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a 1.0. PREPARES
TO HELP MINERS
Policy Committee of Union
Groups Gathers for
Session Here.
Another of the Nation's major in
dustries today moved into the focus
of the militant labor group headed by
John L. Lewis as the Policy Comnftt
- tee of the United Mine Workers gath
ered at the Willard Hotel here to map
their strategy for seeking shorter
hours and higher wages in the soft
coal fields.
Although Lewis still was confined
to his hotel room in Detroit with a
cold, about 175 of his mine workers’
associates were scheduled to open
three days of deliberations this after
noon. He is expected to return be
fore the meeting ends, with his de
parture for New York and joint con
ferences with the coal operators
scheduled early next week.
The present agreement between the
miners and operators expires March
31. Operators already have demanded
that the work week be Increased from
35 to 40 hours, with no wage increase.
Coal men expect the union to demand
a 30-hour week, with a wage increase
of at least 15 per cent. Negotiations
are to start next Wednesday.
Steel Industry Drive.
Lewis has already begun an attempt
to bring all the workers in the steel
Industry into the Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
The steel and coal industries are re
lated. Coal is needed to make steel
and steel companies own many coal
mines. Lewis has expressed a belief
that the same financial interests, in
some instances, are back of both steel
and coal companies.
The miners’ contract with the op
erators provides that operators shall
deduct union dues from pay envelopes
and send the dues to union headquar
ters. Lewis is financing a good share
of his entire campaign from this
money. A long coal strike would cut
off this revenue.
This dues "check-off” enters the
picture in another way, also. The
steel companies that operate mines
now are collecting funds to help Lewis
organize employes in their own steel
mills.
Lewis’ Plans Mystery.
Prom these facts and opinions, labor
Observers for months have tried to
deduce whether Lewis would bring his
steel campaign to a head with simul
taneous strikes in steel and coal
April 1 or insure his union's income by
a settlement with the coal operators
before he attempted to win agreements
from steel.
Lewis refuses to answer these ques
tions and even some of his closest
friends profess not to know what his
•trategy will be.
While giving his attention to steel
and coal in the months just ahead,
Lewis also appears destined to have
an increasingly bitter fight with the
American Pederaion of Labor, labor
men say. Federation leaders last night
termed the strike settlement a "sur
render” by Lewis.
The federaion has given up any
effort to make peace with Lewis. In
stead the craft union leaders who op
pose Lewis’ unionization drive have
adopted an outright war-like program.
Secretary Perkins, in a statement
yesterday on the auto strike settlement,
•aid both union and management were
“to be praised for their give-and-take
spirit and for their sober sense of
fairness and responsibility to those
they represented and to the general
public.”
Other labor developments:
Miss Perkins expressed an opinion
that use of the seamen's continuous
discharge books provided by the Cope
land act should not be forced before
Congress considered protests.
Predicts Ratification.
She also predicted ratification of
the child-labor amendment this Win
ter, listing New York, Florida, Georgia,
South Dakota, South Carolina, Kan
sas, Maryland, New Mexico and Texas
as States likely to ratify.
A few hours after Miss Perkins
made her prediction the New Mexico
Legislature ratified the amendment,
bringing the total of States to 27.
Thirty-six are necessary. The South
Dakota Legislature, however, rejected
at about the same time a ratification
resolution.
Labor Department statistics show
there was only a slight increase in the
number of strikes during the first 10
months of 1936 compared with the
corresponding period in the previous
year.
The total for 1936 through October
Was 1,805, compared with 1,782 during
the 1935 period.
A representative of rank and file
seamen from the Atlantic and Gulf
Coasts complained to the American
Federation of Labor Executive Coun
cil yesterday that most of the major
activities of maritime union officers
during the past two years involved
“questionable methods.”
John Lawrenson was the spokesman.
He told the Council the present agree
ment between the ship owners and
their unions failed to provide proper
wage and hour standards and was not
submitted to the membership for ap
proval.
STEEL WORKERS
GIVEN WAGE PLAN
Minimum Daily Scale of $5 Is Pro
posed by Employe Rep
resentatives.
Bt the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, February 12._
Steel workers, representatives took to
the men of the mills today a proposal
that minimum daily wages be fixed at
$5 in the Carnegie-Illinois Corp.’a
Pittsburgh-Youngstown district plants.
