Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1936, Page 4

A4 ¥¥» EW DEAL BACKED BY CAB CALLOWAY Elder Michaux’s Aid Also Enlisted, ‘Good Neighbor’ Report Reveals. Fnlistment of Cab Calloway, Elder Michaux and a number of colored ministers in the fight to spread the Democratic gospel to colored voters in doubtful States was revealed to- day in reports of campaign expenses by the Good Neighbor League, Inc. Elder Michaux, Washington evan- gelist, was given almost $1,800 last month for his own expenses and those of his choir of 156 voices which he took to New York for a rally in Madison Square Garden. Calloway, the orchestra leader, re- ceived $500 for his services to the Democratic party and another $500 after participating in the rally. The reports, filed with the clerk of the House, disclosed that James W. Girard, Ambassador to Germany dur- ing the Wilson administration, was the largest contributor to the league. He gave $10,000 on one occasion, $500 on another and loaned the league $5,000. The president of the league is Dr. | Stanley High, former editor of the Christian Herald. Since the league was organized last March, it received more than $90,000 from prominent Democrats and the Democratic Na- tional Committee. Much of the money was used to| finance “emancipation celebrations,” held in New York, Maryland, West | Virginia, New Jersey and Ohio, with | the aid of colored ministers, | Elder Michaux received $1,154 for | *railroad fare for the choir,” and | $499 for meals and lodging for the choir, and $128 for his own expenses. | A Bishop R. R. Wright of New | York received a salary of $100 a week and $850 for expenses in organizing and holding emancipation celebrations | in 13 towns and cities. | The report listed sums paid half a | dozen educators summoned to New York to confer on campaign meas- | ures in their various communities. trike (Continued From First Page.) from the Orient, Alaska and South, America. | Promptly caught in the strike net were 118 ships. Some are foreign craft. | They probably will leave port with whatever cargo had been loaded when the strike call was issued. Extra Police Guards Called. Recalling the bloody 83-day mari- | time strike of 1934, during which seven men were killed, police chiefs immediately ordered extra-duty forces to the water front and private com- | panies posted their own guards. Four hundred pol in both San Francisco and Los An- geles. No one would estimate the value of trade affected. The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Marine Ex- change said about 300,000 tons of cargo daily pass through West Coast ports. of the world, but mostly to the East Coast and the Orient. All of this steady flow was stopped. It had been greatly increased in recent months with heavy fruit ex- ports to Eastern cities and Europe | with another employers’ group, coast- men's demand for $1 an hour instead | and advance shipments in expecta- | wise freight operators, were reported of the present 95 cents, and a pro- | tion of the tie-up, three times de- layed by the Federal mediators. This is only part of the financial picture, Other industries relying chiefly on water shipments to move their products or bring in raw ma- terials, will be forced to close if the strike lasts. Chief among these are the sugar industries of California and the lumber industry of the Pa- cific Northwest. Negotiations Continued. Negotiations toward new agree- ments continued today but non- partisan observers placed their chief hope of immediate settlement of the strike in intervention by the newly- ' created Federal Maritime Commission with jurisdiction over shipping com- panies and sea-going unions. “It will be a national strike,” pre- dicted Randolph Meriwether, secre- tary of the Marine Engineers’ Benefi- cial Association. “We have received hundreds of telegrams from ports all over America, pledging support.” His prediction found support in the ennouncement of T. J. Darcy, New Orleans longshoremen leader, that 600 water front workers there were ready to walk out to back up the West Coast unions. Move to Water Front. Union pickets and squads of police moved simultaneously onto the Los | Angeles Harbor water front at San Pedro, where crews of 27 ships were called off. Police Chief James E. Davis canceled all leaves and ordered 12-hour shifts for the entire force. “Law and order will prevail in Portland,” Mayor Joseph K. Carson of that city declared. Officers were ordered on 12-hour duty at Honolulu, where six vessels, Wwith 600 crew members, were idle at docks. Immediate effects of the strike on Industries was indicated. Owners of four saw mills at Grays Harbor, ‘Wash., announced they were closing down today. Some 800 warehousemen in San Francisco, who are affiliated with the Longshoremen’s Union, were called to strike at' 8 am. Ice, cold storage, feed and milling plants are affected. First anouncement of the strike was made here by Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady, after day- long conference with