The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
WORKERS SEEK FEDERAL
TROOP PROTECTION FOR STRIKERS
AS MEDIAT0RS RUSH PEACE DRIVE
City Strikers Refuse to
Resume Work Before
National Peace.
PLANT SETS DEADLINE
u. S. Committee Sends Wire
Ordering Continuance
of WaIk0ut.

Textile Workers of America,
now on strike at the Indian
apolis Bleaching Company
here, will not return to the
bleachery department of that
mill until the textile strike is
settled nationally.
This was the message delivered to-
day to Charles A. Young, plant
manager for the bleaching COM
pany, by a committee representing
Fuller local, No. 2069, conducting
the strike locally, after the COM
mittee had received Geographic in
structions from national strike
headquarters in Washington
A demand that the men return
was made upon the union yester-
day by Mr. Young, who set a dead
line Of 11:30 a. m. today. Mr..
Young based his demand on what
he said was the fact that men in
other bleacheries had not been
called out and on the contention
that the bleachery department en-
ployes we're not properly textile
workers.
Drake Receives Wire.
Strike committee can not grant
any exemptions" wired Francis j.
German, national strike leader.
we are working on all other
bleacheries."
The wire was addressed to Charles
A. Drake, business agent of the local,
who was one OF a committee of three
which conferred with Mr.. Young
yesterday and took the unions an
swer to him this morning.
Others on the committee we're
Robert Sphinx, bleachery department.
employe and strike committee chair
man, and James Bryan, cotton
workers representa- tive on the COM
mlttee
Mr. Young said the plant would
continue to operate, going to one
shift Monday. He said he would not
need to get outside workers to keep
the one shift on a forty-hour week.
He also notified Chief Mike Norris
sey that a police detail kept at the
plant tWenty-four hours a day could
be lessened in size.
Strikers Claims Confirmed
The change from three to one
shift seemed to confirm claims Of
the strikers that they we're making
the strike most effective. Today,
their leaders claimed that less than
100 men and women were at work.
Mr.. Young, not giving definite
figure, said he was sure" that more
than 100 we're working.
With pickets still uncomfortable
in the drizzle which set in yester-
day morning the strike front re-
manned quiet. There was no sign at
the factory, 900 West Wabash street,
of the bitter industrial warfare
which is marking the strike in other
parts of America.
Hot coffee and doughnuts, con-
tributed by Otto Dickerson, 1904
West Vermont street, a grocer,
helped keep up the morale Of the
picket line here.
Young Seems Unpertured.
At a meeting this morning, the
strikers cheered the decision not
to return and listened to eXhorta-
tions from their leaders to keep a
united front.
IF people come around to your
houses. grab something and get
them out" one leader advised.
The advice did not appear to
worry Mr.. Young, who said he would
continue to use the personal APP
peal as has the union.
Joe Zimmerman, 45, of 1856 South
Harrison street, arrested yesterday
at the scene of the strike on charges
Of vagrancy and Of resisting an Off
GER protested to The Indianapolis
Times today that police had seized
him without provocation, had abused
him verbally and had assaulted him.
He denied stories that he was ar
rested on complaint Of union lead
ers that he was distributing Com
munistic literature and trying to
stir up trouble" and that he had
refused requests to leave the picket
line.
Kicked while Down
Mr.. Zimmerman, who said that he
intended to protest to the safety
board, declared he had been at the
scene Of the strike only a few min
utes and was preparing to leave
when police called him over, pushed
him over a high curb against their
car and kicked him while he was
down
Asserting that he was not a COM
munist, he charged that he was in
jured to such an extent that he
could not appear in court this
morning. HIS case there was post
poned until Sept. q.
Mr.. Zimmerman, who declared he
had lived in this city thirty years,
said that he had visited the scene
Of the strike as the local repre-.
sentative of the International La
Dor Defense after having been mis-
informed that a picket had been
arrested.
He said he spoke to one picket
who told him Communists were NOT
desired, started TO leave, was stopped
briefly by a second picket, and was
leaving when police called him 70
their squad car
There the alleged assault took
place and there, he adds. he was
held forty-fve minutes before po-
lice took him to headquarters and