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led it during the 1919 strike, had
meanwhile become practically an
Industrial or vertical" union of
all classes of steel workers.
A year ago it had 11inety-fve
local lodges, but at its convention
this spring, 232 lodges were repre-
sented, indicating its widespread
entrance into shops hitherto
closed to it.
THE bulk of the new member
l. ship was among Younger
men, with their own younger and
more aggressive leaders. At their
spring convention, leaders of this
youn ger element denounced
"hoop-skirt" leadership of the
Amalgamated, andi began to take
the bit in their teeth.
They put through, early in May,
a resolution calling for strike
in mid-June unless by that time
all the Amalgamated lodges had
been recognized by their respec-
tive mills and uniform contracts
signed by all.
The demand was Simultaneous
ly made that each shop which
had an Amalgamated lodge
recognize that union as the en-
ployeS' choice for collective bar
gaining. In all those which are
members of the Iron and Steel
Institute (about SO per cent of
the industry a simultaneous re-
fuSal was made.
The executives commended that
the Amalgamated represents less
than 10 per cent of all steel work
ers. and that even if it repre-
sented more, they would not
recognize it, because that would
be preliminary to a closed shop.
THE union now takes the posi-
Il ton that it does not ask the
closed shop, but only recognition
according to the principles of
NRA, in shops or parts of shops
IN which it can show a majority.
1t claims to represent up to so or
rs per cent of the steel workers.
Impartial estimates say it is
probably nearer Is per cent.
Action by the younger, more
aggressive group of the Amalga-
mated was undoubtedly spurred
by the fact that the large new
membership is already falling be-
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hind with dues and showing a
tendency to slip away unless
practical results can be shown.
Once committed to the strike,
there was nothing to do but link
the "rank-and-file" and hoop
skirt" groups in a united strike
committee, and this was done.
Besides the potential cleavage
within the ranks of the Amalga-
mated, the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union was
thrown into the situation by the
Communists, presenting a more
sweeping set of demands.
IT'S actual membership is negli-
l. gible, but as part of the an
nounced Communist plan to get
foothold in the heavy industries,
it is always a factor in lining up
and directing disaffected elements
in the Amalgamated.
The company unions, mean
while, were not idle. Hurriedly
presented resolutions were passed
in a dozen plants showing from
10 to go per cent of the en-
ployes voting, and opposed to a
strike. Many averred they would
go on working.
But it is we'll known that a
minority of union members as
small as Is or 20 per cent can
often, by mass picketing, effec-
lively strike a plant where 80 or
IS per cent wish to work.
So the extent of the possible
walkout can be measured by nei-
ther company union votes nor
union claims.
Wages are not primarily at
stake today, nor hours, though
wage increase would be the next
demand following recognition.
Hours have been reduced through
the codes to a maximum of eight
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Then how can we maintain our
naval ratios?"
THE reply, accompanied by
banging on the desk, was:
The present naval ratios
must be maintained"
EOR months New York's mild
Il hammered but tenacious SEN
ator Bob Wagner has pushed,
Unanswered, struggled to get &C
ton on his bills for a labor board
and for old-age pensions. Prob
ably no senator has worked harder,
with less success.
The other day the senate passed
a number of minor measures.
One of these was a bill, sponsored
by Wagner, reducing the stand
ard of measure for mushrooms
from three to one-pound
basket.
AS Vice-President Garner an
nounced passage of the bill,
Washington's senator, Homer T.
Boone, leaned over Wagner's
shoulder.
Congratulations, Bob" he said.
"At last you've got bill through"
YOUNG GERALD NYE, chief
i senatorial munitions hater,
StlIck his head into tbe lions
mouth last week by making
speech at Dupont dominated
Longwood, Del. He issued a chal-
lenge to the munitions industry.
:. -. Tyrant Trujillo of Santo Do
mingo appears to be preparing
for an evacuation of the presi-
dency. . He has sent all his
family to New York. On the
day after their arrival, a mass
was celebrated in st. Patrick's
cathedral to give thanks for their
safe Journey The Ruth
Hanna Mccormick Simms seems
to have given up all hope of GUST
ing Senator Cutting from politi-
cal control of New Mexico.
They have gone to Europe. :.
A recent poll of young people
conducted by Viola lima, Youth
Movement idealist, shows they are
really united on only one thing
opposition to war. The GUST
ing of Bill Ware as boss of Phila-
delphia's grimy Republican ma
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Francis, professor of mathematics
Professor Francis found the
father most delightful, but that
didn't help his son. The latter, he
said, was diligent, but dumb.
Finally the youngster passed,
though not because of any spe-
cial influence" said Professor
Francis. And one of the Merry
Go-Rounders, having had trigo-
nometry pounded into him by the
professor, can vouch for his i'm.
partially
He just squeezed through" said
Francis, but he got by on his
own"
The youngster was Henry Nor
genthau Jr., secretary of the
treasury and the man who last
week floated 100000 of gov
eminent bonds.
THERE is no truer axiom than
Il that Franklin Roosevelt-no
matter what happens-will be his
own secretary of the navy. How
true this is was illustrated last
week.
Usually it is customary for the
state department to prepare for
all naval negotiations with for
eign countries. The secretary of
the navy, assisted by his experts,
comes up to the state depart
ment and sits in.
But when naval experts pre-
pared to leave for London last
week to discuss with the British
and Japanese plans for the next
naval conference, they went di-
rect to the White House. After a
talk with the President, they
went back to- the navy depart
ment.
The gaunt mountaineer from
Tennessee. Secretary of State
Hull, was not called in. Nor was
the mustachioed secretary Of the
navy, Claude Augustus Swanson.
In fact, the latter did not appear
to know what had taken place.
Asked about the instructions
: Roosevelt had given the naval ex-
perts, he looked congenially
blank.
How do we stand on global
tonnage, Mr.. Secretary" he was
asked.
We're for it."
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He Plays Very Loudly

