Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1937, Page 5

SIT-DOWNERS FACE U. 3. PROSECUTION Narcotics Charge Likely Against Strikers in Park- Davis Plant. BACKGROUND— Normal labor controversy for higher pay and shorter hours has been complicated by rise of John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization and its campaign to organize many industries. Violence has marked use of sit- down technique, which has closed plants for long period. Favorable decision of Supreme Court on Wag- ner labor relations act also stimu- lated organization of workers and demands for improved conditions. By the Associateq Press. Settlement of the California can- nery strike and the arrest by Federal agents of 18 sit-downers in a Detroit dispute held the spotlight on today’s labor front. Gov. Frank Merriam announced complete agreement for settlement of the Stockton, Calif., cannery strike, which broke out in bloody rioting last Friday. The peace pact provided for recognition of the Cannery Workers’ Union as bargaining agent. The strike, called over 10 days ago in demands for higher wages, shorter hours and union recognition, affected 1,300 workers. Narcotics Charge Likely. The 18 persons under arrest in Detroit may be charged with violat- ing the Federal narcotic laws. They were seized when police forced 250 strikers out of the Parke, Davis & Co. plant. The Government agents stepped in when the men barricaded themselves in the narcotic department and used a fire hose on police. Ralph H. Oyler, district chief of the United States Bureau of Narcotics, said if any sup- plies were missing from the depart- ment he would place the matter in the hands of District Attorney John C. Lehr. Germs May Be Liberated. “This plant,” said Oyler, “‘contains the world’s largest commercial supply of germs and plague carriers. Once out of their containers, they could be carried down drain pipes or by the wind to infect the entire city. I'm told they might multiply so fast they might never be gotten under control.” A picket line was thrown around the plant today as more than 1,000 of the 2,100 employes returned to work. A three-cornered dispute which threatened for three days to tie up New York City's piers and freight terminals was in the hands of a presidential committee of three men today. With 30 days in which to recom- mend a settlement and with a strike illegal for 60 days, the committee went to work under the railway media- tion act. Members were Frank M. Swacker and W. H. Davis of New York City and Prof. I. L. Sharfman of the University of Michigan, each named by President Roosevelt. Ehal-t;ber (Continued From First Page.) he continued, “but provides no penal- ties if they are exceeded. It provides | penalties for employers for not recog- | nizing these employe rights, but omits giving the employers any rights for themselves. Amendment Declared Inevitable. | “Such an act cannot long stand. Ul- | timately it must be amended so as to | penalize excesses on both sides. Em- ployes cannot be given the right to bargain collectively and at the same time be permitted to hold the threat of economic death over the employer if he does not accept their terms. Bar- gaining is no longer such if the free exercise of the will of any one of the bargainers is thwarted by fear or threat of reprisals.” John D. Black, Chicago attorney, re- called there is talk of amendments | sponsored by the American Federation of Labor and manufacturing groups to | make labor equally responsible with employer under the law, and added | that “whether this is true now it is | likely that there will be—for there should be—a real movement to make the law more fair.” | Black, law partner of Silas Strawn, bitter foe of the Roosevelt administra- tion, saw the act as a source of “real danger” of unrest, contending it will spur the fight between “the two large factions (C. 1. O. and A. F. of L) which are now striving for control of organized labor.” The labor issue, which promises to be the livest at the convention, was taken up at one of the group sessions into which the chamber resolved itself after the formal opening of the twen- ty-fitth annual meeting this morning. As the business men from all over the country gathered, President Har- per L. Sibley laid down a three-plank — e RESORTS. @ ATLANTIC CITY, ATLANTIC CITY fih:'s':«}b million visitors found happiness The Ambassador ATLANTIC, CITY VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, NEW WAVEBLEY HOTEL. Virinia Beach. Va. ' Now open for your Spring vacatien. with every convenience. Ask for booklet 8. ond literature write to Ottawa, Canada GREAT NORTHERN EAILWAY Route of the Empire Builder Between Chicago and Pacific Northwest nerth to Americs’ it Nationsl Park vis nal. Stop at Jasper Park Lodge in the e Canadian Rockies. Sanadien National Railways, §22-15th St., N.W., Wash., B.C. STEAMSHIPS. RERMUDA VIA FURNESS. $65 up. round trip. with private bath on Monarch of Bermuda and Queen of Bermuds. Fre- quent sailings. _Ask_vour travel agent. Steamship Tickets Over All Lines Travel Department EXPRESS CO! A AMERICAN platform for progress—economy in Government, assurance against in- creased taxation and improved labor relations. He was particularly em- phatic on the last point, but empha« sized that industrial peace would have to be the joint endeavor of Govern- ment, management and labor. In his speech, Hook was critical of the shortcomings of management, de- claring he had watched the strikes and strike threats in New England and New York in the past six months, par- ticularly in the smaller plants, and “I must confess that very often I found myself in sympathy with the employes’ demands.” “Any plant that is not truly en- deavoring to bring its work week down to approximately 40 hours is stirring up trouble for itself