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HITLER IS TERMED
THREAT 10 PEACE
French Writer and German
Educator Debate at
Town Hall.
Characterizing national socialism,
the political doctrine of Nazi Ger
many, as a “very simple form of
exploitation of the mass spirit,” Count
De Roussy de Sales, French political
writer, told a Town Hall audience
last night that Adolph Hitler’s ap
plication of this philosophy consti
tutes the greatest threat to the
security of the world today.
Speaking prior to his French op
ponent, Dr. Helgo W. Culemann,
German educator, declared that
Germans hail the Nazi doctrine witn
a fervor approaching religion in con
trast to the maligning and misrepre
sentation of those outside the
country.
Contending that the seed of Nazi
policy was sown in the Versailles
Treaty, which ‘'filled with blundering
mistakes, made Germany bleed
white,” Dr. Culemann said the Ger
man people accepted Naziism In pref
erence to communism and that they
have not regretted that choice.
Big Cut in Unemployment.
As Its principal achievements, Dr.
Culemann declared the Hitler gov
ernment has restored the national
confidence and reduced unemploy
ment from six and one-half millions
to slightly more than one million.
Explaining the anti-Semitic drive j
of the Nazis, the German speaker j
said it had been made necessary by 1
the fact that Jews, "leaders of left
ist doctrines,” had controlled the
newspapers and educational insti
tutions whose opposition could not
be tolerated during the "experi
mental” stages of national socialism.
“I personally do not say this (the
purge of Jew's) was a necessary means
or the only one.” Dr Culemann said,
"but circumstances forced some
action.”
vreramiiy s internal poucy, ur. uuie
mann said, constitutes no threat to
peace. Her foreign policy, he then
continued, likewise constitutes no
menace, pointing out significantly
that if Germany had the colonies
she needs she could not afford to
fight, for fear of losing them again.
Although he avoided direct mention
of possibilities of war with Russia,
he cited Germany's extensive border
line as reason for a great army and
spoke of Czechoslovakia as a “vassal
•tate of Russia.”
Nordic Supremacy Held “Bunk.”
Drawing applause on several oc
casions, De Sales termed the Nazi
theory of Nordic supremacy, "what
ever that is,’’ as “the bunk.” Remark
ing with obvious sarcasm that it was
“too bad” about the differences cf
opinion held by Jewish scientists,
educators and publishers. De Sales
declared that such divergence “may
be messy, but I like it better that
way.”
“We were coping pretty well with
eommunism before Hitler appointed
himself the world's defender,” De
Sales continued “If we look at the
map we find that no nation except
Russia has embraced communism and
that is a communism far from the
original ideas of Lenin. It is not that
I prefer Stalin to Hitler, but it is a
fact that Russia in the last few years
has made no threats against her
neighbors nor against world peace.”
Defending the Versailles treaty, De
Bales declared that no treaty ever
was fair to the side that lost the
war, “and that is the only trouble
with the Treaty of Versailles.” Prance
may be mostly to blame for the
treaty, he continued, but it should
not be blamed for Hitler.
Return of Liberties Seen.
“I don't think we could be,” he re
marked.
Speaking in rebuttal, Dr. Culemann
predicted that Germans will regain
their individual liberties as soon as
the nation regains its normal place
among world powers.
During questioning from the audi
ence. Dr. Culemann referred to the
recent Hitler-La Guardia embroglio
as resulting in a “very unpleasant
exchange of notes,” but declined to
discuss it further. Mayor La Guardia s
slighting remarks about Hitler, he
said, were made "comprehensibly for
political reasons.”
Dr. Wilson Compton, associate pro
fessor of economics at George Wash
ington University, presided over the
debate. Despite the bad weather the
Bhoreham ball room was-filled.
Chrysler Injunction Text
Respect for Law and Order Has Been Menaced
by Strikers’ Seizure of Property,
Detroit Judge Holds.
B? the Associated Press.
