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Evening star., 1937-04-11
had been told the company also would
have nothing to do with Thompson.
Had No Alternative.

had been told the company also would
have nothing to do" with Thompson.
Had No Alternative.
Saying there was no alternative but
to break of negotiations, the premier
added:
mo one regrets this more than I
because this morning we met with
executives Of General Motors and
they made what considered con-
cessions to meet the needs Of the
situation" the premier said.
Hepburn emphasized he would not
meet Thompson under any circum-
stances whatever as long as there Is
. strike on"
He added he made it clear to the
delegation my responsibility as head
Of the government of Ontario carried
with it an obligation to maintain
law and order"
so long as there are no illegal
acts, there will be no outside police
in Oshawa. But the minute there is
disturbance there, and the Mayor
calls me and asks for police pro-
lection, the province is prepared TO
step in and take charge of all po-
Icing in Oshawa"
Refused Request for Police.
Hepburn revealed that Mayor W.
D. Robbins Of Toronto had refused
his request for police assistance when
the Oshawa strike started Thursday.
I'VE were Just looking around to
see where we could get men If we
needed them" the premier explained
1T really didn't matter. We were
able to get all the men we needed
and, In fact, 1t doesn't look as II we
needed any"
The executive Of the Toronto Dis
trict Trades and Labor Council at
tackled Premier Hepburn's action in
statement which read in part
This action of Premier Hepburn
in refusing to meet Mr.. Thompson
and his latest statement to the press
that the Ontario Government will
not meet the chosen representatives
of the Oshawa workers is regarded
by this executive as = challenge to
organized labor"
An appointment for . deputation
from the council to see the Premier
Monday was sought.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
ELECTR|CUN|0NS
F|GHTF0R POWER
A. F. l. DiscIoses Plans to
Take Over Company
Representatives.
BY the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, April 10.-The John
L. Lewis Committee for Industrial
Organization and the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor laid new strategy to-
day in their battle for employe leader
ship at the Westinghouse Electric 81
Manufacturing Co.
The International Brotherhood Of
Electrical Workers Of America, affili-
ate Of the A. F. of L., disclosed plans
for taking over" the company's en-
ploye representatives as a unit of the
union.
Lewis United Electrical and Radio
Workers Union simultaneously an
nounced q national convention would
be held in East Pittsburgh April "a
and Is to draft demands for company
recognition Of it as the sole collect~e
bargaining agency for all the $4,000
employees in the far-flung Westing-
house plants.
Pittsburgh Plant Target.
But for the present both unions
focused their efforts on the 5000
workers at the East Pittsburgh plant
and both offered the employees a form
Of industrial union including all clas-
sifications of workers.
A. r. johnson, assistant business
manager Of the brotherhood, said l8
employe representatives of Westing-
house pledged their support to the
union at mass meeting last night.
johnson asserted:
II think we will take over the en-
tire employe representation plan.
Il have found that a majority Of
the members Of the other union joined
it only because they did not have an
other union to turn to- The employe
representatives last night said they
would do everything in their power to
influence their members to join our
union"
Meeting Set for Wednesday.
Red-haired Margaret DARN, secre-
tary Of the Lewis electrical union,
countered with the announcement
that meeting was being arranged
for Wednesday between National
PRESIDENT James carey OF the union
and Westinghouse officials.
Yesterday she announced the union
had given the company one week in
which to sign a contract giving it
exclusive collective bargaining rights
at the local plants Of the company.
She explained this demand would be
expanded by the convention two weeks
away, adding:
I'VE will draw up program de-
manding recognition of our organiza-
ton as the collective. bargaining
agency for all Of the $4,000 Westing-
house workers"
Union delegates. she said, would at
tend the convention from all cities in
which Westinghouse plants are To-
Gated, including Philadelphia, Spring
field, Mass, and Mansfield, Ohio.
Evening star., 1937-04-11

