Nil AND FORD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 9 April 1934, Page 5

Nil AND FORD

AN IMPORTANT RULING G 0 V E RN-M EN T CONTR AC I S (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) WASHINGTON, 7th April. The Controller-General, .Mr McCari, issued an important ruling to-day which makes (he N.R.A. compliance by Mr Ford and his .distributor's compulsory if he wishes to bid for Government contracts. Heretofore according to a loose interpretation of the law, the Government must prove that Ford was violating the law to bar him front contracts. Now those wishing to do' business with the Government must supply certificates of compliance with the code regulations. The ruling opens the entire controversy between Ford and Administrator Johnson with a way now apparently open for the latter to force Ford into the N.R.A. or lose much business.

RELIEF PROVISIONS

CESSATION OBJECTED TO SERIOUS RIOTS OCCUR MINNEAPOLIS, 6th April. One of the most serious riots that has yet occurred anywhere in the country as the result of the cessation of relief provisions for unemployed, took place here to-dav, when, following the arrest of a. delegation wearing red arm bands ami led by women on crutches as they attempted to enter the town ball to present demands for a continuation di Civil Works Administration and casn relief funds, a fight between the police and the unemployed ensued, resulting in the injury of eighteen persons and spattering of sidewalks with blood. Three thousand demonstrators attempted to rush upon the town hall, only <o be repeatedly repulsed by the police, ten of whom were badly beaten by the mob. While the policemen refrained from employing machine guns mounted near the building,, depending chiefly on batons and tear gas to restrain the rioters the later hurled paving blocks coal, and scrap iron front passing vehicles, not, only finding police targets but doin* considerable damage to the town ball itself. relief demands voted mob impresses’city council new YORK, 7th April. With the howls of the mob clearly audible, the city council iun ' u .‘ (ll 7 voted the relief demands. When tl s information was communicated to the rioters they gradually dispersed, but the police maintained a heavy coulon around the building on rumours that a bomb outrage might be attempted. SILVERAGITATION

amendment to bill

WASHINGTON, 7th April. The silver agitation in Congress took a definite turn to-day Svlien a group of Senators, ignoring Secretary Morgenthau’s wishes, drafted an amendment to the House Silver Bill and declared that its acceptance was assured. Whereas the House Bill is limited in scope, t-ie proposed amendment- would remonetise silver through the nationalisation of all domestic stocks of metal, which would ho paid for at the highest daily spot price with silver certificates printed by the Government to back silver at the old statutory price of 129 cents an ounce, compared with the current price ol about 50, thus giving the Government r. sizeable- profit in the same manner as from gold. . , The amendment further authorises the Secretary of the Treasury to pmchnsem the world market up to 50,000,000 ounces monthly at the same price until “the old statutory price is reached or commodity prices are returned to the 1926 level.”

TREASURY ESTIMATES

SPENDINGS TO DATE

WASHINGTON, 7th April. The Treasury estimates published to-day indicate that the- spendings in the fiscal year thus far have passed the 5.009.000 dollar mark, with an estimated deficit of 2,600,000 dollars.