LABOR ^'l(cs-u/_' / (e^j^ A novel sort of situation developed at the big Labor Conference in Tampa, Florida, today. Up to no,v, we have thought tnat the issue was whether John L. Lewis and his insurgent unions would be thrown out of the American Federation of Labor. Thatf s the climax many people have been afraid of, including government officials. But today the plot of the play is that Mr. Lewis apparently wants to be thrown out while some of his bitterest enemies among the old line unions, want to keep him in. The four hundred and fifty delegates of the A.F. of L. had hardly jkatxijx^an taken their seats before the fireworks started. The big event of the day was the speech by William Greerv the President. As everybody expected, he hurled volley after volley at the insurgent unions. But to the surprise of most people, he did^t demand the expulsion of Mr. Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization, On the one hand, he shouted: ^No surrender to the rebels!” But almost in the next sentence he begged them to come in and be good boys. "Stand fast with the A.F. of L.t Maintain a united front!” he cried. "I ask those who acted contrary to the principal of democracy LABOR - 2 and labor to come back and take their seats! " Another interesting part of his fiery defense was his utterance on the subject of^ craft and industrial type^ unions. As we have often heard in the last few days, the big issue is supposed to be between the old craft unions, of which the American Federation of Labor is composed, and the industrial union. Tn othor wnriinj nil tho wnikri rrl into onc"Tinionj for which"Tfrertwr ir: Lewis ba.Tr battlcak no in iH So it was somewhat of a surprise when President Green declared: nThe Federation has always favored both craft and industrial unions.” And he added: "John Lewis is not sincere when he accuses theA.F. of L. of* being opposed to industrial unionism. Re is trying to bus^t the A.F. of L. and set up his own organization in its place." -we-fcave—B-ee»4 Mr. Green expressed the policy of the^«©2ernis^ in the Federation and left the way open for peace if Mr. Lewis and his associates want it. But a still more amazing development at Tampa was that Lewis's worst enemies in the federation don’t want him to withdraw. LABOR - 3 Foremost among them was William Hutcheson, President of the carpenters. In the famous Convention of Nineteen Thirty-Five, the enmity between Lewis and Hutcheson reached such a pitct^ that they had a fist fight on the floor. Hutcheson got the worst of it from the burly two-fisted miner. So itfs o see him on the side of the moderates. due to his persuasiveness and his tactful manipulation that the middle of the road policy is prevading Major /Berry is not only the Presidents Federal Industrial Coordinator but also the head of the pressmen* s'union. And, by the way, Mr. Berry JSrs in the news today In another^direetfoi'fc Business At leaders, it became known, who have held off from cooperating The leader of the compromise* is Major George Berry < with the government, have let it be known that they might come into camp if the President would appoint a new Co-ordinator. SECUBITY At eight o’clock this morning some two hundred and fifty thousand of Uncle Sam’s grey-clad mail-carriers started on their rounds to make history. From more.than forty -five thousand post-offices they went out with bulging pouches^ crammed full of envelopes containing oppies of a new official document. *To three million employers they carried the new Socia!i Security cards.^l^So began the first step of a radically new departure for our government, the first motion of the machinery to take care of wage-earners in their old ageT^j^3ste£fl^*begins a new era in the social life of America. An era, it is in which people will no longer have to worry about going to the poorhouse in their old age! .in which their children will no longer wonder whether they will be able to take care of their aged parents. You’ll be hearing a good deal about those cards. So it will be hardly necessary for me to explain that on them every employer is asked to tell how many people work for him what they do, their names and addresses. The cards have to be filled out and returned to Uncle Sam by Saturday Postage prepaid. But that’s only the beginning of the work for Jim rkcubity - & Farley’s post office. After those cards have been received., sorted out and classified, then comes the job of mailing ouestionairs to ever­ yone of twenty-six million workers. After the workers have filled out and sent in those cuestionairs the Social Security Board at Baltimore has the Hurculean task of filing and keeping track of them. I have been requested by Washington to say that the govern­ ment is going to release a short sound picture - a trailer - on the subject of Social Security. Two such have already been made. One will be released tomorrow afternoon. It will show how it all works — to m^ke it clear what you have to do to get your share. "Applica­ tions for Happiness,11 is the name of it. ROOSEVELT A late aispatch from Washington:- President Roosevelt will sail Wednesday aboard the cruiser INDIANAPOLIS for Buenos Aires. We,ve heard reports of this before, but they were never acknowledged at the White House. This makps it. off*-* ai Mr. Roosevelt will go to Charleston tomorrow, 1__A — 3. each the Argentinian capital on December \ .ress the Pan-American Conference.