The Joint council of employe and
management representatives approved
the minimum rate—an increase of 80
cents—yesterday, and voted also for
* 40-hour working week, a cut of
eight hours from the present sched
ules.
Both proposals are subject to rati
fication—by the employes and by the
management.
Twice the management has turned
down recommendations for a mini
mum wage in the 18 district mills,
employing 50,000 men, but granted a
10 per cent general wage boost last
November, applying to all corporation
mills with a pay roll of 106,000.
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As Sit-Downers Left Auto Plants
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Carl Koshaba, sit-doicn striker, celebrated the signing of the Strikers put their clothes through the "union laundry” for
auto peace strike agreement by getting his first shave since the the last time as they prepare to evacuate the Fisher Body plant
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PACKARD GRANTS
5-CENT HOUR RAISE
12.500 Employes Affected by In
crease, Second by Company
Since November.
By the Associated Press.
DETTROIT, February 12.—A wage
| increase of 5 cents an hour for Pack
ard Motor Car Co. employes became
1 known today.
j Company officials said the decision
j to grant the wage increase was made
Wednesday and that notices announc
| ing it were posted in the plant Thurs
| day.
The increase afreets approximately
j 12.500 employes working on an hourly
j basis. Company officials said the in
) crease would aggregate approximately
$2,000,000 a year, and Is effective Feb
j ruary 14.
j The company granted an increase
| of 5 cents an hour on November 14
for hourly workers and also gave a
$10-a-month increase to salaried
workers receiving less than *200 a
month. Those increases, it was esti
mated, would amount to $1,250,000 a
year.
Two other automobile companies
have granted wage increases this week.
i General Motors announced a 5-cent
hourly raise yesterday, aggregating
$25,000,000 a year. Chrysler Corp.
granted increases Tuesday which were
estimated to total betw-een $13,000,000
and $14,000,000 a year. The average
approximated 10 per cent for each
hourly employe.
Strikes
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(Continued From First Page.)
liant and statesmanlike handling" of
the labor conflict.
Harry J. Carmichael, general man
ager of General Motors of Canada,
which gets some supplies from its
American affiliate, said the strike set
tlement meant the plants at Windsor
and Oshawa, Ontario, probably would
avoid a threatened shutdown. The
labor dispute did not extend to the
Canadian branches.
Managers of Chevrolet plants—Gen
eral Motors’ biggest producer—were
called to Detroit today to perfect plans
for their reopening. An announce
ment of the arrangements was ex
pected to follow their meeting.
Workers in the other General Mo
tors’ passenger car divisions—Pontiac, I
Oldsmobile, Cadillac and La Salle—
were awaiting the call back to their
jobs. The G M. truck division was
not affected by the strike, which was,
however, felt severely in many parts
divisions.
“When we shut down,” Knudsen
said, “we had 225,000 men on the
pay roll. During the strike we had ■
as high as 140,000 idle. Today we
have from 110,000 to 115,000 men
working.”
Many of those now engaged were
placed on a part-time basis during
the last fortnight.
The auto workers’ union revealed It
has requested conferences with several
Detroit automotive firms. It named
Murray Corp. of America, which
manufactures bodies; Budd Wheel Co
Falls Spring & Wire Oo. and Detroit
Harvester Co.
Richard T. Frankensteen, organiza
tion director of the U. A. W A., said
several companies have "deliberately
discharged and otherwise discriminated
against union people in the knowledge
that we did not wisn additional trouble
while the General Motors situation
existed.”
“We shall attempt a peaceful settle
ment of these problems,” Frankensteen
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continued. “We hope that the General
Motors controversy has emphasized to
all employes that collective bargaining
will be had.”
Reactions to the General Motors
strike settlement varied.
The corporation’s stock closed nearly
3 points higher on the New York Stock
Exchange yesterday. Several motor
accessory shares also benefied from
the peace news.
George E. Boysen, who organized the
j Flint Alliance to rally anti-strike sen
i timent, said “the strike has brought
; gains to no one.”
"No member of the U. A. W. A. can
say that his membership has been
profitable so far.” he commented. “We
doubt that it ever will.
"While this strike could have been
settled the day it started merely by
enforcing the laws of the State of
Michigan, its prolongation should
* * * demonstrate that the methods
of the U. A. W. A. and its parent or
ganization, the Committee for Indus
trial Organization, are entirely de
structive and bring benefit to no one.
