Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1937, Page 5

L0 PLANSDRVE N TEXAS 0L BELT Campaign to Unionize Vast Petroleum Industry to Open Soon. (John L. Lewis’ drive to bring the petroleum industry into the fold of the Committee for Indus- trial Organization, to start exten- sively soon after April 1, likely will center in the vast East Texas oil fleld. The current situation is re- ported in a series of stories, of v which this is the first.) By the Associated Press KILGORE, Tex., March 13.—Three weeks hence and John L. Lewis’ labor organizing strategy will invade the derricked land of make believe—East Texas’ black gold belt Over miles dotted with 22,000 der- ricks, born of martial law and mad lease grabbing, his organizers plan to thread their way in a drive to marshal the vast petroleum industry under the banner of his Committee | for Industrial Organization. Workers in the 10 branches of the industry will be solicited by crack organizers. | If successful in that, demands will | follow | Union contract recognition, col- lective bargaining, higher wages and; a 36-hour week are the aims, said | ponderous John T. Allen, organizer | for the third district, International Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers, expelled unit of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, Salaries “World’s Worst.” “Cheapest, chisellingest field in the world,” declared Allen. “‘Salaries in s the world’s largest oil field are the world’s worst. Living conditions are deplorable. “What do we want? & Remedying ask the major and independ- ent operators to sit across the table | and negotiate. We don't want trou- | ble—don't anticipate it ‘We want | every one to come off hap: In 21| years of organizing I have seen some )tty and snarled negotiations. Never have I been embroiled in a strike.” But, said Allen, funds are avail- able for strikes if “our efforts to avoid walkouts and difficulties fail.” Detailed strategy for the organiza- o tion campaign il come out of a Houston meeting of the International | Executive Committee, 5 International President Harvey Fi ming and Vice President John L. Coulter, transferred from California to the district embracing fields from - Hobbs, N. Mex., to Shreveport, La., will give the orders, union leaders agreed 200 “Specialists” Assigned. Two hundred “specialists” groomed fo* the job, have been assigned to preach Lewis' gospel. About 40 of his best have drawn the East Texas area for contact worl Into 10 branches of werk organizers v their union arguments, ho! meetings in hom hes, schools and labor ha Radio broadcasting and newspape: advertising will be utilized. Bran tagged for e ing, pr starting April tion and mai To initiate their campaign, union leaders emphasized dealings must | start with the major companies. Col- \‘ lective bargaining among the some 1,800 independents would follow, they said Organization workers are expected | to concentrate on the industry’s pipe- | line workers, or common laborers. Al- | len marked that division as a potent group of the low-wage class that would | receive careful attention from Lewis’ lieutemants Local Drive Started. Quiet organization work has started » In the East Texas field, but Allen stressed it was “purely a local drive and not yet a part of the C. I. O. movement.” | Guarded but pointed coment came | from the operators in answer to every labor charge. Vigorous denials of | wage, hour and living condition as- sertions from the union camp were given, and evidence offered to support the denials. Operators, however, appeared dis- posed to let the labor force play its eards first. Majors and independents ngreed, however, on one mutual asser- tion: “The world's largest oil field will | never be unionized.” o Income Taxes (Continued From First Page.) put more than $300,000,000 Federal till before next July 1 Crowds in Line Here. A morning crowd besieged the local office yesterday to pile up the longest line ever seen there by the oldest attaches of the income tax office. The taxpayers filed in about 9:30 a.m. in such crowds that they lined up along |} the corridor on the Twelfth street side of the building, until they reached about the length of a city block. Then the guards turned the line at right angles, in an easterly direction, and it ran part way down the middle corridor of the huge Revenue Build- ing. Never before, officials said, had “ the line turned the corner. Up to 5 p.m., when the doors closed on the local office, 3,195 persons had turned in their returns. The crowd dwindled in the afternoon, however. Friday brought the biggest volume so far this year, when 3,654 persons | went through the office. Tomorrow | is expected to be the biggest of the | year. Force Is Increased. Seeking to expedite collections, the | Internal Revenue Bureau ordered 4,300 | AND RELIEVE THOSE GAS PAINS 1o 35 MILES it IS THE ONLY SURE CURE HOLLEMAN MOTOR COMPANY SALES—DI. 7534—SERVICE 1231 20th St. N.W. HE SUNDAY §/ 'AR, WASHINGTON, Strikers Eat Heartily Upper: settlement factory. Center: Sections of carburetors, oil screens and filters con- verted into cooking pots and spoons by sit-downers in Dodge plant at Detroit. Acetylene torch serves as stove. Lower: With magazine and candy stand employes on strike in @ New York subway, this sit-downer makes a dent in the stock and satisfies his appetite. —Copyright,.A. P. Wirephotos. Three of 50 girl strikers eat a bite while awaiting of demands for shorter hours in Chicago candy MINER PAY TALKS ENTER FINAL PHASE Conference Group of 25 Is Cut to 4—Adjourns Till Monday. