Evening star. [volume], October 15, 1934, Page A-5, Image 5

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SME THREAT
i MADEBYMINERS
[1,200 Barricade Selves in
Shaft in Protest Against
* Wages.
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miners. Five guards stand at the
mouth of the mine. They are armed
with pickaxes, and they threaten
death to any who attempt to enter.
During the interval of the strange
strike the men have been without
food, water and lights.
Frantic wives of the men, fearing
the miners would starve, sent bread
and bologna into the pit today. The
food was as quickly returned. With
It came the note that the group was
"determined to die.”
Efforts were renewed today to ne
gotiate with the men, but it appeared
likely the attempt would not be suc
cessful. The minister of commerce
sent emissaries. The sentries barred
their path with the menacing pick
axes.
An additional 3,500 mlnexy were
locked out today by the mine owner*,
precipitating new fears among the
people. The temper of the 40.000 in
habitants is strained. Regiments of
militia patrolling the city were re
inforced.
There is a possibility that the gov
ernment will take over the mines.
What action, it wqpld take, once in
control, was not made known.
Premier Goemboes sought, without
success, to end the strike yesterday.
Be sent five emissaries into the mine
to deliver this ultimatum:
“Come up within 30 minutes. If
you refrain from lawlessness and vio
lence we will negotiate with you."
Increase* Men’s Anger.
It served but to anger the men the
more. The emissaries were held host
age. Word was sent back:
“Rather than suffer the slow pangs
of death by starvation, we • will com
mit suicide by smothering ourselves.”
The five emissaries—all trade union
delegates who agreed to act for the
government—were set free only after
the government had threatened to
Mow np the mines.
The persistent refusal of the mine
(operators to meet the wage demand
drove the miners to send out word
today that they intended to kill their
horses in reprisal for the operators’
continued opposition.
A threat from the underground tomb
to speed the mass suicide by cutting
off the air and water supply was said
by officials today to be impossible of
fulfillment. The government has com
plete control of the air and water
pumps, thus preventing death by suf
focation or drowning, it was said.
The horror of the situation in the
mine was disclosed last night when
44 strikers were brought to the sur
face.
Some of them were raving madmen.
Several Are Near Death.
Some were at the point of death.
Others were unconscious, their condi
tion grave.
Hysteria and frenzy marked the
Scene at the entrance to the mines.
Wives of men in the mine fought
vainly to enter the shaft and Join
their husbands in whatever fate be
falls. Police kept them back.
Other women sought more peaceably
to win their men from the mine-tomb.
They pleaded with the mine owners
to meet the men’s demand.
The contention of the Danube
Steam Navigation. Co., owner of the
mine, is that It is unable to accede to
the wage demands because of the slack
market for coal. The company, in
which there is a heavy British invest
ment, has stated it has on hand 15,000
carloads of coal which it has been un
able to sell.
Because of the market conditions,
the company explains it has been able
to give work to only about 4,500 miners
in Pecs. These men receive pay on
the basis of only a few hours’ work
a day.
The company's constant word to the
strikers since the suicide threat was
announced has been that it will enter
Into no negotiations until they return
to the surface. The reply to this ulti
matum was:
“It is useless to negotiate further
Unless you give us your word now that
all our demands will be granted.”
This the company has declined so
far to da
FRIGHTENED INTRUDER
LEAVES WITHOUT SHOES
' A colored intruder escaped through
ia window and without his shoes when
surprised in the bed room of Herbert
L. Coves, 3075 M street, early yester
day, Coves reported to police.
Coves said he was awakened by a
fcoise in his apartment and when he
■witched on a light the man was
standing near the foot of his bed. He
grabbed him, but the prowler broke
loose and left through a kitchen win
dow, apparently left open when the
man forced an entrance.
Coves found his shoes on the
window sill. He gave police a full de
scrlptlon of the intruder.
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MISS NAOMI MAXWELL,
Fair parachutist, heading down into space shortly after Essex, England, for the* benefit of the Jubilee Hospital,
taking off from her plane during an exhibition of ' —Wide World Photo,
parachute Jumping at the recent air show staged at
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Editor of IV. it. A. Press Digest
Known as Roosevelt’s Jester
It’s an unofficial title, but Spencer
Sladdln, assistant editor of the N. R.
A. Press Digest, is known to a few
intimates as the President’s jester.
Thirty years of friendship with
“Franklin,” says Mr. Sladdln, “ought
to give me a few intimate privileges."
When the mood fell, the King
called his jester. In the midst of
affairs of state he needed a laugh to
brush away the cobwebs of care from
his mind.
Where no Kings are, the President
is. There, too, are affairs of state,
worry and care. The President needs
his laugh.
