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Evening star., 1937-06-02
Republican League
Annual Garden Fete
Yesterday Afternoon

THE annual garden party of the
League of Republican Women was
given yesterday afternoon at the home
Of Senator and Mrs. James ]. Davis,
on Massachusetts avenue. The weather,
though very warm, was ideal for
garden fetes and the party was largely
attended, many going early to play
bridge under the lovely old trees.
Additional guests arrived for tea and
the brief program Of entertainment
and Mrs. Davis received the guests,
assisted by Mrs. Grant Cantacuzene,
recently elected president of the
league Mrs Davis wore a becoming
garden frock of figured chiffon and
Mrs. Cantacuzene was in white With
green accessories Mrs Warren r.
Austin, who was chairman of the
fete, was in figured crepe in shades OF
pink and blue, with which she wore
q picture hat of pink.
Mrs. Edward Everett Gam, sister
of the late Vice President Curtis, was
among those at the party, one OF the
first she has attended since the sud-
den death of Mr.. Gam which fol-
lowed so closely the death OF former
Vice President Curtis. She wore black
lace and Wide-brimmed black hat.
Following the bridge game refresh
ments were served on the lawn and
many enjoyed the brief program OF
entertainment given by Miss Marion
Venable and Mr. Paul Fox, who danced
a lovely waltz on the lawn, accom-
panied by Mrs. Sylvia Kaplowitz, who
played the accordion. Through the
afternoon the fortune tellers were busy
looking into the future for the inquis-
tive, Mrs. Eleanor Hall and Miss Gale
Nelson playing the roles OF sooth-
sayers.
Misses Jane. Jean, Joan and Jewell
Davis, attractive daughters OF the
hostess, assisted in the serving OF
the refreshments. and others assist
Ing were Mrs. Cooper Rhodes, Mrs.
James G. Wilkes, Mrs. Lawrence Proc
tor, Miss Dorothy Tirrell, Miss Frances
Ra1ney, Mrs. George l., hart, WI
William H. Mondell, jr.; Miss Dorothy
Smith, Mrs. Jordon Edmonds and Mrs
Emery Wheeler.
Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, vice presi-
dent of the league, and former presl-
dent, was accompanied by her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Frank w. Mondell
ir, who was married last month. Mrs
Mondell, sr., was in deep red chiffon
with gray figure and her wide
brimmed picture hat matched her cos
tune. Mrs. Edward A. Hartman also
former president, wore white with
green accessories and Mrs. William
Fitch Kelley, whose administration as
president closed this Spring, wore
chiffon gown In orchid and yellow flg-
ures and a matching hat.
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Fulbrights Hosts at
Garden arty for
New Representative

TRANQUIL BAR, the Wilson lane
estate of Mr.. and Mrs. R. c. Full
bright, was the scene Monday OF
Memorial day garden party and tea
IN honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Thomas, new Representative to Con-
eress from Houston, Tex. Attending
were many members of Congress who
had stayed in town over the holiday
week end. Guests numbered about
$50.
Refreshments were served in the
house and terraced gardens, Mrs.
Thomas. the guest Of honor, wore
dark blue and white mouSsellne de
sole dress with corsage bouquet OF
white roses, while Mrs. F'ulbright was
dressed in white net and carried vio-
let's and lilies of the valley. Assisting
Mrs. Fulbright were Mrs. w. M. RAM
seyer, wife of the former Representa-
tive from Iowa, and her daughter,
Miss Barbara RamseyeT; Mrs. Adam
Weir, also of Iowa, Mrs. Catherine
Nichols and Miss Margaret Black.
Prominent among the guests who
attended were Senator and Mrs. Nor
rH Sheppard of Texas, Senator and
Mrs. James P. Pope, former Senator
and Mrs. B. j. Mansfield, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Ewing Thomson, Rep
resentative and Mrs. George H. Ma
hon, Representative and Mrs. Clyde
L. Garrett, Representative and Mrs.
Fred Biermann, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Bar
rett Prettyman, Judge and Mrs. Har-
old Smith: Judge and Mrs. Charles
W. Woodward, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Craig Peacock, Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Hugh M. Tate and Mrs.
Tate, Mr.. and Mrs Julian Friant, Mr..
and Mrs. George Porter, Col. and
Mrs. Clark Wrenn, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles j. Happier, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ulysses Butler, Col. and Mrs. Samuel
r. AnseI, Mr.. and Mrs. William Bar
tel, Mr.. Robin Hood, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Black, Mr.. and Mrs. John E.
Ryerson, DR.. and Mrs. William G.
GWynn, Mr.. and Mrs. George Sanford
Holmes, Mr. Paul Wooton, Mr.. Homer
Hendricks, Mr.. Edward F. Lacey, Mr..
Edward B. Meigs, Mr.. John Cunning
ham, Mr.. George w. Bell, Mr.. Robert
H. jackson, Mr.. Russell Brown, Miss
Marion J. Harron, Miss Marion But
Ter, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Russell Leech,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur J. Mellott and
Mrs Henry H. Walker.
Evening star., 1937-06-02
Mrs. DOYLE Returning