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 13.—Negotia- tions between Eastern Appalachian soft coal mine operators and miners entered their apparently final phase today when the original conference group of 25 was reduced to four ac- tive members. The subcommittee, seeking a wage- hour agreement to succeed one ex- piring March 31, which will affect nearly all of the Nation's 450,000 soft coal miners, met briefly with the full committee standing by on call and adjourned till 10 o'clock Monday. It was composed of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Work- ers and chairman of the Committee on Industrial Organization; Thomas Ken- nedy, secretary of the union; Charles O'Neill, president of the United East- ern Coal Sales Corp., New York, and |L. T. Putnam of Beckley, W. Va, superintendent of the Raleigh-Wyo- ming Mining Co. The negotiators previously had been | whittled down to a subcommittee of 10, and observers said action like the final reduction to four had meant in |the past clearing up of preliminary details. Asked as he emerged from the sub- committee’s first meeting what had been accomplished at it, Lewis said, “Nothing has been accomplished.” Blind Strikers Seek Funds in ‘Tin Cup’ Drive Seek Sympathy for Wage Increase Demands. By the * oclated Press PITTSBURGH, March 13 —Forty blind “sit-down” strikers at the work- shop of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind carried tin cups to the city's street corners today. Charles McLaughlin, member of the committee which has directed the strike of 107 blind workers since March 1, said the men resorted to the “tin cup” campaign to arouse sentiment for their demands for wage minimus ranging from $12 to $16 a week. He added: “This is business.” A mediation meeting ended Friday in confusion as Matthew Dunn, Penn- sylvania’s blind Representative in Congress, threatened legal action if the association did not grant the wage to show that we mean | demands. The association, which provides work for the blind making brooms and furniture, stated its income would not carry an increased pay roll. ANECDOTES TO BE TOLD Columbia Historical Society to |e€ases. Don't take chances ... back- | shortness of breath, | Get Glimpses of Butler's Life. D. C, MARCH 14, LABOR CRITICIZES SECURITY BOARD Charges Promise Broken in Award of Contract to Remington-Rand. By the Assoclated Press, John P. Frey, president of the American Federation of Labor's metal trades department, criticized the So=- clal Security Board yesterday for awarding a $57,500 contract to Rem- ington Rand, Inc “We had assurances that the board would buy nothing from Remington Rand as long as the company con- tinued its present labor policy,” Frey said. The Office Equipment Workers Council, made up of workers belong- ing to unions in Frey's department, called a strike in Remington Rand plants last May. The A. F. of L. maintains the strike still is on, al« though the company says its plants are operating at 100 per cent capacity. Remington Rand has factories in Connecticut, New York and Ohio. Arthur J. Altmeyer, chairman of the Social Security Board, denied the board had promised Frey not to buy any Remington Rand products. $57,500 contract, he explained, called for photographing forms turned in by employers under the old-age benefit program. Remington Rand and the Recordak Corp., an Eastman Kodak subsidiary, were the only bidders for this work, Altmeyer added. The bids were identical as far as cost went, he 160 days to complete the work, while Remington Rand offered to do it in | 60 days. | Recognition of the Office Equip- ment Workers' Council as sole bar- gaining agency for Remington-Rand |issues in the strike. The company repeatedly threatened to close per- manently several of the plants where | picketing was started. Several months ago the union filed | & complain. with the Labor Relations Board charging the company with unfair labor practices. Labor Board officials sald yesterday a decision would be made public soon. At the A. F. of L’s request bor Department undertook weeks ago to invite James H jr, to the department for a peace | conference. Declaring they could not |get in touch with him, department officials turned the matter over to Secretary Perkins, who publicly in- vited Rand to meet her here this | weeic S K. Knapp, executive vice presi- dent, telegraphed Friday that Rand | would accept the invitation. 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