The President’s jester is self-ap
pointed. Away back there in the days
when he was an Albany correspondent
and ”F. D.” was just the Governor
of New York, the Rater could make
the future President laugh. He could
make Franklin “throw up his hands,
tilt back his chair, open his mouth
and really laugh.” Twenty times in
an hour, he says; “when P. D. bad
the time.”
But a campaign intervened, and an
election. Their paths diverged widely,
although both came to Washington.
There was still the matter of a
laugh. Affairs of state, now doubled,
kept the jeater apart from the man
he enjoyed making laugh. Sladdln
had to evolve some method of absent
treatment to provoke risable relaxa
t.inn,
Now, Sladdln's job is one of peculiar
responsibility. The Government,
mightily anxious to keep in touch
with all that is being said about this
New Deal and the N. R. A., had created
a rather complex press-dipping bu
reau. In order to do this, it waa
obliged to subecribe to about 300 met
ropolitan dally newspapers, from all
over the world. Editorials, nevfa ar
ticles, features and every bit of printed
matter that pertained to the Hew Deal
or the N. R. A. were carefully dipped
from these papers and read. A digest
of them, in booklet form, comes daily
from this bureau.
Sladdln’s desk Is in the van of this
stream of printed matter. Every paper
comes across his des^ at aome time.
As he read through them, an idea
came: “There is a way I can give
Franklin a laugh or two every night
before he puts out hie light at the
White House and goes to sleep. And
I won’t have to be there.”
In every paper that he saw were
cartoons—soma serious, seme avowed
ly funny. They were often about the
New Dad, the N. R A., members of the
cabinet, some phase of the adminis
tration. a great many of them fea
tured the President or members of his
family. Sladdln knew the family, too.
But the President, reading mainly
editorials, statistics and reports by
dry-minded, high-salaried economists,
had little or no time for cartoons.
Whet might have given him a grin be
never got a chance to ee%
Beginning In June, INS, Sladdln
begin tO Clip the— earfawns gg he
came across them. Not Just the funny
ones; sometimes be picked ones which
he thought, In his own capacity, re
flected a proper fault which the Pres
ident would be glad to have called to
his attention. Sometimes he clipped
those that deliberately made jokes an
the President. He knew his President,
you see.
Carefully he pasted the cartoons
he had choaen on sheets of paper,
dften he added below their captkms
some comment of his own which would
recall a situation these two had
laughed at many years before. Some
times he put two cartoons together,
thus realising same special signifi
cance which be was certain the Pres
ident would catch.
He mounted the cartoons in a big,
loose-leaf notebook. The whole aeries
of cartoons be bad cbosen for this
first volume traced a chronological
story of P. D. Roosevelt from his
political beginnings up to his election
as President. There were a few
pictures thrown In, of the President
In his youth, of htt family. Another
volume traced the N. R. A. from Its
Inception onward for six months. An
other volume traced the New Deal
In alhlts phasea—these latter move
ments, all in cartoons.
He styled the books of cartoons
volumes to be read while lying In bed,
and sent them over to the White
House.
In brief, volume 16 of them cartoon
histories is now In the bindery, so to
speak. Among latter titles have
been A1 Smith and Herbert Hoover,
the A. A. A, the Dali children and
the kidnaping scare, the President’s
vacation trips. Mrs. Roosevelt and
her trip to the Islands, and a book of
cartoons and pictures whKh trace the
President* mother and her recent trip
abroad, from gangplank to gangplank
on both sides of the Atlantic.
ALEXANDRIA PORT
WILL BE DEEPENED;
BIDS ASKED HERE
(Continued Worn Hurt Pm.)
to and from the District of Columbia
work house.
At Breton Bay. depths will be re
stored in the turning basin there.
Fishermen Cheered.
Another job now in progress, of
great Interest to fishermen in this
section, to at Herring Creek near Tall
Timbers, fishing ground In the Po
tomac River. Heretofore, Herring
Creek has been practically Inaccessible
to fishing boats, but when the dredg
ing job to completed about the end of
this week. It will provide a boat
harbor and basin within a half an
hour’s run of Tell Timbers, whyre ex
cellent rock, Mueflsh and others an
caught The United States derrick
boat Atlas Is handling the Job, which
consists of dredging a n*yw
Into tbs creek, to permit a 6-foot
depth, P. C. Dorr, engineer, explained
today. Local Interests at Herring
Creek have constructed, too, timber
Jetties In the Potomac River to make
that section more valuable to fishing
folk.
After the Atlas completes its task
at Herring Creek, it will proceed to
Occoquan to reinforce the levies and
the Deposit Baton, preparatory to the
dredging Job.
5,000 Slaves Traded.
In spite of the vigilance of the Brit
ish -Navy at toast 8,000 stoves an car
ried across the Red Sea from Africa
every year, to be sold at Mecca.
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EXPLAINS POLICY
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130,000 Employes Are Told
Where Corporation Stands
' on Labor Issues.
