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POLICE CLUB WOMEN PICKETS IN MEYERSDALE; 1 ARP'.'T TWELVE SHIRT FACTORY STRIKERS V/ Western Maryland Industrial L ■ <• Tb Wcilern Maryland ° I <j®c.v47S' JDIEfaijHBDR RUBBER WORKERS-KELLY OPEN NEGOTIATIONS FOR CONTRACT Bargaining Begins In Other Goodyear Plants in Nation Behind the nolid support of 100 per cent of the membership of Local 26. United Rubber Workers of America, three mem bers of the union's negotiating committee and a URWA inter national representative today were bargaining with Kelly- Springfield management for a contract on a national Goodyear basis. ... f- • TL Coupling negotiations with a slogan of Ihirty Days Ihe Limit," the four URWA negotiators jointly declared "the Kelly-Spring field workers are determined to get the full security which is rightfully theirs byway of a signed contract." URWA negotiators are Local 26 President Raymond Burkhart. Odell Young and William Wellker, and International Representative Joseph Emmons. Negotiating for the Goodyear subsidiary are James C. Warden, Harry Nelson and R. M. Hudak. Officers of Loral 26. at the same time, called a special gen era, membership meeting for Saturday. August 2 at 7.30 P. M. in the Rubber Worker* Hall. 12 South Mechanic street. A new seniority clause to be Intro duced In negotiations is tA be discussed at the meeting. Discussions on a proposed agree mcnt introduced by the Rubber Workers have been in progress for the past week, negotiators said. Negotiations in other Goodyear plants throughout the nation were opened simultaneously. Adopting the slogan "Thirty Days the Limit" as the conclud ing period in which a signed con tract was to be negotiated, the union representatives declared that if at the end of the 30 day contract talks an agreement is not reached "any action to be taken will be taken on a national basis.” Rank and file members of Lo rai 26 declared their support cr the negotiating committees efforts by citing Goodyear management’s policy of "divide and exploit" among the many plants in the country. "Its time they signed up.” a Kelly worker summed up. Local 26 officers also reported a steady gain in membership and dues paying since negotiations opened. $ Lucas Appointed To Defense Council Clyde D. Lucas, secretary-treas urer of Celanese Local 1874. TW UA was one of the three Cum berland appointees to the district council of defense embracing Al legany, Garrett. Washington and Fredrick counties. Lucas and Mayor Harry Irvine and Alan F. Eggleston, vice-pres ident of Kelly-Springfletd Tire Company, were appointed by Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor. The gover nor explained that the creation of district defense councils was in accordance with the wishes of the advisory commission to the Council of National Defense. i To Give Fireboss, Mine Foreman Tests Examinations for mine foreman and fireboss certificates will be given August 26 and 27 at Pros*- burg, under the supervision of the Maryland Bureau of Mines. Applications for the examina tions may be made with Dr. J. J. Rutledge, chief mine engineer. Maryland Bureau of Mines. - - Issue Thanks C. A. department workers of Local 1174, TWUA. issued thanks through their Chairman Richard Boyden to the American Brewery. Cumberland Brewery. German Brewery and South End Market for contributions and support of the C. A. Jamboree held recently. ~ i, Local 26 Starts Own ‘V’ Drive with ‘3O Day’s the Limit’ Rubber workers in Local 26 have a "V" campaign of their ] own. only they say "Thirty j Day's tire Limit." For more than a week Local | 26 members have been shout ing in the Kelly plant, at reg ular meetings, on the streets, ( at the plant gate "Thirty Day's the Limit." Overnight tile Kelly plant blossomed out with thousands of mimeograph ed posters each bearing "Thirty Day's the Limit." For union members, tiro j slogan means the time in which j, i negotiations for a signed con tract would be concluded. How ever the few non-union mem bers became self conscious, thought the slogan meant their last chance to Join the union, and signed up. As for plant supervisors, the slogan brings lines of worry, just as the new "V for Victory” campaign is having its effects j on Hitler. Republic Steel To Negotiate CIO Contract WASHINGTON. July 29 Re ■ | public Steel the fourth of Little Steel "bitter-enders" to come to , ! terms today was on record as agreeing to negotiate a signed contract and to end all disputes with the Steel Workers Organiz ing Committee. CIO. The corporation, whose head. Tom Girdler, once said he would retire to dig potatoes before sign ing witli the CIO. put its name to a stipulation signed by the SWOC and the National Labor < Relations Board in a final move ' that ended