall professor, speaking with a pronounced Harvard accent, told the committee, Then, he added, "if the time ever comes when it is necessary for an act of this sort, the present law would be useless." Morison said that if the purpose of the law "was to meet the communistic menace, the menace seemed to be slight" Then, he pointed out that in the last election'the communist candidate for president received less than 3000 votes in Mas- sachusett, a drop of 40 per cent compared with 1933. Dnrgnn Avakg ROOSEVELT SENDS CONGRESS "KEY." (CoatUmM from OM) already suggested, the Important question concerns standards for any future action of this sort that may be Ween." Then the committee discussed possible standards for hours, wages, fair practices and anti-trust laws in industry. "The long-run normal standard as to hours should be one representing tho most effective balancing of the workers time between producing more goods and enjoying more leisure," the report said. "This means that, whenever more goods would be worth more to the worker than more leisure, houia should not be shortened," it TThe them below this standard, in order to spread work, is a confession of fail-, ure in the economic system.

It may still need Jo be done temporarily, eweffehcies, Tmf an standard of the work-spreading sort persists into more normal times, it may act to limit production instead of merely to spread work, and BO may do real harm." As to Wages "As to wages," said the commit, tee, "we accept the tentative finding of the national industrial recovery board that a minimum wage can be socially beneficial not only as a safeguard to the worker but also as a wage-floor for the operation of the competitive system. But in this field, code experience developed or implied the need of well-considered standards, which would be even more necessary to a long-run policy. "The effect of geographic, population and other wage differentials requires constructive treatment which wulnot and employment conditions. Theris need for greater simplicity and uniformity than NBA achieved, combined with flexibility and safeguards both for labor and for employers who comply with the age requirements." The committee said that "if controls of the NRA type are to be tried again, the experience indicates that the attempt should be limited to a few important industries in order that proper standards of investigation and adequate supervision may be maintained. "Under the type of policy final- iy adopted by NRA, if strongly adhered to, there a little chance that codes would be proposed in such large numbers as to create difficulties, but even that chance might well be guarded against," the report said.

Price of Sales Practices "As to discriminatory price and sales practices," the committee declared "the swarm of practices prohibited by code provisions adopted to support the minimum price provisions, and which gave rise to insuperable difficulties in the administration of NRA, are in their nature capable of use in such ways as to amount to discrimination within the meaning of the Clayton act and the Robinson-pat- men act. a i a i a trlei statement na amiable since the historic Homestead strikt of 1392 has "big steel" sat down with organized labor to discuss a contract and apparently no hint of such a development leaked out to the industry until aftei the sessions began. Before the conference broke up, however, news began breaking of a general wage increase by independent producers which would amount to approximately 000,000 a year if adopted by the industry for its 550,000 workers. On last Nov. 15 operators had brought their annual payroll to $936,000,000 by granting an increase of approximately 10 per cent.

With Ernest T. Weir, head of the National Steel corporation leading the Way, six companies employing 190,000 men announced they were establishing on March 16 a minimum wage of $5 a-day with time and a half for overtime pav for all working more than 40 hours a week. The industry now is on a 48-hour week with a minimum scale of $4 20 a day. Increases also will be granted other workers with details to be worked out, the announcements said, steel men expected the raises to average 10 cents an hour. Companies making the announcements and the men involved weie' Natioral Steel, 20,000, Bethlehem 85,000, Republic Youngstown ieet Tube Inland 9,000 National Tube, a subsidiary of U.

Steel, 8,000 Jones Laughlin, which employs 25,000 men, said it had been conferring with employes' representatives about a wage hike but had reached no conclusion The adoption oi a 40-hour work week was expected to break a deadlock which developed between the companies and tht government over steel for the navy The Walsh- Healey act specifics all governmenc contracts mubt be executed by workers on a 40-hour week, and Sectetary of Labor Perkins hsd declined to waive this provision Ths companies declined to bid on that basis. Steel circles are expecting an increase in the price of all finished products ranging from $2 to $6 a ton as a result of the wage increases. Carnegie-Illinois announced several days ago it would post prices Marcn 5 for the second quaiter, which begins Apul 1 Murray was reticent to discuss any angles of the negotiations beyond his formal statement The company declined to make any comment. 1 FRANK'S 1 BARBER SHOP I HAS MOVID TO NEW I LOCATION I 484 MAIN STREET NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Room 33. Can enter from Putnam St.

well, i Come and Bee ITi, Old As Well AJ New. 1 First Clan Work Ii Done Union Shop up for numerical inferiority. Japan, the naval minister said, was ready to accept an invitation from a third power to discuss arms limitation with the United States, but would not propose such a parley unless there seemed to be a definite prospect for an amicable settlement Public Welfare Appropriation Cut in Ashby (Special to The Sentinel) ASHBY, March 2--Appropriations amounting to $10,250 were voted at the morning session of the annual town meeting today. The meeting for the consideration of the warrant was called to order at 11 o'clock by the moderator, Luther H. Hayes Prayer was offered by Rev, S.

