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Annual Wage Increase of
$360,000,000 Demanded
t
by Workers.
•r the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. February 24—The Na
tion'* 1.100,000 organized railroad
worker* were united today in demand
ing an annual wage increase of ap
proximately $360,000,000.
Spokesmen for the 800.000 members
of the 16 “non-operating” railway
brotherhoods voted yesterday to seek a
90 per cent hike in their pay.
Representatives of the 300,000 men
In the five “operating” brotherhoods
recently initiated a move to obtain a
raise of the same size.
Estimating about $360,000,000 in
yearly income would be at stake when
negotiators for the brotherhoods and
for the management of the carriers
. sit down to a parley on the demands,
George M. Harrison, chairman of the
current meeting, declared:
"These are the largest negotiations
ever undertaken by organized railroad
workers.”
The delegates planned to serve
formal notice on the railroads within
30 days. They drew up this list of
demands:
1. A general wage increase of 20
rents an hour, applied to hourly, daily,
weekly, monthly or piece rates, so as
to produce the same rate of increase
for all employes, Harrison said this
amounted to an average raise of ap
proximately 20 per cent.
2. A guarantee of full time em
ployment for all regularly assigned
employes.
3. A guarantee of two-thirds of
full time employment for all "stand
by” employes.
Under the railway labor act each
road would have 30 days to file an
answer.
Strikes
(Continued From First Page.)
Union did not seek a “closed shop'' in
Chrysler factories, but asked recogni
tion as the sole bargaining agency of
the corporation’s wage earners.
Chrysler employs 77.000 persons, of
whom 50.000 are hourly production
workers, in its plants in nine cities,
manufacturing Plymouth. Dodge, De
Boto and Chrysler automobiles.
Frankeensteen announced the Dodge
division had agreed to pay workers
time and a half for overtime over eight
hours’ work a day. The division has
been paying such rates for overtime
work above 40 hours a week.
Agreements ended six strikes in the
Detroit area today, but a dozen other
factories were held by striking em
Ploves or were closed because of labor
controversies.
Deliveries of liquor to Michigan
Liquor Control Commission stores in
seven counties were resumed as a
result of an agreement between the
Star Terminal Transfer Co. and 30
striking drivers, checkers, guards and
Warehouse helpers.
Production was suspended at the
Timken-Detrolt Axle Co. plant pend
ing negotiations for settlement of a
labor dispute. Day-shift employes
found the doors locked this morning.
Some of the night shift still were in
the plant.
Strike settlements announced in
ether plants included:
Yale & Towne Lock Co.—-Strike
■ettled by agreement, which includes
wage increase of 10 cents an hour.
Atlas Barrel & Cooperage Co.—
Men employes who had gone on a sit
down strike to receive wages on an
hourly instead of daily rate with in
creases.
Wage Increases Given.
H. At H. Tube At Manufacturing
Co—Strike settled by agreement, in
cluding wage Increase of 5 cents an
hour.
Detrola Radio At Television Corp.—
Wage increases ranging from 15 to 25
per cent: recognition of the Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, an
American Federation of Labor Union;
eight-hour day with overtime pay.
Approximately half of the 250 em
ployes are women.
Cope-Swift Foundry—Threatened
atrike averted by an agreement be
tween the management and its 50
employes.
John Brophy, a director for the
C. I. O., said today the John L. Lewis
labor group has been receiving more
appeals than it could handle to help
workers organize in small plants in
the automotive and other industries.
Calls for organizers from auto parts’
and accessory shops are turned over to
the C. I. O.'s ally in that field, the
U. A. W. A. Brophy said that the re- |
quests from other industries have been
so numerous that the U. A. W. A. has |
been asked to supply organizers to aid
workers’ groups in unrelated industries i
as well.
A number of these have come from
Workers who have called sit-down
strikes in Detrbit cigar factories, bak
eries and other businesses, Brophy said.
He Indicated that the C. I. O., formed
to organize workers in mass produc
tion industries, may consider setting
up a division to deal with workers In
miscellaneous industries.
Other labor developments invluded;
A sound truck was destroyed by a
bomb, negotiators for General Motors
and the union still were engaged in
inference, and reverberations of
the General Motors strike were heard
In its erstwhile “capital,” mint, Mich.
John M. Barringer, city manager of
Flint, who was criticized during the
•trike for forming a police “reserve” of
Civilians, was removed by the City
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Commission last night. One commis
sioner said he had been asked to resign
and refused
No official explanation was given for
the commission’s action. During the
strike, after 39 persons had been in
jured in disorders, the commission
gave virtually dictatorial powers to
Mayor Harold E. Bradshaw, and rele
gated to the background the city man
ager, who normally outranked the
Mayor. City Manager Barringer's
authority was restored after the strike
was settled.
SHIP FIRM PICKETED.
Plant Reopens Without Disorder After
Evictions.
GROTON, Conn., February 24 (/P).
