Strikers Make Use of Satire
The coffin represents the Allis-Chalmers company. It is perched on
• Junk wagon, and a striker, wearing a gas mask, gives a satirical
address showing the connection. This was one of the lighter angles of
the Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee, Wis., as recorded by the News
of the Day Newsreel.
Trailers for Defense Workers
The first of 2,000 trailers purchased by the Farm Security adminis
tration with funds from the $5,000,000 urgent deficiency appropriation
voted by congress to provide temporary shelter for homeless defense
workers are shown leaving the nation’s capital for Wilmington, N. C.
They will be used to house defense shipyard workers. Fifty trailers were
In the group leaving Washington.
Inspects Shelters
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Mrs. Anthony Drexel Biddle, wife
of the U. S. ambassador to the Euro
pean governments in exile, in Eng
land, Inspects some British bomb
shelters in London. She is studying
the women’s services during the
war.
U. S.-Mexico Pact
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America and Mexico signed a mu
tual defense pact giving the V. S.
the right to use Mexican air bases,
and vice versa. L. to R., Sumner
Welles, who signed for the U. 8.,
and Mexican Ambassador Senor Dr.
Najera, who signed for Mexico.
Drake Relays to Be Big Event
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Milt Run
The thirty-second running of the Drake relays at Des Moines, Iowa,
April 25 and 26, will feature special events commemorating the sixtieth
anniversary of Drake university. Big Ten, Southwestern, Eastern and
Big Six teams are expected to enter the running. Three outstanding
performers who will compete are shown above.
Red Cross Holds Convention
More than 3,000 delegates representing 8,250,000 members will attend
the national convention of the American Red Cross in Washington, April
21-24, to commemorate the society’s sixtieth anniversary. Norman H.
Davis (inset) will preside. Red Cross headquarters, scene of the con
vention, Is shown above.
Skating Tourney
More than 1,000 men, women and
children will compete in the Nation
al Roller Skating championships to
be held in Cleveland April 23-26. Miss
Harriet Nielson (above), leading
contender for the ladies’ crown.
Heads NEA
Roy A. Brown, who will preside
at the convention of the National
Editorial association at Jackson
ville, Fla., April 21-23. More than
2,000 newspaper men are members.
As Strike Closed Ford Plant
The gigantic River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company at Dearborn, Mich., largest single Industrial
plant In the world, where from seven to eight thousand striking C.I.O. auto workers threw 85,000 employees out
of work. Inset: One of the men Involved in the battle between pickets and workers, shown as he tum
bled into the gutter after being struck by one of the many flying missiles.
Sabotage—and Then Uncle Sam Takes Over
With dramatic suddenness the U. S. seized 69 Italian, Danish and German merchant ships in harbors
throughout the country. At left is photographic proof of sabotage. The main air pump of the Italian ship, Al
berta, is shown shattered and useless. Right: Chief Mechanic Alston of the Coast Guard at Port Newark, N. J.,
examines broken parts of the slide valve on the Alberta.
Demonstrate ‘Blackout Machine’ at Capital j
Two New Jersey inventors demonstrating a “blackout machine” be
fore Sen. Morris Sheppard, chairman of senate military affairs commit
tee. The inventors said the device could shut off power in every Amer
ican city. L. to R., Senator Sheppard, Col. D. Watt, E. C. Pomeroy
and R. M. Franklin of the Radio Signal Products Corp., the inventors.
And Now Frenchmen Give Nazi Salute!
A year ago Frenchmen used to mock the upraised arm salute of the
Fascists and Nazis, but things have changed In France. Above is shown
a great gathering of French war veterans saluting Marshal Petain,
French chief of state, In a rally at Le Puy. The aged marshal Is on the
dais In the background. *.
Battles Jungle
Maj. R. E. Randall of Swamp*
scott, Mass., Albrook field executive
officer, who was forced to cut hla
way through 25 miles of Panama
jungle after bailing out of his dis
abled plane. He is shown here at
Ancon, Canal Zone.
