Evening star., 1934-07-11
REGIONAL LABOR
HEADS MEET HERE
New Federal Board Will Dis
cuss Policy in Handling
Disputes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The National Labor Relations Board
has summoned the heads Of its 20
regional labor boards to the Capital
for conferences on policies and pro-
cedures in handling labor disputes.
This was disclosed last night by
Lloyd Garrison, chairman OF the
Labor Relations Board, which stepped
mo office Monday to replace the old
National Labor Board headed by Sen
ator Wagner of New York.
Garrison requested the chairmen OF
the 20 regional agencies set up by the
old board to come as soon as possible
He expects them to be here for con-
ferences over the week end.
The summons climaxed a day OF
busy labor developments in the Capt.
tai. A short while before Secretary
Perkins had announced that the strike
at Seabrook Farms, near Bridgeton'
N j., had been settled.
sympathy Strikers.
The Labor Secretary also had spoken
of the bloody longshoremen's strike
on the Pacific Coast, saying she tet
the impasse could be broken II the
sympathy" strikers could be settled.
During the day, the new labor
board got down to actual work on the
docket of around 100 labor trouble
cases it inherited from its predecessor
Garrison said it had to be determined
which cases would be dealt with trst,
and also to settle the relationship OF
the new agency with other Federal
labor units. This will be one OF the
major topics at the conference OF
regional labor boards called by the
chairman.
Garrison wants to hear directly
from the chairmen Of those boards
precisely what they have been doing
and to find out exactly what they can
do in the administrators new effort
to bring peace into industrial rela-
tionships.
Handle Many Conflicts.
Many of these boards have handled
labor conflicts which have been
marked by violence and disorder. In
the year of their existence they have
dealt with approximately 1000 cases.
One of the first acts of Garrison's
board was to notify the regional
boards to carry on their present work.
They were not affected by the joint
resolution passed by the last Congress
which abolished the Wagner board.
The new board has power to deter
mine whether they shall be main
tanned or abolished
Neither the longshoremen's, steel
or automobile labor boards set up
under presidential executive orders
nor the labor boards created under
various N. r. A. codes have been
summoned to the present conference
Green Protests.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, last
night made public a telegram to
Mayor Rossi of San Francisco pro-
testing against the use of police in
the longShoremen'S strike. His mes
sage said:
Il vigorously protest against the
action of your administration and the
police in the longshoremens strike
Through the use of force on the part
of the police your administration is
Intentionally or unintentionally aid
ing unreasonable employers to compel
striking workers to accept their terms
1t seems incredible that you would
assign your police to protect strike
breakers and thus aid strike breaking
employers organizations.
Why not command unreasonable
employers to settle with their strik-
ing workers Immediately so that peace
and tranquility can be restored in
San Francisco"