Evening star. [volume], January 17, 1937, Page A-13, Image 13

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A. AND P. FORCES
TO GET INCREASE
Letter Tells 96,000 Em
ployes of Prospects for
Betterment.
In a letter addressed December
31, last, to the 96,000 employes of the
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.,
John A. Hartford, its president, as
sured them that the concern will
pursue a set policy looking toward
higher wages, shorter hours and bet
ter working conditions for its clerks
and store managers.
In the future, he declared, the A.
& P. will keep its workers informed
by similar communications of policy
developments and plans.
"Before describing our plans in de
tail," Hartford stated in the open
letter, "let me tell you what is in our
minds. We realize that the men in
our stores work long, confining hours.
We realize that while some of them
earn an exceptionally good living,
others have been underpaid. These
conditions prevail throughout the
whole grocery business. Grocery
stores have always kept long hours,
and offered very few inducements to
beginners.
uradual change Planned.
"But just because things have al
ways been so is no sign that they
must be continued. We believe that
grocery stores should keep the same
hours as other retail businesses. But
we know, as you know, that any
sudden, drastic shortening of oui
store hours would only give a big ad
vantage to competition. We cannot
close our doors in our customers’
faces and send them to competitors’
stores. However, v.e can shorten our
hours gradually and set such an ex
ample that the entire industry will,
In time, follow our lead.
"We also believe that the wages in
food stores should be so high that
they attract the very highest type
of men. And we do not believe that
high wages and short hours would
add to the price of food in the long
run. For an organization composed
of intelligent, capable men, who have
deep respect for themselves and their
work, and who sympathize with what
the company is trying to do—an or
ganization such as that could not be
stopped. Our only difficulty would be
in meeting the demand for our serv
ices."
Benefits of Last Year.
Hartford recounted benefits em
ployes have received in the last year.
In that time $1,200,000 has been
appropriated to increase clerks’ wages,
minimum wages and weekly half holi
days established, vacations with full
pay and sick benefits granted, and
overtime pay ordered, the official de
clared. By March 1 all improvements
will be in effect throughout the coun
try. he said.
"We do not intend to stop with
present schedules," Hartford con
tinued. "We consider them only a
good beginning.”
Power
(Continued From First Page.)
companies of the injunction pro
ceedings which are hampering the T.
V. A.'s power program, at least tem
porarily.
Moderate Ownership.
The T. V. A. chairman’s statement
■aid:
"I favor enough public ownership to
enable the country to work out ef
fective methods on a life-siaed scale,
but not so much public ownership
that we shall be swamped by Ineffi
ciency before we learn how to make
it effective and economical.”
Duplication of facilities by Gov
ernment and private power compan
ies "should be avoided,” he said.
"If a community undertakes public
ownership, the existing private prop
erties should be taken over at a fair
price, as determined by agreement or
by impartial appraisal. There should
be efforts to avoid arbitrary disrup
tion of existing efficient systems."
He said a campaign which would
( result in public ownership in 10 or 20
larger cities within transmission
range of T. V. A. might "practically
destroy” the ability of the larger pri
vate systems to "render maximum
•ervice.”
"Effort to bring about such disrup
I =
tlon seems to bo under way,- be
added.
"It is the honest opinion in some
quarters," Morgan asserted, "that any
negotiation with the private utilities
is unwise and dangerous. Yet, not
withstanding my own experiences and
what I have learned of utility abuses,
I believe that at the present time the
proper attitude to take with refer
ence to T. V. A. power is to strive to
find a basis of agreement between
the T. V. A. and the private utilities
which will protect both public and
private investments, and will lead to
the widest possible distribution of
electric power at the lowest possible
rates.
Reasonable Arrangement.
"I believe that some leading utility
executives are today in a mood to
desire a reasonable working arrange
ment, and that it may be possible to
arrive at a solution which will pro
tect both public and private inter
ests. * • *
"America is deciding little by little
whether, in the great social readjust
ments that are taking place, there
shall be a strengthening of demo
cratic methods, reasonableness, fair
play and open dealing, or whether
we shall drift into bitter class con
troversies which lead to violent and
arbitrary action, so prevalent today
j in several other countries. That issue
is so serious, and the destiny of our
country is so much at stake, that a
spirit of tolerance and reasonableness
on both sides is a public obligation."
Representative Rankin, Democrat,
of Mississippi entered the fight last
night with a statement saying, "We
should not deal with private power
companies until they come with clean
hands.” *
Declaring President Roosevelt had
branded “power trusts’ ” activities as
1 “theft within the law,” Rankin
i added:
"If we are going to pool T. V. A.
power with them under these condi
| tions, then why not pool the Depart
I ment of Justice with the facilities of
j the kidnapers and racketeers and
just make peace with everybody?”
