THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY,
ROOSEVELT HOLDING A TRUMP CARD?
U.S. LABOUR UNREST
SIXTY STRIKES IN PROGRESS
PRESIDENT'S ACTIVITY
CONFERENCES AT WHITE HOUSE
(Spesial to "Telegraph")
(by Telegraph. Copyright, Zaleprophie Miss- Ordinance, 1974. Envolved Maren
Washington, Mar. 21. Growing labour unrest continues to thrust all other problems into the back- ground.
More than sixty strikes
Are already in progress, though they do not involve more than 35,000 persons.
Several thousand taxi drivers in New York are among them, while six thousand нhoo workers in Masschusetts have downed tools,
Sharp words occurred in Con- gress to-day over the situation,
Senator Borah blamed greedy industrial combines for the labour unreat and demanded action by the Government to bring a halt to monopolistic practices.
of
DEMANDS REDUCED.
Meanwhile, there is hope that the throat . of An automobile workers alriko will be averted. The American Federation Labour has agreed to restrict their Immediate demands to a plea for the election of the workers' own representatives to bargain with the employers, together with the establishment of a Grievances
Board.
President Roosevelt, after con- tinued effort to solve the railway controversy, met the automobile manufacturers in the first of a series of crucial conferences.
In his efforts to avert the strikes threatening his recovery
Pro- gramme, the President indicatoa that he is prepared to use-all posai- ble Influence and power.-United Prcan.
CRYPTIC STATEMENT.
Provident Roosvelt and
Johnson.
General
will exert his personal fnfluence.
If that falla, drastic poworn under the National Recovery Act
remain,
A TRUMP CARD?
It is, however, generally felt that undisclosed proposal which Mr. Roosevelt Is keeping up his alcevo will nvert more drastic action.
GOMEZ DYING?
BELOVED DICTATOR OF VENEZUELA
NO BIDS RECEIVED.
RESTAURANT BUILDING
WITHDRAWN
П resorve
of
MARCH 22, 1934.
BRITAIN'S
FIRST MASTER AIR PILOT
750,000 MILES IN SKY LINERS
Britain's first Master Air Pilot Port-au-Prince, Mar. 21.
The five-storey building at 25 is Captaiá L. A. Walters, one of the News that the aged President Des Voeux Rond Central, with a Imperial Airways veterans. Juan Viconto Gomez, Dictator of ground area of nearly 6,400 sq. ft.,
His certineate, just granted, ja Venezuela for the past 25 years, formerly housing the Chinese the first issued by the Air Ministry. is gravely ill, has stirred the large Restaurant connected with the Hitherto, there have been two Venezuela colony, hore, including Wombley Exhibition of 1924-5, types of licence the "A" for both loyalists and exiled, rebels. and now defunct, was put up for private pilots and the "B" for pilots Following a trans-Atlantic con-auction yesterday in the China qualified to fly for hire or reward. sultation with Parla, a special Rooms, with
The new cortificato is only grant- Aeroplane was chartered to rush placod by the mortgagees, Messrs.
prico ed to airmen who have flown 1,000 leeches from Trinidad to the Pre-A. Tack & Co., on whose instruc-hours in civil aircraft during the aldont's afckbed at-Caracas. tions the sale was hold,
previous five years, and night flying The Venezuelan Consul states,
A tentative upact price of cross-country or oversen flights, experience, including at least 20 however, that the leeches were $850,000 (understood to др found to bo unnecessary.
proximate the extent
begun and completed at night, are Loyallats are anxious
the necessary. aa remortgage) commenced the pro- gards a probable Buccensor. A ceadings, but only one bid within Ho hegan piloting cross-Channel Captain Walters is 36 years old, revolution is feared in Venezuela the minimum limit of $1,000, was air-liners in 1928, and has HOW as the rebels are sharpening their forthcoming without swords and assembling in secret. anywhere near the reserve price, ing 750.000 miles.
reaching flown 7,500 hours ns a pilet, cover- believing that the death of Gomez The property was finally with is expected shortly-Reuter, drawn.
Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sousa, the auctioneer, prior to oponing the By admirers and enemies alike, sale, described the building as Gomez
valuable is acknowledged as the very Dicintor par excellence. Venezuela situated as it is in the heart of desirablo, had experienced her seventieth re-the business centre, and within volution in 100 years when he direct reach of the Post Office and from the absent President Castro people, mostly Chinese, present. anatched the reins of Government Radlo office, banks and hotels.
There were quite a number of
Gomez Carcer.
He announced that there was
and
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S'hai. Docke S'hai. Trams bond. S'hal. Wharves the finest high- Ewo Cottona
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S'hai Cottons (Old)
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to be one party in future and In- vited the co-operation of the war- Not a single foreigner owns a ring factions. By shear force of Venezuelan Government In the meantime, Mr. William H. his personality he secured that There is no unemployment and the Groon, President of the Federation co-operation and, aided by the country boasts
Labour, has urged the motor discovery of oil, made his country way system in Latin America. down their demands to the union labour leaders to narrow lourish. To-day, Venezuela's Gomez has many enemies liv-5'hal Cottons (New) adjudicate in charges of dis- got and a surplus of $13,500,000. posts for his so-called advisers. S'hai. Lonns.org tion of a neutral Review Board to money is the soundest in the Ing in exile. Most of them loft Langkat, Single crimination against the members
world. She has a balanced Bud- the country when he abollehed all S'hai. Explorations
crea-
of their unions, and the Immediate selection of the employees' repre- sentatives for collectivo bar- Kaluing.
NO DISCLOSURES.
Later, The motor conference at the White House broke up without statement that the manufacturera any announcement beyond the
canvassed the situation from the the
employers' side and that President sought Information on many points.
There will be a similar meeting representatives of the workers will 10-morrow afternoon, at which the. be prosent.
Government leaders are said to be, hopeful of obtaining a solut- tion of the dispute-Reuter.
re
RAILWAY SITUATION,
Washington, Mar. 21. The railway workers have jected President Roosevelt's wage recommendation, preserving the status quo for alx months, but have President Roosevelt will leanin-the-dispute-by-Mr-Eastman, accepted his offer of arbitration "back in his chair and let the motor
the Railway Coordinator-Renter, manufacturers do the talking when, accompanied by General Hugh Johnson, they present their
Washington, Mar. 21.
against recognition of ordinary labour unions late this afternoon.
The only hint of the President's attitude was given at the Press Conference to-day when the some- what cryptic statement was made that the only rule prevalling was that when people were in dire want and lacked food, the Govern; mont was going to try to keep them from starving.
President Roosevelt to-morrow meets the representatives of thirteen separate motor unions and then, having heard both sides,
蔽
US. BOND THEFT.
SHIPPED TO C.C. JULIAN IN SHANGHAI?
Los Angeles, Mar. 21. Department of Justice Investi- gators, inquiring into wholesale thefts of Liberty Bonds, announc ed to-day that they learned that large quantities of the stolen bonds are alleged to have been shipped to C. C. Julian, former oil operafer and now a fugitive from American justice In Shanghai- Reuter.
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