Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1936, Page 5

STRIKE RESUMED IN PORTSMOUTH Strife-Torn Ohio Town to Be Spearhead in Union Drive. He Tops Them All By the Associated Press. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, July 8.— With a ‘“tentative agreement” for settlement rejected, the 6-weeks-old, violence-marked strike affecting 5,500 workers at the giant new Boston plant of the Wheeling Steel Corp. resumed full force today. Union officials pushed simultan- eously to make Portsmouth the spear- head in the organization drive of the steel industry. John Harris, secretary of the Joint Strike Committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, announced early today rejece tion of the agreement reached in Pittsburgh Monday night between a mediator and an Amalgamated negoti- ating committee. The action came after a series of secret mass meetings lasting all night and attended, Har- ris said, by at least 3,000 men. Center Efforts in Portsmouth. “From now on” Harris told the Associated Press, “Portsmouth will be the key point in the organization drive of the steel industry. We have adopted the slogan, ‘As goes Ports- mouth, so goes the industry We | are determined to see this to a fin-| ish.” Harris predicted efforts to end the strike would be resumed “as soon | as possible,” but declared em- | phatically “We want a settlement, but it must | be an honorable settlement. There has been no settlement and the strike is still on.” He listed the workers’ reasons {or‘ rejecting the agreement, which pro- vided for “immediate resumption of | operations,” as: . “The (negotiating) committee was unable to deal with the company di- rectly, as we desired, but only through | L] med)axor “The company broke a pmmxse! not to give negotiations undue pub- licity by publishing a full page adver- tisement Monday charging the Joint Strike Committee with the fatal shoot- | ing of a company guard in the June 23 strike riot.” Blamed in Violence. | “The men refused,” he added, “to consider a settlement which involved discrimination against any members.” (This referred to the company's re- fusal under the “tentative agreement” to permit five strikers to return to | their jobs. These five, the company asserted, were leaders in a series of | violent acts culminating in the fatal June 23 riot.) | “They also refused,” he continued, | “to countenance the company charge | that the Joint Strike Committee had | any onnection with the killing of the | guard.” Steel (Continued From First Page.) the fighting chairman of the Commit- tee. Green laid many sins at the door of the committee, charged it with | bludgeoning the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers into “deserting” the A. F. of L. and warned that the insurgents must an- | swer for actions which will benefit *only the enemies of organized labor.” Lewis hit back without delay and with no punches pulled, denying the topped all delegates to the De szsns Cx!y Eight feet four inches tall, Robert Wadlow. 18, of Alton, I, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, FARLEY TO LEAVE CABINET AUGUST Gets Furlough Without Pay to Direct Roosevelt Campaign. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. James A. Farley steps out of the dual role of Postmaster General and chairman of the Democratic National Committee on August 1, to confine himself to the latter job. Farley will devote all his time and attention from August 1 until after the national election, November 3, to running the President’s campaign for re-election. He has not resigned as Postmaster General. He will be merely on leave without pay. W. W. Howes, first as- sistant Postmaster General, will be acting as head of the Post Office De- partment during Farley's abscace. President Roosevelt has created an- | other precedent in giving a furlough to a cabinet officer to do political | work. The plan was announced by the President at his press conference | late yesterday. Under it the President does not have | to name a new member of his cabinet. The place will be open to Mr. Farley as soon as the campaign is at an end. | Speculation at an End. There has for months been a great amount of speculation as to how the | President and Mr. Farley would meet | the situation. Farley had no desire to give up his cabinet office. At the same time the President was anxious |to have Farley continue as head of the Democratic National Committee | and to conduct the campaign of 1936. For two years there have been con- stantly recurring reports that Farlvyl would either resign General or as chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee. His crit-| ics have insisted that it was unethical for him to remain as head of one | of the great departments of the Gov-| ernment and at the same time carry on as the chief political lieutenant of the President and as a dispenser of Federal patronage. Farley has not now resigned his cabinet post, however. He will, it is | presumed. resume his office as Post- master General when the national {election is over. The President was | not specific as to the exact date of 0 ¢l of the Farley furlough. He | he fur'ouzh would continue until “afier the election.” Requested by Farley. Molay Founder's