The president Of the Board Of Edu-
cation. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle,
who left Saturday for Birmingham,
Ala, where she delivered the COM
mencement address to the graduating
class Of the State College of Alabama
at Montevallo, Monday. and stopped
OF at Knoxville to visit some of the
T. v. A. developments, will return
today. June IA she will deliver the
baccalaureate address to the gradu-
ates Of the Massachusetts State Col
lege for Teachers at Framingham,
Mass.
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per cent and totaled $4,000, 900 to
s14 ,000, 900 a year.
Packard's increases boosted the
yearly pay roll about $4,000, 900 and
averaged about 5 cents an hour.
These companies produce shout so
per cent of the Nations automobiles
and trucks. Their announcements
leave the Ford Motor Co. as the only
major company that has not made
general wage increases in the last year.
Ford Raises Continuous"
A member Of the Ford organiza-
ton, asked If any increases were
planned, said wage increases with it
are "a continuous process" and that
its wage rates ARE still we'll above
those of the other companies"
Another Ford official said the COM
pany had raised wages by $44,843. 900
during 1896 and that the average
hourly pay is now SO cents. The
pay roll rise was caused partly by an
increase in the number of workers
from l08,000 to $4,000, the official
stated, but the annual earnings OF
the workers were increased $141 Q
man on an average.
In addition to the vast sums dis
tributed through wage increases, the
automobile industry is spending mil
lions of dollars month for plant
expansion. During the past two years
the industry has spent $l50,000, 900
for this purpose and for increasing
inventories.
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terfering In the slightest way with
your utterances or in any way in
fiuencing or causing you to change
your attitude or public expressions
regarding the American Federation of
Labor, the Executive Council wishes
you to know that 1t regards your pres
ent attitude and activities as . con-
tribution Of service to those un-
friendly to the cause Of labor who
would divide and weaken organized
labor and thus strengthen the forces
arrayed against labor.
Certainly we caEnot regard your
public utterances and expressions as
. service to labor or an effort to
bring about unity in the ranks of
labor"
Evening star., 1937-02-14

