——MOMDAZ. 27. igy.i, GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY': ^:vuc^ Labor has the front page tonight, strikes east and west, A shipyard strikes on the Atlantic coast, shipyard strikes on the West Coast, that are threatening to paralyze the building of ships ^or^d^^ense and lend-leaseO^ At a Brooklyn drydock, flve^hwidred and eigh:^ men walked out and stopped repair work on both British and American ships. Of^ourse -tli®.l14ost spectacular of all is the strike of fifty-three thousand soft coal workers, the strike that has shut down^ TX. the captiv# mines of the Bjjfitocl-States. Steel Corporati ion A ^"►een a—hig—y^robloiH -ef—daya-poo^'» In W^ashington, the tension WciS CLt<A.,Xi^ Twnt ‘ ni^ariy—h-i-gj*!, while everybody waited for the second reply of U/r^J^yuZ^ ’^ohn L. Lewis to President Rooseveltpr appeal. Congressmen who don»t like Lev^is were bitter. Representative Cox ^ /Aw ' of Georgia talked about it on the floor of the House, urged that ♦u . thP blood of those who represent them the voters should put iron into the Dio t1 LEAD - 2 in Washington so that they will deal with Lewis and labor dsspotisni in the Uj^^ited Sf-ates. And other Congressmen Joined him. Lewis took his time replying to the President. It wasn’t A until around four o’clock that his letter was delivrered at the White House and made public. To one request from the President , Lewis answ^ered a flat ’’No.” That was the President’s appeal that the miners should go back to work, while the negotiations were going on. The tone of Lewis’s letter was courteous but cold. He began by saying that he did not wish to betray those whom he represented and declared that there was as yet no question of patriotism or national security involved. If there is any shortage of coal, because of the stoppage of work, he will recoamend to the mine workers that they make up the lost production by working an additional day each week. 'O' Lewis charges that the steel companies have been whetting their knives, as he put it, and preparing for this confi-ict forjb^ months. I They've increased coal storage, he said, and marshalled all their resources. Defense output, he said, is not impaired an not be impaired for an indefinite period. Then he used these ^EAD - 3 words: "Lest we forget, I reassert the loyalty of the United Mine Worhers of America, as citizens of our Republic." He said further: "If you would use the power of the state to restrain me as an agent of labor then. Sir, I submit that you should use that same power to restrain my adversary in this issue, who is an agent of capital. My adversary,” declared Lewis, ”is a rich man named Morgan, who lives in New York.” * He continued; ”If Mr. Morgan will permit Mr. M^-ron C. Taylor to accept the Appalachian agreement by all other coal operators, then the business can be disposed of in ten minutes and coal production resumed on Thursday.” Lewis also intimated it was not his fault that the dispute hadn’t been settled already. Hw talked on the telephone with Taylor twice on Saturday, urged Taylor to meet him on Sunday, A It was Taylor, he said, who refused to meet him until Vfednesday K Taylor’s reason for the delay, said Lewis, was that the Board of Directors of the Steel Corporation — the "ruthless corporation" he called it — was to meet Tuesday in new Eork. So much for the coal strike. In the strike news on Friday night X conveyed a wrong !" LEAD « 4 impression. One item n^s about labor trouble at the plant of 1 Air Associates in bendix, JMew Jersey. But', the way I told it, tti Xfi-'vV-o^ )t- ! ?h , ] eoooerrw*ee»^ b« --^the Bendix Corporation. Thett--was-ineorre^. f j strike had nothing whatever to do with the Bendix Corporation, /V The Air Associates workers were about to go back to work today lii on the terms of a settlement made in Washington. But when they returned to their Jobs today, they were handed an agreement to sign, ! to which the Union objected. Here^s a later bulletin on the coal strike. It took j P VcrJu^t(^ ^^ * President Roosevelt^only a short time to reply to^Lewis. He 4 5 ii ( countered with a curt demand, again ‘calling upon the head of the United Mine Workers to send the men back to work. A squabble over a closed shop, which is the nub of the whole controversy, said the President, was not sufficient reason for stopping work in an industry so vital to defense 'I i: And here’s J.P.aiorgan’s reaction to John L. Lewis’ ^ charges. Morgan said three words:- ’’What utter rubbish!” Ill: MAVY DAy They celebrated Navy Day at Detroit with a visit from VW:/ Secretary Knox, ReaT Arjmiral Blandy, Chief rf the Bureau of Ordinance, and other high ranking officer^ visited the key / defense plants around Detroit, and 6|t tha luncheon wMoh-followed the Secretary made^ public plea for complete repeal of the Neutrality Act, which ifto -tcrged the ”socalled»^ Neutrality Act. ”Y.’e are neither thinking nor acting neutral in this present war,’^ said Knox, and he suggested that we should make our laws consistent A with our thoughts and actions. If we don*t repeal it, he added, we are inviting a situation which may put in ;jeopardy the success of those who are fighting Hitler and ?