Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1937, Page 5

PAYLAW FOR MEN OPPOSED BY KING Senate Chairman to Confer With City Heads on Mini- mum Wage Changes. BACKGROUND— The District minimum wage law, enacted in 1917, set up minimum salary standards for women and children until 1923, when the law was declared void by a 5-to-3 opinion of the Supreme Court. From that time, minimum wage legislation was generally considered impossible, although various States retained such laws. The New York statute was declared unconstitu- tional last Summer. In its recent ruling on the Washington State law, however, the high court com= pletely reversed itself, and declared such regulation within the legisla- tive power. Chairman King of the Senate Dis- trict Committee is opposed to including men in the minimum wage law for women and minors, he made known today. As to whether any changes should be made in the old law when it is put back into operation, the Senator said he wants to confer with the District Commissioners before reaching a defi- nite decision. Commenting on the suggestion put forward a few days ago that the law be broadened to take in men, King said he would be against such a plan because men are better able to bargain for themselves. The Utah Senator also said he had received some letters from women expressing opposition to the minimum wage law. President Roosevelt addressed a letter to Congress yesterday, setting forth the opinion of Attorney General Cummings that the District wage law is still on the statute books. The Presi- dent said, however, he was advising the Commissioners to defer appoint- ment of a new wage board until May 1 to enable Congress to consider whether it wants to revise the act in view of the length of time it has been inoperative. The President indicated last week he thought the minimum wage law should apply to men as well as women, although his letter to the House and Senate yesterday did not refer to this. Created in 1917, the Minimum Wage Board functioned until 1923, when the Supreme Court held the law unconsti- tutional. A week ago in a case from the State of Washington the court reversed its ruling in the District case and the majority opinion stated the District decision of 14 years ago should be overruled. Immediately following the new de- cision, Senator King said that, regard- less of whether the law can be put back into operation without further legislative action, he was inclined to believe the standards prescribed in it should be clarified. Strike (Cdntinued From First Page.) laughing and in good humor and then there was a second announcement. “Let’s all go over,” rang out and to the plant they went. Milling crowds pressed around the entrances, knocked over shrubbery and stamped the lawns into dust. All ac- tivity in the town halicd during the eviction. As the last of the strikers started to leave the plant, Behman was taken into the offices of the company presi- dent, William F. R. Murrie. The farmers continued their gant- let outside and strikers had to run between lines of pelting sticks for a block. A load of ashes arrived. The farmers threw them on the strikers. Twenty mounted State policemen rode into town from the nearby train- ing school and took control. The crowd, still shouting, made the last of the strikers remove their hats as they came out. Inside, the floors of the plant were littered with sticks, stones, bricks, pick handles and iron bars. There were a few bull whips lying around. History of Strike. The strike was called by the United Chocolate Workers' UnUion, an affili- ate of the Committee for Industrial Organization. An agreement had been signed recognizing, among other things, the United Chocolate Workers’ Union as the bargaining agent for its members, but the union charged the corporation failed to respect seniority rights and equally divide time and overtime among all shifts. The company said it recognized senior workers in a seasonal lay-off last week, but the union said union officers were discharged in violation of the agreement. The sit-down started at 11 o'clock Friday. Repeated negotiations with the company failed. Then the union added a demand for a closed shop. ‘The union called the strikers out i’ Secret of the Monks’ Cellar Its ceilings are vaulted Medieval lanterns illumine the fat, sleek casks of aging brew. “The Monks’ Cellar,” we call this retreat, deep in the heart of our brewery. A conception of our brewmaster, it is a daily reminder of the patience and pride and skill which, above all else, are the determining ingredients of the P. Christian Feigenspan Brewing Company, Newark, N. J. THE Woman Imprisoned During War Mrs. Kate R. O’Hare Used 14 Months in Pris- on to