Evening star. [volume], March 14, 1937, Page A-5, Image 5

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IN TEXAS OIL BELT
Campaign to Unionize Vast
Petroleum Industry to
Open Soon.
(John L. Lewis’ drive to tiring
the petroleum industry into the
fold of the Committee for Indus
trial Organization, to start exten
sively soon after April 1, likely will
center in the vast East Texas oil
field. The current situation is re
ported in a series of stories, of
which this is the first.)
Bs the Associated Press
KILGORE, Tex.. March 13.—Three
Weeks hence and John L. Lewis’ labor
organizing strategy will invade the
derricked land of make believe—East
Texas' black gold belt.
Over miles dotted writ.h 22,000 der
ricks, born of martial law and mad
lease grabbing, his organizers plan
to thread their way in a drive to
marshal the vast petroleum industry
under the banner of his Committee
for Industrial Organization. Workers
in the 10 branches of the industry
Will be solicited by crack organizers.
If successful in that, demands will
follow.
Union contract recognition, col
lective bargaining, higher wages and
a 36-hour week are the aims, said
ponderous John T. Allen, organizer
for the third district, International
Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery
Workers, expelled unit of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
Salaries “World’s Worst."
‘‘Cheapest, chisellingest field in the
world,” declared Allen. "Salaries in
■ the world's largest oil field are the
world's worst. Living conditions are
deplorable.
"What do we want? Remedying
contracts.
"We ask the major and independ
ent operators to sit across the table
and negotiate. We don't want trou
ble—don’t anticipate it. We want
every one to come oft hap; 7. in 21
years of organizing I have seen some
knotty and snarled negotiations. Never
have I been embroiled in a strike.”
But, said Allen, funds are avail
able for strikes if "our efforts to
avoid walkouts and difficulties fail.”
Detailed strategy for the organiza
> tion campaign . ill come out of a
Houston meeting of the International
Executive Committee, starting April
5. International President Harvey
Fremming and Vice President John
I,. Coulter, transferred from California
to the district embracing fields from
• Hobbs. N. Mex., to Shreveport. La.,
will give the orders, union leaders
agreed.
’’00 ‘‘Specialists” Assigned.
Two hundred "specialists" groomed
to- the job, have been assigned to
preach Lewis’ gospel. About 40 of
his best have drawn the Blast Texas
area for contact work.
Into 10 branches of work organizers
will carry their union arguments, hold
ing stump meetings in homes,
churches, schools and labor halls.
Radio broadcasting and newspaper
advertising will be utilized. Branches
tagged for enlistment include drill
ing, refining, production, rig building,
machinists, boilermakers, marketing
division, pipelmers, welders, construc
tion and maintenance.
To initiate their campaign, union
leaders emphasized dealings must
start with the major companies, Col
lective bargaining among the some
1,800 independents would follow, they
laid.
Organization workers are expected
to concentrate on the industry’s pipe
line workers, or common laborers. Al
len marked that division as a potent
group of the low-wage class that would
receive careful attention from Lewis’
lieutenants.
Local Drive Started.
Quiet organization work has started
, In the East Texas field, but Allen
stressed it was ‘'purely a local drive
and not yet a part of the C. I. O.
movement.”
Guarded but pointed coment came
from the operators in answer to every
labor charge. Vigorous denials of
wage, hour and living condition as
sertions from the union camp were
given, and evidence offered to support
the denials.
Operators, however, appeared dis
posed to let the labor force play its
eards first. Majors and independents
agreed, however, on one mutual asser
tion:
“The world’s largest oil field will
Bever be unionized.”
Income Taxes
(Continued From First Page.)
put more than $300,000,000 in the
Federal till before next July 1.
Crowds in Line Here.
A morning crowd besieged the local
office yesterday to pile up the longest
line ever seen there by the oldest
attaches of the income tax office. The
taxpayers filed in about 9:30 a m. in
such crowds that they lined up along
the corridor on the Twelfth street
side of the building, until they reached
about the length of a city block. Then
the guards turned the line at right
angles, in an easterly direction, and
It ran part way down the middle
corridor of the huge Revenue Build
ing. Never before, officials said, had
the line turned the corner.
Up to 5 p m., when the doors closed
on the local office. 3,195 persons had
turned in their returns. The crowd
dwindled in the afternoon, however.
Friday brought the biggest volume
so far this year, when 3,654 persons
went through the office. Tomorrow
Is expected to be the biggest of the
year.
Force Is Increased.
Seeking to expedite collections, the
Internal Revenue Bureau ordered 4,300
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Strikers Eat Heartily
Upper: Three of 50 girl strikers eat a bite while awaiting
settlement of demands for shorter hours in Chicago candy
factory.
Center: Sections of carburetors, oil screens and filters con
verted into cooking pots and spoons by sit-downers in Dodge
plant at Detroit. Acetylene torch serves as stove.
Lower: With magazine and candy stand employes on strike
in a New York subway, this sit-dcnoner makes a dent in the
stock and satisfies his appetite. -—Copyright,-A. P. Wirephotos.
revenue agents to the assistance of
revenue collectors. These agents will
aid in answering taxpayers' questions
and receiving returns.
The number of taxpayers filing re
turns since January 1, officials re
ported, has been considerably larger
than usual. They said this was due
primarily to an increased number of
taxpayers this year, rather than any
broad tendency to pay taxes earlier.
A special internal revenue commit
tee is studying possible methods of
simplifying returns and officials hope
that in future years this may shorten
the lines of waiting taxpayers at col
lection offices.
If returns are made simpler, they
explained, more taxpayers wall be able
to fllh them out at home without ad- !
vice from collection officials, reliev- !
ing the crush at revenue offices.
