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Evening star., 1934-03-23
PEACE PLAN REJECTED.
Addressograph Workers Continue
Strike in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, March % OP).-Six
hundred of the 300 employees Of the
Addressograph- -Multigraph Corpora
tion of Cleveland voted unanimously
today to reject proposed agreement
to end their wo-day-old strike.
The plan had been tentatively ac-
cepted by labor leaders and the COM
pany during a conference yesterday
with Cleveland's Regional Labor
Board and was said to have involved
the existence Of both company and
A. F. L. unions. Recognition of the
A. F.. L. union is an issue in the
strike
The 800 workers voted to continue
to fight for an agreement which would
give them:
A minimum Of so cents an hour
pay; a 35-hour week. with no reduc-
ton in pay; 10-cent increase per
Evening star., 1934-03-23
UNION SATISFIED
WITH PEACE MOVE
Labor Sees President on
Its Side in Dispute With
Auto Makers.
Continued From First Page.)

NCOIltI1ueO fIOIll IlTSJ TdSeD
unions the workers choose to repre-
sent them in collective bargaining. Z
This would be in line with Mr.
Roosevelts stand in previous labor
disputes.
Should he do so it would be up to
N. r. A. to call upon the companies
to produce their pay roll lists to de-
termine voting eiigibles. The auto
mobile code requires that employment
data be submitted to the Government,
but such a call might bring on a
legal fight of some duration.
The issue, however, probably would
be less long-drawn than court strug-
gle over licensing order for the in
dustry. A presidential order putting
the industry under license, although
still possible step, was not believed
in many informed quarters to be the
most likely course.
The Chief Executive was kept close
ly informed today Of other develop
ments in capital-labor disputes, which
included:
/. EaStman'S rail conferences.
2. A strike of California longshore-
men, due at am. today. was averted
by direct presidential request. The
men accepted the plan for investiga-
ton of the controversy by an impair
tial board to be named by Mr.. RooSe-
velt.
Green shift" Is Noted.
In the automobile situation, Off
cials here took particular note of a
statement from the National Automo-
bile Chamber of Commerce counter
ing one issued by William Green.
president of the A F. of L. 1t charged
Green with having shifted his
ground" from the recognition issue
to the statement that the right to
collective bargaining alone was at
stake.
Before that attack came out last
night. Green had emerged from the
Presidents Office, with a number OF
auto union leaders, to announce
Substantial progress"
All 80 of the delegates here had
gone in first to receive Mr. Roose-
velt's greetings. The group was quickly
narrowed down to a dozen or so prin-
cipal officials. Then all came out but
the key men.
The latter gave a report to their
fellows at labor headquarters in a
meeting that lasted little more than
an hour. 1t was mainly devoted to
drafting the kilograms to the home
unions which were assembled, waiting
word from Washington.
$4,000 Members Claimed.
These messages, however caused
confusion for a time in some of the
Centers and labor officials had to
spend a couple of hours on long dis
tance telephones in an effort to
straighten out misunderstanding
which threatened walkouts this
morning.
The labor leaders here to confer
with President Roosevelt claim a
union membership of 50,040 among
72,9O0 automobile workers in five cities
as follows:
Evening star., 1934-03-23
Total .....,. 1900

Total .....,. 72,900 50,040
Another phase of the automobile
controversy brought Green on the air
last night in a radio speech, in which
he denounced company unions as
worse than no unions at all" His
speech was designed as a reply to
recent speeches by representatives OF
the automobile industry assailing the
American Federation of Labor.
Company unions are creatures Of
corporations" Green said. They are
set up, established, financed, fostered
and maintained by the company.
THE company unions are worse
than no unions at all They are the
means through which industrial man
agement exercises control over the
economic life of the workers.
Charges Workers Suffer.
workers who are compelled to join
company union are denied the right
to engage in collective bargaining.
Workers who suffer from injustice
or oppression and who have real
grievances have no chance of redress
when they are compelled to submit
complaints and grievances for fair
adjudication to those who are the
paid representatives of the company"
Green urged enactment Of the Wag-
ner bill, which would virtually do
away with the company union and
said the radio address last week of
John L. Lovett, president of the Mich
igan Manufacturers Association and
spokesman for the National Automo-
bile Chamber of Commerce, was a
shameful and unfounded" attack
upon the honesty Of workers who be-
longed to the Federation of Labor.
