The people's voice., 1940-01-10

and possibly petroleum, would be
safer and better. 1t would seriously
cripple Japan in her war on China,
because Japan gets more than 75 per-
cent of her scrap iron from the United
States.
This country can straighten out
the Far Eastern mess by telling ia
pan we will sign a new trade pact
and withdraw our soldiers from China
on condition that she does likewise.
/ believe she can be induced to give
up her venture in China
1t seems to this column that the
congressman is a little too optimistic
about our ability to straighten out
the Far Eastern situation. Japan is
committed to a policy of which it Will
be very difficult to dissuade her-un-
less her military men feels that hui
initiating defeat in China is inevita-
BILE 1t is hardly likely that they do.
Sentiment, however, is growing in
Washington for more firm hand in
our dealings with Japan.
What's Smith After?
Howard Smiths NLRB committee
investigating the labor board and the
working of the Wagner act is reliably
reported to have issued a subpoena
directing certain organization to pro-
duce all its correspondence relating
to the production of the federal gov
ernment's documentary films, "The
River and "The Plow that Broke the
Plains" and all correspondence in the
production of pins and Needles"
Some weeks ago the Washington
chapter of the National Lawyers
Guild was served with a subpoena by
Smiths committee directing that it
produce all it's records since its incep-
tion, including financial transactions.
dues paid, contributions, etc. When
the lawyers appointed a special COM
mittee to look into the matter, the
subpoena was promptly withdrawn.
Got EN- Coming and Going
Because it has been forced to COM
ply with the wage-hour provisions OF
the Fair Labor Standards Act, tex
tile mill in Columbia, South Carolina,
has decided to sell its shacks in the
mill village to its workers-at prices
fixed by itself.
Payments are to be deducted from
the workers pay envelopes. The
worker is thus out of luck, since if
he doesn't live in the mill village he
is minus a job The fact that the
mill is operating at near capacity be-
cause of war orders makes no differ
ence to the management in its treat
ment of it's workers.
The Pan American Union will soon
have a labor office, headed by Ernesto
Galarzo, at present in charge of the
Union for Intellectual Cooperation.
The republicans are finding it a
mans sized job to convince the Amer
lean public that f. d. r. is a danger
)us war-monger. Leopold Sto
kowski's all-American youth orches-
ira, which will tour South and Cen
.ral America, will be recruited
through the offices of the NYA.
DR.. Thomas Reed, director OF re-
search for the Republican National
Committee, says that the G. o. z. In
he forthcoming campaign will not at
.ack the social welfare policies" OF
he new deal, but will attack the new
leal spending policies" Since the
after is part and parcel of the former
We cannot see how you can consist
entity attack one without also attack
ng the other.
Number of farms which now nave
ligh line electric service has more |
han doubled since the Rural Electri-
ication Administration was estap-
ished in 1885, the number increasing
rom 743,954 to approximately Iioo'-
OO-one-fourth of all the farms in the
United States.