Evening star., 1933-10-17
MED|AT0RS
SCORE VICTORIES
Weirton Workers to Return.
Trouble Involving 5000 in
New York Settled.
BY the Associated Press.


Peacemakers between capital and
labor claimed several victories today
and turned their attention to other
points of friction in the industrial
machine
Striking steel workers at weirton, W.
Va, hailed settlement announced yes
terday by the National Labor Board.
Chairman Robert F. Wagner said the
workers would return at once.
N. r. A. headquarters in New York
announced settlement of four strikes in
volving 5000 bread makers, teamsters,
market porters and shoe workers.
Violence flared in scattered strike
areas yesterday. Some high spots fol-
low.
Los Angeles.-Pickets and workers
clashed In q garment strike.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-Dynamite dam
aged homes of two miners.
Brockton, Mass.-Heavy police details
guarded w. L. Douglas Shoe Co.
San Joaquin Valley, Calif.-12 900 cot
ton pickers still remained away from
fields.
Disorder at Paterson.
Paterson, N. J.-Meeting of striking
dye workers broke up in disorder when
Miss Ann Burlak, left wing leader, took
rOStrum
Among other strikes still going on
were: Coal miners in Indiana, silk or
rayon workers in Rhode Island, Penn
SylVanla and New Jersey, garment work
ers In Quincy, H., sardine fishermen at
Monterey. Calf.
signed contract with employers and
the Government bound thousands of
We1rton strikers to return to work
The agreement pledged the Weirton
20. TO take the strikers back with
out discrimination. 1t further prom
ised that the board would supervise a
December election at which employees
will select representatives for collective
bargaining with their employers
The settlement, which also refers
any future disputes to the board, was
signed by E. T. Weir, chairman of the
National Steel Corporation and its sub
sidiary, Weirton Steel; by William ].
Long, for the strikers. and Wagner
Quick disposition of the strike, after
Weir first said he would not submit to
arbitration. was regarded as sig
nificant victory for the board. The
Strikers Committee. headed by Long,
said it considered its case won.
| Weir had told the Board the strike
| was called by 80 men without most of
the employees knowing what is was about
without warning. notice or de-
mand of any kind"
Weir said company employees elected
| representatives last June, but Long con-
| tended this election was unfair and that
| company officials refused to recognize
! committee Of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton OF Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
later chosen by workers to represent
them.
The agreement reached was proposed
by Wagner who congratulated both sides
on their willingness to make concessions.
Meanwhile, protests against delay In
! approving codes for the construction
industries were filed with Hugh S. John
son. N. r. A. head. by a delegation
representing the building trades.
Separate Code Asked.
! Headed by NJ. ]. McDonough. presi-
dent Of the building trades department
Of the American Federation OF Labor.
the delegation asked a separate code
for building construction, protested
! against the construction league master
code, now under consideration, and took
stand against expressions of deputy
administrators handling these industries
/
capital to invest in construction.
| After the conference McDonough said
johnson had assured them that when
the codes reach him he would give
the union leaders an opportunity to
voice their objections in detail.
particular protest made BY the
! union men was against delay in ap-
proval of subcontractor codes. which
have been held up. while Deputy Ad-
ministrators Malcolm Muir and NAL
colin Pirnie work out their plan for
keeping all construction wages at a low
level for a period of one year, with
progressive increases at stated inter-
vals after that time This policy has
not ofhcially been passed upon yet by
johnson.
| In the delegation were John CoefieId
president OF the Plumbers Union: P. ].
Morrln OF the Structural Iron Work.
eIs; M. j. Colleran. plasterers; Dan
Tracy, electricians; Harry Bates. brick
| layers; John Garvan, representing Ia
| borers and hod carriers. and John
Hines. president Of the Sheet Metal
Workers.
| Ready to Attend Hearing.
! Disposal by the Labor Board of the
Welrton case postponed action again on
the refusal Of Western Kentucky coal
operators to attend an arbitration
nearing, but it was learned that several
| OF these already had informed Wagner
tney dld not mean to challenge the
DoarG ana indicated readiness to attend