Evening star., 1937-02-28
LABOR DISPUTES
LEAVE 3O,O()O|DLE
THROUGHOUT U. S.
Three Injured in Detroit as
"Sit.DoWn" Strikers
Rout Opponents.
PICKETING Is PLANNED
AT VARIOUS FACTORIES
Concrete Wall" Is Promised by
Union Leader as Aircraft
Plant Maps Reopening.

BACKGROUND
Sit-doWn strike technique, first
used Effectively in France, Uas
introduced to America on big scale
for first time in December in strike
OF United Automobile Workers
against General Motors. The COM
pdny obtained court order to hare
strikers euicted, but neDer used it
and peaceful evacuation finally uds
arranged as both sides agreed to
bargain.
Claims OF gains By union leaders
gdUe impetus to similar tactics
against other industries until yes
terddy an estimated 10000 uere
idle in controversies tnuoluing
halt hundred plants.
BY the Associated Press.
Embattled unionists came to grips
with their adversaries yesterday at
pivotal point on the Nations coast
to-coast strike front.
"Sit-down" strikers bombarded with
heavy lead pellets, swarmed into the
administration building Of the Ferro
Stamping Co. at Detroit and routed
most of their 20 non-union foes. A
woman and two men were injured.
Gov. Frank Murphy offered the serv.
ices of State Labor Commissioner G.
A. Krogstad in adjusting a score Of
labor disputes in progress there. A
strike of 100 workers forced 1000 into
idleness at the Michigan Malleable
Iron Co. Approximately 100 sales
girls at the F. w. Woolworth and
10 cent store and Is drivers and sales.
men at the Canada Dry Ginger Ale Co.
started "sit-down" strikes Six hun.
dred went out at Thompson Products,
Inc
Picket lines tightened in other cen.
ters. Altogether, about 10000 were
idle in controversies over wages and
union recognition at SO factories and
foundries, mills and boat yards and
utility and airplane plants in many
sections Of the Nation.
Illinois Pickets Gather.
Pickets gathered at the Fansteel
Metallurgical Corp. in North Chicago,
Ill, where 81 squatters fed a tear
gas attack Friday. Five union and
Committee for Industrial Organization
leaders were hunted on warrants
charging conspiracy to obstruct court
order for the strikers eviction. Two
others were arrested and released on
bond.
The Douglas Aircraft Corps an
nouncement that it would resume
operations next week at Santa Monica.
Calf, was challenged by William
Busick, organizer for the United Auto.
mobile Workers aircraft division. He
declared a concrete wall" of pickets
would be thrown about the worlds
largest plane plant. The Northrop
Corp. Douglas subsidiary, also planned
to reopen. The disputes at the two
companies affected 6,750 employees.
Picketing of the main plants OF the
Northern States Power Co. at Min
neapolis continued as police guarded
substations. Secretary of Labor Per-
kins sent Father Francis Haas to me-
diate the difficulty. VandalS interrupts
ed the flow of electricity of some 1000
homes. Minnesota's attorney general
studied the legality of State control
of the facilities pending settlement
of the strike.
New Recruits Sought.
Strike leaders strove to gain new
recruits in an attempt to prevent the
scheduled resumption Monday of subs
marine building at the Electric Boat
! Co. yards at Groton, Conn.
Mayor Myron Lehman named q
citizens committee to seek to arbi-
trate the picket strike at the Illinois
Watch Case Co. at Elgin. III.
U. A. W. A. leaders sought to settle
strike that resulted in the closing
of two General Motors branches en-
ploying 2,700 at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Labor chieftains and induStrialists
alike eyed the Committee for Indus
trial Organizations membership cons
paign among the New Jersey employees
of the Ford Motor Co. and Federal
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