employers and unions in last-minute efforts to avert the tle-up., Peace Efforts to Continue. McGrady said he would continue peace efforts. He termed the strike “sheer mad- ness” and declared “we will leave no stone unturned in efforts to reach a speedy settlement.” F. M. Kelly, secretary of the Joint Union Negotiating Committee, said the strike vote was uanimous and was ordered against all shippers. As in the 1934 strike, control of hiring was the major issue. Long- shoremen won control of their hiring es a result of the 1934 arbitration award, but employers want to replace it with joint control. Seamen seek to extend union control of hiring to sailors. Employers say they get more effi-~ cient men under employer or joint control of hiring. Union men object to this method because, they say, younger men are always picked, leav- ing the workers in their late 30s and 40s out of work for long periods, while unions dispatch men to jobs in rota- tion. The strike call followed by a few bours an mnouncemenl“y the com- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1936. mittee for offshore operators, headed v four major companies, sailors’ demands for control of hiring | e were assigned to duty by | and overtime pay in cash instead of time off could not be negotiated. | Longshoremen though offered full hiring and other settlements by 26 Eastern-and foreign companies operat- ing out of coast ports, refused to break | eration of the Pacific, which unites | maritime workers, all union contracts | must be signed simultaneously. | has been a foregone conclusion since the 1934 strike. Wage scales were raised to such a favorable level, as compared to East Coast and Gulf | Port pay, that wages were only a minor issue in the present disagree- ment, Coastwise freighter operators read- ily agreed in last-minute negotiations It is destined for all ports the “united front” with other unions. | to increasing pay of sailors from $70 Under by-laws of the Maritime Fed- | to $80 & month. Wage increases also were accorded other classifications of workers. | East Coast and foreign steamship New Uptown Theater Opened Upper: Crowd gathered outside the new Warner Bros. Theater, the Uptown, at the opening last night. 3 Lower, left to right: Julian Brylawski of Warner - Bros. Commissioner Hazen an John Pal/em of the theater organization, as they attended the opening. —Star Staff Photos. | nounced a meeting of union ship| labor tonight would vote on a general —_ | | [ strike for the Eastern seaboard. | | Whether the seamen's strike, 1f | voted, would include longshoremen had | | not been determined. | | Joseph P. Ryan, president of the | International Longshoremen’s Asso- ¢ ciation, was in conference with his| aides. Previously he had indicated longshoremen of this seaboard would “go along” with Pacific Coast members | of the union. The “sitdown” strike aboard ships in New York Harbor and in some | other ports along this coast and in the Gulf of Mexico had been announced earlier in the day, but at noon Joseph | Curran, chairman of the Seamen's Defense Committee, denied he had made such a declaration. “I said nothing of the kind,” as- serted Curran. | Formed After Contract Dispute. | | The Seamen's Defense Committee was formed after a contract dispute within one of the maritime unions. | The headguarters of the Defense Committee said the seamen of 18 vese | sels now in port had telegraphed the officers of several unions askipg that | representatives be present at tonight's | Efforts toward peaceful settlements ' companies accepted the longshore- { meeting in the Manhattan Lyceum. progressing as the strike call came. | _The present dispute was precipitated | September 30. Then the offshore | operators, headed by the Dollar, Mat- | son, American-Hawaiian and Swayne & Hoyt lines, terminated working agreements based on the 1934 strike awards. | They and the unions presented de- | mands for modification of the awards, particularly on the hiring question. The “truce” until last night's strike | call was at the request of the United | States Maritime Commission, which | | took over administration of the ship | subsidy act October 26. Admiral H. G. Hamlet, here as a representative of the commission, gave | no indication what his next move will | be. He had postponed an investiga- :tloq of the dispute to next Monday, saying he did not want to interfere with peace negotiations. A statement from the San Fran- | cisco Bay Area District Council, Mari- “nme Federation of the Pacific, said | Harry Bridges, leader in the 1934 | strike, will act as chairman of the | district'’s Joint Strike Committee. Bridges now is coast district president of the International Longshoremen’s Association. T. G. Plant, spokesman for the | offshore operators, said: “We have no plan at this moment | to_continue operations.” Unions in the Maritime Pedera- tion, formed after the 1934 strike, are: The International Longshore- men’s Association, the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, the