Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1935, Page 18

"A—I8 GREEN, ADAMANT, TOKEEPA.F.L.J0B Heads Whole Federation, ‘Not One Group, He Retorts to Lewis. B.:the Assoclated Press. A request by John L. Lewis that William Green step out of the presi- dency of the American Federation of Labor to head the industrial union movement—angrily declined—yester- day added to the tumult within the ranks of labor. The scrappy chief of the United Mine Workers told the federation president he had heard Green’s private sympathies lay with the cause of those who_ felt mass production workers should be organized by industry rather than by craft. < If so, Lewis asked, “why not return to your father's house” and head the committee working for industrial unionism at the same pay the federa- tion president now receives? Green Spurns Suggestion. To which Green replied: “To respond to the suggestion of President Lewis would mean that I would lend my assistance to develop- ment of division within the American Fedetation of Labor. That I cannot do. “1 am president of the American Federation of Labor, re-elected at the Atlantic City convention in October. I'm not president of any group within the federation, and I'm endeavoring to prevent the setting up of organiza- tions within the federation.” ; Tnis exchange followed a series of editorials in labor publications on the fssue that grew so bitter at the federa- tion’s last convention that Lewis and William Hutcheson, hefty president of the Carpenters’ Union, came to blows. Ingratitude Charged. Labor, a publication controlled by eraft unionists, accused Lewis of ln-} gratitude for the help they had given | him in building up his union through N. R. A. and the Guffey act. Lewis’ tactics, the paper sald editorially, #delight the National Association of | Manufacturers and other enemies of | labor.” i Green, writing in the American | Federationist said: “When the spirit of self-seeking or commercialism creeps in, then is the (labor) move- ment in -danger. | “Instead of service for the whole group, the power of the movement is | gubordinated to the advancement of an individual or a group.” | The bricklayers' monthly magazine | wtrged the rank and file of craft unionists to prepare to fight any in- cursions of industrial unions. Split in Ranks Denied. | “The resignation of John L. Lewis from the Executive Council * * *| dges not mean that there will be a *split' in the ranks of Japor.” said the Hoslery Worker, edi- torially. Green called the issue settled after the Atlantic City convention, where the craft unionists, by a vote of about | 18,000 to 10,000, defeated Lewis’ pro- posal that mass production industries stch as automobiles and steel be or- ganized strictly along industrial lines. The craft unionists say that a ma- chinist, for instance, should belong to the machinists’ union, no matter where he works Within a few weeks after the con- vention's close, however, Lewis called to his headquarters his chief allies in | the industrial union movement and erganized a committee to promote the eause, quitting the Federation’s Ex- ecutive Council. AID GIVEN LEWIS. Garment Workers Support Fight for Industrial Unions. CLEVELAND, December 7 (#).—The Executive Board of the International Ladies’ Gatment Workers’ Union pledged support today to John L. Léwis in his fight for industrial unions. +'The board promised “every sup- | yort” to the Lewis Committee on Or- ganization within the American Fed- eration of Labor “as long as it ad- heres to the purposes originally out- lined by it.” “It is our conviction that the | American Federation of Labor will | ultimately have to adopt this method | of organization for the mass produc- | tion industries,” said a statement. The committee indorsed the move- ment, which gave rise to a split be- tween Lewis and William Green, A. F. of L. president, advocate of craft | unionism. ¥The millions of workers in Amer- icdn industry who are unorganized | should not be left outside the field of the organized labor movement be- cduse of a form of organization un- suited to their industrial environ- | ment,” it said. “Failure to organize | mess, production industries would | place them in danger of company ugtions or lure them by other subver- sige or dual movements.” Y. M. C. A. WILL ELECT 4The annual election of officers of | the Young Men's Christian Associ: tign will be held tomorrow at 6 p.m. 1gJlowing a dinner in the Central Y. | C. A. building, Eighteenth and | G streets. | “James P. Schick. president of the | a&ociation, will submit his annual re- | plrt at the meeting. Leonard W. De- Ghst, general secretary, also will make | a7 report. The office of general sec- T@ary is not included in the election, ‘Immediately following the annual meeting there will be sessions of de- partmental committees for discussion of the program of the Y. M. C. A. the coming yea Y Dignified Credit 7 142 Special REGULAR PRICE $25 Gold Filled Case with Latest Type racelet to Match. ranteed 25 ‘Years. Fully Jeweled Movement. ONE DOLLAR OPENS A CHARGE ACCOUNT JEWELRY MIHSI NW Next te Southern Bldg. OMPANY} NAtional 5347 THE SUNDAY STAR; WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER B, 1935—PART ONE. Rehabilitates Prisoners MARY McELROY MAKING GOOD CITIZENS OF HER KIDNAPERS. Mary McElroy and the three men convicted of kidnaping her: No. 1, Walter McGee; No. 2, George McGee; No. 3, Clarence Click. - By the Associated Press. KANSAS * CITY, December 17— Frankly and vividly, 26-year-old Mary McElroy revealed today her foremost ambition—to make “normal, accept- able citizens” of three men who two and a half years ago kidnaped her for $30,000 ransom. The dreadful memory of 30 har- rowing hours the brunette daughter of City