Advantage. BY PHILIP H. LOVE. Speeches opposing this country’s participation in the World War sent Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare to prison for 14 months, beginning April 1, 1819, but today—after slightly more than 18 years in which to “think it over"— she still feels she was right. “If T had to live through the war period again,” she declared, “I'd take the same stand—only I'd probably campaign for it more vigorously.” The address which made Mrs. O'Hare an inmate of the Missouri State penitentiary, as a violator of the wartime espionage act, was one of a series delivered in various sections of the country. “As a matter of fact, I had made practically the same speech 75 times before,” she said. “I had just re- turned from Europe, where I had made a thorough study of the economic causes of the war, I was convinced that the United States had been dragged in for no other purpose than to protect the profits of certain business and financial interests—and I didn’t hesitate to say so. “Well, I said it once too often. After my seventy-sixth talk on “The Eco- nomic Causes of the War,' delivered in Bowman, S. Dak., I was arrested. The Government had no women's prisons in those days, so I was boarded in the Missouri Penitentiary, at Jef- ferson City, until May 30, 1920.” On Research Assignment. Mrs. O'Hare, who is living at 114 C street southeast while carrying on a special research assignment for a group headed by Representative Amlie, Progressive, of Wisconsin, has never regretted her incarceration, she as- serted. ‘Spending all that time in prison wasn't very pleasant, but it placed me in position to accomplish some- thing really worthwhile,” she ex- plained. “After my release I began a drive for establishment of separate prisons for women—and won. I know that the months I had served in the Missouri Penitentiary, with the oppor- tunities it afforded for first-hand ex- perience and close-up observation, | helped considerably in making that | campaign a success.” | Another victory of which the gray- haired, motherly woman is proud grew out of the so-called “Green Corn Re- bellion” of 1917. A group of tenant farmers, who had organized them- selves into a union, met in a corn- field in Oklahoma to formulate a policy toward the draft. The meeting was raided and 114 farmers were sent to prison for violating the espionage act. In April, 1922, Mrs. O'Hare led the wives and children of the imprisoned | else. Would Repeat Pacifist Stand MRS.KATE RICHARDS O’HARE. —Star Staff Photo. men to Washington in an effort to induce President Harding to free them. For about three weeks she and her followers staged what appears to have been America’s first sit-down strike, “Of course, we had never heard of the term, ‘sit-down strike,’” Mrs. O’Hare pointed out, “but that's what our tactics amounted to, anyway. Every day we marched to the White House to try to present our demands to the President. When he refused to see us—as he always did—we sim- ply sat down on the White House steps, or on the lawn, and stayed | there. One by one, the prisoners were quietly released.” Children Hit by Mumps. The “sit-down” was handicapped, however, by the fact that virtually all the juvenile members of the “Chil- dren’s Crusade” as the movement was called, were laid up with mumps. Mrs. O’Hare, a native of Kansas City, Mo., began her career as a re- porter. Later, she became associated with the great Socialist leader, Eugene V. Debs, serving with him as co- editor of the Vanguard, a magazine published in St. Louis. Debs, who also was & pacifist during the war, began serving a sentence in the Fed- eral Penitentiary in Atlanta for viola- tion of the espionage act two days before she entered the Missouri prison. “If this country was being invaded,” Mrs. O’Hare declared, “I'd be just as much in favor of fighting as anyone But the World War—that was That was something else again. merely a war for profits Mrs. O'Hare came here last January from her home in Los Angeles to con- duct a survey of social legislation for the American Commonwealth Political Federation, of which Representative Amlie is chairman. She is field or- ganizer of the group. of the plant Saturday night after com- pany officials agreed not to try to re- open the plant during negotiations. Some of the 4,500 farmers who sup- ply the firm with 800,000 pounds of milk a day, started to complain. They had no other market for their milk. So-called “loyal workers” joined with the farmers in a protest of the strike. They had mass meetings and | | parades Monday and yesterday. 85,000 TO RETURN TO WORK. