The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-26
AUTO STRIKE THREATOVER;
BOARD OF REVIEW IS SET
UP TO HEAR GRIEVANCES
Congratulations Pour in on President Who Prepares
to Leave for Week Of Fishing in Florida
Waters, After Negotiations

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kilograms and messages congrat-
ulating President Roosevelt pour
ed in today following his settle
ment of the automobile situation.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 26 (UP)
With the critical automobile in
dustry situation out of the way,
President Roosevelt will leave to-
night for brief fishing trip off
the Florida coast. He will go by
train to Jacksonville, where he
will board the yacht Nourmahal
to spend a week of relaxation.
President Roosevelt and Recov-
cry Administrator Hugh S. john
son brought peace to the automo-
bile industry last night with a
compromise settlement un d er
which a board representing the
president will pass on all ques-
tons of employee representation,
discharge and discrimination.
Employers. under the agree
ment, affirm their obligation to
bargain collectively with 'freely
chosen representatives of groups
and not to discriminate in any
way against an employee on the
grounds of his union labor affili-
ations."
The troublesome question of
whether union members, in order
to be entitled to representation
by union officer. must make
known their identity to the en-
ployer, is taken care of by
roundabout compromise.
The workers lost their plea for
a new election under National
Labor board auspices to deter
mine who, properly is entitled to
represent them.
The grievance board is, to be
set up within "a hours and will
be composed of one labor repre-
sentative, one industrial repre-
sentative and a neutral chair
man to be appointed by the gov
eminent. Administrator Johnson
said casually that he was consid-
ering his son, Lieut.. Kilbourne
Johnson. for the Craftsmanship but
did not indicate how seriously
that suggestion was to be taken.
This board will have access
both to company payroll data and
to lists of employees claiming rep
resentation through any designat-
ed delegate. But the agreement
as explained by the president pro-
vides:
GIN cases where no lists of en-
ployes claiming to be represented
have been disclosed to the EN-
ployer, there shall be no basis for
a claim of discrimination. No
such disclosure in a particular
case shall be made without speci-
fic direction of the PRESIDENT
The White House did not fur
Their explain this somewhat am
biguous statement.
President Roosevelt said that
the settlement offered "a frame
work for a new structure of in
dustrial relations-a new basis of
understanding between employers
and employees" and said that in
reaching the agreement the par
ties had "charted new course IN
social engineering" He congratu!-
lated both sides for patient work
toward an agreement to forestall
a strike which might have dis
rupted the recovery program.
But labor leaders seemed no
ticeably unenthusiastic over the
terms of settlement to which they
agreed only after a day of har-
rowing conferences, during sew
eral hours of which a strike
seemed certain.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor is
sued a statement saying that
"while the workers gained the
principal point for which they
were contending-strict observ-
ance of the national recovery act
the automobile manufacturers
have simply given assurance OF
their full compliance with the Ia
Dor section of their own indus
trial code Of fair practice, their
willingness to obey the law"
He added, however, that a ma
chinery for collective bargaining
had now been set up, and said
that it depended upon those who
operated it whether it worked or
failed. Neither side gained a VIC
tory, he said.