more than four years of struggle for union recognition 1 and higher wages. In addition to a signed contract, the agreement provides for the : death of Republic's company un ions. for an end to interference with the SWOC. for reinstatement with back pay of 2.300 workers discharged during and after the Little Steel strike, for a single collective bargaining unit in all plants where a count shows a SWOC majority and for dropping of a damage suit against the un ion. About 41.630 workers are cover ed by the agreement. NMU Plans One Seaman’s Union NEW YORK. July 29 Lead ers of the National Maritime Un ion were at work today on a new plan to unify East and West coast seamen's unions into one nation al organization. The plan, adopted at the NMU Convention In Cleveland, was to be submitted to the membership of the Marine Cooks and Stewards : Union and the American Com- ; munlcations Assocation. Marine division i radio operators), and : other coastal unions. Miners Wait For Court Decision Avnet Urges Jurists Maintain Intent of Compensation Law Thousands of Maryland miners today awaited a de- 1 cision of the Allegany Circuit. Court —a decision that, as I. 1 Duke Avnet. District 16. UMW i counsel said, would determine whether the intention of the Maryland Unemployment Com pensation law would be main tained or negated. Arguing before Circuit Court Jurists D. Llndley Sloan. William A. Huster and Joseph D. Misir. in an appeal on the unemploy ment compensation board's ruling Avnet asserted that it was the intention of the compensation law to cover as many unemployed workers as possible. The board's ruling, he declared, excluded thousands of Maryland miners forced into idleness by the absence of a working contract be • tween operators and the United Mine Workers of America. Contending that evidence did not support the board's findings that the unemployment of miners was due to a stoppage of work which existed because of a labor ; i dispute. Avnet explained that a ; labor dispute. 11l the true sense of the term, did not exist. There was no strike of the min ers. and there was no lockout on the part of the operators. Avnet said. The stoppage occurcd be cause there was no working agree ment between miners and oper ators. Tire miners did not know what they were working for and tlie operators did not know what to charge for their coal without the contract, lie added. STRICT DEFINITION Defining a strike, lockout am! labor dispute. Avnet maintained that the term labor dispute should not be loosely defined so as to exclude thousands of unemployed workers. "The terms should be strictly construed" and applied to instances coming under the deflni tions. he said. Attorneys agreed that the sole point at issue was whether the miners were idle as a result of a labor dispute. The unemployment compensation board ruled that a labor dispute existed, and denied miners compensation. About 300 maintenance men and certain other miners ruled eligible were awarded compensation. Dis trict 16, UMW. filed an appeal for Cobey Snyder, Garrett county miner and president of Local 3817, and other miners in the same position as Snyder. Chief Judge Sloan reported that a ruling on the case would be forthcoming probably by August 4. Assistant Attorney General Zan vyl Krieger of Baltimore, assisted by William A. Gunter, attorney for the Consolidation Coal Com pany. argued that a labor dispute existed and upheld the decision of the board. Welly K. Hopkins, general coun sel for the United Mine Workers review numerous rulings of other state compensation boards and Morgan C. Harris of Cumberland, assisted Avnet in presenting an outline of the facts in the case. - Newspaper Executives Defy Govt. Agency WASHINGTON. July 29 The American Newspaper Publishers Association last week defied the authority of the Federal Com munications Commission's right to subpoena four newspaper execu tives as witnesses in the govern ment's investigation into news paper ownership of radio stations. Local 1874 Holds General Membership Meeting August 13 A regular general member ship meeting of Celaneie Lo cal 1874, TWUA, will be held in Textile Hell, Wed nesday evening, August 13 at 8 o’clock, President George A. Meyers an nounced. Meyers urged all members to attend the meeting. ARMY TRAINS SOLDIERS FOR STRIKEBREAKING WASHINGTON. July 29 Doc umentary evidence that U. S. sen diers in Army training camps throughout the nation were being trained lor strikebreaking duty against American workers was supplied today by "In Fact." a weekly news-letter edited by George Seldes. "In Fact" reported that soldieis were being trained lor strikebreak ing duty in Camp Stewart. Ga.: Fort Hancock. N. J.; Fort Meade. Md.: Camp Edwards. Mass.: For' Ord. Cal.': Fort Bragg. N. C.:' Camp