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Evening star., 1937-01-24
NEGOTIATIONS FAIL
IN GLASS STRIKE
Another Toledo Walkout Remains
Unsettled as Gas Workers
Stand Firm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Ohio, January 23.-Lib-
bey- Glass Co. officials
walked out of a conference with union
leaders today shortly after Edward F.
McGrady, ace labor trouble shooter.
announced on another front he would
leave the city unless progress is made
toward settlement of Toledo's week
old gas strike
Action of the glass company Off
cialS came after a union committee
rejected the company's offer of g.
cent-an-hour increase to its 100 en-
ployes. called out on strike Decem-
Der Is by the Federation Of Flat
Glass Workers.
Authoritative sources said the union
committee told Federal Mediator
Ralph A. Lind and company officials
1t had no authority to deal on a basis
other than a wage increase Of
cents an hour.
McGrady said the apparent failure
in the gas strike negotiations re-
wolves around gas company rates and
the wages asked by the union.
The organization called the strike
on midnight Of January IS Tor a
signed contract, wage increases and
other concessions. Two hundred and
seventy employees are affected.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
CLUB HOLDS
INAUGURAL RITES
Grldley Installed as Presi.
dent-Baer, Runyon,
Abbey, Lewis Speak.

Charles o. Gridley, Washington cor.
respondent Of the Denver Post, was
formally "inaugurated" as president
Of the National Press Club at the an.
nual installation OF officers last night.
He succeeds George w. Simpson.
correspondent Of the Houston Post.
Arthur Bugs" Baer was master Of
ceremonies, and speeches were de-
livered by Westbrook Pegler. Damon
Runyon and James Abbey, syndicate
writer who recently has been covering
the Spanish war.
George DurnO, International News
Service correspondent and chairman
Of the Entertainment Committee,
opened the program; FL Gary, Balti-
more, radio tenor. sang. and the
Navy Band, directed by Lieut.. Charles
Benter, played several selections.
Other club officers installed at the
ceremonies follow: Harold Brayman,
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger,
vice president; Clifford A. Provost, De-
troit Free Press, secretary; Charles
A. Hamilton, Troy Times. treasurer:
Felix T. Gotten. Central News, finan-
cial secretary, and Thomas L. Stokes,
Scripps-Ho Newspaper Alliance;
John O'Donnell, New York Daily
News. and Melbourne Christerson, AS
sociated Press, members of the Board
of Governors. Hold-over members of
the board are Arthur Hachten. Uni
versal Service: Lorenzo w. Martin,
Louisville Times, and Richard L.
Wilson, Des Moines Register and
Tribune.
The concluding feature of the pro-
gram was the new presidents in
augural address. Senator J. Ham
Lewis, Democrat. Illinois, Mr.. Gridley's
home State, spoke earlier.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
LABOR REGULATION
DRAFT COMPLETED
Lawyers to Pass on Pro-
posed Constitutional Amend.
ment February !.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 23.-The first
draft of a proposed constitutional
amendment empowering Congress to
regulate hours and wages Of labor was
completed today for presentation to
Congress.
As drawn by a group Of constitu-
tional lawyers. headed by DIR. Joseph
P. Chamberlain Of Columbia Univer-
sity, it was worded to:
/. Delegate definitely to Congress
the right to set limits on hours and
wages in industry.
2. Specifically bar the fourteenth
amendment-which says no citizen
shall be deprived Of life, liberty or
property without due process of law
from being applied to prevent such
regulation.
8. Prevent the action Of the above
No. from destroying or weakening
civil liberties guaranteed under the
fourteenth amendment and under the
bill Of rights.
Liberals Meet February 1.
The proposal was drafted in con-
nection with formation of a Ma
tional Committee to Clarity the Con-
stitution by Amendment" group OF
liberals which will organize at De-
troit on February /.
The amendment in its original form
was included in a report to be made
by the lawyers-Dr. Chamberlain, DR..
Noel DoWling. Columbia professor who
acted as consultant in the case T. v. A.
won before the Supreme Court; DR..
Herman Gray Of New York Univer-
sity. and DR.. Lloyd Garrison Of the
Wisconsin School Of Law-on Mon
day to a committee of which Charles
c. Birmingham, former president Of
the American Bar Association, Is
chairman.
The proposals final form will not
be known until Burlingham's group
presents it at the Detroit meeting.
A drive to obtain its enactment at
the present session Of Congress will
be started there.
Called Clarification.
The campaign will center on the
proposition that it is a Qualification,
rather than a change, in the Con-
stitution which is desired.
The movement for an amendment
crystallized in four States-New York,
Michigan, Ohio, Washington-after
the Supreme Court held the New York
minimum wage law for women uncon-
stitutional. State committees to
clarity" the Constitution were formed
in each
Official representatives Of each
of the 48 States have been invited
to the Detroit gathering.
Speakers at the meeting will IN
clude Michigan's Governor, Frank
Murphy; Robert Watt of the Massa-
chuSetts Labor Federation, NJ. w
Thatcher of the Maryland Farmers
Union and Charles Poletti, counsel
to New York's Governor. Herbert
Lehman.
Evening star., 1937-01-24