boxes, drove up to the gate. The
pickets stopped them.
Immediately Thompson and Mayor
Alex Hall mounted a truck standing
nearby.
The youthful mayor, nattily dressed
in black derby and dark blue chester
| field coat, reassured growing crowd
that mo mounties" would come to
OshaWa unless we say So"
The crowd cheered.
Soon after the strike started, Hep
burn called several hundred OF the
famous Canadian royal mounted po-
lice to Toronto, to be on hand in case
of trouble here.
Thompson, blue-eyed black
haired Irishman, waved for silence
General Motors have been trying
to get some disturbance started SO
they can call the mounties in.'
Thompson said.
These trucks can't do very much
harm. AS long as we keep these
lines, General Motors can't make a
car in Canada, and that's what we
| want.
Look them over to see what's In
them, but let them go in and out.
Don't lay hand on any one When
you do, that's breaking the law. That's
what they want us to Go. What they
take out of here (the parts depart
men) can't hurt you"
Hall apparently thought the striker,
felt the trucks were taking machine
guns into the plant, for he followed
Thompson's brief speech by saying
that: If there are any machine guns,
I'll be in front of them"
Talk Of Trouble.
There was talk yesterday Of trouble
when the parts department, closed
along with the production division
when the strike started THURSDAY
morning, was reopened 1t sends spare
parts to dealers throughout Canada
but makes none itself.
Thompson described those who wen,
to work in the parts department a,
"scabs," but, in the same interview
said the $500 General Motors en-
ployes here were 100 per cent or.
ganized.
The company made no attempt te
open the production division. The
only police on hand were the II or
the local force, dressed in oxford gray
and high sealskin BUSHES
The whole town has talked Of little
but strike" since the men walked out
l minute after work started at 7 am
Thursday. General Motors and sew.
eral other companies that furnish
parts are the towns only industries.
The pickets have set up tents with
wood fire stoves at several of the
principal gates. Most Of them veal
United Automobile Workers buttons.
Thompson Heads Group.
Thompson headed the committee
that left for the conference with Hep
burn shortly before noon. Toronto
where the conference was held, i,
about 80 miles west.
Union recognition is the principal
strike issue, although wages and hours
also are involved.
Thompson said the company wa
willing to draw up an agreement with
the local union committee, headed
by G. H. Millard, local president. The
U. A. w. A. insists, however, that the
agreement should be with the inter.
national union.
Hall has deputized so strikers q.
union police" These are charged by
the union with keeping order on the
picket lines.
At Thompson's request the Mayor
has closed liquor and beer stores.
NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE.
Evening star., 1937-04-11

