Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1937, Page 5

BOARD RULES 0UT RELIABILITY ISSUE Labor Relations Body Hear- ing Complaint Bars Debate on Contract Factor. By the Assocluted Press. CHICAGO, June 30.—The National Labor Relations Board pushed its hearing of a complaint against the Inland Steel Corp. today after ruling out consideration of the issue of upion responsibility or reliability. Charles A. Wood, trial examiner of the board, ruled Inland attorneys may not argue their contention that the alleged irresponsibility of the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee was a factor in the steel firm's refusal to sign & collective bargaining pact. The complaint alleged refusal to sign a contract constituted violation of the Wagner labor act. Wood said the general objective of Congress in designing the Wagner act “would be seriously challenged if this question of the responsibility of the union were raised by an employer every time a wage agreement contro- versy arose.” The #sue arose when Ernest S. Ballard, chief counsel for Inland, cross-examined Van A. Bittner, re- gions¥ S. W. @. C. director. Wood made the ruling when Bittner was asked whether he had promised to give Inland 48 hours’ notice of a strike. Ballard then argued the mght “to establish that this is not a bona fide labor union with which we are sup- posed to negotiate.” In response to Ballard's questions, Bittner testified there were no S. W. 0. C. rules and regulations in writing that he could produce. The attorney declared he was satisfied the or- ganization had no constitution and * bylaws. Y B Steel (Continued From First Page.) plant managers reporting operations back on pre-strike schedule. Resume Three-Shift Operation. ‘The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., employing 14,500 men normally, re-| sumed the three-shift schedule this | morning, following the lead of Repub- lic Steel Corp., which restored the eight-hour working schedule yester- | day. Plant managers claimed 90 per cent of their forces were back at work and operations supervisors were reported re-establishing the 5-day 40-hour week | for millhands. Sheet & Tube officials said they would be able to make steel even without the return of some of the production men who joined the walk- out, pointing out that some of the men could be worked six days ¢> fill the gaps left by striking workers. 8. W. O. C. strike leaders watched the progress of the reopened mills from downtown headquarters and dis- patched organizers to conduct group meetings of the workers still hold- ing the strike line. Picketing, how- ever, was scarcely visible. Only a few pickets could be seen at some mill gates carrying union signs. Entire blocks in Canton around Fighth and Belden streets were with- out telephone 'service. Wires, ripped from poles, hung on the ground on Eighth street. It was be- lieved light ropes, weighted with stones, were thrown over the wires and the lines hauled to the ground. Telephone Service Cut. Telephone service was cut to the National Guard armory, but the service to the Republic plants was not affected. Two weeks ago a cable was cut in the vicinity of Eighth and Belden. Shortly after the movement of work- ers in and out of the Canton plants began the guard reported that every- thing was under control. By midmorning Republic announced that 112 automobiles had hurried ap- proximately 450 workers into the plants, and the movement of cars in &nd out kept up. Some 200 Dpickets, were kept Guardsmen. Reluctantly, they kept on a patient march, two and three in a group, shouting “Scab” at the soldiers. An attempt to stone a non-striker’s eutomobile was made, but the planes spotted it and dropped a note to the military encamped at the Belden School a few blocks away. A detach- ment came running and broke up the trouble. many women, moving along by the C. I. 0. Officials Held. Among those held by the Guards- men were Frank A. Hardesty, subre- gional director of the C. I, O, and Homer Downard, identified by the Guardsmen as president of the “All- Nations Lodge,” a C. I. O. organization. Two of the men who have been in the plant since the strike started have become fathers. They never saw their children until today. They are John R. Wilson and E. J. Allred. The Alloy plant normally employs 8,500. Company officials said 800 men entered the plant this morning, mak- ing a force now at work of 2,800. The Stark Rolling Mills, another Republic subsidiary, employing about * 1,500, opened, but company officials £aid they were unable to say imme- diately how many men returned. The Berger Manufacturing Co,, normally employing 800, also opened, with company officials saying 100 were back. Offers Reward in “Intimidation.” Republic Steel, at Pittsburgh, posted & $1,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of any person intimidating 1its workers in three Pittsburgh district plants. - Announcement of the offer was con- tained in a newspaper advertisement. Plants involved are the Dilworth Por- ter Co. Pittsburgh, and the Ideal On the Steel Front Here's what the 1937 photographer wears covering the steel strike in the Youngstown-Warren area. gas mask, bullet-proof vest and helmet. The outfit consists of a —Wide World Photo. Cleveland the following day. The com- pany said it had withheld opening plans in Cleveland pending asurance of protection by local authorities. Republic announced last night