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Evening star., 1937-02-28
PLANE PLANT TO REOPEN.
Work to Resume Monday, With Con-
tinued Picketinr Likely,

tinued PicketinE Likely.
LOS ANGELES. February n LP.-
The Douglas aircraft factory will re-
open Monday. President Donald Doug
las announced today as most of its
345 sit-down strikers indicted and
jailed on trespass conspiracy charges
were released without bond.
President John K Northrop also an
nounced reopening Monday of the
Northrop plant. Douglas subsidiary
scene Of a sit-down strike abandoned
Yesterday under threats of more in
dictments and Northrop's promises of
negotiation.
Shortly after the announcements,
a spokesman for the United Automo-
bile Workers of America. aircraft d.
vision, said picketing at the Douglas
plant probably would continue Mon
day.
Douglas announcement said decision
to reopen the factory was in response
to a petition signed by hundreds of
employees asking that operations be
resumed at the earliest possible mo-
ment."
In the announcement, addressed
merely to 'employes" Of the company,
no distinction was made between
strikers and non-strikers.
The indicted Douglas workers. who
started their sit down last Tuesday
and surrendered Thursday night to
some 300 officers armed with tear gas,
pistols and two machine guns, were
released without bonds by ones and
twos throughout today. They were
questioned by Superior Judge Charles
Fricke, Jailer Glen Peoples and Dep
uty District Attorney Lloyd Yarrow.
Bond was required, however, of about
Evening star., 1937-02-28

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, February n
P.-Negotiations to prevent . threat
Evening star., 1937-02-28
NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE.
Plans for Reopening Of General Motors
Plants Upset.

Plans for Reopening Of General Motors
Plants Upset.
GAINESVILLE, Wis, February 81 (P.
Collapse Of negotia tons today upset
plans for prompt reopening of two
General Motors plants which we're
closed by a union dispute arising from
the management's suspension of an
employe until he could act like q
man."
Twenty-seven hundred workers were
thrown into idleneSs yesterday when
the Fisher Body and the Chevrolet
Motors plants were forced to shut
down.
The first to close was the Fisher
when go United Automobile Workers
Union members sat down at their
posts in protest over the suspension
of William Bartell. a fellow member,
for booing at General Motors Alliance
members
When the Chevrolet plant was un-
able to obtain bodies from the Fisher
factory it was forced to shut down.
Union and company representatives
failed to agree on proposals for settle
ment of the controversy at today's
conference. The company suggested
that the factory be reopened Monday
with the understanding Bartel1 would
be recalled Thursday. The union pro-
posed reopening Monday with Bartell
and two former employees to be re-
called Thursday. The management
contended the two others were not
concerned in the present dispute.
POWER SUPPLY HIT.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

ened strike in the iron ore mines Of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron g. Railroad
Co. appeared to have collapsed today.
Union officials, returning here from
unsuccessful mediation conferences at
Montgomery. prepared to report to
union members the collapse Of the ne
gotiations with officials Of the Ten
nessee company. which employs about
$500 men In its iron ore shafts.
Members Of the Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers Union. who claim
a ma jority in mines of the Tennessee
company, already have voted to strike
unless differences are settled.
The union demands abolition of q
tonnage pay scale and return to q
daily wage and also asks reinstate-
ment of l55 union miners.
Calling Of the strike was left to the
unions Executive Committee.
STRIKE TRUCE is SEEN.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

