NEUTRALITY LAW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1941, Page 5

NEUTRALITY LAW

HOUSE AND THE REVISION BILL PASSAGE OF MEASURE EXPECTED. BUT DIVISION MAY BE CLOSE. LONDON, November 13. The United States House of Representatives is expected to reach its final vote on the Neutrality Law Revision Bill within a few hours. The Speaker of the House, Mr Rayburn, again told the Press he thought the Bill would be passed, though it looked like being a close thing. Party leaders are sending many telegrams to absent members, but apparently without much result. A strong group of Southern Democrats is said to have threatened to vote against the Bill unless the Government takes strong action to deal with the present epidemic of strikes. It is learned that the Government has promised to introduce special legislation. Meanwhile there are threats of strikes by 320,000 railwaymen and 53,000 miners. STRIKE THREATS WAGE INCREASE SOUGHT BY RAILWAYMEN. WASHINGTON, November 12. President Roosevelt has again personally intervened in an attempt to avert a crippling strike in the Appalachian coal mines. He has asked three leaders of the Congress of the Industrial Organisation and three steel company officials to confer with him at the White House on Friday. The steel companies operate the mines. A message from Chicago states that the chiefs of five railroad operating brotherhoods have ordered their 350,000 members to strike for a 30 per cent increase in wages. The strike is scheduled for December 7. It is reported from San Diego that the building trades craftsmen who struck for higher wages on eight naval and marine projects have returned to work.