The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-23
HOFFMAN IN.
new ATTACKS.
GROWS BITTER.
Senators Bailey And Holt
Also Are Critical of
Federal Policy
FAILURE TO PROTECT
WORKERS is SCORED

Tom Gridlcr, chairman of the
board of Republic Steel corpora
tom, has been subpcncad to APP
pear on Thursday before the Sen
ate poStofricc committee in con-
ncction with the committees in
vcStigatiOn of the steel strike,
Chairman Kenneth Mcclellan, d.,
Tenn, announced last ngiht.
Mcclellan revealed that the
subpoena had been issued rs Rep
rCSentativc Claire r.. Hoffman, r.,
Mich, in a speech in the House,
charged President Roosevelt and
the Governors of Ohio, Michigan
and Pennsylvania with sole re-
SpOnSibility for violence and
bloodShed in the steel strike "bc-
cause they failed to protect per-
sons wishing 20 work.
Simultaneously Postmaster Gen
cral James A. Farley filed answer
to Republics suit to compel the
poStofrice department to deliver
mailed parcels of food and cloth
ing To workers IN its Strlke-bOund
plants at Niles and Warren, Ohio.
He charged the action WAS an at
tempt 80 involve the federal gov
crnmcnt in the strike"
Farley described the suit aS a
Subterfugc and asserted that the
parcels of food and clothing which
Republic mailed "wcrc not Of
fercd i'm good faith but with the
desire and ultimate and real pur-
pose Of involving thC postal auth
critics and postal employees IN the
controversy existing between Re
public and its striking employees.
Federal Judge James Proctor
rave Republic u week tC file a
counter answer. Farley then Will
have another opportunity 80 dc
fcnd his department., and the
court will hand down a ruling,
probably around July 1.
McKellar'S committee - lnycS-
tigating alleged violations OF fed
cral laws in connection with the
steel strike. The inquiry Is in the
form of preliminary hearing on
= resolution sponsored by Senator
II. STYLES Bridges, r., y. IT,, cali
ing for investigation of interior
cnce with the mails IN the ONO
strike area and on AN amendment
bv Senator Joseph +. Guifcy, d."
Pa, TO embrace the struck steel
corporations.
Mcclellan said nc had summon
ed Gridler az the request of Sen
aror Bridges. Farley also will teS-
tify, he said, as will two Chicago
poiice captains and the Chicago
states attorney who will be cues
toned in connection with the
South Chicago steel riot I'M which
ten men were killed.
The Tennessee senator said ne
WAS about convinced that me
committee should report t h g
Bridges resolution to the Senate,
together with Gutrcy'S amend
mcnt, with the recommendation
that both be turned over to the
IaFollette Civil LivcrtieS lnveSti-
eating committee. He indicated nc
would make such Il motion Thurs
day.
HoFman's attack was his most
acrimonious since the General
Motors strike when he demanded
the White House interfere, As a
nrelude he introduced a rcSolu-
tion. and demanded that Congress
adopt it, to require the President
by proclamation, to "adviSc the
nubIic that the right of men to
work will be preserved" and that
"no man or group of men shall
deny TO any citizen the emporium
ity TO engage in his usual or Gus
tomary task"
He charged that the President,
"for the first time in history, has
failed to comply with his duty to
employ land and naval forces OF
the United States to suppress IN
surrection and domestic violence.
"On the contrary" he shouted,
after interrupting House action
on a judiciary "gOod behavior
hill che permits the invasion Of
rhe State of Michigan by armed
forces from other states when his
nolitical friend, John l.. Lewis,
makes the INVASION
Hoffman singled out the COVER
rors of Ohio, Michigan and Penn
svlyania for attacks, charging they
had called out state militia to
nreyent non-strikers from work
ing. "thus abetting the CIO.
Rep. Maury Maverick, d.. Tex,
drew Hoffmsn's fire when he urg-
ed him to stick to the bill under
discussion.
al will try very, very hard, -
Hoffman retorted. "The question
now before us is the good behav-
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