The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-01


 remembered tour of Queen
 So far, plans for the Windsors' sojourn here have been a mixture of buck-passing and personal ad- vertising.
 The Administration to date has dodged any official plans for the Windsors reception here. Mrs. Roosevelt has told the State De- partment that she would give them a tea, and that probably there would be a White House dinner.
 But after that, they will be on their own. Miss Perkins has said she would be glad to put them in touch with certain social and labor problems, but has made 1t clear that she is not inviting them to the United States. Also Secretary of the Interior Ickes is being queried regarding other portions of their tour.
 Cables to 1ckes from Charles Bedeaux, on behalf of the Duke, have been coming collect.
 They asked for the location of housing projects and worthwhile spots. 1ckes answered in detail by cable-collect. The wording of the cable made 1t clear that the In- terior Department was not Q tourist bureau.
 Paid Puh1icitv
 Simultaneously with the arrival of these cablegrams, in fact some time before their arrival, their text was made public by the Windsors' publicity organization. This consists of Arthur Kudner, Inc, New York advertising firm, and its Washington representative, Frank Getty.
 These are employed by Charles Bedeaux, who has taken the Duke and Duchess under his wing.
 Bedea1x Is mysterious figure. He began life working below the water-level as . sand hog, devised stretch out system for speeding up this and other work, Is of French Canadian descent, once was a member of the For eign Legion, and Is suspected of using the Dukes trip as neat little method for advertising Bedeaux.
 Meanwhile nothing concrete is being done about the Dukes trip Secretary Ickes has received sev- eral hundred letters and tele- grams asking about the royal couple. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad sent an agent to ascer- tain what kind of a car they would want, and women's clubs from every state have sent erno- tional queries as to whether Ed- ward and Wallis would favor their home town.
 But beyond housing and na- tional parks, Ickes refuses to act as the WindsOrs' wet nurse.
 And members of, the British Embassy, when questioned by newspapermen about the trip, gaze serenely out the window. Grand Melee
 What the Windsors do not seem to know is that 1t is almost iin- possible for people as famous as they to visit the United States without having their tour care- fully arranged by some official agency, and that the United States Governmnet is not going to arrange 1t.
 In Germany, the Nazi govern. fnent had the Windsors' time chartered from morning coffee to last night-cap. But democratic governments are not accustomed to efficient catering to royalty, es- pecially when the guests are not vouched for by their own embassy.
 So if things continue, the Windsors may be in for as bad Q flasco as the visit of Queen Marie and her publicity-seeking camp- followers.
 Hard Talk
 The last meeting of the AFL and CIO negotiators was 8 plain- talking session. The A. P. of L. had just submitted peace terms that ended the truce.
 The pleasantries that had char. acterized previous conferences vanished in thin air, as laborites squared of and parked at each other in unadorned language.
 How the hell do you guys get that way?" snapped Mike Quill, head of the CIO Transport Work CTS, at George Harrison, chief Federation delegate - ''saying you are willing to mediate what our eventual status will be. There is nothing to mediate"
 My union never had more than 5000 members when 1t was in A. F. of L. We are 6O,OOO strong now; we've gotten raises of SIS to $20 . week and weeks vacation with pay. Do you think we'd allow your gang