The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-22
PRESIDENT SEEKS
TORESTORE PEACE
BY GETTING FACTS
May Appoint Committee to Pry
Into Relations Between
Employers, Workers
EASTMAN HEARS TWO SIDES
Railroad coordinator May Have
Plan Of His Own to Sug-
gest Later

Rest Later
Washington, March 22.-(R-Union
labor leaders went into conference
with President Roosevelt here Thurs
day with the prospect that Roosevelt
may ask appointment Of committee
to pass upon charges Of anti-union
discrimination by manufacturers, as
part Of his plan to restore peace to
the motor industry.
This was disclosed at preliminary
conference between the labor men
and Hugh johnson. NRA admins
traitor. It was indicated that both
1aborers and employers would support
appointment Of q neutral committee
to pass on the accuracy Of charges
made by union men that they had
been Disseminated against.
Joseph B. Eastman, appointed to
adjust wage controversy between
employers and workers, spent the day
listening. In the morning he heard
the railroad managers for two hours
and In the afternoon listened to the
brotherhood spokesman. He said he
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Has Compromise Plan
It Is regarded as likely that East
man will propose an adjustment Of
wages In the lower brackets with q
continuance Of the present scales for
the higher brackets, such as engineers
and conductors.
A dispute between the Delaware Il
Hudson railroad and the brother
hoods was settled ct Albany, N. Y,
averting strike.
A rugmakers' strike started ct
Freehold. N. ].
Strikes increased IN northern Ohio.
In Cleveland makers Of business ma
chimes and paint, furniture. millinery
and laundry workers are on strike.
There Is q strike Of match workers
In Barberton and rubber workers In
Ashtabula.
A strike at the Bower roller bearing
plant In Detroit continued.
Scattered CWA strikes continued
in Pennsylvania and New York state,
some having been settled by wage In
creases.
An A. F. Of L. union will decide
Thursday night whether to call =
strike on the z. q. Budd Manufac-
turing company in Philadelphia. The
company makes automobile bodies.
At Pittsburg, Calf. employees Of
the Columbia Steel company, SUBJ
sidiary OF the United States Steel
corporation, voted for . company
union.
A taxicab strike continued In New
York city, with violence reported
Wednesday night and Thursday.
Union Leaders ct Capital
Union leaders from the Michigan
automobile cities sped to Washington
by an early train to place their views
before the chief executive. Motor
company officials who saw him We'd
1,esday afternoon kept themselves on
call. maintaining formal silence.
It was william Green, A. r. Of L.
president, who warned In q statement
that II the manufacturers stand pat
against the unions, labor win urge
the president to set . precedent by
invoking the licensing section Of the
industrial recovery act"
Green, who has pledged labor CO.
operation, made ready to urge the
Michigan union leaders to reduce
their demands to two essentials:
I. That q neutral board be Gre
ated to pass upon complaints Of dis
elimination.
3. That, by election or otherwise,
employees be permitted clear-cut Sc
lection Of representatives and that
the employers agree to abide by the
result for collective bargaining.
The president watched Thursday
other developments on the labor
front.
Secretary Perkins was off to De-
troit to deliver speech. The capital
speculated that she might b carry
ing an administration announcement
affecting the strike situation OF that
area.
Representative Of Weirton Steel
company employees announced they
were satisfied there had been no UNI
due delay In the governments IN.
junction action against the concern.
which Is accused OF blocking an Inn
partial election.
COnferS With Cummings
The president. after seeing the mo-
tor executives, conferred for more
than n hour with Attorney General
Cummings.
, what Roosevelt told the heads Of
General Motors. Chrysler. Hudson,
Packard and Nash Motors. WAS not
officially disclosed. but It Was indi-
Gated definitely that be did not put
forth before them any formula for
ending the dispute.
The executives were reminded that
the government did not demand rec
IGNITION Of the federation OF labc-
or any one union but merely that the
legal requirement that they deal with
chosen spokes men Of the WORKERS
must be observed implicitly. They
were given opportunity to state their
side.
a e nilar course was looked for Ia
the White. House labor conferences.
ut for Thursday afternoon. Green.
with william Collins, the A. =. Of 4.
organiser IN the motor plants. and
heads Of Il union locals threatening
strikes. were called 10 attend. The
men wers to see Hugh 8. johnson be-
fore talking 70 the president