/hich may even imperil our own safety. Neutrality as such, he said, disappeared with the invasion of Norway. And he urged that if Congress votes to repeal this Act, it ^ill not be voting to attack Germany. It will be voting for ^ absolutely nothing but to see that there is quick delivery of ^ supplies. . delating t^s propo^l, Germ^ has tor^6^ed four\more of our ships\The feeling in Congress,\he added, growing stronger f i I i i I i MRIITRALITY 'V Secretary of State Hull, admittedly one of the gentlest of men., his compliments to A<^olf Hitler. Sv describe^ tiiw as a man who delights in misery and human suffering. Every day or two, said the S 0 creta.ry, i3pj re^^ of inhuman acts on old xsjdiBj. ' people and sick people committed by Nazi s^diers, exeroioing gorermaort 93W fofei'gn And- he-adde^h^ the tide conquest /s moving in the direction of the United States. All this ST part of what Hnll told the Senate Committee on / ^ Foreign Relations in secret session last week,^^^ttdr=it=^wa« public today. The big debate opened on the floor of the Senate todyy, to a crowded house, galleries filled. As Chairman of the Committee, Senator Tom Connally of Texas rang up the curtain with a declaration that our ships have been sunk mnder the’^brutal and murderous doctrine of unrestricted submarine warfare, which represents, he said, the sublimated tyranny, the sublimated murder, the sublimat^ doctrine of force and might against law - human^ diving nationa^ and international.” ”We should no longer submit,^® continued l! 1 '! ‘fi-- i; hi IL M ill the Senator, no the dictates of Hitler and the Axis powers refusing our ships their undeniable rights under international law. We should no longer be deterred from the exercise of these rights by the coarse threats that our ships will be sunk,” said Connally, ”sunk outside of the combat zones,” He was answered by M-ichigan» ^enator^ Vandenber^ who opened Jwtipt for the isolationists, ft# invited his colleagues to consider A the position of an American merchant vessel sailing to a belligerent port. And, he added, he fails to understand how any man with reason A at his command cannot see that ship shortly followed by transports tailing a second A.E.F. to Europe. ”The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,” Vandenberg A said, ”has itself all but sounded the battle charge.” There was also a meeting at the White House today, leaders of Congress conferring with the President. The Congressmen told Mr. Roosevelt that the law revoking the neutrality Act would be ^11 through Congress in ten days or two v;eeks at the most. WAR Tonight*s nev»s from the Eastern Front comes from the banks of the Don, where the armies of Hitler, backed by K Hungarians, are at the very gates of Rostov, and pointing for those rich oilfields of the Caucasus. So serious is the threat: that General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of India, has been in Tiflis for a week, preparing plans for a joint defense of the Caucasus by the British and the Reds. From the way the reports are couched, it is evident that military experts expect the Caucasus campaign to be on, full blast — soon, Wavell *s resources Kkizli are estinated at one million troops of the Empire. But Hitler»s forces are considered far stronger. A late broadcast from Moscow, overheard in London, tells of an attack by German tanks and infantry against the fortifications of Rostov. The Reds hurled them back — So they say. But a story from Budapest reports the Hungarian armies forging ahead in the southern Ukraine, and iiii iilij N! iiii; m / !» WAR - 2 arriving within twelve miles of the River Donets. Berlin begins to talk about that southern Ukraine^ campaign as virtually won. A Nazi military spokesman reported tonight ■il !!i that the Axis armies have just about put an end to the Russian Army in that region, and that the wazi advance both in the Ukraine and in front of Moscow, has been held up by roads of bottomless mire lii and by storms. ”Give us a good hard frost,” says the Nazi spokesman, ”and the attack will roll on over ‘all Russian resistance.” In Mcscow the Reds report they We not only smashed I all the Nazi attempts to break through, but that Soviet counter-attacks, I j have regained considerable ground from the Germans. 