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T HE MICHI'GAN D AILY
THtTRS DAY, MARCH 31,:'1938
PAc~E Six TUTYRSDAY, MARC!! U, 1938
Judge Sample
Judge Sample
Files Injunetion
NLRB Asks Federal Court
To Vacate Decision
Photographer Quizzed
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composing room, also members o1
the ITU, Reifin said last night, wil:
join the strike today. "These mer
were brought in by the Ann Arbo
Press in the belief that they were
scabs," he declared. "Actually they
were either ITU mnembers when they
too kthe jobs or have. joined since
then."
The injunction, issued at the re-
quest of Horace G. Prettyman and
Arthur J. Wiltse, co-partners in the
Ann Arbor Press, named as respon-
dents Frank H. Bowen, NLRB Re-
gional Director for the Seventh Re-
gion; Harold A. Cranefield, Regional
Attorney; "John Doe," Trial Examin-
er; Henry A. Reifin, ITU representa-
tive, and Louis -Falstreaux, chairman
of the local ITU strike committee.
Lindsay Leaves
NLRB Trial Examiner John T.
Lindsay, named as John Doe in the
injunction, had been designated by
the Washington Board to conduct the
hearing. Lindsay left Washington
late yesterday unaware of the injunc-
tion. He was the trial examiner who
held the hearing last fall in the Ford
case.
The injunction against the two
union men provides for a $2,000 pen-
alty for failing to comply with the
terms of the order. It restrains
Reifin and Falstreaux from "inter-
fering with Plaintiffs' business and
intimidating and coercing employes
and former employes of Plaintiffs
into joining the International Typo-
graphical Union Local No. 154 and
restrains and enjoins said defen-
dents from making false statements
"to customers of the Ann Arbor Press
about its relations with its employes.
Cranefield Dubious
Crapefield, NLRB attorney, said
that in view of Supreme Court rul-
ings prohibiting the issuance of in-
junctions against the NLRB he was
"dubious of the propriety of the re-
straining order,"
"Never before in any NLRB case
has. the Board been enjoined from
questioning and investigating, as pro-
vided in that most unusual clause in
Judge Sample's order," Cranefield
said.
"No state court can enjoin a pro-
ceeding of the NLRB," he said, citing
the case of. Newport News Ship-
building Co. vs. Bennett Schaufler,
Regional Director for the Rourth Re-
gion, in which the United Sattes Su-
preme Court upheld the refusal of
two inferior courts to issue an injunc-
tion against the NLRB.
Federal Supercedes
"With respect to any subject which
the federal government under the
constitution has the power to regu-
late, the federal authority," Crane-
field said, "supersedes state author-
ity."
One year ago the NLRB opened a
hearing in Detroit against three meat
packing firms, but after the hearing
had proceeded for half a day a Wayne
County court issued an injunction
againt four NLRB officials. Just as
they plan to do now, the Board pe-
titioned the federal District Court for
the Eastern District of Michigan to
set aside the injunction. Without
taking the case under advisement
Judge Edward J. Moinet vacated the
order from the bench "without any
hesitation," Cranefield said.
Hearing In 10 Days
"In view of these facts, the hear-
i1g will go on in a week or 10 days
after these matters have gone to
the proper court," Frank H. Bowen,
Regional Director for this region said
yesterday.
"It was a strange gesture on the
part of Judge Sample," Bowen said,
"and it is difficult to understand in
view of the fact that he had at his
disposal" all the information about
Supreme Court rulings on injunc-
tions of this type.
Referring to the relation between
the NLR and federal courts, Crane-
field said that Congress had consti-
tutionally remitted to the Board the
power in the first instance of deciding
where it has jurisdiction and where
Hindu To Speak
At Symposium
On Indian Life
Dr. Mahanam Brata Brahmachari,
Hindu monk who is on a lecture tour
of American cities, will speak at an
Inter-Faith Symposium Sunday af-
ternoon at-Lane Hall and at a buffet
supper for foreign students that night
at the Union.
Dr. Brahmachari has recently re-
ceived his doctor's degree at the
University of Chicago and while in
the United States is lecturing on
India. He became a member of the
Vaishnava monastic order when he
was 17 years old and has lived in a
monastary for 12 years.
In 1933, as a representative of his
Osip Garber (above), 49 years
old was questioned in New York
regarding his knowledge of Adolph
A. Rubens, whose disappearance in
M,,cow started an international
s-y inquiry. Police said Garber, a
photographer, was held on a charge
of conspiracy to obtain false pass-
ports.
'AprilMeetings
aCi }ro fesos
From Campus
During the nwith of April numer-
ous professors of the University will
take part in activities in various parts
of the country. At present Dr. Svend
Pederson, research assistant in sur-
gery, is in Baltimore, Md., attending
a meeting of the American Society of
Biological Chemists. He will return
April 3.
