Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1937, Page 5

—— GARRISON FLAYS SIT-DOWN STRIKES Former Labor Board Head Suggests New Experiment in Injunctions. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 8—Dean Lioyd Garrison of the University of Wis- eonsin Law School, original chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, condemned sit-down strikes in an address today and suggested a new experiment in labor injunction laws. Discussing the Wisconsin labor re- Intions act before the Chicago chap- ter of the National Lawyers’ Guild, Garrison said: “Ingenious arguments have been made as to the legality of sit-down strikes, but I am stupid enough not $0 be able to appreciate their validity. I think we should go very slowly in eny move to legalize them. “Despite spectacular success of sit- downs here and there, 1 see a danger that relatively small and sometimes frresponsible groups could tie up an Mmdustry and break down union disci- pline and authority. -As I see it, these groups could easily damage the ‘whole union movement. “1 have had in mind an extremely tentative suggestion that I would like % see attempted as an experiment in State law, in connection with State Jabor relations board statutes. This would be to permit labor boards to tnvestigate labor disputes and make available their information to any eourt in which an injunction petition is filed. The judge would be em- powered to stay the injunction until he learned the facts; as it is now he | frequently must rule on injunction petitions without full information.” | Garrison predicted the Wagner act | decision would bring about a funda- | mental change in the relationships | between capital and labor. T (Continued From First Page) | itself will write. Bankhead looks on. man safe at first. the tax program the subcommittee Actual preparation of the tax pro- gram that will go to the House !orl consideration will be started after the subcommittee’s executive conference | with the Commissioners Tuesday. Chairman Kennedy of the subcom- mittee plans to place all of the tax proposals in one omnibus bill and have it out of the House and in the Senate by June 1. Capital Transit Protests. reversal by the Supreme Court of its | 1923 opinion holding the act uncon- stitutional. The only governmental agency which appears to have been doing anything about the situation at all is the Children's Bureau of the Labor | Department, which is continuing a survey here of wages of women and | minors, begun prior to the court’s resurrection of the old law. Findings | in this survey will be reported to Con- | gress within a few weeks, it was said | at the department yesterday. Beal, in an interview yvesterday, re- iterated his opinion that it would | be unwise at present to undertake enactment of an entirely new mini- | mum wage law to replace the wartime measure resuscitated by the Supreme Court. He believes that if men are to be granted benefits similar to those ex- tended women and children under | the old act, a separate law should be passed to expand the authority of the | board. Test of Old Law. * | “The most sensible course, I believe, | s to seek funds in the pending ap- | propriation bill to start the board functioning under the old law,” the | eorporation counsel said. “An actual test of the law under present condi- tions will soon reveal what modifica- | tions are needed, if any. When Con- | gress meets again in January we will | have had the benefit of a six-month | study of the law in operation and | ean then ask for what legisiation is | deemed advisable.” Meanwhile, he stated, a study can e made of the question of passing | & special law extending minimum | wage benefits to Washington men. | If this legislation should fail of enact- | ment at this session, the board can | proceed on July 1 under existing law | and can take on additional responsi- | bilities later, if directed to do so by Congreas. Seal believes an appropriation of about $15,000 would meet the needs ‘of the board as a “starter.”” The | board members would serve without pay, but a salaried secretary and other clerical help would be required. The District appropriation bill is | pending before a Senate subcommittee. | ‘The bill has been passed by the House, but oould be sent to conference for | nclusion of the extra fund. ‘There appears to be little likeli- hood that the Commissioners will . name the members of the Minimum | Z Wage Board in the near future. | Roosevelt's Return Awaited. | Action on Seal's proposals probably | will be deferred until Mr. Roosevelt | * peturns from his fishing trip. An interesting outgrowth of the Su- | preme Court’s revival of the District wage law will be the hearing in Mu- nicipal Court next Tuesday of a suit by Ruth Cornett, waitress, for “ad- 2 Justed compensation” under the act. : The waitress is seeking to collect » $335.50 from Dick’s Grill, on E street, on the ground that she was paid that : amount less than the sum she would * have gotten in 55 months of her em- © ployment there, had the $16.50 mini- - mum weekly wage established under the old law been in effect. She claims she was paid $6.80 a week and given - two free meals a day, amounting to © tatal weekly pay of $10.10. Taxes © (Continued From Pirst Page.) T erease to the general fund would be “ $6,000,000. The Commissioners also are said to “be considering suggesting certain ~ changes in their novel plan for taxing - business. Only an outline