company's failure to negotiate in the
absence OF its president. Robert r.
Pack, was a "subterfuge" to delay or
avoid negotiations.
Roger Ruthchick, the Governors
secretary, said the company had not
responded to his invitations to the
conference. He quoted Guy Alexan-
der, strikers representative. As saying
the power company ofiicials were pow
erless to negotiate on the union rec
ognition issue until Pack returned
from the South In March.
At the conference union officials
reiterated promises to keep lines open
to hospitals and the city water de-
partment pumping plant. but asserted
responsibility for any suffering that
might result from the strike must be
charged to the company for its failure
to negotiate.
Picketing at main company plants
continued today, with police and
deputy sheriffs on guard at substa-
tions.
MINE STRIKE THREATENED.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
REDWOOD Staying
BELIEVED SOLVED
Prosecution Names Two, but
Is Silent on Plans for
Criminal Action.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HACKENSACK. N. j., February 81
Prosecutor John J. Breslin, jr., named
tonight two men he said he believed
~"were involved in the plotting and
appeared to be directly responsible for
the death of Norman Redwood" ;"
sandhog union leader.
Breslin would not state whether he
intended to have warrants issued for
their ARE t or to seek their indict-
ment. The Bergen County grand jury
will meet Tuesday.
The prosecutor gave out 20-page
statement, detailing union and labor
disputes which he contents eliminated
In the murder of Redwood. shot by a
carload of gunmen eight days ago in
the driveway of his Teaneck home.
The prosecutors statement, issued
after he had recapitulated evidence
in eight days of investigation in sew
eral States, quoted Mrs. Victoria Red
wood. the slain mans widow.
The Staying, Breslin said. grew out
OF New York City labor warfare.
The situation clearly demonstrates
that Redwood was loyal to his fellow
working men," the prosecutors state
ment said.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
Strikes
Continued From First Page.)

6hipbuilding & Drydock Co., sub
sidiary of the huge United States
Steel Corp.-the latter preliminary
to what C. I. o. Generalissimo John
L. Lewis called the big push in Pitts
burgh next month"
Plan to Defy Governor.
Homer Martin, u A. w. A. presi-
dent and Lewis lieutenant, asserted
"sit-down' strikes would be called
whether Gov Harold G. Hoffman
'likes it or not" Hoffman has Joined
the Governors of Connecticut and
Illinois in condemning the squatting
strategy.
Concurrently, there were increasing
indications that the steel corporations
expected to offset the Lewis drive by
granting the workers an annual wage
increase of S75,000,000.
Meanwhile, non-striking "sit-down-
ers" continued to labor at the Eagle
Ottawa Leather Co. in Grand Haven,
Mich, in a novel project designed to
prevent a sedentary strike by their
COLLEAGUES,
Evening star., 1937-02-28
SALE PRICES
On Lifetime Furniture
Will Continue
ALL THIS WEEK

We ore sorry if you didn't get waited on Saturday. More
people tried to take advantage Of the special sale savings
than we have ever before seen in this store in single doy
But you still have tne The sole savings will continue
through March 6h-o this week is left for you to make
your selections But pIeose for your own sake, do not woit
until the lost minute Why not put aside everything else
and get here early tomorrow ond complete your purchases
Assoments unusually thousands of pieces and
suites Of dependable Lifetime Furniture waiting to be
chosen by you Remember. the savings ore all this week.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
C. /. O. Leaders Push Plans for Organ
national Drive.

lzat1OnaI Dflv4.
NEWARK, N. j., February n P)!-
Scene Of the first factory strike in the
New World, Northern New Jersey to-
night was a battle-ground for new
industrial struggle as Committee for
Industrial Organization leaders press
ed an organizational drive among the
districts thousands OF workers.
1t was in 1928 that cotton workers
men, women and thildren-quit
their mills in protest against a change
in the lunch hour ordered by Paterson
employers. The PaSSaic Valley textile
center, which in the years to come
was to receive the name of the Lyons
of America" was the site seven years
later Of another cotton mill strike.
this time for a 12-hour day. For the
first time the armed militia Of gov
eminent was called out to protect
property, records of that strike show.
More than 100 years later the threat
Of occupation of factories by sit-down
strikers hangs over the heavily indus
trialized North Jersey area. Warned
by Gov. Harold G. Hoffman against
this strategy, determined c. I. o. lead
ers demanded today that the Governor
get out of the way" and proclaimed
the political death Of public officials
who fail to have intelligent and en-
lightened views on labor"
Homer Martin, head of the Automo-
bile Workers of America. said in New
York that unless Hoffman and Mayor
Frank Hague of Jersey City, State
Democratic leader, change their atti-
tudes toward labor problems it's just
a question of when they're through
politically" At a mass meeting of
workers here last night, he made it
clear the c. I. o. would use the sit
down strike If necessary in New Jersey
whether Hoffman likes it or not"
The big assembly plant of the Ford
Motor Co. in Edgewatar and the Fed
eral Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., q
United States Steel subsidiary in
Kearney. have been labeled spear
heads of the campaign. Concentrated
drives have been mapped out for these
plants while union representatives
quietly lay the groundwork for their
campaign in hundreds of other indus
trial units.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

