AMERICAN NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 13093, 15 February 1937, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS

SEQUEL TO AUTO STRIKE. WIDESPREAD PAY INCREASES. OJ.P.A. by Elec. Tel Copyright). DETROIT, Feb.' 13. There ire growing indications that the sctbUomonb of the General Motors srriko is likely to result in pay rises not only throughout tho motor industry but also in related industries. Packard Motors has announced a rise u; five cents per hour. Three Akron Rubber companies have- given inmcases ranging from five to eight per cent.

CLASH AT LAMP PLANT. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN UNION AND NON-UNION FORCES. (If? A. by Eleo Tel. Copyright!. NEW YORK, Feb. 14. A message from Anderson (Indiana) says that industrial difficulties, centring on the Guide Lamp plant 1 f General .Motors, resulted in a clash in which ten persons were injured and the declaration of martial law in the city ant! county. One thousand National Guardsmen are taking control of the area ami blockading roads to prevent tho reported influx of members of the United Automobile Workers’ Union by a motor cavalcade to assist the Lamp workers to organise. Differences between union and anti-union forces were responsible for '.he fighting.

COL L ECTIVE BARGAINING. WILL EXTEND TO OTHER INDUSTRIES. (H.P A. by Eloc. Teb Copyright). Feb. 14, A p.m.) DETROIT, Fob. 14. Mr. Lewis declared that genuine collective bargaining has co-me in the automobile industry. It will start in the steel industry next. He hoped the United States Steel Corporation would approach the problem of union recognition in a rational and constructive way.

LOSS OF AIR. LINER. WERE PASSENGERS ALIVE AFTER' CRASH? (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). OAKLAND (Cal.) Feb. 13. The ,'iftli body from the air liner which plunged into the sea has been recovered from the mud at tho bottom of the hay. -V local newspaper quotes an unnamed aviation expert as saving that ho is positive the eleven occupants of the air liner were alive after the crash and tried vainly to swim ashore. Hi* has pointed out that the safety belts had been opened evidently by the passengers.

LITTER BATTLE. ROOSEVELT HALSES- STORM. DESIRE TO PACK SUI’REAIE T'OURT BENCH. OJ.P.A. b.v Elec. Tel- Copyright). WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Alignments in an increasingly bitlev battle between President '.Roosevelt and the Supreme Court were sharply drawn to-day. Senator King avowed himself an opponent alter a visit to White House with several congressional colleagues in an effort to obtain the President’s consent to a compromise. lie indicated that Mr. Roosevelt was clct( rmined to- “remake’’ The court this session of Congress. •M.-nn.tor Glass announced his opposition and declared that he would take (he floor in the debate against the plan. as also did Senator Wheeler. who declared that the proposals were undemocratic, non-progressive and fundamentally unsound. Senator hr Folio,tte, the recognised leader of die mid-Western Progressives. in a radio address to the nation. supported the plan and asked the people not to submit to “the forces of judicial usurpation which i,t is within the constitutional powers of Congiess to remedy.”

Marjorie Lawrence. • WILL VISIT AUSTRALIA. NEXT YEAR. IU.PA. by Eloe. Tel. Coiiynglit). (Received Feb. 14, 5 p.m.). ■ NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Marjorie Lawrence has finished her American engagements for this season and is sailing on Monday to fulfil her . Monte Carlo, Marseilles and Paris contracts. She informed the Associated Press that she had been compelled to decline a- Metropolitan. invitation tor remain because or European engagements She definitely expects m 1938 to visit Australia after her American Reason.