Evening star. [volume], June 01, 1937, Page A-8, Image 8

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AID IN FORD DRIVE
Showdown Near in Probe of
Beating of Union
Organizers.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, June 1.—Promised aid
from the Committee for Industrial
Organization figured today in the cur
rently delayed drive of the United
Automobile Workers of America to
Unionize the Ford Motor Co.
Homer Martin, union president, an
nounced that John L. Lewis, C. I. O.
chieftain, had telegraphed him assur
ance of "every assistance" from the
auto workers' parent body in the
campaign.
The message reached Martin even
as a showdown impended in the pro
jected investigation of Wayne County
authorities into last Wednesday's
bloody fist fights in which union or
ganizers were beaten off Ford property.
In the telegram Lewis branded the
"attack by agents of the Ford Co.”
upon union representatives, who at
the time sought to distribute hand
bills advocating union membership,
as a "most flagrant outrage.”
Witnesses Demanded.
Prosecutor Duncan McCrea, threat
ening "further steps” unless his de
mands are met, had given the Ford
Co. and Dearborn city officials until
today to produce witnesses to the
fight. Neither has indicated assent.
The "attack," Lewis said, will be
“resented by every member of or
ganized labor and every thoughtful
citizen.”
"Such demonstrations,” he said,
"indicate the paramount necessity of
comprehensive organization of the
workers in Ford plants and other
units of major undustries.
"It will serve to Intensify the de
sire of the workers to enroll in or
ganizations associated with the C. I. O.
"The C. I. O. will give every as
sistance to the law and its mem
bers to carry on and to establish col
lective bargaining in the plants of the
Ford Co."
Heavy holiday traffic prevented
Martin from securing airplane passage
for Washington early today to con
fer with Lewis over Ford campaign
plans. He planned to leave either
late today or postpone the trip.
The Ford Organization Committee
will meet tomorrow to pame a date
for a second attempt to distribute
pamphlets among Ford employes.
Prosecutor McCrea did not disclose
what "further steps" he would take if
the Ford Co. and Dearborn City offi
cials decline to comply with his de
mand for oo-operation. He has an
nounced that warrants would issue if
the identity of men who assaulted un
ion leaders, one of whom carried a
permit for the distribution of the pam
phlets, could be established satisfac
torily.
The prosecutor said that by nightfall
Mayor John L. Carey of Dearborn and
Harry Bennett, Ford personnel direc
tor, would have had ‘'sufficient time
to comply with my request for wit
nesses.”
"If I don’t get their co-operation
by that time." he added, “I have other
plans in mind.”
Bennett, who received the prose
cutor's request, said the Ford Co. had
violated no law. He suggested McCrea
investigate “the extent the U. A. W.
A. violated the law1 in trespassing on
private property.”
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THIRST OF WEEVIL
AIDS COTTON CROP
Poisoned Sirup Is Bringing Back
Florida's Rich Sea Island
Product.
Bj the Associated Frets.
BROOKS VILLE, Fla., June 1—Flor
ida's lost Sea Island cotton is coming
back sinoe entomologists learned to
cater to the boll weevil's thirst.
Sea Island cotton acreage has in
creased from about 3,000 in 1936 to
20,000 in 1937—all because the weevil
can’t resist the tempting "afternoon
tea" prepared for him.
It's a poisoned sirup mixture, and
it’s getting results.
The Works Progress Administration
attempted rehabilitation of Sea Island
cotton successfully two years ago
in Madison County and the program
has been extended to other sections.
An improved method of weevil con
trol was necessary, as the Sea Island
bolls are soft and susceptible to In
jury. The control method would have
to eradicate completely the initial in
festation.
With the use of calcium arsenate
and sirups, Hernando County Agent B.
E. Lawton said practically all adult
weevils in the field may be killed
within a few hours.
Cotton growers merely push a mop
dipped in the mixture through the
tops of the plants and wait for the
weevil to get thirsty.
Sea Island cotton, grown only in
North Florida and Southwestern Geor
gia, is in demand, particularly in Eu
rope. The Florida crop this year may
total 5,000 bales, and growers believe
100,000 bales could be sold at fancy
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