pated with workers in the sit-down
strikes In three Flint plants Of Gen.
eral Motors Corp, Pinkerton may face
charges Of contempt Of the Senate.
Pinkerton May Be Recalled.
Scheduled to resume open hearings
tomorrow, the committee may recall
Pinkerton or some of his aides to
the stand at that time. Already
standing by for week. i've personnel
officers of General Motors are sched-
uled for appearance within the next
day or two.
With Lewis expected to return to
Washington from Detroit over the
week end. subcommittee of the Policy
Committee of the United Mine Work
ers continued their executive sessions
today in consideration Of their
strategy for the soft coal contract
negotiations this week in New York.
A definite outline Of their desires, ex-
pected to embrace = 30-hour week and
increased hourly rates of pay, will be
reported back to the full committee
tomorrow and upon final approval is
to be submitted to the industry repre-
sentatives In New York on Wednesday.
Possibility Of an impasse in these
negotiations is the circumstance lead
ing to fears that q soft coal strike
may develop by March 81, when the
present wage and hour contracts
expire. With the C. I. O.. with
which the United Mine Workers are
affiliated, about to intensity their
organization drive in the steel in
dustry, the threat Of joint action
against the two major industries Is
obvious.
Reviews Former Relations.
Reviewing the cordial relations
which existed between the A. F. OF L.
and Gen. johnson while the latter
was head Of the N. r. A. and recall
ing that the former Government
official had never voiced any criticism
Of the labor leadership at that time,
Green's letter continued in part:
1T Is extremely unfortunate that
serious division has taken place
among the affiliated organizations of
the American Federation of Labor.
Undoubtedly you are entirely familiar
with the undisputed fact that this
division Is not to be attributed to the
American Federation of Labor, but
that the fault rests solely and primar-
lily with those organizations which,
dissatisfied with the decisions of an
unquestioned majority reached in
open and regular conventions wherein
they participated, set out to enforce
their minority will and their arbitrary
form of organization upon the ma
jority. in conflict with every rule of
decency and equity and in direct
violation of the constitution and laws
Of the American Federation of Labor,
to which they had agreed and which
they had pledged their honor to
support.
1T Is not only unfortunate but
extremely regrettable to find that you
now favor and advocate the virtues
and rights OF minority to direct,
control. dominate and dictate to the
ma ajority, contrary to every rule of
justice and of mutual agreement
We are amazed that you should now
give encouragement and support to
those who would so fiagrantly disre-
gard their agreement and obligation
and assume the role of irresponsible
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by the corporation will be back at
work.
The same thing is true Of General
Motors workers in other cities. APP
proximately 10000 Chevrolet workers
in six cities have been ordered to re-
port for work Monday. Oldsmobile
at Lansing, Mich, will step up its
force from 5000 to 5000. Cadillac
will open at Detroit Monday on a re.
stricted basis
General Motors officials have esti.
mated a production of from 225, ,00C
to 100000 cars and trucks during
March and possibly during the follow
ing two or three months until they
catch up with the heavy backlog Of
orders now on hand.
In Detroit leaders of the United
Automobile Workers Of America anc
General Motors executives prepared
for conferences scheduled to oper
there Tuesday to negotiate problem.
not settled in Thursdays agreement
Denies Anderson Blame.
Robert c. Travis. union organizer in
Flint, said of the labor disorders a,
Anderson. Ind. today that he could
not account for the presence OF Flint
workers ut the scene of the trouble
and denied that union officials at Flint
had issued any marching orders"
Travis charged General Motors had
induced the civil authorities to with.
hold protection from our people"
General Motors ofiicials did not com.
ment on the disorders. which did no,
occur on the corporations property.
Almost forgotten in the excitement
attending the termination of the Gen.
eral Motors strikes. 20 men completed
the forty-sixth day of their sit-dowr
strike in the Standard Cotton Product.
plant today.
The management Of the company
which supplies seat padding to the
Fisher Body plants here, insists tina,
1t cannot meet the strikers demand.
for minimum wage of so cents ar
hour in view Of its contracts with
General Motors The present mini
mum Is 80 cents.
The strikers are members Of the
United Automobile Workers. Address
ing mass meeting in front OF the
plant Friday. Norman Thomas. So
cialist party leader. referred to them
as the forgotten men who are the
real heroes Of this labor war;"
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Labor
Continued From First Page.)