—The Electric Boat Co. stay-in strik
ers, ejected early today from grounds
of the submarine building firm,
promptly formed a picket line which
union leaders said would remain in
"24-hour operation.”
The plant opened today at 7:30 a.m.
There was no disorder as a number of
workers filed through the picket line
to enter the main gate.
Phillip Van Gelder and Francis X.
McCann, strike leaders, estimated the
number of workers entering the plant
at from 200 to 300. They said a
majority of the 1,700 who were work
ing on the day shift before the strike
was called at 10:30 a.m. yesterday had
remained at their homes.
This contention was disputed by the
company paymaster, who said that all
except the 168 sit-downers, who either
left the property or were ejected by
State and local police during the night,
Reported for work.
Picketing in Snow.
The picket line, forming over an
hour before the plant opened, began
Its back-and-forth pacing in a heavy
snowstorm. The dull gray waters of
New London Harbor were barely visible
through the gaunt steel framework of
the craneways in the boat company's
yard.
The craneways, reaching some 50
feet into the air, are virtually the only
part of the plant seen by the casual
passerby. The property slopes down
ward from George street to the water
and the one-story machine shops and
other buildings are scarcely noticeable.
One also must look closely to see
the steel hull of the Permit, last
Government submarine launched by
the company, restiwg on the fitting
out dock. Much of the work done at
the company is performed out of
doors, but there was no visible evi
dence of outside activity a half-hour
after the gate opened this morning.
Strikers said the only employes
entering the plant were machinists.
A score of State policemen, part of
the force of 60 that ejected the stay
inners early today, patrolled the
street alongside the picket line. No
ill feeling was evidenced despite the
fact union offioiats charged the police
with using illegal tactics in the ejec
tion. The union is affiliated with the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion.
Most of the 100 pickets who formed
the line early today were men who
had been taken from the plant a few
hours earlier and had been arraigned
on trespass charges at a special court
session lasting from 2 until 4 a.m.
Their cases were continued until
Friday.
A list of the strikers was prepared
for O. P. Robinson, works manager
for the shipyards, who announced
earlier the men were "automatically
discharged” when they refused to
work..
Van Gelder asserted the ejection of
the strikers was "the most flagrant,
disgraceful use of the State police in
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“They used a wholly illegal method
of forcefully driving these employes
out of the yard. There was no in
junction and no warrants were served.
"We did not resist. There was no
barricading of the doors. Police
rushed In and started to drag the men
out and used their clubs."
Van Gelder assured the strikers the
trespassing charges were "ridiculous”
and asserted he could "guarantee
every case will be thrown out of
court.”
He declared the union was consid
ering bringing false arrest charges
against Judge Charles F Willard, an
unnamed employe of the boat company
and other town officials.
Robinson, who remained In his
office at the plant until the last of
the sit-downers had been removed,
said the strikers forfeited their status
as employes when they stopped work.
Because of the stringent regulations
under which the company works in
building submarines for the United
States Navy, he asserted, the com
pany was forced to regard the men as
"trespassers.”
He said the company was "under
a heavy penalty to protect the Gov
ernment property here."
About 350 workers on the night shift
who reported for duty. Robinson said,
were sent home "because we didn't
want any trouble.”
DOUGLAS PLANT OCCUPIED.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., February
24 (IP).—The Douglas Aircraft Co.
plant, its S24.000.000 construction pro
gram at a standstill, was occupied to
day by more than 300 sit-down strikers
who ignored the president's request to
leave and “avoid trouble.”
Pickets walked outside.
A nearby signpost read:
“Plant closed until rioting subsides."
Circulars passed among the 5,600
employes after the abrupt shutdown
yesterday said the strikers would ask
a pay raise of 15 cents an hour,
seniority rights, time and a half for !
overtime and recognition of the United
Automobile Workers of America.
Copies of a letter signed by Donald
W. Douglas, president of the company, I
were distributed inside among the :
“unauthorised occupants” asking them
to stop "trespassing • • • upon the !
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The spokesman identified himself as
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ployes' Association, retorted:
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company, said the strike came as a
complete surprise and that no wage de
mands had been made. He declared
that wages range from 40 cents to
$1.10 an hour on the basis of a 40
hour week, with time and a third for
overtime.
SHOE WORKERS GET RAISES.
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call of a general shoe strike, as union
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and Leather Workers' Union pressed
plans for picketing factories whose
owners refused to capitulate, the
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Subcommittee Representing
Union and Operators Opens
Negotiations.
Br the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 24.—The
troublous task of negotiating a new
wage agreement between coal operators
and the United Mine Workers’ Union,
affecting 400,000 union miners in the
vast Appalachian fields, was handed
over today to a subcommittee repre
senting the operators and the union—
with no indication of an early settle
ment.
The present agreement expires
March 31.
John Lewis, president of the miners’
union, told the operators that union
men would not work after that date
without a new contract.