HANFSTAENGL did not fire that torpedo He
Il Il merely expressed qualification. But tomorrow
he will come to New York a man who actually
has been active in fomenting the cruel religious
and economic prosecutions going on in Germany
And IN New York there hundreds of thousands
OF people who have relatives and friends who are
suffering at this very moment under the heavy hand
of Hitler The provocation is too great to expect
rational conduct.
OF course, HanfStaengl will be guarded carefully
The fight will be vcarious one between police and
guards, who may hate Hitler just as much as any,
body else, and enraged mobs. Washington must deal
with the reality don't think Hanfstaengl's feel
lngs in the matter are particularly important.
1t is much better that his pride should be hurt
than that many should suffer. He is not a man of
any gift or distinction. Of late 1 have seen a
tendency to refer to him IAN accomplished mu-
sician." 1t my privilege good many years ago
to hear Hanfstaengl at the piano while he was still
an undergraduate.
Possibly he has improved since then, but have
heard later reports which would not indicate much
change. His status as pianist may still be COM
petely reviewed with the simple statement, He
plays very loudly"
think that DR.. Ernest Franz Sedgwick Hanf-
staengl should be officially advised to play in his
own back yard.
Copyright
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The union demands were aboli-
ton of the twenty-four- hour
shift, one days rest in seven,
wage increases. collective bargain
ing, the check-off, and abolition
of company unions.
The strike began in September,
1919. BY Oct. 9, the unions
claimed 1000 workers were out,
though the companies always
claimed there never were more
than 100000.
The companies enrolled many
deputies, barricaded the mills,
and tried, with varying success,
to keep running. The strike,
despite its size and many minor
clashes, was remarkably peace
full
John FITZPATRICK and Will
- liam z. Foster we're the strike
leaders, violently attacked as sub
versive radicals, and Foster espe-
cially was put under fire for his
known Syndicalist views.
The unions attacked "GaryiSm"
with equal bitterness, and assailed
the stiff -necked stand of the COM
panies in refusing to meet with
the union representatives, and in
importing and protecting strike
breakers.
Many restraints against strike
meetings and free speech were
met with in the towns about
Pittsburgh. BY November, work
ers began drifting back to their
jobs and on Jan. 8, 1921, Foster
called off the strike and resigned
as secretary of the strike COM
mittee.
1t had cost the national unions
more than million dollars, eX-
elusive of local contributions.
THE collapse of the steel strike
Il ended the organization cam
paign in steel, and spurred a con-
certed open shop" drive by the
steelmasters. Unionism did not
actively revive until the NRA Or
ganization went into effect a year
ago. Employers seized on the same
opportunity to strengthen and
foster the employe representation
or company union plans.
The Amalgamanted Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers,
still under the leadership of the
venerable Mike Tighe, who had
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other individual in the world calculated to rouse
more different kinds of hatred and animosity in the
city of New York. It would, of course, be sound
counsel to suggest that the most Furnishing sort of
greeting might be to receive Hitler's piano player
with thunders of silence and mountain ranges Of
inattention I do not think the young man merits
the tribute of riot Yet know perfectly we'll that
there will be riots here and all along the line of
Hanfstaengl's journey to the Harvard stadium.
1t seems to me great pity that the risk of in
juring many people should be accepted for no better
reason than to make coorful afternoon for small
snobbish group at Cambridge. Dr. Conant might
well have used his own good offices to prevent the
situation
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1Ound hlmSelt turned OH by
Arthur Donovan, the referee,
and gently showed toward his
corner.
He was not quite conscious
by that time and there was
only a dazed motion of protest
as he yielded to the authority
Of the gasping official, who was
afraid that any more clouting
on his head might kill him in
the ring or anyway injure his
brain. Primo's mouth was
agape and his great rubber
horse shoe, masking his jagged
tusks, tapped loose over his
lips. He had been slugged on
the head with the terrific
force of Derhaps a hundred of
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO GROUND
: By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

