Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1937, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937 AGREEMENT ENDS MARITIME STRIKE Seamen and Radio Oper- ators Won to Plan of U. S. Mediator. B the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, April 16.—A strike of | #eamen and wireless operators which threatened to tie up 17 ships, two of them richly-appointed transatlantic liners, was settled early today at a tonference attended by the regional | director of the National Labor Re- lations Board. Two vessels already lay idle at ad- Joining piers in New York harbor | when an agreement to terminate the short-lived walkout was announced by Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, the board’s New York representative. The immediate issue in the strike, Collects Antique Tools which was called Wednesday and in- | volved only ships of the International Mercantile Marine Corp., was the supremacy of one faction of seamen over another. Radio Operators Strike. Injected into the situation yesterday was a corollary strike of radio opera- tors, coincident with receipt of a charter by the American Radio Tele- graphists’” Association from the Lewis Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion The agreement included a provision for conferences looking toward an election to determine proper bargain. ing agencies among I. M. M. Pployes. Another provision was that passes to board all I. M. M. bhl])i would e issued immediately to “rank and file delegates of the Sailors, Firemen and | Stewards Unions."” Outgrowth of Winter Strike. his strike was an outgrowth of the “rank and file” strike for three months last Winter, in defiance of leaders of the International Seemen’s Union, which occasioned sporadic interrup- | tions of shipping. John M. Franklin, president of 1. M. M, had appealed to Mrs. Her to intercede. In turn, the seamen and wireless men had made settlement contingent on the removal of two non-union radic operators from the trans-Atlantic line President Rooses The scamen had | succeeded in ousting from the engine | room a handful of men they accused of refusing to support Joseph Curran’s “Insurgent” strike last Winter. Curran is chairman of the Seamen’s Defense Committee. Those ousted were I. S. U.-approved Threatened by the strike, which had tied up the President Roosevelt and the liner California, were two crack ships of the United States Lines I M. M. subsidiary, the Manhattan— due here today—and the Washington. The charter granted the Telegra- | phists’ Association, it was announced. signalized the entry of the Organizing Committee founded by John L. Lewis into the broad field of the communi- cations industry. Driving toward the goal of union- izing several hundred thousand work- ers in the operating and manufactur- | ing divisions of radio and telegraphy, directors of the movement found their initial response among the wireless operators. Engine room and deck crews constituted the remainder of I. M. M. strikers. In the repercussions to Wednesday's “sit-down” on the President Roosevelt, delayed in sailing since Wednesday noon, the telegraphists ordered strikes on all 17 I. M. M. ships, and 300 crew- men on the Ranama Pacific liner Cali- fornia sat down in sympathy with the Roosevelt's workers. The Panama Pa- cific is another I. M. M. subsidiary. The Telegraphists’ Association an- nounced 1t would co-operate with the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America in a drive to organize radio and telegraphy employes. The field includes workers for the commercial telegraph, cable, broadcasting and aviation companies and the American leleyhone and telegraph companies. CALLED TO COURT Alfred Smith, Jr., Contempt. SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 16 (#).— Alfred E. Smith, jr., son of former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, has been cited to appear before Justice Abram Zoller in Supreme Court April 22 to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court. Justice Zoller issued the order for failure of young Smith to make ali- mony payments to his wife, Mrs Bertha Gott Smith of Syracuse. Mrs. Smith's separation suit was not contested when it was tried in Faces Charge of October and a separation decree with | $200 a month alimony was awarded her January 16. SKINKER BROTHERS G TIME TO CHANGE Your car, too, fecls the stir of Spring and needs a change. Follow this treatment. Bring your car