PARLEYS MAY END S1EEL BLOCKADE McGrady and Labor Lead ers to Confer as Navy Work Waits. A determined effort to clear away the blockade on steel for naval con struction resulting from the unwilling ness of the steel Industry to abide by the Walsh-Healey act will be made this week in a series of conferences conducted by Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor. Tomorrow McGrady will meet with a small group of Interested labor union leaders.including John P. Frey, head of the metal trades department of the American Federation of Labor, and Philip S. Murray, representing the Committee for Industrial Organi sation in its effort to unionize the steel industry. Frey is reported to have lined up with the steel industry and the Navy Department in urging that steel for naval construction be exempted from the wage and hour provisions of the Walsh-Healey act. lest, craft union workers In the navy yards be thrown out of work. Steel Bids Lacking. The Navy has been unable to get bids for 18.000,000 pounds of steel needed for nine ships—three sub marines and six destroyers. Naval construction officers have expressed fear that the construction of two new battleships, authorized to be laid down thus year, may be held up unless the Impasse is broken. The Walsh-Healey act forbids a firm holding a Government contract for more than $10,000 from employing child labor, paying loss than the minimum wages fixed by the old N. R. A., and working employes more than 40 hours a week. The 40-hour week is the stumbling block in the steel industry, where a rush of private business has resulted in a 48-hour week. In addition, the limitation of profits on naval construction con tracts to 10 per cent is reported to have put an additional damper on the interest of the steel companies In providing steel for the Navy. Unless sufficient supplies can be assured in the near future, the Navy Department will attempt to allot ail contracts for its 1937 ship construc tion program to private yards, it is believed. Under the terms of the Vinson-Trammell act. construction is supposed to be divided equally be tween private builders and the Gov •rnment yards. Thousands of Job* at Stake. But If the President finds that Circumstances warrant, he may allot . any or all naval construction to either private or Government yards. The shift of all the 1937 program to private yards would provide employ ment there, but would cause the lay ing off of thousands of employes in the navy yards. Unless steel orders can be placed Immediately, it will be necessary to start laying off men in some yards by March 15, according to naval con struction officials. The yards first to be affected would be those at Boston. Norfolk, Charleston, Philadelphia and Portsmouth. The Portsmouth yard was assigned two of the submarines, ' Bculpin and Squalus; the Mare Island yard was assigned one submarine, the Swordfish. Boston has the de stroyers O'Brien and Walker. Norfolk has the destroyers Morris and Wain wright, Charleston has the destroyer Roe and Philadelphia the destroyer Buck. In December the Navy Department asked for bids on 25.000,000 pounds of steel for these nine ships, but received bids on only 7,000.000 pounds. Until steel of the proper specifica tions to complete the ships is as sured. construction will not be begun. The Navy also has had difficulty In obtaining oil, alcohol, machine tool* and copper. Despite the fact that the metal Workers may be found supporting the *teel industry in urging that Navy j steel be exempted from the Walsh- i Healey act, Mr. McGrady is expected to try to work out some way in which the steel companies can work their shifts to comply with the 40-hour week. (Copyright, 1»;)7. by New York Herald Tribune.) -•- — — Lewis tContinued Prom First Page.) Selassie. He may have a few na tionals in the industry, just like Green, but why discuss Ethiopians.” The militant chieftain of the C. I. O. is recovering rapidly from influ enza. which sent him to bed during the last stages of the General Motors atrike settlement negotiation* this week. He said he would leave for Washington Sunday to plan hi* cam paign in the steel industry, and to work on renewal of United Mine Workers' contracts with mine opera tors. He likened the steel campaign to “the crouching lion of the labor movement.” Asserting that the A. P. of L. had been ‘‘pecking away” at the auto mobile industry for several years, Lewis declared it remained for the mass-production United Automobile Workers of America to organize ef fectively. ‘‘Collective bargaining has definitely come to the automobile industry,” he said. ‘‘After 24 years, General Mo tors, for the first time, has agreed to bargain with a responsible labor organization. ‘‘The union in the automobile in dustry has a membership of 200,000, conservatively speaking, and within a few months will have double that number. "Seven weeks ago General Motors Would not deal with or recognize any union and publicly proclaimed that it would not in the future. Now it has entered into an eminently satis factory contract with a responsible union. "General Motors occupies the same relationship to the automobile in dustry that United States Steel does in the steel industry. Each pro duces about 40 per cent of the total output in its field. "The General Motors policy sets the pace for the industry and we expect other companies to fall rapidly into line. There w'ill not be undue haste about this procedure and the union will proceed in a logical manner.” Asked when he expected formal de mands to be made on the Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Corp., Lewis said: “I have no definite announcement to make on that score at present, but we will have them bargaining by next Christmas. Mr. Henry Ford and all his millions does not daunt us. He is just another citizen with a lot of money.” ft Half