the blessings that industry can af-
ford to give us.
I'VE have no fight with the Ca
madam government. We believe in
law and order, but we believe laws
should be operated for the benefit
Of the people as well as for the cor
porations."
Martin concluded by saying the
union thought the Detroit agreement
with General Motors covered the
Canadian company and that I'VE ex-
pect Mr.. Mclaughlin to sign an
agreement with the United Auto
Workers of America"
Mclaughlin is in Bermuda.
Pickets Jeer Workers.
Nothing more violent than vocal
jeers marked the reopening of the
parts department plant, where the
workers are striking for an agree
ment like that granted their CO.
workers in United States plants of
the company.
But at Toronto, Premier Hepburn,
who has outspokenly criticized the
Oshawa activities of organizers for
the o. A. w. A., refused to admit
Thompson to conference he had
with q strikers committee.
He said negotiations were blocked
because ''the whole issue is Thomp-
son." and added:
Thousands of men are walking
the streets and likely to stay that
way for some time"
Hepburn declared company off,
Gals, with whom he conferred before
he saw the strikers, had told him
they would have nothing to do" with
Thompson.
Some 60 workers in the parts de-
partment of the big Oshawa plant
went to work and departed through
picket lines today, unmolested save
for pickets' boos and cries of "scab''
and rat"
With no effort made to open the
factory itself, the strikers agreed to
permit operations at the parts plant,
from which automobile parts are
shipped for repair purposes through
Canada.
Pickets Circle 20 Gates.
Dozens Of pickets, all wearing heavy
overcoats and mufflers, marched in
circles around each of the 20 gates
to the plant. A cold wind whipped
in from Lake Ontario and snow fell
from time to time.
A chorus of boos went up from
the picket line outside this parts
department when three express
trucks, loaded with crates and paper
Evening star., 1937-04-11
LEWIS SEEKS TWO
STEEL CONTRACTS
Puts Pressure on LARGEST
Independents in Pitts
burgh Area.
BY the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, April l0.-John ]
Lewis steel union lieutenants her.
aided "big steel's" first pay day today
under the terms of its wage agree
ment with the union and moved tc
effect contract with two Of the
largest independents
While Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp.
largest unit in U. S. Steel, handed
$4,000 workers at the Homestead mill
their share Of the industry's 100000.
600 wage advance, the steel workers
Organizing Committee disclosed II
would open preliminary contrac,
negotiations with the Bethlehem
Steel Corp. Monday.
David j. Mcdonald, secretary
treasurer, will represent the COM
mittee.
Another Conference Arranged.
The committee also announced
conferences with Jones & Loughlir
Steel Corp. have now been ar
ranged and might be started during
the week"
Bethlehem employs more thar
$4,000 workers and J. & L. has
$4,000.
Both producers will be asked tc
sign q contract patterned after the
agreement made by Carnegie Illinois
last month granting union reco9ni-
ton and Incorporating a l0-cents.
an-hour wage increase and time anc
. half for all time in excess Of 4C
hours q week
Although Bethlehem and J. & L
joined the industry last month IL
granting wage increases, until nov
they have insisted upon dealing only
with their employe representatives.
Coshocton Farley Slated.
To the optimistic labor picture, tn,
steel union today added the assuranc,
that conferences would open Monda,
looking toward settlement OF the strik,
at the Coshocton Iron Works a
Monongahela, where the union mem.
bers walked out April 8, complainin,
80 OF their members had been dis
charged.
M. H. Isenberg of New York, vic,
president of the Combustion Engineer
ing Corp, and j. Scott Skelly, presi
dent Of Coshocton, will meet with Joh1
McGarry subregional director Of tn,
Steel Union Committee.
Regional Director Clinton Colder
will confer Tuesday with Lorenz Iver.
son, president OF Mesta Machine Co.
where 1850 workers were kept idl.
by four-hour sit-down strike Thurs.
day.
Negotiations Continued.
Contract negotiations were contin.
ued today with representatives o
Firth Sterling Steel Co. of McKees.
port, Pa; the Babcock & Wilcox Co
Of Beaver Falls, and the McKeespor
Tin Plate Co.
President B. D. Williams of tn,
Cooper Bessemer Corp, announced
today his company would recogniz
the union. 1t employs 1850 men a
Mount Vernon, w. Va, and Grow
City, Pa.
Golden will 60 to New York late
in the week to meet with officials o
Cruicible Steel concerning a uniol
contract which has been granted b.
| 81 steel companies.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Strike

CONTINUED From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-04-11
NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE
Premier Hepburn Refuses to Talk
With c. 1. O. Organizer.

TORONTO, Ontario, April 10
canadian Neutrality-suspicious. for
settlement Of the strike at the Oshawa
plant Of the General Motors of Can
ada collapsed today after Premier
Mitchell Hepburn refused to talk with
Hugh Thompson, c. I. o. organizer.
Referring to the breaking of of To-
ronto negotiations, Premier Hepburn
added he is ready to discuss settle
ment with the strikers at amy place
any time" but emphasized he would
have nothing to do with Thompson
The premier refused to permit
Thompson to enter his ofIice with q
committee representing the Oshawa
plants 3,700 workers.
Supporting General Motors posi-.
tion in the walkout, Hepburn said hi
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Sit-DOwn

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-04-11
ST0NING AUTOMOBILES
LAID TO nine STRIKERS
Warrants Issued for c. I. o. Mem
bers in Muskegon, Mich,
Police Say.

SSS~y'
B3 the Associated Press.
MUSKEGON, Mich, April l0-The
stoning OF automobiles passing a
picket line at the Naph-Sol Refining
Co., resulted In issuance OF warrants
today for nine men said by police to
be members Of the on Well and Gas
Field Workers Union, an afnliate Of
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization.
Walter Anderson, president of the
company, said the men tossed stones
at motor cars which carried company
of1cials through the picket lines this
morning. The plant has been closed
Evening star., 1937-04-11

Foundations of a Roman forum, laid
centuries ago, have been found at
Cirencester, England, and on them
will be constructed a modern motion
picture theater.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Profitable Insurance Deal,

A woman who received $361,25O
from a life assurance society in Eng
land on q $25,000-a-year annuity,
bought when she was 81 for only
$142,250, and thus showing profit
Of $219, 1000, has just died, aged 96.
Evening star., 1937-04-11
Negotiations Continued,
q Children in "a Years.