100 Of the 345. These were described
as men who either were not Los An
geles County residents or who could
not give three reputable citizens as
references, or whose attitude did not
please the court and officers.
JERSEY Is BATTLE-GROUND.
Evening star., 1937-02-28

would confer about the situation here
with John Brophy, director of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton. in Cleveland.
Mahan. general organizer for the
United Shoe and Leather Workers
Union, said the strike here was vir-
tually over. The New England Coun-
Gil Of the c. I. o. supported the strike,
which began earlier this week.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
stopped work in an F. w. Woolworth
Co. S and 10 cent store.
PICKET PATROL PLANNED.
Illinois Strikers Map Action at Mass
Meeting.

WAUKEGAN, ILL.,, February ~ (P).
"A mass meeting Of strikers formu-
lated plans today for a systematic
picket patrol at the Fansteel Metal
lurgical Corp-scene of two fights.
Paul Chaser of Gary, Ind. attorney
Of the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization, announced conferees in
the closed session had been informed
Of their legal rights" and had elect
ed to start picketing "in force" at the
company's North Chicago property to-
morrow morning.
simultaneously, the office of Sher-
iff L. A. Doolittle reported outside
men had been imported to aid the
strikers"
PLANE PLANT To REOPEN.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
c. 1. o. CAMPAIGN OPENS.

AMSTERDAM, N. Y, February 27
NP.-A campaign to organize 10000
carpet mill workers, launched here
by the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization, featured today's New
York State labor activities.
Evening star., 1937-02-28
POWER SUPPLY HIT.

MINNEAPOLIS, February II (R.-
State Attorney General William S. Err
vim undertook today the task of de-
termining whether Gov. Elmer A. Ben
Evening star., 1937-02-28
STRIKE TRUCE is SEEN.

LYNN, Mass, February 81 Up).-
William B. Mahan, leader Of a strike
which brought a IS per cent wage
increase to thousands of New Eng
land shoe workers, said today he
Evening star., 1937-10-30

who is fed from it--and Chinese SOL
dier As well, for that matter-con-
demns q Chinese civilian TO death.
This winter Is likely to see starvation
on a scale never before known even
in China, Russia or India. Meanwhile
japanese leaflets are being rained
down on the desperate population
reading: Welcome the japanese Army
as your ssviors and it will feed you.
1t has grain in Manchuria." Should
China surrender, Japan might make
good in part on this promise. Prob
ably only in the United States is there
enough surplus grain actually to do
the job.
Chinese Flood Lowlands.
The Chinese armies, on their part
are driven to use a weapon OF resist
ance more spectacular and perhaps as
brutal as the seizure of crops-fiooding
Of the immense low area under the
Yellow River dikes. For hundreds Of
miles the river bed of this mile-wide
stream Is higher than the surrounding
farming country, its bottom built up
by silt and its tawny waters held
back by dikes like ranges of low
hills. built up by millions Of human
spade workers through three millen-
iums. As the japanese approach this
base line of Chinese defense the Chi
nese cut through the dikes. flooding
areas 10 to 30 miles wide. They warn
the population TO leave if possible
But why leave? Drowning is easier
than starvation. The writer was once
with WI Pei-fu, most humane of
Chinese generals. when strategy i'm
PEELED him to cut the dikeS. Twenty
five thousand farmers were drowned.
Along the lines Of such strategies,
ruthless beyond anything seen in
modern times, but not so likely TO be
photographed by newsreel cameras
Evening star., 1937-10-30
Nine. Chang Watches Troops
Euacuate Wrecked SHANGHAI
Writes Dispatch From Building in Path
of Japanese Aduance, Amid
Thunder of Guns.

