Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1937, Page 5

- .10, LAUNCHES MARITIME DRIVE Lewis Announces Plans for Most Ambitious of Union- fzation Efforts. BACKGROUND— Drive by C. I. O. to organize maritime workers brings to a head widespread dissension that has all but paralyzed United States ship- ing on two occasions. Many of the ezisting maritime unions have been affiliated with the American Fed- eration of Labor, but that organi- eation has had little success in harmonizing diflerences between East and West Coast fraction lead- ers. Principal disputes between ship operators and workers has been control of hiring halls and aboli- tion of “black list,” allegedly used to prevent active unmion workers Jrom obtaining employment. B the Associated Press. John L. Lewis aligned his Commit- tee for Industrial Organization today with 15,000 striking shipyard workers | In New York and undertook to or- | ganize all maritime employes under | C. I. O. auspices. The enrollment, he predicted, would Immediately draw 300,000 men into one big union, similar to those he has promoted in the steel, auto and textile industries. Demands A. F. L. Break. Lewis said unionists who come into | the C. I. O. campaign must break all ties with the American Federation of Labor. “This is the first time the men in the maritime industry have been able to raise their eyes to the hope of fair treatment from the shipping industry,” he asserted. He told a conference of 26 labor ! leaders representing 24 maritime un- lons—some of them A. F. of L. affili- ates—that the C. I. O. is prepared to fnance the new movement “to any necessary extent.” The conference adopted a resolu- | tion charging violation of the Wagner collective bargaining act to 25 ship builders and ship repair firms. The strike which won C. I O. indorse- wment is in those businesses. Lewis said in reply to a press con- ference question as to whether public opinion frowns on C. I O. strike tactics: “If the public wants to disapprove the C. I. O, it can, and if it wants to approve, it can.” Declines to Estimate Strength. Lewis declined to estimate numer- fcal strength of the C. I. O, saying “We haven't had time to count all our new members.” The maritime step is one of the most ambitious of all of Lewis' union- ization efforts. He said the C. I O.| is prepared to “finance to any neces- sary extent” a “streamlined organiza- tion drive.” I Mervyn Rathborne, president of the | American Radio and Telegraphists’ As- | sociation, was designated a C. I. O. member of the Organization Com- mittee. Members elected by the con- | ference are: Joseph Curran of the National Maritime Union; Harry Bridges, pres- ident of the Pacific Coast District of | the International Longshoremen's Association, who led the 1934 and 1936 Pacific Coast strikes; Capt. E. T.| Binchon of the Masters, Mates and Pilots’ Union; V. J. Malone of the | West Coast Firemen and Oilers’ Union, | and John Green, president of the Industrial Union of Shipbuilders and Bhipyard Workers. Shipbuilders in all yards, whether Government navy yards or commer- | cial and repair yards, will be eligible for membership, he said. _— | | Two Are Victims Of Pick Pockets At All-Star Game 13 Persons Are Arrested for Soliciting Auto- mobile Parking. Despite the huge concentration of Police and plain clothesmen at the all-star game yesterday, the light- fingered boys who circulate in crowds managed to do a little good for themselves, two victims reporting losses. Arthur H. Burgoof, 809 E street, | was leaving the ball park when his wallet containing $23 was lifted, and Joe Trippe, 1346 Harvard street, suf- fered like fate in the ticket line, los- ing $19. Members of the hack inspectors office arrested 13 persons for soliciting Rutomobile parking. Most of them were young boys, who were released in custody of their parents to ap- pear in Juvenile Court. In others, #5 collateral was required. There also were a few arrests in- side the stadium for disorderly con- duct. EIGHT ARE INDICTED I STRIKE RIOTING Ex-C. . 0. Worker Is Named as Union Files Complaint With Labor Board. BACKGROUND— “Little steel” in May decided on a united defiance of John L. Lewis’ drive to organize the industry, despite his fresh successes in sign- ing “big steel” to union contracts. Since then the war has raged in Plants, picket lines and court rooms, with violence and death attend- ing it. B3 the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, July 8.