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A COALMINERSTURN TOPAYDISCUSSION Negotiations Are Held Up by Lewis’ Absence and Guf- fey Bill Action. BY the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 27.—Soft-coal miners and operators negotiating a new wage contract laid aside other issues today to discuss the pay of the 400,000 men the new agreement will cover. When the negotiations started Feb- bruary 17, the United Mine Workers demanded a 15 per cent increase for those miners paid by the day and 15 cents a ton increase for those paid by the amount of coal they turned out. ‘The operators demanded that the present pay scale remain in force. Closely linked with these demands was the miners’ demand for a cut in the work week from 35 to 30 hours and the operators for a 40-hour week. Discussions Secret. Whether either side advanced any ecompromise proposal was not dis- closed. The miners have contended that increasing living costs made a WE ARE 0N A 6OOD WILL TOUR T00- LOCAL 1102 VESRWolA. AFE.Coi-0- pay increase imperative and that the industry could well afford it in view | of hetter business conditions. The | operators, on the other hand, have said that increased competition from | fuel oil and natural gas made it nec- | essary to keep down coal prices. The present agreement, drawn up | in September, 1935, expires next Wed- | nesday midnight. | Lewis’ Absence Slows Talks. | In usually well-informed quarters, | the negotiations were said to be mov- | ing along at an unusually slow pace because of the absence of John L. Lewis, union president, and doubts by some operators as to whether the Sen- ate would approve the Guffey coal- control bill. Lewis was in Lansing. Mich, to negotiate a settlement of the Chrysler automobile strike. ‘The Guffey bill would permit the operators to fix coal prices at a level that would assure return of the cost of production plus a “reasonable” profit. | The miners contend this measure would take care of their demands, but | some operators maintain any increase in labor cost would raise prices to such a level that coal could not meet | oil's competition. 1 The miners expected Lewis to arrive | early next week and the Senate to | act on the Guffey bill Monday or | Tusday. FIRM STRIKEBOUND TWICE WITHIN WEEK Akron Fishing Tackle Company Had Settled Month-0ld “Stay-in” Monday. By the Associated Press AKRON, Ohio, March 27.—After settlement of a month-old stay-in strike last Monday, the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., makers fish- ing tackle, again closed today when | men on the night shift sat down | The sit-down climaxed & seniority controversy, resulting, Howard Ben- nett, union gpresident said, from the fact that a man was placed on a Job who did not have as much ex- perience as & man whom the union felt should have the job. The plant employs 400. Ten dime stores are now closed by strikes in the Akron area, leav-| ing four still open. | Strikers are members of the Re-| tail Clerks’ Internatio: al Protective Association, an affiliate of the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor. They are ' demanding $16 per week for 40| hours. Clerks now receive an average wage of $13.50 for a 48-hour week. STRIKE WE SR W.OFA Sally Ann Rose, 3-year-old daughter of Tom Rose (left), joined her father in the picket line at the Emerson Electnc Manu/acturmg Co. plant at St. Louis. turn in the picket line, then joined the sou across the street. Sit-Down (Continued From First Page.) explained, frankly and a little boast- fully, just how they go about closing | down an automobile plant, a hotel, a department store, or anything else which they may feel needs closing down. It is & highly specialized tech- nique. first developed in Europe under | extremely distressing circumstances. But since these men took hold of it, its efficacy has been increased many- fold. “It Can Happen Here.” They have found the way that “it can happen here” After all, the strikers may be right or the Chrysler Corp. or the General Motors Corp. may be right. All of them are convinced that they are right. But one shudders to think what may happen when some little group applies the same tactics in political life. The first necessity, of course, is organization. The employes must be organized in one union, not & loosely integrated group of craft unions. For practical purposes, says Mr. Bishop, the union seeks to have a fair-sized majority before it starts anything. But this isn't absolutely necessary, and therein lies the far-reaching vpoten- tiality of the sit-down. A majority in itself doesn't mean a thing, Mr. Bishop explains. It is apt to be a “yes man” majority which | will evaporate quite suddenly when there is a showdown. The leader must study the personalities of his followers. He must be satisfied in his own mind as to which ones can be trusted to go through with something once it is started. They must be | fighters. They must be men others i will follow. Above all, the leader must be sure that they are not “company spies.” Then these few seize some vital part of the plant without which op- eration either is impossible or is badly crippled. 