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NEW PLOT IN SPAIN
500 CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED
MADRID, July **.
With more than 500 alleged con spirators arrested throughout Spain, government officials said to-day they believed a large scale revolutionary plot against the re- public had been nipped in the bud.. Numerous syndicalist, Tradi- tionslist and anarchist centres, have bern closed, and more than 150 ar rests made at Barcelona, over 100 inch at Madrid and Seville and others at Huesca and other import ant cities.
Premier Manuel Azina said in a statement he had not left the war office ministry since Friday and was devoting his full attention to the reported plot.
Ready to Act.
"I am not at liberty to tell much except that it was a well financed movement in which syndicalists, Pacists, rightists and others, were uniting and had ramificatione throughout Spain,' the "premier
said.
"We have taken every precau tion and believe ourselves to the ready for any emergency.
Those arrested are only the most import ant. The government feels obliged to take these steps in order to possible serious results.
"With the discovery of this plot we believe we have definitely lifted cloud which has hung over Spain for several weeks and believe the storm has been officially averted.”
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Among those held was the promi- nent Traditionalist leader. Maree- lino Ajea. Police said they found Seville. The Traditionalist news Fascist literature in his home at
paper La Union was suppressed.
Indications. of the government's counter move first came to light yesterday when the syndicalist and anarchist centres were ordered closed. The roundup of suspects was among the most extensive since the short-lived military revolt, at Seville last August.
15 LEADERS SENTENCED
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MADRID, SPAIN, July 24. Sentences were imposed to-day on to of the leaders of the August 10, 1932, military uprising, ranging from 3 to 2 years,
RECOVERY" IN
THE UNITED STATES
Mr. Roosevelt's Confidence
PROGRAMME FOR
INDUSTRIES
Washington, July 20-President Roosevelt declared to-day his in- dustrial recovery programme can- eiga for shorter working ours and higher wages was successful.
General Hugh Johnson, ad- ministrator of the sweeping new industrial regime initiated by the recent Congress at Roosevelt's re- quest, predicted the re-employment of between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 persons now, idle beldre labour day in September.
..
At the same time Johnson reveal ed that the administration was watching the import situation be- cause of the increased costs of domestic production and the posar bility of an influx of cheap foreign goods.
We have asked the tariff com mission to stand by and will act promptly if necessary Johnson said.
This meant the administrator was considering asking the Presi- dent to impose higher duties and embargoes if necessary to keep cheaply-made imports from under selling domestic goods, made more costly by the higher labour expen- ditures.
Roosevelt told newspapermen that he based his judgment of suc- cess on the reaction to his cam- paige to enlist employers A and minimum wages, citing that voluntary code of shorter hours 12,000 replies already have been received from every section of the country to his nationwide appeal of Tuesday night.
The President was described_as convinced that the shorter working rek and higher wages will be effective almost immediately in the vast majority of industries.' The new voluntary code, designed to supplement the codes for various individual industries as provided in the industrial recovery act, is to be effective until the end of the year,
Secretary of Labour Frances Per- king reported a few days ago that more than 300,000 persons had been re-employed during June, according to reports to her department.
Lieutenant-General Jose Caval. canti, against whom the death sen
The administration's new volun- tence was asked, was given 10 years.
tary industrial code, approved only General Emilio Perez and Co-last week and presented to the lonel Antonio Ortega were sentenc country by Roosevelt's address of ed to 22 years "imprisonment each, Tuesday, provides for a maximum while 12 others were given senten
of 40 hours a week for clerical and ces up to 20 years.
other such employees and 35 hours The remainder of those on trial for mechanical and factory work. were acquitted.
ers. No worker is to exceed eight hours a day.
Leader in Paris,
Minimum wages graduate from General Emilio Herrera, a per- 13 to 14 a week, depending on sonal friend of ex-King Alfonso population. Employers pledge them. XIII and of the late Dictator Gen-selves not to increase their prices erul Miguel Primo de Rivera,the over the July 1 level more than real leader of the movement as he himself has publicly admitted-is Paris, having escaped from Madrid by airplane after the fai- lure of the movement.
in
NETWORK OF" SPEED ROUTES
WHOLE COUNTRY TO BE COVERED
made necessary by increased pro- duction and muat pledge against profiteering.
