Evening star., 1937-03-16

cbeying the injunction ordering them
10 evacuate eight plants.
The Governors statement calling
Tor order was issued in Lansing at the
end OF 4 conference with q group of
prosecutors and State onicials. InDe-
troit, short time before, Richard T.
Frsnkensteen, organiza tional director
OF the United Automobile Workers Of
America, said:
knowing their (the strikers) SEN
timents, don't think they'll come out
OF the plants"
Homer Martin, U. A. w. A. presi-
dent, announced that a plan to have
the strikers vote on whether they
would abide by the Circuit Court order.
Issued yesterday, had been aba ndoned
Martin Refuses Poll.
We did not put the men in the
plants" Martin said, and ve are not
going to take them out. We are not
going to vote on that question"
Gov. Murphy canvassed Michiean's
troubled labor front with three State
ofhcers and prosecutors from the in
dustriai centers Of Detroit, Flint, LAns-
Ing, Pontiac and Mount Clemens. All
OF them Joined in signing the state
ment with the Governor.
The agencies OF Government. both
executive and judicial are bound to
take proper steps to see that public au-
thority is preserved and the rights of
private property are respected" said
the statement
None Of the conferees elaborated
upon it. All labor disputes, it asserted
can be adjusted peaceably through ne
gotlatlonS, and added:
Neither party to any dispute can
af1ofd to take position in defiance of
the law. The public authorities
charged with the responsibility for the
protection of the public, are prepared
to employ proper means to this end.
The constitutional authority OF the
courts must be respected If We are to
have orderly government and society
with security for persons and property
and freedom from arbitrary action and
coercion. This is as important to
workers ~ to employers.
Employers and the representation
OF labor and all other citizens are ex.
peeted and urged to cooperate with
duly-oonstituted lAw-enforcins axen-
eles In every community and make ex-
treme measures unnecessary"
Martin visited the striker-occup,ed
plants during the night and Maurice
sugar. attorney for the union, said
they would confer. He did not reveal
the purpose of their meeting, nor could
II be learned what the union president
told the strikers.
Judge Allen Campbell, granting the
Chrysler Corps petition for the in.
junction, set the deadline for evacua-
zion tomorrow and fixed q penalty OF
$40 900 900 to be levied on the Defend
ants LANDS, goods and chattels" 70,
noncompliance.
Chrysler executives withheld com.
ment on what they would do IL thu
strikers ignored the order. OmciaI,
Of the U. A. w. A. and the Commit.
tee for Industrial ganization ver.
named defendants along With the sit.
downers
II the deadline passes without com
pliance with the order, the corpora
ton could obtain writs OF attachment
for the arrest Of the violators on con.
tempt charges, then Sheriff Ihoma,
c. Wilcox would be charged with
serving the writs.
With numerous other strikes In
effect in Detroit as well ~ those in
the automotive industry, city police
went on 12-hour shifts today instead
OF the usual eight hours.
Other Detroit Strikes.
other Detroit strikes involved 1000
truck drivers, workers in the United
States warehouse in which 10000, ,0o0
pounds of foodStuf1s were stored,
10000 Hudson Motor Car Co. employees,
and 1900 employees OF the Briggs
Auto Body Co. Sit-down strikers
occupied the Simplicity Pattern Co.
plant at Niles, Mich, and 400 were
idle in the REQ Motor Car Co. strike
1t Lansing.
Brooklyn police arrested 10 sit-down
strikers after battling striking an
ployeS Of Jewish Hospital. The strike
~'as said by spokesmen t. have been
called to bring about recognition oi
the Hospital Employees Union, in.
creased wages and two weeks aunua.
vacation.
The 10 were arTsstsd after polioe
broke down barricadss u varioul
rooms, and most OF them still verl
In jail today, unable to provide bond
The strike ended shortly after ths
fight with the police. and after Z
conference between officials and work.
ers. No announcement was made ~.
esrding any agreement.