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 7—A dramatic, midnight settlement of the $70,000,000 Chrysler strike that will send 85,000 workmen back to their jobs within two weeks was halled today as the basis for permanent peace in the automotive industry. Gov. Frank Murphy, in whose office at Lansing the pact ending the month- old strike was signed by high officials | of the Chrysler Corp. and the United Automobile Workers of America just | before last midnight, expressed con- | | fidence that labor strife was near an | | end. | Spokesmen for both corporation and | union pronounced the agreement satis- | factory. Interpretations of the formula that solved the long-deadlocked issue of “sole recognition” varied, however. The U. A. W. A, throughout the negotiations for settlement of the strike that began March 8, had de- manded sole collective bargaining rights. Its president, Homer Martin, commented that “I don’t see how it could be any soler,” since the agree- ment gave the union the “exclusive privilege in bargaining with the cor- poration.” B. E. Hutchinson, the corporation’s finance chairman, said the compact was “non-exclusive” and “doesn’t pre- clude our dealing with other unions.” Hutchinson said that calls would go _JOE HIGH :INCORPORAT, "OUR PLUMBER/ . Its walls are old brick. O.N. Beer you enjoy. out today or tomorrow for workers to report, and that normal operations would be resumed within 10 days or two weeks. As soon as the 65,000 Chrysler employes resume work 20,000 workers in supplier companies will re- turn to their jobs. Ward's Automotive Reports esti- mated today that Chrysler employes lost $9,000,000 in wages during the first four weeks of the strike, which now is in its fifth week. Ward's also estimated that the automobiles which normally would have been produced during that period would have sold for $60,000,000 at the factory. Added to that strike cost was a vast increase in the welfare load, which probably approximated $1,000,000. Further Negotiation Planned. ‘The settlement provided for further negotiations, ‘to begin tomorrow, on such issues as seniority and methods of dealing with grievances. Today Gov. Murphy planned to bring to- gether representatives of the U. A. W. A. and the Hudson Motor Car Co. and the Reo Motor Car Co. in separate | conferences to seek a termination of strikes which have closed those plants. A statement by Martin indicated that sit-down strikes in the motor car industry were at an end. The agreement itself provided that the U. A. W. A. would call no more sit-downs in Chrysler plants during the life of the pact, which is effective until next March 31. The corporation granted the union bargaining rights for its employes who are members of the U. A. W. A. The union had asked for exclusive bar- gaining rights and called the strike when this was denied it. Other provisions of the compact: Chrysler agreed neither to inter- fere with employes joining the union KEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. nor discriminate against them for such membership, and also “to mnot ald, promote or finance any labor group or organization which purports to engage in collective bargaining or make any agreement with any such group or organization for the purpose of undermining the union.” Intimidation Barred. ‘The union would not “intimidate or coerce employes” or solicit members “on corporation time or plant prop- erty.” In defining “employes” the agree- ment exempted foremen, assistant foremen, timekeepers, plant protection employes and “confidential salaried employes.” Union members would not engage in any “other stoppage in any of the plants” as well as “any sit-down or stay-in strike.” Matters not covered in the agree- ment will be negotiated in a confer- ence opening in Detroit tomorrow. “The union agrees immediately to| terminate the present strike.” Chrysler would reopen its closed plants “as soon as possible.” It agreed to “re-employ as rapidly as possible its employes now on strike at their usual work without discrim- ination against them for participating in the strike, and in accordance with the seniority rules of the corporation now in effect.” ‘The company would seek dismissal of its injunction against the union and the U. A. W. A. would do likewise concerning its answer and crossbill. Blossoms (Continued From First Page.) said there’s a possibility of showers tomorrow afternoon or night. The temperature probably will drop to around 40 degrees tonight. With good weather, Finnan said, | the blooms should continue through next week. At 9 a.m. tomorrow the park author- ities will cut off traffic at the John Paul Jones Statue around the Tidal Basin roadway, leading to the inter- section of Fifteenth street at the rear of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. This will permit placing chairs in the