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Evening star., 1937-02-07
Strikes
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Flint. Mich, potential danger spot
of the strikes. where more than 33 900
General Motors employees are idle
Twice there have been violent out
bursts there and about 40 persons
were injured.
Gov. Murphy informally commended
military and State police for the man.
ner in which they have handled the
Flint situation.
1T is the best-handled job" he
said. "in the industrial history of
Michigan"
Sheriff Thomas Wolcott at Flint
holds court order for the arrest of
"stay-in" strikers, now in their fourth
day OF violating an injunction for
evacuation, and of union leaders. He
has delayed action pending word from
the Governor, who Wolcott said had
indicated very strongly" that any
violence could bring but one thing
military rule"
John L. Lewis, aggressive labor
leader and generalissimo of the strike.
has pressed the U. A. w. AS demand
for recognition as the sole bargaining
agency for General Motors employees.
a demand modified to include only
20 OF General Motors 90 plants.
Opposing that demand in the con-
ference has been William S. Knudsen,
executive vice president of the cor
poration. The General Motors atti-
tude was outlined a month ago by
Alfred P. Sloan, jr., president, in this
statement:
General Motors will not recognize
any union as the sole bargaining
agency for its workers. General Mo-
tors will continue to recognize, for
the purpose of collective bargaining,
representatives of its workers, whether
union or non-union"
16 Plants Closed by Strike.
Sixteen of the 20 plants claimed by
the union have been closed by strikes.
More than 80 others, including every
assembly line of the gigantic auto
mobile producer, have shut down or
curtailed operations because of strike
effects.
Despite the prolonged discussions
which at times have been vociferous
enough to be heard but not understood
outside the closely guarded court
chambers of Recorders Judge George
Murphy, brother of the Governor, the
conferees did not appear downhearted.
KnudSen and his associates emerged
from the eighth session of the peace
parley smiling but uncommunicative
Murphy, who earlier was seen pacing
slowly across a conference room and
resting, chin in hand, at a window,
came out to announce the sessions
would continue, and added:
Each day brings interesting devel-
opments."
Separate Meeting Held.
Today's session was interrupted fire.
quently by separate meetings of the
corporation and union representatives
and by the telephonic communication
which Gov. Murphy maintained.
Union leaders dispatched medical
aid today to 80 strikers reported suf-
fering from influenza in the Chevrolet
motor assembly plant No. 4, where the
latest "sit-down" started last Tues
day. Powers Haywood, c. I. o. repre-
sentative, said 10 serious cases had
been moved to more comfortable quar-
tiers.
The Injunction issued by a Flint
court, ordering evacuation of Fisher
Body Plants Nos. l and 2, does not
apply to the Chevrolet strikers. Gen.
eral Motors counsel said they planned
no immediate legal action against the
men occupying that plant.
Evening star., 1937-02-07
TOPIC
AS JEWS CONFER
"0pen Door" Must Be Main.
tanned in Holy Land, DR..
Wise Declares.

Referring to rumors that the British
government might curtail Jewish i'm
migration into the Holy Land, Dr..
Stephen s. Wise, national chairman
OF the United Palestine Appeal, de-
clared last night in addressing the
National Conference for Palestine
that "the door Of Palestine must re-
main open"
Representatives of more than 2,000,-
900 Jews attended the opening of the
two-day sessions at the Mayf1ower
Hotel.
The Holy Land city absorbed ap-
proximately 100000 refugee Jews in
the past three years, DR.. Wise said.
American Jews contributed s2,076,-
327 in 1886 for colonization, immigra-
ton and General reconstruction in
Palestine, it was reported.
Arab Question Discussed.
Eliezer Kaplan of Jerusalem, treas
urer Of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine, told the nearly 1000 delegates,
1--WE do not wish to dominate the
Arabs. Nor do We wish to be domin-
ated by the Arabs. We believe that
there is ample room in the country
for the successful development of
Evening star., 1937-02-07

