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HIGHER PAY ASKED BY RAIL WORKERS Annual Wage Increase of :$360,000,000 Demanded by Workers. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 24—The Na- tion’s 1,100,000 organized railroad workers were united today in demand- ing an annual wage increase of ap- proximately $360,000,000. Spokesmen for the 800,000 members of the 16 “non-operating” railway brotherhoods voted yesterday to seek a 20 per cent hike in their pay. Representatives of the 300,000 men n the five “operating” brotherhoods recently initiated a move to obtain a raise of the same size. Estimating about $360,000,000 in yearly income would be at stake when negotiators for the brotherhoods and for the management of the carriers sit down to a parley on the demands, George M. Harrison, chairman of the current meeting, declared: “These are the largest negotiations ever undertaken by organized railroad workers.” i The delegates planned to serve formal notice on the railroads within 30 days. They drew up this list of demands: 1. A general wage increase of 20 cents an hour; applied to hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or piece rates, so as to produce the same rate of increase for all employes, Harrison said this amounted to an average raise of ap- proximately 20 per cent. 2. A guarantee of full ployment for all regularly employes. 3. A guarantee of two-thirds of full time employment for all “stand- by” employes. Under the railway labor act each road would have 30 days to file an | answer, ! time em- assigned Strikes (Continued From First Page.) union did not seek a “closed shop” in Chrysler factories, but asked recogni- tion as the sole bargaining agency of the corporation’s wage earners. Chrysler employs 77,000 persons, of whom 50,000 are hourly production workers, in its plants in nine cities, manufacturing Plymouth, Dodge, De | Soto and Chrysler automobiles. Frankeensteen announced the Dodge division had agreed to pay workers time and a half for overtime over eight hours’ work a day. The division has been paying such rates for overtime work above 40 hours a week Agreements ended six strikes in the Detroit area today, but a dozen other factories were held by striking em- | | ing on the day shift before the strike | ployas or were closed because of labor controversies. Deliveries of liquor to Michigan Liquor Control Commission stores in seven counties were resumed as a result of an agreement between the Btar Terminal Transfer Co. and 30 striking drivers, checkers, guards and | warehouse helpers. Production was suspended at the | Timken-Detroit Axle Co. plant pend- ing negotiations for settlement of a labor dispute. Day-shift employes their collection. Commission last night. One commis- sioner said he had been asked to resign and refused. No official explanation was given for | the commission’s action. During the strike, after 39 persons had been in- | jured in disorders, the commission | | gave virtually dictatorial powers to| Mayor Harold E. Bradshaw, and rele- | gated to the background the city man- ager, who normally outranked the Mayor. City Manager Barringer's authority was restored after the strike was settled. SHIP FIRM PICKETED. Evictions. GROTON, Conn., February 24 (®). —The Electric Boat Co. stay-in strik- ers, ejected early today from grounds of the submarine building firm, | promptly formed a picket line which union leaders said would remain in “24-hour operation.” | There was no disorder as a number of | | workers flled through the picket line |to enter the main gate. Plant Reopens Without Disorder After ggqint jugge Charles F. Willard, an ‘The plant opened today at 7:30 am. | | Phillip Van Gelder and Francis X. McCann, strike leaders, estimated the at from 200 to 300. majority of the 1,700 who were work- | was called at 10:30 a.m. yesterday had | remained at their homes. This contention was disputed by the company paymaster, who said that all except the 168 sit-downers, who either left the property or were ejected by | veported for work. Picketing in Snow. ‘The picket line, forming over an hour before the plant opened, began | its back-and-forth pacing in a hnvy found the doors locked this morning. Some of the night shift still were in | the plant. Strike settlements other plants included: | Yale & Towne Lock Co.—Strike settled by agreement, which includes wage increase of 10 cents an hour. Atlas Barrel & Cooperage Co.— Men employes who had gone on a sit- down strike to receive wages cn an hourly instead of daily rate with in- creases, | announced in Wage Increases Given. H. & H. Tube & Manufacturing Co.—Strike settled by agreement, in- cluding wage increase of 5 cents an hour. Detrola Radio & Television Corp.— Wage increases ranging from 15 to 25 per cent; recognition of the Brother- | hood of Electrical Workers, an | American Federation of Labor Union; eight-hour day with overtime pay. Approximately half of the 250 em- ployes are women. Cope-8wift Foundry—Threatened strike averted by an agreement ‘be- tween the management and its 50 | employes. John Brophy, a director for the C. 1. 