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Washington, Feb. 7--Organized labor tonight carried out its threat to strike at the administration through Congress when an amendment forcing the government to pay prevailing hourly wages under the $4,880,000,000 jobs bill was adopted by the Senate Appropriations Committee...
This sounded as if most of Mexico's Catholic population were in danger of being excommunicated but in fact no Mexican was last week excommunicated and avoided. To any such high threat of absolute wrath, the Church adds a sober, realistic rider. Last week Archbishop Diaz pardoned in advance Government employes who keep their jobs because they cannot find other work, parents who send their children to proscribed schools because the truant officer forces them to. The Church wants loyal Catholics but even more it wants live Catholics...
Even in this modified form, the threat of excommunication was enough to scare a good many pious members of the atheistic National Revolutionary Party. In the Chamber of Deputies next day several arose to condemn anti-Catholic extremists headed by Minister of Agriculture Tomas Garrido Canabal. The more pious of Boss Calles' underlings promptly resolved that the Government's program be carried out "without harming or trying to offend the religious beliefs of the people...
...important to Japan not only as a future base for the invasion of Northern China, but also as a prime point on the strategic caravan route to outer Mongolia and Russia. The brief & bloody capture of this little corner of disputed territory last week was an obvious Japanese threat to Mongol chieftains to mind their manners. Nanking's complaisance was a fair admission that China's Nationalist Government was resigned to the eventual loss of Chahar, probably in return for a promise that for a little while yet, Peiping and Tientsin will not be captured...
...They] announce that 'a satisfactory adjustment' has been reached. They mean satisfactory to the publishers. . . . The President made no attempt to learn from the Guild its bill of complaints against the stupidities and inequities of the Newspaper Industrial Board. . . . The Government . . . has been held up by the threat and the bluff of the publishers. . . . The President surrendered at the point of a wooden...