Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1931, Page 5

COAL CONFERENGE - PLANS ABANDONED Majority of Operators Balk at Joining Efforts to Remedy Conditions. The proposed conference on conditions in the bituminous coal industry stood abandoned today by the adminis because of the refusal of a majority operators to co-operate in a concerted effort to remedy admittedly bad condi- tions prevailing for years in the coal fleld because of overdevelopment and the trend of fuel users to gas, oil and ‘water power. i Unemployment was reported to be heavy in these districts and in many sections suffering has been reported among miners' families. In June John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, requested President Hoover to call a conference cn conditions within the industry. Mr. Hoover informed Mr. Lewis he would do all he could and in- structed Secretaries Lamont and Doak to determine the attitude of the oper- ators and labor. i Letter to Lewis Made Public. | Secretary Doak ported to President Hoover the result of | a poll begun July 22 to ascertain. whether or not such a conference could be held. At the same time he made public a letter to Mr. Lewis i which | he said: “Some weecks ago you requested that ! a general conference of bituminous s and miners be called to con- plan for stabilization of the | stry. In a dosie to explore any suggestion that would be of assistance | to the coal industry inits difficult situa- | tion, the Sccretary of Commerce and I, on July 22, jointly addressed the en- closed letter {o the list of operators fur- nished by you as men whom you felt should join in such a conference. These invitations were sent out to 160 opera- tors. Replies have been received from 38 favoring the calling of such a con- ference; 21 have replied questioning the value of such a conference, but express- ing willingness to attend. The remain- ing 101 have either indicated that they would not attend, or have failed to re- ply at all “Inspection of the rated daily ton- nage of the mines represented shows that the combined number of those | favoring the conference and those will- ing to attend, while questioning its value, would represent about 450,000 tons.” Those *ho declined or failed to | reply would represent a rated tonnage around 2,000,000 tons. Thus, with operators Tepresenting the great bulk of the total labor employed unwilling to | co-operate, and sirce the responses in- dicate that, at this time, it is not pos- sible to assemble a conference repre- scntative of the industry generally, it does not appear that the calling of the conference to consider this plan would | have any result. The responses and records are open for inspection if you 80 _desire.” J In discussing hi€ letter to Mr. Lewis, Secretary Doak informed newspaper men he “supposed the letter closes the matter.” Lomont Meets With Operators. Shortly after President Hoover re- ce.ved the telegraphic vequest from the mine workers' chief, Secretary Lamont called an informal meeting in the Com- merce Department Building with a group of operators, in which represen- tation from the principal producing dis- tricts was sought, for a discussion of this propos: Some of the operators attending ex- pressed the view that the ccal industry se off, relatively, than other s at the present time, and a| majority of them contended nothing | could be gained by a Nation-wide joint; ce of operators and miners. A v of operators considered prog- s could be made by such a confer- late yesterday re- | ence. A few days later a similar meeting was held in the Labor Department Building with Mr. Lewis and other members of the Executive Commitee of the United Mine Workers. A point was raised in this session that, at the meet- ing with the operators the previous week, the industry was not effectively represented. It was asserted that by a representative conference of both op- erators and miners much could be done to stabilize wages and improve condi- tions generally within the industry. It was further asserted by the mine union representation that operators would willingly attend the conference. Joint Letter Is Mailed. This resulted in Secretaries Lamont and Doak sending a joint letter to 160 operators. in which a general outline of the situation was given. The letter, in_conclusion, said s it is our desire to assist in any workable and practical plan which might offer to contribute substantially 0 & solution cf the difficulties in the coal industry, this letter is being sent to a representative number of operators located in the more important producing districts in the country for the purpose of presenting this specific inquiry: At a convenient time in the near future will you be willing to attend a repre- sentative joint conference of operators and miners for the purpose stated? In | your judgment would such a conference | bring about the results outlined by Mr. Lewis? A reply by telegram will be ! appreciated.” ! When the operators gathered here for | their informal meeting at the Com- merce