ther delay or equivocation. Let them
come without the shadow OF double
cross"
Future Moves Awaited.
Along the strike front Of half hun
dred closed General Motors plants,
striking members of the United Auto
mobile Workers OF America, a c. l. o.
affiliate, and idle non-union employees
of the corporation watchfully awaited
future moves.
William S. Knudsen, General Mo-
tors executive vice president, charged
with putting into effect the corpora
tion's policy ito afford as much work
as possible to our employees who are
out Of work through no fault of their
own" announced some plants would be
reopened Tuesday, but made 1t clear
there was no intent to operate fac
tories where strikes are in progress.
Reiterating General Motors will
lingness to negotiate when Sit-down
strikers evacuate two Fisher body
plants at Flint, Mich, focal point Of
the present deadlock, Knudsen def1nec
the strike issue as property rights or
no property rights"
The next step, he said 'is up to the
union. It's up to those fellows to
leave the plant"
Demands Collective Bargaining.
Martin contended that il the corpo-
ration would get down to collective
bargaining. We can settle this strike
and the men can be back at work in
"a hours"
Martin said he would confer At
Toledo with Glen McCehe president
of the Federation of Flat Glass Work
ers, concerning settlement Of the
Libby Owens-F glass strike. The
federation also is c. L. o. union.
Gov. Frank Murphy. back in Detroit,
said tonight that ANY immediate
action awaits word from Secretary
Perkins"
Martin, commenting on the auto
workers attitude toward Chrysler and
Ford, designated by Lewis as the next
objective of the unions bargaining
efforts, said that since September
Chrysler has been doing collective
bargaining"
There is one thing to be saio about
Ford" he added. He has lent his
influence towards higher wages and
settling strikes. He told employers
Briggs. Kelsey-Hayes and Midland
Steel-that the time has come for
them to meet higher salary needs and
in that respect was instrumental in
settling those strikes"
Strikes Affected Ford.
The strikes in these three plants
affected flow of parts to Ford and
other automobile manufacturers.
William J. Cameron Of the Ford
Motor Co. said in a broadcast re-
Gently that the six-hour-day, one Of
the unions demands on General
Motors, Is coming" in the industry.
This comment recalled trade talk,
shortly before the N. r. A. code was
imposed on the automobile industry,
that Ford was considering an adjust
ment Of hours and wages.
General Motors announced that
Evening star., 1937-01-24
GOV. JOHNSTON FAv0RS
CHILD LABOR MEASURE
Reasserts Personal Position After
Conference Here With
Roosevelt.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The question of approval OF the
proposed child labor amendment to
the Constitution by the South Caro-
lima Legislature was discussed yester-
day by President Roosevelt and Gov
Olin D. Johnston.
Johnston said he explained his posi-
ton to the President, recalling he had
advocated approval in his 1884 mes
sage to the Legislature.
IF the Legislature passes it will
be glad to sign It," tl< Governor de-
clared. THE President knows my
views, but the question Is one for the
Legislature"
President Roosevelt wrote Cover
nors OF States which have not ap-
proved the proposed amendment ask
ing them TO move 70 speed adoption.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
Strike
Continued From First Page.)

