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TRUCK STRIKE OFF
AT WILMINGTON
Disorders End With “Col
lective Bargaining” Agree
ment by Operators.
By the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del., April 3 —
Mayor Walter W. Bacon announced
tonight that truck operators had
•greed to enter “collective bargaining’’
with representatives of the Central
Labor Union within 48 hours to bring
•n end to the city’s truck strike.
A city-wide strike called by the
Central Labor Union to enforce settle
ment of the strike was called off to
day eight hours after it had started.
Mayor Bacon, with Gov. Richard C.
McMullen went into conference with
representatives of the Central Labor
Union, over-the-road truck operators
and the Employers’ Policy Committee,
representing the city operators.
Tlie Mayor announced the agree
ment after the conference, and said
that the truck strike would continue
until negotiations were actually be
gun.
The Employers’ Policy Committee
asked that negotiations between the
local operators and the Central Labor
Union be separate from those with
over-the-road operators. The com
mittee asked also that a Wilmington
unit of the Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs and Truck Drivers be or
ganized, rather than have the local
drivers and helpers under the juris
diction of the Philadelphia unit.
Both Requests Agreed To.
The Central Labor Union agreed t<
both requests. It announced that
the Philadelphia unit would con
tinue in jurisdiction of the over-the
road drivers.
The agreement tonight set aside
a warning by James T. Houghton
see ret ary-treasurer of the Centra
Labor Union, that the union would
call out all organized workers agair
if the conference failed.
Those who met with the Governoi
and the Mayor were Lieut. Col. Louise
H. Coxe, 3d, of Washington, spokes
man for the Policy Committee of the
employers; Arthur Logan, counsel fos
the Employers' Policy Committee;
Frank J. Pappa. president of the Cen
tral Labor Union, and Federal Medi
ator Edward C. MacDonald.
Brick throwing, window smashing
and other sporadic disorder marked
the start of the strike at 6 a.m., aftei
eleventh-hour efforts by Gov. McMul
len and Mayor Bacon failed to prevenl
the strike.
Windows in some central city build
ings were broken. Bricks were hurled
at several automobiles and trucks were
overturned. Brakes of a parked truck
were released and the vehicle smashed
into a building. No serious injuriej
were reported.
Milk and Bakery Drivers.
The union did not include milk and
bakery wagon drivers in the general
strike order and deliveries of these ne
cessities continued. Trolley cars and
busses also continued in operation.
Edward Crumbock of Philadelphia,
secretary of Philadelphia Local 107,
and Raymond Cohen, another official
of the local, were freed in $600 bail
each on charges of assault and battery
and threatening bodily harm.
Before the Mayor announced cessa
tion of the strike, 16 men were arrest
ed in suburban Bellevue by State high
way patrolmen and held on charges of
conspiracy to commit assault and bat
tery and to destroy property.
Their arre6t followed violence at a
construction job. Two workmen, Cecil
Rodgers and John Folsom, were in
jured slightly.
$65,000 BUDGETED
BY GOODWILL GROUP
Industries Chairman Dulin Points
to 18-Month Needs—21 Vice
Chairmen.
Goodwill Industries here needs $65,
000 for an operating budget and capital
expenditure, James A. Dulin, treasurer
of the American Security & Trust Co.
and also of the Goodwill Industries,
announced yesterday.
Of this amount, $6,000 represents
the operating eosts of trucks, rental of
stores, the director's salary and sup
plies of all kinds, for a period of five
months. For its budget and bag pro
motion for the next 18 months $16,000
must be raised, this being the differ
ence between store sales and total
operating costs. For main plant com
pletion and equipment $25,000 was
allocated and the balance of $18,000
is for purchase of additional properties
necessary to efficient and economic de
velopment.
Twenty-one vice chairmen to head
workers in various sections of town
have been appointed by Mrs. Samuel
Herrick, chairman of the Residential
Committee during the forthcoming
campaign.
They are Mrs. Louis Caldwell, Mrs.