that “nearly 10,000 Republic employes of the Mahoning Valley plants, who had been out of work since the beginning of the strike, have now returned to their jobs.” “This,” the statement said, “is with- in 1,000 men of the normal for these plants at the operating rate prevailing in the industwy.” C. I. O. held a rally at Niles, Ohio, at which John Owens, regional chief for Ohio, called upon union members to “carry the strike through to a fin- | ish.” He called the four steel corpo- rations who are involved in the strike —Republic, Sheet & Tube, Inland and Bethlehem—*"union haters.” Union to Provide Groceries. Other speakers told the crowd, which union men said numbered about 3,000, to “ignore newspaper headlines.” One speaker, William La- velle, C. I. O. counsel at Warren, said the union could provide free groceries for strikers’ families. The hunt went on for Gus Hall, the C. L O. organizer who is named with five others in charges of plotting vio- lence and terrorism in the Warren area. C. I. O. officers said, too, that Arthur Scott, one of the three alleged terrorists now held in jail at Warren, was on the union's pay roll as an organizer, but spokesmen for C. I. O. were quick to disavow violence as a strike weapon and to appeal to their members not to resort to it under any circumstances. As one unfon lieutenant put it at Cleveland: “We stand in the picket lines with bare hands and empty stomachs.” The action of Johnstown's Mayor Shields and the City Council there was & surprise move. The union men were brought before the Council and, after a heated session, during which their counsel was ejected and, later, charged with disorderly conduct, they were asked to leave town “peacefully” for their own safety. Mark's appeal for martial law was made even as State troopers, at the Governor's- order, were setting up a 24-hour guard about the reservoim which supply Johnstown with water. Under the present “bitterness,” the Governor said, a “maniac” might do great damage. “Right to Work” Crusade.” There was & movement under wa’y by the Citizens’ Committee at Johns- town to make a national cause of “the protection of the right to work.” Its chairman telegraphed invitations to civic groups in other cities to attend a meeting in Johnstown soon looking toward a national organization. The Johnstown Committee was formed June 19 to protest the declara- tion of martial law there and the closing of the Bethlehem Steel works with its $500,000 a week pay roll. The Mayor of Johnstown tele- graphed President Roosevelt that un- less something were done, the people might “take the law into their own hands.” — . D. C. Taxes (Continued From First Page.) crease in the present total real estate tax levy were presented by District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan. It led to a colloquy between Dono- van and Senator McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, advocate of the special land tax, in which Donovan defended the high ratio of assessed to true value in ‘Washington. Nordholm was on the stand at the time and had just finished urging taxes on net corporate incomes, individual incomes, with liberal exemptions for lower salaries, and estate taxes. He also declared an additional real estate tax at this time would fall on the Lowest Summer Prices Now in Foundry and Union Drawn Steel Co., both of Beaver Falls, Pa. L. E. Creighton, general manager of Union Drawn Steel, said 175 of a normal pay roll of 250 had returned to work today. Joseph Timko, strike leader, said he had asked the La Follette Civil Liber- ties Committee to investigate “all ! phases” of the reopening of the plants in Beaver, Falls. A union member ‘was fatally injured there Monday. ‘Tomorrow morning, at Indiana Har- bor, Ind., more steel plants will open, the Inland Steel Co. announced. But C. I O’s Van A. Bittner, regional di- rector there, said the union would “do everything possible to stop the plant from opening;” that 99 per cent ‘of the 13,000 Inland Steel employes were . members of C. I. O. Added to the announcement of In- and Steel’s intention to reopen at In- diana Harbor tomorrow were reports that Republic Steel might resume operation of its Truscon steel plant in », Effect White Ash Stove $11.30 per ton White Ash Chestnut $11.30 per ton White Ash Egg $11.30 per ton White Ash Pea . $9.80 per ton J. EIIW. CHAPMAN Fuel Oil 37 N St. N.W. No. 3609 Agent, Wayne Oil Burner “A small-home owner, but added that if this source is.to be considered the new tax be confined to land. “'As between the sales tax or land tax, which would you prefer?” asked Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York. “On land, unquestionably,” the wit- ness replied. It was at this polnt Donovan asked the committee to consider the signifi- cance of the 1 per cent land-value STAR, WASHIN tax in its effect on the city's total tax bill. Some members of the committee seemed surprised and asked Dono- van to indicate how he arrived at the estimate. The auditor pointed out that 1 per cent on the assessed value of the land in the District, omitting improvements, ~ would be nearly $5,000,000. The total real estate tax levy at the present time is $17,325,- 000, he said, and the collection of $5,000,000 more from land would be $21,000,000, or a 30 per cent increase. McCarran then declared he does not think ‘“assessed values are any- where near sale values.” “We cannot concede that, Senator,” Donovan