Evening star. [volume], February 28, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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CALIFORNIA FARM
WORKERS GATHER
Preliminary Steps Taken to
Organize Under One
Union.
Bt the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. February 27.—
Preliminaries to the organization of
200,000 California agricultural workers
Into a single union began today under
the auspices of the American and State
Federations of Labor.
At the outset representatives of the
California federation asked delegates
representing about 50 farm labor
unions to give up their present systems
and Join in a solid front organization.
The individual unions concerned are
composed of about 20 groups with
A. F. of L. charters and about 30 in
dependent unions. Mexicans and Fil
ipinos comprise many of the latter
group at present.
Edward Vandeleur. secretary of the
Btate federation, asked the 20 A. F.
of L. affiliates to surrender their chart
ers in favor of one to be issued covering
al! workers involved.
Such a union would be the first of its
kind in any State.
Delegates withheld comment pend
ing full presentation of the plan, al
though some of them raised the ques
tion of whether such an organization
should have a Federal or an inter
national charier under the American
federation.
A Federal charter would restrict the
unit's jurisdiction to California. An
International charter would give it
authority to extend to other States.
Behind the participating unions lay
a history of more or less unsuccessful
strikes, notably the walkout of 3.200
workers in the Salinas-Watsonville
lettuce area last Fall and a strike of
several hundred celery pickers in the
Stockton district about the same time.
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CUTTING LECTURES
TO BEGIN MARCH 18
la Guardia and Beard Will Speak
as Memorial Series Is In
augurated.
“Democracy*’ will be the general
theme of the first two in the series of
the Bronson Cutting memorial lec
tures to be delivered March 8 at the
Rialto Theater by Mayor Fiorella La
Guardia of New Yorl. ud Dr. Charles
A Beard.
Mayor La Guardia's topic will be
“Democracy in Act n*' and Dr.
Beard's subject will be “The Rise of
the Democratic Idea in the United
States.'' •
The first program also will be fea
tured bv an address by Senator
George W Norris of Nebraska, who
will pay tribute to the late Senator
Cutting.
Among those who will lecture at
later dates are* Prof. Harold Laski
of England. Dr. Bartil Ohlln of Swe
den and Dr. Edwin Borchard of the
Yale Law School. Prof. Laski has
agreed to speak on two evenings,
probably March 23 and 24.
BRITISH SHORE POUNDED,
SHEEP BURIED IN SNOW
15-Year Record Storm Isolates
Houses—Thames Rises Fast
in Upper Reaches.
8* the Associated Press.
LONDON. February 27.—Parts of
Great. Britain were swept by storms
today that rolled up heavy seas ac
companied by rain, hail and sleet.
In Banffshire, in the Scottish up
lands. the worst snowstorm in 15 years
Isolated houses, buried sheep and
caused motorists to abandon their
ears.
Heavy rains and sleet caused the
Thames to rise rapidly in the upper
reaches of the Thames Valley.
Highway, air and sea transport serv
ices wTere halted by a blizzard in the
Orkney Islands. The Liverpool area
was also swept by a wintry storm.
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Masonic Club Plans Dance.
Plans are being made by the Postal
Service Square Club of Master Masons
of the City Post Office and the Post
Office Department for a dance at the
Indian Spring Country Club Satur- ;
day night. March 27.
ANOTHER SMART USER CAR BITTER
• “I suppose it was natural for me
to turn to a Dodge dealer when I
decided to buy a used car,” states J.
S. Robertson, express clerk. “I need
transportation to run back and forth
to the office and yet I want a depend
able used car because 1 am often
obliged to leave it parked outside the
best part of the day in all kinds of
weather.
“But I will confess that after 1 had
Just about selected a very excellent
buy, I shopped around the other
places and checked up, only to
discover that the used car that the
Dodge dealer offered me was priced
between $35 and $50 under what
other dealers were asking.
“Besides, the Dodge dealer’s used
car that I had selected was one of
their Blue Seal cars that had been
triple-checked for appearance, con
dition and price, and the salesman
had a complete record of its specifi
cations. Needless to say, I bought
the Dodge dealer’s used car and I
have had absolutely no trouble with
it. It looks ‘swell’ and it performs
‘swell’, and above all it is thoroughly
dependable.”
TURN TO THE CLASSIFIED SECTION OF THIS PAPER FOR TO
DAY’S MONEY-SAVING SPECIALS AT YOUR DODGE DEALER’S I
Ford Plant, Scene of Union Drive
Here is an aerial view of the Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant at Edgewater. N. J., which
is the scene of ■‘the latest C. /. O. unionization drive. President Homer Martin of the United
Automobile Workers of America announced he would seek immediately to unionize the 3.700
workers in the plant. —A. P. Photo.