0, said today the John L. Lewis labor group has been receiving more appeals than it could handle to help workers organize in small plants in the automotive and other industries. Calls for organizers from auto parts and accessory shops are turned over to the C. I. O.s ally in that field, the | U.A. W. A Brophy said that the re- quests from other industries have been 80 numerous that the U. A. W. A. has been asked to supply organizers to aid workers’ groups in unrelated industries | as well. A number of these have come from workers who have called sit-down strikes in Detrbit cigar factories, bak- eries and other businesses, Brophy said. He indicated that the C. I. O.,, formed to organize workers in mass produc- tion industries, may consider setting up a division to deal with workers in miscellaneous industries. Other labor developments invluded: A sound truck was destroyed by s ‘bomb, negotiators for General Motors and the union still were engaged in sonference, and reverberations of the General Motors strike were heard in its erstwhile “capital,” Flint, Mich. John M. Barringer, city manager of Flint, who was criticized during the strike for forming a police “reserve” of eivilians, was removed by the OCity 'I'ABI.E 'I'EHHIS These fine tables made of se- lected woods, for indoor table tennis, regulation sizes at two spacial prices: With 35-in. top. % See these tables in our office. Immediate delivery to your home. J. FRANK ELLY SUDDEN * SERVICE Lumber and Millwork 2121 Ga. Ave, NOrth 1341 | the company, 5 | out dock. Much of the work done at | ' Stop “trespassing * * * upon the snowstorm. The dull gray waters o( New London Harbor were barely visible | through the gaunt steel framework of the craneways in the boat company's yard. The craneways, reaching some 50 | feet into the air, are virtually the only part of the plant seen by the casual passerby. The property slopes down- ward from George street to the water | Seniority rights, time and a half for | and the one-story machine shops and overtime and recognition of the United other buildings are scarcely noticeable. | One also must look closely to see | the steel hull of the Permit, Government submarine launched b resting on the flmng-‘ the company is performed out of doors, but there was no visible evi- dence of outside activity a half-hour after the gate opened this morning. Strikers said the only employes entering the plant were machinists. A score of State policemen, part of the force of 60 that ejected the stay- inners early today, patrolled the | street alongside the picket line. No ill feeling was evidenced despite the fact union officials charged the police with using illegal tactics in the ejec- tion. The union is affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion. Most of the 100 pickets who formed the line early today were men who had been taken from the plant a few hours earlier and had been arraigned on trespass charges at a special court session lasting from 2 until 4 am. Their cases were continued until Friday. A list of the strikers was prepared for O. P. Robinson, works manager for the shipyards, who announced earlier the men were “automatically discharged” when they refused to work.. Van Gelder asserted the ejection of the strikers was “the most flagrant, disgraceful use of the State police in . . number of workers entering the plant | They sald & | onment property here.” State and local police during the night, | last | W. Dougias, president of the company, ©aSEAB THE ONLY COMPLETELY AIR-CONDITIONED TRAINS TO FLORIDA —mfiumhnwmmvfiuhmflflmmm'mm e L o RS | were sent home THE EVENI Manns Visit Tokio ZO(; Dr. William Mann, director of the National Zooloywal Park, accomf his assistant, Dr. M. O. Williams, as they inspected the Ueno Zoo, at Toki; a week in Japan, they contmued to Siam and the Netherland Indies in“search of animals for the history of Connecticut, whose his- tory is bad enough in this respect.” “They used & wholly illegal method | of forcefully driving these employes | out of the yard. There was no in- | junction and no warrants were served. | “We did not resist. There was no barricading of the doors. Police rushed in and started to un, the men out and used their clubs.” Van Gelder assured the strikers the trespassing charges were “ridiculous” and asserted he could ‘“guarantee i every case will be thrown out of | court.” He declared the union was consid- ering bringing false arrest charges unnamed employe of the boat company and other town officials. Robinson, who remained in his office at the plant until the last of the sit-downers had béen removed, said the strikers forfeited their status as employes when they stopped work. Because of the stringent regulations | under which the company works in | building submarines for the United States Navy, he asserted, the com- pany was forced to regard the men as | “trespassers.” He said the company was “under & heavy penalty to protect the Gov- | 1l About 350 workers on the night shift ' who reported for duty, Robinson said, “because we didn't want any trouble.” DOUGLAS PLANT OCCUPIED. SANTA MONICA, Calif,, February | 24 (A —The Douglas Aircraft Co. plant, its $24,000,000 construction pro- gram at a standstill, was occupied to- | day by more than 300 sit-down strikers | who ignored the president’s request to leave and “avoid trouble.” Pickets walked outside. A nearby signpost read: “Plant closed until rioting subsides.” Circulars passed among the 5,600 | employes after the abrupt shutdown | yesterday said the strikers would ask | & pay raise of 15 cents an hour, Automobile Workers of America. Copies of a letter signed by Donald were distributed inside among the “unauthorized occupants” asking them Psychic Message Coum:ilI 1160 Twelfth St N.W. Corner of 12th and “L* Circles Daily, 2:30 & 7:30 P.M. Gray Deleng. Reader s for spiritual help be arranged by il House or Telephone 4+ Consuitation S$1 Meuvmlitan |4 © ESTABLISHED 1865 @ PRICES RISING On High-Grade Lumber Each day brings a notice of it's thrifty economical to make re- ot current levels. 