Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1937, Page 4

A—4 STRIKERS PICKET EVICTION HEARING Stage Noisy Demonstration | Around Court as Chrysler Plea Is Argued. By the Assoctated Press. DETROIT, March 13.—The picket- fng of a court building, something new in labor disputes here, created a noisy demonstration today at the Chrysler injunction hearing. The sound of marching men and the blare of a 12-piece band shared attention with the legal arguments inside a tiny court room over whether “sit-down” strikers should be ordered out of Chrysler plants here. ‘While he union band played al airs, with frequent repetitions | ma of “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here,” a double line of union pickets walked in opposite directions on the county building ide, more than 1,000 persons—in- eluding a few women—jammed a long -floor corridor near Circut Judge ampbell's court room, where g was held across streets from the located a few blocks from s business district, were cerowded with spectators Crowd Estimated at 5,000. The crowd, inside and out, estimated by police at close to 5,000. , spectators were ly more than 50, the ing capacity. sidewalks | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON Clerk Beats Gunman to Draw was ide no com- > pickets, ordered a win- dow closed after noise and occasional “boos” from the street attracted at- téntion. The band, and military from the wearing blue uniforms “overseas” caps. steep front steps of the f the United Auto- Union, whose officers fenda in the kept the picket lir erly fashion peaceful ¢ Few wome: and \\d de were among the pickets not wear working was many a felt-col- lar overcoat and gray fedora hat in the line of hard. determined faces. Pickets Soon Disperse. When the hearing was adjourned until Monday, the pickets drifted away w i one official of ms a membership sler plants here, Martin, U e Board um.ld day and Tues- method of outside the au- LA . W. A arrangement,” | ¢ ere has been no consistent ? national basis. We shall attempt to licy at the Cleve- statements ibutors, Mar- of misrepre- design es of the strike.” e, Martin as- ration’s stub- * * Wagner Murphy Calls l"zrle\ le, Gov. Frank in- he loyer ' to meet and uation.” vernor said, the object of deter- gram of action “ac- will in- sure complia he law or pro- vide an orderl of dealing with the problems created by many labor controversies pending or threatened.” WILL CONFER TOMORROW. Effort Will Be Made to £nd Firestone | Tire Strike. AKRON, Ohio, March 13 (#).—L. S, Buckmaster, president of the Firestone Jocal of the United Rubber Workers of America, announced tonight that negotiations would be resumed Mon- t to end the strike Tire & Rubber Co. ickmaster said the union’s negoti- mittee would meet with W. company labor superin- More than 11,000 employes idle because of the strike. were terminated Tues- day when the company turned down the ur for exclusive col- Iective bargaining rights in the plants, Hut agreed to recognize the union as bargaining agent for its members. ‘The Strike Committee in a state- ment today said the union was asking “only what the national labor laws Sentenced BALTIMORE TAXI LEADER FACES TERM. HARRY COHEN. The organizer for the Ameri- sean Federation of Labor faces *a_three-month jail term and .$5,000 fine on a charge of in- “citing to riot in the recent taxi strike in .Baltimore. He is ~under $10,000 bail pending ap- ~peal from the sentence of Judge Eugene O’Dunne. “==Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ) in- | ned to | played | | provide” The rubber workers’ union, a Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion affiliate, claims 8,000 members among the employes, 3,500 RETURNED TO WORK. Seven Strikes in Chicago Are Settled, | | 12 Continue. | CHICAGO, March 13 (#)—Settle- et [and 10 store in New York and another | emphatically optimistic as to its out- | ‘n\ul of seven sit-down strikes in P [ c as to its out | announced plans to make the em- Chicago returned approximately 3,500 | | per s to pay rolls tonight. while nearly 5,800 employes involved | in 12 other strikes continued to hold out for their demands. Federal conciliators, attempting to end the eight-day walkout of several hundred taxicab drivers, held their fi conference with officials of the | Yellow progress toward bringing the manage- ment and drivers together at a peace conference. | Both the Yellow Cab and Checier | Taxi Co. officials have refused to meet the strikers unless Joseph M. | Jacobs, attorney for the newly formed | Midwest Taxicab Drivers’ Union, is barred from negotiations. During the day several strikers arrested for hurling bricks | ough windows of cabs driven by 1on-striking drivers or for molesting | the drivers in other ways. Two police- | men, Sergts. Rocco Filetti and Willlam ]Fnley. were also arrested on charges of assault and battery brought by | strikers who claimed the officers gave ] hem a beating. Girls Get Wage Hike. ‘Two hundred girls headed for home or Saturday night “dates” following & | 24-hour sit-down in the Fannie May | homemade candy shops plant. Officials | said the girls’ principal demand, for & 40-hour week, had been granted. Two hundred men and women | streamed from the plant of the John F. Cuneo Co., bookbinders, after a six- hour sit-down brought them a promise of & 12 per cent wage increase. Workers resumed regular duties at the Chicago Mail Order Co. where | | 2,000 men and women had held the | plant; the Ludlow Typograph Co., where 350 employes ended a three-day tie-up; the Peanuts Specialty Co., where 450 had been on strike; the | Fitzpatrick, Inc, soap factory, where 200 had been idle for two days, and the Chicago Law Printing Co.,, where 40 