ANTIQUE GoLD-F1L1GREE DINNER RING.
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ct lines the newly hired crews Of the
three ships refused to pass yesterday.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
Can Be Argued Two Ways

Recently in the Hartford Courant Representative Noah H. SWayne oi Darien, republican House Leader during the 1857 session just ended gave lengthy ana spirited defense of our present system oL representation in the General Assembly. Prom time to time we hear much of con- nccticuts rotten borough" system of government. The expression IS not orig lnal, but is of English origin. IL can be boiled down to mean that the small towns with their lesser population actually out vote the large towns and cities Tn the House of Representatives
 Representative Swayne believes that this is a good system of government ana that when our colonial fathers instituted 1t they were wise in their ways and lar seeing Maybe they were and mayDe Representative Swayne is right in point ing out that the Connecticut system has actually been copied by the United States government. The fact remains though, that there are inequalities which the gentlemen from Darien has overlooked He compares the Connecti- cut House to the U. s. Senate Here we have representatives, from every town, regardless of size of population In the Senate the same ig true.
 But when you compare the U. $. House of Representatives with the Connecticut Senate, which evidently has to follow from Mir Swayne's line of reasoning, you fall afoul of just what the critics of our makeup of the Legislature complain. If the House in Connecticut is made up of equal town representation, then the Sen ate is based on population and certainly 1t should be proportionate. In other words each senator should represent q definite number of constituents. Take q look at our senatorial districts, their size and their population, and youll see the discrepancy.
 So if the Connecticut House of Repre- scntatives is founded on logical reasoning and government planning today even as in the early days. what about the Senate. If has not remained as if was supposed to remain and fl has not kept pace with the U $. House of Representatives, which has 435 members 10 bc sure, but has spread them over a different area and will continue to do that go long aB popu- lation changes. We should like to have the representative from Darien get around this trouble and also try to have our legislators consider it as q problem some time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
Small Dirigiblc

Now that the Graf Zeppelin worlds most successful giant dirigible, has been retired, there Is no great airship of that type plying the skywayg. Germany plans to build others. This country is weigh ing the problem of building others It is possible that Russia may get ahead of them with q passenger airship of her own. Soviet engineers plan 9emi-rigid ship only one-eighth the size of the burned Hindenburg. It will be inflated with helium gas obtained from natural gas wells in the central districts of the U. s. s. R.
 This airship will have volume of 0000 cubic feet, and will contain a salon, buffet and smoking room, and sleeping accommodations for sixteen persons This is obviously not such a luxurious ship as the Graf and the Him denburg, and probably will not travel with anything like their speed. Yet 1t may be more safely operated than our own lost ships, the Akron and Macon, and should cost much less. It is an experiment. worth making, at any rate, considering all that has happened to the far larger and more pretentious dirigibles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26

fit. Such words as 'graft" and waste" were ascribed to the senator in newS- paper accounts of the address.
 LeFsoy D. Downs, chairman of the Vet eran's Home Commission, was quite irate at the charges and has taken Senator Daly to task for them, whereupon the New Haven legislator retorted that the quotations in the press were not accur- ate. What he actually said, he said, was that the work already done could have been done cheaper by the new Public Works Department and costs would be lowered when this department took over control of the construction
 All of which is interesting, for 1t is quite different from what Senator Daly was reported as saying at the convention. We don't wish to prolong controversy, but it would be interesting to have this de- bated just bit further. The Veterans Home Commission, without casting as- persions at any member or action of it's members, has been in the public eye be- fore, particularly when 1t managed to sidetrack the Soldiers Home at Noroton and get brand new home at Rocky Hill promised, That was some years ago and we're still hearing representations as this latest incident surely is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26

The business of this new society that has just been formed in New York city to rid it of all dogs is very serious. If you don't think so, just check up on it's plans It hopes to exile or put away all dogs in New York over a period of twelve years. It's sponsors want a dogless town and ex- pect to have one through cooperation of all dog-lovers in that period. Dogs that may be born in the twelve years to come will either be sent to homes in the co1n- try or outside of New York or else put to death. The society intends to work to the end that law to this effect will be passed In the meantime dog-lovers are getting ready to wage an assault on the Animal Welfare Society. In fact, several of the organizers have been threatened with beatingg if they proceed with their plans. Iratc dog og-owners promised them the wallops. And with 2000 dogs csti- mated as the city's canine population, 1t looks as if real fight might be wagcd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
Said the Chairman