Prof. Laurie Campbell of the physi-
cal education department will attend
a meeting of the American Associa-
tion of Health and Physical Educa-
tion from April 20 through April 23
in Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. Karl Litzenberg of the Eng-
lish department will attend a meet-
ing of the American Association for
the Advancement of Scandinavian
Studies in April in Madison, Wis.
Prof. Roy W. Sellars of the phil-
osophy department will give a paper
at the meeting of the Western Philo-
1 sophical Society to be held in the
'middle of April at Urbana, Ill.
Prof. Campbell Bonnar of the Greek
department will address the Classical
Society of the Middle West and South.
April 14 to 16 at Iowa City, Ia.
Prof. Arthur L. Cross of the history
department will speak Monday in
Orchestra Hall, Detroit, at a meeting
to be held in connection with the
New Swedish Tercentenary.
not, subject to the review of Circuit
Courts of Appeals. And since all
federal courts except the Supreme
Court derive their jurisdiction from
Congress, just as the NLRB, then the
two federal agencies are on the same
footing.
Less than a month ago, he said, in
the case of Howard Meyers, Regional
Director for the First Region, vs. the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., the
United tSates Supreme Court in a
unanimous opinion set aside an in-
junction restraining the Board from
holding a hearing. The vacated in-
junction was originally issued by a
federal district court in New Hamp-
shire and was affirmed by the First
Circuit Court of Appeals-the first
time a federal circuit cout sustained
such an order.
'The language used by the Court in
that case, Cranefield said, indicated
that not even a federal court could
enjoin the Board's action.
In its application for the ill-fated
injunction, the ship-building com-
pany claimed that because it was
not engaged in interstate commerce
as defined in the Wagner Act it was
not within the jurisdiction of the
Board.
The Ann Arbor Press Tuesday in its
answer to the Board's complaint also
claimed that the five per cent of its
business going into interstate com-
merce and the 18 per cent of its raw
materials bought outside of Michigan
do not constitute an interstate busi-
ness. Therefore, the Press claimed,
it was not subject to NLRB juridic-
tion.
Early Spanish Life
DiscBissedBy Afton
Prof. Ralph Alton of the history
department addressed a meeting of
the Sociedad Hispanica yesterday af-
ternoon in Angell Hall, speaking on
"The Spanish Conquistador of the
16th Century."
Several of the different views held
today were first given by Professor
Aiton, who then went on to discuss
various pioneer groups that made
up the conquistadors.
All groups, trades, ages and inter-
Espionage Activ
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reasoned, a large country like France
could make a considerably more
handsome contribution. Her deduc-
tions were correct. France was de-
lighted with the unexpected windfall.
The secretary, accordingly, took the
book from its hiding place one Sat-
urday afternoon and lent it to France
nd Jugoslavia, both countries being
ignorant of the other's complicity.
From May until September, then,
France and Jugoslavia read every
message flashed from Rome to Ber-
lin. When Mussolini finally discov-
ered the loss the embassy was purged
100 per cent-from the doorman to
the ambassador. Some were sent to
Lipari, cheerless isle of exile.
The United States, too, has suf-
fered its share of undercover citi-
zens. Early in July, 1936, Henry
Thomas Thompson, former navy yeo-
man, was found attached to the Jap-
anese payroll to the tune of $300 per
month as reward for confidential in-
formation concerning the U.S. flet
which Thompson harded over t
Toshio Miyazaki, Tokyo naval officer
Farnsworth Caught
Later in the same month former
Lieut.-Commander John S. Farns-
worth, brilliant young Annapolis
graduate, cashiered from the navy for
personal habits, was apprehended in
-ommunication also with the Jap-
anese. A miniature spy scare began
the rounds in the tatter part of 1936
,puttered in 193f and then gathere(
momentum again the first part o
this year when President Roosevel
.ent a letter to the House Militar'
Affairs Committee, requesting a
check-up of promiscuous charting o1
mportant military and naval de-
fenses. He intimated that the prac
ice was not confined to tourists
Concomitant with the President's re
-uest newspapers and periodical
-harged that Japanese naval expert
were charting Panama Canal and Pa
ciftc fortifications from aboard "fish-
ing boats," dotting the west coast
from the Aleutian Islands to the
Canal Zone.
Spy scares are things chiefly of
n %paper manufacture and publi
imagination. Actually they are o
scant importance, except as a baro
meter of a nation's war fears. Th
scare is, in the first place, only a
bubbling to the surface of a sub
strata of activities and machination
constantly flowing under internation-
al diplomacy. Europe today, it is
estimated, has an army of 10,000 se-
cret agents stalking its foreign of-
fices and military fortifications
France alone has caught 1,500 since
the World War, and a recent 22
month period revealed 600 more ap-
crehended in the United States :
Europe. Secondly, the iron-clad re
strictions imposed, as a result of sp
scares, on citizen photographing an
,ketching of important salient for
fications, appear ridiculous whcn th
doors are thrown wide open to mil
itary and naval attaches, the mos'
expert observers a nation can sen
to a foreign capital.
