The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-09

oQ ready 10 give Ills COIlSoIlCs
over the fiat lands of Texas and the
hills of Arizona, to make half dozen
such critics as they
Fiery RetOrt Is Answer
Retorted the rank and file COM
mittee:
I'VE, the undersigned steel work.
erS who have just listened to your
refined speech full of hell and bluff,
denounce you for making such
damnable statements over the radio,
using your government position and
the national radio to call us steel
workers who criticise your schemes
as just so much skin off a saddle.
Tomorrow we go to the President
and place before him an honest,
straightforward plan for settle
ment.
Having seen the President, who
saw the steel magnates earlier this
week, we shall go home to our
lodges prepared to fight for that
pure recognition of the right of
collective bargaining that you
Scorn.'
Meet With Johnson
Today the eighteen and their
leader, Tighe, meet with Johnson
face to face. johnson said he would
explain his plan for the arbitration
board which would undertake to
settle all disputed matters of col
lective bargaining, union recogni-
ton, discrimination and such.
Johnson maintained he had no
intention of arguing with the labor
representatives. He said he would
simply explain the plan in detail
and then leave it up to them to
decide whether they would strike or
not
He feels that the industry has
yielded as much as can ever be
expected. The plan, he said, ''iS
practically my prescription" for
ending the bitter trouble over the
steel code.
Tighe, too, conceded that the in
dustry had made important conces-
Sions.
But the rank and f1lers were
unappeased. They came to Wash
ington determined not to accept
what they characterized as the
bunk" given to auto workers in
the creation of a similar board for
that industry.
The board plan, they said, insults
our intelligence"
Sentiment Is Echoed
Jake Etinger, Weirton CIV. Va),
leader, said that after comforting
with Johnson:
1--WE are going back to the White
House and this time we are going
to stay right there until we see the
President. We want to find out
whether Section IA of the recovery
act (the guarantee of collective bar
gaining) is a damn fake or the
truth"
His comrades echoed his senti-
ment.
To that johnson said:
This plan implements the labor
sections of the steel code and clears
up furtive suspicious that the man
agements are trying to avoid Sec
ton IA"
AS the situation rested the rank
and file leaders had to make up
their minds t. lay.
Great Meeting Called
Tomorrow a great meeting of the
union has been called at Pittsburgh.
The workers then will vote whether
to go out on strike at the end of
next week or to accept the proposed
peace plan. 1t is generally under
stood that the union membership
will follow the lead of the majority
Of their representatives here.
There was a possibility that the
union might advance some counter
proposals to the arbitration board
plan today. What these might be
they did not suggest and it was
highly unlikely that the indusry
would agree to any substantial
change in the settlement offer.
Tighe said he was hopeful of an
early settlement" This, however,
was before Johnson's address and
the angry response of the rank and
hlerS.
Nub of the union mems objection
to the Cancellation proposal is the
provision that the representative of
on the arbitration board
shall not be a present or former
member Of "any labor organization
whether national or local" They
feel also that the fact that the
board jurisdiction as regards COM
plants shall not cover cases prior to
the first of this year, discriminates
against men who were discharged
before that date for union affilia-
ton.