McClellan. Ala : and from an Army camp near Coleman. Tex. Courses in active strikebreaking including propaganda to supply moial Justification for possible use jof troops against American work ers. were being taught at the I camps, "In Fact" revealed. An I official Press release from Camp ! Stewart, explaining preparations jfor the handling of "a strike situ -1 ation," was quoted. * Snyder Re-elected President of Local 3817 at Eekhart Cobey Snyder, under whose i name an appeal on the ruling cf ' the Maryland Compensation Board jwas taken by District 16. United j Mine Workers, was reelected pres ! ident of Local 3817 at Eekhart Mines. Thomas Hanna was elected vice-president; Ben Rowe, record ing secretary: Brooke Lancaster, financial secretary: Walter Con nors. treasurer: Lucindo Fabrl, doorkeeper: and William Pope, sergeant-at arms. John Williams. Woodrow Trout man and John Whiteflcld were elected to the No. 10 mine com mittee. while the No. 4 mine com mittee is Joiin Barry, Ben Rowe and Ruben Lewis. Jones Blasts Discrimination , CIO Backs Marcantonio Bill I Explaining that the use of racial discrimination follows the' : “ancient maxim of divide and rule, with a new twist—divide j and exploit,” John T. Jones, CIO legislative representative, last week condemned the practice and threw CIO support be hind H. R. 3994, the Marcantonio Anti-Discrimination Bill, when he appeared before the House Judiciary Committee, His statement, slightly abridged/! follows: “•'Tire CIO Is heartily In accord with the aims and principles of H.R. 3994. We recognize the ex istence of discrimination against racial, national and other minori ties as an evil that threatens not only the security and welfare of j millions of our people but also as a threat to the national unity that has been so eloquently described , as America's bulwark against ag gression. '■The CIO and the entire labor movement has its historic roots in the equality of all people, not only before the law but in the social and economic world as well. Our i great movement, embracing more i than 5,500.000 working men and : women, is based on the funda- i mental principle that all workers are entitled to the right to work : Celebration Group to Meet on 3rd Issue Parade Invitations to Organizations Swinging into the last month of preparations on the Labor Day celebration, the Labor Day Celeb ration Committee of the Western Maryland Industrial Union Coun cil will meet Sunday. August 3 in Bloomington. j The meeting will begin at 7.30 o'clock. Chairman Lindlcy Dye re ported. Approximately 25 delegates at tended the last committee meet ing in Frostburg when reports of i increasing activity were made. William Meagher, chairman of j the entertainment committee rc- 1 ported that the Jockey Club near | the Cumberland Fairgrounds had ! been obtained for a dance to be held on Labor Day evening. En - j tertaiument for children, was be ing prepared. Meagher said. , ISSUE INVITATIONS The parade committee reported i that invitations to the Cumber- ' | land Labor Day Parade had been ! sent to 300 organizations in three ( ! states. The invitations included , an explanation of the distribution of S6OO in prizes to be given first • and second place winners in seven divisons. A first prize of $125 and second , prize of $35 is to be given in the ', senior and Junior band classified- , tion, while the same prizes are to be awarded in the drum corps , division. In the float division, a $75 first prize and $35 second prize ‘ : is to be awarded. The organization coming the j ' greatest distance is to be awarded - SSO. and the best appearing vet crans, civic, fraternal or patriotic 1 1 group is to be given SSO. The best [ j appearing fire company is to re- , . t ceive a prize of SSO. and the best appearing ladies auxiliary S2O. CIO and AFL unions were invit [ ed to compete in the float and or • . ganization coming the greatest distance division. Signs with CIO BANGOR. Pa.. July 29 The i ■ Kayser Silk Co., employing 1.300 i : hosiery workers, succumbed to a i ■ ten month organizing drive la..t ■ week when it signed an agree ■ ment with the American Federa tion of Hosiery Workers. CIO. pie cannot prevail if a minority, no matter of what origin or what persuasion, is denied the rights and the opportunities that are available to the American people as a whole. "No one can deny that discrim ination in the employment of workers docs exist. Huge corpor ations holding billions of dollars worth of government contracts openly refuse to employ Negro workers, despite the cry of labor shortage and despite the fact that thousands of Negro workers have the skill and experience necessary to fill Jobs in the defense program. Many of these corporations dis criminate against