Evening star. [volume], February 25, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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HARMONY RULES
MINEPAYTALKS
New Wage Agreement Job
Indefinite in Duration.
Big Tasks Ahead.
BACKGROUND—
Conferences for a new wage
agreement between United Mine
Workers and operators in the great
Appalachian field began with ap
proach of expiration March 31 of
existing agreement providing for a
35-hour week and a pap scale of
#5.50 in the North and 35.10 in the
South.
Union, headed by John L. Lewis,
C. 1. O. leader, has threatened to
strike April 1 unless new agreement
is reached on basis of 30-hour week
and 50 cents a dap increase in pap.
Operators gave notice they would
insist upon a 40-hour week and 15
per cent reduction in hourly pay.
Minimum annual wage based on
guarantee of 20 days’ work annually
also is center of great controversy.
BT the Associate! Press.
NEW YORK. February 25 — Repre
sentatives of coal miners and operators
in the Great Appalachian Held, sitting
about a green-topped conference table
In an effort to reach a new wage
agreement, faced a Job of indefinite
duration today in the second day of
their resumed deliberations.
The issues go deep and the union—
the United Mine Workers of John L.
Lewis—has threatened a strike unless
a new working basis is formulated
by March 31, the date the present
agreement expires.
The conferees, forming a joint com
mittee of the Appalachian wage con
ference, must pass upon the demands
of 400,000 miners for higher wages
and for 200 guaranteed days of work
a year.
Harmony Is Reported.
They got well into the discussion
of wages yesterday, but whether they
reached the highly controversial de
mand for a minimum annual wage
was not disclosed.
Charles P. O'Neill of New York, an
operators’ spokesman, said "every
thing is harmonious—so far,” but
neither he nor Phillip Murray, the
union vice president, would predict
when the task might be finished.
The committee's deliberations, con
ducted in complete secrecy, had
touched at least generally, said
Murray, upon every major issue in
volved, but there was concurrence of
opinion that the heaviest part of the
spade work in the negotiations was
•till to come.
The annual wage guarantee was
•aid by a semi-official operators’
•pokesman to be one of the toughest
Issues. Small operators, in particular,
tt was asserted, had evidenced strong
opposition.
Murray, however, said he had noted
no substantial difference toward the
principle among any of the classes of
operators, but he would not discuss
the situation further.
30-Hour Week Demanded.
The negotiations reached the com
mittee in regular course through the
Appalachian Joint Wage Conference,
which passed it along for face-to-face
solution by picked representatives of
both sides.
The union’s demands include a 30
hour week, rather than the present
35 hours, and base daily pay of $6
in the North and $5.60 in the South,
in each case 50 cents above prevail
ing rates.
The operators have rejoined with a
proposal for a 40-hour week and a
15 per cent reduction In hourly pay.
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DRIVE UNDER WAY
ON GAMING PLACES
Harassment Campaign Reported
in Full Swing in Second
Precinct.
A harassment campaign against
gambling establishments in the sec
ond precinct, generally recognized as
the hub of the city's gaming activities,
was in full swing today.
On the order of Capt. James E.
Bobo, precinct commander, three
officers were walking "short beats"
In the 1100 block of Ninth street and
the 1100 and 1000 blocks of Four
teenth.
Two of Washington’s most notorious
gamblers have establishments in the
•econd precinct area, it was said.
"We are going to drive them out,”
Bobo declared. “Any other known
gamblers are going, too. If they move
from one place to another within the
precinct limits, we’ll follow them.”
Bobo said the "short beat” already
was affecting one gambling place,
located in a cigar store. The fact
that an officer was passing the door
every few minutes was influencing
“customers” to buy tobacco instead of
placing bets, according to the captain, j
DR. SEEGER TO TALK
TO FOREIGN STUDENTS
Dr. Raymond Seeger, professor of
physics at George Washington Uni
versity, will be the principal speaker
at the annual dinner for foreign stu
dents in local colleges, to be held to
morrow evening at the First Baptist
Church under auspices of the District
Maryland Baptist Student Union.
Other speakers on the program are
Dr. E. H. Pruden, pastor of First Bap
tist Church, former member of the
University of Shanghai faculty; Mrs.
