Evening star. [volume], June 02, 1937, Page A-4, Image 4

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BY STEEL PUNT
Republic, at Youngstown,
Claims 21,081 Workers on
Job—Chicago Prepared.
BACKGROUND—
Steel strikes began a week ago
in seven States and were marked
by rioting in South Chicago Sun
day in which six were killed and
scores wounded or arrested. John
L. Lewis, whose C. I. O. influence
is resisted by steel officials, charged
that the Republic Corp. and police
were guilty of "planned murder.”
By the Associated Press.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 2 —
Militant labor forces and unyielding
steel corporations faced new tests of
strength today as Republic Steel Corp.
pushed ahead with plans to produce
steel In spite of the strike.
Republic's high command promised
not to ask idle men "to wade through
blood" and scoffed at reports that
tightened picket lines would impede
Shipment of manufactured steel.
It also disclosed that arms and
munitions were stored in plants of
the Nation's third-largest producer
for protection of "property and work
men” and went forward with extraor
dinary efforts to move food to be
leaguered workers by airplane.
C. M. White, Republic vice presi
dent in charge of operations, claimed
the corporation was shipping from
7 nnn in a noo tons of steel each dav
and added "it would be' a tough job
for any outside organizers to come be
tween Republic and its men.”
21,081 Still Working.
He said 21.081 of 50.071 Republic
employes still were working in face
of heavy picket lines at units in
Chicago, Buffalo, Canton, Warren and
Niles, Ohio.
Western and Eastern sectors of the
widespread strike front were reported
comparatively quiet, although Chi
cago had a large reserve force ready
to move on any recurrence of Sunday's
rioting, which cost six lives.
'The mob consisted overwhelmingly
pf imported pickets and out-of-State
agitators and Communists,” Republic
declared in a statement. Leaders
of John L. Lewis’ Steel Workers' Or
ganizing Committee went into a period
pf verbal quiet after Lewis' declara
tion’ that Republic and the police were
"guilty of planned murder.”
Tons of food, White claimed, were
being landed at the Warren plant by
plane daily, despite reported sniping
of pilols by gunfire. He added that
company officials were having great
difficulty restraining some 2,000 men
m the mills from going out to clash
with the picket lines.
Floodlights Set Up.
Floodlights were set up around the
Warren property. A high fence bar
ricade was built across a spur track
leading into the mill. Restless pickets
paced outside, meanwhile, to enforce
the C. I. O, unit's demands for signed
contracts from three major producers.
Tom Girdler, 60-year-old pipe
smoking board chairman of Republic,
presiding in Cleveland at his first
strike press conference, while steel
pickets tramped the sidewalks 15 floors
below, told newsmen he had never
jeen John L. Lewis, militant union
leader, adding “and I hope I never do.”
A suit filed in a Cleveland court by
a Republic stockholder demanding an
accounting for corporation funds
spent for arms and ammunition
prompted Girdler's interviewers to ask
for an explanation.
"I never knew a steel plant that
didn't have guns,” said Girdler. "We
have to protect our property and our
workmen.” He explained that only
the company guards, not the employes,
were armed, and asserted that many
manufacturing plants had acquired
arms for protection purposes.
Girdler indicated to his interviewers
that every avenue of negotiation and
p^ace in the strike-bound portion of
the industry, in which at least 72.000
were idle, was not definitely closed.
Only Contract Considered.
Discussing Republics refusal to
sign a collective bargaining agree
ment with the C. L O. Steel Workers’
Organizing Committee, acknowledging
the committee as spokesmen for all
its members of Republic’s pay roll,
Girdler said:
"The only contract we have been
asked to sign is the same as the
Camcgie-Illinois Steel agreement.
Don't ask me about any other kind
of a contract. We will cross that
bridge when we come to it.”
Reports that efforts were being
made to call an unauthorized strike
In the Lowellville, Ohio, plant of the
Sharon Steel Corp. brought the con
eern's workers this order from S. W.
O. C. Regional Director John Mayo:
“If anybody tries to stop you from
keeping at work in that plant take a
club to them. No union man is doing
this. Union men live up to their
agreements.”
The S. W. O. C. won exclusive bar
gaining rights in a National Labor
Relations Board election last week
among Sharon Steel's 2.500 workers.
Meanwhile, a “return to work" cir
cular, signed by the “Independent
Society of Workers.” made its ap
pearance in Youngstown, at variance
with a statement by the head of a
leading anti-C. I. o. employes’ group
fit the closed Youngstown Sheet <fc
Tube plants that no attempt to go
back to the mills was contemplated.
Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel Corp.,
third independent producer involved,
fire making no attempt to operate
their plants.
BARBED WIRE GUARDS PLANT.
1,000 Policemen Patrol Chicago Scene
of Bloody Fighting.
CHICAGO. June 2 (ATl.—A newly
constructed barbed wire fence stretch
ed across the main entrance of the
Republic Steel Corp.’s South Chicago
plant formed a second line of defense
today in the strike-tom zone, where
tlx persons last their lives in a riot.
Almost a thousand policemen who
patrolled the mill in eight-hour shifts
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constituted the first bulwark against
further attempts to close the plant,
lone major independent operating unit
in the Calumet area of Illinois and
Indiana.
Six companies, totaling 948 officers,
were assigned to the area on reports
that unionists and sympathizers
planned another demonstration. At
the same time plant workmen erected
the barbed wire, closing the gap in
the 10-foot wooden fence, which sur
rounds the mill.
The death toll in Sunday's clash
between demonstrators and police
reached six last night, when Anthony
Tagliori, 26, a Republic striker, suc
cumbed to a bullet wound in the
abdemen. Twenty-three of the more
than 100 persons injured remained in
hospitals.
Police held 66 persons in custody as
participants in the riot. Supervising
Capt. James Mooney said they would
be arraigned on charges of conspiracy
to commit an illegal act.
Van A. Bittner, regional director of
the Steel Workers' Organizing Com
mittee. sponsor of the strike, reaf
firmed the union’s determination to
force Republic into a written contract
guaranteeing the S. W. O. C. bargain
ing rights for its members.
"Well get those workers out of the
plant without violence," he said.
OFFICIALS AWAIT C. I. O. REPLY.
Withdrawal of Pickets at Monroe,
Mich., Requested.
MONROE, Mich., June 2 (/P).—City
and county officials awaited a reply
today to their request that the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
withdraw its pickets from the road
leading to the strike-closed Newton
Steel Co. plant.
• Mayor Daniel Knaggs, Sheriff Jos
eph Bairley, Police Chief Jess Fisher
and a citizens’ committee conferred
separately last night with represen
tatives of the C. I. O. and the Steel !
Workers’ Association of Monroe, an 1
independent union organized in op
position to the C. I. O.
Spokesmen for the independents re
quested Mayor Knaggs to open the
road to the plant so that those who
wished to work could reach the plant.
The city and county officials did not
indicate what they would do in the
event the C. I. O. refused to withdraw
its pickets.
■--—--•
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NEW YORK. June 2 </Pj —Howard
E. Coffin, former Detroit automobile
manufacturer, and his bride, the
former Miss Gladys Baker, New Y’ork
writer, were en route to an unan
nounced destination on their honey
moon today.
They were married yesterday after
noon at the bride's Fifth avenue home
by Rev. Charles F. Divine, Methodist
pastor.
The bride, the daughter of the late
Mr. and Mrs. A. Herbert Baker of
Jacksonville. Fla., has served for the
last several years as special corre
spondent for a news syndicate.
Coffin is chairman of the board of
Southeastern Cottons, Inc., head of
the Sea Island Co., chairman of the
board of the Young Management
Corp.. vice president and director of
the Farm Chemurgic Council, and a
director of the National Association
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U. S. WORKERS GET
LEAVE CURTAILED
Temporary Employes Must
Count Holidays, Elliott
Ruling Holds.
In a decision that will curtail the
leave privileges of thousands of Fed
eral workers here and in the field,
Acting Controller General Elliott to
day told the Secretary of Agriculture
that temporary employes must in
clude Sundays and holidays when com
puting their annual leave.
Elliott ruled also that for this class
a full day must be charged for leave
taken on Saturday. The leave regu
lations designate temporary workers
as those appointed for a definite pe
riod of time, not exceeding six months.
Their annual leave allowance is 2!2
days monthly.
Sundays and holidays are not in
cluded in the annual leave of 26 days
allowed permanent employes, and
these are charged for only four hours
when absent on Saturday.
The decision made public today was
an affirmation of a principle previously
laid down by Elliott in a passing ref
erence to another case six weeks ago.
The Agriculture Department ques
tioned that Interpretation, but Elliott
said it was in accordance with gen
eral construction of law.
