Evening star., 1936-10-07
FULL SURRENDER |.
/. ON SUSPENSIONS
DEMANDOF C.L. 0.
Lewis Statement Believed
Fatal to Hope of Last
Minute Peace.
Federation SESSION
TO OPEN TOMORROW
No 0vertures Made on Either Side
for Adjustment of Contro.
versy, It Is Said.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

BY JOHN c. HENRY.
The executive council of the Ameri.
can Federation of Labor can bring
back peace to the ranks of labor only
by resembling its suspension action
against 10 member unions of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization, by
admitting 1t was q mistake ever to
vote the suspension, and by co-operat-
ing in an industrial union drive in
the mass production industries.
These are the terms for peace as
set forth yesterday by John L. Lewis,
chairman Of the C. ]. O., 48 hours be-
fore the A. r. Of L. executive council
opens a session here tomorrow
afternoon. Originally scheduled for
today, the meeting was postponed "a
hours to allow William Green, presi-
dent Of the A. F. Of L., to make an
appearance tonight before a conven-
ton Of the cap and millinery worker
in New York.
Seemingly receptive only to COM
plete surrender by the federation
council, Lewis evidently squashed for
good and all any hopes of q recon-
ciliation Of the two factions during
the coming session of the council.
Such hopes, arising from somewhat
loosely interpreted remark by David
Dubinsky, president of the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers, in
New York Sunday night, had brought
from President Green an echoing de.
sire for peace.
Explains Dubinsky Stand.
According TO the militant Lewis,
however, Dubinsky merely had re-
peated what c. I. o. leaders have
maintained from the beginning,
namely that only federation co-opera-
tion and consent to industrial organic
Zation Of certain mass production in.
duStries would remove any differences
of opinion. If the federation Is will.
ing to take on the job of organizing
the steel and other mass production
industries all would be %. K" with
the c. I. o., Lewis repeated.
Lewis denied fatty that there have
been any overtures for peace by either
group and that no conferences on the
matter have been held.
II know Of no peace negotiations
Of any character" he said. "and I
know Of no conferences on any basis
of reconciliation. I note that Mr..
Green's heart is pulsating with q de-
sire for peace. If he wants it, let him
persuade the council to rescind its
suspension action and toin us in the
organizing work.
I'VE have always been willing to de.
fine and limit the industries for in
dustrial organization. The federation
always has claimed there is adequate
room tor both craft and industrial Or
ganization. Let them join us in spot-
ting the industries for industrial or.
ganization and then join us in carry
ing out the job. There Is the basis for
practicable settlement of the present
break"
typographical Union Problem.
As an alternative to any efforts to
effect a reconciliation, the council to-
morrow must take up the question Of
extending the suspension order to the
International Typographical Union.
This organization has been represented
in the c. 1. o. by its president, Charles
p Howard, but was not suspended in
August because the union itself had
not indorsed Howard's position. Since
then, the union did vote this indorse-
ment, and Lewis yesterday declared
the council, to be consistent, must sus-
pend the I. T. q. or admit themselves
in error in the other suspensions.
With the cap and millinery workers
now in session, it is considered likely
that they also may take some action
on c. I. o. affiliation. Like the I. T. u,
they are not under suspension, al.
though their president, Max zaritsky,
is on the c. I. o.
Asked about plans for attending the
November convention of the A. p. of L
in Tampa, Lewis said he still believed
it would be waste of time and money
but that no formal decision on the
question has yet been made by ths
C. I. o. A meeting o: the committee,
he said, will be held in November,
probably after election day but before
the convention is scheduled to open
November 16.
In brief reference to the steel drive
Lewis said the organization work ia
proceeding according to chart, graph
and blueprint" with results thus fan
satisfactory. About ITS paid organ
izers are active, he said, and uniform
and general demands upon the in.
dustry are likely within few months
Union membership In the rubber In.
dustry has jumped to $4,000, he said
while the automobile industry also re.
ports new high Of about $4,000.
Touching on politics only once
Lewis predicted that Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Pennsylvania and West vir'
ginia, all States where there is
heavy United Mine Workers vote. viii
60 for Roosevelt In November.