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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1934
Page
1
Amalgamated leaders decline comment as officials hail a proposed labor bill. Bank executives and filers expect President Roosevelt to intervene, hoping Congress can pass the measure to avert strike action.
Pittsburgh delegates convene to study Wagner bill and seek 72 hour intervention. Operators brace for possible midnight walkout. Washington pushes for 300 word industrial relations control bill to empower a new board. New York iron and steel institute reports majority executive attendance in monthly meeting. Cleveland notes high employer turnout and opposition to professional unions amid primary results.
Pittsburgh June 13 union leaders study Roosevelt administration's revised Wagner bill as a special steel workers convention prepares to declare. Michael F Tighe 72 president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers says the bill will be discussed. An officer calls the proposal mighty fine if it can pass Congress as is. The delegates' choice is whether to delay action.
Tighe urges a presidential representative address the Pittsburgh convention where a seven point program seeks employer recognition. The union claims delegates represent over a quarter of 400000 steel workers, but operators dispute turnout. Spang argues a fixed walkout time could trigger a strike unless Roosevelt intervenes. The Elk's temple meeting opens to review the June walkout threat after NRA mediation talks.
Washington June 13 The senate Democratic leadership shifts responsibility for quick adjournment and for passage of steel crisis legislation to Republican floor leader Senator McNary of Oregon. A party conference is called for tomorrow to decide. If Republicans approve the remodeled measure adjournment on Saturday seems likely. If not efforts will seek a compromise pushing the session into next week. The senate has labor legislation confirmation of Rexford Tugwell and two bills to dispose of before adjournment including the administration housing bill and the deficiency bill for relief. A large part of today’s session was spent passing several hundred minor bills by unanimous consent before Tugwell’s confirmation is expected tomorrow.
Executives of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway and allied systems stopped briefly in Huntington on an inspection tour. The party included O. P. Van Sweringen M. J. Van Sweringen J J Bernet president and L C Probert vice president of the Chesapeake and Ohio.
Administration presented a bill authorizing secret elections to decide union representation for collective bargaining. The proposal centers on a government board empowered to order elections, compel production of documents, and summon witnesses to carry out provisions of the act and determine employee representation. The measure aims to avoid prolonged congressional conflict while extending labor rights.
Washington June 13 Two major labor measures and a pension plan for rail workers move to fast track in the House tomorrow. The Senate passed the pension bill yesterday and the labor adjust ment board proposal gains House favor with rules committee special privilege. The board would include equal numbers of employee and carrier representatives and be funded by the parties they represent.
The federal emergency relief administration announced grants totaling 2 275 101 dollars to five states. West Virginia receives 87 000 dollars for airport program completion and Tennessee 300 000 dollars for rural schools program completion.
World brief from multiple bureaus notes Washington unable to pay a June debt installment and a plan for partial payments. Senate to vote on Rexford Tugwell confirmation. Navy recovers wreck documents after airliner crash with seven dead. Steel unions threaten a 72 hour walkout without intervention. A mother and daughter die in a Lake Michigan incident. Wagner bill amended to curb strikes. NRA review director Thompson resigns over fascism claim. Mussolini in Napoleon’s apartment as Hitler nears arrival. Missing Japanese vice consul found in a cemetery. Japan and Russia reject full disarmament guarantees.
Premier Mussolini hosted Chancellor Hitler at the villa Pisani at Stra near Venice as preparations began for a morning conference. Mussolini arrived with adviser Fulvio Sovich while guards and staff were swapped to honor the visit. The pair planned a motor ride to Piazzale Roma and a boat trip to Lido where Hitler’s plane would land around 10 oclock.
Washington reports Congress voted final approval of a silver bill to back currency with 25 percent silver. The measure would require purchasing about 1.3 billion ounces of silver to reach the target ratio. The bill now goes to the White House for the president's signature.
Wireless dispatches from the Zacapa describe the Norwegian freighter Knut Hamsun burning and sinking off the Nicaraguan coast after nitrate cargo from Chile caught fire. Fifteen to eighteen crew members are missing while a lifeboat with the captain and sixteen others was rescued after three days adrift. The search for a second lifeboat carrying the mate and sixteen more was abandoned as the ship sank near Quita Suena bank.