T have been misquoted,' said the State Senator.
 T would not hesitate to compare the expenses Of my commission with those of the legislative committee of which you were chairman" said the chairman.
 It all started when State Senator Mat thew A. Daly of New Haven, democrat, spoke before the institute of politics at the convention of the Connecticut League of Women Voters i1 New London last Weck. He Is alleged to have spoken just 1. bit digparagingly of the veterans some at Rocky Hill and the commission 1tat Is in charge of it and construction
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
A Book a Day
"rinkercd" His Way To Aviation Fame
 BY BRUCE CATION

America is proud Of her inventors. but she ought to be 5vsn prouder of her tinksrers ingenious jacks of all trades who. restless and sharp eyes. are forever deyisipg new ghd- gets and thinking of new ways to do things. From Robert Fulton to Henry Ford, these men have played a huge part II, our history.
 one Of the most talented and in- tefesting of the lot was Glenn II. Curtiss. who did 50 much to develop aviation in its years of infancy. His biography is told by Clara Btuder in "sky -stormihg Yankee tJtack- pole Sons. e3), and the story Is well worth reading.
 Oddly enough. Curtlss started out like his great rivals, the Wright brothers. in il bicycie shop. But whereas the Wfights led themselves i into aviation. and studied the prob- lem Of flight with the relentless th0roughness of scientists, Curtiss was lsd into 1t because Of his skill at making lightweight gasoline sn- zines for motorcycles.
 An safly transforming dirigible pilot first called on Cuftiss 10 make hn engine for q difigibl6. Curtiss made 1t. and showed such talent tt the construction of lightweight mos tors | crying need of aviation then IS now~-that Alexander Graham Bell drew him into group that WAS experimenting with heavier thafisair machines.
 It took Curtiss quite q while to get interested in aviation, but when he finally did he threw himself into it -heaftediy. His contfibu- tions to aviation were numerous -. a1aong other things, we afe indebted t0 him for the seaplane---and this biography Is fascinating record Of the amazing dovsiopmentof m9nE power Of flight, tt Is copio,tsiy lie frustrated. by the way. with some unusually interesting old.tiine pho- t0gfaphs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
Britain's "Voluntnry" Tax

Perhaps the way to make tax popular Is to set up an obviously bad scheme and then quickly follow it with one not quite so bad The second one then seems pretty good. That is about what hap pened in Great Britain when the new profits tax was put forward after the failure of acceptance Of the gross profits tax first proposed. speaker in the House of Commons declared. The tax Is frightful, but the Chancellor is to be congratulated on producing proposf'9 which are straightforward, honest and as far as possible in any form Of taxation -~ free of complications.
 Tt is complained that the profits tax will put q penalty on vigor and enter prise, that it will fall chiefly on the ordinary shareholder, that 1t will hit the cooperative companies as they have never been hit before and so on But the praise ig more abundant than the criticism.
 "The new taz," says the London Times, lis in some degree voluntary levy, for it has been devised by the taxpayers Themselves nt was partly the product of pressure from q united House of Com mong) to yield far more than the Chan cellor of the EZchequer proposed to ob- tain by compulsion. That is fine feather in the cap of democratic institutions" II all sounds very British. Americans don't get so enthusiastic about any tax.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
Selected Poem
TO A SOLITARY ANT