to us. We will drain the old Winter oil and give it the best Spring tonic ... arefill of Quaker State Motor Oil of the correct Summer grade. ‘Then, you will .. . GO FARTHER BEFORE YOU NEED A QUART SKINKER BROS. 4444 Conn. Ave. N.W. em- | Wood Worker Has Hobby Within Hobby in Acquiring Planes. ‘ Frank H. Wildung and part of his collection of tools for making antique funzzture BY WILLIAM A. BELL. OLLECTORS of antique furni- ture are numerous, but Frank | H. Wildung, 708 Butternut | street,. is probably the only | man in town who collects tools with which antique furniture was made. Woodworking is Wildung's hobby. | | There is nothing unusual about that. | Unusual, however, is his hobby-within- a-hobby—accumulating wooden planes and other accessories of old-time cab- inetmakers’ art. He not only accu- mulates them, but uses them. They are much more efficient, he says, than metal planes. Wildung, a member of the National Geographic ~ Society photographic | staff, started his ange collection only a year ago. It now includes 156 wooden planes. The whole collection cost $8. The owner estimates its value as 30 to 40 times that much, at least. Found in Odd Places. “My first wooden plane was ac- quired in New England, where it had been the property of an cld cabinet. maker,” Wildung said. ‘“Thereafter | picked 'em up here and there, at sec- | ond-hand stores, cabinet-maker's, fur. niture repair shops. Many had ac-| cumulated in funny. forgotten placcs.‘ but a little linseed oil made them | as good as new.” Wooden planes, Wildung, are used adays except in the restoration of antique furniture. They have been replaced, as have so many tools of ancient and honorable handicrafts, by power- dn\r‘n mar‘hmor) Plane | according to | very little now- | | planes useful | operations and an exquisite plow plane Star Staff Photo. design has changed little throughout the centuries and is strikingly similar in all countries. Dwarf Is 4 Inches Long. Wildung keeps his plane collection | | neatly in a cellar workshop. His smallest plane is 4 inches long; his largest, 24 inches. Planes come as long as 6 feet, however—cooper planes for fashioning barrel staves. Wildung's “baby” plane was used in the manu- facture of dashboards cars in the days of wooden automobile parts. Among the most-prized items of his collection are a set of English match- ing planes for cutting tongues and grooves, a handmade German plane of red beech, with® “horn” on the front, manufactured about 60 years a fat, chunky “toothing” plane v upright cutter; planes | With bottoms curved like the rockers of a rocking chair, “double-hcader” for two wood-working f English boxwood, bought for dime, valued at $30. Twenty-four of Wildung's 156 planes were given him by a friend after he had refused to pay the price asked by 8 shop. a Belgmn to Speak. “What Labor Is Doing in Europe” will be the subject of a Corneille Mertens, ber of the Belgian Senate, tonight at 8 o'clock before the Capital City Forum at 1502 Fourteenth street. |and working standards. | minute | demnation of *“unreasonable” for Packard | TEXTILE SESSION DEBATES TARIFFS Agreed “Unreasonable Bar- riers” Should Be Cut—Jap- anese Stirs Argument. B3 the Associated Press. After a lively debate on the tariff question, the World Textile Confer- ence was agreed today that ‘“un- reasonable” trade barriers should be reduced. Juitsu Kitaoko, Japanese govern- ment delegate, started the argument by proposing “that in the interest of enlarging world trade it is desirable that governments should take every opportunity for removing trade bar- | S; riers.” This brought from Sir Piroz Kahn Noon of India the assertion that the | & Indian textile industry would be’ “wiped out” by Japanese competition if tariff barriers were removed. Other | & delegates objected that tariffs pro- | tected high labor standards in some countries egainst competition from low-pay nations. A. Ford Hinrichs of the Labor De- | partment here proposed that govern- | ments reduce tariffs particularly in favor of nations that are raising wage After a five- | recess the compromise con- barriers | was brought in and passed. The con- | ference also adopted a report favoring | publication of world textile produc- tion costs, Meanwhile, Representative Ellen- bogen, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, author of the national textile bill to | regulate wages and hours of 1,250,000 | textile workers, said a House Labor Subcommittee would consider measure carly next month. FUNERAL IS CONDUCTED FOR EDWARD L. NEWBY 3? General Accounitng Office Man | Helped Organize Iowa State Society. Funeral services for Edward L.