Shanghai are occupying the posts our
troops have just left. but the victory
about which they have boasted is
negative and very costly Our Chinese
troops still hope for a settlement and
1t is hard to get them to retreat
AS a matter of fact. we realize that
this war has just started. The Chinese
troops are fighting on their own
ground and the japanese lines OF
communication are being harassed
constantly by Chinese machine guns
mounted under the cover of night
and very readily moved from place
to place.
The important lesson we have
learned during the last 10 weeks is
that the Chinese troops will obey
orders to fight until death We have
also learned that any defending troops,
when adequately armed, would be
difficult to defeat when fighting within
the city limits.
Owing to the rebukes received from
Great Britain and the United States,
the international settlement of Shang-
hal so far is being closely respected
by the Japanese and the indiscrimi-
nate shelling and sniping in this area
days ago in my dispatch, the successful
capture of Shanghai by the japanese
has inspired them to refuse to at
tend the nine-power conference.
Copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-10-30
Greatest Horror of Strategy
Found on North China Front
Japanese Armies Using Seizure of Har'
rests and Starvation to Force POpu-
lace to Accept Rule.

nth articles By American authority
on Pacific affairs indicated his book Chdi
the present bloody andhere tells hat
Evening star., 1937-10-30

as the bombing OF cities, the war in
North China goes on. Japan has con-
quered the Province Of Hopei. 1t is
rich in agricultural and commercial
resources. Japan has taken the semi
desert areas Of Chahar and Suiyuan,
called provinces by courtesy and val
liable only strstegically in relation TO
Russia. Japanese mechanical forces
have been uniformly successful on the
North China plain. But geography
has pulled a trick on the invaders.
What they want most Of all Is the
oil and iron and ALUMINIUM area Of
Shensi and Shansi TO the west, and
those areas lie in and behind the
mountains, where the former Red
Chinese Army Is harassing and baf-
fling the invaders. 1t has been a long
wade through Jordan to the promised
land for the iron and oil hungry Japa-
nese, and here, on its very shore, they
are stopped.
Gen. Pal Backs Han Fu-chu.
Meanwhile, by a fast chessboard
move, Marking has put the watering
Gov. Han Fu-chu of Shantung-
which Japan expected to take without
ighting-between the devil and the
deep blue sea. 1t has sent the single
minded. ruthless, bitter-ender Gen
Pal Chung-hsi personally to Shantune
to back" Han with his army of fight
ing southern hillmen, disciplined un-
der years OF Pals so-called Fascist
regime. Pal, now chief of staff Of all
Markings armies, is actually top mill
tary man in China now.
There is a deeper strategy behind
the elevation Of Pal. Should Nanking
Chang Kai-shek-have to yield
Evening star., 1937-10-30
By NINE. CHANG KAI--SHEK,
Wife Of the Chinese Generalissimo.

NANKING, Oct. 30.-Never will
I forget the scenes I have just wit
messed at Shanghai. as that city was
being evacuated by the Chinese troops.
I was there for six hours and am
appalled, by the tragedy of great
city. victim of Japanese fury.
Our staff of European military ad-
viSers recommended the withdrawal
of Chinese troops from Shanghai.
Kal-shek. as the holding of the Shang-
hal corner long ago had become un-
tenable and impractical. AS long as
our troops remained there, the resi-
dents of the suburbs insisted on re-
manning in spite of the heavy shelling.
the bombing and the gas attacks,
which we're causing appalling casual
ties among non-combatants
We spent many anxious hours on
Tuesday night at the temporary
G. H. @. established in an Office at
Shanghai awaiting news of the sue
cessful withdrawal of the Chinese
troops. From periodical reports by
telephone. we learned that the with
drawal was effected successfully
Early Wednesday morning the final
message arrived stating that all of
the Chinese troops we're out of the
city proper
According to our military advisers.
this withdrawal was an unqualified
success, due largely TO the sudden and
unexpected decision made at our
g. H. @. BY sunrise the Chinese
troops had occupied new and stronger
lines which had been prepared several
weeks ago under the supervision of
our European advisers, who were
trained in trench warfare on the
fields of Flanders. Chinese sappers
had completed the last-minute wiring
OF our mines during the withdrawal
l am writing this from the new
headquarters, near the front lines. I
ran see gigantic explosions and scar
ing flames streaking the sky and il
Illuminating my windows as mines are
exploding following the evacuation of
the last retreating Chinese troops. Be-
tween us and the Japs, now enter
Ing the city from the wall on the
far side, there is a great wall of
smoke and flames caused by exploding
mines. Soon this Office, where I am
writing will be untenable, as we are
In direct line of Japanese guns. I
must leave by staff car waiting out
side. Only few yards away from
this office there is a huge mercantile
building in flames and the fire is
spreading.
The Japanese troops entering
Evening star., 1937-10-30