James C. Dulin. jr.; Mrs. Lawrence
Martin. Mrs. James T. Jardine, Mrs.
How'ard G. Nichols, Mrs. Harry Price,
Mrs. Alfred H. Brooks, Mrs. Harry E.
Hull. Mrs. C. H. Reed, Mrs. Copeland
Jones, Miss Clara L. Opper, Miss Lydia
M. Fox, Mrs. Arthur J. Seaton, Mrs.
E. G. Montgomery. Mrs. William O.
Tufts, wife of the president of the
Board of Trustees of Goodwill; Mrs.
Tilman B Parks, Mrs. Thomas W.
Marshall, Mrs. Ernest H. Daniel. Mrs.
Alexander Wylie, Mrs. Charles M. Fis
tere of Belle Haven, Va., and Mrs.
G. C. Hertz. West Falls Church. Va.
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IN ITALIAN CEREMONY
Machine Gun Salute From Un
known Soldier's Monument
Viewed by King,
the Associated Pres*.
ROME, April 3.—Machine guns
blazed into the air in salute from the
top of the Unknown Soldier’s monu
ment today as part of a ceremony sym
bolic of Italy’s growing air power.
King Vittorio Emanuele, flanked by
Premier Mussolini and Crown Prince
Umberto, presented banners to Italy’s
air regiments on the steps of the
monument.
Ten thousand aviators were massed
before the tomb.
With each presentation the machine
gunners fired their weapons. The
conferring of regimental flags placed
the air force on a level with units
of the regular army. The airmen pre
viously had no banners of their own.
Notables present also included For
eign Minister Galleazzo Ciano, Mar
shal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya;
the Duke of Aosta and Marshals Pietro
Badoglio and Emilio de Bono.
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As Ford Strikers Marched Out of Plant at Kansas City
Jubilant sit-down strikers marched out of the Ford plant at Kansas City late yesterday and paraded across the recreation grounds. They had held possession
the plant since Friday. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. j
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Virginia Federation to File
Complaints of “Shadow
ing” With Court.
B* the Associated Press.
The executive board of the Virginia
Federation of Labor denounced “spe
cial county policemen" at a meeting
in Richmond yesterday and voted to
place recent complaints against them
in the hands of the courts in line with
a recommendation from Gov. Peery.
The action followed charges laid
before the Governor by W. D. Ander
son, legislative chairman of the fed
eration, that ‘‘special officers” shad
owed him during a recent visit to
Dickenson County and were acting
under instructions from coal mining
operators.
‘‘The board voted to follow Gov.
Peery's suggestion,” said E. J. Shave
of Hampton, secretary of the federa
tion, “and a committee of two was
appointed to bring the matter to the
attention of the Dickenson County
Circuit Court.
"This," he said, “will bring to an
issue a condition against which the
United Mine Workers have been fight
ing for years.”
Anderson told the committee infor
mation relating to his charges also
would be filed with the La Follette
Civil Liberties Committee in Wash
ington.
Shave said the board also discussed
the “issue" of the Committee for In
dustrial Organisation and the Ameri
can Federation of Labor during the
four-hour session, but that the Vir
ginia Federation had no intention of
severing its affiliation with the
American Federation.
“The State federation is an A. T.
of L. affiliate and will continue so,”
Shave declared.
The secretary said, however, the
board had not receded from the po
sition taken at its convention In Cov
ington last year when it voted in
favor of "granting industry-wide
union charters to workers in the basic
mass-production industries.”
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MORE THAN MILLION
NOW IN 4-H CLUBS
Last Year’s Membership Gain
150,000, Says Agriculture
Department
Br the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department said
yesterday more than 1,000,000 boys
and girls took part last year in the
young farmers’ movement, the 4-H
Clubs.
This was a gain of 150,000 over the
previous year, and the largest par
ticipation yet, the department said.
These clubs have expanded steadily
since the Federal Government began
encouraging them In 1914.
