Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1937, Page 4

A—4 ¥x OPERATIONPUSHED BY STEE PLANT Republic, at Youngstown, Claims 21,081 Workers on Job——Chicago Prepared. BACKGROUND— Steel strikes began a week ago in seven States and were marked by rioting in South Chicago Sun- day in which six were killed and scores wounded or arrested. John L. Lewis, whose C. I. O. influence is resisted by steel officials, charged that the Republic Corp. and police were guilty of “planned murder.” By the Associated Pres YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 2— Militant labor forces and unyielding steel corporations faced nmew tests of strength today as Republic Steel Corp. pushed ahead with plans to produce steel in spite of the strike. Republic’s high command promised not to ask idle men “to wade through blood” and scoffed at reports that tightened picket lines would impede shipment of manufactured steel. It also disclosed that arms and munitions were stored in plants of the Nation's third-largest producer for protection of “property and work- men” and went forward with extraor- dinary efforts to move food to be- leaguered workers by airplane. C. M. White, Republic vice presi- dent in charge of operations, claimed the corporation was shipping from 7.000 to 8,000 tons of steel each day and added “it would bé a tough job for any outside organizers to come be- tween Republic and its men.” 21,081 Still Working. He said 21,081 of 50071 Republic employes still were working in face of heavy picket lines at units in Chicago, Buffalo, Canton, Warren and Ohio. tern and Eastern sectors of the widespread strike front were reported ecomparatively quiet, although Chi- cago had a large reserve force ready to move on any recurtence of Sunday’s rioting, which cost six lives. ‘The mob consisted overwhelmingly of imported pickets and out-of-State agitators and Communists,” Republic declared in a statement. Leaders of John L. Lewis’ Steel Workers' Or- Fanizing Committee went into a period of verbal quiet after Lewis' declara- tion’ that Republic and the police were “guilty of planned murder.” Tons of food, White claimed, were being landed at the Warren plant by plane daily, despite reported sniping of pilots by gunfire. He added that company officials were having great difficulty restraining some 2,000 men m the mills from going out to clash with the picket lines. Floodlights Set Up. Floodlights were set up around the Warren property. A high fence bar- ricade was built across & spur track ieading into the mill. Restless pickets paced outside, meanwhile, to enforce the C. I. O. unit's demands for signed contracts from three major producers. Tom Girdler, 60-year-old pipe- #moking board chairman of Republic, presiding in Cleveland at his first strike press conference, while steel Dickets tramped the sidewalks 15 floors below, told newsmen he had never geen John L. Lewis, militant union leader, adding “and I hope I never do.” A suit filed in a Cleveland court by a Republic stockholder demanding an accounting for corporation funds spent for arms and ammunition prompted Girdler's interviewers to ask for an explanation. “I never knew a steel plant that didn’t have guns,” said Girdler. “We have to protect our property and our workmen.” He explained that only the company guards, not the employes, were armed, and asserted that many manufacturing plants had acquired arms for protection purposes. Girdler indicated to his interviewers that every avenue of negotiation and peace in the strike-bound portion of the industry, in which at least 72,000 were idle, was not definitely closed. Only Contract Considered. Discussing Republic’s refusal to sign a collective bargaining agree- ment with the C. I. O. Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee, acknowledging the committee as spokesmen for all its members of Republic's pay roll, Girdler said: “The only contract we have been asked to sign is the same as the Carnegie-Illinois Steel agreement. Don’t ask me about any other kind of a contract. We will cross that bridge when we come to it.” Reports that efforts were being made to call an unauthorized strike in the Lowellville, Ohio, plant of the Sharon Steel Corp. brought the con- eern’s workers this order from S. W. O. C. Regional Director John Mayo: “If anybody tries to stop you from Xeeping at work in that plant take a club to them. No union man is doing this. Union men live up to their egreements.” The S. W. O. C. won exclusive bar- gaining rights in a National Labor Relations Board election last week among Sharon Steel's 2,500 workers. Meanwhile, a “return to work” cir- eular, signed by the “Independent Bociety of Workers,” made its ap- pearance in Youngstown, at variance with a statement by the head of a leading anti-C. I. O. employes’ group At the closed Youngstown Sheet & Tube plants that no attempt to go back to the mills was contemplated. Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel Corp., third independent producer involved, are making no attempt to operate their plants. BARBED WIRE GUARDS PLANT. 1,000 Policemen Patrol Chicago Scene of Bloody Fighting. CHICAGO, June 2 (#).