\ He will ■o to pick up Sumner Wells of the State ieen one of his principal advisors on South that a President of the United States, has left the country to a conference attend^in person. On s rface of things, Mr. Rooseveltfs purpose in going to Buenos Aires is obvious. Between the lines, however, there seems to be,another possibility. The Washington correspondent of the NEW REPUBLIC declares that the The idea will be for Uncle Sam and Argentina to take the lead republics of the western hemisphere as far This Pem^Amerre'mm Conference bids fair to be the -e-vsca t most important it certainly is the first time A it certainly is the first time League of Nations will be the real big issue at Buenos Aires m guiding all the ROOSEVELT - 2 <r*vJe rxuswuy^*-* away from the League as possible. ^^iew-ev-er-jwthet-^ermo L Le~Uuiw wi%houti -The voice of Chile'will lead a chorus at A Buenos Aires in favor of the League. And Chile has an exceeding^ important 'm&mm among her neighbors. . -- SPAIN What v.ord from Spain? The Rebels claim the capital is as good ol eii ’s. But impartial eye-witnesses tell ns they claim too much. This battle for ^adrid is taking its place in history as one of the most violent on record. — One of the longest. For nine days now it has been raging. Many times we’ve heard of it’s ’’approaching a climax”. A tragic, long drawn out climax, it appears. Tonight it’s definite that the struggle for the capital has reached a new pitch of ferocity. For twenty-four hours the bombardment has been going on without pause, one long continuous roar of explosions. In one furious attack, the Rebels crossed a bridge over the Manzanares River near the royal palace; caught the government guards at the bridge-head unawares, eating their lunch. Taken by surprise, the defenders vere forced to retreat. There v/as no time to fight, but there was time to blow up the bridge. And that stymied the Rebels, since it had been elaborately mined for just such an emerg­ ency. And up it went! There have been few sights in history to equal the desper­ ate resistance of the Madrid reds. With inferior equipment, they have had to fight fleets of swift tanks with machine guns. In ar­ tillery they are for outnumbered. But, they have the preponderate SPAIN - 2 of man-pov t r. ^ ome of t.he f iercest fighting today v;as in the air, where the government now seems to he on equal terms with the Rebels Franco’s planes, however, bombed the Madrid defenses savage Xy today. TRAGEDY One hundred miles north of Alberta, thereTs a little railway settlement called Tieland. Iti population consisted entiiely of railroad workers and their families, Saturday morning tnat population consisted of six persons. This morning the total was none. Sometime over .the weekend, Tieland was wiped out by a tragedy that might have Corinth or Athens of ancient Greece, rather than a normal, hard-working A little hamlet in Western Canada. Tieland was Inhabited by Carl Nelson, a section foreman of the Canadian National, his wife and little son, as well as two section hands. The sixth person at Tieland was another railroad employee, Carl Sheits, formerly the foreman. Carl Nelson had taken his job. The Nelsons had sent to Hondo, the nearest town, for a servant. She arrived on a train Saturday afternoon. The train went off and left her and, to her dismay, she found nobody there. All the buildings, the foreman* s house, the tool shop, and everything looked up. There was no way for that maid to get back home that night. She managed to break into a shack. where she passed the night. TRAGEDY - 2 Early the next morning, Sunday, Carl Sheits, the ex- foreman, arrived at the shack. Between them,he the maid contrived to scrape up a breakfast which they ate together. Sheits then left. Soon after that, a motor car section of the railway came by,^carrying Mrs. Nelson1 s sister and the man who was operating the car. As they stopped, they were greeted with a fusillade of shots from one of the buildings. They hurried away to the nearest town and reported what had happened to them. When the police arrived on the scene, they found a ghastly sight. In the shed that housed the hand car, they found I . ; Carl Nelson, the foreman, dead. He had been beaten to death. In the foremanfs living quarters were his wife and little son, both also clubbed to death. In a couple of shacks nearby were the two section hands stretched on the floor, also dead, shot with rifle bullets. The police then returned to the right of way of the railroad. Lying across the rails they found the body of Carl Sheits, the ex-foreman. In one hand he held a rifle, another lay near him. The condition of the butts of the rifles showed But the Investigating that they had been used as clubs TRAGEDY - 3 officers found no mark on Sheits to indicate how he had &R died. Such are the preliminary details of this^paBEafJsaiB* tragedy^ a!»»'»