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NOTES OF THE DAY CORPORATION CONTROL The Very Idea!

ANOTHER LOCK-OUT

IN ITALY

By SIGNOR PAUL CREMONA

BOGGE NY PETHA

FILM-FANS, I see, have

been invited to re-

TTALY'S projected economic sys- Threa employers And three name a star. A fascinating

tem of state corporations in workers representing the cotton exercise. about to go into effect.

trades:

The United States will apparent- ly face another major strike to- Workers' morrow. The Marino Industrial Union has voted almost unanimously for a militant strike, demanding a basic wage of U.S.876 per month for an eight-hour day,

A total of 22 corporations are One employer and ono worker Quite a number of our better- an increase in steamship crows of twenty-three per cent, and the included in the plan, divided into for the sheep-breeding and wool-known performers are getting

themselves rechristened. right to join any union members three main groups, agriculture, in-growing industry:

Two employers and two workers wish. On the face of it, the de-dustry and commerce.

The corporativo system will be for the woollch artd worsted Indus- mand seems fair enough. Just what the basic wage implies is not administered by the Minister of made clear by despatches, but It cannot mean "minimum". It will probably apply to able neamen and firemen. As for the increase in crows, it ia far from likely that the operators will give in on that point, but possibly a compromiso may be reached. At the moment the lock-out applies only to the Atlantic and Gulf steamers, but there is a distinct possibility that the strike may spread.

TIME OF FORECASTS

Corporations, who Benito Mussolini.

la Premier

Take, for examples, Httle "Rammle" MacDonald, who starred One employer and ong worker Ship of State. Ho's changing his name. He proposes, I bolleve, will be ench for the silk-breeding, all to be known an "Halcyon Dither.""

Then there's wee Johnny Simon, the "young innocent" of Peace Perfect Peace. In future (they tell me) his name will be "Flutewell Unction." "Uncommon," don't you think?--but then Johnny's an un- common child,

The vice-president selected from the ranks of the cocoon raising, silk-reeling and Fascist party, and three members throwing, silk-weaving, rayon mak- of that party will hold places on ing and rayon weaving;

Two employers and two workera the board of each corporation, representing the public interests. for the linen and hemp industry; Heads of government depart- One employer and one worker menta concorned in matters pre- for the jute industry; and so on. sented to the corporations are entitled to participate In board

Lots of similar changes are on the meetings, whose agenda will bo At the basis of the system, the tapis. I've only space to mention submitted to the ministers, thus, ayndical organisation of employers one or two. "Herbie" Samuel, the insuring close contact between and employed, created by the Act star of Crossing the Floor, is to r the corporations and the public of April 3, 1925, remaine intact. | appear as "Steadfast Prim," Jimmy administrationa.

It regulates relations between Thomaa ("Let's be 'Appy") a

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BOGGE NY PETHA.

Hongkong Telegraph. President Roosevelt is What, in Federations are also entitled to supervise and direct the financial strong-Irish, Welsh, some sort of

TUESDAY, OCT. 9, 1934.

MORE NEW DEAL

to These are

When I was a boy I talked

taisli lotta do..

wiski mann

Akecha legout

on the spri ruku

pilchard ... pasty smuggler artist

hiker

char-a-banc landlady

I shall be glad to print news in

While the seamen are preparing to walk ashore, the political lobbies

The presence of experts on the capital and labour and affords the "Strut Noodles," and Lealle Hore- are watching the course of their specific matters dealt with at the basis for the vocational representa- Belisha (Whitehall Express) in the respective ships now coming into several meetings can be secured tion of employers and employed, curious guise of "Muffled Hoots." the stormy waters of electioneering.by the president, and the study of now brought together in the cor- Next month will see the issue de purely technical matters may be porations,

Well, well; I suppose-like the cided: whether or not the United referred to the National Research The General Confederations, well-known roses they'll all of States people are prepared to under: Council and similar bodies. now reduced from 13 to 9 by the 'em smell just as sweet. write the Roosevelt, policy and

auppression of the twin confedora-

Or not, as the case may be. Aupport the N.R.A. Unquestionably

tions for internal communications there in a certain amount of back- sliding, us in California where Mr. Sinclair has bulit himself a strong-persona designated by the qualified gamate with the twin confedera syndical associationa and the tions of Industrial employers and hold of neo-Democracy, flanked by other bodies represented on a cor-industrial workers, will continue I see an attempt is to be made to promises of weird socialistic re- poration to attend meetings for to co-ordinate the activities of the revive the old Cornish tongue. forms. But generally speaking the. Democrats seem to be in the ascen- the study of specific questions or several syndical adspelations (pro- Good luck to it ("Bogge ny to accure fuller representation of vincial unions and national federa-Petha"): Cornish is another of dancy still. Recent primary rc- turns have certainly indicated that certain interests involved. The tions) which head up to their these funny Celtic dialects, of of the General Con-respective confederations, to which several are now going take part in meetings called to administration of the whole ays- Scotch and (I believe) Manx as

well. consider activities coming within, tem.

