IN AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1937, Page 5

IN AMERICA

A HEAT WAVE 50 DEATHS IN AMERICA. J. ’ V (United Press Association—By ElecUß, Telegraph—Copyright;. NEW YORK, July 8. H: Fifty persons have been killed by a heat wave extending from the Atlantic seaboard to the .middle western districts. The temperature in the latter was 110 degrees, and in North Dakota 91 degrees.. Extreme humidity is producing much suffering in New York. In the agricultural areas of the Missouri and Ohio river valleys it is reported that crops are suffering from drought and harvesters are collapsing in the fields. BRUTAL ATTACK. INCIDENT AT FORD PLANT. DETROIT, July 8. Newspaper photographers, describing the outburst of violence at the Ford plant on . May 27, said they saw Ford Company employees in the “service department” strike from behind and brutally beat the United Automobile Workers’ iorganisey, Mr Richard Frankensteen, who had attempted to distribute organisation literature to the workers.

A girl organiser was kicked in the stomach by a negro. State troopers were standing by watching and did not interfere.

An outburst of violence, in which at least 12 union representatives were kicked, beaten, and driven away, marked the first attempt of the United Automobile Workers’ Union to organise the Ford Motor Company’s employees at Detroit. Richard I’rankenstcen, who was directing the membership drive, and Walter Reuther, president of one of the automobile unions, were attacked by a group of employees at the gate, of the Rouge plant, where they were directing the distribution of union, handbills. Both men were knocked down repeatedly. In subsequent fighting the employees, succeeded in routing all the, union party. Seven of those injured were said to he women. BORROWING POLICY .WASHINGTON, July 8. What is interpreted as a possible step towards making the Treasury prepared for world money market eventualities, is seen in the announcement by the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr Henry Morgenthau, jun.) inaugurating a borrowing policy lor 50,000.000 dollars weekly on short term hills. “The Treasury is returning to its old policy of having plenty of money on hand,” he stated. >, / LABOUR RIVALRY. PORTLAND (Oregon). July 8, The Pacific Maritime Federation, by 140 votes to 72, declined to join Mr John L. Lewis’ proposed maritime federation, which was to lie affiliated with his Committee for Industrial Organisation. It was reported yesterday that Mr Lewis had instituted a national campaign to bring 300,000 maritime workers in all categories within the Committee for Industrial Organisation.