‘ Newby, 59, chief of the passenger sec- | tion of the Claims Division, General | | Accounting Office, were held today at his home, 4507 Argyle terrace, where he died Tuesday night of a heart at- tack. Burial was in Cedar Hill Ceme- tery. Mr. Newby, a native of Harlan, | Iowa, was one of the organizers of the Iowa State Society here and also helped organize the Departmental Tennis League. He was a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and had been active in connection with athletic programs there. He had been in Government service here for the | last 37 years. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elha | ‘C L. Newby; two sons, Robert E. and Richard A. Newby, all of this city, and a sister, Mrs. Belle Camery of Harlan. His parents were the late Mr. and | Mrs. Joseph L. Newby. talk by | Labor party mem- | Egypt Fights Mnlana Egypt plans to fight malaria by draining all marshes and clearing the land of all stagnant pools, breeding places of mosquitoes. RETIREMENT PAY | RESTORATION ASKED 3,300 War Emergency Officers Would Be Benefited by Senator George's Measure. B the Assocta Representatives of half a dozen veterans' organizations today urged modification of a 1933 economy meas- ure which eliminated retirement pay of certain World War emergency of- ficers. They asked a Senate Finance Sub- | committee to approve legislation which ‘n Veterans' Bureau report estimated would restore retirement pay to about 15300 officers with service-connected | disabilities. 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KRAMER (Callf) NEC] ELLER (N. Y.) CHAMPION (1il) ON 1 Conn.) CLAYPOOIS Lonio) RAN MCGHRANERY (Pa) MCcGRATH (Calif.) MCcKEOUGH (11L.) MCLAUGHLIN MAGNUSON (Wash.) (Mo.) GONNERY (Mass ) COSTELLO (Calif.) CREAL _(Ky) CROSBY (Pa.) CROSSER (Ohio) MOSIER (Ohio) NICHOLS (Okla ) o Do KWEXLER (Cal) DORSEY (Pa a ) EBERHARTER (Pa.) CKERT Pa.) | EDMISTON (W. Va.) EICHER (Iowa) ELLENBOGEN EVANS (N FADDIS ') ARLEY (Ind.) FITSOERALD Conn. ) FITZPATRICK (N. Y [ ) (Pa) PALMISANG 1Md ) PATTERSON (Kans.) PETTENGILL_(Ind.) FORAN his | %EcREs’r (Ohin) I (Conn ) ARLAN (Ohio) SHANNON ‘o) HAREINGION CH (N ¥ | ale MIT] | J) umu:v Mass ) HENNINGS® (Mo.) HIGGINS (Macs.) HILDEBRANDT (8 Dak HILL (Wash.) y,m'mu\ ~N ENEY (Ohio) SWOPE (Pa.) THOM wonio) | IMHOFF ‘Ohio) JZAC (Calif) ‘Towa) KELLY ( Total Democrats f ALLEN ) ANDRESEN (M ARENDS (1) (Mass.) R (Me ) BURmcK (N_Dak.) RLSON (Kans.) (8. Dak.) CHURCH (1lI.) CLASON (Mass.) LUETT (N. Y.) CRAWPFORD (Mich ) CROWTHER (N Y.) KIN N Y ER L‘WIHERTSO" ans ) LEMKE (N_Dak.) 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Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, said that although the legislation would not step lynching, “It will check lynching and encourage respect for | the law.” The Gavagan bill provides that an officer who permiws & prisoner to es- | cape his custcdy and be injured or put to death by a mob would be sub- Ject to a maximum fine of $5,000 and a maximum prison term of from 5 to 25 years. Participants in mob violence would be subject to similar prison terms, and the county in which a prisoner is seized or put to death would have to pay his family damages ranging from $2,000 to $5,000. Representatives Sumners, Democrat, of Texas; Rankin, Democrat, of Mis- sissippi, and Cox, Democrat, of Georgla, led the Southern opponents in contending the bill was directed at States which for years have been trying to cope with the problem of mob violence. At one point during the six-hour debate they succeeded in deleting the section compelling counties to pay damages to a victim's family, but it day the first anti-lynching bill to pass greater oppoeition in the Senate. Filibusters have killed every pre- vious attempt to win Senate approval | of such legisiation. | Even as the House adopted Gavagan bill late yesterday, 277 to 119, Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho criticized what he called an effort to “force through Congress an unjust, unconstitutional and, in my opinion, an unmoral measure.” Southern Senators were preparing to oppose the measure, forecasting warm sectional debate, similar to that the 7277 N INCR Despite FIELDS, the one OTHERS $15. 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