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HOUSE RECENVES VINSON GOAL BILL Legislation Based on Price Fixings—Enactment Is Held Necessary. B the Associated Press. Legislation designed to stabilize the sprawling soft coal industry came before the House today for the third time in two years. The measure, sponsored by Rep- resentative Vinson, Democrat, of Ken- tucky, closely parallels the original Guffey act nullified by the Supreme Court last May and also the sub- stitute Guffey-Vinson bill, which passed the House last session but died in a Senate filibuster. Like its predecessors, the proposed legislation is based on price-fixing. A National Bituminous Coal Commis- sion of seven $10,000-a-year members would be empowered to prescribe minimum prices for coal which no producer could sell without forfeiting & 191 per cent “compliance tax.” Enactment Held Necessary. Enactment was termed necessary by the Ways and Means Committee to prevent an immediate reversion of the industry “to the chaotic conditions which prompted passage of the 1935 act.” Labor provisions to which the Su- preme Court objected have been elimi- nated. Despite this, the United Mine Workers are supporting the bill. The committee reduced the tax to be levied on all producers to provide funds to administer the law from Vin- son’s proposal of 11> per cent to !2 per cent. Informed persons said this reduction would mean a saving of about $8,000.000 to the industry. Four Amendments in Bill. A Senate Interstate Commerce Sub- eommittee, meanwhile, wrote into the Guffey coal bill four amendments out of “hundreds” which Chairman Neely, Democrat, of West Virginia, said had been proposed. Neely said he hoped the subcommit- tee would complete consideration of possible changes in the regulatory measure today. One change approved would make a purchaser knowingly violating the code liable to a fine of $5 a ton. An- other is designed to protect participat- ing operators from anti-trust prose- cution if the Supreme Court holds the legislation unconstitutional. JUNIOR HIGH TOPIC A panel discussion on “Our Junior | High School—Its Aims and Objects” will be held at the meeting of the Powell Junior High Parent-Teacher Association at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the &chool auditorium. school, will conduct the panel, aided by Miss A. Grace Lind, newly appoint- ed supervisor of the ffth division, who will talk on the “Elementary Viewpoint,” and L. A. Braugher, as- sistant principal of Central High School, whose topic will be “The High Bchool Viewpoint.” - Citizens’ Meeting Postponed. Lack of a quorum caused postpone- ment of the scheduled meeting of the Piney Branch Citizens’ Association Jast night at the Roosevelt High School. The group convenes again on April 12 —_— FOUND. 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Wintering at New York, left, pictured with Labor (Continued From Pirst Page.) Chrysler Corp. Finance Committee, had “nothing to say” about the possi= bility of court action against the strik- ers. He confirmed reports that stop or- ders had been issued to all suppliers. Asked about the volume of materials affected, he said that “the only figure that comes to my mind is that last year we sold $566,000,000 worth of au- tomobiles at factory valuations.” Asked if he had discussed the situ- ation with Gov. Frank Murphy, he said, “No.” He said he preferred not to discuss the corporation’s future pol- icy, except to say that the funda- | mental position he expressed Monday remained unchanged. | He said corporation executives were | Park plant to go about our business,” since the union had waived its require- ment that they obtain union passes. Enter Plant. Weckler, Lester L. Colbert, resident attorney, and Joseph E. Fields, vice president and sales director of the corporation, were the first executives to enter thc plant. Union guards stopped their automo- bile at the gate and called Franken- stein, who was nearby. the guards, and the automobile rolled on. Settlement of a strike in a small automotive plant was reported today. The Advance Stamping Co. granted the U. A. W. A. exclusive bargaining rights for six months. The 100 em- | ployes will receive minimum wages of 75 cents an hour for men and 65 cents | for women, with an extra allowance {of 5 cents an hour for night shift | workers. the far-flung General Motors strikes, announced at Palm Beach, Fls he is vacationing, that he back to Michigan immediately be- cause of the new labor disputes. All nine of the Chrysler plants in the Nation’s motor capital were closed by strikes called by the United Auto- mobile Workers of America. They " | employ 55,391 of the 67.000 Chrysler workers. The Chrysler plant at New Castle, Ind., with 4,160 employes, was closed by the company, which said it could not continue operations without sup- plies from Detroit units. Still unaffected by the strikes were the Chrysler plants in Los Angeles, Marysville, Mich.; Windsor, Ontario; Evansville, 1Ind.; Dayton, Ohio; Helena, Ark., and