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Perhaps this procedure is best ex- emplified, Mr. Bishop says, in the strike which closed the Chevrolet plant at Flint, in which he himself acted as one of the board of strategy and field officers. It was decided by the union officers to shut down the whole Chevrolet unit. They had a large number of members among the workers—probably a majority, Mr. Bishop says—but they didn't know much about the quality of this mem- bership and were morally certain that it was permeated with “stool pigeons.” First a mass meeting was called, at which plans for a strike were discussed quite vaguely. Various speakers in- tentionally stressed the difficulties which would be met and the meeting closed leaving the impression that some time in the near future some- thing would be done—merely as & gesture of defiance to the company— at an accessory plant which stood just outside the walls. The cards were all stacked, it was stressed, against any such attempt inside the walls. For one thing, the men would be isolated from the outside and it would be very difficult to get food. Now the board of strategy didn't have the faintest idea of bothering this particular factory. They wanted to get everybody talking about it. They wanted to stress valid reasons why it should be captured. And they wanted the company to know all about it. Motor Shop Real Objective. Their actual objective was the motor shop, inside the walls, guarded with extra patrols of police and the one vital point in the whole plant. Once it was shut down the rest of the plant couldn’t operate, for cars can’t be built without motors. The next step was to call a meeting of the “stewards.” The union main- tains these men in every shop where it operates—one steward to about 50 men. They are the field captains—the men who represent the union members in their grievances with the foremen, etc. Supposedly they are loyal union- ists. At this meeting definite plans were laid down for seizing the shop outside the walls, which could have been held until doom’s day without greatly worrying the General Motors Co. The board of strategy knew this. They still stressed that it was s gesture. A “gzero hour” was set. At 4:30 the She took her regular line for strikers —Capyngh!J A. P. Wirephoto. stewards were to give the signal, throw down their tools and sit. Supposedly most of the union members would sit | with them. That was up to the stew- ards. Actually the higher-ups didn't care whether they sat or not. The company police, of course, knew all about this proposed coup. The meet- ing had been held in the utmost secrecy, but the news leaked out, as it was intended that it should. Guards were drawn away from the motor shop to protect the threatened building. Secret Meeting Held. Now as the stewards left this meet- ing bits of paper were slipped into the hands of certain selected ones who were absolutely trusted, ordering them to attend a meeting that night in a downtown hotel. Altogether there were 14 of them. They were the only men in the Chevrolet plant who ac- tually knew what was going to happen the next day. They were to stage the real sit-down in the motor shop at another zero hour. That is, of all the men who held that particular plant not a one | outside the leaders knew what was | going to happen five minutes before- | | hand. At the same time arrangements were made for some of the loyal stewards to invade the motor shop, which was not very strongly organ= ized, with about 150 men from another shop inside the walls which was the most strongly organized of all. The various zero hours arrived, and everything went off on schedule, al- though one misunderstanding almost disrupted the whole procedure. On a bluff outside the factory grounds was Mr. Bishop with a loudspeaker, direct= ing operations. The doors of the motor shop were barricaded; those who didn't want to stay were let out, and the whole plant was very seriously crippled. The stewards who staged the coup couldn't explain to their prospective followers what was about to happen. They had no certainty, except a moral certainty based on knowing their own gang, that a single man would follow their example, and unless they had a preponderant majority of the workers | actually in the shop they were mi