Most members are sons and daugh
ters of farmers, but the urban young
sters also may participate if a back
yard garden plot or poultry pen la
available.
Boy members usually undertake a
project such as fattening live stock or
growing some crop. Girls study the
problems of a farm homemaker. Vir
tually the only requirement is a report
on projects to one of the 100,000 vol
unteer local leaders who supervise
club activities.
FORM “LAST MAN” CLUB
Special Dispatch to Tho Star.
HYATTSVILLE. Md., April 3.—
Members of the Snyder-Farmer Post,
American Legion, have organized the
Last Man’s Club. John A. Johnson
was assigned to obtain the ’’wee drap”
to be drunk by the surviving mem
ber of the club in the year 19
Others who already have joined
the new organization include Charles
V. Joyce, commander of the club;
Hugh T. McClay, vice commander;
John Neitzey, finance officer, and
John J. Buckley. Caesar L. Aiello and
K. J. Cannon, past commanders.
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Forcl
(Continued From First Page.)
employe*, we will operate Monday aa
usual.”
Announcement of the settlement
brought a quiet end to the strike,
which began in spectacular fashion at
3:15 pm. yesterday as a sit-down
demonstration, the first such gesture
against the Ford organization.
The settlement was announced at
the plant by Baron de Louis a member
of the strikers’ committee, in a small
restaurant across the street. Pickets,
patrolling the grounds since the sit
down phase of the strike ended this
afternoon, left their posts.
The few persons in the vicinity
when the settlement was announced,
greeted the news with shouts. There
was no major demonstration.
Picket Line to End.
Hall said just before De Louis
addressed the stragglers at the plant
that the picket ltne would be "taken
off shortly.”
The sit-down phase of the strike
ended Just after Hall arrived this
afternoon with five Ford representa
tives aboard a special plane. The
strikers declared the evacuation of
the plant was merely a change of
tactics as they trooped out to the
strains of music provided by a band j
made up of strikers from another
closed plant here, the Butler Manu- !
iacturlng Co.
Whether any workers would be laid
off Monday, none of the conferees
said tonight.
Hall, in his earlier statement that j
union men would not be laid off. re- j
gardless of seniority, said their main
grievance was that they had "felt
discrimination for union membership.”
"The men were told by me. and I
have the word of reliable men in
the Ford Motor Co , that they could
be assured that in this lay-off there
will be no layoff of union men.
“I told the men that when they
evacuated the plant, and we intend
to see that this is lived up to.”
Organisation Men Exempt.
Asked whether his statement meant
definitely "no union men” would be
among those laid off, or that seniority
would be followed. Hall reiterated that
organization members would be
exempt.
The U. A. W. A. official came out of
a conference with other union officers
to make his statement.
Shortly afterward two officials of
the Ford Motor Co., who flew here
late today on the same airliner with
Hall, entered the hotel room where
the union men met.
The strikers marched three abreast
from the factory, their cheers rising
above the blaring band which led the
exodus.
Patrolman Virgil McGaugh esti
mated there were 650 to 750 men in
the sit-down evacuation.
Ray Dunn, executive committeeman
for the local union, said Hall ad
dressed the men within the plant and
announced the Ford Co. had agreed
"not to fire a single man,” because
of union activities.
Hall himself addressed the men
through a loud speaker after they
had marched from the plant.
Hands on each other’s shoulders,
the strikers marched from the plant
into an applauding crowd that had
to be moved back from the sidewalk.
Most of the workers had bed rolls un
der their arms.
Trombonist Leads Band.
The band, led by a trombonist
whose nose was tinted slightly blue
by the 40-degree temperature, made
up in enthusiasm any lack in bal
ance. Guitars predominated among
the Instruments.
Strikers generally insisted that it
was only a coincidence that the stop
page here was the first sit-down strike
against Ford by a union affiliated with
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John L. Lewis’ Committee for Indus
trial Organization.
