Evening star. [volume], October 12, 1939, Page A-5, Image 5

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Nazi Patrols Batter
' French Lines From
Moselle to Rhine
Germans Are Reported
Repulsed With Heavy
Losses All Along Front
41
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 12—German patrols
battered French outposts from the
Moselle to the Rhine today, con
tinuing a series of thrusts reported
to have cost the Nazis “hundreds"
of casualties in the last three days
without gaining “an inch of ground.”
French advices, which told of “very
hot ’ action in one unidentified sector
during the night, said the latest
assaults had been repulsed despite
!jeavy preparation by German artil
ery.
At no point had the Germans
been successful in attempts to take
prisoners, according to these reports
The French, entrenched in positions
from which they raked the advanc
ing Germans with machine-gun fire,
described their own losses as "slight.
Weather Turns Cold.
As the fighting increased in scope,
with artillery thundering along the
v100-mile front, the weather—which
has been foggy and rainy—suddenly
turned cold.
The French reported their recon
naissance planes had taken some
"very interesting” photographs of
German positions, but said no Nazi
airmen had attempted to cross the
lines since October 10, when one was
•hot down.
The heaviest land action occurred
on the plateau that skirts the east
ern bank of the Moselle north of
uie town of Perl. Hundreds of Ger
man infantry troops were thrown
into the battle after strong artillery
preparation.
• Although a barrage cut off
French advance posts and the Ger
mans used automatic rifles, the
French reported they had repulsed
the attackers with heavy losses after
a "long and hard" battle.
“Passive Attitude” Dropped.
Artillery and in some places vio
lent infantry "feeler" actions spread
along the entire front from the
Moselle to the Rhine, military re
* ports stated.
Describing the German attacks as
• steadily increasing in scope and in
tensity, semi-official sources said the
Nazis had definitely abandoned the
"passive attitude” which they have
been pursuing until recently on the
western front.
Teamsters
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fcion of said buildings and private
and public works; and that it was
part of said conspiracy that said
restraint would be and was effected
by employment of strikers, boycotts
and by threats to use, and the use of,
force and violence.”
Contracts Declared Violated.
In carrying out the alleged con
spiracy. the indictment said, it was
attempted to compel various com
panies operating the so-called mixer
concrete trucks to employ as drivers
only members of Local 639 and to
breach contracts previously entered
■4nto by the companies with Inter
national Union of Operating Engi
neers, Local 77. The three com
panies named are Howat Concrete
Co., Maloney Concrete Co. and Su
per Concrete Corp. They are said to
operate more than 50 per cent of all
mixer trucks and were employing,
it was added, about 75 per cent of
their operators and drivers from the
ranks of the operating engineers'
Union.
It further sought, the indictment
says, to compel the mixer drivers
/md operators to resign from the
Operating Engineers and become
members of the teamsters local.
Further, it is alleged to effectuate
their plans “the defendants would
and they did threaten the calling
of strikes and that they would a»d
they did urge, induce and assist in
the calling of such strikes” by
teamster members to stop construc
" tion work.
The indictment says further that
by "threat of force and by force”
the defendants prevented the deliv
ery of concrete by the mixer trucks
operated by engineer union mem
bers.
"The said conspiracy and each of
the aots of said conspirators was
not intended to be, nor was it in
fact, in aid of higher wages, shorter
hours, better working conditions for
labor or any other legitimate object
of a labor union.” the indictment
♦sums up, adding that it had as its
"sole object" the replacing of Local
T7 members by Local 639 members
Speedy Jury Action.
The grand Jury acted with un
usual-speed in returning the indict
ment, having just taken the case
under consideration yesterday when
10 witnesses from construction com-;
panics and labor unions were ques- j
tioned by Gordon Dean and Walter
Hutchinson, special assistants to the
Attorney General, who were assisted
by Howard Boyd, an assistant to the
United States attorney.
The difficulty between the team-1
•ters and operating engineers'unions,
both A. F. of L. affiliates, has been
of long standing and the teamsters,
who recently concluded a wage
strike, had threatened to go out this
past Monday, but deferred action
pending action of international ofli
* cers in Cincinnati to settle the
trouble. The threatened teamsters’
strike also carried with It the possi
bility of a city-wide strike in the
building trades, the Washington
Building Trades Council having em
powered a special committee to take
such action.
Justice Department Statement.
In an unusual gesture, the De
partment of Justice Issued a state
ment as the Indictment was re
turned, outlining its scope; pointing
* to troubles that have beset the build
ing industry here and attributing
them to "unreasonable and im
proper” activities by the teamsters.
It refers incidentally to the recent
■trike on the new Social Security
, and Census Buildings as having
sprung from jurisdictional troubles,
although the teamsters contended
It was a wage strike.
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