roadway in preparation for the festival. At 6 p.m. the entire Tidal Basin roadway system will be closed to automobiles to permit the festival to go forward. With thousands of out-of-towners expected to attend the affair tomor- row, & few blossom hints might be in order. You may not pick a spray for the parlor mantle—the police handle you the same as if you had tried to borrow a column from the front of the Supreme Court Building. You may not spread a picnic lunch beneath the trees. You may take all the snapshots you want to, and you may paint if you can find a vacant spot. You may ride past the trees in your auto, but traffic is so heavy that it's like trying to run through a hedge with an open umbrella. You may walk beneath them until you drop. Meanwhile, the Capital Transit Co. announced i twould have special busses running from the south steps of the Treasury Building to the blossom area from 5:30 a.m. until 11:30 p.m. to- MOrTOW. The City of Tokio gave the trees to the United States at the sugges- tion of Mrs. William Howard Taft. Shipped as a token of good will and high esteem, the first trees reached America in 1909—full of gall worms and fungus. The Agriculture Department burned them, and an international incident arose. Phliander C. Knox, then Sec- retary of State, whispered to Count Yasuga Uchida, the Japanese Envoy, that another shipment would be most would | WEDNESDAY, Traffic Control Controls for Autos Dur- ing Cherry Blossom Fete Are Announced. Regulations to restrict automobile traffic in West Potomac Park during tomorrow’s Cherry Blossom Festival were announced today by the Treffic Department. The control system includes: Closing of Basin road, running along the east side of the Tidal Basin, from 9 am. until after the festival. It will be reserved as a parking area. Only for cars with parking stickers, there will be one entrance to the basin area from 6 p.m. until after the fes- tival. This is the one leading south on Seventeenth street from Constitu- tion avenue. All other entrances, including the following, will be closed from 6 p.m.: The east entrances along Fourteenth street. ‘The north entrances along Constitu- tion avenue, excepting Seventeenth, where & parking sticker is necessary for admission. Underpass road at Con- stitution also will be closed. Twenty-third street and French drive entrances leading into West Potomac Park from Lincoln Memo- rial. The road runing west along the Potomac bank from the tourist camp in East Potomac Park. Arlington Memorial Bridge will be open into Lincoln Memorial. Traffic will be allowed to continue from Lin- coln Memorial over the other branch | of Twenty-third and over Bacon drive, | both leading to Constitution avenue. MISS LIVINGSTON, 83, EXPIRES HERE Retired Postal Employe Victim of Heart Attack—Rites Friday. Miss Mary Hooe Livingston, retired employe of the Post Office Depart- ment, where she worked for 47 years, died today of a heart attack at her home, 2123 California street. She would have been 84 tomorrow. Miss Livingston, who retired from the Government service about 12 years ago, lived with her niece, Mrs. James E. Alexander. Besides Mrs. Alexander, she is survived by several other nieces and nephews. A native of New York, Miss Living- Representative Robert Le Roy Living- ston of New York, who served as a Federalist in the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses and was a veteran of the War of 1812. Her father was the late George Digges Livingston. Miss Livingston had been a Washing- ton resident since a child. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Priday in St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. PONTIA Sixes & Eights IMMEDIATE DELIVERY)| WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. Direct Factory Dealer 4221 Connecticut Ave. welcome, In 1912 a fumigated set arrived. ARTH prescribed for more than 50 This natural mineral water the acid poisons that are so cause of arthritis. at Hot Springs, Arkansas. tasting—not a laxative. booklet and sample. MEt. 1062 Clev. 8400 AS AN AID IN THE TREATMENT OF RITIS Drink Mountain Valley Water, the famous health-water that doctors have years. aids the prompt and thorough elimination of often the Give Mountain Valley Water a trial today—delivered to you just as it flows Pleasant Phone for MOUNTAIN VALLEY WATER 1405 K St. N.W. He thought “it was the bunk” -but read what he sa oA ys now!