The Senate appropriations committee reduced drought relief from 5255 million to 5450 million in the deficiency bill to fund public works and relief programs. The panel reported total appropriations of 1 653 billion, 475 million above the House bill, with a Senate vote set after Tugwell confirmation controversy.
The administration's revised bill to fund a Beedeville West Virginia industrial plant with 650000 dollars for a post office equipment factory was blocked in the Senate by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan. The project would employ residents of subsistence homestead projects at Reedsville.
In Highland Park Illinois a 63 year old mother and her 22 year old daughter bound themselves with rope and swam toward Lake Michigan dawn light. The daughter survived and was revived after being washed ashore. A newsboy found the pair amid notes and identity cards. Neighbors were named in the suicide pact.
Front Royal Va June 13 The Shenandoah Park office says awards for the first two sections of Skyline drive in the northern park area will be made within 24 hours Waugh Brothers of Culpeper and Fayetteville W Va bid 427000 for Front Royal to Compton s Gap 9 76 miles Sammons Robertson Co Inc of Huntington W Va bids 363893 for Compton s Gap to Hogback Mountain 10 55 miles Each project will employ about 200 men
Mount Hope West Virginia June 13. The New River company will hold its fifth annual safety meet at Scarboro on Saturday June 23. N P Rhinehart head of the mines department will be chief judge.
A fox hound named Major owned by A P Hagg of Gratton was trapped in a deep Burkes Garden cavern for eight days and nights after a fox chase. Volunteers using ropes and flashlights rescued Major and he quickly recovered, ready for another hunt.
The Max Baer Primo Camera heavyweight title bout in New York is set for fifteen rounds and will be announced over the loudspeaker by The Daily Telegraph tonight. The fight starts around 9 o clock Bluefield time with Carnera favored, bearing a suspected 60 pound weight edge on Baer while Baer holds a one inch reach advantage.
Washington June 13 Tugwell the president's adviser in agriculture faces senate scrutiny as Bailey and Smith challenge his lack of farming experience and views on national planning. The agriculture committee weighs Tugwell's fitness before his expected confirmation as undersecretary of agriculture.
Senator Hatfield of West Virginia introduced a resolution for a five member Senate investigation into the feasibility of a slash pine paper industry in the South. The inquiry would subpoena witnesses and documents and report by February 1. He cited Mordecai Ezekiel as opposing the industry's development and noted potential savings of 25 to 30 dollars per ton, totaling 50 million dollars yearly.
Six pursuit planes from Langley Field Virginia are ordered to Charleston to join the NRA celebration. They will meet a Washington plane carrying Recovery Administrator Hugh S Johnson and his party due to arrive Saturday morning.
Coroner reports seven dead after the airliner wreck on Last Chance hill. A naval intelligence officer seized all papers and three chemical bottles from victim William A. Bader and left for New York City, while the coroner says he was sworn to secrecy and the federal investigation is delayed.
Newark police hold Vernon B. Shelters on a manslaughter charge after a night drive with Eleanor Coleman 23 of Orange ended with her dead body found in his car in Newark. Doctors cite possible auto strike as the cause. Shelters claims he had no idea how she died.
France informs U S that it cannot meet the June war debt payment joining other debtors while recognizing the debt's validity to U S A. The note to the State Department specifies inability to pay due to current conditions.
Dispatches from Rome and Paris hint at a warmer reception to President Roosevelt's proposal for Britain to settle debts in kind. French Belgian and Czechoslovakian officials say they cannot pay next Friday’s installments. France may accept partial payment in wine and potash to avoid gold depletion. Italy’s hard line against payments could soften if goods payments become possible.
Washington reports France will default on the June 15 debt installment but seeks a new accord acceptable to both sides. Belgium and Czechoslovakia also announce nonpayment, with Belgium due 18.5 million and Czechoslovakia nearly 2.85 million in arrears. France notes debt validity of about 3.96 billion dollars but cites changed conditions.
Sutton West Virginia June 13 state police traced a Dillinger sighting to a small plane in a hollow near Hall burg Clay county. Darrell Hall 23 a farmer said the craft was shipped from Wisconsin and he was attempting to assemble it. Trooper H D Gibbs said ownership and pilot license could not be established and investigation would continue.
Governor Peery indicated he will appoint a new Virginia health commissioner before Dr. Warren Draper’s July 1 resignation. Draper has served since July 1931 and returns to duties as assistant surgeon general in the United States public service.
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