MTAsHNGTON June 15The Presidents quiet emphatic
w usal to cut short bitter blow
resonal leaders. He
They all
This would enabled dodge
board bill oil control the housing heavy
from business
showdown IS here
YOUNG MEN intending of
should records Their pasts will
catch with them
Back 1908 of
youngser at Academy
Finally his father wealthy New
under woodrow Wilson,
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Fair Enough
bC
WESTBROOK PEG[ER

T ONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y, June 15.-Sneering,
- chattering, and cutting funny shuffles with his
big, fiat feet, Max Baer slaughtered Primo Camera
last night and won the heavyweight championship
of the world in brawl as wild and murderous as
two men ever will fight without resort to the meat
ak, ball bat or gun. Baer won the title in the
eleventh round when the enormous Italian, after a
brave, proud fight in which he was knocked down
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For about a year there has been
a vast amount of rumor and
guesswork as to where the Presi-
dent was going and where his ad-
visers were leading him.
The President himself has con-
fined himself almost entirely to
specific measures and has done
very little talkirg about his gen
eral theories. But, of course, his
actions have been predicated upon
theories. All human actions are,
though as often as not men are
unaware of the theory on which
they are acting. Because he has
said what he wanted to do and
has said very little as to why he
wanted to do it, it has been left
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Haywood BR0uN

NEW YORK, June 15.-Dr. Ernst Franz Sedg-
L Y wick Hanfstaeng1 should be taken off the
Europa at quarantine tomorrow morning and sent to
Ellis Island undesirable alien. 1t ShiverS the
tlmbers of many principles which hold dear to
express this opinion and for that must apologize.
But an even more abject apology should be forth
coming from the government if it fails to order this
action. hate to people barred because of their
political views or their political activities in
foreign lands even when they espouse things which
I abominate. But on many occasions in the past
visitors from abroad have been denied the hospital
ity of shores for which were often fam
taStc or trivial.
Even the worn out and wholly academic theories
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BY WILLIS THORNTON
Times NEA Service Staff Writer

