Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1937, Page 7

HOLSING PROFLT * BOON TOBRTONS Thousands of Ex-Slum Dwellers Now Living in Cottage Homes. BY HOWARD VINCENT O'BRIEN. LONDON.—Most of the building in ever I saw an honest, straightfor- ward and sincere American, it is Phil. “When the day of judgment comes, I'd as soon take by chances of getting past St. Peter in the form of Phil Murray as Tom Girdler (chairman of Republic Steel). With men like Tom Girdler in power you'll have com- munism in this country.” Ford Charges Major Test. Meanwhile, Government attorneys conceded, the National Labor Rela- tions Board faces a major test of power in charging the Ford Motor Co. with unfair labor practices Al indications point to & hard- fought legal battle—possibly ending in the Supreme Court—following the fact-finding hearing which opens to- this country is still done by speculator: but government is taking an ever- | larger part in solving the problem of low-cost housing. Yesterday I visited the Watling | project, where some 17,000 ex-slum dwellers live in cottage homes, each | with its small garden and surrounded | by parks and playgrounds. Rentals are around $12 a month, and trans- | portation is by underground—a half- hour ride, with & round trip fare of T eents, provided the customer leaves .. before 7:30 o'clock in the morning. | These homes are not luxurious. but | they are comfortable and well kept. | The health of the tenants is nétably better than it was in their former | environment; and delinquency is at a | minimum. The police have next to | nothing to do. | “Community Spirit” Meager. | ‘There is practically no “community | spirit.” The tenants wish to live inde- | pendent lives. They refuse to con- | &ider themselves part of an institution, and only & handful have enrolled as members of the Community Council. A shopping center has grown up | around this project, and, with the | lower ground-rents. prices are lower than in the metropolitan area. For people earning from $10 to $15 & week., these paternalistic projects of the London County Council offer & maximum of creature comfort. But | over them, as one said grimly, the fear of idleness and old age still weighs heavily. One gets a small pension at 70. but, as this man said, one is likely to get the sack at 50. England has done much along social- service lines—much more than we have; but the specter of insecurity still | stalks the working masses. Visits Settlement House. ‘Wishing to see where the tenants in the Watling Cottages had come from, 1 visited a settlement house in Peck- ham-—one of the poorest districts in London. There I found. among other services, & nursery school, where some 40 tots are taken care of while their mothers are at work. They are taught to brush their teeth and are provided with milk and warm clothing. The resuilts, in improved health, are definitely measur- able. Some day, society will awake to the fact that poverty is too expensive to be endured. Then the state will | take over, in a large way, the services | that privately-maintained settlement houses now render to such a pitifully small extent It is significant to look back on the developments in social conscience, and see that all of them were begun by in- dividual altruists. The roots of all of | them are in the warm heart of private charity. Only when the good has been demonstrated does the community step in to carry it on and extend it (Copyright, 1937, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc ) Steel (Continued Fro; t Page.) the Johnstown strike zone) .are not getting that kind of a deal.” [ Clinton S. Goiden, Pittsburgh re- | gional director of C. I. O., at Youngs- town: “We've just begun to fight.| The steel makers and leaders of the | back-to-work movement have shot their wad.” | Blame Storm for Slump. | The Johnstown rally had been ad- vertised by C. 1. O. spokesmen as a meeting “to show the Nation whether or mot we can get 40,000 strike svmpathizers into Johnstown."” Dpolice estimated the turnout as under 10,000. Union leaders said that the rainstorm which broke before the meeting was well under way kept down the attendance. “Big Jim"” Mark, white-haired strike leader, said: “There were 30,000 people either here in the grove or on their way when this rain came up. Of course, many thousands turned around and went back when they saw the storm.’ The appearance of Gov. Earle held thousands at the grove even though rain was falling torrentially. The Governor criticized Bethlehem | Steel for refusing to sign contracts with C. I. 0., and said he was send- | ing State’s Attorney General Charles | J. Margiotti to Washington Wednes- | day “to see if we can't force an elec- tion” among steel workers of the Bethlehem plant. The election would | determine if C. I. O. should represent | the men in bargaining negotiations | with the company. “The refusal of the steel companies to sign contracts is, T believe, a viola- tion of the Wagner labor act,” the Governor said. The crowd acclaimed Earle with | &houts and some one shrieked “Earle for President.” The Governor, who | has said he was not a candidate to | succeed President Roosevelt, smiled. He advised his listeners to heed | these three regulations: | 1. “Drive the * * * out of your ranks. 