Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1937, Page 4

A—4 x STRIKING MINERS REJECT ALL PLEAS B}gm Second Week of Stay- 2 mg Underground in lllinois Field. B, the Assoctated Press. QOILLESPIE, Ill, May 27.—Stay- dgwn strikers in the Superior Coal ©Co.’s No. 4 mine at Wilsonville began the second week of their demonstra- tion today, cheered by support of local N6. 1 of the Progressive Miners of America, pledged in a meeting last night. = . Plea Is Rejected. Rejecting the plea of representa- tifes of the State organization that the. strikers abandon their under- gdund quaerters and “abide by the cohitract,” 1,600 members of the Gil- legpie local, in a veice vote, proclaimed their support of the strike. More than 330 miners took - possession of the sheft last Thursday, demanding im- mediate acceptance of a plan to share work with 300 idle men. Many of the 200 workers who eame oW of the mine to attend the meeting toek part in the bitter argument over sanction of the strike which raged for mgre than three hours. Returning o the: mine late last night they an- néunced no change in their determina- tion to continue the strike “indef- the strike at the steel mills in South Chicago. strain them as they flail each other with fists. THE EVENING STAR, Fly as Steel Workers Strike Sporadic fist fighting between union and non-union steel workers marked the beginning of Friends of combatants, shown here, strive to re- WASHINGTON, D. C, BETHLEHEM NEXT ONLIST OF C.1.0. National Steel Corp. Alfio Included in Bargaining Drive. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 27.—The Na- tional Steel Corp. and the Bethlehem Steel Corp.—employing between them 107,000 men—will be the last major steel producers against which the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee will concentrate its drive for signed collective bargaining contracts. Leaders at union headquarters e this statement today while Philip Mur- ray, tall, lanky chairman of the steel forces of John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, directed the largest strike since the start of the steel campaign last June. Murray declined to discuss his plans and gave all of his attention to the strike against Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Republic and Inland Steel, But some of his lieutenants said he was awaiting the outcome of the present strife to determine the strategy of his drive against Bethlehem and National. One factor in any future move Mur- ray makes against these two com- panies, union leaders said, will be the outcome of complaints made against them with the National Labor Relations Board. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. The union has charged both com- initely.” Urged to Return to Jobs. Dan McGill, Springfield, member of the State Executive Board of the Pro- gressive Miners’ Union, in presenting the board's recommendations, urged the men to return to their jobs, and “abide by the contract” with the oper- stors. The agreement provides, McGill | sald, that grievances first be taken to the management of the mine, then to the Pit Committee, if no settlement is réached, next to the District Board ‘member of the union and finally to a Jjoint group composed of executives of the union and representatives of the wmine operators, if necessary. McGill spoke as the personal rep- resentative of Joe Ozanic, president of the P. M. A., who is in Cincinnati con- | ferring with American Federation of | Labor officials, on affiliation of the union with the A. F. L. were strung across entrances to Re- public’s Corrigan-McKinney plant. In Warren, Ohio, three Republic work- ers filed assault charges against three Ohio, a man described by police as a Republic guard pleaded innocent to charges of shooting and wounding a foreman who penetrated picket ranks. were assigned as observers at Youngs- town and Canton. At Canton, where a strike against Republic was called a day before the more extensive walkout, pickets pre- vented the holding of an election ar- ranged by Mayor James Seccombe in an effort to determine whether Re- public employes there wanted to work. Pickets carried banners admonising “the strike is on—don't vote.” In Buffalo, a S. W. O. C. director said workers were “joining all the time,” and predicted intensified picket- ing. The official, Charles Payne, de- clared ‘“strike breakers” had been brought to Buffalo. In Chicago police kept pickets a block and a half from Republic's grounds. Republic Is Operating. Of the three firms whose produc- most places. 'tion represents approximately 16 per Union leaders estimated 20,000 cent of the industry's total output, pickets were active in the Mahoning | only Republic—second largest pro- Valley, working in six-hour shifts. ducer independent of the United Observers said few men apparently | States Steel Corp.