The men in striking contended that
in announcing lay-offs yesterday to
cut production, company officials se
lected men who had been working
with the company from 5 to 25 years,
leaving men with shorter terms of
service on the job, contrary to the
usual practice. They also asserted
that 90 per cent of the men laid off
were members of the union, including
all the members of the Executive
Committee.
All traffic was barred by the police
today along the two-block stretch that
runs in front of the plant. Only three
patrol cars were on duty, and another
was cruising about.
2,200 Usually Employed.
Estimates of the number of workers
involved in the sit-down strike inside
the plant varied from 650 to 1,000.
Normally a grand total of 2,200 men
are employed.
The union at the Ford factory ob
tained its charter as Local No. 149
of the United Automobile Workers of
America two weeks ago. It was not
until after the strike started that the
local elected officers. The 18-man
Executive Committee is composed of
three men from eacx. of six depart
ments in the plant.
The plant has been on a 5-day, 40
hour week schedule and Saturday
ordinarily is an idle day.
A( Detroit a Ford official explained
the situation thus:
"When the sit-down strikes began
in the automobile industry, Mr. Ford
did not step up production and or
dered it held at the existing level.
“It was discovered a few- days ago
that the Kansas City plant was run
ning 80 cars a day ahead of schedule
and it was ordered reduced.
'That necessitated laying off 200 to
300 men temporarily, and apparently
the men laid off thought they were
being picked on. As a matter of fact.
It was a normal lay-off, done in a
normal manner in order to maintain
our schedules as determined when
the sit-down in other plants began.
“It was not Mr. Ford’s Intention to
‘go to town’ so to speak, because other
manufacturers were caught with sit
downs, and therefore our schedule,
which could easily be stepped up in
any of our plants, was held steady.
In carrying out the lay-off schedule
plant foremen yesterday started
singling out men to be dropped and
asking them to turn in their company
badges.
Members of the union Executive
Committee quickly passed out an or
der for the men to keep their badges,
refrain from punching the time clock
and stay inside the plant.
The organization of the strike was
swift. Wives, sweethearts, children
and friends arrived in a steady stream,
carrying tidbits of food, musical in
struments and bedding. Even a game
of table tennis was set up Inside. For
breakfast there were 100 dozen dough
nuts and 50 gallons of coffee.
STEEL UNION GAINS
18 Additional Companies in
Industry Declared Ne
gotiating.
By tne Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. April 3 — Steel ;
union forces of John L. Lewis' Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
claimed today they had recognition :
from 46 steel companies in the United J
States and were negotiating for col- !
lective bargaining contracts with 18
additional producers.
The steel workers' Organizing
Committee headquarters in Pittsburgh
said more than 40.000 steel workers
were employed by the companies now
negotiating with union representatives.
Simultaneously Regional Director
Clinton S. Golden made public a let
ter in which he said the committee
would not accept the refusal of Lo
renz Iverson, president of Mesta Ma
chine Co., to enter into a written
contract.
Iverson, as head of one of the world's
| largest manufacturers of steel mill
equipment, had said he.would receive
written requests from union workers
and post his answers on bulletin boards
1 in the company's plants at Home
stead, Pa.
Negotiations were reported progress
ing at the following companies:
McKeesport Tin Plate, Crucible
Steel, Walworth Co., Timken Roller j
Bearing and Timken Steel & Tube, j
A. M. Byers Oo.. Pittsburgh Pipe <fe
Coupling, Cooper-Bessemr Engineering
Corp., Newport Rolling Mill, Andrews
Rolling Mill. International Nickel Oo.,
Liggtt Spring & Axle Co., and the
Coshocton Iron Works, Lewis adher
ents, interpreted as a victory Federal
Judge Nelson McVlcar’s ruling today
that the Federal Court did not have
jurisdiction in the suit of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor to restrain
the New Kensington Aluminum Work
ers’ Union from collecting dues and
transferring them.
The local, largest In the industry, re- 1
cently broke with the A. F. of L. and
turned its funds over to the Steel J
Workers’ Union pending outcome of
its demands for an international union
charter from the federation.
