Evening star., 1936-06-05

John l.. LetDtS is fighting for or
0GniSdtion by industries. Green has
threatened to eject the Lewis fol-
'lo,Oers from the A. F. OF L., but his
temptation OF craft uniontsn1 made
no heddWay among steel Dorkers.
LetDiS has met NTH success among
the puddlers and the furnace
tenders.
Fy the Associated Press.
Clasping hands over newly-drawn
pact, John L. Lewis and steel union
leaders drove ahead today in an at
tempt to form the 5000 steel work.
ers into one big industrial union.
Reading the terms of the bargain,
which Lewis struck with the Amalga-
mated Association Of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers last night, organized
labor waited almost breathlessly to
see what craft unionist foes of Lewis
within the A. F. Of L. would do about
it. BY signing the pact, the steel union
leaders chose to go along with Lewis
rather than the craft faction.
A months-old quarrel between the
Lewis group and the craft unionists,
who disagree with his methods for
organizing steel, has been threaten
ing to split the federation. Many OBJ
servers believe the showdown is immi-
nent, that the next moves will tell
whether the great A. F. of L. schism
will in fact occur.
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After long hesitation, the Anal
gamated decided to go over to the
camp represented by Lewis powerful
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton, a camp in which nine powerful
unions are arrayed, including Lewis
miners, the oil, textile and clothing
workers.
The nine unions already have been
threatened by William Green, fedora
ton president and craft faction lead
er, with expulsion from the fedora
ton If they continued their activity
in the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization. All have ignored the
threat.
The agreement reached last night
ended an eight-month battle between
the craft and industrial factions to
win over the Amalgamated and to
direct the steel campaign. Green
offered organizers, but Lewis offered
$500, 900.
The Amalgamated delegation, head
ed by Louis Leonard, secretary and
spokesman for aged Michael Tighe,
president, who Is i'll, agreed to turn
over the direction Of the organizing
campaign to a committee named by
Lewis.
Lewis said announcement would be
made soon as to when the cam
paign. which is expected to be a
bitter one, would be started
Powers of Committee.
The organizing committee, by the
terms Of the agreement, is to be all
powerful, except for the right to issue
charters, right which Is held by the
A. F. of L. itself.
The agreement was signed for the
Lewis group by Lewis himself and
Lieut. Gov. Thomas Kennedy Of Penn
Sylvania, who is secretary of the
miners union, and by Philip Murray,
vice president of the miners, and by
John Brophy. chairman Of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
The Amalgamated, now a union with
less than 10000 members, was rep
resented by Leonard and three vice
presidents, Edward w. Miller, Joseph
K. Gather and Thomas G. Gillis.
Asked what action the craft ma
jority in the Federation might take
as result of this decision, Lewis
said, II can think of nothing SO
uninteresting as Mr.. Green's plati-
tudes and generalities."
When newspaper man asked if the
war in the Federation then might
be interpreted as begun, ore Of the
steel delegates said, 1T has been on
for long time"