DETROIT. March 15.—The text of
Cirouit Judge Allan Campbell’s de
cision granting an anti-strike injunc
tion to the Chrysler Corp. follows:
"The Chrysler Corp. flies Its bill
of complaint against the international
union, United Automobile Workers of
America, and upwards of 100 named
Individuals, seeking relief from a sit
down strike.
"The bill charges that the defend
ants have conspired to deprive the
corporation of its property, and have
taken possession of all its manufac
turing plants, with upward of $50,
000,000; that they have excluded its
officers and agents from the property
as well as a large number of employes
who are ready and anxious to work,
if permitted to do so.
"The bill further alleges that the
plaintiff had been notified that the
defendant union and its offioers had
caused the strike on the issue alone
of whether the plaintiff ‘would rec
ognise the union as the sole bargain
ing agency in plaintiff’s dealings with
all of its employes, and in regulating
any matter involving wages, hours
and working conditions of all of its
employes.’
Properties Held Damaged.
"The bill further charges that this
sit-down strike has caused and is now
causing Irreparable damage both to
the plaintiff and to many others and
that the properties are being damaged
by the unlawful possession. The
plaintiff prays for injunctive relief
against such acts of the defendants.
“Upon the filing of the bill, an order
to show cause, returnable March 13,
1937, was issued by this court. In re
sponse to this order, Maurice Sugar,
esquire, appeared as attorney for such
of the defendants as had been served
and presented to the court an affidavit
of Richard T. Franhensteen, present
ing the claimed facts on which the
defendants based their argument to
the court that the injunctive relief
should not be grantsd. The showing
of the defendants by this affidavit was
that the Chrysler Corp. had violated
the terms of the national labor rela
tions act as follows:
"A—By employing spies who joined
labor organizations and reported back
to the corporation;
"B—By organizing company unions;
“C—By discharging men for union
activities, and
”D—By refusal to consent to grant
defendants’ organiaation exclusive bar
gaining rights.
"For these reasons the defendants
urge that the plaintiff does not come
into court with clean hands.
Labor Act "Disregarded.”
"It seems to the court that these
contentions may be disposed of with
out passing upon the constitutionality
of the Federal labor act. If it is
valid, it can hardly be contended that
failure to abide by Its terms gives
the defendant* the right to sei*e and
appropriate $50,000,000 worth of prop
erty of the plaintiff and to prevent
by threats of violence any use of the
property by the plaintiff or Its agents.
It was stated upon the argument that
the sole difference between the parties
consisted of the issue of the right
of exclusive representation. If that
is so, these other grievances would
seem to have been adjusted. I there
fore find that the Chrysler Corp. has
not by its conduct deprived itself of
the right to be protected and it stands
before the court with clean hands.
"The second argument urged upon
the court is that a preliminary injunc
tion may not issue where the right to
possession of land is involved, and
where the preliminary relief would, in
effect., be all the relief the plaintiff
could get on a hearing on the merit*.
(Then followed eight legal citations.)
"I have examined each of these cita
tions with care, and believe they are
all distinguishable from the case at
bar in that all the defendants were
in possession, under a claim of right,
and in none of them was shown such
irreparable damage as here appears on
the face of the bill.
Admit Seizure of Property.
"In no case that I have found does
the defendant stand before the court
as the defendants do here, freely ad
mitting the seizure of another’s prop
erty by force and threats of violence.
"The Supreme Court of Michigan
has spoken so clearly and repeatedly
on the duty of the trial judge to
grant injunctive relief against picket
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ing and violence, that citation of the
authorities seems almost superfluous.
(Then he cited six cases on which he
based his opinion.)
“It should be noted that the right
to strike is in no sense involved. That
is a right of property in the defend
ants which the court is bound to re
spect and protect. In like manner,
this court is bound to protect the
plaintiff in its lawful use of its prop
erty. There can be no compromise
between the rule of law and the rule
of violent self-help.
