Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1937, Page 5

THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON D. C, JUN \E 6, 1937 LUMBERIACKS END MICHIGAN STRIKE Repudiate Arrested Leaders and Will Retuin to Work Tomorrow. BACKGROUND— Strike of lumber camp workers began May 24 and spread east- ward across the Upper Michigan Peninsula. Roving bands of strik- ers visited lumber camps and saw- mills. The operators said the strikers threatened the men with vwlence unless they stopped work. The union's principal demands were: A minimum wage of 55 cents an hour and single beds and show- er baths in camps. the Assoctated Press MUNISING, Mich,, June 5—Lum- berjacks voted to end their violence- studded strike in Upper Michigan's timber camps tonight, repudiating two of their leaders who were jailed on charges of conspiracy to incite a riot. Joseph Ashmore, deputy State labor commissioner, who said the strike leaders had “adopted methods that even Soviet Russia would not tolerate,” predicted that most, if not all, of the 6.000 men would return by Monday to camps scattered over the upper peninsula He said the State Department of Labor and Industry would assist the woodsmen in presenting their demands to camp and mill operators. The demands include minimum wages of 65 cents an hour and improved work- Ing_conditions Three hundred strikers attended a | meeting here this afternoon. Ashmore said they voted unanimously to return to work Only at Eben Junction for a meeting called by a faction determined to continue the strike. Embattled vigilantes, con- vinced there would be no further violence, laid down their arms. State police, ordered info Munising and Newberry last night to avert threatened attacks on the Alger County Court House here and a re- currence of rioting of Newberry, ar- rested the three leaders this morning. Joe Liss, chairman of the Strike Committee of the Ironwood Local of the Sawmill and Timber Workers' Union, and David (Double-breasted Joe) Le Clair, his chief lieutenant, were charged with conspiracy to in- cite a riot. Jay Spielmacher was detained without charge Sheriff’s deputies escorted Luke Raik, president of the Ironwood Local, and Henry Paull. Duluth, Minn,, at- torney for the union, out of town. INDICTMENT PAPER SOUGHT IN VAIN Prince Georges Case Against Po- licemen May Not Be Affect- ed by Loss. Br a Staff Correspondent of The Star UPPER MARLBORO. Md., June 5 ~—Still missing here tonight was the Indictment paper charging seven Prince Georges County ex-policemen. 8 bondsman and a justice of the peace with conspiracy, but Circuit Court at- taches expressed confidence the rec- | ord would be found. Threatening to raise legal techni- ealities in the trial of the nine men, scheduled to appear in court about June 14, the loss was laid by officials to carelessness rather than to theft. W. Waverly Webb, deputy court tlerk, said a preliminary search to- day had failed to locate the sheet, but a more thorough check-up will be made Monday. The disappearance of the blanket Indictment record was revealed when State’s Attorney Alan Bowie made a routine check on his fi The paper was last seen several weeks ago when the court refused defendants’ pleas in abatement to quash the indictments It was not believed here today that the paper’s loss would affect prosecu- tion of the case. Court house ob- servers expressed the opinion that the minutes of the court probably would be sufficient evidence to supplant the document if it cannot be found before the trial begins. An attempt to break into the State’s attorney's office, where documentar: evidence was stored, was reported early in the investigation into county police bonding activities. ‘The nine men were indicted last December after some 30 Washington motorists had complained of alleged “victimization” to the grand ju Thirty-two presentments were re- turned by the panel, called into spe: cial session. The missing paper is the one which carried indictments against | all the defendants. CLUB TO MAKE CRUISE Cosmopolitans Sail Tuesday Night on City of Washington. Members of the Cosmopolitan Club will hold a moonlight cruise aboard the City of Washington, leaving the Seventh street wharf at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen and Police Supt. Maj. Ernest Brown are expected to be guests. A program in- cluding dancing, floor show, a show by the Society of Magicians and other entertainment features will be pre- sented. Manufacture of Diesel-engined air- | p\nnes will start at once in Japan. half a dozen men appeared | | should not be issued. Odd Angles of the