—Republic strike-closed plants today, and the grand jury of Trumbull County, Ohio (Warren), returned indictments charg- ing eight men with illegal possession of explosives in connection with strike violence. The grand jury's action came in the wake of 157 indictments returned earlier this week by inquisitors in adjacent Mahoning County (Youngs- town). Today's indictments were against Gus Hall, deposed C. I. O. organizer; | six other men arrested as bombing suspects and one man whose name was not made public. On scattered fronts the Steel Work- ers’ Organizing Committee sought to bolster through suits and charges its fight for signed contracts. Steel & Tubes, Inc., employing nor- mally about 500 men and smallest of Republic's four Cleveland plants, was opened to workers while police and Ohio National Guardsmen formed a protective circie at the mill, near Lake Erle on the city’s far northeast side. The other three Republic plants here resumed operations Tuesday. Re- public said 3,800 men were back on duty, an increase of 700 from the first day’s figures. Normally they em- ploy about 7,000 workers. Police Collusion Charged. Lee Pressman, general counsel for John L. Lewis' Committee for Indus- trial Organization, came to Cleveland from Pittsburgh to confer on pending court proceedings. He expected to go to Columbus, State capital, for a hear- ing tomorrow in Federal District Court ! | srrrarmnaarn B RO K BN A 33! IAL PRICE APPLIES TO POUND QUANTITIES ONLY LESS THAN POUND QUANTITIES AT REGULAR PRKE 43 AT THE PEANUT STORE 70 Open Evenings and Sundays 15th St. N.W. Between Peoples Drug and Postal Telegraph ICE TEA SPOONS Good Quality Heavy Silver Plated 10-YEAR GUARANTEE MADE BY R. WALLACE & SONS 9C Ea.ch 6 for 50c Steel Corp. reopened the last of its | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGT Accuses Mother in $100,000 Suit = Mrs. Harriet Drake Myers, shown at left with her father, Paul S. Drake, who sued the Rev. Francis Kelly (right) for $100,000 jor alleged alienation of the affections of his wife, testified in the trial at Los Angeles that she had seen Kelly and her mother together. yesterday —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. on a suit to force withdrawal of Na- | tional Guardsmen from Ohio strike centers, Before leaving Pittsburgh, Pressman announced he had filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board charging Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. had “acted in collusion” with city and county police officials and officers of the Ohio National Guard in an effort to defeat the strike. He charged the company “has im- ported & great number of armed thugs and gunmen * * * for the purpose of interfering with the right| of peaceful picketing and ** * in- timidating the strikers.” His seven-count complaint listed, he said, charges of collusion involv- ing the Youngstown, Ohio, chief of police, the Mahoning County (Youngs- town) sheriff and Adjt. Gen. Emil F. Marx and other officers of the National Guard. Coercion Charged. Pressman alleged importation of “strikebreakers” by Sheet & Tube and that it “compelled its employes who have been forced to return to work, as a condition of re-employment, |to sign statements and otherwise promise that they will give up their membership in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee.” Dynamite Suspect Indicted. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 8 (). — Ernest Layton, 21-year-old former employe of the strike-troubledq Cam- bria Steel Works, pleaded guilty to- day to cimmitting “malicious mis- chief to a railroad during a strike.” He was bound over to court under $2,500 bond. State Motor Patrol Sergt. William | Hanna had charged Layton tossed | three sticks of dynamite beneath a train moving into the struck mill which is owned by the Bethlehem Steel Corp. Washburn Raeger, a striking em- ploye of the company’s subsidiary Conemaugh and Blacklick Railroad, waived a hearing before Alderman J. Alvin Reese on a similar charge. The company claimed to be operat- ing with a “practically normal” crew today as the State motor police with- [ drew 40 of the 200 troopers in the strike zone. James Mark, veteran strike leader, challenged the company's statement that operations were normal. He es- timated that not more than 6,000 or 7,000 of the usual force of 15,000 were “on the job.” “There may be more than that num- ber reporting for work, but they are green men who have no practical value in producing steel.” Liqu-or M(arcimnt Is Robbed of $175 By Dandy Bandit The “well-dressed man with the nickel-plated revolver,” recent nemesis of police and liquor store dealers, was credited with another of his favorite hold-ups last night, when Larimer’s Liquor Store, 1737 Connecticut ave- nue, was robbed of $175 by a man answering his description. Andrew A. 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