received wage increases. Other strikes still unsettled involved | bowling alley pin boys, dock workers, tallors, warehouse employes and fac- | tory workers, Lai)or (Continued From First Page.) | miners ‘and Appalachian area opera- | tors were manifest at New York. A | committee of four settled down to negotiating a new two-year contract which will affect virtually all the | Nation's 450,000 soft coal diggers. | The quartet included John L. Lewis, chief of the C. I. O. and the United Mine Workers of America, and Pres- ident Charles O'Nefll of the United At Pittsburgh, Lewis gathered to complete details of their will meet with President B. F. Fairless of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. | | tomorrow. The Blaw-Knox Steel Co. signed a similar pact affecting about 3,000. The United Electrical and Radio Workers' Union rejected the West- inghouse Co.’s offer of a 58-cent min- | lmum wage, and threatened a strike For a Rendezvous VOYAGEUR | The rhythmic line of curved crown and curved chin ap- pears to great od- in Voyageur 1, by right for classic clothes, it has a great capacity for * flattery, too. Felt and straw . . . in a host of Spring shades $12.75 Other Kmox Hats, $5 to $15 vantage Knox. Inevitably Cab Co. but reported little | | 500,000 more were engaged Eastern Coal Sales Corp. | lieutenants | first agreement with “big steel.” They | Left: the hotel yesterday. Right: Hawthorn with Policeman Joseph Yurgealitis. indicates bullet hole in Hawthorn's hat. Everett Rhodes, night clerk in the Seneca Hotel at Rochester, N. Y., who exchanged shots with Lawrence Haw- thorn, paral»d convict, who was captured on the tenth floor of Circle —Copyright, A. P. W1reph.oto at the East Pittsourgh works, ploying 8,000. Illinois counted approximately 10,- 500 jobless in labor disputes. In Chi- cago 12 strikes were in progress, in- drivers. Seven disputes were settled during the day. Five controversies remained unsettled in as many com- munnities in the northern part of Police, armed with submachine the State. guns, guarded the strike-bound Fur- niture Manufacturing Co. at Mempnis, Tenn. Two hundred and fifty girl strikers danced in the Standard Cigar Co. factory at Pittsburgh. A “sit- down” de luxe found 30 lounging in beach chairs at Shop In Baltimore. | strikers solicited funds with tin cups | on Pittsburgh's streets. Garbage and | ash wagon drivers were out in Phila- |delphia. “Sit-downers” closed ® 5 em- Forty blind | in Brooklyn, and moved to extend the Mean- ;movement to nearly a score of others. Strikes ended at the Michigan Mal- |leable Tron Co, Detroit, and the Perennial Dye and Print Works, West | Warwick, R. I. Printers returned to | their duties at the Miami (Fla) Daily News. LEADERS LAY PLANS, Electrical and Radio Union Heads to Talk With G. E. Officlals. NEW YORK, March 13 (#) —Broad plans for organizing the Nation's 1,000,000 or more electrical manufac- turing and communication workers along industrial lines were laid today | at & meeting of union leaders allied with John L. Lewis. The meeting, attended by members | of the Executive Board of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of | America, which was organized a year ago, was called primarily to perfect a program for the beginning of collective bargaining talks Monday with officials | of the General Electric Co. Expressing confidence that & “satis- factory agreement” covering that mm- pany’s 60,000 employes would be reached, James B. Carey, 25-year-old president of the union, disclosed that & similar conference would be sought Electric & Manufacturing Co. Carey estimated there were more eligible for membership in the union As in the case of General Electric, he declined to say how many already had been enrolled. 500,000 in Industry. William Mitchell, national repre- sentative of the union, sald Govern- ment statistics indicated a total of more than 500000 workers employed in the electrical manufactur- ing industry, exclusive of those in | small shops, and he estimated at least | in the | communications field “We are going to organize them all,” | he said. “We already have organizers all over the country tional agreement will be sought with Co. Ultimately, Carey said, it was hoped to negotiate on an industry- wide scale with the National Electrical Manufacturers’ Association or some other employes’ group. Monday’s conference with General | Electric will mark the union’s first at- tempt to negotiate on a national scale. Local discussions have been carried on at 2 of the company's 15 plants— at Lynn, Mass, and at Schenectady, | N. Y.—but this will be the first effort to obtain a contract covering the em- ployes in all plants. “I belleve,” said Carey, “that a very happy relationship will b established between the union and the manage- ment.” Officials Are Silent. No statement concerning the com- ‘pany‘s attitude has been forthcoming since President Gerard Swope an- nounced on March 3 that the union’s | request for a general conference had been granted. At that time he said the United Electrical and Radio Workers' Union had been chosen as the collective bargaining agency at Lynn and Schenectady as a result “of with Spring . . . | by KNOX ® Your Charge Account Is Cordially Invited ® RALEIGH HABERDASHER THE WOMEN'S SHOP—1310 F STREET the Roberts Dress | soon with officials of the Westinghouse | than 45,000 Westinghouse employes | were | In addition to Westinghouse, a na- | the American Telephone & Telgraph | the vote of the employes at these | plants.” William R. Burroush, vice president in charge of manufacturing, will be | the principal spokesman for the man- agement. A committee headed by | Carey will represent the union. An eight-point program will be pre- sented