Another flare in long pending la
Dor dispute that has troubled the
administration came yesterday. Work
erS of the Weirton Steel Co. visited
N. R. A. headquarters and asked that
the Blue Eagle be taken away from
that companys plants. They charged
the company with violating the en-
ploye bargaining provisions of the re-
covery act. A suit already is under
way against the company.
Attorney General Cummings yes
terday said the company answering to
the suit had entered its appearance
at the Federal District Court of Della
ware.
While the labor trouble conferences
went ahead here, word came from
Albany. N. Y. that a settlement had
been reached in a wage dispute in the
Delaware & Hudson Railroad system,
banishing the threat of a strike in
June of 1900 men. The settlement
there was made by a board named by
President Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1934-03-23
F. w. ELDRIDGE WEEDS
Editorial Director Marries Los
Angeles Drama Editor.

SANTA ANA, Calf, March % GP-
Fred w. Eldridge, editorial director
OF the Hearst newspapers, and Mrs.
Florence B. Lawrence, drama editor
Of the Los Angeles Examiner, one of
the Hearst group, were married here
yesterday.
Rev. Walter Scott Buchanan per-
formed the ceremony in the presence
OF a few members of the brides
family.
Eldridge was formerly managing
editor of the Los Angeles Examiner.
Evening star., 1934-03-23

tatorship If they realized that was his
real purpose"
Green, in Washington, renewed his
attack on company unions, calling
them worse than no unions at all"
They are the means" he said,
through which industrial manage
ment exercises control over the eco
nomic life of the workers"
What preparations were being made
by the motor car manufacturers and
local authorities for meeting a strike
in the event efforts to compose the
differences failed, were being closely
guarded. Leaders we're quoted as say
ing complaints had been received that
automobile companies were hiring
men by the thousands" and placing
them 'on call" company of1cials de-
clined to discuss these assertions.
The strike at the Bower Roller Bear
ing Co. plant, which started Tuesday.
still was under arbitration before the
Detroit Regional Labor Board. with
decision on the requests of the workers
expected some time today.
Hours Reduced.
As the charges and counter-charges
flew notices we're being posted yes
terday in all General Motors auto
motive plants that the company Is
putting into effect the National Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce ,recom-
mendation for a reduction in working
hours to So a week, with COM
mensurate increase in wages.
At the General Motors Offices here
Yesterday afternoon it was said that
no further statement on the matter
would be made The notices contain
a quotation from recent statement
in Washington by William S. Knudsen,
executive vice president. that the wage
and hour recommendation has been
accepted.
There are about 40 General Motors
automotive plants. scattered all over
the country.
Budd Strike Hangs Fire.
PHILADELPHIA, March % tP.-
Thre atened action toward the calling
Of another strike at the plant of the
E. G.. Budd Manufacturing Co. failed
to materialiZe at meeting OF several
hundred members Of the United Au-
tomobile Workers Union last night.
The meeting adopted resolution
empowering a committee from the
Central Labor Union of Philadelphia
ito take whatever steps it deemed
necessary to bring the Budd situation
to speedy solution"
Case Strike Settled.
RACINE, Wis, March % CP).-The
three-week strike at the two j. I. Case
Evening star., 1934-03-23
Case Strike Settled.

RACINE, Wis, March % CP).-The
three-week strike at the two j. I. Case
Co. plants was settled last night, and
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Moffett, Judge Payne Turn Out
In Honor of Beauty Winner
Ruby Miller Guest of
Honor at Raleigh
Party.
Vest Virginia State So
ciety Fetes Fair
Daughter.

Members of the West Virginia So
ciety of Washington flocked to the
Raleigh Hotel in large numbers last
night to honor Miss Ruby Miller of
ParkerSburg, winner of recent beau
ty contest.
Miss Miller, who was Miss West
Virginia" at a contest staged at
Akron, Ohio, August IL, won trip
to Washington and was met at the
airport yesterday afternoon by a dele
CATION of about 100 West Virginians,
headed by Edward H. Nunnally, presi-
dent of the State society.
A dinner and dance was given in
her honor last night and among the
guests invited we're Housing Admin
istrator James Moffet and Judge John
Barton Payne. chairman of the Ameri-
can Red Cross, both former West
VirginianS
Among those present was the first
president of the District West Virginia
Society, former State Senator D. w.
