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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 13, 1937.

ROOSEVELT'S VICTORY

Supreme Court Upholds New Legislation

Sir Eric Drummond Calls Again

Rome, To-day.

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The British Ambassador, Eric Drummond, again saw Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, yesterday and discussed the expulsion orders in... · Abyssinia against the Indian employees of the Mohammed Ali chain stores and British missionaries.

The United States Ambassador,

Japanese Garrison Increased?

Shanghai, To-day.

Rumours are current in Tien tain that the Japanese authori- ties will increase the number of the Japanese troops in North China before May 1 this year. -Our Own Correspondent.

GENERALISSIMO'S BROTHER

Mr. William Phillips, also inter- Funeral To Take Place

viewed Count Ciano regarding the expulsion of American missionar- ies in Abyssinia Reuter.

MR. WU TÈ-CHEN Going To Canton By Morning Express

Canton, To-day.

On Thursday

Will It Affect Plan To Re-Organise Court?

Washington, To-day.

President Roosevelt yesterday won a major vic- tory when the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Relations Act, upholding the right of the National Labour Relations Board to regulate employer- employee relationships in businesses engaged in

inter-state commerce.

THERE WERE FIVE JUDICIAL DECISIONS, ONE OF WHICH WAS UNANIMOUS AND THE OTHERS PASSED BY FIVE VOTES TO FOUR.

Shanghai, To-day. The burial of the late Mr. Chiang Shik-hiau, elder brother of Gener- alissimo Chiang Kai-shek, will take place on Thursday. General Ho

REPRESENTING A MAJOR VICTORY FOR THE GOV- Ying-ching, the War Minister, Gen- eral Chiang Ting-wen, Pacification ERNMENT, THE DECISIONS HAVE LED TO SPECULATION AS TO WHETHER THEY WILL AFFECT PRESIDENT ROOSE- Commissioner of Fukien,” Generals Yang Fu-cheng and Yu Hsueh-chung, VELT'S EFFORTS TO REORGANISE THE SUPREME COURT. Commanders of the North-eastern Army, General Chang Chun, former The decisions upheld the point of dispute in the recent series Mr. Wu Te-chen, new Governor of Foreign Minister, Mr. T. V. Soong Board's orders for reinstatement of sit-down strikes. Kwangtung, will leave Hong Kong and many other military and civil of discharged employees. for Canton to-morrow by the morn-officials are to attend the ceremony. ing express.

It is stated that he will attend a meeting of welcome at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall: to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, and will be sworn into office at 8.00a.m. ON Thursday. Our Own Correspondent.

"Viceroy Of India”

Port Said, To-day. The P. and O. liner Viceroy of India, which ran aground off Port Said on Saturday, sailed at 8.50 yesterday evening. Reuter.

-Our Own Correspondent.

GERMAN FINANCE

MINISTER

Received In Audience

By King Christian

Copenhagen, To-day. The German Finance Minister, Count Schwerin von Krosigk, and the German Minister to Denmark, were received in audience by King Christian yesterday. Trans-Ocean.

IMPORTANT BRUSSELS

GATHERINGS

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In the chief case, the Court, by

FILLIP TO UNIONISATION

five votes to four, declared the Act "Had the Labour Relations Act constitutional as applied to the As-been effective before, the major sociated Press, who claimed the strikes in the automobile indus- Act infringed the constitutional tries would never have happened,” guarantee of freedom of the press said Mr. Homer Martin, President and non-interference with the of the United Automobile Workers. berty of the person without due process of law in respect to the employee.

EMPLOYEE'S CLAIM

The decisions are expected tre- mendously to fillip the prestige of Mr. John Lewis in his unionisation campaign, and to encourage Presi- dent Roosevelt to try again with a Mr. Morris Watson, an employee modified National Recovery Admin- of the Associated Press who was istration order, to regulate hours dismisssed last

year, obtained a and wages in enterprises engaged decision from the Board ordering in inter-state commerce, though the Associated Press to restore the Court's decision in the Jones him to employment on the grounds|Laughlin Steel Company case did that he had been unfairly discrim- not disclose any intention to per inated against as the organiser of mit direct Federal control of wages the Newspaper Guild and had been and hours in factories.--Reuter: dismissed without proper cause.

The Associated Press contended

OSLO CONVENTION EXPERTS MEET: that Mr. Watson had been dismiss-

SCHACHT, EDEN AND DAVIS

Brussels, To-day.

No Withdrawal Of Supreme Court Bill

Washington, Later. Following the announcement of the Supreme Court's decision, the

ed for incompetence, not because of his Guild activities, and if Gov- ernmental bodies were permitted to dictate to the managements of Meetings of the “Oslo Convention Experts" be-newspapers and agencies as to Attorney-General, Mr. Homer Cum-

whom they should employ, the way gan yesterday between the representatives of Scan-would be opened for possible con-mings, stated that any idea that the

President dinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium.

trol of the press or colouring news

might withdraw the Bill for reorganising the Supreme IT IS HOPED IN SOME QUARTERS THAT THE MEET- in accordance with the political be-Court was "hooey. INGS MAY BE A PRELIMINARY TO A GENERAL EUROPEAN

liefs of individual employees.

President Roosevelt's only com- TRADE AGREEMENT, AND SOME OBSERVERS HAVE LINK- The majority of the Court held ment, made informally to Senator ED THEM WITH THE VISITS TO-DAY OF THE REICHSBANK that the Statute did not abridge Bankhead, was "It's a pretty PRESIDENT, DR. HJALMAR SCHACHT, AND MR. NORMAN freedom of speech or freedom of day for all of us, DAVIS, AMERICAN "AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE" AND MR. the press. ANTHONY EDEN, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, LATER IN THE MONTH.

Though there is no official rea- well-informed quarters in Washing-

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son

“GREAT VICTORY”

to consider the visits more ton, says the "Journal of Commerce, Court, which were read before a The decisions of the Supreme than a fortuitous coincidence, it is while other arrangements would packed Court, were described felt, however, that the recent invi-prevent renewed expansion of ex-Senator Wagner, sponsor of the by tation to the Belgian Fremier, M. cess reserves.

Bill bearing his name, as a "great victory for the people of America.”.

van Zeeland, to examine the possi Re-establishment of the open gold bility of removing the obstacles market, adds the journal, is under- impeding internal trade, has given stood to be receiving increasingly Belgium special prestige.

favourable, attention.

The present meetings, which are being held in private, are expected to last four days.--Reuter.

U.S. GOLD RUMOURS PERSIST

New York, To-day.

Meanwhile in Washington, Trea sury officials yesterday flatly denied the reported intention to abolish the the open gold market.—Reuter. inactive gold fund or re-establish

London, Yesterday. China will meet New Zealand

"The decisions,” he added, "may most profoundly affect fu- ture relations between employers: and employees in the United States:”

Reut

BELGIAN RELEASE

FROM OBLIGATIONS

Statement Expected

Shortly

London, Asked in the House of wheher His Majesty's proposed to conçur in Belgium from her provistor bar- carno obligations of 19th upheld 1986, Lord Cranborne said the

The question of collecti gaining.........which the Court for businesses engaged state commerce by its decision in and the Foreign Secretary hoped to

Steel Company, has been the major ly—British w

in inter-ter was under active consideration:

Early action to abolish the Inac its Davis Cup tie at Brighton on April the case of the Jones Laughlin be able to make a statement,

tive gold fund is now expected

in 20 and 30 and May 1Reuter.