Evening star., 1935-04-08
ROOSEVELT TO GET
TIRE STRIKE PLEA
Sheriff Says Deputies to Bar
Picketing If Mayor
DEGREES.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio. April 8.-Ethel
Coleman Claherty, president of thu
United Rubber Workers Union, OF
William Green. American Federation
of Labor president. will appeal tc
President Roosevelt to avert the
threatened strike in the rubber indus
try, Claherty said today.
A reply by Sheriff James Flower to-
day to union officials who announced
an intention to defy a proclamation
against mass picketing, said:
My corps of special deputies will
enforce the proclamation as soon as
Mayor l. S. Myers makes it."
Goodyear tire departments went on
a five-day week production basis to-
day. They had been working four.
Both Sides Firm.
The unions and the rubber COM
panies squared away today for bitter
struggle. which appeared certain to
begin before the week is over.
While the huge plants operated at
high speed. union leaders mapped
picket lines, planned flying souadrons
food supplies and the enlistment OF
volunteers in the impending struggle
The companies. too, have been pre-
pairing.
Workmen in overalls from the Fire
stone and Goodrich plants stood in
line at union headquarters with bal
lots In their hands. Union leaders
have predicted heavy majorities in
favor of a walkout. As a formality
the votes will be counted Wednesday
and announced with the result of the
recent union poll at the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co. factory.
The fight is here; it's either us or
them" said Coleman C. Claherty,
president of the United Rubber Work
ers of America
In washington. william Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, put the responsibility for
the threatened strike, which he called
imminent" on the companies.
1T could be avoided" Green said.
''if the companies would permit their
employees to hold an election and de-
termine for themselves the union to
which they wish to belong, as ordered
and directed by the National Labor
Relations Board"
A possibility that another attempt
at Intervention might come from
was seen in a statement
Claherty made to a mass meeting of
Goodyear workers last night
Claherty said. I'VE want the presi-
dent of your local to stand with us
and present our case to the President
Of the United States in no unem-
phatic terms"
Plan First Aid Corps.
At the same meeting John House.
president of the Goodyear local, asked
for strike volunteers, particularly
workers of military experience" to
enroll. along with women with train
ing in first aid" An emergency feet
Of SO automobiles was planned.
The Firestone, Goodrich and Good
year factories employ $4,000 men and
women. The Rubber Workers Union
claims 10000 members in the three
plants. Company officials say the per-
centage of union members is much
smaller than this. For that reason
they have refused to deal with the
unions.
The union is asking agreements
calling for q 30-hour week, recogni-
ton of collective bargaining and the
withdrawal of company financial sup
port from so-called company unions" {"
A fight against National Labor
Relations Board order for collective
elections in the factories
has been carried to court by the COM
panies. When the board moved to
enforce its order last week the Fire
stone Co. obtained a tmporary in
junction.
OFFICIALS WATCH AKRON.