The Immediato value and point- the scope of their respective or-

The more the merrior, say 1. ganisations.

bilities of this new organisation of Mr. Rodney Dutcher, the Wash- In setting up the several cor-production and services can hardly I all makes for culture and what- NAVAL RIVALRIES ington commentator, says all theparations an effort has been madej be exaggerated. It confers not and does nobody any harm. genuine New Dealers and young to include in each all the branches large measure of self-governing Washington hints that the liberals, which include most of the of the cycle of production with powers on the productive activities Cornish quite a lot, at Trejenpol. promise of Franco-Italian accord brain trust people, are delighted which it is to deal, thus bringing of the country and assures the Tropenpol is but a few miles from with what they consider Indications together the producers and con-active participation of the pro- Mousehole, where old Dolly Pen- may have important consequen- of a general and consistent swing somers of a given product, ns, for ducers themselves in the planning troath lived. Here RTO поте ces on Britain's attitude at the to the left. There will be more instance, in the paper and publish- and regulation of Italian economic characteristic words and phrases, Naval Conference to be held New Deal rather than less, they be ing corporation, producers of life, and this in transition period so far as I remember them. next year must, at the moment, lieve. They point with pride to paper and publishers; brick and when theories, methods, and poll- be taken with reserve. The President Itoosevelt's ondorsation cement makers and builders in the cigs are undergoing drastic re- suggestion is that if Italy and of the La Follette principles, his building trade corporation; pro- vision and when new adjustmenta France come to an agreement in apparent friendliness with Mr. ducers of textile fibres and spin- are being made which will pro- Upton Sinclair, a generous treainers and weavers in the textile foundly affect the future of the respect of the naval situation in

country for a long time to come. ment of labour, the departure, of | corporation, etc. the Mediterranean, Britain may General Johnson, and the growing

Throughout the system, and at refrain from further building antagonism of big business"

every stage of the work; the and align herself with the the administration.

The need of harmonizing these national interest in safeguarded United States in seeking to proofs positive that the Roosevelt-contrasting interests will avoid against undue pressure of special Cornish occasionally when the maintain the present ratios, in- "didn't used to be, as Mr. Dutcher might become monopolistic organs the corporations of officials repre

Democrats are something that they the danger that the corporationa Interests through the presence on "Duchy" is educated up to it. stead of with Japan, who is said puts it. So that a Democrat vie for the protection of special inter-seating the Government and mem- |to favour additional construction. tory in the next election will not exts, and a dynamic character labers of the Fascist Party.

The reports to this effect are at necessarily please the stiff-backed thus conferred on the whole sys- present described as purely un-old party men.

tem whose purpose is to promote)

Particularism production along the lines most

In avoided by official, and may have been given currency rather to test Japan's | FRANCE GOES RIGHT

consonant with national interests. requiring that the decisions by the reactions than anything else.

The comprehensive 'character of corporations be ratified by the Whatever may be the trend at the several corporations is clearly, General Assembly of the National Grounds for doubt arise under Washington, France has swung to shown by the membership of their Council of Corporations, on which several headings. In the first the Rixit, if the returns from the respective boards, on which equal all branches of economic activity place, there is not as yet any Provincial Council elections are representation and equal rights are represented, and the suprem- definite suggestion that the any indication of the feeling of the are assured to employers and em-ney of the state is insured by the Franco-Italian accord will cover nation's electors.

It is generally ployed. naval matters, although it is believed that the rightist-trend As their composition is a matter effect when embodied in a decree presumed that any comprehen- algnifies antisfaction in Premier of much interest to all students of issued by the Chief of the Govern sive rapprochement between the His economies were earlier looked production, there follows, as ex-

Domergue's plan of campaign, the corporative organisation of ment.

