Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1937, Page 9

BRIDGE PLAYERS PREPARE FORTEST W. M. Mcintyre-Le Roy . Thurtell Team Finishes .3 First. Washington's foremost ~ contract bridge players went through a formal brushing up for the American Bridge League's forthcoming tournaments as they shuffied the cards at a two-day contest at the Shoreham Hotel last week. Forty-two duplicate boards were | played by 22 pairs, all of whom had been winners in a sufficient number of previous contests to have rated the league's masters point rating. The W. M. McIntyre-LeRoy Thurtell team ‘was the winner in both the Wednesday and Thursday night sessions. Mr. and Mrs, C. B. Pennebaker and Mr. and Mrs. James H. Lemon placed second and third, while Col. E. B. Gray, U. 8. A, teamed with Miss Frances Skelly to take fourth. Credit to Entrance Fee, First, second and third place prize | money, totaling $90, was credited on the winners’ ent fees at the | Asbury Par it nament of the league to begin August 2. Washington will be host to the annual American League tourney in December One of the feature deals in Shoreham contest follows: North, the East. 8 K-J-10 H K-x-x-x-x-x H 10 D x-x D x-x Cx C K-10-X-X-X-X-X Bouth. A-Q-x-X x x- K-J-10-x-X-X x sides vulnerable and South ] H D [o] Both | ably THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON William Green Surveys Labor Crisis A. F. of L. Head Believes John Lewis and C. I. O. Have Wrecked Chance to Reach Sympathetic Understanding With Industry. This is tne first of a series of & articles setting forth the views of leaders in industry and labor on the industrial warfare that has been spreading over the country. Williem Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, dis= cusses here the policics of his or= ganization as opposed to those of the Committee for Industrial Or= ganization. dealer. | A study of the hands will reveal that it is possible, by employing a | double squeeze, for the North and Bouth combination to make seven in diamonds or no-trumps. In the play- | ing, however, the bidding stopped in | varying instances at three no-trimyps, #ix diamonds and six no-trumps, with | only one team, L. R. Watson, jr., .end Mrs. Martin West, bidding and | making a grand slam. Score Run to 2,880. In that instance, after they had | bid six no-trumps, their opponent holding the Fast hand bid defensively seven clubs. BY WILLIAM H. FORT. “§ OHN LEWIS organized the Organization with the spe- | clal purpose of destroying “The splitting, tearing, ripping apart \ of labor by John Lewis in his attempt far more injury to the cause of labor than any group of hostile employers | William Green. president of the ! American Federation of Labor, prob- phrases which he would like to use in describing his opinion of his former fame with the advent of the sit-down t those two statements give 3 for John Lewis C. organizations now F. of L. unions. They express, too, in a subtle fashion, the harried, wor- and his deep concern over the pres-| ent chaotic condition of labor. For ried and he is earnestly concerned. And. until recently at least, slightly which had, with the force of & power- ful rip-tide, sucked the entire labor strife which, he believes, still threat- | ens the very existence of labor as | Green Did Little Field Work. | William Green is the exact oppo- | ance and personality. Up to a point they both had the same background from small towns. They both were miners. But while Lewis remained in & rough and tumble battle, a knock- about utility man, Green had none of work” to speak of. He became secre- tary of his union and throughout most the inside” He learned to lean to- | ward conciliation, arbitration rather | Committee for Industrial the American Federation of Labor. to wreck the labor unions has done could possibly have done.” has a storehouse full of acrid co-worker who skyrocketed to dubious thumbnail summary outlawed as unfit companions for A. | ried state of mind of William Green there is no doubt about it—he is wor- | bewildered by the rapid turn of events movement into a maelstrom of inner | vital force in the life of the country. | site of John Lewis in habits, appear- | in the labor business. They both came an “outside man” thoroughly at home this outside experience, no “field of his experience has remained “on than toward a scrap. The appearance | #chairs and a small table with a water bottle on it. Fears Loss of Prestige. Whatever else he may think of the C. I. O, foremost in the mind of | William Green is the conviction that John Lewis, with his organization's *anarchist methods” and “lawless tac- tics” is rapidly tearing down the | prestige of labor, “nullifying the in- fluence which the A. F. of L. has spent generations in building up.” He gave the impression of being more | grieved than incensed over the fact WILLIAM GREEN, —Underwood Photo. vindictiveness in his attitude, but there is a quiet earnestness which is convincing. Another