—A newly constructed barbed wire fence stretch- ed across the main entrance of the Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant formed a second line of defense today in the strike-torn zone, where six persons lost their lives in a riot. 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Wirephoto. constituted the first bulwark against |separately last night with represen- further attempts to close the plant, lone major independent operating unit in the Calumet area of Illinois and Indiana. Six companies, totaling 948 officers, were assigned to the area on reports that unionists and sympathizers planned another demonstration. At the same time plant workmen erected the barbed wire, closing the gap in the 10-foot wooden fence, which sur- rounds the mill. ‘The death toll in Sunday's clash between demonstrators and police reached six last night, when Anthony ‘Tagliori, 26, a Republic striker, suc- cumbed to & bullet wound in the abdemen. Twenty-three of the more than 100 persons injured remained in hospitals. Police held 66 persons in custody a: participants in the riot. Supervising Capt. James Mooney said they would be arraigned on charges of conspiracy to commit an illegal act. Van A. Bittner, regional director of the Steel Workers' Organizing Com- mittee, sponsor of the strike, reaf- firmed the union’s determination to force Republic into a written contract guaranteeing the S. W. O. C. bargam-l ing rights for its members. “We'll get those workers out of the plant without violence,” he said. OFFICIALS AWAIT C. I. O. REPLY. Withdrawal of Pickets at Monroe, Mich., Requested. MONROE, Mich,, June 2 (#).—City and county officials awaited a reply today to their request that the Com- mittee for Industrial Organization withdraw its pickets from the road leading to the strike-closed Newton Steel Co. plant. Mayor Daniel Knaggs, Sheriff Jos- eph Bairley, Police Chief Jess Fisher and a citizens’ committee conferred * CHICKEN * MAYONNAISE Here’s How to Make it 1 can R &R Boned Chicken Lemon juice Mayonnaise Chill can in vefrigerator before opening. Remove comtents carefully to mess of letsnce, heeping chicken in compact mold. Sprinkle top with lewon jzice and capers. Cover completely with mask of mayonnaise. Garnish with capers and slices of SERVE IT PLAIN SERVE IT FANCY RADIO CO. GEORGIA AVE. 4835 Col. 0067 coLp!! CONVENIENCE" AT LESS GOST 34.50 | tatives of the C. I O. and the Steel | Workers' Association of Monroe, an independent union organized in op- position to the C. I. O. Spokesmen for the independents re- quested Mayor Knaggs to open me{ road to the plant so that those who | wished to work could reach the plant. | | The city and county officials did not | indicate what they would do in the | event the C. I. O. refused to withdraw its pickets. | COFFIN ON HONEYMOON | NEW YORK, June 2 (#)—Howard E. Coffin, former Detroit automobile manufacturer, and his bride, the former Miss Gladys Baker, New York l\\'l’ILPX’, were en route to an unan- ! nounced destination on their honey- | moon today. | They were marrled yesterday after- | noon at the bride’s Fifth avenue home by Rev. Charles F. Divine, Methodist pastor. The bride, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. Herbert Baker of Jacksonville, Fla., has served for the | last several years as special corre- | spondent for a news syndicate | Coffin is chairman of the board of Southeastern Cottons, Inc., head of | the Sea Island Co. chairman of the |board of the Young Management | Corp., vice president and director of |the Farm Chemurgic Council. and & | director of the National Association | of Manufacturers, || Psychic Message Council | 1100 Twelfth 8t N.W. Corner of 12(h and “L" GRACE GRAY DELONG Reader and Adviser Psychometry Delineations Daily Hours: 11 AM. to ® P.M. Telephone MEt. 5231 Capers, Scuffed olives MONEY DOWN A MONTH. LIBERAL TRADE- IN ALLOWANCE | OPEN EVENINGS BECOMES GUARDIAN U..S. WORKERS GET LEAVE CURTAILED Témporary Employes Must Count Holidays, Elliott Ruling Holds. In a decision that will curtail the| leave privileges of thousands of Fed- eral workers here and in the fleld, Acting Controller General Elliott to-| day told the Secretary of Agriculture that temporary employes must in- clude Sundays and holidays when com- puting their annual leave. Elliott ruled also that for this class & full day must be charged for leave taken on Saturday. The leave regu- | lations designate temporary workers | as those appointed for a definite pe-l riod of time, not exceeding six months. | Their annual leave allowance is 215! days monthly. 