Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1936, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, JUNE 29, D e e e ———— TEEL INDUSTRY FIGHTS UNIONIZING Statement Charges Outsid- ers Seek to Force Closed Shop. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, June 29.—The $5,000,- 000,000 steel industry mobilized its re- sources today against what its leaders described as an attempt to force their acceptance of the “closed shop.” They declared their position in a statement issued yesterday through the American Iron and Steel Institute, which represents more than 95 per cent of the industry. The statement charged a campaign to unionize the industry was being made by “persons and organizations not connected with the industry.” Lewis Not Named. John L. Lewls, president of the United Mine Workers and acknowl- edged leader in the committee for in- dustrial organization, was not named in the formal statement. A spokesman for the institute ad- mitted, however, that the statement was directed against Lewls' activities in the committee. After affirming the steel industry’s belief “in the principles of collective bargaining,” the statement said: “The steel industry is recovering from zix years of depression and huge losses, and the employes are now be- Rinning to receive the benefits of in- creased operations, Any interruption of the forward movement will seriously injure the employes and their families, and all businesses dependent upon the industry, and will endanger the welfare of the country. Interruption Threat. “The announced drive, with its ac- eompanying agitation industrial | strife, threatens such interruption.” The statement declared that the in- dustry, which has fought off three unionization campaigns in the last 50 years, would act “to protect its em- ployes and their families from intimi- dation, coercion and violence, and to aid them in maintaining collective bar- gaining free from interference from any source.” e | v ' ...the brilliance of Steel Dispute. Secretary Perkins of labor declined today to comment on the American k. ° ° Iron and Steel Institute’s declaration ; i ® o, 1t would oppose the drive by the Com- ? : mittee for Industrial Organization to | ¢ TR ks iy unionize the steel industry's 500,000 | workers. | John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. | 1. O, and president of the United | Mine Workers, was not here, but his | office said he might issue a statement later. The office of William Green, head | o©f the American Federation of Labor, | #aid he was on a trip west, only by the S AN PR Boa Constrictor Boards Ship. Pound basking on the deck of a ship fust after it left British Guinea, a large boa constrictor was lassoed by | the engineer. Trvin 5. Cobb] | " of Blue Sunoco Says: brilliant top performance Selassie Has Picked Up Finance Tricks of *Higher Civilization.” SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 29.— Had it not been a foreign dispatch, a | fellow might have thought it referred to one of our own investment coun- eillors, specializ- ing in looking after widows’ and § orphans’ funds, and having a neat line of European securities to di: pose of and Pprominent in wel- fare work and uplift movements in his home com- munity—in short, & typical speci- men of a sub-va- riety that seemed to sort of peter out in the years immediately following 1929, some quit- ting by request, some by indictment and some just vanishing into space, taking with them the clients’ remain- ing cash assets, if any. But this happened to be a cable- gram from Geneva, stating that when Emperor Haile and Farewell Selassie hurriedly departed from his capital he s0 thoroughly cleaned out the Bank | of Ethiopia that all the invading Ital- ians found in the vaults was a large, throbbing vacuum. ‘Who says these Africans haven't picked up some of the advanced finan- | reering principles of the higher white | civilization? (Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) Drastic reductions on one way fares plus extra savings on round trips. Go by bus. Still the most Economical Trans- | ' ; . On/y One maijor refiner in the United States portation, more .05 5 : _ (Sun Oil Co.) does not use tetraethyl lead, or any York 75 b S . BUS CENTER 5 4 1 ' = other chemical agent, in any of its motor fuel. Phone District. 4224 : OIl/y One maijor refiner in the United States r : B EE ; (Sun Ol Co.) coneentrates on one motor fuel. Tfidt On/y One motor fuel is Blue Sunoco. Use irdRpognsi ..NO SECOND GRADE | RUBBING ALCOHOL Cools, refreshes; doesn’t “dry out” N u N LY U N E u U A I. I I Y ...NO THIRD GRADE feet, sore muscles, Contains full 70% ahsolute alcohol. Large jar, 29¢— double size, 49¢—at your retailer’s. : Sgnd 10c for trial jar & . W18, Sorv, %, E- 37tk St