/ b ston was the granddaughter of former | APRIL 7, 1937. PARRAN PRAISES HEALTH GRANTS Social Security Assistance Has Proved Worthy of Promise, Parley Told. The wisdom of Congress in provid- ing for continuing grants in aid of health work under the soclal security program is being amply demonstrated in every State and Territory, Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran declared today. Speaking before the Thirty-fifth Annual Conference of State and Ter- ritorial Health Officers with the Pub- lic Health Service, Dr. Parran said, | “last year we discussed the hope of better health to our citizens offered by the health security provision of Fed- eral law. This year we can record the first realization of that hope. By the devoted work of you and your col- leagues, new standards of health serv- ice are being set.” One of the greatest difficulties, the | | | surgeon general pointed out, has been to secure and train an adequate staft of public health personnel. “The whole suc of our joint efforts in future years,” he added, “will depend on our ability to attract able men and women for public health service, to give satisfactory training for their dif- ficult and technical task, and to in- sure them a satisfactory carser and opportunities for advancement, un- disturbed by the blighting effects of partisan politics.” Asserting the development of aerial navigation has again brought the menace of yellow fever to this coun- try, Dr. Parran recommended estab- lishment of a special committee of the health officers to co-operate with the Public Health Service in working out plans for a protective program. Dr. Parran also made several recom- mendations for action by conference committees on questions of syphilis control, interstate spread of disease and stream pollution legislation. He also urged a thorough overhauling “of the content of what we have been teaching in the name of health educa- ion.” New officers were elected by the conference at an executive session yesterday afternoon. The medical experts selected Dr. R. H. Riley, Mary- land State director of health, as presi- | ¢ 1| 15° Cigarettes . CAMEL, OLD GOLD, CHESTER- | ) FIELD, RALEIGH, LUCKY STRIKE, | PIEDMONT %9 1.13 pkG. oF 20 &° Cigars, 5 ~ 19° 15¢ LB. williams Aqua Velva 0c Size, (g ssmnduv_d ‘26 Low Price 50¢c 20c 35¢ 55¢ 55¢ 1.00 53¢ POND’S CREAMS 50¢ 1.00 50c 25¢ 50c 50¢ 1.00 25¢ 50¢ LUX or LIFEBUOY 127 120 35¢ 65¢ 60c 1.00 Kreml Hair Tonic [ 35¢ 1.25 50¢ 25¢ 75¢ 50¢ 1.00 1.25 40c 50¢ 1.00 1.00 60c ROCHELLE 15¢ 25¢ 15¢ 35¢ 15¢ 15¢ POWDEFED RORIC:ID 35 10¢ 35¢ 25¢ 25¢ 25c CUTICURA SOAP__ SMOKING TOBACCOS___ LB. TIN HALF AND HALF TOBACCO_j LB. TIN PRINCE ALBERT TOBACCO__g9¢ TIN GRANGER TOBACCO IPANA TOOTH PASTE GLAZO NAIL POLISH 1.00 MAX FACTORS FACE POWDER_87¢ MUM DEODORANT MARVELOUS BATH POWDER_ LADY ESTHER CREAM___ VITALIS HAIR TONIC__ PACKERS SCALPTONE__ RUBENSTEIN FACE POWDER_ NOXZEMA SKIN CREAM_ HUSH DEODORANT HUDNUT LIPSTICK ___ KYNOL TOOTH PASTE. Vita Ray Cleansing Cream MAVIS TALCUM POWDER_ WILDROOT HAIR TONIC__ i i3 ksl | | PRINTS ANY 5¢ EACH AGFA CADET CAMERA 1% wwk A—S dent to succeed Dr. Earle G. Brown, secretary of the Kansas State Board of Health. Dr. Maysil M. Williams, State health officer of North Dakota, was named vice president, and Dr. John A. Ferrell, associate director of the International Health Division, Rocke- feller Foundation, was re-elected field secretary. Named to Executive Committee. ‘The retiring president, Dr. Brown, and two others—Br. C. V. Reynolds of | North Carolina and Dr. R. L. Cleere of Colorado—were elected as members of the Executive Committee for three- year terms. Dr. Alphonse Lessard, for 15 years director of public health of Quebec, Canada, was made an honor- ary life member of the conference. He served as vice president in 1935, WHISKY SNIFFERS MEET The Treasury’s expert whisky sniffers met yesterday to develop “more refined methods” for testing liquor, The Treasury announced that new lakoratory techniques will be de- veloped to improve present practices, which include sniffing samples of whisky to determine whether they live up to the makers’ claims. 10c 67c¢ TOILETRIES| gt HAZEL 15¢ Size 6 Standard’s Low Price 1.10 EVENING IN PARIS PERFUME__77¢ 60c PHILLIPS CLEANSING CREAM__49¢ BAYER’S ASPIRIN Box of 12 5-gr. il Developed Phillips MILK OF Magnesia SIZE AGFA PLENACHROME FILMS 8 EXP. 8 EXP. 24¢ 34c 116 8 EXP. 620 8 EXP. SCHOLL'S ZINO PADS BISODOL BROMO-SELTZER Alba Russian Mineral Oil FREEZONE ABSORBINE JR. ALOPHEN PILLS CARTER’S LIVER PILLS __ MEADES DEXTRI-MALTOSE ENO SALTS____ MARMOLA TABLETS SARAKA PLUTO WATER ___ MIDOL TABLETS__ IRONIZED YEAST Alba Mineral Oil and Agar. CALIFORNIA SYRUP FIGS__ Aromatic Spirits Ammonia_ CASTOR OIL CHLOROFORM LINIMENT_ IMPORTED OLIVE OIL SPIRITS CAMPHOR BORIC ACID________ GLYCERIN _ MERCUROCHROME _ IMPROVED DOBELLS SOL._ ROCHELLE SALTS. AROMATIC CASCARA ____ c 10c POWDERED BORAX___ 15¢ SENNA LEAVES _____ 10c PEROXIDE saccharin Tablets 1 TLE BOTTLE R 'z 50c TYREES ANTISEPTIC POWDER 32¢ _2lc - e -17¢ -17¢ Te