danger of being overpowered. But | there is always a tendency to follow the leader in a bold move, and the board of strategy knew this. Small Group Desirable. Once the workers are in possession of a plant the fewer sit-downers the better. In some cases it has been necessary deliberately to thin out the ranks. The fewer there are to feed the easler it is to get sufficient food to them and the easier to keep order when the terrible monotony of a pro- longed occupation frays men’s nerves and they begin to get irritable. ‘What's to prevent a company re- capturing its own plant, regardless of who gets hurt? The U. A. W. A. officials present a legal argument of a sort, but in the same breath admit that very few Judges ever would uphold it. This will be discussed in a later article. Act- ually there is nothing to prevent a company re-capturing its own plant by any force at its command or any force it can get from the State—except the two most potent forces in the world. First, it would be damaging its own property, perhaps beyond repair. It would release the men inside from any moral obligation—they insist they are very strict about this moral obli- gation—to refrain from sabotage. And they could do incalculable damage in a very few minutes. As it is, nobody has seriously charged that they have not left the plant in as good shape as they found them. The other after- noon, for instance, they were slow about evacuating the Chrysler plant because the stewards insisted that everything must be cleaned up before man stepped outside. They claim, and for the most part the claim is ad- mitted, that they maintained rigid discipline. Second, any one hurt or killed would be a martyr and probably the worst dis-service any industry can do itself is to create martyrs. Industry has changed from the old days when strik- ers were shot down Ly militia because industry probably always loses by it in the long run. Seek Public Sympathy. ‘The men who plan these sit-down strikes are master psychologists. They put their faith in industry’s desire to retain public sympathy. “Surely they can shut off food if they want to,” says Mr. Bishop. “We've told them sc. But we've also told them that the minute they do stop it there will not be a sit-down strike any longer. There’ll be a hunger strike and who wants to be held responsible for men starving to death?” That's how it's done in the auto- mobile industry. This industry, the strikers claim, is perticularly vulner- able to the sit-down technique. In the first place its operations are chain- like, 80 that & break of any link in the chain cripples everything. In the second place, it has a lot of strong. hard-boiled fellows among its employes | GREEN ISSUES CALL FORWARONC. 1.0, Summons A. F. L. to Rally Against Split in Ranks by Rivals. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, March 27.—William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, sounded the bat- tle cry toward C. I. O. rivals in an address here today and asserted “no siren voice can ever persuade our loyal members to leave the ranks and ex- periment in some untried field.” ““The A, F. of L. is more strongly entrenched in the hearts of workers and the institutions of America than ever before,” Green declared, “and we shall continue our line of effort with- out compromise or modification.” The federation chieftain was speak- ing to officers and organizers of the International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers. The group met here to draft plans for combating the Committee for Industrial Organizati~n, headed by John L. Lewis. Green charged the differences of industrial or craft organization *“do not constitute the real issue at pres- ent.” “The question involved is that of minority control or democratic proced- ure,” he stated. “The advocates of C. 1. O. were fairly defeated in the A. F. of L. convention in Atlanti¢ City in 1935 and then revolted. Our atti- tude is this: “Here is the house of labor. The door is open. The family inside is united. You can come in and live with us if you will. We will settle all prob= lems by a majority vote. But under no condition can you force the family to accept your dictates and automatic control.” Green said he soon would make pub- lic the federation’s attitude in regard to the “experimental methods—sit- down strikes—of the C. I. O.” ALBERTA TO DELAY ACTION ON BUDGET Social Credit Legislation Is De- manded First by Insur- gent Group. By Canadian Press. EDMONTON, Alberta, March 27.