Evening star., 1934-06-27
PRESIDENT NAMES
NEW STRIKE BODY
Longshoremen's Board Or
der Defines New Policy for
Settling Disputes.
BY the Associated Press.

strike.
A three-man board was named last
night, in an executive order defining
its powers and duties. to make a
thorough investigation of the long
shoremen's strike and its causes.
Instructions to the board were ac-
cepted in labor circles as a forecast
of how the administration may deal
with other major disputes.
The board was authorized to take
| appropriate affirmative action" on
complaints of discrimination against
union employees, to act as voluntary
arbiter upon request, and Ito exer-
F.! else all other powers" conferred by
the labor disputes act passed just be-
fore Congress adjourned.
| Prelate Heads Board.
The President named the Right
Rev. Edward J. Hanna. Catholic arch
bishop of San Francisco. as chairman
and o. K Gushing, San Francisco
| attorney. and Edward F. McGrady,
Assistant Secretary of Labor, to the
board.
Plans now maturing call for GEN.
tral labor agency. probably to replace
the National Labor Board. with spe-
cial boards to handle other important
cases. Mr.. Roosevelt was expected to
issue an executive order to carry it
out within day or two.
! The central agency may consist of
but three members. Leon C. Marshall,
Johns Hopkins University professor.
has been most frequently mentioned
! as probable chairman.
That the whole-Set up would be
more closely related to the Labor De-
partment than mediation activities
during the past year have been was
indicated by last nights order. The
President specified that the Long
shoreman's Board was created in
connection with the Department of
| Labor"
Aides Approve Plan.
The plan for new conciliation
set up has been approved by the
Presidents principal labor advisors.
Secretary Perkins. Senator Wagner of
New York. Donald Richberg N r. A.
counsel, and Hugh S. Johnson were,
in the latters words, in absolute
agreement on the program.
This is a general plan for recast-
ing this whole mediation and concilia-
ton set-up," Johnson said yesterday
This is an absolutely new deal"
The following is the text OF the
executive order naming the Long
shoremen's Board
BY virtue of the authority vested
in me under Title I of the national
industrial recovery act (48 Stat. 1876:
U. S. c., Title Is. Section 7OlD and
under 8 joint resolution approved
June 10, 1884 Public Resolution a.
73d Congress- and in order to effec-
tuate said act and joint resolution l.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of
the United States, do hereby issue the
following executive order:
i Il. There is hereby created in con-
nection with the Department of La
Dor a board to be known as the Ma
tional Longshoremen's Board, which
shall be composed Of Right Rev. Ed
ward J. Hanna, chairman: o. K.
Gushing and Edward F. McGrady.
| Each member of the board shall re-
ceive necessary travelling and sub
sistence expenses and each member
who, prior to the issuance of this
order was not an officer or employe
of the United States shall. in addition
thereto, receive $40 per diem.
Authority Is Defined.
Section 2. The board shall have
| authority to appoint. without regard
, TO the provisions of the civil service
laws or the classification act of 1928.
| as amended. no more than Is en-
ployes and to incur financial obliga-
tions necessary for the proper per-
formance of its duties. Obligations
| and expenses incurred under the au-
thority OF this order shall be paid out
Of the funds appropriated by the
! fourth deficiency act. fiscal year 1888.
approved June l6 1888 t4S Stat. 274,
275D.
Section 3. The board Is hereby
authorized in connection with the
longshoremen's strike on the Pacific
| Coast and labor problems relating
| thereto:
"A. To investigate issues. facts,
practices and activities of the en-
ployers or employees that are burden
| ing or obStructing or threatening to
burden or obStruct the free flow of
interstate or foreign commerce.
Affirmative Action Asked.
"B. To hear make findings Of fact
and take appropriate affirmative ac-
ton regarding complaints of dScrimi-
nation against or discharge of the
employees.
&C. To act as voluntary arbitrator
upon request.
ID. To exercise all other powers
under the authority of public resolu-
ton A
"E. To make report to the
President through the Secretary of
Labor Of the activities. the findings,
the investigations and the recon-
mendations OF the board.
Section 4. The board shall cease
to exist when it has completed the
duties it is authorized to perform"
The longshoremen's strike is be-
ginning to cause the Navy bit of
worry.
| Families and dependents of officers
and men have been virtually stranded
both in the Orient and on the coast,
| Navy officials said.
Some families waiting to join their
heads assigned to service in the Ash
attic Squadron have been held up on
the coast since June 9. The Navy
has only two transports and neither
now is in the Pacific.
No definite estimates were available
| on the number of persons waiting in
| the Orient to return to the United
! States or remaining on the coast until
transportation is available to the
| Orient
! A new law reduced the tour Of
duty at Asiatic stations from three
years to two and one-half or two.
depending on the rank of the officer.
Those who have served in excess OF
! the new time limit are being relieved
as soon as relief becomes available.