The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-07-06

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m dolph Forster was
-, selected by the Presi-
uuP' dent to make the voy-
age with him. Since
the days of Mckinley this able and
courteous gentleman, now executive
clerk in charge of the White House
executive offices, has been on duty and
never before has he accompanied any
President on a trip. Now Mr.. Forster
is going to have a real vacation, and
Secretaries Howe, Mcintyre and Earle
will remain behind to take care Of the
White House. There will be no other
civil officials aboard the cruiser Hous-
ton.
On the way down to the canal Mr..
Roosevelt will visit Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands. From Panama
City he will go to the Hawaiian Islands,
first making brief stop in Colombia.
Returning to the Pacific coast early in
August Mr.. Roosevelt will travel over
land by rail, and there is a posi-
bility he will make some speeches,
probably in Minneapolis and Green
Bay, Wis, where the tercentenary of
the Badger state will be celebrated.
IMMEDIATE relief for the drouth
L stricken areas in the Middle West
was decreed by the President in an
executive order which allocated $780,
100000 for direct aid. The remain
der of the first distribution Of federal
relief for the drouth area Included
$43, 100000 for purchase of seed, food
and live stock; $25,000,000 for seed
and feed loans, $12, 100000 for pur-
chase of LANDS in the drouth regions,
and $12,500,000 for establishment of
civilian conservation camps in the
stricken region.
EINAL settlement of the questions
l. in dispute between the steel mas
tiers and their workers is expected and
the threatened strike probably will be
averted. The President, invoking his
new emergency powers, named
three-man board to arbitrate the in
dustry's troubles, and both sides in
dicated they would accept its deci-
sions. The members of the board are
Admiral Henry A. Wiley, James Null
Ienbach of Chicago and Judge Walter
Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme
court. The two latter have had long
experience as labor mediators. Under
the emergency law this group can or
der and police elections in all steel
plants to determine which union shall
represent the men in collective bargain
ing. The board can also hand down
decisions on all complaints brought by
either workers or employers.
President Roosevelt ordered the
board to report to him from time to
time through Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins.
TT MAY be necessary to resort to the
emergency labor legislation to put
an end to the street car strike in Mil
waukee. A minority of the company's
employees went out and by violence
forced the suspension of service. The
mobs fought the police and attacked
the company's electric plant and its
cars.
The American Federation of Labor
unions are trying to compel the COM
pany to recognize their representatives
in dealing with employees instead of
the company union with which it has
had labor contract for 16 years.
Rev. Francis ]. Haas, formerly of
Milwaukee and now chief conciliator
for the national labor board, was sent
to the Wisconsin city with full author
ity to act. Mayor Hoan, a Socialist,
held the company responsible for the
strike and ensuing riots.
FEDERAL JUDGE ]. P. BARNES
L of Chicago gave one phase of the
New Deal a rap by granting an in
junction restraining the government
from enforcing the provisions Of the
AAA milk licensing agreement against
the independent milk dealers in the
Chicago area. In effect, the judge
ruled that the government. through the
AAA. has usurped powers which I'M
der the Constitution it had no author
ity to assume.
The AAA officials in Washington de-
clared they would seek to have Judge
Barnes ruling set aside. Jerome
Frank, general counsel for the AAA,
admitted that if the decision were up
held by higher courts. the fifty mar
keting agreements now in force under
the farm act and hundreds of the
codes under the MIRA would be with
out constitutional sanction.
Ii RRIMAN hosiery mills, the con.
Germ that was deprived of its
Blue Eagle last April. has been forced
10 close down. and its 653 workers are