Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1940 — Page 9
TUESDAY, DEC. 17, 1940
At the State House—
DEFENSE COUNCIL'S CREATION MAPPED
Governor Wil Place Bill in il in Legislature s Hands Setting Up ~ Agency to Help Cities Facing Problems Arising - From Arms Projects. | By EARL RICHERT
The outgoi
ate Administration is preparing one ma-
Jor piece of Jegislation which it hopes will be passed by the coming Republican controlled General Assembly. The legislation would set up an Administrative Defense Council and provide it with funds to aid the various communities in which Federal defense projects are located.
Governor Townsend outlined details of the proposed legislation for the first time
yesterday at a meeting of his|
Advisory Defense Council. He said he would ask passage of the legislation in his farewell address to the Legislature Jan. 4. ‘The measure, to be known as: the Civilian Defense Bill, would set up by statute much the’ same organization as the Governor already has formed by executive order. : The Civilian Defense Bill would provide for: 1. Creation of an Advisory Defense Couneil, not to exceed 10 members, to be appointed by the Governor to advise him on matters of defense. The council, to be nonpartisan, would be composed of representatives of all groups and would meet with the Governor once 2 month. The present council, created by executive order, is considered unwieldly. It has 16 members. 2. Appointment of a Civilian Defense Director for the State by the Advisory Defense Council with the approval of the Governor. Clarence Jackson, executive secretary of the State Chamber: of Commerce, is serving in this position Hoy by excutive order.
3. Creation of the admins Defense Council composed of the civilian defense director as chairman, the superintendent of public instruction, the superintendent of state police, the state labor commisgioner and the head of the state health board.
Provides Secretary
. The council would be empowered to employ an executive secretary and other personnel as may be deémed necessary. 4. Creation of a state defense fund. It is estimated that this fund will have to be at least $500,000. Requests, for allocations from this fund would _be made by some’ state department, such as the Health Board. The Administrative Council would then determine if the funds were needed in the interests of defense and, if so, would refer the request to the Governor and the Budget Committee. If the Governor and the Budget Committee approved, the allocation wopld then be made. This system, . it was pointed out, avould provide a number of checks on expenditures from the fund. It is intended to provide a sort of «1 ittle Hatch Act” provision in the bill declaring that no person employed finder the act can take part in politics actively. The penalty is to be immediate discharge.
‘Could Aid Construction’
The bill would also provide that the various organizations - created |. by it could be disbanded by proclamation of the Governor declaring that an emergency no longer’ exists. If the bill is p d, state aid could conceivably be obtained for such items as construction of a gewer system at Charlestown; purchasing fire wagons at Burns City; hiring more State Health Board officers for the heavily-congested defense areas, or .building school . houses in these same areas.
AUXILIARY ELECTS
Mr. Jackson
MRS. GOODNIGHT |
: Mrs. Alice ‘M. Goodnight has been elected president of the Maj. Harold C. Megrew Auxiliary No. 3, United - Spanish War Veterans. Other officers elected were Mrs. Ora Love, . senior vice president; Mrs, Catherine B. Weaver, junior |* vice president; Mrs. Agnes Wiley, chaplain; Mrs. Vera Coffey, patriotic instructor; Mrs. Florance Roach, historian; Mrs. Cecelia Brooks, con ; Mrs. Myrtle Mackey, ass ant conductor; Miss Dorothy Kridd, guard, and Mrs.’ Clema Soot assistant guard.
The secretary, treasurer, musician, j
1 captain, reporter and eight colrr will be appointed by the
new president.
SSA ——————— RESUME 1 AM TRIAL LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17 (U. P)— The trial of 10 leaders of the I Am cult, accused of defrauding followers with claims of supernatural powers, was to be resumed in Federal Court today after a four-day recess.
Austin
RELAXED LABOR LAWS FAVORED
Suggests Six-Day Week; Green Urges Caution in War Economy.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (U. P.).— Assistant Senate Republican Keader Warren R. Austin today called for relaxation of labor laws, such as the Wage-Hour, Walsh-Healey and National Labor Relations Acts, during the present emergency. He said delays in the defense program could be traced to “all kinds of clogs and hindrances on the free movement of industry.” Mr. Austin suggested that ali defense industry go on a six-day week and that the Government be prepared to bear whatever additional cost that would entail—such as overtime—until labor laws could be relaxed. Meanwhile, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor in a radio address last night declared that “we must. not be stampeded into forcing a war economy upon a nation .in peacetime.” Noting that “we are making great progress in our national defense,” Mr. Green said: 3 “Let us remember this and let us substitute patience for impatience; self-control for hysteria; praise for work well done, rather than hasty criticism and denuneiation.”
He described the right to strike
session of free labor in free countries” which must be “jealously guarded.”
Elector Falters, Votes for F.D.R. |:
LANSING, Mich, Dec. 17 (U. P.).—There was. shocked silence yesterday in the senate chamber of the Michigan capitol when Michigan delegates to the electoral college found that one had cast a vote for President Roosevelt. The 18 others voted Republican as they had promised, and the . 19th sooa was dragged on to the carpent. He was George T. Hunter of the 8th district, a good member of the Republican Party. His explanation was: “I was under the impression that electoral voters had to vote the way the election went.” Mr. Hunter’s vote was: changed quickly and delegates closed the meeting with sighs of relief.
as “a fundamental and sacred pos-|.
BRITAIN FIGHTS
LABOR TROUBLE
Disputes Mar = Production;
~ Communists Blamed For Discord.
LONDON, Dec. 17 (U. P).—Great | Britain is tackling serious war-time.
labor problems ranging from. & shortage of workers in the arms industry to a series of wage disputes which cost 844,000 working days in the first 10 months of 1940. ‘Wages have been increased sub-
| stantially since. the.start of the war,
according to the Labor Ministry.
At least three important problems now confront the Ministry:
1. Preventing disputes which have
cut into industrial productivity.
2--Shifting labor to the rapidly growing war industries.
3--Preventing undue price increases. The cost-of-living index has advanced 20 per cent since the start of the war.
101 Disputes in Month
In October, 101 labor disputes caused 25,000 persons to lose 87,000
|working days and in the first 10
months of the year 762 disputes caused 265,800 persons to lose 844,000 working days, as compared with loss of 1,164,000 working days in the
same period of 1939. There have been clibiaes that Communist agitation was partly to blame for some unofficial strikes and Labor Minister Ernest Bevin last week-end asserted that orders had been given to Communists in Britain to disturb meetings and create an impression of disunity among workers. . The London Daily Express charged that in many instances strikes were traceable to a small group whose political leanings were “‘significant.”
Wage Increases Shown
The Ministry of Labor survey showing a substantial war-time increase in wages said that the average weekly earnings in all metal
engineering and shipbuilding trades |
in July was 85 shillings, ene pence (about $17) or an increase of 42.3 per cent over October, 1938.
The average textile industry wage |
was given as 48 shillings, 10 pence (about $10), an increase of 29.2 per cent in the same interval.
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