CLEVELAND, 5-Steel produces
~ workmen executives shining
they make.
industrial strife in the steel always
FortytWo
United States Corporation
the and Steel Workers the strike
Pnkerton detectives
lowed by warfare in which lives property
destroyed.
collapse
war and had held advanced bargaining
Reluctantly the
by four
unions chiefly n organizing the mills
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chic is just another palace revo-
luton. . The same crowd will
still be in the saddle. They
merely got tired of Ware, who had
lost his grip on things. and de-
cided to get in a new boss.
Mrs. Rex Tugwell goes in for cot
ton dresses even on more formal
evening occasions.
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Syndicate, IncD
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the plants such workers as wish
to continue working, and en-
ployers have announced that they
will protect them.
The steel unions, practiced in
the technique of industrial war
fare, are also making careful
plans for picketing and other &C
tivities, strike relief, and pro-
tracted showdown.
This is the stage setting for an
industrial conflict that may shake
: the whole recovery program, in a
battle that centers around one
single word: "Recognition!"
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Gent for years to throw Wash
ington into a panic lest her
landing should occasion tur-
MOL. Now there is nothing
academic or fantastic in the
threat to public peace occa-.
stoned by the visit of DR..
Hanfstaengl. One need not be
a prophet to predict that from
the moment Hitler's agent
steps upon the gangplank his
progress through the United
States vii be marked by SER
les of bloody riots. Nor will
it be just to say that these will
be instigated solely by the
leaders of small radical minor
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CODE VIOLATIONS ARE
DISCUSSED BY HOKE

NRA Compliance Director in Cap
ital for Farley.
Violations of NRA codes and en-
forcement conditions in Indiana
will be taken up by Fred Hoke. In
diana NRA compliance officer, in
Washington today.
Following his conference in
Washington, Mr. Hoke will meet
with all mode authorities in Indi-
ana, June q, at the Claypool, to
discuss enforcement.
Speakers at a luncheon following
this meeting viii be Governor Paul
V. McNutt, and Robert K. Strauss,
Washington, special assistant to
General Hugh S. johnson.
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Wages, the steelmasters claim,
are to 7 per cent above 1929
levels, with employment almost
equal. A 10 per cent pay raise was
granted last March, but, despite
the high hourly wages, many men
still work in the mills for weekly
pay of little above $40 because of
short hours set in an effort to
spread the work"
II
PREPARATIONS have been
Il made by both sides to fight.
Many of the steel plants are be-
lieved to have built barracks ca
pable of housing indefinitely inside
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TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Walter uppmann

Presidents for reference the
housing the
address which to tell the country the
worth careful throws
philosophy
New has
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Baer's great swings and only few minutes before
close to the end of round ten Baer had clouted him
with left swing to the body which made his eyes
bulge and his knees sag under 260 pounds of bone
and meat. He was so weak from this left hand
smash that his arms dropped and he limped against
the ropes in Baers at though he had spraned
an ankle or knee. There was mad confusion all
around the ring as Donovan jumped in front of
Primo at this point and held Baer off as he would
have swung in to knock the big man to the floor
Customers throughout the society and celebrity
sector lost their pose and emitted sru squawks of
Foul and Let them fight" BaerS seconds clam
bered up the steps into his where the action
was going on and through the ropes to wrangle with
Donovan about situation which nobody including
Donovan and least of all Camera understood Dono-
van futtered few seconds keeping Baer off when
he might have put Camera down once more, then
stepped aside and signaled to Baer to resume punch
ing He tore in, smuggling sullenly around the body
for few seconds and was caught in action by the
bell ending the round
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INDUSTRIAL PARALYSIS FACES u. S.
Millions i'm Nation Would Be Affected by Steel Strike

is of in thu elindustr with
and srio
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He Just Can't Punch