The aluminum workers were affili
ated with the federation through a
Federal charter, but had been refused
the autonomy of an international
charter. Its officers have called a
national convention of aluminum
workers at New Kensington April 12
to decide whether to continue with the
federation or bolt to the Lewis group.
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STRIKERS LEAVE
Sit-ins Agree to Stay Out
Until Dispute Is
Settled.
By the Associated Press.
NERSHEY. Pa.. April S —A thou
sand sit-down strikers who had held
the Hershey Chocolate Corp. plant
since last Friday, filed from the build
ing tonight under an agreement with
the company to negotiate the termina
tion of the strike. Picket lines were
Immediately formed outside the plant.
The agreement followed a four-hour
conference between representatives of
the corporation and the Committee for
Industrial Organization.
The management pledged it would
not attempt to resume operations in
any of the plant’s departments until
negotiations for the termination of the
strike were completed.
Under the agreement the company
will discuss with union representatives
the questions of work distribution, set
tlement of disputes, closed shop, the
check-off system for payment of union
dues and seniority rights.
The strike started Friday after work
ers declared that the company had
failed to live up to an agreement made
on St. Patrick's day.
Union officials said that agreement
provided for seniority rights and
spread of overtime among all shifts.
Murrie said that the company had
kept its part of the St. Patrick’s day
bargain.
The plant employes nearly 4,000
men and women.
SETTLEMENT ENDS
STRIKE DISORDERS
Minnesota Governor Brings Peace.
Blames Violence on County
Officials.
B’ the Associated Press.
ALBERT LEA, Minn., April 3.—
Settlement of the two-week-old strike
at the American Gas Machine Co. to
day put an end to 24 hours of violence
Gov. Elmer Benson, who hurried
here after sheriff's deputies seized
54 strikers in a raid on union head
quarters and arrived while pickets
were storming the plant, restored
peace through mediation.
The Governor charged county offi
cials with responsibility for the dis
order. asserting the raid on the strike
headquarters was unjustified.
Both sides expressed satisfaction
with the settlement reached early to
day. It provided recognition of the
independent union for all workers if
the union affiliates with a national
labor organization within 60 days.
The company also agreed to rehire
without discrimination all workers on
the pay roll when the strike started.
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Will Use All Power to En
force Laws, Texas Gov
ernor Says.
Ej the Associated Press. ^
AUSTIN, Tex., April 3.—Gov. Jajccn
V. Allred announced today he wo»W~’"»
not tolerate sit-down methods qj;lt,n
“taking or holding" property in Texas
and would use all the powers at his
command to enforce laws and court
orders.
Asserting an investigation had
shown sit-down arganizers had in
vaded Texas, he ' earnestly pleaded
■with laboring people who want to or
ganize that they affiliate with legiti
mate labor organizations and have
nothing whatever to do with any ag
gregation fostering, or which has fos
tered, ‘sit-down’ anywhere.”
He said sitting down on some
body else's property and remaining
there was “un-American and unlaw
ful,” although a man had a perfect
right to quit a job or strike peace
ably. He applied the term “unlaw
ful mob spirit” to the sit-down method
and declared Texas would not “play
Michigan” or permit transfer to this
State of “disgraceful episodes” in
others.
A committee of the Texas House
of Representatives has set a hearing
for Tuesday on a bill prohibiting em
ployes from remaining on premises
after notice to vacate and providing
penalties of fine and imprisonment.
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BLADENSBURG, Md., April 3 i Spe
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Lee Lewis as rector of St. Luke's
Protestant Episcopal Church. Bladens
burg, because of ill health, and the
acceptance of a call to the parish by
the Rev. Claude S. Ridenour, assistant
rector of Rock Creek parish. Is an
nounced. The Rev. Ridenour, who
has been officiating at St. Luke’s dur
ing the Rev. Mr. Lewis’ illness, already
has assumed his new duties.
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