Pruden, former professor of music at
the University of Shanghai; Rev.
Ching Hung, pastor of the Chinese
Community Church; Dr. W. Dewey
Moore, missionary pastor to Rome,
and Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Kennard,
formerly associated with Roberts Col
lege, Turkey. John Gordon Mein of
Brazil, a George Washington law stu
dent, will be toastmaster.
Musical entertainment will be fur
nished by Charles I. Haycraft and Miss
Elizabeth Burnett. The schools to be
represented are Johns Hopkins, Wilson
Teachers College, American University,
Maryland University, Georgetown Uni
versity, Washington College of Law,
Btrayer’s College and George Wash
ington University.
Englishwoman to Speak.
Miss Muriel Lester, famed English
•ocial worker, and A. J. Muste, former
director of the Broekwood Labor Col
lege, will share the speaking program
on “The Church and Social Action”
at a public dinner of the Washington
branch of the Fellowship of Recon
ciliation tomorrow at the Y. W. C. A.,
Seventeenth and K streets, at 6:30
pm.
Ship Runs Ashore in Storm
The passengers and crew escaped unharmed when the freighter Zapora went ashore in a
blinding snowstorm. Photo shows the craft beached 80 miles south of Juneau, Alaska.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Justice Department Scien
tists Restore Filed-off
Numbers of Gun.
BACKGROUND—
R. Norman Redwood, business
manager of subway workers’ union
in New York, was fatally wounded
by a fusillade of bullets fired from
an automobile as he sat in his car in
front of his home last Friday night.
Investigators said Redwood’s life
had been threatened if he did not
call off a strike in New York.
Samuel Rosoff, a wealthy subway
builder, was arrested as a material
witness, but later obtained his re
lease.
By the Associated Press.
HACKENSACK, N. J., February 25.
—G-man science has removed a major
obstacle to finding the owner of a gun
used in the murder of R.' Norman
Redwood, New York "sandhog” union
leader. Bergen County Police Chief
! Peter J. Siccardi said today.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga
I tion laboratories at Washington re
stored the flled-off serial number, he
said, and the purchaser’s name was
expected today from the manufacturer.
He said he hoped the records of the
factory at Hartford. Conn., eventually
would lead to the killer.
Aid of the Connecticut State police
was enlisted in tracing the gun num
ber. as picked detectives of a special
New York-New Jersey crime bureau
followed other tangled clues.
The F. B. I. report, Siccardi said,
caused investigators to drop trails that
led to New York, Detroit, St. Louis,
Oklahoma and to a police chief, now
dead, of a town near here.
"This is the final, authentic check
on the gun.” Siccardi declared.
"The F. B. I. methods were defi
nitely more accurate than those of
the private crime detection bureau
at Elizabeth, which reported the in
correct number.”
John J. Breslin, jr., prosecutor of
Bergen County, said county officials
and members of the Inter-State Crime
Bureau would confer today with two
union leaders, Joseph Moreschi, presi
dent, and James A. Bove, vice presi
dent of the International Hod Car
riers and Building Laborers’ Union.
Breslin and members of his staff
conferred for several hours last night
with New York police officials in New
York.
"I still say Redwood was killed be
cause of a terrific labor dispute in
New York, and over labor trouble of
the union,” Breslin declared.
He refused to comment when asked
if the case was near solution, if he
had any idea who killed Redwood, if
he expected an arrest or if he in
tended to issue any warrants.
Deputy Inspector Richard F. Oliver
of the New York police will issue or
ders to the New York and New Jersey
detectives assigned to the bureau, and
they will work as if no State line ex
isted, Breslin said.
CELEBRATION PLANNED
BY DELTA TAU DELTA
Founders’ Day Banquet Will Be
Held March 6 at Press
Club.
A Founders’ day banquet, celebrating
the seventy-eighth anniversary of the
establishment of Delta Tau Delta Fra
ternity, will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday,
March 6, at the National Press Club,
with representatives of 62 of the 75
chapters present, it was announced
today by Charles O. Gridley, Press Club
president and general chairman of the
Banquet Committee.
Many prominent men, including
members of both Houses of Congress,
are expected to attend.