Eldndge. The appropriation for public welfare was reduced from $5000, the 1936 grant, to $4000. appropriations were approved with little debate as follows. Snow removal. $2000, general government, $2300, highways and bridges, $400; fire department, $550, chassis for fire department truck, $800 and forest fire department $200 Other grants will be considered at the afternoon session.

The polls for the annual election were opened at 7 o'clock this morning and Albert Damon was the first voter to cast a ballot. The election officers are: William Partridge, Roland Simonds, Frank Mills, Miss Clara Lawrence and Mrs. I. P. French.

The only contest on the ballot is a hotly contested race between Willis Wright, present incumbent, and Walter Simcnds for the berth of road superintendent. Mr. Simonds, running as a sticker candidate, has conducted an active campaign. Catherine MacKinnon Sentenced in N. H.

Holdup DOVER, N. March 2 bleak cell in state prison at Concord today awaited the first woman convicted of robbery in New Hampshire years, auburn-haired Catherine MacKinnon of Boston, sentenced last night to serve three to five years. A jury took four and one-half hours to convict the 25-year-old Massachusetts woman as a principal in the $10,000 payroll robbery of the Maubury Shoe Co. at Rochester last October. Police had charged she obstructed their pursuit of two men who robbed the payroll guards by driving in front of them on a narrow country road.

Former Fight Manager Is Suicide at Cambridge CAMBRIDGE, March 2 MP)-Assistant Medical Examiner Donald E. Currier today reported that John J. Williams, 52, former fight manager, promoter and night club manager, who was found dead last night, committed suicide. Williams was discovered slumped in chiirr Dr. Truck Drivers Strike in R.

I. As Parley Fails PROVIDENCE I. OP)--Rhode Island truck drivers, who, union officials said, numbered more 2000, went on strike at 3 o'clock this morning, immediately after a strike vote at their headquarters here The strike followed by less than two hours the collapse of a final conference, called by State Director of Labor Thomas F. McMahon in an effort to avert the strike. McMahon had proposed as a compromise a 48-hour week, and time and a half for overtime, instead of the union demands for a 54-hour week, a 10 per cent increase in wages, a one year contract and open shop Result of the balloting at the union headquarters, where more than 1000 of the drivers had been awaiting the outcome of the final conference, was announced by Raymond O'Neil, attorney for the chauffeurs and teamsters union Spanish Govt.

Forces Stage A Comeback MADRID, March 2 W)--Government forces, driven from Toledo after insurgent deliverance of the dynamite-beleaguered Alcazar garrison last September, have executed a victorious comeback, government sources reported today. Militiamen, thrusting at their former strongholds in Toledo, 41 miles southwest of Madrid, wera said to have defeated an insurgent force and to have entered a Toledo suburb. The sudden push was covered by artillery fire from government batteries on Los Cigarrales hill, across the Tajo river from Toledo. Insurgent gunners blasting at the government emplacements and the advancing troops were said to have been shelled into silence. (A dispatch from the Talavera Dela Reina insurgent headquarters about 40 miles west of Toledo, however, declared the Tajo river front was quiet.) Closer to the Madrid front, besieged and besieger played a seesaw game of attack and counterattack in the university city sector, on the city's northwestern to deafening roar of trench motors, hand grenades, machine guns and rifles.

This glimpse ol the riverfront at Cashlla, Nicaragua, indicates the kind of country through which the proposed canal would be dug. the Panama canal Zone are landslides along the big cuts, but the army keeps dredges spotted along the length of the canal and when a slide occurs these are put to work. Coal Miners On Sit-Down Strike in Pa. tttttttl 111 ItTJIt! ITTTTDI ITtlUI 11 BITtl The spotted gunnel, or butterfish, rolls its eggs into a ball and coil itself aound them protectively. Although residents of the District of Columbia observe laws made by Congress and administered by three commissioners appointed by the prwident, they have no vote and no legislative representatioa UNIONTOWN, Pa, March 2 sit-down strike of miners -America's first parallel to the incident which ended last week in Pecs, Hungary--continued peaceably this rich bituminous coal section today.

Fellow miners guarded the entrance to the South Union Coal Company's Jamison mine, refusing to permit wives and children near the shaft where 350 strikers were self-imprisoned 350 feet down. The strikers sent word to the surface that they were warm and comfortable and would "stick it out." Spokesmen for the company and union said the strike resulted from a dispute over the collection of fines "The company contended the union had no right to assess the fines. Heavy clothing, food and blankets brought by the strikers' wives were lowered in the mine cage. The strikers were in the mine all day yesterday but the sit-down did not become generally known until the night ihift reported for work. John Hardy, president of the United Mine Workers Local No 6297, descended into the mine, D.