Pekinwood, Ill. The Briggs Manufacturing Co., which supplies Chrysler with bodies, closed one Detroit plant and part of another, throwing 4,500 out of work. 10,000 Hudson Workers Out. The Hudson Motor Car Co.'s three manufacturing plants here also were closed by U. A. W. A. strikes, leaving 10,000 idle, Two small auxiliary fac- tories, empioying 200 each, were not affected. The Chrysler strikes were called yes- terday afternoon and last night fol- lowing the corporation’s rejection of the United Auto Workers' demand for recognition as the sole bargaining agency. ‘The last of the units closed by strikes was the Highland Park plant, where 5 |the main offices are located. It is there that representatives of the cor- poration and the U, A. W. A. have been conferring since last Wednesday on the union’s demands. Estimates of the number of strikers who remained in the plants during the night varied so that it was impossible to determine the total accurately. The strikers seized control of all plant en- trances. Any one who wished could leave, but no one was permitted to GE | enter without a paess issued by the union. Conference Adjourned. The negotiations between the union and General Motors Corp. adjourned yesterday until tomorrow. 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Boston, Chicago and the West, Insured car Tier. one responsibility. wuvro WAREHOUSE CORE,. 3801 Oeorsia ave: n.w., Adams 3377, Evenings, Clev. 5646. [ § and the strikers promised to return to work today. A conference at Flint last night be- tween George C. Paterson, resident manager of the Fisher Body Co., and Robert C. Travis, union organizer, re- sulted in the evacuation of 650 strikers from the press and metals department of Fisher plant No. 1. Paterson said the workers had ob- Jected to & wage differential and he promised to report tomorrow after investigating their complaint. The No. 1 plant was held 44 days by sit- down strikers during the strikes which ended February 11. Earlier yesterday another settlement returned 6,400 men to work in six Flint factories of the Chevrolet Motor ! Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 3d, the former Ellen Tuck French o center, and Miss Virginia French, Mrs. Astor’s sister, on Worth avenue, in Palm Beach, where they are spending the Winter. Lester T. Walter, principal of the | Preparing to go back tc the Highland | “They’re O. K.,” Frankenstein told | Gov. Frank Murphy, who devoted | - | his first six weeks in office to settling THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937. Palm Beach Mrs. Huntington Hartford, 3d, —Wide World Photo. Co. There was no disorder during the new Flint sit-downs. ‘There had been no strikes in Chrys- ler plants prior to the opening of the conference between the corporation and the union. The first sit-down was called within two hours after Chrysler rejected the union’s recog- nition demand. | " A conference was started with Hud- | son officials also before there had been any strikes. The union ac- cused company executives of “stall- ing” in the negotjations in explain- | ing the sit-downs. Willing to Bargain. “We have been willing and still are willing to bargain collectively with REMAINS PUZZLE Vague Fingerprints and Pro- posed Cash Reward Figure in Mystery. BY the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 9.—Vague fingerprint clues and a proposed cash reward figured today in this city's big- gest crime puzzle—who shot District Attorney Buron Fitts? The war veteran prosecutor, his left forearm drilled by a bullet, an- nounced from a hospital bed: “I'll probably be out of here in 10 to 12 days.” Chief Deputy District Attorney Wil- liam Simpson moved to have the Los Angeles supervisors post & “substan- tial reward.” Fitts could give little help in estab- lishing the identity of the “three or four men in black sedan” who am- bushed him Sunday night on a sub- urban road. The prosecutor, who three weeks ago obtained felony indictments of nearly 350 aircraft sit-down strikers at Santa Monica, said: “It may have been some one I sent to prison or perhaps some crack- brained, misguided sympathizer or as- sociate of radical troublemakers who thought he was advancing the cause of labor. There have been threats and intimidations in the last few days over the strike situation, but I never took them seriously.” Sheriff’s deputies theorized the am- bush was the work of “novice gun- men,” poorly armed. Two unsigned letters—one addressed to the district attorney, the other to Police Chief Charles Dice of Santa Monica—provided baffled detectives with a puzzle. Spain (Continued From First Page.) Spanish coast, “badly damaged, but not in immediate danger of sinking.” (The Canarias reported last night to a British destroyer she had sunk the Mar Cantabrico, carrying muni- tions #om the United States and Mexico to government Spain.) Three small Spanish insurgent freighters helped the Canarias capture the Mar Cantabrico, Poo declared. With hold number 2 hit and afire, the