A special committee to arrange at
tendance of the "old timers,” graduates
prior to 1900, is under the direction of
Percy C. Adams. Last year, some 20
"old timers,” including all but one of
the founders of the chapter at George
Washington, were present.
The Banquet Committee includes
Oliver Owen Kuhn, Claude W. Owen,
Waverly Taylor, Camden McAtee,
Richard D. Daniels, Carl Butman and
George Degnan.
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Playing of Classics on Guitar
Revived by Spanish Composer
Have you ever heard Bach playedg
on the guitar?
If so, it was probably by Andres
Segovia, famed Spanish guitarist, who
is to give his third concert here at
the Wardman Park Hotel tonight.
Bach is not only his favorite com
poser, but the •‘Chaconne," an exact
ing piece written for the violin, is his
favorite.
The 44-year-old Spaniard, who
played his first concert 30 years ago.
explained his classical use of the in
strument by saying tnat the guitar
has two definite aspects, the popular
and the classic, of w'hich the latter
has been sadly neglected.
‘‘The guitar is used in Spain, as
it is here," he said, “mostly to accom
pany the voice. Somehow, that use
of it never appealed to me. I wanted
to play the airs of the great composers
and I started right in at the age
of 10 to do it.”
His particular reason for liking
Bach's “Chaconne” is that, apart
from the artistry it requires, it has
a Spanish theme and is in a good
key for the guitar.
Contrary to most composers,
Segovia, who looks very much like
Franz Schubert, has no special esteem
for his own works, but infinitely !
prefers the work of the masters, j
Sor, an eighteenth century Catalan
composer, is his idea of a great com
poser whose works are suitable for the
instrument.
His guitar, though, is a different
matter. It was made especially for
him by Ramirez, a famous Spanish
guitar maker, in 1911 and he carries
it around in a great black case cov
ered with stickers from the various
countries in which he has played on
his tours to Europe, America and
South America. It is worth at least
$2,000 in cash, he said, but to him
it is invaluable. It could never be
replaced.
Segovia practices four or five hours
a day and uses no pick of any sort.
Many of the modern composers who
have heard him play have been so
impressed that they have written
music especially for him. These in
clude De Falla, Turina and Torroba.
The key of D minor is the one best
suited for the instrument, he said,
because it is right in the center of
the strings, leaving the player equal
range up or down.
Segovia not only has a very hand
some guitar, but his wife loses nothing
in the comparison. "I have but two
interests in life,” he said, putting an
affectionate arm about her—“my
guitar and my wife.”
ANDRES SEGOVIA.
—Star Staff Photo.
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Administration Supporters
Predict Roosevelt Will Soon
Give Proposal to Congress.
Br tht Associated Press.
Administration supporters predicted
today the President soon would rend
wage and hour proposals to Con
gress.
The forecast followed delivery to
the White House yesterday of the re
port of a committee of Government
experts who have been studying the
problem.
James Roosevelt, the President’s
son and secretary, said he would co
ordinate the recommendations and
give his father a final draft.
Those who made the study were
Benjamin V. Cohen and Thomas G.
Corooran, who have helped shape
several major administration meas
ures; John G. Winant, former chair
man of the Social Security Board, and
Robert H. Jackson, Assistant Attorney
General.
Some administration officials ex
pressed the belief the President would
ask Congress to outlaw excessively low
wages and long hours in a revision of
the anti-trust laws.
Voluntary agreements among busi
ness men to ban .unfair and wasteful
trade practices also may be proDOsed,
although it is emphasized the Presi
dent has made no final decision on
the form of the legislation.
Secretary Perkins said Tuesday she
had drafted a tentative wage and
hour bill, which did not deal with
fair trade practices.
“Our N. R. A. experience showed
they were seperate," she said.
If Industry agreements are proposed,
officials said, they probably would aim
at wiping out false advertising, un
earned discounts and similar practices.
Although price nxing would not be
attempted, officalls said voluntary un
derstandings might bar selling below
ooet.
Slot machines Stolen.
MARYSVILLE, Kans. OP).—Slot
machines are disappearing rapidly
from this ^section—but officers aren't
responsible. One vanished from a
Summerfleld, Kans., restaurant; two
went out of sight at Beattie, and two
more are missing at Home City. In
each Instance business places were
broken Into and only the slot ma
chines taken.
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