—attempted to op- tried to go to work through picket lines | erate. in this district—aside from several who | A Republic spokesman at the con- Jeported to their jobs not knowmg;cem's Cleveland offices said opera- the strike had been called. | tions would continue unless picket- S. W. O. C. officials at Youngstown | ing was heavy enough to make it un- #aid they knew of no action by the|safe for those who wanted to work. companies toward ending the strike, At Canton, where one of eight Re- but added any negotiations would be | public units continued to- operate, a carried on by Chairman Murray at | shotgun charge felled Franklin P Pittsburgh. | Manly, 32, foreman at the Subsidiary In Cleveland barbed wire barricades ' Berger Co., wounding him in both teel (Continued From First Page.) test was at 7 am, another shift change. ohly minor today, time for At both times skirmishes occurred at it s ik OW you can forget the heat—and the humidity—once and for alll The new Carrier Portable Summer Air Con- ditioner can be wheeled into any room and installed in a few minutes, without alterations of any kind. With a Carrier Portable you can transform your office into ahaven of cool quiet, offer a welcome meeting place for your clients and business associates. In your living room, a Carrier Portable will give your family a healthful refuge from heat ; and humidity all summer long. In your bedroom, you will L enjoy long hours of refreshing, undisturbed sleep. The Carrier Portable is designed by the same world-fam- ous organization that has made such outstanding installations ¢ as those in the U. S. Capitol, Radio City, the "Queen Mary.” Call us today,—and as early as possible,—so that we can | Republic plant policemen. In Canton, | Four Ohio National Guard officers | hands and both thighs as he fled, he said, from strike pickets. More than a score of brawny mill workers were arrested, including S. W. O. C. District Director John F. Rife, on charges of unlawful assembly when police forced a jeering throng from Republic's South Chicago plant. A force of 500 policemen was mobilized and held in readiness. Leonard Ross, C. I. O. textile organ- izer, reported he was hit over the head as he stood in a crowd watching the South Buffalo picket line. C. I. O. leaders called a mass meeting of workers “to instruct them in strike technique.” ‘Three Republic workers complained to Sheriff Roy Hardman at Warren, Ohio, in this Mahoning Valley district, that they were slugged by uniformed company police when they sought to leave their jobs. The men, C. H. Byland of Newton Falls, Harold Williams of Niles and Kenneth Montgomery of Warren, ehibitedx bruises and lacerations on their heads and faces and said com- pany policemen insisted they remain inside the plant. C. I. O. leaders said they would file charges against the in- dividual policemen Executives at two Pittsburgh dis- trict plants of Republic, sald they expected their workers to continue at their jobs. The strike order against the three cancerns was read by Murray. Emerg- ing from a hot room in Youngstown's Central Auditorium the slight, gray steel leader gave the strike order effective at 11 o'clock last night, de- claring: “All of the mechanics have been created to take care of the situation in accordance with custom. The necessary maintenance men will be furnished each company by local lodges and committees. 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Na- tional employes about 22,000 men. purpose of our organization to conduct the strike peacefully.” ‘The Birmingham, Ala., area was exempt from the original strike order, THURSDAY, but Murray said S. W. O. C. leaders would meet there today to consider o action in the locality where Republic's . = Southern activity is centered. J l“llClal'y Shutdown Held Complete. “The shutdown is complete in®all plants in the Mahoning Valley area, including over 30,000 men,” Don Mayo, (®ontinued From First Page.) ‘White House, continues to insist that MAY 27, 1937. Steel Plants in Strike Order Issued by Workers’ Organizing Committee Will Involve More Than 75,000 Employes. By the Associated Press. The plants of the three big inde- pendent steel producers included in the strike order issued by the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee and employing more than 75000 men | N were: Plant Inland Steel Corp.— Empl. units. Indiana Harbor, Ind 13,000 Chicago Heights, IIl.. 500 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.— Youngstown, Ohio 14,000 Hubbard, Ohio . 300 Indians Harbor, Ind... 6,500 BSouth Chicago, Il 2,000 Republic Steel Corp.— Cleveland, Ohio .. ‘Youngstown, Ohio Warren, Ohio Elyria, Ohio .. South Buffalo, N. Y. South Chicago, Il Grand Crossing, IIl. . Moline, IIL . Pittsburgh, Pa. Beaver Falls, Pa, Brooklyn, N. Y O L L Lt offer & compromise. If there is to be & compromise offered, it must, the op- ponents say, come from the Presi- dent’s camp. And even then, the op- ponents think they will be able to defeat it. Nevertheless, the pressure for some kind of & compromise is enormous. Senators are being reminded that the Democratic party must elect a Presi- dent in 1940, that they themselves must be renominated and re-elected in 1938 or 1940. “How are you going to make the grade if you turn the President down in this matter now,” they are asked— or at least that’s what some of them say they are asked by emissaries of the other camp. Break in Ranks Hoped. The administration is waiting, ap- parently, before it moves in connection with the court bill, hoping for a break in the ranks of the opposition. If the measure is reported during the first week in June, as now seems prob- able, there is no telling when it will be considered nor when it will be dis- posed of, The President has thrown his labor bill on wages and hours into the Senate. He has linked the measure with the court bill by saying that he | Senator Robinson of Arkansas, that it is essential to have the court bill in the interests of labor. It is not & new argument, but the administra- tion hopes to drive it home more deeply. One theory held on Capitol Hill is | that the President intends to keep the court bill hanging as a club over | the head of the Supreme Court itself, even into and through next year, hop- ing in this way to obtain more liberal construction of the Constitution. The | answer made to this, however, is that | if the bill is left on the Senate calendar indefinitely, with an adverse report‘ from the Judiciary Committee, it will | be construed as a defeat for the President. There is also very serious objection | —— e TAXES, UNION HELD THREAT T0 TRADE Iron institute Told Lahor Unrest Is “Pressure From Outside.” By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, May 27.