Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1937, Page 3

STEEL PAY BOOST 10BE ST00000.000 Organized Labor Leaders Hail Fourth Major In- crease of 1937. B the Associated Press. Organized labor leaders hailed to- day the fourth major pay boost of 1937, which they hope will put $100,- 000,000 a year more in the pay en= velopes of steel workers. They added the steel advance to these earlier increases: A gain, for Pacific Coast maritime workers, excepting longshoremen, won after a 98-day strike. A $25000,000 wage gain for Gen- eral Motors workers, announced the day that strike was settled. This fol- lowed by a few days a $14,000,000 raise for Chrysler workers, Clothing Workers’ Increase. A 12 per cent pay boost for 135,000 members of the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers, amounting to $30,000,000 & year, which becomes effective in the men’s clothing industry May 15. This increase resulted from collective bar- gaining without a strike. ‘Two other huge increases have been asked. The United Mine Workers have demanded a 15 per cent boost, with a guaranteed annual income of $1,200, starting April 1 in the soft- coal felds. The operators maintain this would €ost $270,000.000 a year, although the miners say this figure is much too high. Negotiations toward an agree- ment are under way in New York. Rail Wage Negotiations. ‘The railroad unions have asked a 20 per cent boost that would raise the carriers’ wage bill an estimated $360,000,000 a year. Negotiations probably will start this month. Many other smaller industries have raised wages this year with little at- tendant publicity. The New England Jeather tanneries, for example, boosted pay 15 per cent, while several shoe manufacturers in the same area granted 10 per cent increases. With the large industries and large unions setting the pace, labor leaders have said they intend to redouble their efforts to win corresponding gaises for workers in smaller plants. (Continued From First Page.) pending negotiations Sit-down dem- onstrations continued at two other restaurants, two 5-and-10-cent stores and nearly a score of other Detroit business and manufacturing cor nition of organized labor. erns. | An estimated 4,000 workers were on | strike in New England. They were truck drivers and shoe, textile, rubber end shipyard workers. Unionists claimed 3,000 hosiery workers idle and 10 mills closed in the Berks County, Pennsylvania, strike. Police otection was given 5.600 L | for maintenance of peace in the in- | employes while at work in the Douglas Aircraft plant at Santa Monica, Calif., where a strike was in progress. 75 Strike on Construction. Seventy-five union iron workers gtruck at Cleveland. halting con- struction of a $15,000.000 strip mill at the Republic Steel Corp. Sightless sit-down strikers remained eptrenched in a factory of the Penn- sylvania Association of the Blind. The 107 blind men took turns in maintaining a “watch” at the factory door when they weren't playing games | They struck for with Braille cards. higher wages. At Minneapolis, scene of a strike of petroleum workers, a 15,000 gallon oil storage tank was blown up with dyna- mite. Valves were opened on two others with a combined capacity of 25,000 gallons. oil. A strike of 1,300 Oklahoma employes of the Mid-Continent Petroleum Co., at Seminole, Okla., was predicted by an official of the International As- gociation of Oil Fields, Gas Well and Refinery Workers' Union, C. I O. affiliate which recently announced | intentions of unionizing 1,000,000 oil 4ndustry workers. LABOR HAILS CONTRACT. Carnegie-Tllinois Accord Is Held His- toric Document. PITTSBURGH, March 3 (#).—The Bteel Workers' Organizing Committee triumphantly hailed its freshly signed contract with the giant Carnegie-Illi- nois Steel Corp. today as an historic document which would pave the way — LOST. 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Atlantic 6700, In Detroit, 150 girls spread their beds in the aisles of one of the Woolworth 5-and-10-cent stores and prepared to continue their sit-down strike battle f THE EVENING ST Phillip Murray (center), chairman of the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee and first lieu= tenant of John L. Lewis, with two happy steel workers, Bill Garrity (left) and Cornelius McLaugh- lin, in Pittsburgh, shortly after Murray announced United States Steel had granted formal recog=- AR, or better hours and higher wages. —Copyright A. P. Wirephoto, Wide World. WASHINGTON, Workers Happy Over Steel Settlement i % . et > dustry. i lip Murray, chairman of the| committee and right-hand lieutenant | of John L. Lewis, told 40 key or-| ganizers called here from a dozen States the document represented la- | reatest victory in the Nation's d last might by