>>>they— ftafciial-^Mtppewirtgg-oo fag-^r^eg^ete-^ate^y. PICKFORD Viitli v.intry blasts raging around our ears, the atmosphere seems anything but springlike. But according to what Tennyson told us about spring and a young man’s fancy lightly tuning to thoughts of love this must be balmy May or sunny June. — What with the Pickford romance coming on top of the betrothal of Franklin D. s Roosevelt, Jr., to Miss Ethel DuPontl Of course there’s nothing exactly new in either of these love matches. MCender feelings between the forty-three year old Miss Pickford and the thirty-twc year old Buddy Rogers were rumored as long ago as Nineteen Thirty-One. Every year the rumor has cropped up again, though neither the forthcoming bride nor groom would admit the soft impeachment. Similarly, the Montague-Capulet engagement of a Roosevelt and a Du Pont — two names opposed in Politics was reported months ago.^ But the brides branch of the Du Ponts took no part in the recent campaign. It Is just sixteen years ago that the world beamed fondly upon the romantic union between ^ary Pickford and [ PICKFQRD - g Douglas Fairbanks, then the two foremost people of the screen. or years it was celebrated as the one ideal love match of Hollywood. After Mr. Fairbanks fell in love with the fair Lady Ashley, Miss Pickford turned to authorship and religion. Indeed, her publishers claim that her VUO- was one of the best sellers. -The one-time first lady of the A screen is about to try her third marriage. OPERA Illuminating news eerne* from Russia. It isn't permitted to poke fun at religion any more in the Red land of Communism. When the Bolshevists *H erected their harsh reign, the first thing they did was to sweep away everything connected with the old Bourgeois© culture. Their attitude towards eS{ religion that has been tea*chief ground for the dislike and suspicion of the rest of the world. But in addition to stripping the Greek Church of its property and influence, they said: "Away with all Bourgeoise idealsl" Ancient ideas, ancient heroes, ancient legends, were all to go by the board. Children were no longer to be taught to admire the strong men of Russia^ past, the men who had raade-her into such a formidable empire. j Accordingly, the director of the Kamerny Theatre in Moscow,produced the other day a new comic opera, which was written as ho thought. In entire harmony with official Bolshevist iaeas. The principal figure in it was Prince Vladimir, who christianized Russia in the Tenth Century. - Instead of presenting him as a hero. OPERA - 2 it ridiculed him. It also poked fun at the Tenth Century warriors who had, under the old regime, been some of the most idealized heroic figures in Russian legend and history. The new opera showed them as no better than bullies and gangsters. The title of the work was a Russian word meaning "Knights. it a comic op^ra by th< name with music by composers. That old ’eated the knights as Unfortunately, for le Second, work of>sixty yearswas suppressed. The composer and director of the new opera spent a whole year oreparing it. dSsfeHiW^Jne of the most lavish productions 1 : m r i f ever to be shown under the new regime. It passed the censorships * and apparently everything was all right. On the opening night . it was a triumphant success. But on the second night an important commissar went to see the show. And on the following morning the doors of the theatre were closed, the new production i OPERA - S 'L was suppressed. The official, reasons for this sudden and drastic act by the Moscow censorship are exceedingly interesting. The opera is, ih official language, "an insolent misrepresentation of the country's history." So say the Arts Committee of the Council of Peoples Commissars. And they say furthers "The christianizing of Russia was one of the principal factors in bringing the backward Russian people in'contact with the people ar of Byzantium, and with other peoples of higher culture." ^And here’s another surprising statement -to come from Communist headquarters: "It is well known that Greek clergymen played A a big role in promoting literacy .in Russia at one time\" Oy ^ I aj ?£U Mw they got through with their criticism, the Art Committee A showed the new opera to be not -only offensive from a religious standpoint, but also from thp Marxist point of view. What makes the whole business more ironic is that the author of the libretto is a writer who has been a revolutionist since Nineteen