non-citizens, again despite much talk of labor shortage and much protest on the need for production. Discrimina tion has extended beyond even the foreign born citizens, to Include • V CIO Aluminum Plan Backed by Council Throwing full support behind a CIO proposed plan to in crease aluminum production by one billion pounds a year, the Western Maryland Industrial Union Council at a regular meet ing last week, appointed a three-man committee to rally support of trade unions, civic and fraternal organizations behind the SCIO plan. CIO Aids 255-114 Defeat of New Connally Bill A second victory was marked up for the CIO on the legisla tive front when the House of Representatives defeated the new sugar-coated Connally bill by a 255 to 111 vote Tuesday afternoon. Strenuous CIO opposition both in Washington and from CIO affiliates in the nation was responsible for the defeat of the bill aimed at granting the government authority to break strikes and order compulsory arbitration, CTO leaders said. State IIIC Protests 50% Auto Cut Plan Protesting the 50 per cent pro duction curtailment proposed in the automobile Industry. Sidney R. Katz, secretary treasurer of the , Maryland and District of Colum bia Industrial Union Council last week wrote President Roosevelt that thousands of workers will lose their jobs under the produc tion cut. , "The skills of these valuable de fense workers.” Katz said in his letter, "are necessary for the suc cessful prosecution of our nation al defense program. "If Mr. Hendrcson's cut is in stituted as he proposes, it will cause a man hour loss in produc tion in terms of use of skills of these workers far greater than the sum total of all strikes which were forced upon the working people during the past 12 months, ’ Katz added. Father of Loeal 1874 President Dies George A. Meyers, father of George A. Meyers. Jr., president of Celanesc Local 1874. TWUA. died at his home in Lonaconing last week after a sudden heart attack. He is survived by his widow, four sons and two daugh ters. and the right to live. This princi second generation American citi-i zens and even those with foreign sounding names. Cites Blacklist "The labor movement is no stranger to discrimination. Gen erations of its leaders and rank and file members have known dis crimination in its cruellest form —the blacklist that condemns a man and his family to a lifetime of poverty and misery, even to starvation. Discrimination has been one of the principal weapons of ruthless employers ever since the labor movement first took shape. Only in recent years, with the growth of the CIO to its posi tion as leader of the organized labor movement have the blacklist and other forms of discrimination against workers been pushed to ward oblivion. "The task of the CIO in organ izing the basic industries of this country—where organization was previously unknown has been carried out in the face of the most vicious and sustained dis- Cjgdgfjd ■ Paa Tw* The council also: 1. Adopted a resolution endors ing President Roosevelt's policy of aid to Great Britain, the Soviet Union and other democracies lighting fascism. 2. Adopted a resolution urging Secretary of Labor Perkins to re instate Miss Hplen Miller. Wash ington, D. C.. member of the Unit ed Federal Workers, who was sus pended from her work in the De partment of Labor. 3. Adopted a resolution estab lishing a boycott of Walt Disney films until Disney agrees to rein- ‘ state dismissed trade unionists' and bargain collectively with the! Screen Cartoonists Guild. 4. Sent a "get well” telegram to CIO President Philip Murray and a telegram to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging his support of the CIO Aluminum Workers plan for increased alum inum production. Appointed to the Increased Pro duction of Aluminum Committee ; by Chairman Lindley Dye were ! Arthur Shusterman. Local 1874.! TWUA delegate, and Raymond Wills and Roy Davy, Local 26 URWA delegates. Shustermun was appointed chairman. TO EXPLAIN PLAN The committee was empowered to inform civic, fraternal, veterans and service organizations in this area of the Aluminum Workers plan and urge their outspoken support of the plan designed to aid national defense. The AWU plan, presented to President Roosevelt two weeks ago, proposed the creation of an Alum inum Industry Council composed of labor, industry and govern ment representatives, called for full priorities on construction ma terial to permit rapid erection of new aluminum plants, and vastly expanded operation of essential bauxite now under the control ot Aluminum Corporation of Amcri ca. SUPPORT AID The aid to Great Britain. Soviet Union and other democracies fighting fascism resolution, adopt ed after a 20 minute discussion, stated: "Whereas. Franklin