In the preliminary sessions of the
full conference of operators and union
leaders last week, disagreement quickly
resulted. The union demanded a guar
anteed income for each miner of
$1,200 a year, a 30-hour week instead
of the present 35 hours, and basic daily
rates of $6 in the Northern fields and
$5.60 in the South, instead of the pre
vailing $5.50 and $5.10 rates.
Declaring these proposals “impos
sible,” the operators countered with a
proposal to increase the work week to
40 hours with a 15 per cent reduction
in hourly pay rates.
It was admitted by both sides that
little progress would be made in the
subcommittee considerations until the
deadline hour approaches. It was also
believed likely that the conference
would later be shifted to Washington.
While the agreement applies only
to the Appalachian fields from Penn
sylvania down into Tennessee. It also
governs the wage scales in other fields.
The sub-committee is composed of
8 operators and 15 officers of the
union, with equal voting strength on
each side. The chairman is Duncan
C. Kennedy, a West Virginia operator.
The spokesman for the operators is
Charles P. O'Neill, president of the
United Eastern Coal Sales Corp For
the union it is either Lewis or his
vice president, Philip Murray.
The pending efforts in Congress for
a revival of the Guffey coal stabil
ization measure—invalidated o/ice by
the Supreme Court because of its
labor clauses—likewise occupied the
attention of the operators and the
union leaders.
cities—Boston. Lowell and Marlboro,
Mass., and Keene. N. H.
In Keene, union men began picket
ing a plant employing 250 workers,
some of whom stood by their jobs.
In Marlboro, ' four plants agreed to
the union demands and resumed
operation, while negotiations were in
progress concerning a fifth.
In the great shoe center of Lynn,
William B. Mahan, general organizer
for the union, announced that eight
of the nine manufacturers affiliated
with the Eastern Shoe Manufacturers'
Association had signed an agreement
this morning for an immediate 15 per
cent raise. He said 3,000 workers
would return to these factories at
noon.
Union leaders began negotiations
with six other Lynn firms, announc
ing meanwhile that picketing would
be withheld at least until afternoon.
In Salem, five factories remained
closed pending the outcome of negotia
tions between union men and manu
facturers. In Newburyport, Mass.,
the same situation prevailed in the
one plant well organized by the union,
with 500 workers idle.
Hits Mankind
URGES SIT-DOWN STRIKE
ON BREEDING.
PROF. ERNEST A. HOOTON,
Harvard anthropologist and
one of the leading authorities
on human evolution, who de
clared before the Harvard
University Club of Kansas
City. Kans.. that mankind
needs a “biological purge" and
“a sit-down reproductive
strike of the busy breeders
among the morons, criminals
and social ineffectual of our
population"
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Self-Imprisoned Workers
Shut Off Water Supply
and Air Pump.
By ti>* Associated Press.
PECS. Hungary, February 24 —Four
hundred and fifty coal miners de- .
dared a hunger strike today for them
selves and 100 ponies underground
with them in a 656-foot shaft.
Demanding an increase in the
daily pay from $1 to $1.20. they shut
off the mine's water supply and air
pump and declared over the mine
telephone they would feed neither
themselves nor the ponies until their
demands were met.
Fearful of rising water in the shaft
and the possibility of dangerous
gases, authorities expressed anxiety
for the safety of the strikers. A regi
ment of troops and police were on
duty at the shaft head.
ROOM
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Union Head Protests His
“Dismissal” by Three
man Commission.
Br the Associated Press.
CLARKSBURG, W. Va., February
24.—L. P. Jay, vice president of the
Federation of Flat Glass Workers, an
nounced today the dismissal of Glen
W. McCabe, veteran president of the
union.
“I acted as chairman of a three-man
commission which dismissed McCabe,”
said Jay.
He declined to amplify his state
ment, or to discuss assertions by Mc
Cabe that his “suspension” was in
violation of union regulations.
McCabe led the union through a Na
tion-wide strike in the glass industry
only a few weeks ago.
Claims Support of Locals.
He addressed three anion locals here
last night and said they "voted to
support me 100 per cent and demanded
that the Executive Board reinstate me
immediately."
Both McCabe and Jay saic' they were
leaving for a meeting of the board
in Columbus, Ohio, this afternoon,
when the matter will be threshed out.
The federation president said in a
statement:
“The Executive Board based its
action upon the charge that I had ap
propriated for my own use funds
earned by the union magazine, the
Flat Glass Worker, which has been
published about three years.”
Say* Magazine Hi* Own.
The slim, curly-haired union execu
tive who was all along the battle front
in the December-January strike which
held up production in the Pittsburgh
Plate Glass Co. and Libbey-Owens
Ford Glass Co. plants throughout the
country, continued:
"The facts are that the magazine
belongs to me. I published it with
my own personal funds and never
spent any union money on it.
"If it made any money. I would be I
entitled to the profits, but it is in the
red.
"My suspension was illegal because
the by-laws state specifically that the
president can be dismissed only by a
three-fourths vote of the entire mem
bership."
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