Jugoslav Premier
Gen. Richard Dusan-Simovlcb,
staunch friend of Great Britain and
army ccnimander, who has been
named to the post of premier of
Jugoslavia.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewtd by
CARTER FIELD
Strikes in defense in
dustries causing labor to
lose public support . . .
Hydroelectric power
probably Roosevelt's par
amount interest in St.
Lawrence seaway project.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.I
WASHINGTON. - Strikes holding
up national defense had become the
toughest kind of problem before the
mediation board was appointed, and
the first publicity the board had did
not help much toward convincing the
public that a solution of the prob
lem had been reached. This first
publicity — ignoring the picture
taking, the appointment of the mem
bers and the formal organization—
i was that the board could take up
! only strike situations which had
been certified to it, so to speak, by
the department of labor.
Most of the senators and repre
sentatives on Capitol Hill who have
been criticizing the policy of per
mitting strikes to interfere with na
tional defense work have always dis
trusted Secretary of Labor Perkins.
This is made slightly milder by
the fact that both congress and the
corps of Washington newspaper men
have a great deal of confidence in
John R. Steelman, who is the chief
mediator in the strike situations for
the department of labor. If it be
comes known that Steelman thinks
any particular thing is all right, that
carries a lot of weight.
But this modification scarcely af
fects the public. Hence it does not
affect the mail pouring in on indi
vidual members of congress. The
public is very definitely—if one may
construe anything from this mail—
convinced that the government has
been fiddling while Rome bums on
this whole business. The mail
shows conclusively that there is
very little sympathy for the stand
labor has “been taking.
•LABOR* LOSES SUPPORT
This comes on top of several de
velopments, which have paved the
way for a less friendly audience for
labor's side of the story. One is the
pounding that Westbrook Pegler has
been giving the labor racketeers and
the union leaders for not doing
something about it. The other is the
widespread publicity given to the
initiation fees charged laborers who
wanted to work on some of the gov
ernment cantonment contracts.
When such a friend of labor and a
hater of most capitalists as Sen.
George W. Norris of Nebraska takes
the floor to warn labor, things have
really been moving.
Just what will happen is anybody’s
guess. But one thing is certain. II
the delay to defense work continues,
there will be such public clamor that
congress, already boiling about the
situation, will not only investigate
the strikes, but will do something
more drastic. It may not be the wise
thing to do, in the long run, but
whatever it happens to be is going to
be very unpleasant.
• • •
St. Lawrence Seaway
la Six-Year Project
So far no one has suggested one
of the most appealing economic rea
sons for the St. Lawrence seaway—
it will enable salt-water ships to rid
their hulls of barnacles, because
j scraping the hulls of ships of these
foes is simple in fresh water, almost
, impossible in salt water.
But even the'most earnest advo
i cates of the St. Lawrence project
admit that it will be at least six
years, maybe seven, before the sea
way can be opened to traffic. Mean
ing. of course, six to seven years
after it is started.
Then assuming the war is still in
progress, and hence that the nation
al defense justification for the canal
held, a few well-placed bombs would
cripple navigation just as effective
ly as they would at Panama, where
that danger is resulting in the con
struction of another set of locks.
PRESIDENT SUPPORTS
MEASURE
Why does the President press this
measure, knowing that it will be
at least six years before the seaway
can be completed? Why does he
talk about the need for ships, and
the possibility of drawing both
merchant and warships from Great
Lakes shipyards, now that all the
shipbuilding ways on salt water are
jammed with orders?
The answer to all this is simple.
The President has never been really
interested in the seaway project per
se. He is interested in the develop
ment of hydro-electric power on the
St. Lawrence river. That power can
be produced, the experts insist,
three years after work is started.
Of course, cheap power could be ob
\ tained in a shorter time than that by
building steam plants, but it would
not be as simple to put the building
of government steam-power plants
under the national defense mantle.
Everybody knows that privately
owned utilities would be very glad
to build additional power plants if
assured of a market.
Incidentally that strike at Milwau
kee has put off the time for any
; number of power plants being
i brought into operation. It alone
makes the turbines for power plants
and warships.