Steel Union Struggle VIGTORY CLAIMED BY MINE UNION Independent Group Says| Most of Workers in Min- | nesota Have Signed. By the Assoclated Press. VIRGINIA, Minn,, June 5—On the | eve of the opening of the Steel Work- er's Organization Committee drive to organize Northern Minnesota's 12,000 iron miners, an independent union to- tation elections. Officials of the Employes Repre- sentative Association, independent collective bargaining agency, asserted 1127 of the 139 eligible employes at | the Biwabik open pit mine, a Pick- | ands and Mather property, had voted | to affiliate with their organization. At the Corsica mine, near Gilbert, these officials added, all 81 eligible | workers voted to join. The Biwabik | mine furnishes ore for the strike- | bound Youngstown Steel Co. Crews | | were reduced there this week because of slackening ore demand as a re- | sult of the steel strike. POLICE GO CALLING day claimed victory in first represen- | | to undertake this unusual task. | Halloween pranks in mind when he | the street. John T. Bernard, Minnesota Farm- er-Laborite Representative in Con- | ‘Rl"?\'i was en route to Virginia today to take charge of efforts to organize | miners as members of the S. W. O. C., | & Committee for Industrial Organiza- | tion affiliate. He is scheduled to| This domestic tableaw is not in the home of a vacationing wife, but within the Republic Steel Corp. Mills in Chicago, where loyal workers, besieged by labor union pzckeh took time 017 to do their Ianndry into the opz'mtmn of the Steel Wm cers’ Commxltee ‘ Steel (Continued From First Page.) group of men were using torches to cut the spur tracks over which the car had been moved Two men were arrested when a rail was discovered torn from a Pennsylvania railroad switch near the plant Police took the men into rcustody as they were walking away from the scene, one with a crowbar, the other with a wrench. One was a strike picket, police said. Bail was denied as the charge was held open in view of the possi- bility of Federal charges. police told C. I. O. officials who came to the prisoners’ aid “We feel that this action on the part of Sheriff Elser is solely that of strike- break was the reply of John Mayo, S. W. O. C. director here. “The | steel union has repeatedly offered maintenance men to | town Sheet & Tube and Republic | thereby eliminating the necessity of strike-breakers within the plants. “The pickets will no longer permit their lines to be broken, cost what it may." he advised Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio, whose negotiations to end the strike apparently were stale- | mated | The S. W. O. C. pressed forward its campaign to “shut off the source of supply” by calling out iron miners in Minnesota and Michigan. Workers at two plants were idle because Re- public was unable to unload shipments at its mills. Two Maryland manu- facturing plants closed down because of their inability to obtain steel. With the strike in its eleventh day, | Republic, Sheet & Tube and the In- | land Steel Co. showed no signs of re- | treat from their stand that of a contract signing check-off.” Nor did the union relin- quish its insistence that signed con- | tracts were necessary to send 73,000 men, idle in seven States, back to work Tension grew in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley, where more than 30.000 men are idle. Hot words flew across the barred gates of steel plants. The order issued by Judge Lynn B. Griffith of the State Common Pleas Court at nearby Warren, directed pickets and union leaders to refrain | “from interfering with the free access of employves” and their “free return to their homes.” The alternative writ ordered the defendants to comply or show cause next Thursday why an injunction | Republic had sought an immediate temporary junction. Judge Griffith explained violation of today's order would not constitute contempt of cour Suit Filed by Organizer. In another court Republic asked dismissal of a temporary injunction | restraining the company—third larg- | est steel producer—from making ex- | | penditures “for the purpose of m!er-» fering with the free unionization of | | employes.” Republic’s counsel con- tended the suit was filed by a C. I. O. organizer who recently had obtained 10 shares of the company's stock. In still another court action, C. I. | 0. attorneys sought a postponement of a hearing scheduled Tuesday in the petition of three railroads seek- ing to restrain strikers from inter- fering with shipments into steel plants. Chairman Murray of the S. W. O C. in a statement here said a con- certed effort was