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Photo. and leave at “We wish to remind you that a large arge part of the materials on hand “We wish to advise you that serious The reply was: “The men have been informed of the situation and instructed not to sabotage any material in the plant.” ‘The spokesman identified himself as | jzation measure—invalidated opce by | daily pay from $1 to $1.20, they shut Bob Trochet, publicity committeeman of Local 214, Aircraft Division, United | jabor clauses—likewise occupied the | pump and declared over the mine Automobile Workers of America. He | attention of the operators and the | telephone they would feed neither | opened in China last year. claimed the union’s membership in the | | union leaders. | plant exceeded 1,100. Other claims of he union, a unit of John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, | ranged up to 60 per cent. D. C, LONG PARLEY DUE ONMINERS WAGES Subcommittee Representing Union and Operators Opens Negotiations. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 24.—The troublous task of negotiating a new wage agreement between coal operators and the United Mine Workers' Union, affecting 400,000 union miners in the | vast Appalachian fields, was handed over today to a subcommittee repre- senting the operators and the union— with no indication of an early settle- ment. The present March 31. John Lewis, president of the miners’ union, told the operators that union men would not work after that date without & new contract. In the preliminary sessions of the full conference of operators and union leaders last week, disagreement quickly resulted. The union demanded a guar- anteed income for each miner of $1,200 a year, a 30-hour week instead of the present 35 hours, and basic daily. rates of $6 in the Northern fields and $5.60 in the South, instead of the pre- vailing $5.50 and $5.10 rates. Declaring these proposals “impos- sible,” the operators countered with a proposal to increase the work week to 40 hours with a 15 per cent reduction in hourly pay rates. It was admitted by both sides that little progress would be made in the subcommittee considerations until the deadline hour approaches. It was also believed likely that the conference would later be shifted to Washington. While the agreement applies only to the Appalachian flelds from Penn- sylvania down mnto Tennessee, it also agreement expires | governs the wage scales in other fields. | consequences to yourselves will result | from any injury to property of the|g operators and 15 officers of me‘ Government and may follow from & |ynjon, with equal voting strength on | further interference with the progress | each side. of this work. “We request that you leave at once The spokesman for the operators is | BY the Assocated Press. | to avoid trouble arising from any Charles P. O'Neill, source.” | United Eastern Coal Sales Corp. For | hundred and fifty coal miners de- | Claiming 3,300 members, Newt Col" lins, president of the Douglas Em- ploves’ Association, retorted: T. 8. McMahon, secretary of the company, said the strike came as a | complete surprise and that no wage de- mands had been made. He declared | that wages range from 40 cents to| $1.10 an hour on the basis of a 40- hour week, with time and a third for overtime. SHOE WORKERS GET RAISES. BOSTON, February 24 | whirring of shoe machinery continued in New England today, despite the‘ (#)—The | cent The sub-committee is composed of The chairman is Duncan | C. Kennedy, a West Virginia operator. president of the the union it is either Lewis or his | vice president, Philip Murray. | ‘The pending efforts in Congress for | | a revival of the Guffey coal uabn-\ the Supreme Court because of its | cities—Boston, Lowell and Marlboro, | Mass., and Keene, N. H In Keene, union men began picket- |ing a plant employing 250 workers, | wo—ne of whom stood by their jobs. | | In Marlboro, 'four plants agreed to | the union demands and resumed mpennon while negotiations were in | progress concerning a fifth. In the great shoe center of Lynn, William B. Mahan, general orgnmzer‘ | for the union, announced that eight | of the nine manufacturers affiliated | with the Eastern Shoe Manufacturers’ ! Association had signed an agreement | this morning for an immediate 15 per raise. He sald 3000 workers | would return to these factories at Union leaders began negotiations call of a general shoe strike, as union | with six other Lynn firms, announc- workers threaded their way back into | Ing meanwhile that picketing would plants which granted demands’for an In Salem, five immediate 15 per cent pay increase. be withheld at least until afternoon. | factories remained | | closed pending the outcome of negotia- While officers of the United Shoe | tions between union men and manu- and Leather Workers’ Union pressed ' facturers. In Newburyport, Mass. | plans for picketing factories whose | the same situation prevailed in the owners refused to capitulate, the one plant well organized by the union, W| LLARD HOTEL in several | with 500 workers idle. wheels turned as usual WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, Hits Mankind URGES SIT-DOWN STRIKE ON BREEDING. S0 STAY IN MINE | and = 1937, A—S§ Rid your system of Excess Acud GLASS WORKERS PRESIDENT QUSTED 2 Union Head Protests His “Dismissal” by Three- man Commission. By the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., February 24—L. P. Jay, vice president of the | Federation of Flat Glass Workers, an- nounced today the dismissal of Glen W. McCabe, veteran president of the | union. “I acted as chairman of a three-man commission which dismissed McCabe,” said Jay. He declined to amplify his state- ment, or to discuss assertions by Mc- Cabe that his ‘“suspension” was in violation of union regulations. McCabe led the union through a Na- tion-wide strike in the glass industry only a few weeks ago. Claims Support of Locals. | He addressed three .nion locals here | last night and said they “voted to | support me 100 per cent and demanded that the Executive Board reinstate me MEt. 1062 K 8t. N.W. F. A. NORTH Co0., 715 Sth St. N.W. 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