Evening star. [volume], July 26, 1937, Page B-4, Image 20

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‘Fewer Laws and Fewer Girdlers
Real Need in V. S., Lewis Sayt
C. I, O. Fighting Only for Workers
Right to Improve Lot, He Holds9
Blaming Industry for Strife,
This it the second in a series of
articles setting forth the views of
leaders of industry and labor on the
industrial warfare that has been
spreading over the country. John
L. Lewis, head of the Committee
for Industrial Organization, dis
cusses here the aims of his militant
organization and reviews the cur
rent industrial strife.
BY WILLIAM H. FORT.
"We don't want any new legisla
tion. We have plenty of laws now
What this country needs is fewer air
dlers."
Coming from John L. Lewis, mili
tant human dynamo of the Commit
tee for Industrial Organization, this
declaration would be amazing under
any circumstances. Set it against the
background of curbstone gossip which
for months has earmarked President
Roosevelt as the silent supporter ol
C. I. O. anxious to push through la
bor-favoring legislation before Con
gress can go home for a vacation, and
it might be credited with additional
significance.
Lewis made the statement in answer
to a question as to the attitude of his
organization toward the President's
"hours and wages" bill and other laws
being talked of affecting labor. As
he spoke he pushed bark the big
leather chair in his office, walked
around the wide end of his desk and
paced the floor, but he did not amplify
his reply about the laws. He had
prefaced it with others, discussing
frankly and with obvious sincerity
the objective of the C. I. O. as he con
ceived them.
"All we are trying to do is give the
worker—the unorganized worker—an
equal chance with every one else.
Give him the right to be heard, to ex
press himself.
"The C. I O has no quarrel with
the American Federation of Labor,
We are not concerned with the work
ers already organized. We are out to
organize the unorganized.
"C. I. O. Is Responsible.”
"The C. I. O. does have a sense of
. responsibility. Each privilege gained
carries with it a corresponding re
sponsibility.” And he explained with
painstaking earnestness the "peculiar
conditions” which had given rise to
the charge of irresponsibility in the
automobile industry.
All this he expounded calmly and
without heat. It was only when he
spoke of the present situation with
the independent steel companies that
his composure left him. John Lewis
is not a tall man, yet he seemed to
tower when he talked of Thomas
Girdler, chairman of the Republli
Steel Corp.
"Acts of violence? Undoubtedly
there will be violence so long as humar
nature remains human nature. But
why not get rid of the causes of thai
violence? All that our men want ii
the right to be heard, the right tc
represent themselves, to be free men
not machines.
"Violence? No one has been killec
but our people. No one has beer
maimed by our people. Ten workers
killed, shot down by the Chicago police
A tear-gas projectile executed anothei
of our men. left him writhing on thi
ground at Youngstown. Yet all this
could be terminated simply by thi
signing of a memorandum of agree
ment guaranteeing the men the righi
to organize. Your Girdlers, your Pur
nells—they could terminate this war
fare. If there were less Girdlers in thi
world there would be more peace.
"I suppose when the armistice wai
held behind the lines in 1918, thi
members of the German high com
mand told Gen. Foch and our owr
Pershing, 'This is what we agree to
but we won’t sign anything.’ I sup
pose later at the peace treaty con
ference at Versailles the German rep
resentatives still said, ’Yes, we agree
but we won’t sign anything.’
"Did they sign? History hath ii
that they did.
Remove Cause of Violence.
"Let the self-righteous persons say
what they please, those poor mer
would not have been killed if Girdlei
had signed. Don’t complain of vio
lence, but remove the cause. Whal
we need is fewer laws and fewei
Girdlers. Disarm their men. Let m<
point out—it is the steel company thai
is prepared for war, that starts war
not the C. I. O.
"The tear-gas bombs, the bombing
gas thrown by the police, the rifles
the arms—all furnished by whom? By
the police? No! By the steel com
panies.
"What right has Girdler to arm foi
war? Does labor have the right tc
spend a million dollars for weapons
and tear gas? You’re right. The
answer is no. Labor does not want
to buy tear gas. But labor is getting
mighty tired of swallowing tear gas.’
As for the rest—the answers as tc
policy, the goal of C. I. O. and what
his organization is attempting to do
were given dispassionately and con
vincingly, for Mr. Lewis is a very
good salesman of his union's wares.
"C. I. O. is attempting to establish
the right of workers to collective bar
gaining, to establish the worker in a
position of security, to place him in a
position to demand, as his right, an
I improvement in his wages and his
working conditions. That is what C.
I. O. is attempting to do—and is do
ing. That is what C. I. O. hopes to
' accomplish.
“During the last year we have
brought in thousands and thousand:
i of workers into the organization. Ours
is no holier-than-thou attitude. There
are millions of workers who have been
exploited through the years. Some
of these, members of the crafts unions,
have attained some degree of protec
tion, who through organization have
learned how to protect themselves and
thier rights against the exploiters.
However, there are millions of unor
ganized workers who also have their
rights, who deserve the same degree
of moral support, the same sympa
thies, the same protection already en
joyed by others. These rights should
apply equally to one man as to an
other.”
C. I. O. Continually Expanding.
How far has C. I. O. progressed?
Mr. Lewis “could not say, offhand, th«
number of thousands who have en
rolled. We are continuously expand
ing the numerical strength of the or
ganization.”
The charge has been made that C.
I. O. falls to recognize responsibility.
“That is not true. All privilege
carries with it, a corresponding re
sponsibility. C. I. O. recognizes this
responsibility.”
Have the results gained been suffi
cient to compensate for the loss of
time and wages to the men because
of strikes?
