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SUERS PICKET EVICTION HEARING Stage Noisy Demonstration Around Court as Chrysler Plea Is Argued. the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 13.—The picket ing of a court building, something new in labor disputes here, created a noisy demonstration today at the Chrysler injunction hearing. " The sound of marching men and the blare of a 12-piece band shared attention with the legal arguments Inside a tiny court room over whether “sit-down" strikers should be ordered Out of Chrysler plants here. . While the union band played martial airs, with frequent repetitions of "Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here,'” a double line of union pickets walked In opposite directions on sidewalks around the county building. Inside, more than 1,000 persons—in cluding a few women—jammed a long third-floor corridor near Circut Judge Allan Campbell’s court room, where the hearing was held. Sidewalks across streets from the building, located a few blocks from Detroit's business district, were crowded with spectators. Crowd Estimated at 5,000. The crowd, inside and out, was estimated by police at close to 5,000. In the court itself, spectators were limited to hardly more than 50, the tiny room’s seating capacity. Judge Campbell, who made no com ment on the pickets, ordered a win dew closed after noise and occasional "boos” from the street attracted at tention. The band, wearing blue uniforms and military "overseas" caps, played ffom the steep front steps of the building. 'Shop stewards of the United Auto mobile Workers' Union, whose officers were among defendants in the in junction petition, kept the picket lines moving in orderly fashion. Deputy sheriffs and union stewards maintained a narrow lane through the peaceful crowd inside. Few women were among the pickets and the men did not wear working clothes. There was many a felt-col lar overcoat and gray fedora hat in the line of hard, determined faces. PickPta Soon Disperse. when the hearing was adjourned Until Monday, the pickets drifted away within 10 minutes. As they walked off, one official of the union, which claims a membership of 50,000 in Chrysler plants here, shouted: “We'll have 10 times this many here Monday." Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. presi dent, announced tonight the union's International Executive Board would 1 meet at Cleveland Monday and Tues- i day to seek a “consistent method of disposition of workers outside the au- : tomobile industry’’ who want to be organized by the Committee for In dustrial Organization. Noting that several unrelated groups have been accepted in the U. A W. A. ! “under a temporary arrangement,” I Martin said: “So far there has been ' no consistent permanent policy on a national basis. We shall attempt to decide on such a policy at the Cleve land meeting.'’ Replying to Keller’s statements made in a letter to distributors, Mar tin termed them “a series of misrepre sentations deliberately designed to obscure the Issues of the strike.” The cause of the strike, Martin as serted, was “ the corporation’s stub born defiance of the • • * Wagner labor disputes act.’’ Murphy Calls Parley. Meanwhile, Gov. Frank Murphy in vited 20 persons representing “the general public as well as employer: and employe organizations” to meet here next Wednesday, to “consider and discuss the present labor situation.” I The meeting, the Governor said, was called with the object of deter mining upon a program of action “ac ceptable to all element's that will in sure compliance with the law or pro vide an orderly way of dealing with the problems created by many labor controversies pending or threatened.” WILL CONFER TOMORROW. Effort Will Be Made to End Firestone Tire Strike. ■ AKRON, Ohio, March 13 (JP).—L. S. JJuckmaster, president of the Firestone local of the United Rubber Workers of America, announced tonight that negotiations would be resumed Mon day in an attempt to end the strike at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plants here. Buekmaster said the union's negoti ating committee would meet with W. R. Murphy, company labor superin tendent. More than 11,000 employes are idle because of the strike. Negotiations were terminated Tues day when the company turned down the union's demand for exclusive col lective bargaining rights in the plants, l)ut agreed to recognize the union as bargaining agent for its members. The Strike Committee in a state ment today said the union was asking ’tonly what the national labor laws Sentenced BALTIMORE TAXI LEADER FACES TERM. _ HARRY COHEN. « The organizer for the Ameri can Federation of Labor faces a three-month jail term and .