being made in this area to break the strike ! methods of Pearl Bergdorfl, whom he | described as a “notorious breaker. “Even a superficial investigation of what is going on in the city of Youngstown leads one to believe that | | the Bergdorfl agents are there in the employ of Republic Steel and Youngs- | town Steel & Tube,” Murray said. Mohawk Valley Parallel. “The whole thing is such a ghastly New Gas M asks, Ready for Ger By the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 5—Germany has developed a gas mask capable of re- sisting any war gas known at present, Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, the | Reich’s minister for air, told a huge preparedness meeting tonight. Already millions of the new mmfk have been made, he declared, and will be distributed to the German people | at a small price. Goering’s announcement was greeted by thunderous cheers from thousands of Air Defense League members. “We have kept these gas masks & secret, but now they are ready,” Goering declared. Distribution will be through Nazi welfare organizations, and it will be the duty of the 12,000,- 000 members of the Air Defense League to make periodical checks to make certain the masks are in perfect gondition and their owners know how to use them. s Made Secretly, many’s Millions The air minister, in his 25-minute speech, exhorted women especially to do their part in building up the Air Defense League. women,” he said. “Our air defenses remain incomplete until we have civilian protection against air attacks. It is self-evident that women must play a special role in that.” ‘The air minister referred to the cur- rent European crisis over the Span- ish Civil War when he declared: “‘Our that flows cannot be replaced with Germany to her knees.” It was at Ibiza in the Balearic Islands that the German pocket battleship Deutschland was bombed by Spanish government May 29 and 28 of her crew killed. On the Spanish port of Almeri: both Youngs- | with the S. W. O. C.| would lead to “a closed shop and the | in- | through | strike- | “We do not want weak, enervated | lightning reaction to Ibiza | showed clearly that we can act. Blood | ink. No power has the right to force | airplanes | May 31 German warships bombarded | ] parallel to the so-called Mohawk Val- | ley formula, as used by Bergdorft in breaking the strike at Remington- K | Rand that one wonders at the audac- ity of steel management in using it “Notice the steps in the Mohawk | Valley formula as revealed by the Na- tional Labor Relations Board and those in Youngstown | “Label the union leaders as agi- tators to discredit them with the public and their own followers. “When the strike is called raise high the banner of law and order, | thereby causing the community to | mass legal and police weapons against | a wholly imagined violence. This step is developing in Youngstown “Call a mass meeting of the citi- zens to co-ordinate public sentiment against the strike—and sponsor vigilants' activities, Youngstown is rife with talk of the formation of citizens’ groups, of merchants’ groups.” Two agents of the Senate Civil Lib- erties Committee have been in the | Youngstown area making investiga- tions. Consider Federal Suit. | Republic’'s counsel said they were considering a Federal county suit de- | signed to compel the postmasters at Warren and Niles, Ohio, to accept food shipments for parcel post de- livery into beleaguered plants. The postmasters, acting under in-y structions from Washington, have re- fused to receive “irregular mail” ad- dressed to the plants. An exception was made at Niles in the case of a package of medicine, which the act- ing postmaster said was allowed to be mailed at Republic’s request. The postmaster opened the package at the request of Republic before admit- | ting it to mails. Two union men were | | standing by at the time, he said. | Republic has been using planes— | beset by snipers—to fly food into the | Warren and Niles plants, continuing | i to make steel on a curtailed bas: Republic’'s plants at Buffalo and Ch cago also have been operating, but | the plants of Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube are idle. John Stevenson, C. I. O. organizer, said a petition would be circulated | demanding recall of Sheriff Elser. “The next food car will go in only over our dead bodies.” he shouted Republic Corp. offices in Cleve- land sent another telegram to Wash- ington Post Office officials over the name of Board Chairman Tom Girdl demanding to know if food packages, rejected at Warren and Niles, Ohio, Post Offices, were not | considered “normal mail matter sent | throughout the United States every day through the mails?” | _The management of Myers Lake| | Park today made plans for hardling 20.000 persons tomorrow when Mur- | ray addresses a crowd of Republic | Steel Corp. strikers and smpanmms.