German Attache
Winston Churchill telis of giving
agents of the German naval attache
a virtual blank check in reporting
British naval activities up until the
time of the World War. Similarly
last fall the German air-force en
tertained a special investigation mis-
sion from the British government
while the Royal Air Force recipro
cated the hospitality to a Germar
contingent of air experts.
A few weeks ago a British delegat
journeyed to Berlin to pick up the lat-
est developments on construction o
air raid shelters. And Germany is
perhaps the one country most likely
to bomb London from the air. "Fish-
ing-boat" sketches trail far in the
wake of bald-faced exchanges of in-
formation like these.
World economic conferences arc
the happy hunting grounds of secret
agents who prey on the scores of
delegates and small fry glutting the
conference halls. Representing na-
tions as well as armament interest
and all other pressure groups in
volved, there are dapper, smooth
spoken men who feret out individuals
"in the know" and flash well-filled
ities Increase
ar Preparations
purses while they inquire how mar'
capita Iships Roosevelt intends build-
ing, how many destroyers Downing,
Street will keep in the Mediterranean
what company is handling the con-
tract for the proposed Czechoslovak-
ian re-armament. --tc. Robbery, ex-
tortion and murder are familiar and
well worn instruments in their ba,
of tricks.
Secret agents most fear work ;.
Russia where the "political police"
carry on the efficient counter espion-
age methods that distinguished t' i
old O.G.P.U. As stern-visaged as ever
Russia plays4the espionage game fog
keeps. A spy caught is a spy shot.
and Moscow banishes no foreign
agents from the country to avoid
"embarrassing trials." A spy enter-
ing Russia is required to be perfectly
trained. There are no foreign sec-
tions in which he can'lose himself an-
everyday incident makes acquaint-
ance with Russian folklore and cus-
tom a prime necessity.
Montesquieu said "spying might
perhaps be tolerable if it were done
by men of honor, but the infamy
which inevitably attaches to the agent
is a criterion of the infamy of the
practice."
Coal Utilization
Meet To Be Held'
College Of Engineering
Sponsors Conference
The second annual conference of
the Coal Utilization Institute will be
held here May 3 through May 5, spon-
sored by the Michigan Retail Coal'
Merchants' Associatior3, the College
of Engineering, and the Extension
Service.
Thie conference, to be held in the
Union, will include a series of talks
and discussions on the technical ad-
vances and problems in the coal in-
dustry. A carefully planned program
will present many men prominent in
their field, both nationally and in the
University.
Members of the Institute from the
University will include the following
from the engineering college: Dean
Henry C. Anderson, R. S. Hawley, H.
E. Keeler, C. F. Kessler, D. W. Mc-
Cready, and Axel Marin. From other
colleges: Robert P. Briggs, of the eco-
nomics department; Preston W. Slos-
son, history department; and Charles
A Fisher, director of the Extension
Service.
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throughout the
area served by The
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Company are billed
at the same rate as
city residences.This
rate averages 3.47c
per kilowatthour
for farms and is recognized as one of
the lowest average rates for electric
service in the United States. This
y rate includes without extra charge
lamp and fuse renewals, and minor
repairs to appliances, as part of the
same low rate. And the more you
use the less it costs per unit.
Farm applications of electric
power are almost unlimited: On
chicks into the world, warms them
under the electric brooder, warms
their drinking water and keeps it at
the right temperature, provides light
to stimulate egg production and
plant growth, shells corn, grades
fruit, washes vegetables, hoists hay,
fills the silo, saws wood, heats soil
in hotbeds, sharpens tools and does
many other chores. Electricity does
these things butter and more eco-
nomically than they can be done
otherwise.
One of our farm customers who
keeps accurate records saved $363
last year by using $53.17 worth of
electricity instead of doing his work
by hand. Carefully detailed figures
were published in THE MICHIGAN
. land along the Nile. Now, with these
age-old elements, electric power is
contributing to better farming. For
thirty years rural areas have been
served by The Detroit Edison Con-
pany. Since 1928 groups of farmers
have been able to get Detroit
Edison service without any charge
for line extensions, provided there
are more than a minimum number
of farms per mile: In 19,8 this
figure was 10 per mile; in 1933
this was reduced to 7%12 per mile;
and since 1935, 5 per mile.
Today, 27,157 farmers are served
by 6,414 miles of Detroit Edison
farm line; 87.8 per cent of the
farmers in the older Detroit Edison
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