Taxpayers Generally Honest.
By and large, the Internal Revenue |
Bureau rates the income taxpayers \
high in honesty but low in arithme
tic.
There aren't many A1 Capone, Ar
thur Flegenheimer and Irving Wexler
cases.
Since 1862, when the income tax
first went into effect to help pay for
the Civil War, income taxes have pro
duced for the Federal Government
$14,600,000,000 of revenue. And the
crop of violations that have caught
the headlines has been extremely
s.mall in proportion to the number pay
ing taxes.
It's hard to tell, said Charles T.
Russell, head of the Income Tax Unit,
whether the average taxpayer veers
toward giving the Government or him
self the benefit of the doubt when he
makes out his return.
A great many take deductions to
which they are not entitled, but an
other large group ignore deductions
they could claim.
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Conference Group of 25 Is
Cut to 4—Adjourns
Till Monday.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 13.—Negotia
tions between Eastern Appalachian
soft coal mine operators and miners
entered their apparently final phase
today when the original conference
group of 25 was reduced to four ac
tive members.
The subcommittee, seeking a wage
hour agreement to succeed one ex
piring March 31, which will affect
nearly all of the Nation’s 450,000 soft
coal miners, met briefly with the full
committee standing by on call and
adjourned till 10 o'clock Monday.
It was composed of John L, Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ers and chairman of the Committee on
Industrial Organization; Thomas Ken
nedy, secretary of the union; Charles
O'Neill, president of the United East
ern Coal Sales Corp., New York, and
L. T. Putnam of Beckley, W. Va.,
superintendent of the Raleigh-Wyo
mlng Mining Co.
The negotiators previously had been
whittled down to a subcommittee of
10, and observers said action like the
final reduction to four had meant in
the past clearing up of preliminary
details.
Asked as he emerged from the sub
committee's first meeting what had
been accomplished at it, Lewis said,
"Nothing has been accomplished.”
Blind Strikers
Seek Funds in
6Tin Cup’ Drive
Seek Sympathy for
Wage Increase
Demands.
By the • ociated Press.
PITTSBURGH. March 13—Forty
blind "sit-down” strikers at the work
shop of the Pennsylvania Association
for the Blind carried tin cups to the
city's street corners today.
Charles McLaughlin, member of the
committee which has directed the
strike of 107 blind workers since
March 1, said the men resorted to
the "tin cup” campaign to arouse
sentiment for their demands for wage
minimus ranging from *12 to *16 a
week. He added:
"This is to show that we mean
• business.”
A mediation meeting ended Friday
in confusion as Matthew Dunn, Penn
sylvania's blind Representative in
Congress, threatened legal action if
the association did not grant the wage
demands.
The association, which provides
work for the blind making brooms and
furniture, stated its Income would not
carry an increased pay roll.
ANECDOTES TO BE TOLD
Columbia Historical Society to
Get Glimpees of Butler’s Life.
Intimate anecdotes about Gen. Ben
jamin F. Butler, one-time military
commander, aspirant for the presi
dency, Congressman, impeaeher of a
President, and Washington lawyer,
will be told by Dr. L. T. Merrill, who
is writing a book on the general's life,
before the Columbia Historical Society
at the Mayflower Hotel Tuesday night.
The meeting of the society will be
presided over by Allen C. Clark, pres
ident since 1916. Vocal and instru
mental music by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
C. Barrett and Miss Martha Holland
Shelton will be included on the pro
gram.
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Charges Promise Broken in
Award of Contract to
Remington-Band.
By the Associated Press.
John P. Prey, president of the
American Federation of Labor’s metal
trades department, criticized the So
cial Security Board yesterday for
awarding a $57,500 contract to Rem
ington Rand, Inc.
"We had assurances that the board
would buy nothing from Remington
Rand as long as the company con
tinued its present labor policy,” Frey
said.
The Office Equipment Workers’
Council, made up of workers belong
ing to unions in Frey's department,
called a strike in Remington Rand
plants last May. The A. F. of L.
maintains the strike still is on, al
though the company says its plants
are operating at 100 per cent capacity.
Remington Rand has factories in
Connecticut, New York and Ohio.
Arthur J. Altmeyer, chairman of
the Social Security Board, denied the
board had promised Frey not to buy
any Remington Rand products. The
$57,500 contract, he explained, called
for photographing forms turned in by
employers under the old-age benefit
program.
Remington Rand and the Recordak
Corp., an Eastman Kodak subsidiary, I
were the only bidders for thus work, |
Altmeyer added. The bids were
identical as far as cost went, he
said, but the Recordak Corp. specified
160 days to complete the work, while
Remington Rand offered to do it in
60 days.
Recognition of the Office Equip
ment Workers’ Council as sole bar
gaining agency for Remington-Rand
employes and a wage increase were
issues In the strike The company
repeatedly threatened to close per
manently several of the plants where
picketing was started.
Several months ago the union filed
a complain,, with the labor Relations
Board charging the company with
unfair labor practices. Labor Board
officials said yesterday a decision
would be made public soon.
At the A. F. of L.'s request, the La
bor Department undertook several
weeks ago to invite James H. Rand,
jr„ to the department for a peace
conference. Declaring they could not
get in touch with him, department
officials turned the matter over to
Secretary Perkins, who publicly in
vited Rand to meet her here this
week.
S K. Knapp, executive vice presi
dent, telegraphed Friday that Rand
would accept the invitation. The tel- :
egram added
“You will be interested to know in
advance that Remington-Rand plants j
are operating at 100 per cent capacity j
under collective bargaining agree
ments which provide for arbitration :
of any disputes over wages and
hours."
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