} AD CLUB TO INSTALL Wilmot R. Squier to Succeed Kal | as President. Newly elected officers of the Ad- | vertising Club of Washington will be | installed at the next meeting, to be | | held at 12:30 pm. Wednesday in | the Raleigh Hotel. The new presi- | | dent s Wilmot R. Squier, who vull succeed Normal C. Kal. Charles J. Columbus, club secretary, | | announced attendance will be by ad- vance reservation by telephone, not later than Tuesday. | - AIR UNIT HEAD KILLED CLEVELAND, June 5 !K’}.fDonald | Glendenning, 32, president of the Cleveland Air Service Co., was fatally injured tonight when a small mono- plane he was flying fell nose frst in a fleld near the Cleveland airport Eye witnesses said the craft went | into a spin at an altitude ot 250 feet. James W. Borton, president of the | | General Airmotive Corp., at the! Cleveland airfield, said Glendenning was dead when he reached him. America, Inc., recommend taking your problems to a professional, cleaner. ment * * * Don't take a chance on having your applied by a novice. words, send them to us! | study during conditions might be classified as Get our LOW Summer Storage Rates Wage-Hour E 1 (Continued From First Page) | Ladies’ inconclusive, statutes,” the Repub- suggested a committee “a congressional recess which the country craves,” with rec- | ommendations to be ted at the beginning of a new ses: Vandenberg commended the “good motives” and the “humane objec- tives” reflected in the “able message"” of President Roosevelt preceding in- troduction of the b In furtherance of these objectives, he said, “there | can be prompt agreement on & con- titutional amendment aga the exploitation of ct en in industry e There can be prompt agree- on the Wheeler-Jo. ban the products of ¢ labor ate commerce. But ques- tion of hours and wages s a spell’ from experimental lican leader more new, ment against | A | erave question of publ 50 bel ¢ com- that no good purpose, for is to be served by opening and added legislative reg- and resultant controver- sector) plicated anybody, up new ulations sies * already Tinkering Is Expected. As Vandenberg's attack indicated | that opposition strateay will be to fight hasty action and plead for deliberate consideration of the whole question it also became evident that some major tinkering will be attempted on the legisiation in both Senate and House committees. | Members of each committee, for in- | | stance, are concerned about the prob- | ability of dangerous competition from foreign imports after domestic costs | of production are increased by higher wages and shorter hours. Provisions for such protection is in- cluded in the Connery version of the bill, its effect being that foreigr goods produced under ‘‘oppressiv “un- fair,” and either forbidden in inter- state commerce or made subject to an equalizing tax. Although no such protection is pro- vided by the Black version of the b and the Senator has declared him- self opposed, the .likelihood that in- dustry of all sections may bring pres- sure for something akin to tariff pro- tection makes it certain the issue will be fought out in both committees and probably on the floor of both House and Senate. Other issues developing during the past two days are those of protect- | ing agricultural purchasing power in | the face of rising prices for cnn-\ sumers' goods and of exempting agri- | cuitural processing from the industrial | classification subject to the proposed | regulation. I The issue of whether there should be geographic wage differentials, either set by law or left to the discretion of the Labor Standards Board, also is still far from settled. | Indorsements of Bill. ‘ Yesterday, the committee heard the pending bill indorsed first by R. C. Kuldell, president and general man- | Arthntls Stiffens My Joints!" the letter says...“for I | am suffering the torments of acidity.” Don't allow aches and pains to settle in your very bones. Drink the natural, alka- line water that doctors have prescribed for 75 years. Let us send you a case. Telephone ‘ MEt. 1062. MOUNTAIN VALLEY MINERAL WATER From HOT SPRINGS, ARK. 1405 K St. N.W. 