"In this sense, then, the issue in the
case at bar is not between this plain
tiff and these defendants. Respect for
the courts and for law and order has
been menaced. The court has a right
to expect the citizens of the communi
ty to give their entire co-operation and
support in the position here taken.
"The writ may issue as prayed."
Labor
(Continued From First Page.)
suited in peaceful settlement of the
strike, and the strikers marched out
voluntarily.
STEEL ** ltLEY HELD.
Labor and Management Meet to Per
fect Now Contract.
PITTSBURGH. March 15 (/P).—
Representative* of “big steel" and
leaders of th* men in the mills
gathered today In a conference they
hoped would open a new era of labor
bargaining.
In contrast to “bloody July 6,” 1892—
the historic steel riot at nearby Home
stead—they met around the confer
ence table In the offices of Carnegie
Iilinois Steel Oorp., giant subsidiary
of United States Steel.
Today'* meeting was called to put
the finishing touch*; to a contract In
which “big stesl” recognise* a union
for the first time In its history.
It was a continuation of that un
precedented conference of last March
2. In which Benjamin F. Fairless,
sturdy president of Camegle-Illinols,
handed a signed agreement to Philip
Murray, scholarly chief of John L.
Lewis’ Steel Workers' Organizing Com
mittee.
That agreement recognized the right
of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to repre
sent its members for the purpose of
collective bargaining in the corpo- 1
ration’s 27 plants employing 120.000 1
men in the Pittsburgh and Chicago
districts.
Defeated by Prick.
The amalgamated was defeated in
1892 by Henry Clay Frick, commander
in chief of the steel empire of Andrew
Carnegie
It tried to make a comeback against
the United States Steel Corp. in 1919
under the auspice* of the American
Federation of Labor. It was beaten
after three and a half months of
strife and the expenditure of *400.000
by the American Federation of Labor's
National Committee for Organizing
Iron and Steel Worker*.
“Big Steel" ran an open shop with
out any more major interference by
the union—until last June
Something had happened to change
the labor picture. John L. Lewi* had
broken with William Green, hi* chief
in the federation, and had formed his
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion.
Lewis led his own giant United Mine
Workers’ Union and nine other major
labor bodies in a break with Green,
who opposed their plan of forming all
claseea of labor in the mass production
industries into vertical, or industrial,
unions.
Green, insisting on the old prin
ciple of separate craft unions, had
I>wis and hi* followers suspended.
Lewi* then swung the old amal
gamated union to the banner of the
“C. I. O." and set up hi* Steel
Worker*’ Committee last June with
imposing office* on the top floor of A
Pittsburgh skyscraper.
He placed Murray, vice president
of the U. M. W. A., in command of
the steel drive.
Today's meeting between Murray
and Pairless was the latest in a series
of victories recorded by the commit
tee, which claims a following of ap
proximately 200,000 steel workers.
A scale committee of union men
from the Carnegie-Illinois plants met
Saturday and drafted a preliminary
list of demands to supplement the
contract granted by Pairless March 2.
A committee spokesman said the
Scale Committee included 21 employe
representatives and 34 mill workers
in addition to keymen in the organiza
tion campaign.
labor's Demands.
While no official statement was
made on the nature of the demands
to be laid before Fairless today by
Murray and a subcommittee, labor
observers said recommendations would
Include dismissal notice of 10 days
for all employes, seniority rights, two
weeks’ vacation with pay for all
workers with more than a year's
service, and elimination of inequali
ties in pay for similar work.
Steel workers complained that in
some plants 12 different rates prevail
for the same type of work.
Committee member* pointed to the
significance of 21 employe representa
tives on the Scale Committee, in view
of the strenuous efforts being made
by the Steering Committee of the
corporation’s plan of employe repre
sentation to oppose Lewis’ drive.
F. W. Bohne, chairman of the
steering group and the Joint General
Council of Pittsburgh district employe
representatives, announced over the
week end a plan for setting up an
employes’ body divorced from both
company and outside support. He
said as soon as its backers had agreed
on a system for financing the plan, it
would be submitted to a vote of com
pany employes.
