Evening star., 1937-03-04
VIOLENCE MARKS.
SEVERAL STRIKES.
Disputes Tie Up so Firms
as New Labor Troubles
Are Reported.
BY the Associated Press.

New strikes and outbreaks of vio-
lence in old ones. emphasized today
the prevalence of industrial disputes,
almost forgotten in the jubilation over
organized labor's compacts with the
steel industry.
Upward of 10000 workers we're
idle in disputes affecting half hun
dred business and industrial firms.
While strikers and employers sought
compromises, leaders of the Commit
tee for Industrial Organization viewed
with satisfaction its contract with the
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. and
mapped plans for the eventual union
ization of all industrial workers in the
Nation.
Supporters of John L. Lewis. domi-
nant figure in the c. I. O., said the
drive in the steel industry would be
extended to the oil, automotive and
textile industries. c. I. o. units
sought recognition as the sole BAR
gaining agencies for Chrysler Motor
Corp and General Electric Corp. en-
ployes. A shoe union was projected
by the New England c. I. o. council.
Eight Point Demand"
officials of General Electric Co., the
third giant corporation closely related
to ]. p. Morgan g. Co. to negotiate
with labor, today awaited presenta-
ton Of an eight-point demand" pro-
gram by the United Electrical g. Radio
Workers Of America.
With Francis T. Barlow of j. P.
Morgan & Co., and Henry S. Morgan
Of Morgan, Stanley g. Co.. on the Gen.
eral Electric Board of Directors, the
company has signif1ed willingness to
negotiate with the electrical and radio
union, which is an affiliate of the
G. !. o.
Carnegie Illinois Corp. announced
it would continue to deal with all en-
ploye groups despite its recognition Of
the c. 1. o. as the bargaining agency
for members of that organization.
Supporters of Carnegie Illinois Steel
Corps plan to employe representa-
ton considered today forming an in
dependent union to oppose extension
of Lewis organization of $4,000 steel
workers.
A member of the corporations En-
ploye Defense Committee said the
group was studying the possibility
of such an independent labor unit
He added the committees decision
would be submitted, possibly today.
to Benjamin F. Fairless, Carnegie
Illinois president.
A. F. Of L. Remains Hostile.
c. I. o. gains did not heal its
breach with the American Federation
of Labor. President William Green
said the federation will not tolerate
extension of support to a dual and
rival organization. The Cleveland
Federation Of Labor suspended all five
member unions afnliated with the
c. I. o.
Several additional steel firms an
nounced higher wages. Among them
were the Laclede Steel Co., employing
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son, Ill; Sheffield Steel Corp. employ
ing $500 at Kansas City; American
Steel and Wire, 325 at Anderson, Ind.
Colorado Fuel g. Iron. 1000 at Pueblo
Colo.
$4,000 Get Wage Increase.
A wage increase of cents an hour
yy,c nf An-hn11r Uaak
affecting about $4,000 steel workers
was announced today by the Tennessee
Coal, Iron g. Railroad Co.. United
States Steel subsidiary and largest
Southern steel producer.
The Briggs Manufacturing Co.:
giant Mack avenue plant, shut dowr
for more than 10 hours during til.
night, resumed operations today. end
ing q sit-down strike which affected
$4,000 employees.
Company officials met with repre-
sentatives of the United Automobile
Workers of America and an under
standing was reached before day shift
workers entered the plant.
Two drivers were beaten and two
trucks were burned in blockade b!
1000 striking Rhode Island trucl
drivers, who struck for a closed shop
4S-hour week and wage increases.
Police and $50 strikers and sympa'
thizers fought tear gas and rock bat
tie near the strike-bound Perennia
Dye Works at West Warwick, r. I.
66 Jailed in Riot.
At Sarnia, Ontario, 66 persons vert
Jailed after hand-to-hand fighting be.
tween 900 non-union workmen and {
group of sit-down strikers at th'
Holmes foundry. The latter wer'
driven out. Eight persons were seri'
ously hurt.
The non.automotive strike picture
in Detroit took on a brighter tone TO-
day with the opening of negotiations IL
two sand 10-cent store sit-downs, an
nouncement of tentative agreements t.
end strikes in two of the city's large
restaurants and the settlement O
several other labor disputes.
A strike was threatened at the Mid
continent Oil Corp. at Seminole. Okla
employing 1900.
Two thousand workers were idle II
a strike at the No. 2 Akron, Ohio
plant of the Firestone Tire & Rub
ber Co. Thirteen mills were close'
and 500 workers were idle in tn
Berks County, Pa, hosiery strike.
A sit-down strike Of 500 men an
women in the box shop closed tn
Monroe, Mich, plant of River Raisil
Paper Co., employing 1,250. Two hun
dred workers, most of them women. So
down in the Aladdin Industries plan
at Alexandria, Ind, to force discharg