The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-02

O4dIy 1SCS00AO4A VI C4AS depression.
 If consumer buying picks up, then the winters outlook is hope full. Christmas trade will supply another big shot in the arm and conditions can be expected to remain more or less on an even keel until the seasonal spring upturn. .
 But # consumer buying doesn't pick up-thea the ex. perts warned, watch for Q nose dive in January CT February.
 The key to the situation, they told the president, is prices. Their diagnosis is that steadily mount ing prices were the root cause of the CURRENT SLUMP.
 As late as September prices continued to climb skyward. The result was that people just stopped buying. This left retailers with large inventories of high priced goods and they shut down on new orders. This in turn shut down mills and factories, the stock market took to the storm cellar and an ominous slumps was in full swing.
 A hopeful. development, ac- cording to the experts, is that In the last few weeks prices have started to retreat.
 Speculative com m o d iti s grains, cotton, metals, wool and rubber are off. Some food items also have declined. Still other drops are expected.
 The question now Is whether Che reductions came In time. The coming weeks will tell the fateful story.
 Green vs Lewis
 Somebody asked Nels Anderson, WPA labor expert, what he thought of the clash between labor leaders Lewis and Green, and the probable outcome.
 Anderson produced photo. stat sheet with two signatures on 1t, greatly enlarged.
 "One day." said Anderson, "I got two letters In the same mail, one from Bill Green, one from John L. Lewis. noticed the difference In the sigma atures, and had them blown up in photostat.
 "If you want to know the future of the AFL and the CIO, look at those signatures"
 The Green signature was in a small, cramped hand, with a wavering, uncertain stroke. The Lewis signature was large, bold and tluorishing.
 Bridges Deportation?
 It has not leaked out yet, but there is considerable difference of opinion within the admins. tration regarding the attempt to deport Harry Bridges, head of the CIO forces in San Francisco, and chief rival of the AFL on the Pacific Coast.
 Bridges Is an Australian citizen, although living in the United States for the past dozen years. Recently Governor Martin of Oregon demanded of Miss Perkins that Bridges be deported, and sent her affi- davlts sworn to by the Pacific Coast labor leaders that RpaA0AS la a vnav.nhAp mR NhA Communist Party. >>
 Martins move is understood to have the backing of Dave Beck, head of the Teainsters' Union in Seattle and czar of AFL forces on the Pacific Coast. Beck and Bridges are waging Q death bat tie for supremacy in that region, and Governor Martin, who plans to run for the Senate, wants Beck's support.
 Immediate Hearings
 When Bridges was in Atlantic City for the CIO convention, he mentioned the deportation move to other CIO leaders, but did not SeGtu COAaCCEuSO dUOuV At' gNOWs however, 1t is suddenly revealed that Miss Perkins plans to hold hearings on the matter almost immediately.
 Simultaneously 1t has also leaked out that the Justice De- partment investigated Bridges for more than a year with a view to deporting him, but wAs unable to find any grounds for so doing. He . entered the United States legally, has taken out first papers, 1t due to receive his second papers in May, and has violated no law which would justify deportation.
 Miss Perkins would act on the charges that Bridges is a Communist. He swearS that he