1 I o -7 llo held near the border of Siam Soon, from where it will also JAPAN A spokesman lor iCarshal Chiang Kai-shek reports that Japanese engineers have been building an airdrome in Indo-China within easy raiding distance of the Burma Road, an airdrome large enough to accommodate some three hundred bombing planes. Also, that large-scale maneuvers of Japanese armies be ra easy to bomb the Burma end of the Burma Road. Furthermore, the Japanese have been concentrating troops in the southern part of the Chinese Province of Hunan. In short, there is evidence of a nev/ Japanese offensive in China, on a huge scale. One report, not confirmed. is, that agents of Tokyo are w'orking up an insurgent movement in Indo-China to overthrow the King and put one of his uncles. a pro-Japanese puppet, on the throne. r* PEACE t..r .1„. th, B,tl„ Brl,. o„ »Fac*ev^ne rumors Ml-^er _ ® peace negotiations. Some of th^were-qttf^ circumstantial, gave details. And lending a tinge of color ^-them, the move England by the Duke of i '. I Bedford. in Britain, A y- were- officially denied / in Berlin. Spectfl»airiy«y German spokesman said there was no truth in the report that the Duke of Bedford had been the bearer of a plan for peace^ whi<?h-he submitted to Nazi representatives in Dublin, Last night some pranksters in London paid their compliments to the pacifist politics of the Duke. In dingy old A Russell Square, ”Russell” being the family name of the Dukes of Bedford, there stands a statue of his grandfather, the Ninth Duke, It^s a statue itifcktxaaaajr that many Americans have seen, that being a quarter filled with boarding houses for visiting Americans. __ -e ^^en daylight broke this morning, that statue was observed to be A splashed with yellow paint. On the ducal head, instead of a hat. was an empty KxuxBf paint can, in his hand a wine bottle. A slogan painted on the effigy compared the present Duke to a Quisling and i! trucking T In New York today they are holding the Annual I Convention of the Ainerican Trucking Associations, some two thousand men from every state in the Union. Trucking transportation is now of vast usefulness for the Army and Navy, in connection with the defense industries. There are three million, seven | hundred and thirty-nine thousand, two hundred truck drivers in the United States; and the trucking industry pays taxes of I around half a billion dollars every year. !!f As one Incident of the Convention, there *11 be a rodeo 7/ednesday evening at Madison Square Garden,with the champion truck drivers of twenty-three states competing, as well as the ace drivers in the army from the Second Corps Area. WINDSORS Mrs. Roosevelt today made an effective answer to the rumors that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor had been given the them while they were in Wa^ington last month but that was cancelled because of the death of her brother, G. Hall Roosevelt. Hor will she be present when they lunch with the President tomorrow because the First Lady has an engagement of six months* standing to lecture at Chicago. Mrs. Roosevelt said tliat all the sour rumors and rei>orts were ridiculous and that she was perfectly delighted to have th® Duke and Duchess at the White House. The Duke spent a large part of the day in New YorrC, talking to leaders of the motor indilistry — Alfred Sloan, Chairman of the Board of General Motors, Byron Foy, Vice-President of Chrysler, and others, the men who are now building tanks. The Duchess remained in her suite. She doesn»t like some of the stories that have been witten about the clothes that she m official cold shoulder In Washington. The First ^ady announced that the royal pair will be the President's guests at the White House || is tomorrow. Mrs. Roosevelt mentioned how she hai planned to entertain ;i has bought. issued a statement using these ^ords: (QUOTE) I ’’I think it is ridiculous and not a little unfair, particularly ; in these times, for such fantastic stories to be told. The latest seems to be that I purchased thirty-four hats. This,” the Duchess ”is totally untrue. My total purchase of hats was only five,” And as they have to do for a year, she hardly thinks that^s outrageous. 'luruit' "to yut^ b JU2 ) urr^tU