Engle, a representative of the union, who conferred with the strikers underground, returned to the surface early today but refused to comment. Repairs Family Car to Dent Fund She Must Spend GREENFIELD, March 2 W) -Mrs. Carrie A. Saben, 61, Townsend club member delegated to spend $200 in March to test the Townsend pension plan, made a big dent in the fund today by improving the family 1933 sedan. Still suffering from a cold but determined to keep up the daily purchases, Mrs.

Saben bought two new tires, priced $38 60. She was allowed $860 for her old tires, however, making her total expenditures in two days $41. Her husband, Walter, obtained registration plates for their car yesterday out of his personal funds. The proprietor of the auto supply which sold the tires promised put the money back in circula- immediately, so that the plan of a voluntary tax of two cents on each dollar in every transaction will continue in operation The purchases to date have included: a tie, socks and underwear her husband, twe- tablecloths, bod bills and a trip to the movies, later today the housewife intended visit a drapery shop to replenish wme furnishings. The second largest bell in HIP world is located at the University of Chicago, The Stock Market irniutiiutiuiiiiiiiimiimiuiiiimiiiiiiiiiuimniiimtuiuiiumiiiniiiiiMa NEW YORK, March 2 W-With a steel strike apparently avoided through new wage and hour concessions granted by leading producers, renewed buying fervor swept stocks up fractions to 4 points in today's market.

Profit-taking appeared after a fast opening, but the list again turned upward near the fourth period and established top levels of the day U. S. Steel led the forward rush, crossing 117 to a new recovery peak. In its wake were Bethlehem, Crucible, Otis, American Steel Foundries, Republic and Youngstown Sheet Tube. Hope for a peaceful settlement with the unions at tomorrow's conference brought strong support for Chrysler, which at tlje best was up around 4.

General Motors trailed with an advance of more than 1. Up most of the session were Goodyear, Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, Gimbel, J. I. Case, Deere, Johns Manville, Western Unoin, Douglas Aircraft, Boeing, United Aircraft, Loews, Anaconda, Kenne- cott, International Nickel, American Zinc, Standard Oil of N. Flint- kote, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Delaware Hudson, Baltimore Ohio and Northern Pacific.

Homestake 'Mining dropped several points and the going was not so good for Consolidated Edison, Public Service of N. General Electric, Westmghouse, Texas and American Smelting. Bonds did a bit better. Commodities were uneven. Boston Bank Statement BOSTON, March 2 Of)--Bank exchanges, balance, 000,000.

Sally Band Is "Godmother" To 6-Foot Tulsa Cinderella TULSA, March 2 A six-foot one-inch Cinderella girl is Chris Gustafson--and her fairy godmother is Sally Rand, the fan dancer. A few ago Chris was a clerk behind the candy counter of a Tulsa five-and-ten-cent store. Today she's with Sally Rand's road show, a statuesque blonde who. Sally says, "is big and beautiful and doesn't have to do a thing but get into a costume and walk across the stage." A year and a half ago Chris, who is 21, came here from Searcy, a town of 5000. She did housework, anything she could, and finally got on regularly at the five-and-ten.

Sally Rand, playing a five-day stand here, advertised for "tall girls, five feet nine inches and over. No experience necessary." "I want you definitely," Sally said -s soon as she saw Chris. "I've always wanted to travel and now I can," snys Chris. "Oh, but I've gotten a break! For the first time in my life I'm glad I'm tall." Will Canvass Finance Aspects Of R.R. Pension WASHINGTON, March 2 5 Top-flight government fiscal officials planned today to canvass financial aspects of a broad new railroad pension plan voluntarily formulated by labor and management.

The treasury announced that Secretary Morgenthau and his chief advisors would confer during the day with Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board and Chairman Murray W. Latimer of the Railroad Retirement Board. Latimer recently was named to the Security Board, but still is assisting in plans for the new retirement system, The projected program, negotiated by committees for management and labor, had been forwarded to tne nation's railroads and rail unions, informed persons said. It is designed to replace the 1936 rail retirement legislation now being tested in the courts.

The new program, authoritative spokesmen said, may bring some reduction in peision taxes under the 1036 law. These are fixed at present at 3 1-2 per cent on both employers and employes, and might be reduced to 2 1-2 per cent on each Treasury officials said conference today was designed to acquaint Morgenthau and his assistants with details of the plan in order that they might determine its possible effects on federal finances PLANES CRASH; NONE HURT (Continued from Pagt One) Walter Pierce, with a similar model, was a close second with a SOrsecond flying time. Bob Otto, with a smaller 17-inch whig spread model, was third for single time flight with a nine second record. Donald Jeffery's 10-inch wing plane spread the first casualty of the day. In an early test flight, the model plane gained altitude, but suddenly went into a tail spin.