of some OF its plants closed by strikes
which have thrown 125,000 of the cor
poration's wage-earners out OF work.
The plans involve a couple of
days work a week" for $4,000 idle
employees in factories closed by the
paralyzing effects Of strikes in other
corporation units. The partial re-
sumption, it was estimated, would pro-
vide a pay roll increase of approxi-
mately $4,000 daily.
Secretary Perkins indicated at
Washington there may be renewal
of Federal Labor Department efforts
to bring corporation officials and
John L. Lewis. chairman of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization,
together across conference table.
Martin Replies to Sloan.
Homer Martin, president OF the
United Automobile Workers of Amer
lea, asserted in Toledo, Ohio, that
"only real change in the policies of
General Motors will bring peace, either
temporary or permanent"
He was replying to a statement is
sued yesterday by Alfred P. Sloan,
jr., president of General Motors, avow-
ing the company's desire to return
its automotive employees to work, and
its willingness to open negotiations
with the U. A. w. A. as soon as
strike-occupied plants at Flint are
evacuated.
Mr.. Sloan complains about the
illegal occupation of the plants by
the sit-down strikers" Martin said.
81 would like to remind Mr.. Sloan
that 40 years ago it was illegal to
call strike; it was illegal to walk
in a picket line. and in my opinion
Mr.. Sloan would make 1t illegal to-
day if he could do So"
Flags "Anti- Union" Policy.
Martin declared General Motors "is
reaping the benefit of its own duplicity
and anti-union labor policy which was
conceived in the hearts of the men
who sit in Wall Street.-The men who
ctnnived TO drive the President out
Of the White House"
Eve know that every worker wants
to get back to work." Martin contin-
ued, "but we are not willing to have
peace at any price-not at Wall Streets
terms-and We know that the workers
feel just that way about it."
Reiterating his charg that evacua-
tion of the striker-held plants in Flint
was deferred last Sunday because OF
"stupendous and dastardly double
cross" by General Motors, Martin said: :
If Mr.. Sloan and his associates wish
to settle this matter as he says, let
them meet with us now, without fur
Evening star., 1937-01-24
SHIPS LEAVING NEW YORI
East Coast Strikers Begin Neg0tiat.
ing Settlement.

NEW YORK. January % (P).-Ships
tied up by the seamen's strike begai
to move out OF New York Harbor
again today as sailors negotiated set
tlement OF their complaints.
The Panama Pacific liner, Virginia.
held at her pier more than two
months, sailed before noon with 60C
passengers bound for Pacific Coast
cities
Picketing Of the craft was halted
by order of the Strike Strategy Com
mittee. which said it did not wish to
prejudice negotiations now in the
hands of the National Labor Relations
Board in Washington, D. C.
The Santa Elena of the Grace line
also cast off without interference from
the strikers, and the Santa Rita was
to follow on Monday.
The sesmen's peace moves en-
couraged another strikebound ves-
sci, the Panama Paciflc's Pennsyl-
vania, to prepare to sail two weeks
from today after a delay OF several
months.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
LABOR SPY PROBE
ASKS SM0REF
Senate Committee Next to
Obtain Testimony of De-
tective Agency.
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