“FATTEST MAN” DRAWS
CROWD EVEN IN DEATH
By lh€ Associated Press.
MOBILE, Ala., March 15—"Happy
Jack” Eckert, 739-pound circus trouper
who toured two continents as the
"fattest man In the world,” drew
crowds of curious even in death yes
terday.
Hundred* of Sunday visitor* passed
the bier in the funeral home where
the body lies awaiting burial tomor
row.
Eckert's casket, described a* "about
six times as big as the average.” was
specially made of reinforced cypress
with heavy gray plushing.
Tire funeral director* in charge said
“Happy Jack” would be burled in a
private "perpetual-care” cemetery. At
least 12 men will be necessary to han
dle the coffin and body, weighing
about 1,200 pounds.
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WAS NOTED POET
Funeral Held Here for
Founder of American
Poetry Circle.
Funeral services for Mrs. Leacy
Naylor Green Leach, New York poet
and founder of the American Poetry
Circle, who died here Friday, were
held at noon today in Chambers fu
neral home, 1400 Chapin street. Burial
will be private.
Mrs. Leach died at the home of a
friend, Mrs. R. B. Harris, 1867 Newton
street, whom she had been visiting.
Mrs. Leech was the widow of James
Madison Leach of North Carolina and
was descended from prominent early
American settlers.
in lMsJ, while in Baltimore, where
she lived a number of years, Mrs.
Leach founded the American Poetry
Circle, a national organization de
signed to foster a better appreciation
of poetry. She also established the
Circle, a magazine of verse, which she
edited until her death. Mrs. Leach
wrote a under the name Green-Leach.
Mrs. Leach la survived by a son,
James Green Leach, this city; a
daughter, Mrs. George M. Bemls, ji„
of New York and Boston; a sister,
Mrs. Mary Mason Norris, and a
t brother. Raleigh Travers Green, the
latter of Virginia.
The daughter of the late Maj. James
W. Green of Richmond and Culpeper,
I Va., Mrs. Leach was the great-great
| granddaughter of Oeorge Mason of
; Gunston Hall, author of the bill of
; rights, and was the granddaughter of
I Col. John William Green, Virginia Su
preme Court Justice. She was a ma
ternal defendant of William Naylor,
early settler of Pennsylvania.
The Washington Branch of the
American Poetry Circle today adopted
a resolution praising Mrs. Leach and
expressing regret over her passing.
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DEPUTY BUSY OFF DUTY
Arrests Four Men and Finds Ar
ticles From Own Back Yard.
DELAFIELD, Wis„ March 15 O^.—
Wherever Deputy Sheriff Oraham
Garner goes work is sure to follow.
Motoring to keep a social engage
ment recently, he arrested three men
accused of stripping copper cables
from an electric railway right of way.
Yesterday he took another drive, just
for fun. His suspicions aroused by
a truck ahead of him, he arrested the
driver. It was then, he said, he
learned that much of the contents of
the truck had been stolen from his
own back yard,
BUS SERVICE BEGUN
ON NINTH STREET
Inauguration of Line Obierved by
Buiinest Men’» Group in Cere
monie* at Theater.
Inauguration of the Ninth street
bus line—first regular transportation
service on Ninth street above G since
street cars were discontinued last
October—was observed yesterday in
ceremonies sponsored by the Ninth
Street Committee, business men's or
ganization, at the Rialto Theater.
The service begun yesterday routes
the Hyattsville busses of the Capital
Transit Co. down Ninth street from
Rhode Island to Pennsylvania ave
nue. Street car service south of O
street will be continued, transit com
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new line is Seventh street and Con
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avenue.
Speakers at the ceremonies included
Riley E. Elgin, chairman of the Pub
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Linklns, chairman of the Ninth Street
Committee, and Edward D. Merrill,
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