In her twenty-fourth year Of mar
riage Mrs. M. A. H. de Beer Of Villiers,
Pretoria, has given birth to her
twenty-third child, and is believed to
have established q record for the num-
ber of offspring in such period.
Evening star., 1937-04-11

since March 30, when employees were
paid of.
Union members charged the action
was lockout" and protested 70
the National Labor Relations Board,
which has been investigating
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-08-13
BRACKETS HURT LABOR

Wise leaders of union labor are
anxious to stamp out the racketeering that
has invaded some organizations. They
know that all labor suffers when wrong is
done in the name of labor although the
racket is being worked for the benefit of
some hoodlums connected with labor or
ganizations.
A sample of the thing we have in
mind, consider the case of thirty Cleve-
land, Ohio, home-owners. They painted
their houses, without employing union
men. Some of them did the painting
themselves. What happened? Well, in
the night, vandals operating spray guns
stain and paint over the newly painted
homes.
This is a dirty trick that will not help
the union painters anywhere. 1t is mild
form of other more serious rackets, such
as breaking plate glass windows, over
turning delivery trucks and such sabotage.
In places where this kind of blackmail is
going on the unions have, as rule, been
taken over by gangs who muscle in and
work the racket at the expense of better
union men. biI
The police in several large z'eitiss
have been conducting spirited drives
against this racketeering, which not only
blackmails the public but often forces
honorable laboring peopie@9oHe ply duea
that also amount to form of lblack4qals
The police should be encouraged by the
public and by decent labor leaders and the
racketeers should be put behind the bars.
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DIVORCE LAW REFORM

Divorce laws in Great Britain have
recently been liberalized, although they
still lack many of the stream-lined features
of modern marriage wrecking as practiced
in some American States.
AS adultery had been the only, grounds
of divorce there developed much conri-
vance and collision BETWEEN .ffiates wHp
wished to be free to take up new fancids
In this country the safiers thing is Seq
when couples from certainof6af commoH
wealths rush to liberal States sto st
their marriage ties removed.
The joker about the procedure in this
country, if we have our law right, is that
most of these quick-divorces are not worth
the paper they are typewriter upon. II
interested parties see fit to make con-
test of the dissolution of thousands of these
marriages there will be some confusion in
many respects.
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THE WEATHER

far western DISTRICTS cover most
other sections. Showers and
thunderstorms have occurred since
yesterday morning throughout
much of the Atlantic and East
Gulf States, Arkansas and Ten
nessee, with heavy rainfall at
Knoxville, Tenn, Its inches, At
lanta, Ca, 1,57 inches, Charlotte,
N. c., 1859 inches, Jacksonville,
Fla, 1877 inches, and Apalachi-
cola, Fla, 1902 inches. There
have also been light scattered
showers in Texas, Kansas and
Colorado. TeanpeaHttrt changee
have been generally animportant.
with readings still above normal
in Oklahoma and northern Texas.
and maximum temperatures of
100 to 1912 degrees reported in
that area yesterday.
G. S. KENNEDY,
Official in Charge
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HOW STANDS YOUR woRD2

1t is not intended that every citizen of
Key West shall be rich insofar as ma
terial wealth is concerned but it is pos
Sible for every one of us to be rich in
character, which is theAbasis of human
progress.
We know a man. not even well-to-do,
but others say that his word is depend
able, that if he says something you can de-
pend upon it and that if he promises any
thing he viii carry out his obligation.
This is high praise. indeed We would
all be better off If we were more careful
in making commitments and more earnest
in performing our part of any mutual un-
dertaking. Even in little things the word
of a man or woman should be the only
necessary guarantee of performance bat
so often We overlook little obligations be-
cause we do not think them important.
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is COLLEGE FOOTBALL FAILINc2