of this pro- posal has been given the House Sub- - committee. The details are to be put % Into the form of a bill and formally “ presented Tuesday. Information given the subcommit- . fee was that such a tax at the rate of 1 per cent on gross receipts would produce about $6,000,000, based on an estimate that there was about $600,000,000 worth of business done in the District last year. But the rate of taxation on gross receipts most < likely was said to be one-half of 1 per cent, rather than 1 per cent. On that basis, the estimated yleld from such s tex has been placed at * $2,500,000. Although the commissioners have shied away from an income tax ever since the inception of the tax study, . they are said to have taken it under oonsideration at the suggestion of several members of the House sub- , ' committee. There is no definite in- dication it is to be approved by the . committee, but like all of the other proposals of the Commissioners, it will be considered in connection with ‘& 1 | ent bus mileage tax is to be continued 1 $86,000 to the District under the bus | some of the proposed highway im- | Special Dispatch to The Star. Commissioner Hazen received from the Capital Transit Co. yesterday a protest against application of the pro- posed motor vehicles weight tax to the busses of the company if the pres- in force. Hazen said the petition, which was filed for the company by E. Barrett Prettyman, former corporation coun- sel. would be given consideration by | the Commissioners’ Tax Committee. During the past year the transit | company paid slightly more than mileage tax. This was in addition to $77.000 paid in gasoline tax. Hazen said the company's argument was that if the weight tax is to be adopted | and applied to the busses, the com- | pany should be exempt from the pres- | ent mileage tax, since otherwise there | would be two taxes on the same oper- | ations, in addition to the gasoline | levy. Keneipp Denies Auto Tax Lowest. George E. Keneipp, manager of the | Keystone Automobile Club, meanwhile | declared that official statistics do not support contention of advocates of | higher taxes on motor vehicles that | District motorists are taxed less than those of any States. Keneipp pointed out that the aver- | age motor vehicle tax collections per | vehicle in Washington in 1935, the | latest year for which complete com- | parative statistics are available, were | $5.28. During the same period the | average paid in California was $4.91, | in Georgia $3.17 and in Nebraska | $4.92. He obtained his figures, Ke- | neipp sald, from the reports of State motor vehicle officials to the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. Keneipp said he did not believe Dis- trict automobile owners would ob- ject to paying slightly increased taxes if the revenues were used to provide provements. He mentioned specifically the redesign of Scott and Thomas Circles; underpasses for street cars at | Dupont Circle and an elevated high- | way over K street from Twenty-sev- enth street to Key Bridge. Any di- version of motor vehicle taxes to the city’s general revenues will be bitterly opposed, Keneipp said. D.A.R. TO PUT MARKER AT WATKINS FERRY Shenandoah Chapter Plans Un- veiling June 14—To Visit Alexandria May 15. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., May 8.— A’ marker at Watkins Ferry, at the site of the Williamsport bridge across the Potomac north of here, will be | unveiled on June 14 by Shenandoah | Chapter, D. A. R, this city. ! The chapter also announced its annual pligrimage-tour this year would be to Alexandria, Va., and would be made May 15. Officers were elected by the chapter a3 follows: Regent, Mrs. A. B. Eagle; vice regent, Mrs. James G. Maples; recording secretary, Mrs. Adolph Ko- gelschatz; treasurer, Mrs. D. F. Den- nis; ocorresponding secretary, Mrs. John Ward Brown; registrar, Mrs. Robert G. Coffman; chaplain, Miss Minnie Thatcher; historian, Mrs. James F. Thompson, jr. Board of Management—Mrs. Edgar M. Sites, Mrs. William A. Wallace and Mrs. Roger E. Clapham. NEW SMALL GRAND Only § feet I inch long Typically Knabe in Tone, in Quolity, in everything but this new low price. *595 Bench. Delivery Service Extra. | ers from the Lower House. So somber | one-sided lead. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, —A Left: J. Henry Hill (left) of Georgia, captain of the House pages’ base ball team, as he matched with Phil Bassford of Missouri, Senate pages’ captain, to determine who went to bat first in the pages’ game. Umpire Right: Speaker-Umpire Bankhead makes a decisive gesture, ruling a . P. Photo. Beat House Outyelled, but not outhit, nins sober-faced boys of the Senate page base ball team upheld their playing reputation and dignity alike yester- day by trouncing the House page team, 15 to 2, in their annual Spring game, played on an Ellipse diamond, just | south of the White House. Dressed in quiet gray uniforms, jthe boys from the Senate yelled hardly any, hit very frequently and in a very workmanlike job humbled their broth- and quiet was their dress and re- strained their manner that it was hard to believe they had piled up the Bankhead Leaves Early. The House pages had fine yelis and red and buff uniforms. They made 50 much noise you couldn't see how they could lose. In fact, they yelled 80 loud at the beginning of the game that their chief sponsor and backer, Speaker of the House Bankhead, left in the middle of the first