Conference at -A 2. lem. F7 the Associated Press. W. W. Howes, who will become acting head of the country's postal | ley starts his leave of absence August 1, was Farley's assistant, as vice chairman of the Democratic Cam- paign Committee, in the 1932 election drive. In the Post Howes started as Second Assistant Postmaster General, but stepped up to First Assistant—the office which | pervision of postmasters—when Joseph C. O'Mahoney Senator from Wyoming early in 1934. Long & hard party worker, Howes, a chubby, slow-speaking South Da- kotan, was given credit by some Dem- ocrats as being an important factor in piling up an 80.000 plurality for Mr. Roosevelt in South Dakota in 1932. federation ever intended any real at- tempt to organize the steel industry, | inviting it to join the C. I O. in the | drive if it would and volcing the| counter-warning that the “shame” of | giving_comfort to the Iron and Steel | Institute “will lie on the heads of Mr. | Green and his irreconcilable asso- ciates.” | Green's Statement. | Green's statement follows, in part: “It is to be sincerely regretted that the Committee for Industrial Organi- eation thwarted the purpose of the American Federation of Labor to in- augurate an organizing campaign in | the steel industry, behind which the American Federation of Labor would have mobilized the united support and | pooled resources of organized labor. | A very serious if not a fatal mistake was made when it flouted the de- cision of the last convention of the American Federation of Labor, which was held at Atlantic City last October, and prevented the Executive Council from carrying out the convention's instructions, 'To inaugurate, manage, promote | end conduct an organizing campaign | among the iron and steel workers at | the earliest possible date.” Denounced A. F. of L. “Instead of making possible the concentration of all the material, moral and economic forces of the | organized workers and all their friends behind an irresistible or- Ranizing campaign in the steel indus- try, its recognized spokesman de- nounced the American Federation of Labor, charged it with pursuing a ‘dog in the manger’ policy, and por- trayed it as a barrier blocking the | efforts of the steel workers to become | organized. Finally, through the sub- | mission of abusive communications | and telegrams to the officers and delegates in attendance at the con- vention of the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers which was held at Canonsburg, Pa., on April 28, the chairman of the | Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, charging the leaders of the | American Federation of Labor with | incompetency and with being guilty of staying the progress of the labor movement, influenced those officers to make an unconditional surrender. They deserted the American Federa- tion of Labor, rejected its offer and its plan to organize steel workers, joined the new organization (the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion) and signed an agreement which subjects them and the organization they represent to the complete dom- ination and control of the chairman of the Committee for Industrial Or- ganization. Find Real Enemlies. “Now those identified with the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion find that their real enemy is not the American Federation of Labor and its Executive Council which they so vehemently denounced, but instead their ' real enemies are the steel corporations and the powerful finan- cial interests associated with them. ‘They are now finding out what the | Executive Council of the American | Federation of Labor always knew—[ that any organizing campaign ' launched in the steel industry should, | in order to be successful, be carefully 1 organized, skillfully planned and be- hind it placed every ounce of strength ' » {on July 8 it will give consideration to He was re-elected to the Democratic National Cammlll" on which he has Farley’s 1932 Campaign Aid To Tuke Postal Service Heln | served since 1924, | service when Postmaster General Far- | Office Department | deals with the appointment and su- | Tesigned to become | | | It is understood that the arrenge- ment now made was at the request | of Farley himself. In his opinion his prestige would have been lowered had he actually resigned and stepped out | ’ of the cabinet, Farley has been much interested in his work as head of the Post Office Department and he has never desired to relinquish that job. In fact he prob- | ably would have preferred to give up | the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee had the matter | been pressed to a final issue in the past. Some of President Roosevelt’s sup- porters, among them Senator George | W. Norris of Nebraska, have insisted for a long time that Farley should not continue as head of the Post Office Department and as natlonal chairman of the Democratic party. How the new arrangement will appeal at .the national convention in Philadelphia a week ago. In South Dakota, Howes served as State Senator in 1916; ran for Gov- ernor in 1920; became State Demo- cratic chairman in 1922, and was elected State’s attorney in 1926 and 1928. | Howes is an enthusiastic spectator at foot ball and base ball