— A decision by Alberta's social credit government to hold up the budget now before the Legislature was dis- closed authoritatively today. The budget, providing for increased taxation, has drawn the opposition of an insurgent group in the Legis- lature which declared that under so- cial credit increases in taxation were unnecessary. The group demanded introduction of social credit legislation before the budget was passed. ‘With the fiscal year ending Wednes- day, the government sought to off- set its lack of authority to spend any public funds by proposing approval of provisional estimates. Solon Low, provincial treasurer, said he will present a resolution to the House Monday asking approval of these estimates to enable the gov- ernment to carry on while the budget is debated. TWO PERISH, TWO HURT IN FARM HOUSE FIRE BY the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Vt, March 27— Two persons perished and two others were severely burned today as fire destroyed a farm house five miles from here. The dead were Allen Richara- son, 2, and Warren Gage, 59. Mr. and Mrs. Basil Richardson and their two other sons, Walter, 1 year old, and Glen, 4, escaped by leaping from a second-story window. A 15-year-old dog owned by Gage, an uncle of Mrs. Richardson, died when it refused to leave Gage's side. ——eeee who can stand a lot of the strenuous life of down-sitting. In some other industries the tech- nique must be slightly different and methods must be employed which the autcmobile union, its officers claim, does not approve of in its own fleld. It never, it claims, sends outsiders into an automobile plant, either as instigators or to bear some of the brunt of the prolonged sitting. It never starts operations until it is rea- sonably sure of success. In hotels and department stores it is the usual practice to have all the operations of the sit-down strike en- gineered and controlled by experi- enced outsiders. But the same ele- ments of secrecy and suddenness must be relied upon. The strikers laugh heartily at one hotel sit-down here in Detroit. It was on a Satur- day night. One of the most fashion- able balls of the Winter was in prog- ress. The gowns of the society lead- ers were a sight to behold. Fashionable Ball Halted. A gentleman inconspicuous in eve- ning clothes edged his way to the middle of the ball-room floor. Sud- denly he shouted at the top of his voice: “Strike.” Immediately the or- chestra stopped playing. With a moment’s hesitation the waiters and waitresses who were carrying cock- tails and various delicacies to those who were sitting out the dance set down their trays. The check girls walked away, leaving the hats and coats to be sorted out as best their owners could manage it. The fash- jonable ball came to a dramatic standstill, and at about the same time the whole hotel came to a standstill. Now, the officers of the U. A. W. A. naturally aren’t moved to tears over the discomfiture of the season's de- butantes and their escorts. They sus- pect some of them may have been daughters and so'.s of automobile manufacturers. The remarkable thing is, they say, that none of the em- ployes who started sitting so quickly at the command from the ball-room door knew what was going to hap- pen & moment before. All they knew was that there would be a strike soon and that the order would come un- expectedly. ‘They say they don’t approve of an outsider walking into a place like that, but they are uRanimous in their admiration for this fellow. He didn’t know, for sure, that a single person would obey his command. He might have taken a chance in an automo- bile plant. The worst that could have happened to him is. that h~ would have been beaten up,.given the bum’s rush and landed in a police station with a cracked skul 8Such & pros- pect wouldn’t bother®s real he-man. But this organizer’ was a greater hero. With unheard-of courage he took & chance on msking an ass of himself in the middle of & ball room. ) D. C, MARCH 28 1937—PART ONE. Leaders Confer on Sit-Downs Reporters, after a long vigil in front of the White House, pounce on Senate Leader Rob- inson at the conclusion of last evening’s conference on sit-down strikes. % Auto Labor (Continued From First Page.) Chrysler and Lewis had remained here after they had planned to return to the East for the week end. This informant indicated that he consia- ered their action signified that they held hopes of settling their differences soon. Had they carried out their plan of leaving Lansing for Easter, they would have had to return next week to complete their negotiations. Union Cites Wagner Act. Filing a cross bill to the Chrysier petition, on which Judge Campbeu enjoined sit-down strikers from occu- pying the corporation’s factories, the union asked that Chrysler be restrained from violating the national labor relations act, which provides that a majority membership in any plant entitles a union to exclusive bargain- ing representation. A