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MAI GEN. LEIEUNE
QUITS V. M. I. POST
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Former Marine Comman
dant to Retire, Despite
Board’s Plea to Remain.
By tb* Associated Press.
LEXINGTON. Va.. January 16.—
Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune today gave
notice he would resign as superin
tendent to the Board of Visitors of
Virginia Military Institute.
The notice of his resignation is to
take effect October 1, 1937.
Capt. R. W. Massie of Lynchburg,
president of the Board of Visitors,
»aid that Gen. Le Jeune announced his
intentions in a letter to the board
despite the “earnest request” of every
member present at today's meeting
for him to reconsider his decision.
Gen. Le Jeune as commander of a
division, composed of Marines and
Regular Army men, led his forces in
engagements at St. Mihiel, Mont Blanc
Ridge. Champagne and the Meuse Ar
gonne. His services overseas won
for him the Army and Navy Dis
tinguished Service Awards, Legion of
Honor Ribbon and the French Croix
de Guerre.
Gen. Le Jeune was appointed com
mandant of the entire Marine Corps
in June, 1920, by President Wilson
and retained by Presidents Harding
and Coolidge.
He was retired from active service
under the age-limit provision for mili
tary men in 1929 and was chosen
superintendent of V. M. I. by the
Board of Trustees.
Gen. Le Jeune was born in Pointe
Coupee Parish, La., of French parent
age on January 10. 1867. He was
graduated from the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis i» 1888.
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Strike
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battle with police, in which missiles
and gunfire injured 27 person*.
To Prosecute to Limit.
As an aftermath of the riots. Prose
cutor Joseph R. Joseph said he would
"prosecute to the limit" seven union
leaders on charges of inciting riot. |
Four of them stood mute on arraign- j
ment today; pleas of innocent were en-;
tered for them and a preliminary hear- j
ing set for January 21. They were re- |
leased under $500 bond each. The
maximum penalty on the charge
would be five years' imprisonment or
one year and $5,000 fine.
The union said it was prepared to
"fight these cases to the end.”
Acting on Gov. Murphy’s recom
mendation. Joseph obtained dismissal
of charges against 10 strikers injured
In the riots.
The Governor said today all General |
Motors employes in need because of the
strike situation will receive State wel
fare aid.
The Fleetwood division "sit down
ers" were the first to leave in today's
evacuations. Singing parodies of j
"Hinkey Dinkey Parley Voo" addressed j
to General Motors executives, they!
paraded out as two union sound trucks j
blared instructions and advice. One i
striker carried a banner inscribed, "G.
M. today; Ford tomorrow.” |
They had been in the plant since j
January 12. At the Cadillac plant, |
Resigns
MAJ. GEN. LE JEUNE.
they were joined by ‘ sit-down” strik
ers who have held that factory since
January 8. The band played "Hail,
Hail, the Gang's All Here.”
The two groups, accompanied by
women and children of their families,
headed for a mass meeting.
In the settlement negotiations start
ing Monday will be the same rep
resentatives of corporation and union
that participated in the Governor’s
conference. Knudsen will be accom
panied by Donaldson Brown, chairman
of the Finance Committee, and John
Thomas Smith, general counsel of
General Motors. Martin, U. A. W. A.
president, will be joined by Wyndham
Mortimer, first vice president, and
John Brophy. a director of John L.
Lewis' Committee for Industrial Or
ganization.
May Change Personnel.
Each side has the right to change
its negotiating personnel, and Knud
sen said C. E. Wilson, vice president,
and H. W. Anderson, director of labor
relations, might appear at some ses
sions for General Motors.
This arrangement might open the
way for Lewis, whose C. I. O. has
been suspended by the American
Federation of Labor for its policy of
organizing workers by industries in
stead of crafts, to enter the negotia
tions. Brophy said today, however,
that "that has not been considered
yet."
Knudsen today assured George E.
Boysen. president of “The Flint
Alliance" organized to give expression
to anti-strike sentiment, that “on
rights of any man working for Gen
eral Motors are in jeopardy. Every
effort will be made to get all men
back to work as soon as possible.”
He added that "the reason wrhy all
men are not put back to work is that
we desire to avoid violence.”
Part of the truce agreement which
paved the way for settlement negotia
tions provided that General Motors
would not attempt to operate strike
closed plants.
Boysen had telegraphed the corpo
ration official that General Motors
employes who are members of the alli
ance urged that "operation of all Flint
plants be resumed immediately,” per
mitting all workers to return and not
hiring any new employes for 30 days.