Gall: William B. Catlett, who with
a few friends organized the West Vir-
ginia Society, Inc, of Akron, Ohio;
Col. j. William De Grange, who or
ganized the local West Virginia So
ciety in 1914, and who Is its present
treasurer; and John L. Bateman, who
for II years has been Its secretary.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
LEAGUE
CLASH FORECAST
Collision With Roosevelt Be-
coming Absorbing and Po-
tentiaIIy Historic Question.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Just when, where and how the New
Deal and the American Liberty League
will collide became an absorbing and
potentially historic question in the
week now ended.
Granted that the organization OF
property owners was launched with an
expressed hope of helping the admin
istration, the skeptical attitude OF
President Roosevelt and his right
hand men presaged conflict sooner OF
later.
Only surrender of most fundamental
convictions either by the President or
by the AL" originators would alter
that prospect, and neither Mr.. Roose-
velt, Alfred E. Smith, John w. Davis
nor James w. Wadsworth are ranked
by the Nation among men who sur
render meekly.
No fat, out-in-the-open challenge
is looked for. The league, especially
as judged from statements by Presi-
dent Jouett Shouse, will take its time
and dwell upon an aim for "construc-
tive cooperation" in the national in
terest.
The New Deal, on the other hand
has a waiting, come on" attitude to-
ward the leaguers as such-content
to rest its case with the electorate.
Will Appeal to Electorate.
The first league appeal to that same
electorate will be made next Friday by
Shouse. He is expected by sympa-
thizers to warn against radical en-
croachments upon time-halloweo
American rights of persons and prop
erty."
He may elaborate upon his predic-
ton that the agency will become a
real factor in assisting toward recovery
and the restoration of prosperity fol-
all our people"
The speech will command all the
more national notice because Of the
light in which the league has beer
placed since its existence became
known.
it, attacks have been made by one
after another prominent Democrat
and by the Hoover Secretary Of War
Patrick ]. Hurley.
The interests of its founders, 1t has
been contended, are those of Wal
Street reactionarieS.
Described as "Smear Gang"
A smear gang" was Hurleys de-
scription of its financial hackers.
No reply has been made, other thar
citation of simply amazing" rush
for membership.
"Give them a chance" was a COM
ment by Senator Glass, Democrat, oi
Virginia.
Postmaster General Farley, mean
while, has been stating the issue be-
fore the country in the coming elec-
tions as between selfish interests
and a government responsive to the
people in an unprecedented degree
Some Republicans agree.
Other Republicans emphatically in.
Sist American liberties are being un.
dermined. The Constitution is being
Haunted and socialism practiced
Some Democrats agree.
In this dispute, the Liberty League
appears as possible focal point upor
which could hinge an at least tenn
porary realignment of political ranks
based on differing economic philoso.
phies.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
VOLUNTARY J0BLESS'
RELIEF AID OPPOSED
Illinois Manufacturer Associa'
ton Head Sends Protest
to Harry L. Hopkins.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September l.-R. E.
Wantz, president of the Illinois Manu-
facturers' Association, last night sent
protest to Harry L. Hopkins, Federal
relief administrator at Washington,
against furnishing aid to voluntary
unemployed"
The message referred to reports
that relief would be given those called
out on the projected textile strike and
read in part:
THE statements attributed to you
in press dispatches from Washington
to the effect that Federal funds would
be made available to men now en-
ployed in the textile industry and
who have proposed to go out on strike
Saturday, September, was the subject
of consideration at special meeting
of the board Of directors.
while we recognize the propriety
of the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration furnishing aid to those
who may be in temporary distress as
the result of involuntary unemploy-
nent, we are convinced that the
furnishing Of financial aid by the
Government to men who are volun-
tarily unemployed is fraught with grave
danger to our economic and social
stability"
Evening star., 1934-09-02
TENNESSEE FUSION
MOVEMENT FLAYED
Democratic State Committee and
Young Democrats Hold It Is
Aimed at Roosevelt.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, September l.
A whitening barrage Of condemnation
was aimed at the Tennessee Fusion
movement today by the new Demo-
cratic State Executive Committee
and by meeting of the Executive
Committee and county presidents of
the young Democratic clubs of the
State.
Resolutions adopted by the State
Committee declared that the Fusion
movement was primarily for the pur-
pose Of discrediting the recovery pro-
gram Of President Franklin D. Roose-
velt, and in furtherance of the plan
of the National Republican Executive
Committee to elect B. W. Hooper to
the United States Senate for the pur-
pose of fighting the administration of
President Roosevelt"
Lewis S. Pope was condemned" for
his action in refusing to abide by the
result of the Democratic primary and
joining hands with the Republican
nominee for United States Senator in
an effort to destroy the Democratic
party in Tennessee and to discredit the
administration of President Roosevelt" B."