$5,000 fine on a charge of in citing to riot in the recent taxi strike in •Baltimore. He is ,:under $10,000 bail pending ap ■peal from the sentence of Judge Eugene O’Dunne. ':~Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. k Clerk Beats Gunman to Draw .. — provide.” The rubber workers’ union, a Committee for Industrial Organiza tion affiliate, claims 8,000 members among the employes. 3,500 RETURNED TO WORK. Seven Strikes in Chicago Are Settled, 12 Continue. CHICAGO, March 13 (/Pi.—Settle ment of seven sit-down strikes in Chicago returned approximately 3,500 persons to pay rolls tonight. Mean while nearly 5.800 employes involved In 12 other strikes continued to hold out for their demands. Federal conciliators, attempting to end the eight-day walkout of several hundred taxicab drivers, held their first conference with officials of the Yellow Cab Co. but reported little progress toward bringing the manage ment and drivers together at a peace conference. Both the Yellow Cab and Checker Taxi Co, officials have refused to meet the strikers unless Joseph M. Jacobs, attorney for the newly formed Midw'est Taxicab Drivers’ Union, Is barred from negotiations. During the day several strikers were arrested for hurling bricks through windows of cabs driven by non-striking drivers or for molesting the drivers in other ways. Two police men, Sergts. Rocco Filetti and William Foley, were also arrested on charges of assault and battery brought by strikers who claimed the officers gave them a beating. Girls Get Wage Hike. Two hundred girls headed for home or Saturday night- "dates” following a 24-hour sit-down in the Fannie May homemade candy shops plant. Officials said the girls’ principal demand, for a 40-hour week, had been granted. Two hundred men and women streamed from the plant of the John F. Cuneo Co., bookbinders, after a six hour sit-down brought them a promise of a 12 per cent wage increase. Workers resumed regular duties at the Chicago Mail Order Co., where 2,000 men and women had held the plant; the Ludlow Typograph Co., where 350 employes ended a three-day tie-up; the Peanuts Specialty Co., where 450 had been on strike; the Fitzpatrick, Inc., soap factory, where 200 had been idle for two days, and the Chicago Law Printing Co., where 40 received wage increases. Other strikes still unsettled involved bowling alley pin boys, dock workers, tailors, warehouse employes and fac tory workers. —-• Labor _(Continued From First Page.) miners and Appalachian area opera tors were manifest at New York. A committee of four settled down to negotiating a new two-year contract which will affect virtually all the Nation’s 450,000 soft coal diggers. The quartet included John L. Lewis, chief of the C. I. O. and the United Mine Workers of America, and Pres ident Charles O'Neill of the United Eastern Coal Sales Corp. At Pittsburgh, Lewis lieutenants gathered to complete details of their first agreement with "big steel.” They will meet with President B. F. Fairless of the Carnegie-Illinols Steel Corp. tomorrow. The Blaw-Knox Steel Co. signed a similar pact affecting about 3,000. The United Electrical and Radio Workers’ Union rejected the West inghouse Co.’s offer of a 58-cent min imum wage, and threatened a strike Left: Everett Rhodes, night clerk in the Seneca Hotel at Rochester, N. Y„ who exchanged shots with Lawrence Haw thorn, paroled convict, who ivas captured on the tenth floor of the hotel yesterday. Right: Hawthorn with Policeman Joseph Yurgealitis. Circle indicates bullet hole in Hawthorn’s hat. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ----. at the East Pittsburgh works, em ploying 8,000. Illinois counted approximately 10, 500 jobless In labor disputes. In Chi cago 12 strikes were in progress, in drivers. Seven disputes were settled during the day. Five controversies remained unsettled in as many oom munnitles in the northern part of Police, armed with submachine the State. guns, guarded the strike-bound Fur niture Manufacturing Co. at Memphis, Tenn. Two hundred and fifty girl strikers danced in the Standard Cigar Co. factory at Pittsburgh. A “sit down” do luxe found 30 lounging in beach chairs at the Roberts Dress Shop in Baltimore. Forty blind strikers solicited funds with tin cups on Pittsburgh's streets. Garbage and ash wagon drivers were out in Phila delphia. “Sit-downers” closed a 5 and 10 store in New York and another in Brooklyn, and moved to extend the movement to nearly a score of others. Strikes ended at the Michigan Mal leable Iron Co., Detroit, and the Perennial Dye and Print Works, West Warwick. R. I. Printers returned to their duties at the Miami (Fla ) Daily News. LEADERS LAY PLANS. Electrical and Radio Union Heads to Talk With G. E. Officials. NEW YORK. March 13 UP< — Broad plans for organizing the Nation's 1,000.000 or more electrical manufac turing and communication workers along industrial lines were laid today at a meeting of union leaders allied with John L. Lewis. The meeting, attended by members of the Executive Board of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America, which was organized a year ago. was called primarily to perfect a program for the beginning of collective bargaining talks Monday with officials of the General Electric Co. Expressing confidence that a “satis factory agreement” covering that com pany's 60,000 employes would be reached. James B. Carey. 