Football has come to be almost the ex-
cuse for the existence of some institutions
and winning eleven the aim and object
of the alumni of many institutions.
In fact, given winning gridiron sea-
son, the year has been classed success by
those operating some of the colleges and
universities of the land.
With this general statement of the re-
gard in which triumphant pigskins activi-
ties are held it comes as surprise to hear
that st. Mary's College, made famous by
it's football teams. which have travelled
from one side of the continent to the other,
has been sold at auction because of its in
ability to pay interest on asdebt of $780,
500 since 1884.
Incidentally, it is announced that the
college would be leased to its present man.
agement and that the football coach
would be retained at salary of $1,000 a
year, plus ten per cent of the gridiron re-
ceipts This shows that, after all, the col
lege has not lost everything
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpieee of any person, clique,
faction or class; always do its utmost for the
public welfare never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue.
commend good done by individual or organ
ization; tolerant Of others rights. views and
opinions; print only news that viii elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
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You and Your
Nations Affairs
ADeserved Rebuke
BY ERIK Mckinley ERICSSON
Professor Of History, University Of Southern California

mittee's statements. From the time
that the President, on February .,
offered his surprise proposal to en-
large the Supreme Court, most peo-
pie, regardless of their political affili-
ations. have been convinced that the
true purpose was not to secure greater
efficiency, but to force constitutional
interpretations suitable to the present
administra ration.
But there is no longer any reason
for attempting to force certain inter-
pretations of the fundamental law.
During its session which closed last
month, the Supreme Court certainly
did all that could be expected OF it by
the most ardent New Dealer. Nine
teen decisions affecting Federal laws
which are a part of the New Deal
were handed down and all were ia
vorable to the government. Nor were
these decisions ordinary ones. The
labor decisions and the decisions VAL
idating social security had the effect
of stretching the Constitution further
than it has ever been stretched be-
fore, even in the days Of Chief JUS
tice John Marshall. 1ea
Even these broad Interpretations
were not enough to satisfy the Presi-
dent and his neo-New Dealers, They
insisted that the court bill should be
adopted as they had drafted it, and
they declared that there would be
mo compromise" so. Log ~.
The senate committee took them at
their word. Four weeks before It sub
mitted its report, the committee by a
ten to eight vote rejected the plan,
after first voting down all proposed
compromises.
The most heartening feature of the
whole controversy is the fact that the
emphatic rebuke to the President was
made possible by the votes of promi-
nent members of his own party. The
opposition of the Republican mem
bers was taken for granted, but it
took real courage for seven Demo-
Gratis on the committee to oppose their
leader. They proved that they were
not yes men," 9h
83ea
thor care of this neu1spdperl
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WEATHER FORECAST

(Till 1880 p. M. Saturday,
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy, probably scattered thun-
dershowers tonight and Saturday
gentle to moderate southeast and
south winds.
Florida Partly cloudy, scatter
ed thundershowers Saturday and
probably in extreme north portion
and near extreme south coast to-
night and Saturday.
|. Jacksonville to Florida Straits
|dAda East Gulf: Gentle to mod
crate southeast and south winds
partiy overcast weather tonight
and saturday, scattered showers.
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In recommending the rejection OF
the so-called judiciary reform bill.
the committee denounced it "as a
needless. futile, and utterly danger
Gus abandonment Of constitutional
priaciple.H The bill. declared the COM
tee, would not accomplish any of
sAe purposes for which it was alleg-
{ed4y9 drawn up. Furthermore, if
adopted, it, would destroy the inde-
aldanteA Be the judiciary"
fsanfy did the bill violate all his
torieBB presidents. but if adopted. it
-Wonld. according to the committee.
-establish a dangerous precedent for
the fntiire. Not least Of the commit
tees objections were that the bill
would permit changing the Constitu-
ton without the consent or approval
Of the people; that it would do away
with protection of minorities: that it
would be ''subversive of the rights Of
individuals; and that it would estab-
lish political control over the judi
ciary.
All who have considered the con-
troversy over the court with an open
mind appreciate the truth of the COM
address questions to the al