frankness and his informality. He
leaves little doubt where he stands.
How valuable is the virtue of frank
ness in diplomacy he proved at The
Hague six years ago.
In 1891 Japan was incurring the
moral wrath of most Of the world by
its Manchurian campaign. At such a
time the Toxic foreign office under
took to negotiate an arbitration treaty
with the Netherlands.
Progress was slow. Desperate, Japan
ordered Mr.. Saito from London, where
he was senior counselor of the En-
bassy, to The Hague. The Oriental
told the Dutch plainly what Japan
wanted. He put behind insistence on
petty points. and the treaty was quickly
signed. Mr.. Saito considers it his
greatest triumph. The attaches at the
Embassy here speak Of 1t with awe,
because the circumstances were most
unpropitious for treaty maneuvering
by Japan.
These attaches, most of them young,
revere the Ambassador. There is a
greater spirit of camaraderie at the
Japanese Embassy than at any diple-
matte mission in the Capital. Ambas-
ssdor Saito is sort Of father to all
the members Of his staff. He keeps
them intellectually on the qui vive.
Keeps Abreast Of News.
BY 8 am. Mr.. Saito has digested the
newspapers as thoroughly as any city
editor. Then he strolls through the
offices of the chancery, testing the at
taches' and secretaries acquaintance
with the big stories and the obscure
items. The result is that the japanese
diplomats know what's going on in the
world. Mr. Saito gets more cables from
his foreign Office than any diplomat
here. Toxic doesn't agree with the
American press reports of the Chinese
war.
Mr.. Saito, too, likes to broaden the
vocabularies of his aides. He springs
unusual words on them and insists
that they keep up with American
slang.
The whole Embassy has an informal
and easy, hospitable air. There is
nothing a japanese dislikes quite SO
much as wing collar, although he
is comfortable in sack suit and eats
American food with relish. The Am
basSasdor, when he is not entertain
ing Caucasian guests, eats japanese
food for breakfast and dinner and ar
American lunch. He keeps japanese
and American cooks. He prefers
Scotch whisky to saki.
A Baseball Fan.
Ambassador Saito has two daughters
whom he recently took to Niagara
Falls. which is the natural wonder al
Japanese look forward to seeing wher
| they plan a trip to the United States
A more constant diversion for Mr.
Saito than the Falls is baseball. He /.
veteran f1rst-game attender and HI
follows the Washington team closely
through the season.
Mr. Saito was named Ambassador
here in February. 1894, but he had
been at the Embassy as senior coun-
sellor since August, 1882. Earlier he
had been Consul in Seattle and Con-
sui General in New York. as we'll as q
Japanese delegate to the Washington
Arms Conference in 1922.
The dominant diplomatic mission
of Mr.. Saito here is pious hope
that he can convince the State De-
partment the japanese Exclusion Act
should be repealed. It's a matter oi
face"
Evening star., 1937-10-30

Ambassadors good will function with
any prospect of real results. The AM
bassador finds 1t polite for him and
his aides to be as pleasant as possible
and hope for the best.
So, to make the best of bad situa-
ton, the Far Eastern diplomats spend
much time on the golf course. The
Ambassador plays at Burning Tree
and the secretaries and attaches at
Kenwood Each year Mr.. Saito gives
cold cup to the best golfer among
the members of his staff and the
japanese business men living in Wash
ington. Col. Masschika Hirata, Mill
tary Attache, finds more time for golf
than anybody lese at the Embassy.
Diplomacy and Poker Mix.
Frequently after dinner the attaches
and secretaries. who like to hear the
Ambassador tell OF his own and other
mems experiences in diplomacy. gather
in the living room of the Embassy to
talk. Soon some one will say, How
about game of poker" and the play
begins.
The Ambassador is as fond of bridge
as he is of poker. but since the men,
bers OF his staff do not care for the
first as they do for the second. he goes
to the Metropolitan Club for partners
and opponents.
Hirosi Saito's standing as diplomat
is top rank. and the fact that he makes
no effort to force the japanese expan~
sionist argument down America
throat is probably the best testim
To his excellence. He also is the light
est Ambassador in Westinghouse
pounds. He is so years old.
Mr.. Saito's greatest assets are his