Department a small army of miners_and their families converged upon Washington from Pittsburgh and other Pennsyivania fields. Small re- inforcements came here from West Vir- ginia. They made the trip in trucks and used the Ellipse, in the rear of the White House, as their concentration ! point. | White House Police Augmented. | This caused uneasiness at the White | House and District and park police | were sent to augment the White }lous:; police to prevent any invasion move. The miners, through their leaders, ap- pealed for two days to be heard at the ! Commerce Department meeting. Upon being refused on the eve of the breaking | up of the conference, they marched on | Pennsylvania avenue toward the White House_with banners flying. In front of the Exccutive Mansion they were met by a number of police- men who quietly confiscated the ban- ners, but allowed the miners and their familles to parade up and down in front of the White House for more than an hour while their lcader pre- sented a petition to President Hoflverl requesting an investigation on con. ditions in the coal flelds. acrt time later they quletly dis- persed, leaving Washington immediate- ly for their homes. THREATENS MARTIAL LAW. FRANKFORT, Ky., September 1 (). —Martial law was threatened in a state- ment by Gov. Flem D. Sampson for the coal industry of Kentucky, to be applied, following a conference he has, called of Governors of nine coal-produc- ing States to be held in Lexington in September. The Governor’s statement pointed out that coal marketing conditions in nine Eastern and Southern coal-producing States were "“so deplorable that nothing shert of methods similar to those em- ployed by Gov. Murray of Oklahoma will meet the situation.” In the statement Gov. Sampson said the Hazard Coal Operators’ Exchange and labor representatives have asked that “police power” be invoked to remedy condition: The Governor also said he had writ- ten letters at the request of labor officials and coal operators to the Gov- ernors of Pennsylvania, Alabama, Illi- nois, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, requesting an early conference to “map out some plan of uaited action.” | Supervising Director to Take | provided for the Employment Service | Secretary James FRANCIS 1. JONES. DOAK FLAYS JONES AND NAMES ALPINE Over Employment Work of Resigned U. S. Chief. (Continued From First Paged satisfactory and bitterly disappointing, and it is & source of extreme gratifica- tion to me to know that I had no part in establishing it.” “You are fully aware,” Mr. Jones con- tinued, “that I did not approve the present plans and was not in sympathy with the unsatisfactory working of them. Yet you appointed me director gen:ral. Then when I attempted to discharge my duties as I have done in the past 1 found, much to my chagrin, that they had been taken from me. Scores Wagner Bill Veto. “As ‘faith in the substance of things hoped for, I had faith for the future of the service beeause of your statement to Presid: Hoover, mad2 public March in which you recommended that he veto the bill introduced in Congress by Senator Wagnor of New York which requiring subsidies to the States from the Federal Treasury. “‘I cannot,” you declared, ‘in the in- terest of working people of the United States give my approval to a proposal which, while abolishing the tested ma- chinery of a decade of service, leaves the Government at a critical moment without any practical instrumentality to carry forward its necessary service.' The President, in a statement made public the same day, asserted that ‘if I would prevent a serious blow to labor during this crisis, I should not approve the bill,’ which ‘unfortunately abolishes the whole of the present well developed Federal employment service “Mr. Alpine has declared that under the reorganization plan my services have been exceedingly unsatisfactory. Had my services been satisfactory to Mr. Alpine I shounld have been false to my opinions, to myself and to my record for the past 10 years when I wa in charge of the employment service. Had Urged Expansion. “That my services were not unsatis- factory during the decade I directed the | service is apparent from your statement | to the President that ‘the existing em- ployment service is fortunately in pos- | session of funds with which to carry forward the work in which it has been efiiciently engaged and which assure that the interest of the wage earners will be_protected.’ ” Mr. Jones was appointed as director general of the Employment Service by J. Davis on June 3, 1921, He said he found the service in | a “chaotic condition.” He asserted that after years of hard and intelligent work | on the part of its staff the service came | THE EVEN CALLEKEANGBSS N CAPONE PROBE Torrio Reported “Sorry to Be Back in Chicago” for Tax Hearing. | Spectal Dispatch to The Stas 1 { CHICAGO, Septcmber 1.