Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1937, Page 5

AUTOLABOR PEACE EVIDENCE GROWING Hudson Plant Evacuated. Chrysler Court Action Is Dismissed. BY the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 10—Two more evidences of recent labor difficulties in the automotive industry disap- peared today. The 33-day possession of plants of the Hudson Motor Car Co. by striking members of the United Automobile Workers of America ended with 1,500 sit-downers marching out to join thousands of fellow unionists in a parade. Settlement of their strike was approved last night. Court action by which the Chrysler Corp. last month sought to evict and arrest some 6,000 sit-down strikers occupying its eight production plants here, was dismissed and dissolved by Circuit Judge Allan Campbell, who had issued an injunction which the strikers disregarded. A union cross- complain asking the court to order the corporation to refrain from vio- lating the national labor relations act likewise was dismissed. 90,000 to Return to Jobs. In the Chrysler and Hudson plants, the factory of the Briggs Manufac- turing Co. which supplies Chrysler divisions with bodies, and the Reo Motor Car Co. plants at Lansing, Mich., machinery was prepared for resumption of production as some 80,000 workers return to their jobs next week Henry Ford, independent manufac- turer, said in an interview at Ways, Ga,, that when the current strike trou- bles subside the Ford Motor Co. will demonstrate “wages, production and competition such as never seen be- fore.” Formally replying to Ford in a statement tonight, Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. president, said that “Mr. Ford has for years paid wages much lower than either General Motors or Chrys- ler,” and added that a raise in wages cannot “stop the unionization of his ‘workers.” Dismissal of the Chrysler injunction ections, which attorneys said had made possible orders for the arrest of Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. president; John L. Lewis, Committee for Industrial Or- ganization chairman, and other lead- ers of the two groups as well as the strikers themselves, was a provision of egreement. Injunction Never Dismissed. An injunction against sit-down strikers in General Motors plants at | Flint, issued in January during the widespread strikes in that corpora- tion's units, never has been dismissed, although an agreement ending the strikes provided for a request for such action. Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola at Flint held union leaders must ap- pear themselves of contempt citations. Union representatives and Chrysler executives continued their discussion of seniority problems today, in con- ferences provided for by the strike agreement to compose remaining dif- ferences. Wyndham Mortimer, union vice president, said negotiations with Gen- eral Motors officials on wages, hours and working conditions of tool and die makers in various G. M. units, will be resumed Tuesday. College Girls to Visit. A tour group of 29 girls from Chris- tian College, Columbia, Mo., will arrive in Washington Tuesday evening for a three-day visit to departments of the Government and points of his- toric interest in and near the Capital. | The group. headed by Eugene S. | Briggs, president of the school, and | will leave by boat for | Mrs. Briges. Norfolk on Friday. They will stay at the Lee House while in Washington. American Radiator Co. Installed in 6 Rooms With IDEAL ARCO BOILER NEW 1937 IDEAL BOILER REPLACEMENTS AS LOW AS $145 THE NEW 1937 This new AMERICAN RADIATOR CO. IDEAL BOILER offers you more HEAT for less money than ever before. Adapted for coal, oil or gas. Before you buy any heat . . . see the NEW IDEAL ARCO, and let us quote you prices. The above price ($275 up) includes boiler, 6 radiators and 300-ft. radia- tion. Buy now and save money. AIR CONDITIONING For buildings, stores, of- fices, homes. Get our free estimates. Terms if de- sired. NO MONEY DOWN No Payments ‘til Sept. 30 Three Whole Years to Pay last Tuesday’s strike settlement | | strikes. in court personally to purge |times predatory faculties, | out of the middle class into economic {and industrial dominance and who Strike HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 11, 1937—PART ONE. Effects Bring Worry To Farmers Over Market Grumbling in Many Sections Accom- panies Administration’s Failure to Act in Economic Crisis. EMPORIA, Kans, April 10 (N.AN. A).—With the riot at Hershey, Pa., this week enters the tertium quid, making at least a dramatic triangle in the industrial conflict. It is prob- ably a rectangle. Indeed, as the quar- rel becomes more acute between labor and capital it may develop not only between labor and capital on two sides and the farmer on a third. Per- haps not only among labor and capi- tal and the farmer and the public. For the public may be subdivided, and we shall have an octangle with eight fairly well-divided points struggling for supremacy. But now, quite apart from the con- sumer, the farmer has begun to enter the contest. All over the West, Presi- dent Roosevelt's friends who support- ed him so heartily in the Missouri Valley, in the Ohio Valley, and par- ticularly in the South, are beginning to make themselves vocal. They, more than the consuming public just now, are asking why the President is silent. The farmer is, of course, the pri- mary producer of new wealth. Nomi- nally he sells more than he buys. He is therefore concerned more with the market for his output than he is with the price he has to pay. In the de- pression, when he might have bought at bottom prices, his own market was so bad that he actually couldn't pay for his needs. Even at bottom prices the farmer is out as a consumer of store clothes. Just now Missouri Valley farmers and, for the most part, farmers around the Great Lakes and in the Ohio Valley receive prices for their product more than a third higher than they were during the Utopian decade before the close of the World ‘War. But also things the farmer buys today are nearly 30 per cent higher than they were in that prosperous decade. Therefore, given a good crop this year, with the inevitable slump in farm prices, if the prices of indus- trial products remain as they are or keep on climbing, the farmer knows that he is once more up against the old inexorable situation: Low prices for what he sells, high prices for what he buys. Grumble About Strikes. These lines are written in a country newspaper office in a county where three farms out of five voted for Roosevelt last year, and four farmers out of five today who come into the Gazette office are growling about the In the first place, they have a property sense. Farmers are the last group to develop a proletarian consciousness. Theirs is pure middle- class blood. The farm for centuries has bred those one-gallused, hard-boiled Amer- ican aristocrats, who for a time, by reason of their acquisitive and some- have risen form our plutocracy. So the farmer | has no use for one big union. He doesn’t care for Lewis’ social dialetic concerning the labor class. He has heard the word “kulack” and it pains his neck. The farmer is to the core property- minded. He can see his own hired man sitting down on a milk stool in the big dairy barn, and when the embattled farmers in Hershey made labor run a gantlet, fighting hoe hangles, pitch forks and farm scrap iron, the farmers of the Missouri Val- ROOF LEAK NA. 4370 GICHNER . We Are Selling PETRO-NOKOL OIL BURNERS Installed in your szgg furnace includ- all necessary : controls . . only No money down . . . Payments ing burner, 275 gal. tank and start Sept. 30. 