Br the Associated Ptsm.
DETROIT, October 15.—The 115-,
000 employes of General Motors Gasp,
today received through the mall
pamphlets eetting forth beak policies
governing employer-employe relations,
accompanied by a letter from Alfred
P. Sloan. Jr., president. Indorsing,
among other things, "collective bar
gaining as a constructive step for
ward.”
The statement says that “It must
be made clear that collective bargain
ing does not imply the assumption by
the employe of a voice In those affairs
of management which management,
by its very nature must ultimately de
cide upon its own responsibility. It
does not mean collective employer
employe management and must be
limited to employer-employe relation
ships,”
Arbitration iJasMaA
Of arbitration, the statement says
that while matters of fact, such as
discrimination cases and questions of
lay-off, frequently may be settled more
amicably and speedily through an Im
partial agency, the management “can
not agree to submit to arbitration any
point at Itaoe where com promise might
Injurs the king-term interests of the
bu»1 news and therefore the employes
themselves.”
The statement says further that
"employes must be given entire free
dom with respect to the selection and
form and rules of their organisation
and their selection of representatives.”
It demands strict enforcement of the
prohibition against “coercion" by out
side unkins or employe organizations.
It says further that “no one seeking
employment shall be required as a
condition of employment to Join any
employes’ association or to refrain
from joining, organising or assisting
a labor organisation of his own
choosing."
Bargaining Defined,
Of collective bargaining agencies,
the statement aays that .“the fact that
employes bceome members of an em
ploye association or an outside union
does not of Itself make such associa
tion or union the agent of these rep
resentative groups of employes for col
lective bargaining purposes.”
It also says that: “Collective bar
gaining is not fulfilled when the man
agement merely listens to the pro
posals of employes or their represen
tatives and rejects them.”
Club Plana Party.
CLARENDON, Ve„ October 15
(Special).—The Arlington County
Republican Club is completing plans
for a card party and dance to be
held at Windsor Tavern Thursday
night.
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Youth, With Urge
To Kill, SUyrHi*
Sister and Self
^JwnuSmLBTwto, October
II.—Pred Hagen, lfl-year-oid
lam boy, who .bold hta nether
qpop ariidng that^he ^Wt^Wte
•hot and killed hie ’sister, Anna,
$v gnd th*!1 committed
The youth died almost In
stantly. -EDs sister died ba a
Tm, occurred in the j
lam heme of the boy's parents,
Mr. and Mm. Ons Hagen, three
bUm northwest of HelllsslUs.
Tin children wen alone at the
ttaa.
Mis. Hagen said she had hid
den one bos ol bullets.
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JOB FOR HUTCHINS
HERE CONFIRMED
Offer by Booievelt to Hetd of
Chicago University Ad
mitted by Officials.
Reports that President Roosevelt
had offend a Job In Washington to
Robert U. Hutchins, youthful presi
dent at the University of Chicago, wen
confirmed today by administration of
ficials.
The Offer; it was said, was first made
when Ur. Roosevelt contemplated es
tablishing a new Judicial branch In
his reorganlmtkm of the N. R. A.
Since then, however, the President has
decided to let existing agencies—the
Department at Justice. the Federal
Trade Commission and N. R. A.—per
form the Judicial operations through
closer-co-operation.
Consequently there waa talk to the
effeet that Hutchins would be the new
chairman of the National Labor Re
lations Board. Lloyd K. Garrison now
holds that Job. He has been on leave
from his port as dean of the University
of Wisconsin Law School Dr. Olenn
Frank, president of the unlverilty, has
urged Garrison to return to the school,
and Mr. Roosevelt reluctantly has
agreed.
BONUS QUESTION AIRING
AT LEGION CONVENTION
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National Commando? Promises
Thera Will Be No ■team-Ball
eriag at Miami Isertons,
BrU»Asstrtet*OPrma
MIAMI, Pla„ October 15.—The Na
Uon’s MOAOO hdconatme ham the
promise <rf National Comdr. Bdward A.
Hayes oT Decatur, HL. that the bonus
question will not be “steam-rollered”
when the slstesnlh annual American
Legion Contention opent lure a week
tram today.
Hams, tn MIomI with the headouar
tern* itaff to prepare for the four-day
mLIaW 1* Pa Walttei ba
meeung wnicn is rxpfcwu 10 oring oc
tween TO,000 end 100,000 ex-eenrlce
' *towy man on the convention floor
who want* to talk on the bonus will
got the opportunity to do so."
He Tourheafed ao prediction aa to
the laimMyi probable action on the
bonus queatkn.
The convention’s chief business
Hayes said, will be the adoption of a
statementof policy binding i«gt«»
nabwe to work fer enactment into law
of a program of universal service In
wartime.
Bail Service Speeded.
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