—The Daily, ! News said Jchnnie Torrio, “Scarface| Al Capone’s predecessor as “boss” of | the Chicago underworld, was in Chi- ago today and would te subpoenaed to | appear before the Federal grand jury to tell what he knows of Capone’s in- | come. The income tax case on which Ca- pone withdrew his plea of gullty ecmes | jup before Federal Judge James H. Wil- {kerson September 8. At the same time | Capone’s motion to withdraw his plea of guilty in the prohibition indictment | { which_charges 5,000 offenses comes up n call ! Torrio was the first large-scale “boss of Chicago’s bootlegging gangs. He j took the skeleton of an organization, created by “Big Jim” Colosimo and put prohibition violat#én and other rack- eteers on the basis of a big corporation. | Capone was Torrio’s chief lieutenant. Leaves Capone in Charge. After the slaying of Dign O'Bannion, ! “Bugs” Moran, North Side gangster, | shot and seriously wounded Torrio. | a Waukegan, IIl., jail to serve a Fuc- | eral sentence, then departed from Chi- | cago, leaving Capone in chaige of his | organization. Torrio, who was thought to have gene to Italy atter leaving Chicago, ushered into the Federal Building today operatives, the News said. He ran a| gauntlet of newspaper men and photog- | raphers, but finally was cornered. | “I am sorry to be back in Chicago,” | m the News quoted him as saying. “I going back to New York just as soon as I can.” Torrio was reported to have been G. Clawson and Jacob I assistant United States attorneys. They | cussed matters concerning Capone’s in- | come with Torrio. Not to Resume Operations. | The former gang leader's statement O that he intends returning to New York eral Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan: Torrio fled from Chicago in 1925. | arface Al” Capone's prede- | ss” of the Chicago under- | be subpoenaed. The oldest hospital in the world is in London. bl nationally known an ST We charge only the cash prices, as deter: We offer you the m traffic area . into_its own, and Congress, having full confidence in the service, at the last! session made a special appropriation of | $500.000 for it tc assist the unemploved. | The resigning officer explained that during last March he submitted to Sec- | retary Doak the following recommenda- tions for the enlargement of the serv- ice: Extension of the Farm Labor Serv- ice, enlargement of the Information Service, further development of the State Co-operative Service and the es- tablishment of 44 additional specialized employment cffices for war veterans. Balks at Being “Yes-Man.” In his letter of resignation he in- formed Secretary Doak that “you harshly criticized me for including in my plans the esiablishing of additional speciaiized employment offices for vet- erans and charged that I proposed using the greater port of the $500,000 appro- | priation for the veterans. You asked what I proposed doing for the train-| men and labor. My reply was that or ganized labor takes care of her own' and that the war veterans represented a_ cross-section of all kinds of labor. ‘This did not please or satisfy you.” “It no doubt would have been to my interest,” Mr. Jones continued, “to have | agreed with your plan: I could not speak honeyed words nor give you flat- tering looks as I do not happen to be a so-called * . My practicz has 7t guard tae Secretary of Labor om pitfalls and my not privately ex-, pressing approval of your plans cizarly proved my loyalty to you. “I am convinced that the setting up ! of machinery by the Federal Govern- ment to aid the unemployed vetorans who so nobiv saved their couatry in the days of stress is a proper function of the Federal Government. I whole- heartedly favored estabiishing more specialized employment offices to help them get jobs that they might help themselves.' Tells of Fight for Veterans. Mr. Jones explained that when he learned of Mr. Doak’s attitude towar the Veterans' Employment Service, he consulted with parties interested in this service and they shared his feelings. n our conversation,” he informed Mr. Doak, “I said perhaps my action in the matter would cost me my position, | but that I was willing to be ‘crucified’ if the specialized service to which I de- voted much time and honest effort in its ‘establishment and development could be saved. I felt. morcover, Mr. Secre. tary, that I owed you the duty of pro- | tecting you from the wrath of all former | service men,” The campaign waged by Mr. Jone: against the abolishment of the Veterans’ Service, he said, was carried to the American Legion and then Nationa Comdr. O'Neil and John Thomas Tay- lor, attorney and legislative agent for this organization, called on Mr. Doak and voiced their protest. To this, Mr. Jones informed Mr. Doak in his letter, | “you were good enough to say to them | that you would rescind your instructions | and continue the specialized service ls{ i STl o I had established it.” D. A. V. Head Backs Doak. He pcinted out that the veterans ap- precidted what was being done by the service, and he was honored by three | awards conferred on him by the Oak Cliff Post, No. 275, of the American | Legion at Dallas, Tex. 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