, 1935-02-07
The World
AT Glance
BY LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer

A@A
ufacturers are very much interested
in averting strikes in the auto and
subsidiary industries. CBut they will
hold out to the last against the
American Federation OF Labor.
The manufacturers are interested
for a potent reason. If they can
have uninterrupted production from
now till April /, the auto output for
the first quarter OF 1885 may total
as high as 100. 900 units. There
we're only 100000 units in the like
period last year.
Production Of 100000 units would
exceed the first quarter production
Of any year since le30-when the to-
tai was approximately that.
A glass strike already has lowered
glass supplies.
Production is not expected to con-
tinue at such a high rate all year
The present squirt Is TO stock dealers
prior TO the spring rush.
Chief cities TO benefit through high
auto production are Detroit. Flint.
Toledo. Cleveland. Akron. Youngs-
town. Pittsburgh.
Ickes
Old Chicago friends of Harold l..
Ickes, secretary or the interior, are
betting that he will come out on top
in his present controversies.
Ickes, as a veteran Bull MooSer, is
used to being a fighting ~underdog.
He always has been against pork
barrel" methods. That's why con-
gresS opposes him as administrator
Of public works, his old friends say.
But. II Ickes runs true to form, he
is likely TO produce some damaging
evidence against his detractors.
Fascist story
Ordinarily a story in a Communist
paper would not influence congress
very much.
But when the Communist paper
advertises In a sedate New York pa
per. then there is a certainty con-
greSs will begin talking.
The Daily Worker asserts that
leading American business men are
backing Fascist organizations. as
Thyssen and Krupp financed Hitler's
storm troops for years before putting
the Nazis In power
Then. a direct charge Is made that
undoubtedly viii have repercuSsions
in congress:
General Smedley ID. Buffers testi-
mony. suppressed by the MacCor-
mack-Dickstein committee investi-
eating un-American activities. is now
being published"
Suppressed is the word that in
~terestS.
Future Laws
Francis Biddle. Philadelphia law
yer who. as chairman az the federal
labor relations board. has become a
storm center, is making public some
suggestions which have strong labor
backing for making into law.
One OF the suggestions is the pass
age OF legislation by congress "a
make collective bargaining in all in
dustry inviolate.
Biddle adds: IAN workmen every
where will insist on this right. To
delay its universal application will
create endless friction and discon-
tent.
We should not give labor a bill OF
rights with one hand and destroy II
with the other"
Biddle recommends that THE nee
essary legislation be passed immedi-
ateiy TO Supercede the national labor
relations board. He SAYS the NLRB
merely can make recommendations
that is all-and thus has neither
power nor respect.
Biddle declares that "the intermin-
able delays Of cases brought before
the NLRB lead only to direct ac-
ton"
How potent Biddle's words are
cannot be known until the admins
tration makes known its views. Bid
die had a conference recently az the
White House. but the White House
labor views usually come through
Senator Robert Wagner OF New
York.