Supreme Court ruling on the act’s constitutionality 15 impending. Immediate procedure on the cross bill was not determined. It was filed by Maurice Sugar, U. A. W. A. attor- ney, who argued unsuccessfully at the time the sit-down injunction was issued, that the Chrysler Corp., by violating the Wagner act, had not come into court with “clean hands.” The U. A. W. A, claiming that 59,000 of the Chrysler Corp.’s 67,000 employes have selected it as their rep- resentative in bargaining with the corporation, has demanded recogni- tion as sole bargaining agency for all Chrysler workers. Individual Views Respected. The corporation has offered to recognize the union on behalf of its membership, insisting that it must “recognize the right of any individual employe to speak for himself.” Although having much in common in a personal knowledge of the work- er's problem, Chrysler and Lewis have not been able to see eye to eye on this one subject, and while friendly. feelings have been displayed outside the conference chambers, the negotia- tions behind the guarded doors of Gov. Murphy's office are understood to have brought forth some blunt words from both sides. Gov. Murphy, who, as in the long- drawn-out General Motors strike, has played a role of mediator that has cost him many hours of sleep, said yes- terday he was “terribly tired.” More- over, he has been suffering from a cold. “I ought to be in bed,” he said, but indicated no intention of easing his efforts to bring about a peaceful termination of the strike. Besides the 60,000 Chrysler em- ployes, more than 19,000 Briggs Body plant workers have been forced into idleness by the cessation of assembly- line activities in the eight Chrysler units here. In addition more than 10,000 Hudson Motor Car Co. workers have been idle for three weeks and 2,200 Reo Motor Car Co. employes have been out of work for more than a fortnight, because of strikes in both plants. Although seeking primarily an im- mediate settlement of the Chrysler strike, Gov. Murphy has been hopeful that out of the conferences might come a formula for peace throughout the automotive industry. He expressed the belief that with an accord in the Chrysler controversy a settlement might also come quickly in that in- volving the Hudson workers, although no direct negotiations .between the company and its men have been in- itiated. Mayor Max Templeton of Lansing has been conducting negotiations with both sides in the Reo dispute. Troopers in Detroit Plants. In Detroit the eight plants of the Chrysler Corp. remained in control of State troopers, who took charge when the sit-down strikers evacuated Thursday under the terms of a truce reached in the initial conference be- tween Chrysler and Lewis. Just how long would be required to get assembly lines into produc- tion after an agreement has been reached has not been disclosed by the corporation’s executives. The union leaders, however, claiming the plants were left in ‘“‘perfect order” when the men withdrew, have assert- ed production couid be resumed on a few hours’ notice. Neither Chrysler nor Lewis would discuss word from Washington yester- day that Secretary of Labor Perkins believes a subsidence of the sit-down strike wave is under way. Asserting she saw ‘“no more sit- down strikes in the offing,” Secretary Perkins said that with the termina- tion of the Chrysler difficulties, “we will have a chance to catch our breath and think.” She added that Gov. Murphy was to be ocongratulated for “utilizing the rule of reason” in his handling of the strike situation. CROSS BILL CITES WAGNER ACT DETROIT, Mich,, March 27 (#).— The United Automobile Workers un- expectedly reversed its accustomed role of defendant today by seeking & man- TERMITES Our Poliey Free Inspection. Guaranteed Treatment TERMITE CONTROL CO. A Wl'MMton-OwM‘ Company Pruitt, Mgr. NotL. Prese Bl NatL 8711 “Ask Ow Cuastomers” Secretary of Labor Perkina— and Senator La Follette arnvina Jor earlier conferences with President Roosevelt. —Underwood & Underwood Photos. datory injunction to compel the Chrysler Corp. to grant it sole recog- nition under the national labor re- lations act. Maurice Sugar, the attorney who filed the action in Wayne County Circuit Court as an answer and cross bill to Chrysler's recent injunction petition, said it was the first attempt to enforce the debated Wagner act by injunction. He said the counter move would be held in abeyance, pending the outcome of strike settlement conferences be- tween Walter P. Chrysler and John L. Lewis in Lansing. “If Chrysler does not agree to rec- ognize the U. A. W, we are prepared to call the cross bill up for court hearing,” he said. “We think we are right and we believe we are en- thtied