D. Roose velt has so clearly enunciated the policy of the United States in rc ard to aid to democracies now fighting fascism and Hitlerism: • And Whereas. President Roose velt has called on all American people to support the United States policy of aid to all em battled democracies: •‘And whereas, the spread of fascism and Hitlerism endangers trade unionism and all free dem ocratic movements in the United States: “And Whereas. Fascism ana Hitlerism must be thwarted to pre vent the destruction of democratic trade unionism and Democratic movements in the United States. "Now Therefore Be It Resolved, that tire Western Maryland In dustrial Union Council support the stand of President Roosevelt, and his policy of continued and ever increasing aid to Great Britain the Soviet Union and ther democ racies fighting fascism. "And Be It Further Resolved, that the Western Maryland Indus trial Union Council urge Presi dent Roosevelt to maintain vigil ance agaiast growing fascist!: forces in the United States, and against all attempts to destroy •the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness* guaranteed all Ameri can people under the Constitu tion.” Two members of Local 12. Unit conunoed an Pat* Few Unionists I * Continue Picketing Scabs in Cars Run Into, Hurt Strikers on Line Charges that members of the Meyersdale. Pa. police force bad been guilty of vicious bru tality in the clubbing of de fenseless women pickets at the struck Meyersdale shirt manu facturing plant were today voiced by organizers of the Amalgamated Clothing Work ers. CIO. | A police attack on more > than 175 pickets Monday | morning culminated with the arrest of 12 pickets, including an ACW organizer. The 12 strikers were released on SSOO bond by .Squire 11. S. Whitter man of Somerset, and were to appear for trial in September. They were charged by Mevers dalc Chief of Police Bi:tner with "resisting arrest and as sault and battery." A force of policemen, ’ ! |by Bittner, attacked, e"d rh bed more than two dozen of the 175 pickets around Meyersdale factory after a few cars containing scabs and for - ran down pickets :•••'! broke the picket line a* gate. Henry f'riedman. AC W organizer, reported. A few women pickets who cried and screamed when struck by car brought police on the run. Bittner and his police force jumped into the picket line, swinging clubs at the heads and shoulders of the strikers, and indiscriminately be ; gan placing pickets under arrest, ! Friedman said. DENY ASSAULT CHARGE Taken before Squire WhiUer man. the strikers denied assault, lng Bittner, and charged the chief of police with usurping his police power and assault against lawful pickets. Police authorities in Som erset county refused to press charges against Bittner and mem bers of the Meyersdale police force. Friedman stated. Three women strikers were treated for injuries suffered when struck by a car driven by Robert Sauntz. a foreman in the plant. A number of other pickets rcceit - led minor injuries in the police clubbing, but picketing still con tinued. Striking workers who have been picketing the plant since July 3 demand a union contract with un ion wages and the reinstatement of a dismissed union member. The Meyersdale Chamber of Comcrce. the industrial committee of the c of C and the town newspaper, the Somerset American, have openly opposed tiie strikers. FORM COMPANY UNION Owned by H. D. Baskin, who is ulso proprietor of a number of manufacturing plants in Pennsyl vania, the company has fought the ACW for many years. Under company guidance a small number of the Meyersdale workers have formed a company union called the Meyersdale Manufacturing Employes Association which was chartered a few days ago. Of the 230 plant workers. 200 of whom are women, more than 175 were on the picket line Mon. day morning. The 175 workers, now members of the ACW. were organized a few weeks before the strike when Miss Mary Louise Eek. ACW organizer who was one of the pickets arrested Monday, slip ped into a company union meeting and spoke to the workers at the • icetln-. ifgg. •. Detroit Western Union Workers Vote GIO | DETROIT. July 29 —An over- S whelming victory of the American Communications Association. CIO, over the AFL's Commercial Ttlett • raphers Union in a Labor Board election among Western Union employes in Detroit recently, has paved the way for the organiza tion of Western Union's 43.000 workers, CIO leaders said. The CIO won the election by a 417 to 165 vote. Notice Due to many misunderstand, inis. Local 1874. TWI'A. an nounces: “Local 1874 is neither directly or Indirectly connected In any way with the Workers Social Club or any other social club.” By Order of the Membership (Tyde D. Lucas. Sec.-Trea*. Local 1874. TWt A