by the union when the two groups meet in the company's New York offices Monday afternoon. The program calls for a blanket increase of 10 cents an hour for all employes, including those on salaries; increased { compensation for certain shifts, re- | | vision upward of bonuses and elimi- | | nation of all forms of the “group in- centive or speed-up system” of pay- | ment. Because it will be their first meeting on a company-wide basis, Carey was | unable to predict how long the con- ference would continue, but he Was | | come Meet to Instruct officers. Following the same procedure adopt- |ed by the General Electric Division, |a delegation o 7 employes met at union headquarters | | tonight to instruct the national officers to petition for collective bargaining conference on their behalf, and to | elect a negotiating committee. | carey indicated tis wage and work- ing conditions to be requested of Wes inghouse would be virtually the same as those that will be discussed with General Electric next week. The United Electrical and Radio Workers was organized at Buffalo on March 31, 1936, by a group of locals of the radio and allied trades which refused to merge with the Interna-4 tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work- ers. The insurgent locals were among the first to be suspended by the American Federation of Labor for in- | dustrial organization activities. | In selecting General Electric as the | first objective of its drive to organize the electrical industry on a horizontal basis, the united will be treating with | | & firm that has three members of J. P. | Morgan & Co. on its board of di- | rectors. PARLEY TO BE RESUMED Steel Union to Meet With Carnegle- Nlinois Head Tomorrow. PITTSBURGH, March 13 (#)—Or- ganized labor of the Pittsburgh indus- trial district focused its attention today on the negotiations to be resumed Mon- ldn\ between leaders of John L. Lewis’ steel union drive and President Ben- | jamin F. Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. Philip Murray and a few picked aides will meet the head of the United States Steel's largest subsidiary and complete detalls of an arrangement he signed | | with the Steel Workers' Organizing | | Committee March 2 recognizing the | union as a collective bargaining agency | for its members. | Union representatives from Car- | negle-Tilinols’ 27 plants in the Pitts- | | burgh and Chicago districts today Vot~ | ed Murray and a subcommittee of their General Scale Committee dis- | cretionary powers mands in addition to the 40-hour week | ers, to negotiate de- |’ We guaiantee our prices to be ao store. 1f you can buy for less elsewhers, | m:mwm chase, Ownachammnl‘.qanflgg% ments stort in April. NO INTEREST d-m D. C, MARCH 14, and $5 minimum daily wage, already announced by Fairless. Recommendations discussed by the General Scale Committee included: ‘Two weeks' vacations with pay for all workers with one or more years’ service. Elimination of inequalities in pay for similar work in different plants. Dismissal notice of 10 days for all employes. Seniority rights. Of all the questions, that of estab- lishing equality of pay offers the big- gest stumbling block to agreement, in the opinion of labor observers. Steel workers contend that in some plants | men on the same job are paid a dozen different rates. Members of the steel workers' Or- ganizing Committee said whatever so- lution of these questions was agreed to at Monday's conference would be used as a guide for collective bar- gaining negotiations with all the plants in the Nation's five-billion-dol- lar steel industry. Contract Adopted. Already the Carnegie-Illinois con- tract with the union has been adopted by one of the larger independent steel producers—the Blaw-Knox Co. President William P. Witherow signed a similar agreement Friday night affecting about 3,000 workers in the parent company and four sube sidiaries—Lewis Foundry & Machine, Groveton, Pa.; Pittsburgh Rolls Co.; National Steel Castings, Pittsburgh, | an. the National Alloy Steel of Blawnox, Pa. | A spokesman for the steel union said officials of the Spang Chalfant & Co. had indicated they would sign | & union contraet within the next week, affecting more than 3,000 in fheir plants at Etna and Ambridge, Pa. The company issued this state- ment “The contract asked by the 8. W. O. C. with Spang Chalfant does not ap- | pear to be in conflict with what we | believe our attitude should be.” Movements are under way to spread | the contract negotiations with other independents, but a spokesman said the committee’s strategy for the pres- ent is to concentrate on subsidiaries of “big steel.” Meeting Opposition. The adherents of John L. Lewis' | drive to establish one big industrial union for all of the country’s 550,000 | steel workers are meeting their heav- iest opposition from supporters of the employe representat! plan at Car- negie-Tllinois. F. W. Bohne, chairman of the Pitts- burgh district joint council of employe representatives of the company, has ployes’ group an independent unit in order to strengthen its defense against mmads by the Lewis union. Bohne said all 65,000 employes in 'he 18 Pittsburgh district plants of the company, excepting Lewis follow- would be asked to vote cn the plans to set up a collective bargaining agency qn a self-support basis. The present plan is flnanced by the com- pany, which pays employe representa- tives for time lost attending meetings. Decision to maintain the plan in- dependent of all company or outside | support followed the employe repre- sentatives’ refusal earlier this week to join forces with the American Fed- eration of Labor in order te fight Lewis. 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