insurgents sent a boarding party them for their members,” B. E. Hutch- | inson, Chrysler vice president, said of | the union negotiators. “Beyond that we do not agree to go. Men who | wish to work in our plants will not | be required to hold a union card to| | do so.” | He said the U. A. W. A,, in seeking | exclusive bargaining rights, wanted to | “force all our employes to go with the union or go out of our employ.” Hutchinson alleged that non-union workers had been subjected to “threats, intimidation and coercion from union representatives” both in the plants and at their homes. Homer Martin, international presi- dent of the U. A. W. A., who frequently has said that relations with Chrysler were more “satisfactory” than with | any other automobile producer, de- clared: “This strike and the one at the Hudson Motor Car Co. are the results of managements’ subborn resistance | and unreasonable position concerning the will of a clear majority of em- | ployes in plants affected. So long as | the company continues to disregard | the l]aw and common procedure which | operates in Government as well gs in | | & corporation, they may expect labor trouble.” | _A. H. Doll, president of the Hudson U. A. W. A local, has been conferring with A. E. Barit, cc apany president, two weeks. He said the union de- manded recognition as the sole bar- gaining agency, straight seniority, minimum hourly wages of 85 cents for men and 75 cents for women, and a blanket increase “to make Hudson wages equal to those in other auto- mobile plants.” A sit-down by 65 members of the Society of Designing Engineers in the body engineering department of the Packard Motor Car Co. was short- lived. C. L. Robertson, general man- ager of the society, said it was a | “demonstration sit-down” and would be resumed “in some form” if the company refused to confer on the strikers’ demands. 100,000 OUT OF JOBS. Spread of Strikes Closes Many Fac- tories in Country. BY the Associated Press. Industrial conflict enveloped a large segment of the automobile industry today, raising to more than 100.000 the number of persons made idle by strikes from coast to coast. While workers deserted scores of factories and business establishments to enforce various demands, leaders of rival organized labor groups drew plans for far-reaching unionization drives. Rival Factions Lay Plans. The rival chieftains of the Nation's foremast labor organizations—the American Federation of Labor, and the Committee for Industrial Organi- zation—mapped plans here for exten- sive unionization drives. President William Green of the A. F. of L. challenged the C. I. O.’s claims to representation of “big steel” work- ers by calling a campaign enrollment of 500,000 structural steel workers un- der the federation banner. John L. Lewis, C. I. O. leader, met with chieftains of 15 unions to plan a similar campaign and to extend their unionization drive to the textile industry’s 1,250,000 workers and the thousands employed in the oil in- dustry. The start of a C. I O. drive td unionize iron mine and dock workers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi- gan was announced at Chicago by Nicholas Fontecchio of the Steel ‘Workers’ Organizing Committee. Philip Murray, head of the Steel ‘Workers’ Organizing Committee, pre- dicted the C. I. O. Union would win contracts from all United States Steel Corp. subsidiaries within 10 days. Conferences Arranged. At Chicago representatives of the 3Steel Employes’ Independent Labor Or- ganization, a rival in the steel field of both the C. I. O. and A. F. of L., arranged for bargaining conferences with President Benjamin F. Fairless of the Carnegie - Illinois Steel Corp. Employe representatives of the Re- public Steel Corp. continued negotia- tions with officials of that company at Cleveland. Employe representatives of the Car- negie-Tllinois mills at Pittsburgh re- newed overtures for support from the A.F.of L. Last week President Green announced the federation could mot Py onto the Mar Cantabrico. They im- prisoned the crew, Poo related. It appeared, he said, that all the cargo of the Mar Cantabrico, includ- ing eight United States planes des- tined for government forces, might have fallen into insurgent hands. The sailor asserted the long con- fusion in the identity of the stricken vessel was due partly to the fact that the Msr Cantabrico had painted the name “Adda of Newcastle” on her side and had taken the Adda’s radio call letters. “We left the United States with | | the airplanes at the very moment when Congress adopted an embargo law on arms,” said Poo. Stopped at Vera Cruz. “The Mar Cantabrico stopped at Vera Cruz, where she took on other munitions. We changed the name to ‘Adda’ as a precautionary measure. That is a British ship of about the same tonnage. “But the Canarias discovered the | subterfuge and began shelling us as we were heading for Santander. “A shell hit us and started a fire in No. 2 hold. “It was then that we sent out our S. O. S, using the call letters of the | Ada. “Soon afterward numerous ships came alongside of us. Officers from the Canarias came aboard to examine us and make a search. “The crew and passengers were then transported to the Canarias. “Fearing that I would be killed if I were captured, I hid myself with eight of my comrades and, when a French boat passed nearby, I threw myself | overboard and tried to reach it swim- ming. “I was lucky. I got there. “I believe all the Spanish citizens taken aboard the Canarias were shot.” Insurgent Pilot Aboard. Poo added that an insurgent pilot came aboard the Mar Cantabrico and took charge of her, apparently trying to get the ship under her own power 80 she could make better speed to some Spanish port. Of the crew and passengers, Poo said, there were five Italians and five Mexicans, in addition to the two un- named Americans, but that all the rest were Spanish. The master of the Cameleyre, de- scribing his arrival on the scene, said he saw the burning vessel, which he learned later was the Mar Cantabrico. A second and smaller >oat was en- gaged busily in “mysterious maneu- vers,” he said. Both ships declined help, and then he saw two sailors swimming, the French master continued. He man- aged to save Poo. Basque authorities, meantime, said they had no word of the fate of the Mar Cantabrico. REBELS LAUNCH DRIVE. 5,000 Soldiers Push Forward North- east of Madrid. MADRID, March 9 (#).—Five thou- sand insurgent soldiers, reported using all types of modern war equipment, lunged at government positions in Northern Guadalajara Province today, trying to beat a new path to Madrid, Some 60 miles to the southwest. Wave after wave of attacking troops were hurled from Algora, on the Zara- goza - Guadalajara - Madrid highroad, against government forces a few miles south of the road at Las Inviernas and Alaminos. Thirty tanks led the push of the 5,000 infantrymen while still other in- surgent forces marched on the Guada- lajara road itself. Insurgent planes dove onto the de- fenders’ entrenchments with cargoes of bombs and lashed at supply trains with machine-gun fire. Maternal Mortality Low. Maternal mortality in London last year was 1.76 per 1,000 live births, the lowest ever recorded there. enlist the group as an ally until it has divested itself entirely of company in- fluence. Meanwhile, labor disputes continued & enlien in a multitude of industries. Seven sawmills were strikebound in the Pa- cific Northwest and five others were operating under a temporaly agree- ment. Negotiators sought a compro- mise on wages in an effort to avert spread of the strike to 75,000 lumber- workers in Washington and Oregon. [ ] CLAIMS OF LEW Green Opens Drive to Win Over Structural Steel Workers. BY the Associated Press. William Green’s call for a direct campaign to win over structural steel workers to the American Federation of Labor challenged today the claims of John L. Lewis to the employes of “big steel.” Green announced he would en- deavor to bring the 500,000 men em- ployed in the fabricating and in- stalling branches into the Structural Steel Workers, an A. F. of L. union. It now has between 10,000 and 15,000 members, he said. Philip Murray, first lieutenant in the steel section of Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, declared last Summer, on the other hand, he intended to sign up structu al workers as well as steel production employes in the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Lewis devoted his own efforts, in the meantime, to spring campaigns in the textile and ofl industries. He called in leaders of 15 unions today to discuss the organization program. ‘The heavy-set C. I. O. chief stayed away last night from the convention of labor's Non-Partisan League be- cause cooks, waiters and waitresses in the Willard Hotel were on a sit- down strike. They belong to an A. F. of L. union. Lewis' meeting place was only five blocks from a conference between Green and 50 federation organizers, but the two labor leaders were poles apart in principle. Lewis contends all the workers in each major industry should belong to one union. Green maintains that highly skilled workers should belong to the union of their eraft, no matter where they work. Because Lewis organized the C. 1. O. to put his principle into practice, his United Mine Workers and nine asso- ciated unions were suspended from | the A. F. of L. last Summer. Lewis’ announcement of the textile and oil campaigns brought statements from A. F. of L. craft leaders that they intended to protect what they de- clared were their rights in those in- dustries. The machinists said they had ex- tensive present and potential member- ship in both the textile mills and gaso- line refineries. The boilermakers and several other craft unions claimed membership rights in the refineries and oil fields. Strike (Continued Prom First Page.) front door and stood placidly inside, while two policemen walked among them. There was no sign of disorder. After a short time' the workers re- turned to work, but the