Evening star., 1937-03-21
dent, said, Our proposals for an ami
cable settlement we're spurned -
FEDERAL Cnnciliafor ArriuaS


cable settlement " we're spurned. -
Federal Conciliator Arrives.
Gov. Murphy said he had no con-
ferences scheduled tonight with op-
posing leaders in the Chrysler dis
pute. James F. Dewey, Federal con-
ciliator who aided Murphy in settling
recent General Motors strikes, ar
rived today and talked with the Gov
ernOr.
At Washington John L. Lewis,
whose Committee for Industrial Or
ganlzation Is supporting the U. A..
w. A. strikers, discussed the Chrysler
strikes lin great detail" with Edward
F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of
Labor, but said there was no special
significance to the meeting"
McGrady said no conclusions had
been reached"
Chairmen OF strike committees in
the Chrysler plants here, in their
letter to Murphy, said: We want you
to know that what we have to say is
supported by more than $4,000 other
Chrysler workers. more than 100000
automobile workers in Detroit, 10000
in Michigan and 100000 in the United
States"
Contending that Chryslers refusal
to grant sole bargaining recognition
to the u. A. w. A. was lawless act"
the strikers said:
I'VE have resorted to the only
weapon we have to make them abide
by the law"
The women in the cigar plant pelted
the police with wooden blocks, snow
balls and other weapons until they
we're propelled, screaming and kick
ing, to patrol wagons.
Other Raids Planned.
Other raids on captive cigar plants
were planned tonight. police indi-
Gated, although they held their plans
secret.
Only one Of the injured in the
Schwartz cigar factory disturbance
was woman. She was Mrs. Sophie
Marczchuk SO, who was knocked
down and bruised. Mounted Patrol
man Russell Wellman was given first
aid for head lacerations and bruises.
The other injured we're men. Leo
pold Pszoska, 80. described as an au-
tomotive plant employe who was on
picket duty at the cigar factory, suf-
fered head wounds from a polceman's
night stick. Dominick Mordell, %,
also an automotive plant employe, was
struck with night stick when, DO
lice said, he threw a stone filled snow
ball at a policeman. Alfred Bloom, Il,
otherwise uninjured suffered head
injuries from policemans club. Ig-
natius Martymas, 81, bystander,
was struck on the head with a frag-
ment of a brick. Frank Nago, So,
identified as an automotive plant
employe and a strike sympa thizer. was
taken to receiving hospital with head
injuries.
Police Supt. Fred w. Frahm and
Policewoman Eleanor L. Hutzel led
the raiding party on the Schwartz fac
tory, which had been occupied since
February l8 in defiance of a court
injunction.
They kicked in the door when the
strikers refused to open it. The raid
ing squad was pelted with missiles as
1t ascended a stairway. Some of the
women surrendered peaceably. Others
fed to the far corners of the factory
The police rounded them up without
using gas or weapons.
Most Disorder Outside Plant.
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the factory, as strike sympathizers
pelted the police with small objects. |
The earlier raid on the Newton |
Packing Co. plant lasted only 10 min |
ltes as so sheriff's deputies and 80 |
policemen broke into the plant and
more than so men and women
strikers who had defied a court in
junction.
Circuit Judge Allan Campell, who
ssued the Newton injunction, held
\ preliminary hearing at the county
Jail for the strikers He suspended |
sentence on SO men who pleaded
guilty to contempt of court Nine
men who pleaded not guilty and IA
women who were not asked to plead |
we're ordered to appear in court Tues
lay. The men we're placed under s1oo
bond each.
There was no rioting and officers
net no resistance-except barricaded
1oors-as they marched into the
storage plant and cornered strikers
armed with clubs, meat axes and hooks
and milk bottles
sheriff's officers had writs for the
arrest of ia employees who were in
the plant when the "sit-down" started
more than three weeks ago.
R. L. Ingram, plant superintendent,
said he found that the refrigeration
$4,000 worth of meats
and other products had not been
,urned off, although strikers an
two weeks ago they had
ione So
The "sit-doWners" rs"-observers count
I'd AZ men and l9 WON were taken
% Jail in patrol wagons, the women