later,” he warned. “I know of plants that concluded, when N. R. A. was voided, that the good old days were back again. They boosted hours as business increased and satisfled themselves that they were increasing employe earnings. Many such plants are in labor diffi- culties today.” B. C. Heacock of Peoria, Ill, presi- dent of the Caterpillar Tractor Co, warned against excessive paternalism by industries. “I believe that where agancies ex- ist that are performing functions reasonably satisfactorily, that situation should not be disturbed,” he said. “The employer should, in my opinion, let other agencies perform those services which can be separated from the busi- ness. Only when other agencies fail should the employed himself take over the task of supplying the services thas contribute to good working conditions, If he adopts that policy, he can de- vote his entire talent to building up his business and put the money saved into the pay envelope of his workmen.” 3,000 Attendance Expected. The convention, which is expected to have a record attendance of around 3,000, was opened with invocation by Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J, vice president of Georgetown University. At the opening session, President Sibley said: “It is obvious that the broad question of employer-employe relationship is far from settled. It cannot be settled by force. It cannot be settled by attempting to throw legal safeguards around the rights of one of the groups con- cerned but sharply limiting the rights of other groups. The proper exercise of a right implies the responsibility of observing the complementary rights of others. Bargaining cannot be one-sided.” Contrast in U. S. Spending. In getting into the twin subjects of Federal expenditures and taxation, Sibley drew a contrast with the sit- uation existing when the chamber first came into being. At that time, he recalled, “President Taft was struggling for efficiency and economy in a Federal Government spending $900,000,000 a year. In the current year, Federal expenditures will be almost $7,800,000,000 Then the national debt also was $900,000,000; on June 30 the national debt will stand at more than $35,000,000,000. In the early days the chamber and its whole membership supported the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1937, President of the United States in his efforts to cut down expenditures. I am sure there will be like response on the part of every one of us to the efforts being made now by the Presi- dent of the United States to prevent new expenditures. But 50 long as the Federal Government continues to carry the burden of unemployment relief without crutailment, the diffi- culties involved in bringing the Fed- eral budget into the long-sought-for balance remains unsolved.” He hit at the corporate surplus tax, recalling that the chamber had fought it a year ago, and, on the basis of experience gained in that time, was continuing to seek its amendment. In addition to the labor issue, other groups today were taking up taxation, world trade, conservation and insurance, and the resolutions expected to develop from them were looked for to give an indication of what the final policy declarations of the chamber itself would be in adopt- ing the usual resolutions at the close of the convention Thursday. Meanwhile, interest also was stir- ring in the selection of a president to succeed Sibley, and in informed quar- tere it was felt that George H. Davis of Kansas City, a director of the chamber, had the inside track. Davis, with a Horatio Alger background, has extensive banking and farming inter- ests in Kansas and is said by his friends to represent the middle ground viewpoint of the chamber rather than either the extreme conservative or lib- eral wings. The Nominating Commit- tee is expected to make its choice Thursdey and ratification is by the directors after the convention adjourns that afternoon. McGrady Speaks Tomorrow. The general session of the cham- ber tomorrow morning will be de- voted principally to labor relations, with Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, talking on ‘“Labor Relations in Industry” and P. W. Litchfield of Akron, president of the Goodyear Rubber Co., discussing “A Labor Relations Program.” The third speaker will be Virgin Jordan of New York, president of the National In- dustrial Conference Board, Inc., Ol “The Outlook for American Enter- prise.” There are five round-table lunch- eon conferences scheduled at 1 o’clock tomorrow. H. R. Tolley, Agriculture Adjustment Administration head, will be among the speakers at the farm problem discussion at the Wil- lard and Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific, at the transporta- tion conference at the Mayflower. Price making (Mayflower), inflation (Willard) and construction (Wash- ington) will comprise the other meet- ings. e The National Association of Com- mercial Organization Secretaries will hold its annual dinner at the Wash- ington at 7 o'clock tonight, when Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington corre- spondent of the London Times, will talk on “An International Viewpoint on American Problems.” At the same hour the semi-annual meeting of the American Trade Asso- ciation will be concluded with dinner at the Mayflower, at which George E. Sokolosky, New York writer, will dis- cuss “Responsibility—the Obligation of Management.” —e D. A. R. MEMBER SOUGHT Mrs. Josephine Steacy, D. A. R. dele- gate from York, Pa., has not returned home and WasHington police, notified last night by York authorities, are still conducting a search for her here. The 67-year-old delegate, police said today, was last seen Friday in a down- town hotel. No report of her where- abouts has yet been received, they as- serted. 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