games, but does not seek exercise on the golf links or gymnasiums of the Capital. | Walking and dancing are his favorite diversions. His daughter, Mary Howes, has be- ; Cile et W popular | 10 them is still & question. | debutantes since her graduation from |, Farley will make his headquarters National Park Seminary. His wife ts |1 New York—the main Democratic | the former Hazel Donna Gordon of | C*WPRign headquarters. He will go erinel vy to New York the end of this week, but Howes ‘was born at Tomah, Wis, IOt 10 stay. For he will be back in on February 16, 1887, educated at the | 2shington on the business of the | of Minnesota and the | [0St Office Department until after v of South Dakota. Before |AUEUSt 1. o coming to Washington, he practiced |, 1T¢ Democratic chairman has, dur- law at Huron, S. Dak, ing the lfut three and a half years, = been busily engaged in building up and energy, financial and ecnnomlc, which the solid, united, orglnlzed labor movement could supply. This | | fact has been m~e quite clear during the last few a through the an- nouncement mac. .y the representa- | tives of the steel corporations through the Iron and Steel Institute. The! attitude which they have assumed | and the statements they made can | only be interpreted as meaning that | they understand no language except | the language of force. Achieve Only Confusion. “The sum total achieved by the COmmntee for Industrial Organiza- Ition thus far is nothing whatever | except division, discord and confu- | sion within the ranks of organized labor. Those associated with it were repeatedly warned that such a result would follow if they persisted in pur- | suing the course upon which they | had embarked. Their answers to the requests and earnest appeals of the Executive Council to desist, follow democratic procedure, to be governed by majority rule within the American Federation of Labor, to respect its authority and to maintain unity and solidarity within it, were blank re- | fusal and in some instances ridicule and denunciation. “Only the enemies of organized labor will be the beneficaries of such an unwise policy. “When the Executive Courcil meets the status of the Committee for In- dustrial Organization and will take into account all its activities since it was organized on November 10, 1935.” Lewis Hits Green. The Lewis answer. follows: “The Executive Council® of the American Federation of Labor never had a plan to organize the steel in- dustry. They had instructions to in- augurate and conduct an organizing campaign, which were quoted in Mr. Green's statement. These instructions were first given the Executive Council by the San Francisco covention in October, 1934, and reaffirmed by the Atlantic City convention in October, 1935. The instructions were never executed; the Executive Council con- tented itself with heavy thinking on the subject, while in the meantime not a single organizer was sent into the steel industry. | ing, it was reported, was Rufus Nor- ' the party organization in all parts of establish the right to organize and the the country. He has traveled across right of collective bargaining in the ' the continent and the length of the steel and other major industries. | land several times, and has spoken to | “However, if the Executive Council, | large crowds on innumerable occa- in its deliberations and judgment, sions. The difficulty for the admin- elects to join with the corporations |istration has not been to find a Post- | composing the American Iron and | master General to take his place, but | Steel Institute in fighting the Commit- | to find & new national chairman as| | tee for Industrial Organization, now | Well equipped as Farley. i |engaged in this major effort, the shame of such a dishonorable action ' will lie on the heads of Mr, Green and his irreconcilable associates.” Mass Meetings Called. Meanwhile the fleld forces of the ' | C. I O. are planning a mass meet- | ing in Cleveland today to give the drive impetus in that area. In the Pittsburgn sector, 72 paid organizers and 2200 volunteers already have started their personal-contact cam- paign. From Alabama came reports that several hundred employes of the Re- public Steel Corp. near Birmingham had denounced the organization drive in a mass meeting yesterday. A reso- | lution was adopted serving notice that the employes will “vigorously protest any trespassing on our rights as American citizens by outsiders in | any attempt to force us into their or- | ganizations, or to pay any monetary tribute for that which we are already getting.” Taking a leading part in the meet- ton, a plant superintendent. . Police Balk Duel. PARIS (#).—Police today prevented & sword duel of two Frenchmen over an “affair of honor.” Guillain de! Benonville and Romens de Maguerie had met with their seconds in the | court yard of a private home. Friends said De Maguerie had challenged De Benonville, a literary critic, for calling De Marguerie a servant because the latter was working his way through law school by acting as a valet. A City Ban A YEAR TO PAY necessary. makers n Doctors agree that Neuritis 18 caused by the accumulation of acids and poisons in the system. 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