The resolution also called on "all
Democrats of Tennessee, irrespective
OF past differences. to support all the
nominees of the Democratic primary. I"
Evening star., 1934-09-02
DOCTORS CONFESS
AIDING DILLINGER
AND VAN METER
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the two women and $4,000 for Finerty.
District Attorney Green said the
operation on Van Meter took place in
the Finerty home, while the Dillinger
operation was performed at the
Chicago home of James ]. ProbaSco
Probasco was killed several weeks ago
when he jumped from the window
Of the Department of Justices Chicago
ONCE.
After the operation, Green said,
Dillinger went to the Finerty home to
recuperate.
In both operations, said Green, DR..
Loeser was the chief surgeon and DR..
Cassidy was the assistant.
Reports were that the physicians
were paid $500 each for the two
operations and that Dillinger and Van
Meter remained in the Finerty home
from June l3 to July %.
Asked whether Piquett had given
the Dillinger gang more than advice,
Green said:
"I can tell you that other charges
will be made against him"
Piquett's hearing was set for Sep
tember Z.
Both doctors have had previous
trouble with the law.
DR.. Loeser, who came to the
United States from Germany at the
age of IL. was convicted in July, 1881,
In the district court here for viola
ton Of the Harrison narcotic act.
DR.. Cassidy was under indictment on
a charge of perjury at Ottawa, Ill,
for alleged false testimony in behalf
Of an accused bank robber.
Finerty was said by South Side
police to have been minor member
Of the Al Capone booze-running gang.
gang. .@4..st5
piquett became city prosecutor
under Mayor William Hale Thomp-
son. For five years before that he
had been chief clerk in the prosecu-
tors Office. During that period Chi
cago avenue police charged he had
interceded in behalf of gamblers in
the district.
He was indicted in September, 1922,
on charges of graft in connection
with School Board coal sales, but
was freed when the State failed to
bring him to trial.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
BUSINESS IS GOOD,
us. CHAMBER SAYS
Pay Rolls, Car Loadings and
Department Store Sales
Among Favorable Items.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Chamber Of Commerce of the
United States yesterday reported busi-
ness conditions were unusually favor
able.
In its fortnightly summary, It said
Midsummer conditions had the ad-
vantage of an export gain in the first
half of the year. 1t noted particu-
larly the increase of domestic imports
of raw materials-"usually forecasting
domestic activity"
The chamber also told of increases
in pay rolls, car loadings and DEPART
ment store sales.
In concluding that business had
shown evidence of strength in the
face of adverse factors" the chamber
added:
Drought over great areas. strikes.
and rumors of strikes, a fast on
coming political campaign, and public
emphasis upon the magnitude of the
burden of relief are among the de-
pressing influences which might very
we'll have caused a positive reaction
in business activity"
Figures in Trade.
Yet, the report said, exports In the
first six months of 1884 brought SIS
per cent more than the same period
the year before and imports cost 40
per cent more.
Car loadings ran good eighth
over those of the first half of last
year." the report asserted. Indus
trial production was up by 1s per
cent and on a parity with Iceland
80 per cent over the corresponding
part of 1932-employment was sub
stantially higher, sales of department
stores advanced, and other general
indiceS were equally favorable.
PAY roll disbursements by manu-
featuring establishments in each of
the first six months of 1884 exceeded
disbursements not only for the cor
responding month of 1888, but also
for the corresponding month of 1882.
Checks Tell Story.
'Most of the indicators which can
be obtained during the month suggest
that there has this year been no such
recession in August as occurred last
year. In August, 1888. the face
amount of checks drawn on banks
throughout the country fell by IA
per cent; this year the decrease was
only 7 per cent, thus being less than
the decrease during this period in any
year since 1923, the decrease even in
1929 with business ascending being
per cent, and in subsequent years
running around 20 per cent.
Electric power output was In Au-
gust of this year about IL per cent
higher than for August, 1888. In
August, 1888, the automobile industry
produced number of cars to equal
which in August 1t had to go back
! to 1880, and it seems unlikely that
the number this year will be as low as
last.