POLICE SUBDUE SUSPECT
Ex-Convict Said to Have Con
fessed Killing Officer.
CHICAGO. January 16 (>P).—Nine
policemen surrounded Joseph Schu
ster, 30. early today, subdued him in
a desperate fight and jailed him as
i the slayer of Policeman Arthur Sulli
! van.
Capt. Daniel Gilbert said Schuster,
i a paroled convict, confessed he shot
Sullivan on the stairway of an ele
vated railroad station after he was
taken into custody as a robbery sus
pect Thursday night. After Schuster
I re-enacted the crime. Gilbert quoted
him as saying, “I didn't want to go
back to the stir. The cop didn't find
my gun and when I saw I'd have to
use it to get away, I just let him
have it.”
Stars to Sing at Concert
These four members of the Metropolitan Opera Co. will
appear with the National Symphony Orchestra on the program
of the inaugural concert to be held in Constitution Hall Wednes
day at 9 p.m. They are: (1) Susanne Fisher, soprano; (2)
Kathryn Meisle, contralto; (3) Richard Bonelli, baritone; (4)
Richard Crooks, tenor.
GOVERNORS PLAN
TO AIM EVENT
Most States to Be Repre
sented at Luncheon on
Housing.
More thin two-third* of the States
will be represented at the housing
luncheon for State Governors to be
held at the Mayflower Hotel Tuesday
at noon. Frederic A. Delano, chair
man of the committee, is to be the
only speaker.
Among the 300 guests will be the
Governors of Alabama, Florida, Geor
gia, Illinois, Indiana. Kansas. Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massa
chusetts. Minnesota, Missouri, Nebras
ka, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Ten
nessee and Virginia.
There will be representatives as
well from Maine, New Jersey, Michi
gan, Connecticut, Wyoming, Wisconsin,
Arizona and West Virginia.
rne central Mousing committee is
an Informal aggregation of head* and
principal staff assistants of govern
mental agencies concerned with hous
ing construction and finance.
The principal and alternate mem
bers of the committee include Secre
tary Roper and Lyman J. Briggs. Com
merce Department; John H. Fahey
and Ormond E. Loomis. Federal Home
Loan Bank Board; Stewart McDonald
and Miles Colean, Federal Housing
Administration; Eugene T. Leggett
and C. H. Cotter, National Emergency
Council.
C. J. Peoples and N. Max Dunning
of the Procurement Division, Horatio
B. Hackett and H. A. Gray, Public
Work* Administration; John Lansill
and Warren J. Vinton, Resettlement
Administration; John W. Slacks and
George B. Williams, Reconstruction
Finance Corp.'s mortgage corporation.
Horace W. Peaslee is the secretary
and Don K. Price is personal assistant
to the chairman.
More Tobacco Used.
Imports of raw tobacco have been
Increased in the Irish Free State.
KING SESSION
TO OPEN FRIDAY
Mrs. Roosevelt and Langdon
Post ot Discuss Group’s
Program.
The National Public Housing Con
ference will hold its fourth national
meeting at the Willard Hotel Friday,
Saturday and Sunday of this week. I
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York and
Langdon Po6t, chairman of the New
York City Housing Authority, and
others will discuss the group's 10-year
program of slum clearance and re
housing for low-income groups.
Mrs. Roosevelt will speak at a pre
convention meeting at the home of
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson. 15 Dupont
circle, before a public dinner Friday
night at the Willard.
A message from President Roosevelt.,
which will be read at the dinner, will
open discussion of the topic set for
the dinner, “Subsides for a Nation
wide Rehousing Program."
me aaiuraay sessions win open at
A 30 a m. at the Willard with a forum
on "The Price. Value and Acquisition
of Land,” with Dr. Harry W. Laidler,
director of the League for Industrial
Economy, presiding.
The topic of discussion after a buf
fet luncheon will be "Problems and
Progress of Local Housing Author
ities.” After a forum meeting Sunday
on "Organizing Public Demand for
Fublic Housing Legislation,” the group
will visit the Tugwelltown project at
Berwyn, Md.
Seals Blamed.
Fishermen of South Wexford. Irish
Free State, are blaming an Invasion
of seals for the disappearance of
herring.
NEWSMEN ELECT |
House and Senate Press Galleries
I
Group Named.
Washington newspaper correspond
ents elected a new Standing Commit
tee to govern the House and Senate
press galleries at the biannual elec
tion yesterday. The largest vote in
many years was cast.
The successful candidates and their
vote follow: Nathan W. Robertson.
Associated Press, 191; Alfred F.
Flynn, Wall Street Journal. 190; C.
P. Trusaell. Baltimore Sun, 183; Marie
L. Goodwin, Dallas News and Jour
nal. 182, and Paul J. McGahan, Phil
adelphia Inquirer, 188.
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