Geislia Girls Firmly Intrenched
In Sit-Doim Strike for Union
Adopt Semi-Military Regimen in Fight
for Collective Bargaining by
Entertainers’ Guild.
By the Associated Press.
OSAKA, Japan. February 27—The
geisha girls, to whom a sit-down strike
is very old stuff, settled down to an
almost military regimen today in a
mountain top temple.
They intrenched themselves for
what may be a long stay—at least
until their employers grant collective
bargaining rights to their ancient guild
of entertainers. There were 300 of
them in the Gyozuko Buddhist Temple
today, and more of the 2.000 down in
the rich industrial city of Osaka are
coming up.
Not. only is the sit-down strike
nothing new under the Japanese sun.
but the rebellious girls even are taking
a leaf from the book of their own
singing sisters generations ago.
In this age the old Geisha Guild is
the labor organization of the enter
taining girls.
In ihe last eenturv. geisha girls
railed a “sit-down" strike—a custom
from antiquity known as "rojo"—to
protest harsh treatment.
Crowds of sympathetic patrons and
interested spectators gathered outside
the temple tonight to hear the girls
sing some of the same songs and shout
some of the same slogans that striking
geisha girls used back in the 60s.
The Japanese sit-down strike rivals
the institution of Geisha itself in the
age of its roots. Knights of old staged
one-man sit-down strikers by barricad
ing themselves in their feudal castles
Shetland Island
Monster 30 Ft. Long
Puffs Like Train
GLASGOW. Scotland JP —Sea
monster stories are back in vogue
once more.'
This year the Shetland Islands
got in a story before Loch Ness,
famous home of the famous Loch
Ness monster.
Descriptions of the Shetland
Island creature, as reported by
ship passengers, credit it with
being 30 feet long, with three
pointed fins, each about 6 feet
long, and with a habit of emitting
puffs like a freight train.
Islanders are wondering if the
monster is the mate of the one
which became entangled in her
ring nets last year and left 11
feet of its tail behind.
and refusing to come out until their
lords heard their grievances.
The girl strikers decided on their
rigid sit-down routine despite the gifts
of food. rice. wine, bedding and other
comforts which sympathetic tired busi
nessmen sent them.
Determined to sit down in their
sanctuary until the issue is settled,
they elected a treasurer, a public re
lations bureau and a bargaining com
mittee to deal with their employers.
They ha\e adopted this daily routine;
10 a m—Deadline for rising, dress
ing. painting, powdering and eating
breakfast.
11 a m —Worship for all. including
prayers to Buddha for victory.
Noon—Luncheon
1 p.m.—Reply to letters and ac
knowledge gifts from patrons; write
love letters and postal cards soliciting
support for the strike.
3 p.m —Compulsory long walk and
exercise.
8 p.m.—Dinner and bed.
Newspapers estimated the strikers
were receiving at least 1.000 yen ($285)
from sympathizers.
BRIG. GEN. F. L. BRADMAN
TO HEAD MARINE BOARD
Moved to Quantico Barracks Post
From Newport War College,
Where He Is Student.
Brig. Gen. Frederic L. Bradman,
now attending the advanced course
at the Naval War College, Newport,
R. I„ will become president of the
Marine Corps Equipment Board at the
Marine Barracks, Quantico, Va„ in
June. Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb,
commandant of the Marine Corps, an
nounced yesterday.
Brig. Gen. Douglas C. McDougal.
now commanding the Fleet Marine
Force. Marine Corps base, San Diego,
Calif. will become commanding gen
eral of the Marine Barracks. Parris
Island. S. C.. Gen. Holcomb also an
nounced.
COLORED OFFICERS’
INCREASE IS ASKED
Committee of Washington Church
Federation Also Urges More
Care With Guns.
The Race Relations Committee of the
Washington Federation of Churches
has requested the District Commis
sioners to Increase the number of
colored officers on the police force
and to warn policemen to be more
careful in the use of their service guns
in view of the fact that policemen
have killed 50 persons since 1926
while enforcing the law.
The committee pointed out that 40
of the 50 persons shot to death were
colored, and said that, although the
colored population here is 27.3 per
cent, the number of colored police
men on the force is only 2.9 per cent.
With regard to the shootings, the
committee said:
"We recogniae the difficult situa
tions in which the officers of the law
are often placed and we commend
many of them for their bravery in
dealing with and apprehending dan
gerous criminals. On the other hand,
there seem to be some cases—all too
many, we think—in which officers of
the law were too hasty in their use
of force.”
The committee asked that officers
be frequently reminded of the regu
lation ordering g at care in the use
of firearms. The communication to
the Commissioners was signed by Rev.
E. O. Clark, chairman of the Race
Relations Committee, and H. B. Tay
lor, a member.
Shortage of imported foodstuffs has
raised prices in the Philippines.
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