inning, commenting, “It looks like a breeze.” Speaker Bankhead didn't count on the slim little pitcher for the Senale lads, Julian Dusenbury, who struck out 14 of the fast-talking opposition. | The quality of this feat is appreciated | only when one considers that thor- oughly fanning a House page is about equal to putting the tides on daylight saving time. To fan a House page thoroughly it is necessary not only to throw three| ‘Sober-F aced Pages of Senate Rivals Handily strikes by the batter, but also to strike his coaches speechless and in the same motion make all the batter's teammates lie quietly on thelr backs and not assault the umpire. The umpire yesterday never actually met with physical violence, but the mental strain of the constant menace must have had its effect. Houses Pages Protest. The game appeared to have ended several times when numerous members of the House team would throw away their gloves and jump up and down on their caps in protestation against the umpire's decisions, the drizzling rain which fell during part of the game, automobile horns which honked too much, and several other things. During these interludes the Senate boys would usually sit down and rest. “Rootie de toot, rootie de toot.” the House boys would yell. boys from the institute. We're not rough and were not tough, but my, we're determined.” It the Senate boys had any yells they weren't very loud. | Several Representatives were in the crowd which watched the game but no Senators are believed to have at- tended. Managers of the two teams said two more games are to be played and that the dates have been tenta- tively set for two weeks and a month | from yesterday. The umpire hinted he would be in or near Siam on both | dates, MAN UNHURT IN LEAP OF 50 FEET FROM SPAN Accosted by Policemen in Alex- andria, Paul Saunders Jumps From Bridge. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. May 8—Ac- costed by two policemen, Paul Saun- ders, colored, 20, of New York, leaped from the Potomac yards bridge on | U. 8. Highway No. 1 here early today to the railroad tracks 50 feet below— but was not injured. His apparent sudden desire to es- cape, however, made the officers suffi- ciently suspicious to book him on an investigation charge. | Accompanied by James Brick, col- ored, 21, of Washington, Saunders made the jump when Policemen John Kelly and William Scott drove up to the pair at 1:30 am. Brick also was held for investigation. “If 1 had known how far below those tracks were,” Saunders was quoted as saying, “I'm quite sure I wouldn't have jumped.” UNdPPOSED IN VOTE HAGERSTOWN, May 8 (Special).— Burgess D. Frank Miller of Boons- boro has no opposition for re-election at the annual town election to be held Monday. John Wheeler, ' assistant burgess, and Charles F. Cline, D. G. Gilbert, Charles E. Pound, John Wal- lick and C. D. Young are candidates for commissioners. Any one afflicted knows ARTHRITIS » and helpl eliminate wrie acid . . . flush out the poisons. Thou- sands of sufferers have benefited You have everything te gain. Phene teday er write Mountain Valley Water Co., 1405 K St. N.W.. MEL. 1062, for bookiet. . EASY TERMY and good allowsnce o oid piane KITT'S 1330 G Street Play Tournament in June. A one-act play tournament for junior, intermediate and senior groups of the Jewish Community Center will be held the second week in June. A prize will be awarded each age class by the Center Guild, which is spon- | soring the contest Call Mr. “We're the | D. C, MAY 9, Congressmen Join Senate-House Pages in the Fun BROUN TO OFFICIATE | Newspaper Guild Head to Be Mas- ter of Ceremonies at “Hop.” Heywood Broun, columnist and | president of the American Newspaper | Guild, will be master of ceremonies |at the “headliners’ hop.” in the National Press Club auditorium Priday night under the auspices of the Mechano-Pen Club, social organization composed of members of local news- | paper unions. | On the Arrangements Committee ,are A. D. Murray, George Warren, | . D. Milligan, W. A. Smith, Holloway | Furrow, G. M. Billingsly, Otto Simon, | Prancis Bray, William Cady and Paul | Conlin. Music will be by Meyer Davis’ | Orchestra. Mrs. Linderholm to Speak. Mrs. Natalie Linderholm, consultant | in social work interpretation at the Russell Sage Foundation, will be the principal speaker at 12:30 pm. to- | morrow at the Council of Social Agen- | cles meeting at the Y. W. C. A, Seven- teenth and K streets. The president, Dr. Russell J. 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Rossiter, surgeon general of the Navy, will be the apeakers at the program observing National Hospital The House With the Green Shutters day Wednesday at the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital. The program, at 4:30 p.m., will fol- low a drill by the Sons of the Amer- ican Legion Bugle and Drum Corps, and a band concert by the Review and Herald Band. The hospital will be open for inspection from 2 to 4 p.m. Dr. Read N. Calvert will extend the welcome and Dr. D. H. Kress, medical director, will speak on “How to Live.” W. E. Nelson, president of the board, will give the invocation and Chaplain Warren E. Barr the benediction. Musical and vocal se- lections will be given by Robert Elde ridge, Irving Beckwith, Charles Eld- ridge, Merrill Dawson, Dorothy Baum, Elsie Sundstrom, Naomi Hatt-Patton and Willard F. Shadel. Howard U. Head to Speak. President Mordecai W. 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