to'the relief under the law.” The U. A. W. cross bill charges that the corporation spent $275,000 in four years for “labor spies,” that it fos- tered “company unions” in opposi- tion to the U. A. W,, that it discharged thousands of employes for union ac- tivities and that it has refused to comply with the national labor rela- tions act by recognizing the U. A. W. as sole bargaining agency, although a majority of the employes are union members. Arms of Injunction Plea. The injunction requested would en- Jjoin the Chrysler Corp. from: Violating any of the terms and pro- visions of the national labor relations act in relation to the U. A. W. mem- bership. Employing “any person, corpora- tion, firm or agency * * * to spy upon any employes.” Interfering with any employes in the exercise of their rights under the national labor relations act, particu- larly in their right to join the U. A. W. and engage in its activities, including collective bargaining. Interfering with the formation or administration of the U. A. W. and from “dominating or contributing financial or other support to any labor organization” of its employes. Discriminating against any em- ployes “in order to encourage mem- bership in any labor organization, or to discourage membership in the United Automobile Workers of America. “Refusing to bargain with the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica as the exclusive representative of all employes for the purpose of col- lective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment or other conditions of employment.” The 18-page document was filed on the last day that any answer might4 be entered to the Chrysler petition for an injunction. Circuit Judge Allan Campbell grant- ed that injunction on March 15, order- ing sit-down strikers to leave eight Chrysler plants. The strikers, how- ever, continued to hold the plants until last Thursday when they evacuated in accordance with a truce arranged at the Lansing conference. If the cross bill should be called for hearing, it would come before Judge GUARANTEED REPAIRING W!L(S Also Nationally Known Jewelry ERNEST BURK 3195, 05T, N% My Small Overhead Is Your Saving! Campbell. He heard some of the same charges contained in today’s cross bill during the argument on the original injunction, then overruled the union’s contention that the Chrysler Corp. was not before the court with “clean hands.” Paralleling the corporation’s prayer for a levy of $10,000,000 against the “goods and chattels” of the strikers for violation of its injunction, today's cross bill says that the amount in con- troversy is “incapable of accurate measurement, but is many millions of dollars.” It asks no monetary penalty. Among the specific charges in the cross bill is an allegation that the Chrysler Corp. “discharged 3,000 mem- bers of the United Automobile Workers in direct violation of the seniority rules under which the corporation presumed to be acting.” That, the bill says, oc- curred last Fall. At Lansing, Lee Pressman, general counsel for the Committee for Indus- trial Organization, said he had no knowledge of the legal magpeuver. Lewis made no comment. CUSTOM-MADE Complete Installed Large selection of eslors. Let us show samples. Kleeblatt’s Shade Shop 1100 H St. N.E.. 2nd . Line. 0879 ings He Your Sy Insura! GOLUMBIA BUILDING -ns 11th Street re Are Prote nce up to $5.0 SOCIALISTS STUDY LABOR UNION RIFT Test Vote Also Likely on Possible Farmers’ and Workers’ Alliance. BY the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 27.—Socialist leaders debated behind closed doors tonight their party's attitude toward the organized labor schism and a possible new farmers' and workers' party alignment. Test votes were scheduled, but formal action on all resolutions was deferred until Sun- day’s sessions of their special na- tional convention. Daniel W. Hoan, Milwaukee Social- ist Mayor, arrived unexpectedly at the convention today following reports the Wisconsin delegation would pro- test an attempt by an Eastern bloc to have the convention indorse John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization. Mayor Hoan remained only for the morning session, returning to Mil- waukee in midafternoon before start of the debate on whether the party should take sides on the union issue. He told associates he might return Sunday. Prospects of & C. I O. indorsement increased when Norman Thomas, perty leader, said he “personally favors industrial unions” and that he believed the C. I. O. had made “wonderful progress” toward organi= zation in major industries. . Fund for Talking Books. The Pilgrim Trust of England has donated $7,500 for talking books for the blind. 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