replied. “We have figures to show that in the business section as- sessments are up to 95 per cent of sale prices and in residential areas, 70 per cent of sales, and that is as it should be.” McCarran agreed that there should be a difference in the ratio of assessed to true value on residences and busi- ness properties. The Senator argued, however, that the additional per cent land tax could be absorbed without hardship in the difference between assessed value and sale price. Donovan said that assumes every- body 1s going to sell their property. Corporation Tax Proposed. Nordholm advocated a tax of 7! per cent on net corporate income, rather than the proposed gross receipts tax. He said this would raise $3,500,- 000. He favored two other proposals, namely: The individual income tax, and the inheritance and estate fhxes already in the bill. Chairman King pointed out the pro- posed corporate net income rate of 7% per cent would be in addition to the Federal rate of 13 or 14 per cent, and the Federal tax on undistributed surplus. Four possible substitutes for the gross receipts business privilege levy in the local tax bill are being con- sidered, but senatorial opinion ap- parently has not yet crystallized on any one of the alternative proposals. The four optional suggestions are: A 2 per cent sales tax, with certain necessities excluded; the additional property tax of 1 per cent on the value of land, with improvements ex- cluded; a tax on beer and ale or higher rates on llquor licenses and the controversial income tax. After completing hearings, possibly iTON, - D. C, today, the committee will go into executive session with the Commis- sioners to weigh the testimony and act on the bill. It may take more than one executive session to arrive at de- cisions, however. Although it has been generally felt during the hearings that the income tax would not be revived in view of the opposition it encountered in the House, this controversial levy came back into the picture last night, when two committee members — Sentors Capper of Kansas and Austin of Ver- mont—indicated they are still giving it some thought. In short, there is considerable senti- ment in the committee against im- posing the House tax of three-fifths of 1 per cent on the gross receipts of every business and professional man, but a divergence of view as to what form of tax should take its Dplace. Anmouncing his opposition to the sales tax, Capper said if the gross receipts tax goes out he would favor Testoring the income levy. He said the suggestion for a local tax on beer and ale also is worthy of consideration. Austin Undecided. Austin has not made up his mind, explaining he wants to hear what develops in-the committee regarding the income tax. He regards either the income tax or sales tax as still & possible alternative for the gross receipts tax, which he believes would be inequitable. Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, while not committed to the sales tax, has endeavored during the hearings to develop the wisdom of that levy. An increase from 50 to 80 cents a gallon in the tax on hard liquor was proposed Monday as part of the Board of Trade’s program. It was followed yesterday by the suggestion of Sena- tor Reynolds, Democrat, of North Carolina that the license fees of liquor dealers might be raised. The placing of a local levy on beer and ale was added to the discussion when Attorney Whiteford said he was in- formed there is no local tax on those two beverages at present. Receipts Levy May Be Eased. The sales tax, with necessities ex- empted, has received more attention thus far than the other substitutes, but if the committee finds it cannot agree on some alternative for the gross receipts levy it is almost cer- tain to make amendments designated WEDNESDAY, JUN NE 30, 1937. to soften some of the inequitable features. Senator McCarran, for example, made known last night he regards the levy on gross receipts as unfair because of the absence of any rel tionship between the gross amount a business takes in and its net income. He does not believe this tax should stand in its present form. On behalf of the Citizens’ Associa- tion of Chevy Chase Edwin 8. Hege filed a statement with the commit- tee yesterday favoring the sales tax on all except food, medicine and mod- erate priced clothing. The statement opposed the gross receipts tax and the increased levy on real and tangi- ble property. If more money is need- ed for highways, the association pre- ferred an increase in the rate on gaso- line to the auto weight tax in the bill. It also opposed coupling an in- heritance levy with the estate tax. Charles F. Creswell of the Associa- tion of Life Insurance Presidents ap- pealed to the committee yesterday not to increase the tax rate on net premiums of life insurance. His statement pointed out that 66 per cent of the residents of the District are life insurance policyholders and con- tended they should not be discouraged from protectiing their dependents. He argued the present premium tax rate is equivalent to an excessive net in- come tax. e GUESTS ATE HEARTILY President’s Island Visitors Also Used 32 Cases of Beer. President Roosevelt's guests at Jeffer- son Island over the past week end did away with 32 cases of beer, 1,044 sand- wiches and innumerable cans of salad, he reported to his press conference yesterday. 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