Marine Cooks'and | Stewards, the Firemen, Oilers, Water- tenders and Wipers'; the Marine En- gineers, the Masters, Mates and Pilots’ and the American Rad - Phists’ Association, o All are members of the American Federatibn of Labor except the sailors union. Its charter was revoked by the International Seamen's Union earlier this year, largely because of its membership in the Maritime | Federation of the Pacific. The | sailors union has petitioned the A. | F. of L. for readuission, stating it is older than the I 8. U. The maritime federation, which includes all seagoing and waterfront workers of the West Coast, was formed as a result of the 1934 strike, That walkout was called by the longshoremen. Others followed. Shipowners attempted to operate with non-union help then, billeting stevedores in heavily guarded pier sheds where they worked, ate and slept. As the strike spread to other unions, shipping steadily fell off until waterfronts were paralyzed. Use of non-union workers led to sporadic violence in every port eity. San Francisco's “bloody Thursday” came when employers used non- union truck drivers to move cargo from a pier to a nearby warehouse. Union teamsters refused to handle shipments. Similar action by team- sters was expected by union men if steamship companies attempt to oper- ate during the current strike. Two union men were killed by police guns during bloody Thursday. The National Guard was called to San Francisco and the general strike followed. Business was paralyzed for the three days it lasted. Conditions were not returned to normal for weeks. Some unions, notably the Market Street railway car operators, remained out until demands they pre- sented during the general strike Were met. A closed shop on t§y water front = | portionate increase in overtime to ‘ $1.50. | Even the four big West Coast ofl-l shore companies agreed to the higher hourly wage, hut wanted to lengthen the working day from six to eight hours. This, Bridges said, would | amount to a 50-cent-a-day cut for | stevedores who now work eight hours, | getting overtime for the last two hours. NO “SITDOWN” STRIKE. | e | Action in New York Fails to Material- ize at Noon. | port-wide “sitdown” strike in sym- pathy with striking water front and | did not materialize at noon today, but | the Seamen's Defense Committee an- NEW YORK, October 30 (#).—A | | seafaring workers on the Pacific Coast | The committee said the seamen had {acted in their capacities as members of the Internatioral Seamen’s Union. Recipients of the telegrams were: i David Grange, president of the M |rine Cooks’ and Stewards’ Union; Ivan Hunter, secretary-treasurer of | the L S. U, head of the Marine Pire- | men, Oilers’ and Water Tenders' Union, an affiliate; Gus Brown, rep- resenting the Eastern and Gulf Sailors’ Union; Herbert Bennett, president of the International Broth- | erhood of Electrical Workers; Ryan and Frank Robinson, secretary of the American Radio Telegraphers’ Asso- ciation. 7,000 Members Affected. The committee said 37,000 members | (of the I. 8. U would be affected by tonight's vote on the question of | striking. “What can I co?” asked Joseph 52 years in business. gagement Ring with a Genuine Diamond in the center and 5 Genuine side Diamonds. Also a 15-Diamond Channel Wed- ding Ring (stones set edge to edge). Both rings are 14-kt. white or yellow gold. Our price is only $39.85. A regular $62.50 value. Open a Charge Account Todayl Ryan, president of the association, when he was informed that longshore- men on the Western seaboard had quit work. Ryan previously had announced he had no alternative but to support the demands of the association’s Western ‘members. COMMISSION STUDIES NEWS, Comment Is Declined by Chairman of Maritime Group. By the Associated Press. Members of the Maritime Commis- sion today studied intensively the news of the West Coast shipping strike, and the call of a sit-down strike on the East Coast, but Admiral Hemry A. Wiley, commission chair- man, declined any immediate com- ment. - Wiley indicated to newsmen that some idea of the commission’s coursé might be forthcoming after the re- ceipt of direct word from Rear Ad- miral Harry G. Hamlet, commission member now on the West Coast. Neither the White House nor the Labor Department had any immediate statement on the far-reaching strikes. Secretary Perkins was absent from the city on a speaking tour, while Assistant Secretary McGrady was en- gaged in direct peace efforts on the West Coast. Later, Hugh L. Kerwin, director of the Labor Department’s conciliation service, said he had been informed by his aides on the coast that Mc- Grady had arranged for a conference today between the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union and the steam schooner | owners. He saild he was informed other maritime unions were in agree- ment with the steam schooner owners. Longshoremen, he was told, may seek | Individual agreements with employers. Norfolk Not Affected. 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