the colorful johnson was the high
light of the weekend labor news in
the Capital. the status on other fronts
was as follows:
The La Toilette committee investi-
eating espionage and coercion in labor
relations postponed for several days
at least its decision on eventual action
toward Robert A. Pinkerton, youth
full head of the Pinkerton National
Detective Agency, who defled the
probers on two specific occasions on
Friday.
Refusing, on advice Of counsel. to
surrender to the committee some so
original espionage reports turned in
by Pinkerton informants in the De-
troit area and to disclose the Identities
Of under-cover operatives who partici-
Evening star., 1937-02-14
STRIKE THREATENS
NEW YORK HOTELS
Service Employees to Be
Called Out Tomorrow and
Tuesday, Official Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 13.-Chris
Houlhan, union president. an
nounced tonight that service employees
in the city's large hotels will be called
out on strike Monday and Tuesday.
Houlihand. president of Local 800 Of
the Building Service Employees In
ternatiOnal Union, predicted that
1000 dishwashers, elevator operators,
chambermaids, bellhOps, porterS, door
men. telephone operators and others
would walk out.
He named six of the biggest hotels
the Biltmore, the Commodore, the
New Yorker, the Pennsylvania, the
Roosevelt and the Waldorf rf-Astoria-
as the frst targets in a drive to
negotiate for q shorter work week and
improved wages and working condi-
tions.
Hotel executive scoffed. The union,
they said, was weak and they were
confident their stats would stay.
A year ago there was q short strike
of hotel employees, following the CITY,
wide strike Of building janitors, ele-
vator operators and engineers called
by James j. Bambrick, president of
Local 32-B, in apartment houses and
loft buildings.
Last Monday Bambrick started pull
ing union men out of apartment and
office buildings to force agreements
where there were none with the union.
He said that 554 contracts had been
signed because of the drive, with an
other $500 or 30 buildings to be
struck.
Bambrick suspended further strike
activity over the Lincoln birthday
holiday week end.
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Half Century Devoted to Union
Is Record of Andre,u Furuseth
Head of International
Seannen KnOiUn as
"Old Viking"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Andrew Furuseth, dean Of the
American labor movement. this year
rounds out half a century Of service
to various seamens unions.
Just so years ago Furuseth was
elected secretary of the Sailors Union
of the Pacific. He then was a cru
sading Norwegian sailor of "a.
Today Furuseth is president Of the
International Seamen's Union, an
organization he helped to build. Al
though bad health keeps him in q
hospital a good share Of the time,
Furuseth still visits the Labor De-
partment and Congressman in the
interest of his unions program.
known as the "Old Viking" Furu-
seth Is the only American labor
leader whose bust stands in the La
Dor Department
Furuseth first came to washington
in 1894 to seek protective legislation
for seamen Photographers asked
permission to take his picture. He
told them they could when the legis-
lation he sought was enacted. On
March 4. 1873 years later-he
walked out of the White House and
confronted photographers.
You can take that picture now,"
he said.
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Continued From First Page.)
headquarters at Alexandria and re-
ported confscating three shotguns,
two rifles and ammunition.
Reuther called the martial rule a
signal victory" for the union, add
ing:
1T is regrettable that men had to
be shot before the State recognized
conditions weren't as peaceful as the
mayor had said they were"
Mayor Harry r. Baldwin said po-
lice protection had been afforded the
unionis.s ever since the first dem
onstration several weeks ago.
THE police twice have performed
heroic service" the mayor added. ''in
rescuing these agitators from the re-
suits Of their own conduct, and on
both occasions they have turned on
their benefactors. Their every act
has been with studied purpose to
arouse resentment in the community
None Of those wounded in this
mornings clash was in a dangerous
condition. Only four remained long in
a hospital, the others having fed ut
the approach of police cars.
Emory Shipley. proprietor of the
tavern where the trouble started, said
two car loads Of men" drove up and
demanded that Evon Robertson, a
non-unionist who. police said. re-
Gently engaged in an alteration with
union worker, come outside.
Shooting Starts.
Shooting started, Shipley said, after
! he answered that Robertson was not
present. Shipley told police he fired
shotgun to drive the crowd away
He was not held. The crowd was gone
and the tavern wreck when police
arrived.
Union and non-union employees OF
the Anderson automotive plants have
been engaged in a feud ever since
union workers at the Guide Lamp Fac
tory Joined the "sit-down" strikes
against General Motors last December
State motorcycle police escorted the
Michigan cars back to the State line
late in the day. The police led the
procession Of cars into a nearby fill-
ing station for a free fill-up of their
gasoline tanks before starting the
homeward trip.
Many Of the cars had been held up
on the highway for hours before the
decision was reached to furnish them
escorts back to Michigan.
Union leaders have made frequent
protests to Federal and State officials
complaining Of their treatment by the
Anderson mayor and police chief.
Secretary Perkins sent an investi-
gator OF the Labor Department here
several days ago when unionists COM
planned some of their members had
been beaten by Anderson policemen.
United States District Attorney Val
Nolan conducted an independent
investigation Of allegations that strike
breakers had been imported into the
State,
Evening star., 1937-02-14
CHARLES W. B. HURD
FETED BY WRITERS
New York Times Correspondent to
Be Assistant Manager of
London Bureau.

A group Of Washington newspaper
men assembled last night at the May
flower Hotel to honor Charles w. B.
Hurd Of the New York Times, who
has been ordered to that papers Lon
don bureau.
Hurd for the last five years has
been the White House correspondent.
He will be assistant manager at the
London bureau.
Those who were paying tribute to
Mr.. Hurd last night we're mostly
White House correspondents. The
party was in charge of Claude A. Ma
honey Of the Wall Street Journal,
while Walter J. Trojan of the Chi
cago Tribune, newly elected president
OF the White House Correspondents
Association, acted as toastmaster.
Other speakers were Earl Goodwin Of
the Washington Times and Thomas
F. Edmunds Of the New York Times.
On the entertainment program was
the White House quartet, led by Mar
win H. Mcintyre. presidential secre-
tary; George O'Connor, George Will
son and Fulton Lewis Of the Uni.
versal Service.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