Century Devoted to Union Is Record of Andrew Furuseth Head of International Seamen Known as “Old Viking By thy Associated Press. Andrew Furuseth, dean of the American labor movement, this year rounds out half a century of service to various seamen's unions. Just 50 years ago Furuseth was elected secretary of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. He then was a cru sading Norwegian sailor of 34. Today Furuseth is president of the International Seamen's Union, an organization he helped to build. Al though bad health keeps him in a hospital a good share of the time, Furuseth still visits the Labor De partment and Congressmen in the interest of his union's program. Known as the "Old Viking." Furu seth is the only American labor leader whose bust stands in the La bor Department. Furuseth first came to Washington in 1894 to seek protective legislation for seamen. Photographers asked permission to take his picture. He told them they could when the legis lation he sought was enacted. On March 4. 1915—19 years later—he walked out of the White House and confronted photographers. "You can take that picture now,” he said. I - Strike __ (Continued From First Page.1 headquarters at Alexandria and re ported confiscating three shotguns, two rifles and ammunition. Reuther called the martial rule a ‘‘signal victory" for the union, add ing: ! "It is regrettable that men had to be shot before the State recognized i conditions weren't as peaceful as the mayor had said they were." Mayor Harry R. Baldwin said po lice protection had been afforded the unionists ever since the first dem onstration several weeks ago. | ‘‘The police twice have performed ; heroic service." the mayor added, ‘ in rescuing these agitators from the re | suits of their own conduct, and on both occasions they have turned on j their benefactors. Their every act has been with studied purpose to arouse resentment in the community.” None of those wounded in this morning's clash was in a dangerous condition. Only four remained long in a hospital, the others having fled et the approach of police cars. Emory Shipley, proprietor of the tavern where the trouble started, said “two car loads of men" drove up and demanded that Evon Robertson, a non-unionist who. police said, re j cently engaged in an altercation with ; a union worker, come outside. Shooting Starts. Shooting started, Shipley said, after I he answered that Robertson was not present. Shipley told police he fired a shotgun to drive the crowd away. 1 He was not held. The crowd was gone and the tavern a wreck when police arrived. Union and non-union employes of the Anderson automotive plants have been engaged in a feud ever since union workers at the Guide Lamp Fac tory Joined the ‘'sit-down" strikes against General Motors last December. State motorcycle police escorted the Michigan cars back to the State line late in the day. The police led the procession of cars Into a nearby fill ing station for a free fill-up of their gasoline tanks before starting the homeward trip. Many of the cars had been held up on the highway for hours before the decision was reached to furnish them escorts back to Michigan. Union leaders have made frequent protests to Federal and State officials complaining of their treatment by the Anderson mayor and police chief. Secretary Perkins sent an investi gator of the Labor Department here several days ago when unionists com plained some of their members had been beaten by Anderson policemen. United States District Attorney Val Nolan conducted an independent investigation of allegations that strike breakers had been imported into the State. * 000 BACK AT JOBS. Guard Demobilisation Started as Workers Return. FLINT, Mich., February 13 the colorful Johnson was the high light of the week-end labor news in the Capital, the status on other fronts was as follows: The La Follette committee investi gating espionage and coercion in labor relations postponed for several days at least its decision on eventual action ! toward Robert A. Pinkerton, youth ful head of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, who defied the probers on two specific occasions on Friday. Refusing, on advice of counsel, to surrender to the committee some 50 ■ original espionage report* turned in j by Pinkerton informants in the De troit area and to disclose the identities j of under-cover operatives who partici pated with worker* In the ait-down strike* In three Flint plants of Gen eral Motor* Corp., Pinkerton may face charge* of contempt of the Senate. Pinkerton May Be Recalled. Scheduled to resume open hearings tomorrow, the committee may recall Pinkerton or some of his aides to the stand at that time. Already standing by for a week, five personnel officers of General Motors are sched uled for appearance within the next day or two. With Lewis expected to return to Washington from Detroit over the week end. subcommittees of the Policy Committee of the United Mine Work ers continued their executive sessions today in consideration of their strategy for the soft coal contract negotiations this week in New York. A definite outline of their desires, ex pected to embrace a 30-hour week and Increased hourly rates of pay, will be reported back to the full committee tomorrow and upon final approval is to be submitted to the industry repre sentatives in New York on Wednesday. Possibility of an impasse in these negotiations is the circumstance lead ing to fears that a soft coal strike may develop by March 31, when the present wage and hour contracts expire. With the C. I. O., with which the United Mine Workers are affiliated, about to intensify tneir organization drive in the steel in dustry, the threat of Joint action against the two major industries is obvious. Review* Former Relations. Reviewing the cordial relations which existed between the A. F. of L. and Gen. Johnson