The controls apparently jammed and the trim craft crashed into a folding chair, shattering the fuselage. Robert Eccleston entered two 13- inch wing spread models, one hand launched, the other an R. 0. G. model Several planes were equipped to rise off the ground, but their pilots preferred to launch them by hand.

Contestants included Bob Otto, 17-inch wing model. Walter Pierce, 28-inch wing; Joseph Murphy, 28- inch wing; Robert Eccleston, two 13-inch wing models; Willard Murphy, 22-inch wing, Allen Mondelin, 16-inch wing; Donald Jeffery, 10- inch wing; James Hawkins, 15-inch wing. Average time trials will be completed during the day by the club which already has 25 members. Hovering in the background was former state Rep. Thomas Dorgan (D, Boston), who was the author of the law and was prepared to speak against its repeal.

Three groups of teachers and the Massachusetts Federation of Labor uere sponsors of repeal. Their case wes presented through Frank Reel, a Boston lawyer. He pointed out that since the Legislature turned down repeal last year the national officers of the American Legion and the National Catholic Education association had both taken public stands against the teachers' oath. Speaking'as secretary of the Massachusetts Teachers Federation, representing 80 per cent of the teaching profession in the state, Hugh Nixon declared that the teachers oppose the oath because "no one likes to be put under oath to do something he wants to do, intends to do and expects to do." Nixon said that teachers objected particularly to "the manner in which the law was passed." Educators Ridiculed In 1935, he said, when appearing before a legislative committee to oppose the oath "our best known and most respected educators were harassed, brow beaten and Prof. Morison commented on this and congratulated the committe on "the great improvement today over the atmosphere of last year." With the organization of the new egislature this year Senator Cole succeeded Senator Charles Miles Brockton) as chairman of the education committee.

Nixon drew applause and laughter in an exchange with Senator Michael H. Selzo Worcester), who asked if he knew that a law had recently been passed requiring even minor employes of the state penal institutions to take an oath of allegiance. Selzo said that even scrub women were included under the law. 'I had not heard of this law," fixon returned, "and I had not icard that any of the women were scrubbing the floor in an unconstitutional manner." Hector L. Belisle, superintendent of schools in River, opposed the oath, saying he expressed the views of "thousands of teachers who are voiceless because of a fear of expressing themselves freely" "The strangling of freedom of teaching and the placing of fear and intimidation in the hearts of fte teachers is a direct blow at demo- mocracy," he added.

Walter A. Sidley, Lawrence school teacher, also opposed the oath. Former State Senator Joseph Finnegan Boston) favored repeal, and pointed out as a notary public lie had been called one day to administer the oath of allegiance to three Catholic sisters who were teachers, one of them over 70 years old. "I was administering an oath to setter Americans than myself. That lust shows you the futility of the law," ha added.

Five thousand messages of fe- Jicitatjon 300,000 words were received by the Nanking tele- eraph office on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 50th birthday. of NRA is a source of much information as to the difficulties of administering laws which prohibits such -practices, including complexities of cost allocation and of terms and conditions of sale." "We think it is a clear-deduction- from the evidence of the NRA experience that the administration of such a law should be accompanied by the right to introduce flexibility in the application of its provisions to the particular circumstances of particular industries' and we think that this experience throws grave doubt upon the wisdom of attaching la such provisions penalties of a criminal nature or even treble damages." The committee said the experiencs of NRA indicates that trade practice rules "should be initiated by the industries--that is, by the men who know most about the problems of the industry and who nave to apply them in actual practice." Anti-Trust Laws With regard to anti-trust laws the committee said that if they should be relaxed to permit trade agreements "such trade agreements would, of course, continue in any event to be limited by the developed rule against fraudulent and coercive practices, and by the rule that agreements which create special advantages and upset equality of opportunity are unreasonable restraints of trade." "Finally," the report declared, "while labor and trade practice aspects of an industry program are definitely related in many ways and should be coordnated, NRA experience indicates that separate administration bodies should be provided for negotiation and for compliance activities, both in the field of labor provisions on the one hand and of merchandising problems on the other," NRA was credited wth "moral and economic value 1 through restriction of child labor and its support of the collective bargaining' principle Was described as "of great and probably lasting importance, out of proportion to the immediate and tangible results secured." Dropi Dead at Funeral MANCHESTER, N. March 2 Doyle, 56, of Fall River, dropped dead here this morning while attending the funeral of Edward J. Leclerc. Firemen were called in with an inhalator but were unable to revive him.

B. W. Harmon of Scarsdale, N. drove his car in front of a train which carried the auto 75 feet when caught fire. Harmon was not hurt SHOW and DANCE Featuring 1 JANET DEMPSKT Little Winter Bros.

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