"Strikes and loss of time are some
thing over which the worker has no
control. They are caused by the
employers, not brought on by the
men. The men merely sought collec
tive bargaining contracts p is their
right. This involved the right of
labor to live. Who can say what that
right is worth? Who can say what is
or is not an exorbitant price to pay
for a principle? Hundreds of thous
ands of men died in the World War
fighting for the principles of freedom.
Who can say what freedom is worth?
“The worker is fighting for the right
to do a day’s work, for the right to
be able to live in happiness with his
family under conditions which allow
him a modicum of enjoyment. The
C. I. O. has existing contracts with
more than 258 corporations, ranging
from the smallest to the largest,
recognizing the right of -the worker
for proper representation for bargain
ing purposes. We are only asking
now that other steel companies do the
same thing and recognize this right.
Who can say how much it is worth
to forfeit one's rights?
“C. I. O. has established 483 local
individual unions and 36 individual
union councils in various cities, rep
resenting hundreds of thousands of
workers. It still is in the process of
expansion. The C. I. O. is a going
concern. What the workers want is
an organization to represent their
viewpoint and to crystallize their
ideas.”
The charge has been made. Mr.
Lewis, that whenever C. I. O. starts
out to enforce its demands, invariably
America's “Marco Polo" Is Dead
At 78 on 18th World Journey
——— I
Julius Brittlebank Was
Stricken While in
Honolulu.
BY ARMISTEAD W. GILLIAM.
Julius Brittlebank, known as well
In Washington as in other world cap
itals as "America's Marco Polo” died
Saturday in Honolulu with his boots
on—seven league boots.
Mr. Brittlebank, who always made
Washington a long stop on his wan
derings about the globe, was on his
eighteenth world trip aboard the
liner President Polk, In Honolulu,
when illness struck him. It was re
ported he suffered a "fluttering heart”
and he was removed to Queen’s Hos
pital in Honolulu where he died. He
was 78.
Mr. Brittlebank had been on the go
since 1911, when, after a busy life in
business, he retired with a comfort
able income and set about seeing just
about everything in every land. After
the first few trips, going around the
world every year became, he said, a
habit, and every June he would pack
up and leave his Winter home in
Charleston, S. C., and start for the
West Coast, where he would embark
for the Orient.
Doctor Opposed Trip.
He was making his last trip against
his physician's advice, but on receipt
of this advice he remarked to his
doctor:
"Pshaw, doctor, there are a lot of
things I've got to see, yet, and I'll keep
traveling to the end."
Mr. Brittlebank, on his stops in
a virtual state of anarchy exists and
that C. I. O. is thoroughly irrespons
ible in the matter of keeping its
contracts.
“Who is saying that? Would they
say it of C. I. O. in its relations with
the mining Industry? Would they
say it of the steel industry? In the
steel industry, involving 440,000 men
who are members of the C. I. O., there
has been not a single loss of a one
man day since the C. I. O. contract
was signed. In only one place—the
automobile Industry—can any such
charge be made. And in the auto
mobile Industry there is a peculiar
condition responsible for that—the
policy of the automobile companies to
employ young men.”
(Copyright. 1937.)
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JULIUS BRITTLEBANK.
Washington, always said "I’ll keep go
ing till I drop,” and he did.
The history of the world during his
lifetime was a personal experience for
Mr. Brlttlebank. In his more than
2,000,000 miles of travel he has seen
most of the great events of the world
from a grandstand seat. He has never
missed an inauguration in Washing
ton. He was here when Lincoln was
assassinated and he had a clear re
membrance of admiring greatly, as a
boy, the fine epaulets on the shoulders
of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. He said
his earlier travels, which began when
he was 6, were Just Incidental and
that he did not take up traveling ser
iously until, at 50. he had enough to
indulge himself thoroughly.
These later travels were the ones
that had him right on the sidelines
for most of the world’s history-making
events during his lifetime.
He somehow managed to be in Cuba
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in Constantinople when Abdul Hamid
mobilized his troops in 1904, he
watched the Czar’s army massing to
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in Hamburg when the World War
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He never missed a world fair,
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to visit here—his son, Frank Brittle
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"About that time,” he would say,
“the money started giving out, and
I never went much over my travel
allotment.” The travel allotment of
recent years has been $3,000, and
when that was used up, he usually
found himself pretty close to home.
He made traveling a fine art. He
carried little luggage. A man 0f
simple tastes, he needed very little
impedimenta. As a result, he never
lost a piece of baggage on any of his
trips and he never suffered an injury
on a trip.
And, strangest of all, he never
learned a foreign language. He al
ways said only two languages were
necessary for a world traveler—Eng
lish and profane.
hooked Up Newsmen.
He always made it a point to find
a newspaper man and make a friend
of him in every city where he stopped
for any length of time. The news
paper man usually found enough of
a story in him to fill a column or so
and thenceforward Mr. Brittlebank’s
peripatetics were like an open book
to his newspaper friend. Cards, clip
pings, short notes from the far cor
ners of the earth told these friends
of Mr. Brittlebank's wanderings. The
Star reporter who usually wrote the
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annual piece about Mr. Brittlebank'a
departure on his -teenth trip
around the world has a collection of
such mementoes that would fill a desk
drawer.
Of all the countries he visited, he
liked China best. He thought the
Chinese the most remarkable people
in the world. "They have made the
art of living ail exact science, and in
this respect alone are far ahead of
any other people on earth," he said.
Nothing ever "got him down.”
Even during the depression his aging
eyes, still filled with optimism, saw
great ships sailing the seven seas,
carrying full cargoes, and people the
world over bettering their mode of
living constantly through interchange
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of the world’s goods. Of the depres
sion he said:
The world's been moving forward
too fast. There had to be a breathing
spell, that’s all. Everything will come
around all right. It always has."
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