workers at the Eighth street factory remained idle. The employes denied to telephone callers that any strike was in progress, but Kirsch stood on the sidewalk be- fore the First street building and | waved to employes signals to appoint & delegation to attend the Amalgamated organization rally. ‘The Newcastle strike, which has been | | in progress for some time, originated | |in a wage and hour disagreement. No | demands have been made by the work- ers here upon the local representative | of the management. The legal steps contemplated by the | Willard Hotel management would evict as many of the 60 sit-down | strikers who have been on strike since | 6 p.m. last night as the law concern- ing “unlawful entry” will allow. | After sit-down strikers are told to vacate, in a manner to make a suffi- cient showing of complying with the law, warrants can be issued for a | rests, according to officials of the dis- | trict attorney's office. | _Assistant United States Attorney | David Pine said a section of the Dis- | trict of Columbia Code left him no | other discretion in the matter but to issue such warrants. This District law | makes illegal, not only unlawful entry, | but also refusal to leave premises. The | State of Michigan, where big automo- | bile plant sit-down strikes occurred, has no such law, officials explained. It is thought the law here applies only to closed rooms at the hotel and not to a public gathering place. Meantime the Executive Committee of the Central Labor Union came out with an official statement in strong opposition to sit-down strikes. The central body also deplored the fact that the strike had been called while the Non-Partisan League was already in session at the Willard Hotel, under a long-standing contract. The 60 strikers, according to Mor- ris Verbov, business agent for the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Al- liance local, represent a total of 113 involved. The 60 were on duty, and the others were off duty at 6 pm.| yesterday, when the strike was called. ! ‘Those off duty are outside the hotel, | and are not being permitted to enter. | ‘This morning the Early Birds’ Club served its own breakfast at the hotel, while the waiters continued to sit. Pickets patrolled the sidewalks outside with placards proclaiming in big let- | ters that the union was on strike at the “Willard Hotel, Residence of Presi- | dents.” | Just how determined a “sit-downer” | can be was illustrated by four waiters | and a bus boy who shivered, but re- fused to move from the Willard corner after somebody turned on the | air-cooling system for half an hour. Outstanding among developments overnight was the flat refusal of rebel labor chieftain John L. Lewis, head of the Committee on Industrial Organ- ization to pass through the picket line to keep a speaking engage- ment before Labor's Non-partisan League. He was to have spoken on the Roosevelt court bill. Waiters were locked in the main dining room of the hotel this morning, and were being furnished with food brought by their union friends from a restaurant across the street. The food LEGAL NOTICES. o1 150 Bt KW, DISTRICT ‘THE vmua &wu lor u:e Dmrlet nl Oolmm -Theresa B. Plaintifl. herels Siinsive "o Bundavs and lesal occurring after the day of the first publ l- it this order: on:er' ise the cause wil s in case of default. Strikers Get Orders “Detailed Instructions Given “Sit-Downers” at Wil- lard Hotel, Cautioning Politeness and No Resistance to Police. Detailed instructions as to how they should conduct themselves during the Willard Hotel “sit-down” were issued to the employes by union officers. A carbor. copy of the alleged in- structions, obtained from one of the strikers yesterday, follows: Instructions. (Local 781.) 1. When strike order is given all waiters, waitresses and kitchen em- ployes stop working. 3. All waiters and waitresses down.” 3. All kitchen employes sit down at your posts and refuse to work. 4. During the strike all waiters and waitresses may sit down in the lobby or lobbies of the hotel, like any other member of the public. 5. Also, all waiters and waitreses may sit down in the dining room, like any other members of the public and order. Of course, what is ordered (such as coffee, milk, etc.) must be paid for, like other members of the public. 6. All waiters and waitresses should sit down in their uniforms. 7. All kitchen employes should sit down in their uniform and working clothes. 8. All waiters and waitresses must be polite to the public and to the other “sit | ment, or other agencies of the law, 10. All union members shall resist any unreasonable efforts or methods on the part of the hotel management, or other employes of the hotel, to eject or put out union members from the premises. 11. However, if the Police Depart- such as may be ordered by the court, come in, all union members should not resist them, but should leave the prem- ises, if such demand is made upon them by display of court warrant or order, and not otherwise. 