The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-22

received in high labor quar A meeting of high moguls of the American Federation of Labor (advocates of craft unions) was held immediately after the su. preme courts decision. Members came out of the meeting with beaming smiles.
 Their enemy, John L. Lewis, fighting head of the movement for industrial unions, wore a long face.
 Reason for the glee of con- servatlve craft unionites Is that John Lewis will now be so busy, with his United Mine Workers fighting for union wages, that he will have little time to push his industrial union movement. This had been making remark. able gains, had the craft union heads worried sick. (ReOrganisa- ton of their unions meant less of their j0bs.)
 Under the NRA, Lewis had built up the United Mine Workers from 100000 men to 500,00o-the most powerful union in the coun- try. The Guffey Coal Act was virtually his creation. It was a government guaranty of stable wages in the coal industry.
 Now Lewis will have to fight for those wages with only the weapons of the United Mine Work CTS. Probably the industry will witness @ series of strikes, plus 0 Left policy by Lewis, and @ de- cided strengthening of Labor sen- timent for Roosevelt.
 Sweeping Decision
 At first blush, the adverse de- cision of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in the Bound Brook (N. J.) Resettlement case looked like Q bad break for the Congress had no power to dele- New Deal. The Court ruled that gate the granting of 0o,00O, ,000 in Works Relief to the President without specifying the projects for which 1t was to be used.
 This looked as if every out house built by Harry Hopkins was unconstitutional.
 It even looked as if peace or- ganizations might file suit against the government and prove the en- tire naval building program un- constitutional. Most warship con- structlon was undertaken with funds allocated by Roosevelt from the general Public Works grab bag, without specific appropria- tons by congress.
 Attorney General Cummings read over the decision Q second time, however, and decided there was no cause to be worried. Con- gross could merely pass another act specifically listing the pr0pects for which Roosevelt already had allocated the money.
 This is why Cummings moved slowly in appealing the case.
 NOTE-The three Court of Ap- peals justices who ruled against the New Deal, Van Orsdel. Robh and Martin, were appointed by Teddy Roosevel tand Harding. Vic torious lawyer in the case, Dean Acheson, was once busted by F. D. R., as undersecretary of the treas ury.
 Foreign Trade
 Roosevelt cabinet members have been pounding home the policy of .''buy if you want to sell" Here are quotes from three speeches by three Cabineteers in three weeks:
 Secretary Wallace before farm- CTS at Lincoln, Nebraska, May 4: "Of course, to sell abroad, we must buy abroad"
 Secretary of Commerce Roper before the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. May IS: Foreign trade is a twO-way process. To sell we must buy"
 Secretary of State Hull before the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, April 30: "A movement toward national economic self-eontain- ment is incompatible with the rec establishment of satisfactory pros- perity."
 Good Red
 Representative Tom Blanton was castigating the Harvard stu- dents who. as a publicity stunt for the Lampoon, hoisted a Soviet flag on the supreme court flag pole.
 "Is net the Harvard flag itself crimson red?" yelled q member from tke rear.
 "Yes. t is. But lt is an honest and loyal kind of crimson red.