3 years to DPay. ley in their hearts were back of that gantlet, cheering. But the farmers’ feeling against the sit-down strike is something more than a middle class, property-minded hunch. He has been told by the Re- publicans for 75 years that the _iore and better consumers there are, the fatter he will grow. ‘The Middle West is the great bread- and-meat factory of the continent. Cut down the demand for bread and meat and the farmer loses the money for his movie tickets, forgets about this year's car model, makes the old radio do and begins to strafe labor and all its works. This sit-down strike, in the farmer's mind, is a strike against the boss, of course. That the farmer sees. But, 8150, it is a strike against the chickens, the pig, the cow and the big red steer in the pasture. When wages are up and business is going smoothly, the farmers know, or at least think, the increased purchasing power of labor will make prosperity on the farm. And then always in the back of the farmer’s head is the memory of that uncomfortable time he had 20 years ago when the housewives of the country got after him with their broomsticks, in those days and times when the farmer impersonated the high cost of living. He doesn’t want to be the high cost of living. He wants wages to be high enough and regular enough a..1 work to be steady enough so that the farmer’s high market will not make talk in the economic circles of which he is a part. First Wheat Regulation, At America’s entrance to the war, 20 years ago, the Government began regulating the price of wheat. When the country had to choose between cheap bread and high prices to the farmers for wheat, the country took cheap bread and the farmer thought that he paid for it. He has a lively sense of fear today and is vocal in his fear that he may be caught in the zone between, on the one hand a low consumers' market, due to strikes, plus the naturally low prices that come with a big crop, and on the other hand a sagging consumers’ market, due to labor unrest and dis- order. But, of course, the farmer is unable to organize unless the Government sponsors his organization. When the Government so obviously is back of organized labor as it is today, and when the farmer sees or- ganized labor taking advantage of the tacit silent support of the Presi- dent to force labor prices up and so increase the price of the products of labor, the farmer gets restless. He fears idle men, whether strikers or unemployed. Moreover, recent rise in the price of steel, after steel's sur- render to labor, is being reflected in a higher price for agricultural imple- ments, tractors and the farmers’ cheap cars. That rise is evident everywhere. . So the farmer fears men at work when big wages increase prices for the farmer. Strikes and high wages that follow strikes make for rural unrest. It's & mess. It does not make sense. But there it is. Sooner or later, the evidences of that unrest are going to show up in the White House. The farmer votes his suspicions. The President prob- ably will be smart enough to fight off an actual showdown between his favorite children, the farmer and the laborer. But the farmer is not going to be put off with paper dolls while labor gets the candy. However, the farmer now is not in revolt. The Midwestern farmer is still hoping that the President, with his amiable omniscience and the sweet omnipotence of his charming dictatorial powers, may find some way fo keep labor at work, maintain a good price for beef, pork, wheat, chickens and milk and conjure the Utopian rabbits out of his hat. But the Hershey demonstration, with its hoes, spades and pitchforks, indicates that the farmer at his end of the triangular fight between cap- ital and labor, is going to be in the game. He must be reckoned with. (Copyright, 1937, by the North Americaa Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) U. S. CHAMBER PLANS TRIBUTES FOR TWO Walter B. Livezey, Virginia, and Edwin Filene, Boston, 25th Anniversary Guests. By the Associatea Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 10.— Walter B. Livezey of this city and Edwin Filene of Boston will be hon- ored by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at its annual meet- ing in Washington the last week in April at special ceremonies celebrat- ing the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United States Chamber's organ- {zation. Livezey and Filene were among five men who, in 1912, visited President William H. Taft and suggested that he use his influence to organize a United States Chamber of Commerce. They proposed that it be formed along British iines, with the President or cabinet officers heading it. Taft replied that this type of or- ganization could not be effected in this country, but that he would “sec what he could do,” and from his efforts resulted the United States Chamber of today. PU— No local elections will be held in the Irish Free State this year. | 00000000000000000000000 HERSHEY STRIKERS TRUCE IS DELAYED Reach Tentative Agreement, but Final 0. K, Is Withheld. By the Associated Press. HERSHEY, Pa, April 10.—Ralph M. Bashore, Secretary of Labor and Industry, announced late today that the Hershey Chocolate Corp. and agents for the Committee for Indus- trial Organization decided to post- pone until Monday further attempts at settlement of the Hershey strike. Bashore said a tentative agree- ment had been reached after hours of conference but final acceptance had been withheld. A few minutes after the conference broke up, pickets began parading back and forth in front of the plant carry- ing benners with the inscription: “The Governor is behind us, we shall not be moved !” Miles Sweeney, union organizer, said the strikers would urge all their members and allies to join the picket line early Monday morning. The debate, conferees said, revolved around seniority rights. The strike was called by representatives of the Com- mittee for Industrial Organization who claimed the company failed to live up to an agreement, made March 17, and guaranteeing seniority rights for all. The company denied this. 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