dictatorship. Indeed. We find 1t
difficult and impossible to reconcile
your previous attitude regarding the
validity of the rule OF the majority
in all collective relationships fairly
and democratically reached, with your
present attitude in favoring a minority
rule sought to be enforced ruthlessly
in the affairs of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
I'VE are amazed that in all Of your
references to the Committee for In
dustrial Organization and the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor you have
invariably lauded the principles and
leadership Of the former and found
fault with that of the latter. Not
content to express your opinion and
judgment upon the merits or dement's
Of the fictitious issue raised regard
ing so-called craft or industrial or
ganizations of labor, you likewise
take occasion to belittle if not be-
smirch the character and abilities OF
some Of the trusted officers of the
American Federation of Labor and
Of the labor movement as represented
by the A. F. OF L.
I'VE can only conceive that such
conduct on your part is designed to
lessen the confidence of the rank
and file of labor in the principles and
leadership as exemplif1ed by the
American Federation of Labor and
its affiliated national and interna-
tional unions, regardless of whether
your conduct was inspired by mo-
tives Of malice. OF good will or of
Indifference.
"Whatever motives may have
prompted your unfavorable observa-
tions toward the American Fedora
ton Of LABOR. whether your published
statements were well or i'll designed
and particularly and especially with
out thought. purpose or design of in
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5000 BACK AT JOBS.
Guard Demobili1ation Started "a
Workers Return.

Workers Return.
FLINT, Mich, February 13 P.-
Three thousand Smiling. happy auto
mobile workers today returned to their
jobs in the giant Fisher Body plant
No. as the roar of machines marked
the real end of the six weeks General
Motors strike.
These workers, idle since December
80, when the plant was closed by
sit-down strike, we're the first of 100,-
900 who will 60 back to work by mex:
Tuesday In the corporations plants
throughout the Nation.
A few hours after the day shift OF
$500 punched the time clock at the
Fisher plant, National Guard officials
started demobilization of the $500
troops on duty in the strike zone.
A Cavalry regiment and a Field
Artillery regiment, totaling about $50
men, left for their homes during the
morning. The other troops will leave
Flint some time next week.
Wear Union Buttons.
The "return-to-work" movement be-
gan at am. as the workmen filed
between company guards at the gates;
many of them wore union buttons on
their overalls. Before the strike, wear
ing of the union insignia in the plant
was forbidden.
Only the south unit of the plant
resumed operations today. In the
north unit, where the sit-down took
place, maintenance men were busy
tearing down makeshift barricades put
up by the strikers and preparing the
plant for work by the middle of next
week. The Fisher No. 2 plant, which
also was occupied by strikers, will
be ready to open Tuesday.
With the exception of the final
assembly line, the Buick plant will be
reopened Monday, with 12,500 persons
returning to their jobs. The Chevrolet
plant also will resume operations Mon
day. BY the end of the week, General
Motors of1icials said, virtually all Of
the $4,000 persons employed in Flint
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Lewis
Continued From First Page.)

Selassie. He may have a few ma
tionals in the industry, just like
Green, but why discuss Ethiopians. a"
The militant chieftain of the c. I.
o. is recovering rapidly from infiu-
enza, which sent him to bed during
the last stages of the General Motors
strike settlement negotiations this
week. He said he would leave for
Washington Sunday to plan his cam
paigr in the steel industry. and to
work on renewal of United Mine
Workers contracts with mine opera
tors.
He likened the steel campaign to
"the crouching lion Of the labor
movement
Asserting that the A. F. of L. had
been ''pecking away at the auto
mobile industry for several years,
Lewis declared 1t remained for the
mass-production United Automobile
Workers of America to organize ef-
fectively.
Collective bargaining has definitely
come to the automobile industry" he
said. After "a years, General Mo-
tors, for the first time, has agreed
to bargain with a responsible labor
organization.
THE union in the automobile in
dustry has a membership Of 100000,
conservatively speaking, and within
o few months will have double that
number.
Seven weeks ago General Motors
would not deal with or recognize any
union and publicly proclaimed that it
would not in the future. Now it has
entered into an eminently salts
factory contract with . responsible
union.
General Motors occupies the same
relationship to the automobile in
dustry that United States Steel does
in the steel industry. Each pro-
duces about 40 per cent of the total
output in its field.
The General Motors policy sets the
pace for the industry and we expect
other companies to fall rapidly into
line. There will not be undue haste
about this procedure and the union
will proceed in logical manner"
Asked when he expected formal de-
nands to be made on the Ford Motor
Co. and the Chrysler Corp, Lewis
said:
Il have no definite announcement
TO make on that score at present,
but we will have them bargaining
by next Christmas. Mr.. Henry Ford
and all his millions does not daunt us.
He Is just another citizen with . lot
of money" Il