Evening star., 1936-09-06
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

Labor celebrates its own holiday
tomorrow. but there will be no vaca-
ton from the bitter war within its
own ranks or that going on on an
other front with industry.
Conceived as a day In which there
would be public demonstration OF
"the strength and esprit de corps
Of the movement, this years holiday
finds the movement split deeply and
bitterly. On one side is a militant
faction Of IL unions and more than
1,260,000 members under the bel
ligerent leadership of John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ers. Only yesterday 10 of these
unions and nearly 100000 of the
individuals were declared by William
Green, president of the American
Federation Of Labor, to be no longer
members in good standing of that
parent body.
On the other side is the federation
with 102 international afiliates and
a remaining membership of about
100000. Their leadership, consist
ing of Green and the craft union
members of the Executive Council, is
only slightly less belligerent.
Lewis Ignored Order.
The issue, on the surface at least
Is that Of organizing the mass produc-
tion industries on industrial lines
rather than on the craft basis. The
Lewis faction, Joined, in the Committee
for Industrial Organization, Is proceed.
ing on the former theory. The council
charging transgression of jurisdictionaI
lines, ordered dissolution of the c. I. o
or withdrawal of its separate members
by yesterday. Lewis and his followers
have ignored the order. Friday the
leader of the miners repeated his Oft
expressed defiance. Yesterday Green
declared the recalcitrants no longer
members Of the federation.
Lewis told reporters yesterday he
agreed with David Dubinsky, president
of the Ladies Garment Workers and
an associate on the c. I. O., that the
committee unions had not withdrawn
In letter to Green, Dubinsky said
1--WE assume our share of response
bility for the creation of the Commit.
tee for Industrial Organization. But
while readily acknowledging our share
Of the responsibility, we also wish te
state that the Executive Council must
be ready to assume and cannot escape
full responsibility for whatever de.
plorable effects its course of rule-or.
ruin may have upon the unity and in.
tegrity Of the organized labor move
ment."
Rival Federation Seen.
That there will be q rival federation
founded around the nucleus Of tht
c. I. o. seems likely and such an i'm
plication was contained in q state
ment by Lewis Friday that "outcasts
must join together for protection from
the beasts Of the forest"
Yesterday, Green said:
Undoubtedly the next step will bt
to ofacially and formally admit thu
existence of this new organization anc
to proclaim it as definite rival move
ment to the American Federation o.
Labor" .. ..:..
Withal, there appears small chance
Of any reconciliation between the two
groups as now constituted, although
Green left small opening for sucf
action in the following statement;
"ofncers and members Of the Ex-
ecutive Council earnestly hope that
an understanding will be ultimately
reached. differences adjusted anc
unity restored. In its efforts to &C.
complish this purpose, the Executive
Council asks nothing more than dis
solution of the c. !. O."
It is the latter condition, however
that affords small hope Of peace a
the c. +. o. holds fast to its orgsni-
zation and its plans.
Verbal Developments.
Verbal developments OF the weel
end may offer some new solution -