1 Sundays and holidays are not in- | cluded in the annual leave of 26 days | allowed permanent employes, and these are charged for only four hours when absent on Saturday. | The decision made public today was an affirmation of a principle previously laid down by Elliott in a passing ref- erence to another case six weeks ago. The Agriculture Department ques- tioned that interpretation, but Elliott | said it was in accordance with gen- | eral construction of law. He pointed out that “the leave statute expressly excludes Sundays | and holidays in the computation of | annual leave regarding permanent| employes, but is silent with respect to the exclusion of such days in the computation of leave for temporary employes, and it is the general rule of | | Attorney General Cummings be- i statutory construction that the express came legal guardian today of prison- born triplets mention of one thing or consequence | is tantamount to an express exclusion The babies, officials sald, were born | of 8ll others.” | May 21 to an Oklahoma girl Women at Alderson, W. Va. The mother was sentenced for violation of Federal liquor laws. Under the law, Attorney Cummings is legal guardian of prison inma all con- | fined in the Federal Reformatory for | General | There was nothing in the decision to indicate what adjustment administra- | tive officers will have to make where | this leave principle has been contra- | vened. ‘ 3 | The United States gallol consumed 157 s of gasoline per person in 1936. | STEVENS REAPPOINTED TO TARIFF COMMISSION Raymond B. Stevens, who resigned from the Tariff Commission a few months ago, was reappointed yester- day by President Roosevelt. Stevens, a former Representative from New Hamphire, is underatood to | have resigned from the commission for | the purpose of working in the interest | of tax legislation for the Legislature of | his State, and also in the interest of | the President’s Supreme Court plan, William J. Sears, who was appointed | to the commission last April 30 to| serve until June 16, will be succeeded | by Stevens. DEFENSE ATTACKS WENDEL HONESTY Alibi for Parker, Jr., Is Also Made in U. S. Trial of De- tective and Son. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, June 2—The de- fense renewed its efforts today to dis- credit the character of Paul H. Wendel, key Government witness, in the Lind- bergh law conspiracy trial of Ellis H. Parker, chief of Burlington County de- tectives, and his son, Ellis, jr. Evidence was also introduced to give the younger Parker an alibi for days, when the Government charges he was in New York participating in the al- leged conspiracy which caused the ab- | duction of Wendel, his torture and his | “subsequent” confession of Lindbergh | kidnaping guilt. | Claimed He Had “Bad” Reputation. Both Frederick Brace, Trenton at- | torney, and William N. Morrison, Mer-" cer County probation officer, testified | that Wendel, a former Trenton lawyer, | had a “bad” reputation for truth and veracity. | “'Do you know any lawyer who has a 100 per cent reputation for truth and veracity?” United States Attorney | John J. Quinn asked Brace on cross- | examination “I do not,” the witness answered. [ STRIKERS REFUSE BOOST IN WAGES Film Labor Strife Flares Anew as F. M. P. C. Rejects “Deal” With Rivals. BACKGROUND— F.M.P.C.and 1. A.T.S.E. hare been warring for labor rule in film- dom. Latter figured largely in ne- gotiations which averted a walk- out last month of screen Actors’ Guild, studded with Hollywood's big names. Already I. A. T. S. E. has absolved studio utility workers. The federation has charged its rivals with recruiting its members, men in the strike, had been expected to return to work today. Under terms announced yesterday by George E. Browne, international president of the I. A. T. 8. E., these chief units of the federated crafts were to receive a 10 per cent salary boost and I. A. T. 8. E. shop. The settlement would have deprived the F. M. P. C. of all but a handful of members. Browne, informed of the repudia=- tion, reiterated that the I. A. T. S. E. would not permit F. M. P. C. leaders to “dictate” peace terms. Sentiment at the meeting was in favor of intensified picketing and a sharp drive to keep painters and other craftsmen from returning to work be- fore F. M. P. C. won its demands. The picketing failed to halt produc- tion at the studios, and when the big film stars refused to join the strike | after winning recognition of their | screen guild, the striking craftsmen switched picketing efforts to theaters. s the Assoctated Press. HOLLYWOOD, June 2.—The bitter fight between two rival unions for control of studio craftsmen in the multimillion - dollar film industry flared into a new crisis today. The Federated Motion Picture Crafts, which started a strike a month ago, repudiated a settlement | announced by its rival, the Interna- tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, which would have meant collapse of the walkout. The non- striking I. A. T. S. E. has been ac- cused of being a company union by the federation. Striking painters overrode union officers and joined 640 to 276, with other units of the federation to continue the walkout until granted written guarantee of closed shop and wage increases. The painters create the huge stage sets for the movies. The ballot culminated a nearly night-long meeting at the Legion Box- ing Stadium. international vice president of the International Brotherhood of Paint- ers, Paperhangers and Decorators, was booed from the speakers’ stand by angry unionists. Clarke had sat in on conferences with the I. A. T. S. E, and the producers. Return Was Expected Today. 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