Benjamin F.! , president of the United States | Steel Corp.'s subsidiary, during & 3':- hour conference with Murray and his aides, the contract: Recognized the Organizing Commit- tee. which was formed last June by | the Lewis Committee for Industrial ion, as the collective bar- ng agent for those of the com- y's 120,000 employes who are mem- bers of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Time and Half for Overtime. Granted a general pay raise of 10 cents an hour effective March 16, | which established a $5-a-day mini- | mum scale, and provided for time-and- | one-half pay for all work over eight | hours in one day or 40 hours in one week. Created a joint committee of com- pany and union representatives to meet not later than March 10 to ef- fect a more detailed agreement on working conditions, application of wage rates, hours, rules and a method for adjusting disputes arising under terms of the agreement. The agreement—first of such a broad character signed by a major steel company in 45 years—expires at mid- night February 28, 1938. Steel op- erators have had labor contracts dur- ing that time, but.they related only to certain divisional units or depart- ments. The wage increase, which the com- pany also announced for all of its other employes, was similar to boosts by employers of more than 375,000 of the industry's 550,000. The wage jump and the granting of recognition to the union by the in- dustry’s laregst producer definitely Nation-wide steel strike at this time. MINE WORK IS RESUMED. Uniontown, Pa., Sit-Down Is Ended After 24 Hours. UNIONTOWN, Pa., March 3 (#).— Work resumed today at the Jamison mine of the South Union Coal Co., scene of America’s first sit-down strike of miners. ‘The strikers emerged late yesterday, ending 24 hours of self-imprisonment 350 feet below the surface. They came out on orders of leaders, advised by action was unauthorized. They declined to talk about the strike, started because the company refused to collect fines assessed by the union, but asserted “it wasn’t so bad” underground. CHRYSLER TALKS OPEN U. A. W. A. Reported Demanding Exclusive Recognition. DETROIT, March 3 (#).—The United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica engaged in collective bargaining which may affect more than 50,000 Chrysler Corp. employes today before it had reached final agreement in similar conferences with the gigantic General Motors Corp. Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. presi- dent, and Richard T. Frankensteen, organizational director, headed the union negotiators in the discussions which turned first to their demand for recognition as sole bargaining agency for all Chrysler wage earners. Exclusive Recognition Sought. It was learned authoritatively that the union requested Chrysler officials to deal with no other employe or- g;)nimtion during the present negotia- tions. Union vice presidents conferring 3 | A. W. A. research director. Text of Steel Agreement Corporation Recognizes Steel Workers’ Organiza- tion Committee, or Successors, as Bargaining Agency. By the Assoclated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 3 —The text of the agreement between the Car- negie-Tllinois Steel Corp.. and the steel union, agreed to last night, follows: 1. The corporation recognizes the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, | or its successor, as the collective bar- | gaining agency for those employes of | the corporation who are members of | the Amalgamated Association of Iron, | Steel and Tin Workers of North Amer- ica (hereinafter referred as the union). | The corporation recognizes and Wwill not interfere with the right of its em- ployes to become members of the union, or its successor. There shall be no discrimination, interference, re- straint or coercion by the corporation | or any of its agents against any mem- | ber because of membership in the union, or its successor. The Steel | Workers' Organizing Committee, or its | successor, agrees not to intimidate or | coerce employes into membership or to solicit membership on corporation tim= or plant property. 