2. “Labor must keep its contracts | once they are made. 3. “Commit no acts of violence. I don't know who planted that dyna- mite around the plants, but I do know that the company has offered a re- ward for the offenders. The labor | unions ought to offer a reward, too. | ‘Them, shey would show the public that they don’t condone violence and would be happy to learn who the culprits are.” He continued: “I think I don't have to tell you that we are friends. You proved that to me in 1934, I'm | your friend. Ending the coal and | tron police, signing the 44-hour week bill, pushing through the occupational | disease legislation proves that. “I'm going to tell you just what's| In my heart. When the strike was| ealled I flew to Johnstown and talked with union leaders, civic officials and eompany representatives. I asked them just what the situation was. | The company told me they saw no | reason for drawing up a writen con- tract with the union. “When I asked the company why the request of organized labor for a written contract was not reasonable, they answered ‘We've never done it.’ “I declared Bethlehem was unrea- sonable in its attitude.” Commenting on the complaint of the steel employers that the C. I. O. ‘Wwas “irresponsible,” the Governor said: Communists | | plete | against morrow in Detroit’s Federal Building. The Ford Co. in answering the board, stated Saturday it was “re- serving all its constitutional rights and excepting and objecting to the jurisdiction” of the N. L. R. B., and said the board’s complaint “should be dismissed.” The N. L. R. B. complaint, issued upon petition by the United Auto- mobile Workers of America, is the first directed by the board against a major automobile manufacturer. Government attorneys say also that never before has the authority vested in the board by the Wagner act been directed against so large and deter- mined an adversary. N. L. R. B. officials said that about 70 persons have been summoned to testify at the hearing, to be held in an unused court room seating some 100 spectator The board’s complaint is based largely on a riot May 26 outside the Ford Cos Rauge plant in suburban Dearborn and wppears to give tacit support to the U. A. W. A. campaign to organize the 150,000 Ford produc- tion workers in this country. The company’s answer, signed by Harry H. Bennett, personnel director, | denied the charges of making “malici- ous and brutal assaults” on U. A. W. A organizers who went to the vast fac- tory to distribute handbills. W. P. A. DISCOUNTS LAY-OFF OPPOSITION Most Complaints Represent More | Noise Than Numbers, Spokesmen Say. Bv the Associated Press. The Works Progress Administration, despite a growing mass of complaints, appeared almost sure today to com- reduction of the rolls to 1,665 workers by July 15 Officials said the progressive reduc- tions, which removed more than 124,000 from the W. P. A, roster in the fortnight ending June 26, are proceeding “according to plan.” June 26 employment was 1,821,151, almost 160,000 below the June 5 level It compared with the W. P. A. peak of more than 3,000,000 workers in Feb- bruary. 1936 Because W. P. A. will have only $1,325,000.000 this fiscal year, as about. $2,000,000.000 in the last, Administrator Harry Hopkins or- dered the rolls cut to 1665477 by July 15, W. P. A. spokesmen discounted the importance of complaints from worker groups and said they came mostly from the comparatively small but highly articulate white collar employes on arts projects. |BASING OF POINT SYSTEM | IN CEMENT PRICES HIT Federal Trade Commission Files Monopoly Charges for Figuring Freight. By the Associated Press The Federal Trade Commission filed monopoly charges against most of the cement industry yesterday as a second warning to industry to abandan the “basing point” system of standard- izing prices. The campaign against basing point prices was started three months ago with a complaint against manufactur- ers of cast iron soil pipe Charging the Cement Institute and 75 member corporations who produce 95 per cent of the Nation's cement, with using the basing point system, the commission alleged the firms sought to eliminate competition and raise prices. Under the system, competing pro- ducers figure their freight costs from the same place, regardless of the ac- tual location of their plants. The ef- fect, the commission said, is that customers nearest the mills are obliged to pay higher net prices than are made by the mills to distant cus- tomers.” OPENING OF CARNIVAL WILL FOLLOW PARADE Georgia Avenue Business Men Sponsoring Procession to St. Gabriel's Church. Following a parade sponsored by the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Association, St. Gabriel's Church will open its eighteenth annual carnival on the church grounds at Grant Circle tonight. The parade. to start at 6 o'clock, will begin at Georgia avenue and Kenyon street, go north on the avenue to Decatur street, turn east to Illinois avenue, then south to the carnival | grounds. The American Legion guard of honor, composed of Lieut. Horace W. Lineberg, District departmental com- mander, and his staff, will lead the procession. Five bands—the Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase Dairy, Elks, Fort Stevens Post, American Legion, Sons of the American Legion and Metm- politan Police Boys' Club—will be in the parade. — . The tea plant grows 15 to 30 feet high in nature, but planters keeps theirs trimmed to 3 to 5 feet. RELINED 4 Wheels Complete Ford = § 4.50 Chev. = 4 Plymouth Chrysler ° De Soto, 6-8 Dodse.’, pb-DH including FREE ADJUSTMENTS! Other Cars Proportionately Low ENERAL BRAKE SERVICE *I have known Philip Murray and dealt with him for many years. If 5 - 903 N ST N.W DE: 5483 THE EVENING UISIEERCOIRINGH ARG E ACCOUNT AT THE RALEIGH STAR, WASHINGTON D. C, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1937. 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