Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1935, Page 7

LABOR RELATIONS -REPORTED BETTER M’Grady Finds Strikes Have Ended More Quickly in Recent Months. Tmprovement of the relationship between employes and management, with a speedier settlement of issues when strikes are called, was reported yesterday by Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor. This observation was made by the Bdministration’s No. 1 trouble shooter #n industrial strife during an interview in which he said the average strike fast year involved 778 persons, each of ‘whom lost 14 workings days. Strikes Grow Shorter. “It is a significant fact,” McGrady Baid, “that the duration of strikes is becoming shorter. There is a marked fmprovement in relationship between men and management, and it is to be hoped that this increased confi- dence and better understanding be- tween industry and labor will continue to grow.” During the first eight months of | 1935, he reported 528,800 men and | women were involved in strikes. | Wages and hours were the dominant | §ssues in 38 per cent of the strikes, while in 47 per cent the paramoum‘ problems were union organization mat- ters such as recognition, discrimina- tion and the closed shop. McGrady said the collapse of the | N. R. A. marked an increase in strikes against wage decreases. Before N. R. A. codes were outlawed by the Supreme Court, most of the wages and hours strikes were for increases in wages and | 1935 Strikes Smaller. “Last June,” he said, “almost 12 per cent of the total number of strikes Wrong Side BOY'S HEART MISPLACED, DOETORS FIND, BOBBY LIPPERT. ‘When Bobby, 4, went to a hospl- tal at Pittsburgh for a tonsil operation, doctors found his heart nal-organs reversed. Even though his appendix is on left, his liver on left and his kidneys reversed, he felt fine today. reduction of hours. ', on the wrong side and many inter- i | | ‘were in protest against wage decreases and a large proportion of these were | in the textile industry. But with the exception of the recent coal strike, in- volving 400,000 miners, which lasted only five working days, there have ‘been no strikes so far in 1935 compar- able to the textile strike in September, 1934, which involved 376,000, or the general strike in San Francisco in July, 1934, which involved almost 100,000 workmen.” The low point of strikes in the last 20 years was in 1930, the first depres- sion year, whene there were 653 strikes involving 158,114 persons. The num- ber increased until 1934 when there were 1,353,608 involved. The peak | number was in 1929 when 4,160,348 walked out in 2,665 strikes. e g EMPLOYES TO RENEW, DRIVE FOR BENEFITS Annual Leave and Antomatic Promotions Aim of District Government Lodge. Renewed drives for sick and annual {eave and for automatic promotions in the District of Columbia Government | will be instigated at a meeting of Dis- | grict - Government Lodge, No. 87,/ American Federation of Government | Employes, to be held at 8 p.m. Tues- | day in the board room at the District ‘Building. i In a notice of the meeting it is tharged that salaries in the District service have been standing still for nine years. James G. Yaden, newly elected pres- Ident of the District Federation, Amer- fcan Federation of Government Em- ployes, will be the guest of honor at ! the meeting. Invitations also have| been extended to the 54 presidents of the different Federal department lodges. A report regarding working condi- | tions of per diem workers will be made by Oscar R. Doyle, chairman of a| special committee. He will report these employes are not under the 40- | hour week, as are the per diem work- | ers in the Federal service. ~—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. TWO MEN KILLED IN VIRGINIA CRASH Baltimoreans Die as Beer Truck Hits Bridge Near Berryville. By the Associated Press. BERRYVILLE, Va, October 12.— | Two Baltimore men were killed and & third escaped injury in an accident at Castleman’s Ferry, near here. They were driving a beer truck which sideswiped a guard rail on a bridge and overturned. The dead men were identified as Benton Phillips, 48, and Bernon Lit- tleton, 20. Thomas Dempsey. third member of the party, suffered facial lacerations. Police quoted Dempsey as saying the brakes on the truck failed to hold as they came down the roa WITH THIS COUP WATCH REPAIRING iC »Jl ANY MAKE From WATCH Repaired $1_ Guaranteed One Year The Upstairs Jewelry Store Est. 19 Years All Watches Carefully Taken Apart By Experts and Cleaned Thoroughly By Hand. No Machines Used. 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