25-year-old president of the union, disclosed that a similar conference would be sought soon with officials of the W'eatinghouse Electric <Sc Manufacturing Co. Carey estimated there were more than 45,000 West.lnghouse employes eligible for membership in the union. As in the case of General Electric, he declined to say how many already had been enrolled. 500,000 in Industry. William Mitchell, national repre sentative of the union, said Govern ment statistics indicated a total of more than 500.000 workers were employed In the electrical manufactur ing industry, exclusive of those in small shops, and he estimated at least 500,000 more were engaged in the communications field. ‘‘We are going to organise them all," he said. "We already have organisers all over the country." In addition to Westinghouse. a na tional agreement will be sought with the American Telephone & Telgraph Co. intimately, Carey said, it was hoped to negotiate on an industry wide scale with the National Electrical Manufacturers’ Association or some other employes’ group. Monday's conference with General Electric will mark the union's first at tempt to negotiate on a national scale. Local discussions have been carried on at 2 of the company's 15 plants— at Lynn, Mass., and at Schenectady, N. Y.—but this will be the first effort to obtain a contract covering the em ployes in all plants. “I believe,” said Carey, "that a very happy relationship will bt established between the union and the manage ment.” Officials Are Silent. No statement concerning the com pany's attitude has been forthcoming since President Gerard Swope an nounced on March 3 that the union's request for a general conference had been granted. At that time he said the United Electrical and Radio Workers’ Union had been chosen as the collective bargaining agency at Lynn and Schenectady as a result "of 4 For a Rendezvous with Spring . . . VOYAGEUR II by KN4>X The rhythmic line of curved crown | 1 and curved chin ap pears to great od vantage in Voyageur II, by Knox. Inevitably right for classic clothes, it has a great capacity for flattery, too. Felt and straw ... in a host of Spring shades. $12.75 Other Knox Hats, SS to SIS • Your CRorge Account It Cordially Invited • RALEIGH HABERDASHER THE WOMEN'S SHOP— 1S10 F STREET the vote of the employes at these plants.” William R. Burroush, vice president in charge of manufacturing, will be the principal spokesman for the man agement. A committee headed by Carey will represent the union. An eight-point program will be pre sented by the union when the two groups meet in the company's New York offices Monday afternoon. The program calls for a blanket increase of 10 cents an hour for all employes, including those on salaries; increased compensation for certain shifts, re vision upward of bonuses and elimi nation of all forms of the "group in centive or speed-up system” of pay ment. Because it will be their first meeting on a company-wide bases, Carey was unable to predict how long the con ference would continue, but he was emphatically optimistic as to its out come. Meet to Instruct officers. Following the same procedure adopt ed by the General Electric Division, a delegation of 15 Westinghouse employes met at union headquarters tonight to Instruct the national officers to petition for collective bargaining conference on their behalf, and to elect a negotiating committee. Carey indicated tbo wage and work | ing conditions to be requested of West ; inghouse would be virtually the same as those that will be discussed with | General Electric next week, j The United Electrical and Radio Workers was organized at Buffalo on March 31. 