, 1935-09-01
HOLIDAY FINDS
STRIFE ALONG
LABOR FRONTS
Strikes Close Plants
In Several Sections
And Trouble Brews
In Others

10y 4ED A35OGAAttU ELto1I
The Monday hallowed for the
nnbllits Of toll. called Labor Day
and recognized as q holiday in most
every state Of the Union, will be
only q lull in industrial strife in
Elany places.
The strike OF street car men in
Omaha, Neb.. and Council Bluffs,
Ia, started on April e and involv-
Ing 268 men, still was on. Omaha
also had a threat OF a bakery strike.
Union officials claimed 600 men
we're en- strike at q stove man
ufactufing plant in Milwaukee. The
Iowa Manufacturing company at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, was working with
skeleton force while negotiating with
ESQ workers out TO demand union
recognition and higher wages.
Plants Shut Down
The Struwear Knitting company
nlant at Minneapolis, employing
I lOe. was shut down indefinitely a
week ago after pickets demanded
reinstatement OF eight discharged
employees, union recognition and IN
creased BAY. A broomcorn strike az
Charleston, Ill, involving about 100
workers, was inactive with the crop
harvested.
approximately $50 workers OF the
s.. a. X. Knee Pants company,
Lynchburg, Va. walked out Friday
claiming the company had slaSheu
wages down to as low as 81 weekly
for As hours OF work since the
demise OF MIRA. The management
aa~AA - wnraawnn nFanroffnnE IIInC.
dav with requirements.
Between 1000 and 1880 miners
who demanded equalization OF work.
ing hours were still on strike after
rs days at ten collieries OF the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal ana
IrLn company In the Pennsylvania
anthracite field.
Forty union drivers for two Tulsa.
Okla. diaries voted to strike al
ral6night Saturday night unless the
companies met demands for a min
iiaum wage Of $40 a month.
Strikes in force in California In
ended those Of the bargemen OF
the Sacramento and San Joaquin
rivers which started July 2, and the
jackson Union miners which be-
gan last october.
-Four maritime unions at san
Francisco presented requests" 20
steamship companies Friday for
shorter hours and more pay. The
dehdline for automatic renewal OF
agreements was midnight Friday
night. Officials Of the unions said
che action would not impair water
front peace.
Other Trouble Brews
The Forest City Manufacturing
company at St. Louis had a strike
on It's hands because OF alleged
discrimination against union work
crs. the union claiming that 100,
mostly women, were not rehireo
alter a previous strike was settled.
A threatened strike of 4.500 work.
Z OF the wabash railroad and It's
subsidiary, the Ann Arbor railroad.
was averted through efforts OF the
National Mediation board. A 73-
day strike OF street a and bus
workers at South Bend, Ind, was
ended. Conferences were being held
at the same place in an effort 70
alert a threatened strike Of milk
drivers.
A canning plant at Muskogee.
Okla. was virtually shut down alter
fc3 members OF a recently organized
union demanded recognition OF their
organization. The employees OF four
ctl er departments quit in sym
pathy.
Union officials in New York
pushed plans TO put renewed vigOF
inGG their fight and strike against
the governments limited relief wage
On WPA propects.
IT this connection the radio waves
sizzled ~cross-fire Friday. night with
Senator Huey Long on WOR and
Genera! Hugh S. Johnson, WPA
administrator IN New York, on
WNYC.
johnson called Long "the big
breeze Of the bayous" and Ions
called johnson Sitting Bull john
son Of Blue Buzzard fame"