2. Effective March 16, 1937, there shall be an increase in wages of 10 cents an hour on all rates which are at present $4.20 a day, or a minimum for this classification of $5.00 a day of eight (8) hours. Such classifica- | tions now receiving less than $4.20 per ‘, day, or less than 52! cents per hour, | D. C., WEDNESDAY, FARNSWORTH SENT 10 ATLANTA CELL Six of “Warring Gang” Go to Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth. Quietly last night, John S. Farns- worth, accused spy, and the six mem- bers of the so-called “Warring gang,” who were convicted of the gang- shooting on July 21 of Joseph E. O'Brien, were taken from the District Jail and sent to distant Federal peni- tentiaries to serve their sentences. Farnsworth was sent to Atlanta and the Warring gangsters to Leavenworth. ‘With Farnsworth went Frank H. Ac- ton, who was convicted a month ago of manslaughter in the shooting Oc- tober 4 of Donald E. Mursch, 29, at Eleventh and F streets southwest and sentenced to from 3 to 15 years. ‘The transfer of the prisoners was made without prior announcement and on recommendation of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. Garnett explained he thought it best that all of the prisoners involved serve their sentences at places far re- moved from the scenes of their crime. He was particularly interested to put many miles between the Warring men and their liquor-running busi- ness here. They included Charles R. (Rags) Warring, Joseph S. Bond, con- fessed “trigger man” in the O'Brien shooting; Samuel S. Montgomery, Clarence Ware, John Sweeney and Gearge P. Tear. All but Tear were sentenced to prison terms of 18| months to 2 years. | Tear Gets Additional Term. Because Tear already was serving a sentence of 18 months to 2 years for using a smoke screen, Justice Pey- ton Gordon of District Court, im- posed an additional term of two to three years and ordered that it run concurrently with the early sentence. He explained this arrangement will| result in Tear serving approximately | the same term for the assault on O'Brien as his companions. Attorney for the man admitted in the court recently that O'Brien was shot in a bottleggers’ war. Transfer of Farnsworth to Atlanta will put an end to any possibility of his obtaining his release by habeas corpus from the local courts, since such an action must be brought in th jurisdiction where the prisoner is ! confined. Farnsworth is under sentence to serve from four to 12 years in prison. He pleaded nolo contendere to an in- | dictment charging he conspired with | two former assistant naval attaches of Japan to convey defense secrets to that nation. Attempted to Change Plea. The former Navy lieutenant com- mander later made strenuous but un- | successful efforts to obtain permission to change his plea to not guilty. He contended that he pleaded nolo contendere under “extraordinary pres- sure” and that he wanted to go to trial on the conspiracy and on another indictment accusing him of com- municating to Japan facts embodied in a confidential publication, The Service of Information and Security Garnett revealed this morning that he has nolle prossed the latter indict- ment. The time allowed for the notation of appeals for both Farnsworth and | the Warring mob has elapsed, Garnett said. shall be increased 10 cents per hour. All other classifications shall be equi- tably adjusted in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of this agree- ment. 3. Effective March 16, 1937. there | shall be established an eight (8) hour day, forty (40) hour week. Time and one-half shall be paid for all overtime in excess of eight (8) hours in any one day and for all overtime in excess of forty (40) hours in any one week. 4. A joint committee representing the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. and the Steel Workers’ Organizing Com- mittee shall meet not later than March 10, 1937, for the purpose of ef- fectuating a written agreement on | working conditions, application of wage rates, hours, rules and a method | for adjudication of disputes arising under the terms of the agreement, | and which agreement shall incorpo- rate the terms of this agreement. 5. The agreement effectuated pur- suant to section 4 hereof, shall be in force until February 28, 1938. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. By B. F. Fairless, president. Steel Workers' Organizing Commit- tee. By Philip Murray, chairman, David J. McDonald, secretary-treasurer; Van A. Bittner, director, Western region; Clinton S. Golden, director, North- western region; Lee Pressman, general counsel. with General Motors officials in at-“ tempts to settle issues remaining from the strikes that paralyzed that cor- poration’s 69 automotive plants a month ago, had agreed on all points except that of a national hourly mini- mum wage. Representing Chrysler in the con- ferences which opened today in a glass-partitioned fourth-floor room at the administration building of the cor- poration’s Highland Park plant were Herman L. Weckler, 49-year-old vice president in charge of the De Soto division, and Lester L. Colbert, 31- year-old resident attorney for Chrys- ler. Completing the six-man union dele- gation were R. J. Thomas, president of the Chrysler local; George Wilson, president of the Dodge local; O. F. Zimmerman, president of the Dodge truck local, and William Munger, U. —t Actors (Continued From First Page.) of the measure, who at