tvsltna Hitchcock in the Christian Science Monitor On what important euand are you bent This lovely summer morning. little Ant7 The dew lies lightly on the waking wood Where other creatures stir ln aiisst of food. Grass springs like emerald ribbon in ths path. The last mist VAnislss@h silver wrath. Where hts your eomrsdSs7 Have thsy, one by one, Turned sluegafd leaving you to drudge aions1 Or may t be you are the malcoutsnt Browning upon ths scheme Of things sxtantf If you but paused moment. you would see The sky lean down to rest on y0tidsf tree The earth reach upward. eager for tbe sun Ttiat dips its copper Gar bi night t00 soon. Or mark the stealth Of shadows coming toward The marble hvinph who stAres with fixed regard Among ths myftles, and you might perhaps Abandon business end delay your steps Or half inclined to never work again Become as siothfui ss are certain tnsni Feeling the day about you like \ tsnt
 You would think forget 10 be an ant
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
Answers To Questions
essr,sht isss. HEA
By Frederick M. Kcrby

Q. want to participate in the EFick Up i-coi cd note next glider contest. To whom should 1 write for information.
 A. It. Comdr. Ralph Barnaby, 634 Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Is president of the Soaring Society of America. Enclose fl stamped. addressed envelope for a reply.
 c. What is the origin of the name Ecuador2
 A. The country is named for the Equator, Spanish Ecuador. the itn- aginhry circle around the middle Of the earth, which runs through Ecuador.
 c. Who was the first American ambassador 10 F'rance7
 A. James B. Eustis, of Louis innh.
 Q. What was the title of Jack fscnny's first picture, and when was it made2
 A. Hollywood Revue of l02D." released in that year.
 c. How long after sewing or- enid seeds do the plants bloom?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26

dwelling in Oklahoma now for many years are anxious 10 return to their ancestral homes in Coahuifa, Mexico. A group of tribcsmen and chieftalns re- gently waited on President Lazaro Car denas and pcttioned him to return them the wilderness land that once was theirs. Tribal legends say the Seminoles first dwelt in Mexico, but emigrated into the United States about the middle Of the 10th century. Now they want to forsake Uncle Sam as their foster father and get back to the Wilds It's 0. k. by us; how about you, Cardenas2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26

Up near Keene, N. H., this week an obliging conductor on q train had 1t stopped so that he might pick up a bunch of mountain laurel for an ad- hiring woman passenger. She had never seen laurel before and marveled at it. No doubt living up to company rules that the passenger must always be satisfied the conductor halted the train and soon had laurel for the lady. Now if that had been in Connecticut, he could have been arrested unless 1t so happened the laurel was on railroad property
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26
Current Comment

From the reports, ! should eay aii actual war is on. sufficient to justify application of our neutrality law to all parties now participating both under cover and openly, --~genator William E. Borah, Idaho, commenting on tlle spanish situation.
  Wallis Warfleid is rendering the greatest style influence in Hollywood history.
 ..orry Kelly. Hollywood stylist.
  Mems voices. as . rule. arc warfIi- CT than womefi's and are more con- dueive to sleep.
 --Chafies kullman, tenor, ad- vising nsn to sling ltillabies to their children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-26

age" A recent study by the Michi- gan Department of Labor fully sup- ports the Pennsylvania figures.
 T'wcnty-one per cent Of the cons eerns which reported to the N. M. A.. said the adoption Of maxi- mum hiring age was due 10 the pol- icy of industrial pensions. These systems have been adopted ezten- sively in recent years in order to induce young workers to remain with the plant. Approximately 400 concerns employing over 100000 workers have now adopted formal industrial pension systems. Such pensions usually provide for the re- tirement of employees at the age of 65 Or 70. Most American concerns have not recognized any obligation toward old employees who have not been with them for the specified period.
 Workers who are 10 benefit by these pensions must begin their employment nt an age which makes it possible for them to qualify. Most such systems call for 25 years efn- ployment.
 Miss Frances Perkins of the U. B. Department of Labor said some time ago that there are only | few industrial pension plans that are decsntiy and well conducted and perhaps financially sound, where provision has been made for old employees who stay in a particular firm for 20 or 70 years. But the sta- tistics of the U. B. Department Of Labor show that only about , l-2 per cent of all employees of any firm ever stay in the employ for so long time as that. In the end only q handful Of employees will benefit by these pensions.
 FRED EDWARDS,