DRIMO landed only one furnishing blow. This was
a hard right uppercut which made Baer's neck
snap in the eighth.
The Italians nose smashed by a right swing
in the fifth and the flow impeded his breathing to
the end.
He who had been condemned by Mr. Will Brown
the prize fight commissioner, for Ioafing in his
training camp vaulted the top rope at the end
of the fight to shake hands with friends in the work.
ing press section He jabbered into the microphones
and bantered with Mr.. Brown who had insisted that
he was out of shape and no fit candidate for the
championship. Then he went away up the aisle
surrounded by the coat-holders who only year ago
had followed Primo up the aisle in the same tri-
umphal progress. Primo left quietly got into taxi
and went to his hotel to put applications on a
swollen ankle
Primo's fault was that with all his 260 pounds of
weight against Baer's 212 he could not punch He
could only shove and slap and shoot left jab which
Baer belttled with sheer. For few rounds Primo
had knack of timing Baers swings at his head but
he lost it toward the end of the fight and was catch
ing these shots full the head with all their
rhythmic force
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He's a BraUe Man

A FTER the fight, Donovan explained that the
bell had rung, ending the tenth round when he
interviewed so mysteriously but he did not explain
why, in that case he withdrew and let them fight
until it rang again
Primos great bravery and the majestic pride of
giant so badly beaten that he had no chance but
to keep fighting to inevitable defeat were as i'm
pressive throughout the brawl Max Baer's mighty
punch and his 1ippant conduct. The big man had
no punch but left jah and occasional right
uppercut, all of which Baer accepted with laughing
contempt.
But though Baer slugged him until his brain
hummed and the arena spun before his eyes, he got
up twelve times without accepting any of the pre-
clous rest he was entitled to, without preiI5ice He
was down once more in addition to the eleven times
that Baer collapsed him. when he rushed at Max
with right swing in the eighth and found him
absent on arrival The force of Primos lunge pulled
him of his balance and he Sprawled like an alley
fighter who has managed to crawl outside a quart
of cooking whisky. This one. occasion when
Baer, himself had occasion to show his courtesy and
he met it gracefully, withdrawing several PAGES and
grinning amiaby Primo came up from his Earring
sprawl and sorted himself out. When Primo was
well recovered, Max rushed IN again and resumed
his smashing.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

the Ordnance Dept. Reserve ordered
to training duty at University OF
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July
90:
Buzzard, Robert Walton.
Potts, Phillip Orland.
The promotion OF each of the fol-
lowing officers is announced as OF
June 13:
William A. Mccain, 1t. Col. to Col.
James j. Harris, 1st 1t. to Capt.
Charles F. Fletter, 1st 1t. to Capt.
John D. Billingsley, End 1t. to LIST 1t.
Thomas j. Cody, End 1t. to 1st 1t.
Carl H. SturieS, End It. to lst 1t.
Isaac E. Titus. Maj. to 1t. Col.
John K. Herr detailed in I. G. d.,
1t. Col. to Col.
Frederick H. L. Ryder, Capt. to Mai.
Joseph A. Michela, End 1t. to 1st 1t.
Alan L. Campbell, Capt. to Maj
George ]. Downing, Capt. to Maj.
Wallace W. Crawford, Capt. to Maj.
Robert B. Hood, 1st 1t. to Capt.
Thomas j. Counihan, End 1t. to
1st 1t.
Ephraim H. McLemore, End 1t. to
1st 1t
James E. Holley, End 1t. to 1st 1t.
Frederick G.. Stritzinger, 4th, End
1t. to 1st 1t
Donald L. Dutton, Capt. to Mai.
Robert G. Butler, Jr. detailed in
Ord. Dept), End 1t. to 1st 1t.
Eley P. benson, Maj. to 1t. Col.
Edwin w. Grimmer detailed in G.
M. c., Capt. to Maj.
Lloyd D. Brown, Capt. to Maj.
Clarence R. Farmer, lst 1t. to Capt.
Roy M. Thoroughman, lst 1t. to
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