—Warnings that mounting taxation, labor unrest and budgetary unbalance are threaten- ing post-depression recovery were de- livered by two speakers before the annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute today. Eugent G. Grace, retiring president of the institute, declared that “we have come to & point in national economics where Government expenditures are of grave concern to all, regardless of party, and where they threaten the progress, of the country's economic advance.” George O. May, senior partner of the accounting firm of Price Waterhouse & Co,, told the steelmakers, after at- tacking the Federal undistributed profits surtax, that “far more serious than the continuation of the elements of injustice in the tax structure is the fact that even at our present stage of recovery the budget is not balanced, and there is no immediate prospect ot it being balanced.” Death of Chains Seen. A third speaker, Representative Wright Patman, Democrat, of Texas, said that large aggregations of capital were necessary in some industries, on the part of both senatorial pro- ponents and opponents of the bill to having the bill held over until election year, 1938. They want it disposed of, one way or another, before the cam- paign begins. The feeling was ex-| pressed by some of them today lhac the bill should be either voted up or| voted down before Congress adjourns, | “if we have to stay here all Summer."” | Probably, when the administration | decides the time has come to move, | the such as steel and communications, but condemned “absentee ownership” of banks and stores. Chain stores and branch banks, he predicted, would soon | become “a thing of the past.” Turning to the labor situation, Grace sald it was a fact that “labor unrest in many places is retarding | recovery.” “Outside Pressure” Blamed. “Significantly,” he added, ‘“the problem does not arise within industry itself. The relations between manage- subregional S. W. O. C. director, de- clared at Youngstown. “Only a few maintenance men remain in the plants to care for machinery.” Strike leaders claimed “all but a few” of the 6,000 workers at Repub- lic's Warren, Ohio, mill emerged at the “zero hour.” A number of the large independ- ents’ mills remained in operation. A spokesman said Republic had suf- ficient men inside its South Chicago plant to continue operations in all departments, and sleeping accommo- dations were prepared in the plant. The Steel & Tube, Corrigan and | Upson units were closed at Cleveland, along with Truscon, but a Republic spokesman said Truscon would be opened today. Executives of a Repub- lic plant at Cumberland, Md., said the 400 employes there were not or- | ganized and that no trouble was ex- | the measure must be passed. Opponents of the bill said today that the bill would be defeated in the Senate by & very considerable margin. “It may be two-thirds of the Senate will now oppose the measure as origs inally drafted,” said one member. Meanwhile, efforts are being made by administration Senators to arrive at a face-saving compromise, “No Compromise.” ‘They are in something of a jam be- cause the President has said: “No | compromise,” and the opponents of the bill have replied: “That suits us, no compromise.” If the opponents would put forward | & compromise, say for two additional | Jjustices of the Supreme Court, the | administration leaders could feed | them enough votes to have it adopted. must have a change in the personnel | of the Supreme Court in order to be | sure that the labor bill will be de- clared constitutional if challenged in | Democratic leader, will give the word | meht and employes in basic American | and move to have the court bill taken | industries are and have been healthy. | up. Today the rumor was that the | ; The pressure is coming from the out- administration was “in no hurry,” that | side. The employe is in between vari- it might let the bill lie on the calendar | ous factions seeking in om way or the courts. The argument is being used for several weeks before calling it up. SIDNEY WESTinc 14th and G Sts. But the opponents are agreed not to OLD GOLD AND SILVER vnll bnnq you peoted. c An executive said the night shift in the Union Drawn Steel Co. plant at Beaver Falls, Pa, continued at work and at Republic's Dilworth- Porter division in Pittsburgh opera- tions were expected to be resumed after the customary night shutdown. These Pennsylvania plants employ about 500 men. The Shoe of the Week Men who wear them say Foot- Joy shoes are worth a million dollars in style and comfort! 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