Manager H. F. McElroy spent chained to a basement wall in a small Kansas town finally has faded. In its place, she said, is an intense in- terest in the well-being of the men convicted of her abduction. “Right now.” she declared, “the paramount interest in my life is to organized | help those men redeem themselves to | society: Nothing is more important.” Twice she suffered nervous break- downs. Once she fled from home in a sudden retreat from the city where very one knew me as the girl who was kidnaped.” Saved Life of One. “Now I am their friend, and I'm sure they are mine,” she said, refer- ring to George and Walter McGee, brothers serving life sentences for | her kidnaping, and Clarence Click, | emlpoyes of the Labor Department | sentenced to eight years’ imprison- ment. Walter McGee, originally sen- tenced to hang, won a commutation when Miss McElroy interceded in his behalf. The young woman visited the State penitentiary at Jefferson City this week to talk with “the boys.” “George—that’s the little one—is taking a high school course and is doing pretty well, I think. At least he is interested in the work, and there certainly is an improvement in his grammar.” Miss McElroy sends him bocks and other small gifts. Recently she arranged for an instructor from the correspondence school to visit him. Walter Makes Gifts. “Walter hasn't quite become ac- customed to life at Jefferson City yet, of course,” she remarked. Held in the county jail here for the long months he was fighting execution, | Walter McGee was transferred to the State prison last July after his sen- tence was modified. “But he wouldn't be interested in school work anyway. He's not like that. He’s more like this.” She dis- | played a pair of gloves and a handbag | the convict had crocheted for her— gifts from a once condemned kidnaper to his victim, who pleaded for his life. She will help Click find a job after his rglease. Mi McElroy declined to discuss parole possibilities for the three men. “Anything like that is so remote, so in the future,” she said. Selects Their Reading. “They can be good citizens right where they are. It will teach them to be good citizens if they ever have that opportunity in the outside world | again.” At the time the young woman was selecting weekly magazines for her kidnapers. “I'm not trying to be benevolent. That's such a lofty word and anyway A Thayer Dance Certificate titling the not soon forgotten. business man. A new and happy suggestion if you are in the least bit bothered about what to give son, daughter or some member of the family. holder to FOUR THAYER PRIVATE, INDIVIDUAL LESSONS, for only $10, will bring many hours of pleasure—and is Learning to dance at the Leroy H. Thayer Dance Studios is a se- cret of social success discovered by many a smart debutante and young —A. P. Photos. it doesn’t fit at all. I only know I| want to help those McGee boys find themselves. “They have to learn to look people | in the eye all over again. If I can | have any part in teaching them it will | be the happiest thing in my life.” NEW LODGE FORMED BY A. F. G. E. GROUP Members Who Left No. 12 Unit| Charter New Organi- zation. 1 More than 100 members who re- signed Wednesday from Lodge No. 12, American Federation of Government Employes, have formed a new lodge, | which has been chartered in the La- | bor Department. The new lodge is designated as No. 228 and is composed entirely of per- | manent civil service employes. Other | who previously had not joined the | A. F. G. E. have indicated willing- | ness to associate themselves with the | | new lodge. | . Temporary officers of the lodge are: V. Paul Carney, chairman; Nora C. ; Lane, secretary; George E. Chapman, | jr.; treasurer, and Benjamin H. Harn, sergeant at arms. Other members ot‘, the governing body are Gail T. Judd, | office of the Secretary; Howard Ebey, | Immigration and Naturalization; Eliz- abeth Tandy, Children’s Bureau; | Charles F. Sharkey, Bureau of Labor | Statistics; Mary Turner, Women's Bu- reau, and Willard S. Haynile, Em- ployment Service. | | |DINNER TO CELEBRATE | EDUCATOR’S CENTENARY More Than 300 Expected Tomor- row Night to Honor Memory of William T. Harris. A dinner in observance of the 100th anniversary of the birth of | | william Torrey Harris, famous Amer- | tcan educator, who died in 1909, ill be held by the Office of Educa- 0. a. 7:30 pm. tomorrow in the! | Mayflower Hotel. More than 300 | national educational leaders and their | | wives, local university and school | officials and teachers and State su- | | perintendents from various sections of | the country will attend. Speaker: will be Philander P. Clax- ton, former United States commis- sioner of education, and Payson Smith, | commissioner of education for Mas- ‘uchusem. Commissioner of Educa- | tion ", W. Studebaker will preside. | Harris, whose achievements will be | honorew. with a series of similar din- | ners throughout the United States | this year, was United States commis- | sioner of education for 17 years, & ! record unequaled by any other, | wi | t Studios open 10 am. to 10 pm. MEtropolitan 4121 Leroul.Chayer 1215 CONNECTICUT AVENUE CHEST 0 CURTAIL EXTRA" AGTIVITIES Lack of Funds Ends Appro- priation for Additional Relief. Fallure of the Community Chest to achieve its minimum goal of $1,877,- 900 in its recent campaign for funds for 1936 will prevent Chest agencies from attempting to meet “abnormal” needs caused by abandonment of Fed- eral rellef, it was announced last night by Herbert E. Willett, jr, Chest director. The relief money in the 1935 budget of these Chest agencies is almost en=- tirely used up, Willett points out, and persons now receiving service and re- lief cannot be dismissed in order to provide for others in no