He pointed out that ‘‘the leave
statute expressly excludes Sundays
and holidays in the computation of
annual leave regarding permanent
employes, but is silent with respect to
the exclusion of such days in the
computation of leave for temporary
employes, and it is the general rule of
statutory construction that the express
mention of one thing or consequence
is tantamount to an express exclusion
of all others.”
There was nothing in the decision to
indicate what adjustment administra
tive officers will have to make where
this leave principle has been contra
vened.
The United States consumed 157
gallons of gasoline per person in 1936.
STEVENS REAPPOINTED
TO TARIFF COMMISSION
Raymond B Stevens, who resigned
from the Tariff Commission a few
months ago, was reappointed yester
day by President Roosevelt.
Stevens, a former Representative
from New Hamphlre, Is understood to
have resigned from the commission for
the purpose of working In the Interest
of tax legislation for the Legislature of
his State, and also in the interest of
the President’s Supreme Court plan.
William J. Sears, who was appointed
to the commission last April 30 to
serve until June 16, will be succeeded
by Stevens.
DEFENSE ATTACKS
Alibi for Parker, Jr., Is Also
Made in U. S. Trial of De
tective and Son.
By the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. J., June 2.—The de
fense renewed its efforts today to dis
credit the character of Paul H. Wendel,
key Government witness, in the Lind
bergh law conspiracy trial of Ellis H.
Parker, chief of Burlington County de
tectives, and his son, E31is, Jr.
Evidence was also introduced to give
the younger Parker an alibi for days
when the Government charges he was
in New York participating in the al
leged conspiracy which caused the ab
duclion of Wendel, his torture and his
“subsequent” confession of Lindbergh
kidnaping guilt.
I Claimed He Had “Bad" Reputation.
Both Frederick Brace, Trenton at
\ torney, and William N. Morrison. Mer
, cer County probation officer, testified
j that Wendel. a former Trenton lawyer,
had a “bad” reputation for truth and
| veracity.
“Do you know any lawyer who has a
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veracity?” United States Attorney
j John J. Quinn asked Brace on cross
examination.
I ‘T do not,” the witness answered.
STRIKERS REFUSE
BOOSTINWAGES
Film Labor Strife Flares
Anew as F. M. P.C. Rejects
“Deal” With Rivals.
BACKGROUND—
F. M. P. C. and l. A T. S. E hax e
been warring for labor rule in fllm
doni. Latter flgtired largely in ne
gotiations which averted a ualk
oxit last month of screen Actors'
Guild, studded with Hollywood’s big
names. Already l. A. T. S. E. has
absolved studio utility workers. The
federation has charged its rivals
with recruiting its members.
Es the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, June 2.—The bitter
fight between two rival unions for
control of studio craftsmen in the
multimillion - dollar film industry
flared into a new crisis today.
The Federated Motion Picture
Crafts, which started a strike a
month ago, repudiated a settlement
announced by its rival, the Interna
tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employes, which would have meant
collapse of the walkout. The non
striking I. A. T. S. E. has been ac
cused of being a company union by
the federation.
Striking painters overrode their
union officers and joined in voting,
640 to 276, with other units of the
federation to continue the walkout
until granted written guarantee of
closed shop and wage increases. The
painters create the huge stage sets
for the movies.
The ballot culminated a nearly
night-long meeting at the Legion Box
ing Stadium. There Joseph Clarke,
international vice president of the
International Brotherhood of Paint
ers, Paperhangers and Decorators, was
booed from the speakers' stand by
angry unionists. Clarke had sat in
on conferences with the I. A. T. S. E.
and the producers.
Return Was F.xperted Today.
j The painters, make-up artists, hair
I dressers and draftsmen, comprising
I the large majority of the 1,100 crafts
men in the strike, had been expected ,
to return to work today.
Under terms announced yesterday
by George E. Browne, international
president of the I. A. T. S. E., these
chief units of the federated crafts
were to receive a 10 per cent salary
boost and I. A. T. S. E. shop. The
settlement would have deprived the
F. M. P. c. of all but a handful of
members.
Browne, informed of the repudia
tion, reiterated that the I. A. T. S. E.
would not permit F. M. P. C. leaders
to •'dictate'' peace terms.
Sentiment at the meeting was in
favor of intensified picketing and a
sharp drive to keep painters and other
craftsmen from returning to work be
fore F M. P. C. won its demands.
The picketing failed to halt produc
tion at the studios, and when the big
film stars refused to join the strike
after winning recognition of their
screen guild, the striking craftsmen
switched picketing efforts to theaters.
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