ION the other hand, steel produc-
ton, which reached its normal sea-
sonal peak in May, declined seasonally
in June, dropped more than season.
ally in July and has not had the up
turn which often has come to that
industry in August
Evening star., 1934-09-02

the Civil Service Committee instead,
then Representative Charlie Truax OF
Ohio, a new member, is in line for
chairman, because the second ranking
member is Representative Fritz Lam
ham of Texas, who would not sur
render the Craftsmanship of the Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds Committee.
With the defeat in the primaries OF
Chairman Lo1er of the House Census
Committee, Representative John H.
Kerr of North Carolina is in line for
chairman because Representative
John E. Rankin of Mississippi, who
ranks next on the committee, would
not surrender the Craftsmanship of the
World War Veterans Comnittee-and
besides he Is the first to announce his
candidacy for Speaker.
.. Ramspeck Is in Line.
Since Representative Loring M
Black, jr., of New York has announced
that he will not seek reelection, the
craftsmanship of the Committee on
Claims is likely to go to Representa-
tive Robert Ramspeck of Georgia.
The voluntary withdrawal from
Congress of Representative John H.
Morehead of Nebraska leaves the
chanrmanship of the Memorial Com
mittee vacant for some deserving
Democrat who is yet to be selected,
since Representative Mary T. Norton
of New Jersey will probably retain
the Craftsmanship of the House Dis
trict Committee-on which there are
already four vacancies.
The defeat in the primaries of Rep
resentative Miles c. Allgood of Ala
bama, chairman of the Committee on
War Claims, puts Representative Will
burn Cartwright of Oklahoma in line
for that Craftsmanship.
There are also number of House
Democrats who are expected to make
the fight for Senate or governorship
this Fall. The latest word is that
Representative Francis T. Maloney of
Connecticut is being groomed to op-
pose Senator Walcott, the sitting Re-
publican. In Oklahoma, Representa-
tive E. M Marland won the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor. In
Oregon, Representative Charles H.
Martin won the Democratic nomina-
ton for Governor. In Minnesota the
only Democratic House member, Einar
Hoidale, is the party candidate for
United States Senator.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
R|CHBERG TO TALK
ON j. s. PROBLEMS
Speech to Be Made in Ma
tional Radio Forum Wed
nesday Night.

Current Problems of Industrial Re
covery" will be the subject discussed
by Donald Richberg, executive direc-
tor of the National Emergency Council,
Wednesday night on the National
Radio Forum, arranged by the Wash
ington Star, and broadcast over a
Nation wide network of the National
Broadcasting Co.
Richberg has been key man in
the Roosevelt New Deal" He was
former general counsel of the National
Recovery Administration. Only yes
terday President Roosevelt at Hyde
Park, announced the reappointment
Of Richberg as temporary director of
both the executive and emergency
councils for 80 days.
In this time of controversy over
policies of the N. R. A, and labor
difficulties in various parts of the
country, the address by Richberg will
be of Importance and keen interest
to the whole country.
The address will be broadcast here
over Station WRC at 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
BOMBS PROMISED
BY LA GUARD|A
New York Mayor Says His
Labor Day Speech Will
Hurt Many.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September Mayor
Fiorella La Guardia of New York
settled down for a quiet week end
among friends in Chicago tonight, re-
marking with a sigh that he won't
have any after Monday-friends, that
is.
I'm saving my ammunition until
then" the mayor said as he arrived
today. I'm not going to talk until
I make my speech.
And after that, nobody will talk
to me-"
Going to Drop Bombs.
"I'm going to drop a lot of bombs,
he said, when pressed for something
specific, land they're likely to hurt a
lot of people"
Upton Sinclair, who upset political
applicants by winning the California
Democratic gubernatorial nomination
will deliver an address Sunday in the
first part of the Labor day celebra-
ton at the worlds fair in which
Mayor La Guardia is to be the
principal speaker
What do you think of Sinclair's
victory?" Mayor La Guardia was
asked.
Its in keeping with the times,
he said.
Arrives BY Steamer.
The New York executive and his
wife arrived via steamer from Buff
falo. Edward N. Nockels, secretary o.
the Chicago Federation of Labor, met
them at the Navy pier.
A big black limousine sent by Mayor
Edward j. Kelly was drawn up there
but Nockels also had a taxi waiting
They took that. Two minor incidents
marred the reception ceremonies.
cavalryman of the famous Black
Horse Troop, which was out to dc
Mayor La Guardia honor, fell off hi'
mount, and two pickpockets, making
a bad guess, picked out member o1
the reception party as victim. The
victim was detective and he clappeo
the pair into Jail.