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Labor
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members as leader of non-union ac-
tivitieS
A company official said 35 union
men sat down" at their places when
the non-union workman to whose pres
ence they objected appeared for work
this morning. He said non-union en-
ployeS threatened to stop work if the
man were discharged or transferred
and that the plant was closed until
the differences could be settled.
Union Chiefs Gather Here.
Organized labor's rival factions de-
vised their strategy today for men,
bership campaigns which will bring a
struggle for supremacy in half dozen
industries
Fifty organizers. seasoned by long
time service, gathered here to advise
with William Green, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, on
strengthening their organizations in
the aluminium cement. cereal, gasoline
station and agricultural industries.
Attention of John L. Lewis rival
Committee for Industrial Organization
centered on campaign to bring more
than 100000 textile mill employees
into the United Textile Workers.
Regional officials of the U. T. w.
discussed this campaign today. pre-
liminary to a c. l. o. meeting tomor-
row. One possibility considered was
use of the sit-down strike in demand
ing higher wages, a reduced work load
and recognition of the union
Green said his meeting had no con-
nection with the organization cam
paign of Lewis committee, but in both
the aluminium and gasoline station
drives the federation faces opposition
from the C. I. o.
Signs Of Break.
Already there have been signs of
disaffection among the aluminium
workers affiliated with the federation.
The New Kensington, Pa, local. voted
last week to call national convention
to consider affiliating with Lewis COM
mittee.
The textile workers drive will take
the c. I. o. into the second phase
of its long-range program.
Until last week, Lewis and his as
sociates had pointed every effort
toward winning what organized labor
had found impossible for 80 years
a wage and hour agreement in the
steel industry.
This was virtually realized when
Carnegie-I Illinois Steel Corp, largest
United States Steel subsidiary, signed
a contract last week with the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee. al
lied with the C. I. o.
The United Textiles Workers, a
Lewis union, started an organization
campaign in 1888 when the N. R. A.
gave an impetus to unionization
throughout the country. Hundreds of
new locals were established. The union
membership rolls grew by leaps and
bounds.
Strike Results Disastrous.
The Nationwide textile strike in
the Autumn of 1884, however, proved
disastrous to the union. Many new
members drifted away, and sporadic
organization campaigns since have
proved only partially successful.
Lewis now intends to throw all the
financial resources and moral sup
port of his committee to a new Ma
tion-wide textile organization drive.
Francis j. German, president of the
textile workers, will be in command
of the campaign. He will work with
Lewis and. Sidney Hillman, president
of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
and one of Lewis heutenants in the
c. I. o.
Lewis intends to send hundreds of
organizers into textile centers scat
tered throughout the country. The
campaign will center in New England
and Southern textile States.
Labor men expect the fight between
Lewis and the American Federation
of Labor to be manifest throughout
the textile drive. The federation re-
Gently chartered a small spinners'
union. previously independent. The
United Textile Workers claim the
spinners' territory.
The machinists, headed by Arthur
o. Wharton, bitter foe of Lewis, also
claim the right to enroll machine
fxers in the textile mills. The Lewis
union will insist that all textile mill
employees 60 into one big union, open
ing the way for another scrap.
c. I. o. leaders claimed several VIC