12. No union member shall engage in any physical combat or violence with the management or with other employes of the hotel, if such can be avoided. However, all union members shall reasonably resist any unreason- able methods used by the management or other hotel employes to eject them or put them out. 13. Pickets should keep moving on the outside sidewalks. 14. Pickets should not permit a crowd to gather around any one of them. 15. If any members of the public ‘want to talk to a picket, he should put his sign down and talk quietly, or keep moving slowly and let the member of the public move with him while talk- ing. non-interested persons. Waiters and waitresses must not talk tq the public or to the guests of the hotel, unless | spoken to, and then they should speak | quietly and courteously in response and answer to the questions of the public and guests. 9. No profanity of any kind lhlll be used. No swearing of any kind. 16. Even if the hotel management | says to all union members, “You are fired,” all union members should quiet- ly remain at their posts and say noth- ing, ‘and there they should continue | to stay. 17. Union members should sit down all day and night, making relay | changes with each other if necessary. was passed through a window into the locked dining room, which is known as the Crystal room. Michael Garriga, international rep- resentative of the Hotel and Restau- rant Workers' Alliance, said this morning the strike started because of the discharge of Miss Norman. She was let out by the hotel, he added, because she testified at a Labor Rela- tions Board hearing on the dismissal | of a waiter. Verbov, the business agent of the local, said the strike involved a de- mand that the hotel recognize his union. Meantime, efforts to settle the strike were made by Maj. Berry himself. He appointed a committee of five to try to arrange a settlement between the striking union and the hotel man- | agement. Berry and Lewis differed in their attitude toward the strikers. Lewis, | head of the Committee for Industrial Organization, is at swords point with the American Federation of Labor, | with which the waiters’ union is af- filiated. Berry last night offered to help get the pickets called off to try to get Lewis into the meeting at which he was scheduled to speak. Berry denounced the strike as “a fixed-up situation” designed to em- | barrass his organization and its meet- ing. But he told the meeting last night, mostly composed of labor men, that his organization must fulfill its contract with the hotel for the use of the Qall. “Np one has any right to claim labor | leadership in America without observ- | ing contracts,” he said. “I'm not go- | ing to be stampeded by a fixed-up sit- | uation.” Representatives of the strik- | ers denied the strike had been called | to embarrass Berry. Herman J. Smith, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council, Rochester, here for the conference said the league might change its head- quarters if the picketing continued. Statement of Labor Policy. ‘The hotel management issued a statement on its labor policy. “No objection will be made to any employe joining any labor organiza- tion,” it said. “No discrimination in any form will be made against any employe because of his or her mem- bership in or affiliation with any labor | organization. “The management holds itself ready to discuss with the duly con- stituted representatives of any labor organization of which its employes are members any problems concerning their employment.” L. Gardner Moore, president of the Washington Hotel Association, said the hotels and the union had reached | an agreement in February whereby increased wages, averaging 10 per cent, were granted waiters and cooks. On February 28 he said the Willard dis- charged an employe for “gross incom- petence” and that the union then demanded a closed shop. “The nature of the hotel business, involving service to the public,” he said, “is such that the hotels cannot share their responsibility with any one and therefore the closed union shop is impossible for the Willard or any other hotel in Washington.” Promptly at 6 p.m. yesterday, under orders from Local 781, Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Alliance, the strike began. There were few diners in the main dining room and coffee shop at the time. They finished their dinners and after they had left the doors were closed and turned out, darkness. | In the Willard Corner and the Round Robin Grill, cocktail rooms, leaving the strikers in the bartenders, not involved, con- tinued their duties temporarily. At about 7 p.m. the grill was closed and locked. The Willard Corner continued serving patrons through the evening, with the two bartenders on duty and a captain and three waiters sitting it out around the corner from the bar. After the waiters quit in the drink- ing lounges patrons were asked by the bartenders to carry their owr drinks from the bar to tables until a union representative, appearing in the Wil- | lard Corner, charged