greater need. The Chest already faces a deficit on the year's activities, and cannot appro- priate any additional funds for relief, because it has no right to spend money its does not possess. “The situation of the Chest for 1936 ' is well known,” Willett continued. “In | response to a request from Commis- sioner George Allen, the Chest agreed to co-operate in the relief sit- uation by conducting ‘a 120 per cent campaign’ this Fall. The minimum goal of the Chest, based on the actual needs of its 65 agencies as determined by the Chest Budget Committee, was | set at $1,877,900. The ‘120 per cent campaign,’ had it been successful, would have raised approximately $400,000 additional for relief. And even that would have been but a small fraction of the total amount of public funds that have been used for relief during the last year. | “The Chest missed its minimum goal | by approximately $150,000. Obviously ! there is no money for emergency relief in the amount raised. The Chest would be false to its trust if it used for other purposes funds pledged to the member agencies without which these agencies cannot exist. Children cannot be put out of homes, old peo- ple’s homes cannot be closed, sick peo- ple cannot be denied hospital care in order to take care of an overwhelm- ing public relief burden. That bur- den cannot be carried by private funds. “There are certain relief funds in cluded in the budgets of the family service agencies of the Chest. But these would not be a drop in the bucket as a means of meeting the | abnormal needs of the District. “Much as we should like to help, the fact remains that the Chest does not have the money.” Taxes (Contirued From First Page.) a subcommittee of the Executive Committee: “The Executive Committes agrees with the District Special Tax Commit- tee in its report to the Commissioners in which the following statement is found: ‘The propriety of any tax must be measured by its necessity. Before a recommendation can be made as to what taxes should be included in the revenue program, revenue needs must be first determined. Your commit- tee does not believe that taxes should be increased either by increasing the rates of present taxes or by introduc- tion of new taxation merely because the suggested tax could be borne by | Flying Flea and Eagle Compared & nounced the rule which forbids the Commissioners’ budget proposals to be made public in detail prior to sub- mittance to Congress by the Presi- dent. He said the federation lacked information “because some egotistical despots up there in Congress have tied our hands and we can't now pass Jjudgment on this matter.” Vice President Stull asked how much of an increase in taxes was to be expected. Yaden said $¢,000,000. Stull retorted: “That's a mere guess.” Williain McK. Clayton, former f eration president, recalled that Co missioner Allen had just stated the District must seek probably $3,200,000 out of District revenues for relief pur- poses only during the next fiscal year, Birds and Cats to Have Shows. MINNEAPOLIS (#).—If the Con- ventions Bureau staff was worried it was because Saturday was to bring (1) the Minnesota Roller Canary Club annual show, with 400 birds, and (2) the Fourth Annual Champion Cat Show, with 200 cats PLYWOOD Makes a Perfect Base for Christmas Displays Piece 4'x6', special __ The size of the Flying Flea, miniature French plane, is apparent when compared with the tri-motored bomber in background. Long Island. ment could spend the money if it|to secure an equitable and fair ap- | federation will participate in confer- had it “The public is prohibited by law from knowing the amount of the pro- | fixed and definite and not subject t0 | jaws for the District alone will call posed expenditures as submitted by | the Commissioners to the Bureau of | the Budget and as agreed upon by the Bureau of the Budget and ap- | be given to the value of Federal and | yjews » replied Carruthers. proved by the President, uptil it has been submitted to Congrest, and in the absence of such information and & further lack of information on the amount of the Federal apportionment, it is not possible at this time to de- termine the amount of additional | revenues required to balance the budget, and we repeat our previous recommendation that the law be changed to the extent that the tax- paying public may be fully informed at all times on proposed expenditures, also that the budget as prepared by the District Commissioners be sub- mitted directly to the proper commit~ tees ,of Congress. Seek Equitable Share, “Your committee reaffirms its previ- ous action on Federal participation in the cost of local government and re- commends that every effort be made | propriation by the Federal Government. | We believe that this amount should be | | flugtuation. And it is further believed {that in determining the annual lp—L portionment, due consideration should; other property of a national or inter- national character in the District. ! “Your committee considers it unwise | to recommend to Congress at this time any new forms of taxation or any| increases in any present taxes and we, further believe that no recommenda- tion should be made to Congress until Congress has determined the amount of the Federal appropriation and clearly indicated the emount of ex- penditures that it will permit. “We are opposed to the imposing of any tax that will result in a pronounced surplus, belleving that it will tend to extravagance and result in a further decrease in the Federal appropriation.” Sure Increase Seen. James G. Yaden, immediate past president of the federation, declared: | “There is going to be an increase in | taxes as sure as death and present taxes. 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