while the latter was head of the N. R. A. and recall ing that the former Government official had never voiced any criticism of the labor leadership at that time, Green's letter continued in part: "It is extremely unfortunate that a serious division has taken place among the affiliated organizations of the American Federation of Labor. Undoubtedly you are entirely familiar with the undisputed fact that this division is not to be attributed to the American Federation of Labor, but that the fault rests solely and primar ily with those organizations which* dissatisfied with the decisions of an unquestioned majority reached in open and regular conventions wherein they participated, set out to enforce their minority will and their arbitrary form of organization upon the ma jority, in conflict with every rule of decency and equity and in direct violation of the constitution and laws of the American Federation of Labor, ! to which they had agreed and which they had pledged their honor to support. , , ‘‘It is not only unfortunate but 1 extremely regrettable to find that you now favor and advocate the virtues and rights of a minority to direct, control, dominate and dictate to the majority, contrary to every rule of justice and of mutual agreement.. We are amazed that you should now give encouragement and support to those who would so flagrantly disre gard their agreement and obligation and assume the role of irresponsible Called Labor Foe GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON. —Harris-Ewing Photo. dictatorship. Indeed, we And it difficult and Impossible to reconcile your previous attitude regarding the validity of the rule of the majority in all collective relationships fairly and democratically reached, with your present attitude in favoring a minority rule sought to be enforced ruthlessly in the affairs of the American Fed eration of labor. "We are amazed that in all of your references to the Committee for In dustrial Organization and the Ameri can Federation of Labor you have ; invariably lauded the principles and leadership of the former and found fault with that of the latter. Not content to express your opinion and J judgment upon the merits or demerits of the Actitlous Issue raised regard ing so-called craft or Industrial or ganizations of labor, you likewise take occasion to belittle if not be smirch the character and abilities of some of the trusted officers of the American Federation of Labor and of the labor movement as represented by the A. F. of L. "We can only conceive that such conduct on your part is designed to lessen the confidence of the rank and file of labor in the principles and leadership as exemplified by the American Federation of Labor and its affiliated national and interna tional unions, regardless of whether your conduct was inspired by mo tives of malice, of good will or of indifference. 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MEDICAL CLINIC TO BRING ALUMNI HERE Sr. Cyrus C. Sturgis Will Be Guest Speaker at Annual Ban quet Saturday Night. A large number ot George Washing ton University 8chool ot Medicine alumni from all sections ot the coun try are expected at the fifth annual post-graduate clinic conducted by members of the faculty for the alumni and general medical profession next Saturday. The day will be devoted to scientific assemblies, demonstrations and labora tory inspections at the school and hospital. Dr. Cyrus C. Sturgis, director of the Thomas Henry Simpson Memorial In stitute of Medical Research, and pro feasor of medicine at the University o' Virginia, will be the guest speaker at the eleventh annual banquet and reunion of the George Washington University Medical Society at the May flower Hotel Saturday night. This affair will end the clinic. "Types of Anemia and Their Treat ment’’ will be the subject of Dr. j Sturgis’ address. Dr. W. Raymond Thomas, president of the society, will preside. More than 500 physicians and surgeons are expected. Patz to Join Baltimore Firm. Theodore J. Patz, assistant advertis ing manager of Raleigh Haberdasher, has resigned his position here, it was announced yesterday. He will become associated with the Harry J. Patz Ad vertising Co. of Baltimore. i - 1 CHARLES W. B. HURD FETED BY WRITERS New York Times Correspondent to Be Assistant Manager of London Bureau. A group of Washington newspaper men assembled last night at the May flower Hotel to honor Charles W B. Hurd of the New York Times, who has been ordered to that paper's Lon don bureau. Hurd for the last five years has been the White House correspondent. He will be assistant manager at the London bureau. Those who were paying tribute to Mr. Hurd last night were mostly White House correspondents. The party was in charge of Claude A. Ma honey of the Wall Street Journal, while Walter J. Trohan of the Chi cago Tribune, newly elected president of the White House Correspondents' Association, acted as toastmaster. Other speakers were Earl Godwin of the Washington Times and Thomas P. Edmunds of the New York Times. On the entertainment program was the White House quartet, led by Mar vin H. McIntyre, presidential secre tary; George O’Connor, George Wil son and Pulton Lewis of the Uni versal Service. — 1 • Agricultural Exhibit Set. ' Czechoslovakia will hold Its next agricultural Exhibition at Prague in May. McDevitt's 16th ANNIVERSARY SALE Taffeta & Hand Tufted SPREADS »/4 OFF Substantial Reductions On Entire Stock— Curtains—Draperies and Slip Covers MCDEVITTS "ho" 1317 E 3rd Floor 13 1* s American Bldf. Starts Monday, February IS, at 8:30 A.M. Many Items at Cost or Less Than Cost Take advantage of the tremendous savings available in this once-a-year sale. No telephone orders, exchanges or deliveries. ftotens of other items not mentioned below. GAMES Qaan- Sal# tity. 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