Hits John L. Lewis.
“The entire agreement indicates
that Mr. John L. Lewis, head of the
C. I. O., has recognized the complete
collapse of his abortive attempt to as
sume dictatorship ever 150,000 work
ers, the great majority of whom feel
fully competent to manage their own
aflairs."
Knudsen said: “There is no crow
ing on either side. What we think is
most important is to get people back
to work and get the plants running
again.
“You know that When a big ma
chine is stopped you have to monkey
with the flywheel a bit before you get
it going again. That flywheel has to ‘
be tolerance. There must be a desire
for peace and no animosity on their
side.”
Martin, the union president, told a
workers' rally at Flint after the evac
uations that the strike settlement was
"the greatest advance of any single
event in the history of the labor move
ment.”
Philip Murray, chairman of the
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee,
said in Pittsburgh that “we intend to
use that fcreat victory in Detroit to
push our campaign” to organize the
steel industry.
“Unions Now Recognized.”
“For the first tune, practically,' in
American history,” Murray asserted,
"unions are now recognized in the
automobile industry * • *. It is sig
nificant that the industrial type of
union, to which the Committee for
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Industrial Organization is dedicated,
scored such a great victory."
At Tampa. Fla., Roger W. Babson.
statistician and former Assistant Sec
retary of Labor, called the peace terms
"a draw," with victory for both sides
and an indication of improving busi
ness and general prosperity.
He said recognition of the Lewis In
dustrial Union was "a blow to the
American Federation of Labor”; that
there is room for two unions in the
automotive industry, and that "Gen
eral Motors will be better oB by hav
ing one."
FLINT is joyous.
FLINT, Mich., February 12 (4>).—An
armistice spirit, exuberant and joyous,
held full sway today in embattled
Flint, capital city of General Motors
strikes' that were ended at last.
The "war" was over, taut nerves
relaxed and 1,600 “stay-in” strikers
were reunited with their families.
Cheering crowds that watched ju
bilant strikers march from three Gen
eral Motors plants late yesterday
looked forward to another march next
week—a parade of 43,000 idle workers
back to jobs.
First demobilization orders for 3,300
National Guardsmen, most of whom
had been on strike duty here for a
full month, were expected hourly.
Officers said, however, that some of
the troops probably would remain
until full production was resumed in
General Motors plants.
A legal disarmament also Impended
as General Motors attorneys prepared
to ask for dismissal of a court injunc
tion and a writ of attachment calling
for the arrest of the strikers.
The new era of good feeling born
of the strike settlement signed in
Detroit was ex mplifled by the quick
response of United Automobile Work
ers' leaders yesterday afternoon to a
General Motors request that strikers
be withdrawn from two Fischer body
plants and Chevrolet Motor Co. plant
No. 4 at once.
The union first had planned to de
lay the evacuation, possibly until Sun
day, to arrange a "monster demon
stration,” but corporation officials said
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I they would need several days to get
; the factories in operation.
There proved to be no necessity
for "arranging'' an evacuation jubilee.
Spontaneous Demonstration.
A spontaneous celebration that
drafted all demonstrations during
the six tense weeks of recurrent crises
began at Fisher plant No. 1. The par
ticipants carried balloons, flags, horns,
confetti and paper streamers.
Troops patrolling the area including
striker-held Fisher plant No. 2 and
the Chevrolet plant stepped aside as
the throng arrived for the exodus of
the men from those plants. Military
restrictions were lifted.
Thousands Joined in the celebration
which approached Armistice day pro
portions. It was a cheering, singing
| throng, waving Sags and banners and
tossing confetti in the exuberance of
j release from weeks of tension.
National Gardsmen were withdrawn
1 immediately from the 80-acre area
which had been patrolled for 12 days
by 1,200 troopers. The remainder of
the Guard ordered here was never
called into service.
Civic and business leaders were
elated over dissolution of the dead
lock, which closed plants employing
80 per cent of the city's wage earners
and cut heavily Into the city's eco
! nomlc life.
One of the happiest men was Sheriff
I Thomas W. Wolcott, relieved of a *
j delicate situation by the settlement. !
He held writs for the arrest and evic- ;
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