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Lead- | ers already claim to represent most of the Oliver Iron Mining Co. work- ers in this section It was reported in Hibbing that all Republic Steel Corp. mines on Nebrz ations temporarily, but J. E. Nelson, Duluth, manager of the corporation in Minnesota, could not be reached for comment. Figures on how many men would be thrown out of work were not available immediately Sit-Down Striker Quits Factory to Wed Siwceetheart ager of a Houston tool company owned by Howard R. Hughes, moving picture producer and well-known aviator, and later by Merle Vincent, legislative representative of the International Garment Workers’ Union. Tomorrow, the committee will learn the attitude of John L. Lewis, chair- man of the Committee for Industrial Organization; Isadore Lubin, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Elinore Herrick, a leader in the Na- tional Labor party and a regional of- ficer of the National Labor Relations Board. Ten witnesses are scheduled for ap- pearance on Tuesday. On Wednesday, | 12 are listed, including Right Rev. John | A. Ryan of the National Catholic W } fare Conference. Among four sched- | uled to appear Thursday are James A, | Emery, general counsel for the Na- tional Association of Manufacturers; R. E. Wood, pr de of Sears, Roe- buck & Co.. a R. V. Fletcher of the American Railway Association. Among the six witnesses v will include Dr. Claudius T. M on of the C ton Textile Institute On Monday, June 14, the committee will hear other members of Congress., Policemen on Duty as Crowd Watches Phila- delphia Ceremony. ' By the Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, June 5 —In a| sidewalk ceremony outside the strike- | closed J. C. J. Strahan Co., Inc., plant, o Lees, 25, a sit-down striker, married his childhood sweetheart, 19+ year-old Ida Kunkel of Merchant- e, N. J, today. s | Twenty-five policemen were on duty as the couple took their vows before a crowd of about 200. RITES ARE TODAY . “The wedding date was set for just ¢ ; just Veteran of Spanish and World ", Re70 the strike broke out,” Lees explained. “So we decided not Wars Will Be Buried | to wait any longer.” Tomorrow. | Funeral services for Maj. Harold | €€ did mot return to the plant he and 19 other sit-cown strikers N. Blake, veteran of the Spanish and World Wars and former resident of Dave occupied for two months. In- the District, who died recently in Po- Stead. he and his bride left on a land, will be held at 8:30 pm. today Wedding trip. | in the Hines funeral parlors. The services will be in charge of the | American Legion and the Legion guard of honor will be in attendance. Members of the Montana delegation in Congress and of the Montana State Society are expected to attend. Maj. Blake will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery at 3:30 pm. tomorrow Born Fort Bidwell, Calif., June 1278, Maj. 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That's what the officers are after—in Gov- | ernment, offices, business houses and nomes. 23 Officers Detailed to Help | Provide Occupation and Fun | for D. C. Youths. Imagine a squad of policemen be- ing ordered off regular duty to start| ringing door bells! Sounds funny, doesn't it? But that's exactly what happened several days ago when Police Supt Ernest W. Brown detailed 23 officers | Since the campaign got under way, | the officers have collected slightly more than $10,000, or less than one seventh of the goal “We really need $100.000,” Mal. Brown said yesterday. “We hope the goal will be far oversubseribed."” Are the clubs worth all that time and money? Maj. Brown and his de- partment think so. They've found juvenile delinquency has been reduced in every precinct in which clubs have been established, and they hope some day to have clubs in very pre: Under the plan offered by the cans vassing officers, every subscriber bes comes a member of the Metropolitan Police Boys' Club. The various types include associate, $1; membership, $2; contributing, $5; maintaining, $16; sustaining, 825, supporting, $50; founders, $100, and patrons, more than $100 And Maj. Brown didn't have any issued that order. There was a reason, of course, and there's more to the door bell ringing than simply pressing buttons. The officers are trying to help kids like Johnny, who was knocked down by an automobile because the only place he could find to play was in And Skinny, who never has had a real vacation at a real | camp. And Bill, who wanted to get | in a band. There are lots of Johnnys, Skinnys | and Bills among the thousands of boys who belong to the Metropolitan Police Boys' Clubs—a movement | which was nothing more than an | idea in Maj. Brown's mind three )Pars ago The police chief knew there were Plan Special Classes. 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