The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-04
INSURGENT Miners
REFUSE TO FOLLOW
LEADOF CHIEFTAINS
Boo Labor Leaders and Govern.
ment Agents Who Plead
for Return to Work
by the Associated Press)


Mass return to work Of miners In
the western Pennsylvania soft coal
fields has been delayed by the refusal
Of insurgent miners to report.
Pleas of union leaders and govern
ment officials for a concerted return
were answered Tuesday with boos BY
a crowd Of from 10000 to $4,000 min
ers, mostly from the H. G.. Prick
Coke company mines. Insurgent lead
ers contend the Prick company has
not recognized the union.
More than 10000 other miners re-
turned to the soft coal pits. Cover
nor Pinchot predicted the situation
would work itself out" Gen. Hugh
8. Johnson, MIRA chief, expressed i'm
patience with some operators for
"quibbling' and called for an end OF
mob conditions" In the Pittsburgh
bituminous area.
At Steubenville, O.. 1000 strikers
picketing the Weirton steel mills
started disturbance which was fin
ally quelled by tear gas bombs. AT
Athens. O., 400 miners went on strike
against working conditions. At Bel
laire 600 others returned to work.
A "vigilante committee" Of grape
growers and others drove half q hun
dred striking grape pickers out Of
Lodi. Calf, breaking up picket
brigade.
Striking textile workers In Pater-
son, N. j., marched on dyeing plant
and smashed virtually every door anc
window In the place. The mob also
beat up q foreman. ...,.-..-..-..
NRA officials in New York An.
nounced the end Of two strikes there
with the return to work Of 5000 bak.
cry drivers and $500 corset makers.
Strikers at the Ford Motor COM
pany plant at Edgewater. N. j., voted
plans to picket other plants. Strike
leaders said they planned to send
500 men to Dearborn to picket the
main plant and another group to an
assembly plant In Buffalo.
Roosevelt to Speak
President Roosevelt talks Wednes-
day night before the conference Of
Catholic charities at New York and
Is expected to expound in detail his
ideas on the troublesome labor issue
In the recovery campaign as we'll a.
the credit expansion program to back
1t up.
He Is standing pat on the right OF
employees to deal with employers
through their own representatives
The signing Of II more codes for In
dustry late Tuesday by the president
marked the transition Of the recovery
drive from the organization to the
enforcement phase.
After two-hour talk with General
Johnson he designated him to carry
on and put into effective operation
the new working agreements for In
dustry and commerce which he feels
require government supervision in
the maturing period.
johnson told newspapermen he
would divide the administrative ma
chinery into four or. six sections with
an aide in charge Of each with him
self as coordinator to see that poll
cies clicked.
He emphasized he is principally
interested Just now in making sure
OF peaceful relations between labor
and employers. He spoke OF building
up an organization for this purpose
from the emergency mediation board
now presided over by Senator Wag-
ner Of New York.
One more OF the basic codes re-
mains to be signed-that for the re-
tail trades. johnson said all that
was necessary for this agreement wa
q decision by himself on the clause
to allow prices on the basis Of IN
voice cost plus 10 per cent. The agri-
culture adjustment administration Is
opposing this method.