Evening star., 1934-06-06
JOHNSON TO SEEK
PEACE BY STEEL
Richberg and Henderson
Join in Plea to Avert
Strike.
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Steel Corporation. declared radicals"
in the Amalgamated joined with
Communists" to threaten the strike.
Earle J. Forbeck, whose supporters
designate him rank and file" leader,
threatened a march on Washington
unless President Roosevelt pressed for
legislation to outlaw company unions.
Spang. president of the Amalga-
mated's Duquesne, Pa, lodge, and
other leaders asked that President
Roosevelt call steel and labor leaders
Ito put their knees under the same
table" to settle the controversy.
They said they would not accept the
proposal being worked out by johnson
for a separate labor board. and that,
failing a presidentially called labor
steel conference, three hundred
thousand steel workers stand ready
June Is to shut down their plants so
it will be quiet enough to talk"
Calls on Roosevelt.
A group OF leaders in the automo-
tive industry. headed by Alfred P.
Sloan of General Motors, called upon
Mr. Roosevelt yesterday to protest
passage of the Wagner labor board
bill. Johnson said they came also
to discuss the steel situation.
The motor industry IS one Of the
largest users OF steel and would be
one of the first to feel such q cur
strike.
Shortly after the automotive lead
ers had left the White House and
Immediately following the informal
rejection Of his peace plan by the
steel workers, johnson went to the
White House for a luncheon confer
ence with President Roosevelt. He
said later he had not presented the
labor demands to Mr.. Roosevelt.
The workers group gathered here
included Spang, Mel Moore. president
of District 2. Amalgamated: Jake
Entinger. president of the Weirton,
w. Va, local; George Moore, financial
secretary Of that lodge, and Charles
Greenwood, president of the New Deal
! Lodge, No. 35.
Attack Gen. Johnson.
! SldUcLucIlJ, uIlOcI lUc 6lldluL Cs
of the five local leaders. said:
We expect to remain In Washing
ton only a short time inasmuch as a
steel strike is about to break through
out the land
"First, we owe 1t to the President
to explain why. through no fault OF
his, this situation can be solved only
by him. Also why his election propo-
, sition in the new steel code Is in
acceptable to steel workers.
That seems to have come from
Gen. johnson, who sits with the Iron
and Steel Institute on the steel code
authority.
We object to Johnson hanging
more dead cats on the President. One
was the auto settlement, which luggec
in company unions to cut the throat'
of honest unions. Another is this code
elections proviso which names no date
nor place nor supervisor and doesn't
tell whether 'amalgamated association
VS.. company union will be on the
ballot or whether the end of the vote
means any recognition
The union officers statement re-
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machinery satisfactory to labor. in
cluding the Weirton elections case
| and then said:
Nine months of this explains why
N. r. A. has come to mean national
run around.
The way to stop it is to convene
a presidential collective bargaining
conference now. We are here to helI
the Presidents conference. If the
gentlemen of the Iron and Steel In
stitute have trouble accepting thu
Presidents invitation to put theil
knees under the same table with ours
then 100000 steel workers stand ready
June l6 to shut down their plants Sc
it will be quiet enough to talk.
We don't want Minneapolis ane
Toledo in so steel towns. We still
think the President is bigger than tn,
steel gentlemen"
STEEL OWNERS SILENT.