Subject to the safeguards above two countries would most likely upon with some misgiving by cer-emplifying the principles involved, mentioned, the National Counell aim at an understanding on this tain sections of the country and the the composition of the board of the of Corporations will exercise, issue. M. Barthou's intended intimation that he would borrow Textile Corporation.

within the sphere in which it is visit to Rome in the near future from the British Constitution to It should be remembered that qualified to act, what are virtually will most likely throw light on effect certain French reforms called under the Corporation Law enact-legialative powers, without which this point. When we come to up a cry of protest from more con-ed in February of this year, this the corporations' control of econ-

servative persona. There were corporation like all the others can omic activities could not be effec consider the possible effects of those who wanted oven more radical elther meet as a whole or by sec- tive, such an agreement on the 1935 changes than M. Doumergue pro- tions as the questions to be dealt The agricultural section com- Naval Conference, however, the posed to give them, and they were with may demand. The member-prises the following nine corporn- issue becomes more involved, | crying too. And then there was ship follows:

(Continued in Page 5). In the first place, there are that group which is always “agin conflicting versions regarding the people's representatives try to the government", no matter how Japan's probable attitude. On do their duty. Now, it looks as the one hand, there is the ques- though France has had enough of tion of the Japanese insistence riotous roforming-for the present on parity as between Britain and and would follow M. Doumergue France; on the other, a new wherever he has a mind to lead. suggestion that Japan, so far from seeking naval expansion, will bring forward a plan based on reduction of offensive arma-

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TERRITORIAL PARADOX

and

It is an odd development that in ments. As we have previously the Philippines, soon to be in- hinted, it is possible to reconeile ed as the official language, while in dependent, English has been adopt- these two attitudes on a basis of the solidly American territory of Japan' putting forward a demand Puerto Rico, Spanish has taken the that Britain and America como place of English as the accepted down to her level, but such a medium of Instruction in elemen- solution of the problem is scarce-tary schools, The Puerto Ricans ly likely to be endorsed. It is speak Spanish from the cradle up- not easy to interpret the recent conduct the olementary schools ward. Efforts have been made to statement by Rear Admiral bilingually, with English Yamamoto, delegate to the pre- Spanish used side by side. Now, paratory conference in London, however, the instruction is to bo to the effect that nations should solely in Spanish, with instruction be permitted sufficient naval in English reserved for high strength to guarantee their no- English is the only language schools. But in the Philippines, tional security, but not to con- thoroughly diffused throughout the stitute a menace to others. But falands. Spanish is the language whatever is precisely meant by of pollte society; English is the this declaration, it is obvious language in which business is con- that a difficulty immediately have voted to make English the ducted. The Filipinos themselves arises on the point as to who is official tongue. So the American to determine when a Navy comes territory will speak Spanish, and within the first or the second of the independent Philippines will these categories. Looking at continue to "talk American

situation generally, it

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speculate, with any degree of guiding points may, however, certainty or even probability, on emerge from the preliminary the attitudes of the participants discussions which are soon to in next year's Conference. Some take place in London.

fact that the decisions only take

Too busy this morning, Mr. Parks. Might squeeze in a game this afternoon,"

DUMB-BELLES LETTERS By Juliet Lowell,

In opening the pail,

I ruined the wooden tid.

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A Fish Story.

Philadelphia, Pa. February, 25, 1930. Frank E. Davis Fish Co., Gloucester, Massachusetts. Gentlemen:

You recently sent me a pall of salt mackerel,

In opening the pail-(my first offence) I ruined the wooden lid please send me to above address a wooden lid to At this pail.

My Kentucky wife thinks fish Is something you buy to fertilize the, ground-so-this lot of fish are now in quarantine until the ld' comes. Why not put a paster on the kit telling how to open In a small apartment?

Yours truly,

Donald K

(signed).

KIND THOUGHTS..

In summer time at Farling.

The rosa in gemmed'with dow.. And all the little greenfly

Its tender leaves do chew. The dirty dogs, they do

In summer time they're breeding ...

.. Ten millions every day;

And when their aunts and unclos And cousins come to stay,---- With soap-sude let us spray.

The only garden pest to whom the poets have given any publicity at all is the butterfly, and that, of a course, has merely encouraged tho binckguard to further efforts,

Behind his falty-like and fraglio form the butterfly is a loathsome brute who lays eggs on cabbages, whence como noxious caterpillară. who make anld cabbages as full of " holes ́as a lace curtain."

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