Business Activity Shows Increase. Washington, July 98.-President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared to day that the flood of telegrams re- ceived following his radio address to the nation Monday pleading sup- port for the all-industry code, in- dicated. success for the administra tion's industrial recovery pro-
gramme."
Federal Reserve figures show that business activity during the month of June and early July was the brightest it has been since April 1931,
Although 11,000,000 are still un employed Green hoped that this number would be greatly reduced through the operation of President Roosevelt's industrial recovery pro
Berlín, July 4. Vast schemes for providing em William Green, "bead of "the ployment are now taking shape its American Federation of Labour, part of the Nazi programme.
The most important of these the United States had been re-em- reported that 1,500,000 people in schemes is undoubtedly that for theployed since March of this year. » construction of a huge network of motor speed roads linking up the whole of Germany from east to west and north to south. These are to be built by a subsidiary company of the State Railway Company called the Reich Motor Bondsramme This arrangement provides for a co-ordination of road and rail. ·
A toll is to be paid by users of the speed roads which will be carried across ordinary roads, by bridges or tunnels. This is prob- ably the largest schemes of the kind attempted in any country.
The motor industry has already benefited by the abolition of the motor tax on new cars, MA
An old project for building a railway tunnel under the heart of Berlin, between the northern ter minus at the Stettiner Bahnhof and the southern terminus, the Anhulter Bahnhof, is also being gushed forward energetically.
The regulations for carrying out these big Government employment schemes provide that contracts can only be given to firars which guar- antee to introduce a 40-hour week by June 30, 1934. Unemployed offered work under these schemes cannot as hitherto refuse it on the ground that the wages are below agreed wage rates in the industry in question,
vise the distribution of the new op portunities of employment given by the Government schemes,
Pressure on Employers.
The Dortmunder Generale An zeiger gives interesting informa tion as to the manner in which Nazis are being found work. *
"Rindermann's" z shop in Hamm, has been forbidden to sell party badges and uniforms (an import ant line of business nowadays). and has been placed on the list of shops banned for party members be cause it refused to employ a partý. member described as fully quali had and as having offered his services on favourable terms."',.
The Nai Employees? Association: the National Socialist Workers, cell organisation, which is in many respects functioning as a Trade Union," though it is officially only. supposed to penetrate the ranks of the workers with the National So cialist spirit, has been active in Trustees of Labour appointed preventing firms from dismissing with dictatorial powers to take the
hands. The policy is justified hy place of the old arbitration courts the necessity of maintaining, the decide all wage questions which purchasing power of the workers' may arise while the new labour which is of greater importance at code is in preparation, and siper the moment than the earning of (Continued at foot of next columu) a dividends,
TWO SHAKESPEARE MANUSCRIPTS
DECLARED GENUINE BY RECORDS OFFICE
"
London-Two important Shake. speare manuscripts, known as the "Disputed Revel Accounts," and recording payments for the per- formances of various playa, includ ing some by. "Shaxberd" before the Court at Whiteball in the win- ter reasons of 1604-5 and 1611-19, are officially declared to be genuine by the Fublic Records Office.
These documents are of special, interest as indicating Shake speare's established position as a city has been questioned, particu- Court playwright. Their authenti larly in America, but the action of the Public Records Offee should establish their genuineness" for all time.
Two years ago the Deputy Keep- er of the Records expressed the of opinion, after an examination their ink and paper under the microscope and a comparison with contemporary documents, that the manuscripts were genuine.
Ön Exhibition.
They have now been placed on public exhibition for the first time. label stating accompanied by a that their authenticity has been established; and a similar state- ment appears in print in the new catalogue of the Records Office Museum, published to-day (H.M. Stationery Office, 18. net).
In the 1604-3 winter season at the Court of James I. the two plays attributed to "Shaxherd "one of the more surprising spellings of" the playwright's name are The Plaic of Errors" and "Mesur for
Wives of Windsor" were also per- Mesur." "Othello," "Love's La bour Lost." and The Merry formed (the last named on a Sun- day), although no made to the identity of their author. The 1811-12 season, includ- ed"The Tempest" and "A Win- ter's Tale.".
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Another document which makes its first appearance in the new catalogue is one, bearing the signa- ture of Shakespears in the case of Bellat. Mountjoy, while his con- temporary, Marlowe, is more gloomily represented by a record of the Coroner's inquest at Deptford following his death in a tavern brawl.
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