The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-06
It.. GOVERNOR
HINTS RELIEF
FUND USE
Kennedy Opens Drive
To Enlist Workers
at Homestead
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during the days of the NRA by
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief
chief, and was also pursued in
Pennsylvania by former Governor
Clifford Pinchot during the coal
strike several years ago.
Homestead Rally
Kennedy'S remarks we're made
at a huge labor rally at Home
stead, Pa, scene of one Of the
most Sanguinary conflicts in labor
history. Another highlight Of the
gathering was the adoption Of
a steel-labor declaration of in
dependence" strikingly similar in
phraseology to the recitation Of
wrongs and the statement OF OBJ
jectives authored by Thomas JEFF
ferson in 1776. The document
said:
I'm support Of this declara-
ton we mutually pledge to
each other our steadfaSt pur-
pose as union men, our honor
and our very lives"
AS an offshoot Of the union
ization drive, the National Labor
Relations Board petitioned the
United States Circuit Court Of
Appeals at New Orleans to grant
a rehearing Of the Jones and
Laughlin Steel Corporation case.
That tribunal had denied the
boards petition to order the COM
pany to halt alleged interference
with self organization attempts
by it's employees and to reirState
workers who had been discharged.
Strife Threat Cited
The boards new petition cited
threatened strife in the steel in
duStry," holding such conflict
would directly burden interstate
commerce Of the industry.
Meanwhile, at Washington. in
dustrial-union chieftain John L.
Lewis was putting the finishing
touches to a broadcast on indus
trial democracy in steel" sched-
uled for delivery tonight.
He showed no concern over a
meeting Of the executive council
for the American Federation Of
Labor, set for Thursday, which is
expected to decide on whether to
go ahead with charges that Lewis
and his associates on the commit
tee for industrial organization,
hackers Of the steel unioniZaiton
drive, are seeking to set up rival
unions.
After a meeting of workers
representatives with Van A. Bit
ner, organization director, in Chi
cago, Bittner declared the repre-
sentativeS-who, he said, included
company union delegates-unan-
1mouSly declared for the indus.
trial unioniZation campaign,
Employees Warned
Conflicting statements on the
part Of management and of or.
ganized labor were before the
steel workers today. Eugene G.
Grace, president Of Bethlehem
Steel, posted a letter to all en-
ployes warning against outside, pro-
fessional union leaders and declar-
ing confidence that steel workers
themselves could more compe.
tently solve their own problems
than cold the professional union
lists.
Philip Murray, active chairman
Of the unionization campaign, re-
torted in a bulletin to all steel
workers that Steelmasters and To-
cal chambers of commerce were
attempting to make workers falsely
believe the union organizers were
interested only in precipitating
disorders and causing strikes.
Murray outlined a three-p point
objective which, he said, the cam
paign seeks to reach. 1t comprised
constitutional and civil rights for
workers. recognition of a free, le-
Ultimate and individual union and
recognition of the principle Of col
lective bargaining through repre-
Sentatives of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION Of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers.