The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-02
PLANS TO CRUSH LABOR
WERE ALL COMPLETE HAD THE RECENT THREATENED RAu
ROAD STRIKE COME TO DEFINITE ISSUE-EXCUSE
WAS TO BE FOR PUBLICS PROTECTION"
Agency Function Under Drec
ton of Department of Commerce Through Organization
Perfected BY Herbert Hoover

to extreme measures in defense of
their interests. At the head of this
organization has been placed E. G.
Montgomery, as assistant to Chairman
Hoover. C. C. Stetson is executive
secretary.
The federal emergency organization
will maintain itself in skeleton form
permanently. 1t will be ready on
short notice at any time to state just
what areas are short of food or fuels,
and to direct the proper necessities
to the districts threatened with short
age.
The former food administration is
to be recruited and incorporated into
this government-controlle and gov
ernment-fnanced strike-b re K q
agency. Chambers of Commerce,
manufacturing associations, civic or
CARNATIONS, private detective agen-
cies, corporation police forces and
state political machinery will be used
under the direction of the central au-
thority at Washington.
Lists of potential strike breakers
will be made and corrected period
ically, that they may be available in
an emergency. Should strike hap
pen anywhere in the country, the ad-
ministration would bring into play
the organization in the particular dis
trict affected, with the justification
that it adversely affected the move
ment of some necessity, as must in
evitably happen when industry is tenn
porarily halted when a dispute be-
tween employer and employe reaches
the strike stage.
In close touch with the national or
ganiZation will be state bodies divid-
ed into numerous districts. Some of
these state organizations have already
been formed, notably in New Eng
land where an association of govern
ors forms skeleton organization for
emergency relief.
With each district organization are
several divisions, formed on the ba-
sis of commodities, among them the
following: Breadstuff division, meat,
livestock, dairy products, fruit and
vegetables, coal and oil. A strike
involving any of these commodities
would Immediately bring into action
the proper division, which is expected
to be thoroughly familiar with the
strikebreaking resources of the dis
trict represented by it. This simpli-
fies the work of the general govern
ing body.
One of the most important divisions
is that of motor transport. Had the
October 80 strike of railroad workers
taken place trains of motor trucks
would, according to officials of the
department of commerce, been in ex-
tensive operation the following day.
The federal government, where the
strike was pending, placed orders for
thousands of f1anged wheels, of stand
ard railroad gauge, for the equipment
of government army motor trucks, the
plan being to place them on rails for
the transportation of commodities.
Thousands of motor cars distribut-
od to +bo caxya,al c4o{oc ~, +bo .,yo y.
department are to be re-equipped for
strike duty, many of them being pro-
vided with standard fange wheels for
use on railroad trucks. The motor
transport section is expected to main
tain a complete classification of these
trucks, with such information as will