Evening star., 1934-08-11
LABOR BOARD HITS
HARTMAN RULING
N. R. A. Unit, Headed by
Green, Protests Eagle
Restoration.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
~. r. As Labor Advisory Board
headed by william Green. took 10
Hugh s. Johnson's once today COM
plant that the agreement restoring
the Blue Eagle 10 the Hartman
Hosiery Mills in Tennessee was a re-
pudiation Of the workers.
The Labor Advisory Board Is unit
ed IN its stand" said Green. who is its
acting Chairman and president Of the
American Federation Of Labor
We feel the agreement signed by
A. r. Clancy was a reputation"
Clancy, field compliance admin
istrstor, returned the Blue Eagle TO
the Tennessee mills during Johnson's
absence in the West. Labor imme-
diately demanded its second with
drawal
Ordered Reinstated.
The Labor Relations Board ordered
the Foster Knitting Co., Inc, Of Bur-
lington, N. c., 10 reinstate within
seven days four employees it said were
discharged because of union activities.
The board found Woodrow Wilson,
Werner Hohfeld, H l. Alcox and
Theodore Melton had in effect been
discharged by the company because
OF their union Affiliations and that, as
a result, the company had violated
section Ia Of the N. r. A. act.
1t ruled that, unless the men are
reinstated within a week, the case
would be referred to the Compliance
Division Of the N. r. A. for appro-
pirate action
The Steel Labor Board is going to
the heart of the steel-producing re-
gion to investigate four complaints
that steel companies are violating
labor provisions of the recovery act
The board will hold three hearings
next week in Pittsburgh and a fourth
August 20 in Portsmouth, Ohio.
In the complaints to be heard In
Pittsburgh three lodges Of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers maintain the COM
panies have been trying to build up"
company union membership. They
also charge them with interference
with the rights of employees to or
ganize." The union asked plant elec-
tions in each case.
The case Of the Apollo Steel Co. of
Apollo, Pa, will be heard Tuesday;
the Standard Tin Plate Co. of Can
onsburg, Pa, Wednesday. and the
West Virginia Rail Co. Of Huntington,
W. Va, Thursday,
Claim Rights Denied
Union employees of the Wheeling
Steel Corp. Of Portsmouth told the
board the company had denied them
collective bargaining rights.
Failure to ratify an agreement with
striking employees yesterday resulted
in withdrawal of the Blue Eagle from
the Hatch Hosiery Co. of Belmont,
N. C.
johnson telegraphed the company
depriving it of the right to display
any N. r. A. insignia and ordering the
Blue Eagle be surrendered to the
postmaster.
The company was charged with vio-
lating the national industrial recov-
try act because it failed to ratify an
agreement approved by representa-
tives of striking employees and Fred
w. Morrison, hosiery plant attorney.
Eight Strikers Named.
Under the agreement. eight strik-
ers were specifically named for REIN
statement.
The strike at the Hatch Co. oc-
CURED February and was investi-
gated by the original National Labor
Board.
The Labor Relations Board yes
terday cited the Wheeler Shipyards,
Inc, of New York City, and the
c. F. Smith Grocery Co. Of Detroit
to the N. r. A. compliance division
for Blue Eagle removal
In both cases, the board said in
a statement, the employers failed to
comply with decisions ordering them
to reinstate employees allegedly dis
charged for union activity.