Knudsen’s reply stated: “No man’s
right to be represented by whomsoever
he chooses will be denied. General
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FOUR ACCUSED IN RIOT.
Union Officials Are Arraigned Before
Flint Judge.
FLINT, Mich., January 16 C4>).—
Four leaders of the United Automobile
Workers of America stood mute In
court today on charges of inciting a
riot, while 2,300 National Guardsmen,
their demobilization suddenly coun
termanded, continued to occupy the
city.
Mayor Harold E. Bradshaw said he
had suggested to Gov. Frank Murphy
that the Guardsmen remain at least
until two striker-occupied General
Motors plants here are evacuated, al
though, he said, "I do not expect vio
lence and neither does the Governor.”
Union leaders announced today that
1,500 men who have held Fisher Body
plant No. 1 since December 30 would
march from the plant at 1:30 p.m.
tomorrow. At 2:30 p.m., the 450 men
who have occupied Fisher plant No. 2
will march out. The "stay-in" strik
ers will attend a mass meeting at 8:30
I p.m., to be addressed by Homer Mar
tin, president of the U. A. W.
Today’s arraignments were after
maths of rioting at Fisher plant No. 2
Monday night which injured 27 per
sons and brought the 125th and 126th
Infantry to Flint with orders to "pre
serve order at all costs.”
Robert Travis, chief organizer for
the U. A. W. in the Fline area; Victor
and Roy Reuther, brothers, and Henry
Kraus, editor of the Flint Auto Worker,
stood mute before Municipal Judge
Edwin D. Mallory on charges of in
citing to riot.
They and three other union leaders
against whom warrants have been is
sued are accused of directing the
strikers on the night of the riot
through an amplifier mounted on an
automobile. Officers said they were
told the other three, B. J. Wldick of
Akron, publicity director for the U.
A. W.; Walter Towner of St. Louis,
Mo., and William Carney of Akron
had left the State.
The four men who were arraigned
supplied bond of $500 each for a pre
liminary hearing January 21. Prose
cutor Joseph R. Joseph said he would
prosecute them "to the limit” on the 1
grounds that they "touched a spark |
to a disorder that might have been I
much worse.” The maximum penalty, |
in the event of conviction, is five
years’ imprisonment or one year im
prisonment and a $5,000 fine.
The prosecutor announced he was !
dropping charges of rioting preferred
against 14 of the strikers, 13 of whom
were injured Monday night. That,
he said, was in accordance with the
desires of Gov. Murphy.
The prosecutor indicated that "John
Doe" warrants issued for strikers
within the plant also would be
dropped, as requested by the Gov-1
ernor. No attempt has been made to
serve those warrants.
Martin Claims Majority.
Martin declared today for the first
time that his union represents a ma
jority of General Motors employes.
Elaborating upon a formal statement
that had bjen distributed, he said at
a press conference:
"We represent a majority of the
workers in General Motors today.
Sloan (Alfred P. Sloan, jr., General
Motors president) asked for a dem
onstration of our strength and we
showed him by closing his plants."
Martin said the union membership
has shown a decided Increase in the
last two days since the agreement
for negotiations with the corporation
was reached. He declined to give
the present membership, but said that
of 100,000 application blanks bought
by the union two weeks ago only 6,000
were left and that most of the others
had been returned.
He said that members were en
rolling "by the thousands” at Flint
gnd by the "hundreds” every day at
Tarrytown, N. Y.. and Baltimore.
He listed the following as additions
in these cities yesterday: St. Louis,
800; Detroit, Cadillac and Fleetwood,
500; Lansing, 500: Pontiac. Mich.,
500; Anderson, Ind., 400, and Oak
land, Calif, 400.
Referring to the union's demand
that it be recognized as the bargain
ing agency for General Motors em
ployes—one of the eight demands to
be negotiated—Martin’s statement
•aid;
"Contrary to some misleading stories
which have appeared, based on a mis
understanding of the subjects of dis
cussion in the Lansing conference,
the union has at no time receded from
its stand on this all-important point."
CLOSING IN ST. LOUIS.
Production at Chevrolet Assembly
Plant Is Suspended.
ST. LOUIS, January 16 (/P).—Pro
duction at the St. Louis Chevrolet
Fisher body assembly plant, where
members of the United Automobile
Workers of America have been on
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Streamlines Tested.
Railways of Great Britain are mak
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methods which will increase speeds
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