ARMS LIMITATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 9

ARMS LIMITATION

DUCE'S PROPOSAL "NOT RESULT OF NECESSITY" U.S.A. AS ARBITRATOR Onlted Press Association—By Electric Tel»craph—CoDytieht (Received May 28, 1i.45 a.m.) ROME. May 27. Signor Mussolini's proposal to the U.S.A. for a conference to discuss arms limitation comes from the head of a State which is well armed, ready, and disciplined, and is the result of studied willingness and not necessity; the publicist Signor Virginio Gayda emphasises in the "Giornale d'ltalia." Signor Gayda adds that Mr. Roosevelt is the statesman best qualified to call such a conference, because the United States has no necessity for huge armaments, and thus to the United States alone 'can the task of arbitration between opposing European interests be entrusted. ■ / .

PLAN OUTLINED

NO INDICATION OF ACTION WASHINGTON, May 27. Tlie Italian Ambassador' to Washington, Signor Fulvio Suvich, visited the State Department and outlined Signor Mussolini's proposal that ; President Roosevelt should call a world arms limitation conference. The "New York Times" says there is. no indication that President Roosevelt proposes to act on the suggestion, for the present at least. - The Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. SumYier Welles, in an interview, declared that as the report that Signor Mussolini was prepared to join in an arms limitation conference had reached him only through unofficial channels, he could not officially comment on it.

NO ACCEPTANCE

BELIEF IN LONDON (Received May 28, noon.) LONDON, May 27. It is understood that , President Roosevelt has no intention of acceding to Signor Mussolini's suggestion, being convinced that a conference would have little chance of success and might even advance world, re-armament.

UNION PARTY ROUTED " . — r* —

FIGHT IN DETROIT ATTEMPT TO UNIONISE FORD WORKERS ■ . i DETROIT, May 27. An outburst of violence in which at least twelve union - representatives were kicked and beaten and driven away marked the first attempt of the United Automobile Workers' Union of America to organise Ford Company employees.. , Mr. Richard Frankensteen, directing the membership drive, and Mr. Walter Reuther, president of one of the United Automobile Workers' Unions, were attacked by a group of employees at the gate iof one plant when directing the distribution of union handbills, and were knocked, down repeatedly.' "■ ; fa the subsequent fighting .employees succeeded "in routing all the union party. Seven of those injured are said to be women. No one was seriously injured. The United Automobile Workers' Union of Richmond, California, sponsored a strike and closed the Ford plant. Pickets barred the entrance of officials and 1800 employees at Youngstown, Ohio. » ■. V Nearly 80,000 steel workers in five States are faced with idleness as the result of a strike order issued by the Committee for Industrial Organisation. The strike resulted from the corporation's refusa.l to sign a closed-shop contract. Picketing is planned.l