Major A. A. Longden Made Director London, Aug. 9
Major A. A. Longden, formerly Art Adviser to the Department—of Overseas Trade, who was responsible for organizing the Exhibitions of Dutch, Italian, Persian and Chinese art Burling louse, has been appointed to di the organization of the Palace of Arts which will be a special feature of the great Empire Exhibition at Glasgow next year. The Palace of Arts will pass into possession of the Glasgow Corporation as a permanent -building at the conclusion of the exhibition the CLO—Ford fight, returning any warrants against' the Ford Company and 15 of its employees.
The same day, the National Labour Relations Board opened hearings in Detroit on charges by the Union that the company had violated the Wagner Labour Relations Act in fighting against ufionization of its employees. Union leaders alleged that the beating given their organizers occurred on public property, and~ not land owned by Ford.
Opponents of the C.LO. say it has been completely irresponsible, "browbeating employers and non-union employees, terrifying politicians and inconveniencing whole counties to satisfy the whims of small minorities." time it cut off the electric supply of almost 200 communities: it has backed "rent strikes," sponsored other demonstrations.
It is the fear that irresponsible elements in the C.LO. will get completely out of control, that alleged "Communist" factions will come. the fore, which reportedly has caused volunteer strike-breakers to. vigilante groups.
"Law and Order"
Their personnel, it is said, comes chiefly from the ranks of small bu: hess men, "white collar" workers and farmers—roughly. the same classes which in the old days of the West banded together as vigilantes to hang horse-thieves, tar-and-feather undesirables and generally keep law and order in communities where there were no police and courts.
Probably the largest vigilante group ever formed in the United States was the original Ku Klux Klan which swept through the South after the Civil War, seeking by night-riding and terror to keep semblance of order in sections where the only politi-
Many rvatives in Michigan fear that widespread vigilantism—it is now, according to best reports, only a scattered affair—will develop if the Labour situation becomes much The exhibition of native wood-curving, terra cottas and water colours from Nigeria, which was opened in London at the beginning of July, has evensed great interest, nees have been so decided that the on, which was to have closed at the end of last week, shall remain open for another fortnight—Wiress through Reuter.
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