contrast which may or may not be aignificant is the setting in which the two opposites of the labor situation “live” officially. Con- trasted with the sumptuous quarters of John Lewis, with its expensive leather-covered chairs in neat rows in the directors’ rooms, the thick care peting and the elaborate artistic deco- rations, Bill Green's office, on the top floor of the ancient A. F. of L. Building here is like & monastery. He sat in an office about 16 by 20 feet, barren of decorations. There was no carpet on the floor, no pic= tures on the wall. Only his bat- tered big desk piled high with docu- ments and correspondence, six plain that the rift between C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. grows steadily wider. “No one,” he said, “can adequately predict, at the moment, the outcome of conditions as they exist at present. “The outlook for a settlement of the differences between the Amer- ican Federation of Labor and the C. I O. is more remote today than at any period before the controversy D. C, JULY started. On our part we have & standing committee, waiting for the last several months, ready to sit down with & similar committee of the C. I. O. and discuss the situa- tion in an effort to come to an agree- ment. But each day some new com- plications enter into the controversy which make a settlement farther and farther away.” Probably among the most bitter of his feelings concerning the C. I. O. is the conviction that John Lewis and his organization “have wrecked the big chance of labor to come to a sympathetic understanding with in- dustry.” “The relations between employer and employe were progressing in fine shape before the C. I. O. stepped into the picture,” he said. “Now this movement toward a mutual under- standing has been almost completely stopped. 2 Picture May Change. “This will become more and more apparent within the next few years than it is now. At present times are good and getting better. There is more work and more jobs, and employers, with good times at hand, sre inclined to reguard the problems of their men with something akin to sympathy and understanding. But when the economic situation changes, then we 25, 193 PART ONE. will be face to face with a downward trend in wages along with a downward trend in employment. Then is when labor will need strength to preserve its rights. “We will never be prepared to meet that situation with labor torn asunder as it is now. And history, in all probability, will repeat itself. The change in the economic cycle is bound to come. When it does it will be the worst ever, “There would be no division in the ranks of labor today if there were no C. I. O. Until John Lewis en- tered the picture labor was united. It would still be united.” As Mr. Green views the situation, the C. I. O. is headed “straight to- ward anarchy and it is led by Com- munists.” Eventually, however, he expects that this “violent surge to the left” will result in strengthening, not weakening, the A. F. of L. With Tom Girdler, chairman of the Repub- lc Steel Corp., he is of the firm be- lief that John Lewis is “hungry for power and money.” “Instead of weakening the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, our position has been strengthened and sustained,” he said. “That is the one bright aspect in an otherwise dreary picture. It has been strengthened in its eco- nomic, political and moral influence. A9 In industry are workers, thousands of them, who, influenced by the law- less tactics of the C. 1. O, will de- mand loyalty to the A. F. of L. John Lewis created an instrumentality fa- vorable to those extreme, subversive elements. He it was who brought them into the industrial problem, and they immediately seized upon the opportunity and used the C. I O. to promote their own peculiar political and economic philosophies. Many Communists on Role. “There are a very large number of admitted Communists on the C. I. O. pay rolls. That is well known. They | immediately stepped in and took charge of the C. I. O. policies locally. | They shaped and formed the local | policies. | “There is plenty of evidence of this. The numerous violations of contracts. The absolute seizure of a town in| Michigan. Shutting off power with- | out notice. Shutting off lights in | hospitals. There are plenty of un- | lawful, terroristic acts to choose from. | And they have nothing to justify their | acts. They are un-American and therefore they cannot succeed.” Mr. Green was just as stanchly de- fensive of A. F. of L. policies as he was violently opposed to C. L O. tactics. “They forced a strike in the inde- pendent steel plants,” he said. “And they expected to win with only s minimum of the workers organized. The results, a5 might have been ex= pected, were fatal. The C. I. O. is Just like an army of raw recruits. They have no discipline. And without disciplined troops no general can win a battle. 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