1936, by a group of locals of the radio and allied trades which refused to merge with the Interna-< | tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers. The insurgent locals were among the first to be suspended by the American Federation of Labor for in dustrial organization activities. In selecting General Electric as the first objective of its drive to organize the electrical industry on a horizontal basis, the united will be treating with a firm that has three members of J P. Morgan & Co. on its board of di rector*. PARLEY TO BE RESUMED Steel Union to Meet With Oarnegle Illinois Head Tomorrow. PITTSBURGH. March 13 (TP) —Or ganized labor of the Pittsburgh indus trial district focused its attention today on the negotiations to be resumed Mon day between leaders of John L. Lewis’ steel union drive and President Ben jamin F. Fairless of Carnegie-IUinoia Steel Corp. Philip Murray and a few picked aides will meet the head of the United States Steel's largest subsidiary and complete details of an arrangement he signed with the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee March 2 recognizing the union as a collective bargaining agency for its members. Union representatives from Car negie-Illinois’ 27 plants in the Pitts burgh and Chicago districts today vot ed Murray and a subcommittee of their General Scale Committee dis cretionary powers to negotiate de mands in addition to the 40-hour week and $5 minimum daily wage, already announced by Fairless. Recommendations discussed by the General Scale Committee Included: Two weeks’ vacations with pay for all workers with one or more years’ service. Elimination of inequalities in pay for similar work in different plants. Dismissal notice of 10 days for all employes. Seniority rights. Of all the questions, that of estab lishing equality of pay offers the big gest stumbling block to agreement, in the opinion of labor observers. Steel workers contend that in some plants men on the same job are paid a dozeD different rates. Members of the steel workers’ Or ganizing Committee said whatever so lution of these questions was agreed to at Monday’s conference would be used as a guide for collective bar gaining negotiations with all the plants in the Nation’s flve-biUlon-dol lar steel industry. Contract Adopted. Already the Carnegie-Illinois con tract with the union has been adopted by one of the larger independent steel producers—the Blaw-Knox Co. President William P. Witherow signed a similar agreement Friday night affecting about 3,000 workers in the parent company and four sub sidiaries—Lewis Foundry & Machine, Groveton, Pa.; Pittsburgh Rolls Co.; National Steel Castings, Pittsburgh, an- the National Alloy Steel of Blawnox, Pa. A spokesman for the steel union said officials of the Spang Chalfant <te Co. had indicated they would sign a union contract within the next week, affecting more than 3.0C0 in fheir plants at Etna and Ambridge, Pa. The company Issued this state ment: "The contract asked by the S. W. O. C. with Spang Chalfant does not ap pear to be in conflict with what we believe our attitude should be ” Movements are under way to spread the contract negotiations with other independents, but a spokesman said ! the committee’s strategy for the pres- : ent is to concentrate on subsidiaries i of ’ big steel.” Meeting Opposition. The adherents of John L. Lewis’ drive to establish one big industrial union for all of the country's 550,000 steel workers are meeting their heav iest opposition from supporters of the employe representation plan at Car negie-Illinois. F. W. Bohne, chairman of the Pitts burgh district joint council of employe representatives of the company, has announced plans to make the em ployes’ group an independent unit in order to strengthen its defense against Inroads by the Lewis union. Bohne said all 65,000 employes in the 18 Pittsburgh district plants of the company, excepting Lewis follow ers, would be asked to vote cn the plans to set up a collective bargaining agency qn a self-support basis. The present plan is financed by the com- | pany, which pays employe representa tives for time lost attending meetings. Decision to maintain the plan in dependent of all company or outside support followed the employe repre sentatives’ refusal earlier this week to join forces with the American Fed eration of Labor in order to fight Lewis. John Frey, vice president of the federation, met with the representa tives’ Steering Committee Tuesday at their invitation and left with them a plan by which they could obtain a federation charter. SHOOTING VICTIM DIES Woman Slain by Man Before He Killed Self, Sheriff Rule*. NEWPORT, Vt„ March 13 (tf>) —Mrs. Earl Reed died today of bullet wounds which High Sheriff Solon Gray said were inflicted by Vernon Huntington before he committed suicide. The double shooting occurred as the 40-year-old couple sat in an automo- j bile last night. Sheriff Gray said Huntington, using a pistol, shot Mrs. Reed twice in the right side and then fired a bullet into his own forehead. PONTIAC " Sixes & Eights IMMEDIATE DELIVER? WE NEED USED CARS Flood Motor Co. 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