DUKE OF WINDSOR

Evening Star, Issue 22798, 5 November 1937, Page 9

DUKE OF WINDSOR

VISIT TO AMERICA CONDEMNED BY BALTIMORE LABOUR Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, November 3. Mr Charles Bedaux announced that the Duke of Windsor’s investigation would occupy 37 days and would embrace the United States’ 15 basic industries, including machinery, oil, chemicals, textile, tobacco, steel, rubber, paper, timber, and food. The Baltimore Federation of Labour affiliated with the American Federation of Labour, passed a resolution condemning the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s visit, especially to Baltimore. The federation warned trade unionists of “ the potential threat to free labour and free democratic government of slumming parties professing to study labour.” Speakers denounced the Duke for his German visit and seeking labour information from Herr Hitler. They also asserted that the Duchess, while a native of Baltimore, had not shown the slightest sympathy with the problems of labour or the poor. An attack was also made against the couple’s association with Mr Bedaux, who was charged with the authorship of a vicious labour system designed to stretch out working hours. OUTSPOKEN JOURNALIST NEW YORK, November 3. Declaring that they will embarrass every Briton they meet, Mr Hannen Swaffer, journalist and dramatic critic, before sailing for England denounced the decision of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to visit the United States. He said: “I accompanied the Duke when he studied housing in Wales, and if he were half a century in the United States he would know no more than he does now. He is just a middle-aged man married to a middle-aged publicity crazy woman. Her former home in Baltimore is the best show throughout America. I stood in the lucky bath, and in my opinion the Duke ought to put her back in it.” Mr Swaffer was referring to a bath allegedly used by the Duchess, in which the majority of visitors stand or sit “ for luck.”