that this consti- | tuted a violation of law. | Rock, a member of the union, who said he went to the bar and ordered a | drink. Rock said he asked for a high- ball and the bartender told him to carry it to a table himself. Other cus- tomers previously had carried their | drinks from the bar to tables, among them several girls. Bartender Becomes Waiter. When Rock was told to carry the drink he refused, saying it would vio- | late the law. He left the drink or the bar and walked out. From this time | the tables himself and later was | joined by a second bartender, who served as a waiter. | In the Round Robin one uniformed waiter and a bartender were on duty. The waiter did not sit down, but stood by the door and refused to serve eight customers who were in the room. Sev- | eral of them went to the bar and ob- | locked and the lights | the waiters also stopped work, though | The charge was made by Edward | on the bartender delivered drinks to | wiew A—3 A reporter pulled the door open and a photographer got into position to take a picture through the open door, of the waitresses as they stood in the hallway. A man who refused to give his name but who was said to be a hotel de- tective, stepped in front of the camera. “None of that,” he said, and pushed the door to. “This is a public dining room,” the Pphotographer remonstrated. “That hallway is not,” the “detec- tive” replied. “You keep out.” Somerville and the “detective” then asked that everyone but patrons who were still at the tables and empiloyes leave and a few minutes later the doors were closed and locked. The waitresses then returned to the dining room and sat down at the tables. A Star reporter then went to the main dining room, off Peacock Alley, and found no patrons at the tables. “Gus,” the head waiter, who had not Jjoined his men in the strike, was at the door. The reporter asked to be served. “I am sorry,” Gus replied. “We can- not serve; the waiters are on strike.” Gus Recalls 1912 Strike. After a short conversation, Gus vol- unteered: “This is like 1912. We had & strike then. It didn't last long and I don’t think this one will. I think we’ll be open tomorrow morning.” No convention or organization din- ners were on the schedule for last night and the tenth floor kitchen and dining room were idle, it was said. After the main dining room had been closed and darkened shortly after 7 pm., a group of waiters could be seen from the sidewalk on the Four- teenth street side of the hotel, sitting at tables close to the windows, several of them apparently asleep in their chairs. A number of union and local offi- cials mingled with the picketers, among them John Dreos, president of Local 781. Police on Hand. Beveral detectives and uniformed policemen were assigned to the Willard by the Metropolitan Police Depart- ment. They mingled with the strikers and discussed the situation with hotel employes, but were not called upon for active duty. Among those at the hotel during the evening were Lieut. Horace Lineberg | head of the public relations squad and present commander of the District De- partment, American Legion, and De- tective Sergts. R. J. Barrett, W. B | Christian and P. W. Ambrose. They were noncommittal as to the reasons for their presence. There were few comments from ho- tel patrons or sidewalk spectators of opinions on the strike. Many of the patrons apparently did not realize a strike was in progress until they left the hotel and saw the pickets. There was no crowd on the sidewalk outside during the evening, though most of the passersby stopped or slowed down to read the placards carried by the | picketers. One man, noticing the line, “Affili- ated with the A. F. L.” on a placard. remarked to the picketer: “You'd be better off if you affiliated with the |C.LO" Postal Savings Increase. Postal savings in Great Britain no total $6,755,000,000, and the amount is increasing rapidly SEE US BEFORE_YOU CLOSE ANY DEAL On a New De Soto or Plymouth {| MID-CITY AUTO CO. Washington's Old!lf Soto_and Plymouth 1711 14th St NW AINTERS' SUPPLIES *';* ‘65 PAINTS—LEAD—BRUSHES De tained drinks which they carried to | tables. The room remained open less than an hour after the strike began. | The waiter, Paul Siadis, according to a customer in the grill at the time, was approached by an unidentified man, presumably an official of the hotel. “Are you working?” this man asked the waiter. “No, sir,” Siadis replieu. “Then turn in your uniform; you're fired,” bystanders said Siadis was told. Collect Pre-Strike Bills. 1 In the Willard Corner the capta {and three waiters stopped after col- | lecting on bills which had been pre- | sented before the “zero hour.” | Somerville came into the room shortly after they struck and engaged Somerville left, Andrew Kirk, captain of the waiters, who said he was a vet- eran of the World War, with the rank of captain, said Somerville had “fired” the whole group. Kirk said he and his men would continue to sit. 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