one time drew a laugh when he added, “Do you know & Mrs. Keith?” “I was Mrs. Keith,” she replied. Another witness, Evelyn Brant, sec- retary of the Grand Opera Artists’ As- sociation, an affiliate of the A. F. of L., said her group favored the bill “be- cause of the tariff it places on foreign artists.” “The opposition has consisted en- tirely of managers and producers, representing big business,” she as- serted. The opposition today consisted of & letter from Emil Coleman, president of the recently formed international dance music ring. He enumerated the artists in this country now who would have been barred by its provisions. Miss Agnes Cronin, representing the Works Progress Administration, pre- sented statistics indicating about 3,000 artists are on W. P. A. rolls. C. I 0. PLANS MERGER OF TWO SHOE UNIONS | New England Council Announces | | Plans for New Organization Immediately. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 3.—The New Eng- land Council of the Committee for Industrial Organization today an- nounced plans for immediate forma- tion of a new shoe union, intended to amalgamate old unions and be known as the United Shoe Workers of America. The council announced two unions, the United Shoe and Leather Work- ers’ Union and the Shoe Workers' Protective Union had voted in favor of the new union and that a “sub- stantial favorable vote was cast for amalgamation” by the Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen. The council made public a letter from John Brophy, director of the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion. Special Shaving Offer This Week Only Double-Edge Blades 25 1 Large Tube Shaving Cream 1 Bottle After-Shaving Lotion 1 Can Talcum Total List Value 60c o 3B 3 for $1.00 NONE DELIVERED The Gibson Co. 917 G St. N.W. Acton was tried for -first degree | murder, but a jury found him guilty |of manslaughter. He testified he shot Mursch when the man threatened him because he would not join in & | proposed burglary. He told the jury he had spent 16 of the 35 years of his life in prison for various offenses. THREE FOUND SLAIN Love Triangle Thought Cause of Honeymoon Tragedy. COUDERSPORT, Pa., March 3 (#). —The bodies of a newly married | couple and a former suitor of the wife were found shot to death late | | yesterday in the couple’s honeymoon home. | Coroner Philip R. Shaw of Potter County said he believed George Breh- mer, 27, shot his wife, 21, and John Scott, 23, and then turned the pistol on himself. Brehmer, a clerk. and the former Lovina Mann of nearby Millport, were married about six weeks ago. The coroner said Scott had been attentive to Mrs. Brehmer before her marriage. MARCH 3, 1937 Spurns Films REJECTS CAREER TO CON- TINUE COLLEGE STUDIES. HOWARD U MARKS OTHANNIVERSARY Tributes Paid Founder and Abraham Lincoln at All- Day Celebration. Howard University yesterday cele- | brated the seventieth anniversary of its founding in an all-day celebration, at which tribute was paid Gen. O. O. Howard, commissioner of the Freed- men’s Bureau, and his associates, who founded the institution, and to Abra- | ham Lincoln. | Former Representative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan was principal speaker. He told the students and faculty members no race will ever rise | very high without leadership of its own. CAROLYN OLIVER Of West Palm Beach, Fla., is trying to keep out of the movies instead of to get in. Offered a contract by a major film company, Carolyn, 21, re- jected it to continue her studies at the Florida State College for Women. She is shown in the costume she will wear as sun goddess in the Zenobia pageant. —A. P. Photo. R. A. PLANS SLASH OF 600 BY APRIL 15 All Divisions Affected by 25 Per- Cent Reduction in Appro- priation. The Resettlement Administration will lessen its Washington staff of 2735 persons by 600 or 700 between now and April 15, it announced today. All divisions of the organization will be affected. | Discharges will be made on a basis | seniority and value to | Each employe will be | | of efficienc: the agency given 15 working days’ notice The complete list of those due for | dismissal will not be ready for two weeks, it was said. Division heads making up the discharge lists have been instructed to lop off all classi- | fications from stenographers to pro- | fessional workers | Rescttlement has been cutting since last June enough to reduce the build- | ings needed to house the administra- tion from 17 to 8, The recently passed deficie: cutting by 25 per cent R. A 's financial | request. made the present reduction | seem necessary, bill, Norse Festival Revived. Up-Helly-Aa, an old Norse festival, | was revived recently at Lerwick in the Shetland Isles. 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