Deep in its expose of industrial
espionage, the special Senate commit
tee investigating violations of civil
liberties probably will ask the Senate
this week for substantial new ap-
preparation.
Just how much will be requested
had not been determined yesterday,
but Chairman La Toilette and Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Utah were
planning to make this decision over
the week end.
Although more was sought when the
committee was authorized to make the
inquiry. only $4,000 was provided
last Spring. To supplement the activi-
ties possible under this appropriation.
however the committee succeeded in
gaining assistance from the National
Labor Relations Board and much of
the evidence thus far presented has
come from the files of the boards
investigators.
Detective Agency Next.
On resuming its hearings tomorrow,
the committee has scheduled for
examination two officials of the Cor
porations Auxiliary Co., Cleveland
private detective agency. Frequently
engaged by automobile manufacturing
concerns. the detective company off,
cials are expected to throw consider
able light on espionage practices in
that strike-beset industry.
Further information on these prac-
tices IS expected when officers of
Chrysler, General Motors and other
big automobile companies are placed
on the stand. Many of them already
are under committee subpoena to ap-
pear when called.
The officials of the Corporations
Auxiliary Co scheduled for appearance
tomorrow are j. H. Smith, president
and Dan G. Ross. sales manager.
Also scheduled during tine coming
week is the return of L. A. Stringham
Eastern representative of the National
Metal Trades Association, strike
breaking organization. and H J. Bun
dock and Joseph Holub, New York
employees of the association. With
them they have been ordered to bring
whatever evidence they have that
representatives of the Army, Navy and
Justice Departments ever enlisted CO.
operation of the association in in
Vestigating workers.
Aircraft Employees Traced.
Stringham told the committee yes
terday that such cooperation had
been sought in connection with the
background and activities Of several
persons employed in aircraft plants.
The individuals were under suspicion,
Stringham said. of being in the employ
of foreign interests and being engaged
IN sabotage Of airplane parts.
Other developments at yesterday S
hearing included submission of list
of about 60 labor spies in the employ
of the Metal Trades Association during
the past three years, many of whom
were identified by name during the
hearing b. three officials Of the Inter-
national Association Of Machinists.
Among those aiding in the identifi-
Evening star., 1937-01-24
DINNER TO BE TUESDAY
American Civil Liberties Union to
Stage Quarterly Event.

The Washington branch Of the
American Civil Liberties Union will
mold its quarterly dinner at 6:45 pm.
Tuesday at the Y w. C. A., Seven
teenth and K streets.
Representative Maverick. Democrat.
Of Texas will preside, and the speak
ers will be Senator OMahoney OF
Wyoming, Representative Bernard Of
Minnesota and Representative Pierce
Of Oregon. Topic of the evening will
be Legislation and Civil Liberties" ="
Evening star., 1937-01-24
ADMITS BEING SPY.
U. A. W. Organizer Says Secretary Was
Paid for RepOrtS

L. A. W. Organizer Says Secretary Was
Paid for Reports.
DETROIT, January % (P)-Rich-
ard Franhensteen. organizational di-
rector of the United Automobile Work
ers of America, announced tonight that
the recording secretary of the Gra-
ham-Paige local had admitted engag-
ing in espionage.
Frankensteen said the secretary, Roy
Williams, had signed statement say
ing he had been lin the employe of
Corporation Auxllfaries Corp. as an
espionage operative" for three years,
and that he made daily reports to
that company on union activities
Frankensteen said Williams told him
he received $50 month for his re-
ports.
Yesterday. FrankenSteen announced
that Leon Scott, financial secretary
and treasurer Of the Herron-zmmer
local, had admitted making secret re-
ports to Corporation Auxiliaries.
Neither Graham-Paige nor Heron
thinner is a General Motors unit.
Frankensteen will leave Monday for
Washington to testify before the spe-
cial Senate Civil Liberties Committee.
He said he probably would testify
Wednesday.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
Marks Out "0bey."

After Judge Whit Boyd Of Houston.
Tex. married couple using. the word
obey" Mrs Boyd marked "obey" out
Of his printed ceremony.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
PLAN DENVER BENEFIT
Local Auxiliary of tuberculosis
Group Sponsors.

The Washington Ladies' Auxiliary
OF the Jewish Consumptives Relief
Society Of Denver will hold benefit
dance and card party Wednesday.
January 81. at the Washington Hotel,
Mrs. Martin Mendelsohn, president,
announced yesterday.
Proceeds will go toward the sup
port Of free sanatorium at Denver
for needy sufferers from tuberculosis.
Six Washington patients are now
there.
Evening star., 1937-01-24
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and independent Democrats in sufi-
cient numbers to overcome the ad-
minstration groups.
But the first move toward the 1888
election campaign is being taken this
week, and it centers in the approval
or disapproval of the sl,5O0, 900, 900
expenditure for relief" BY attempt
ing to write specific instructions into
the appropriation bill, specifying in
what districts and for what purposes
the money shall be spent, the men,
bers of the House prevent last-minute
threats and clubs being held over
their heads either as punishment
for independence in their voting or
as means Of coercing them later
on in this session and in the session
OF Congress which begins next Janu-
ary. For the sl,500,0O0,00O must be
spread over the country and could
be concentrated or withdrawn as the
Executive pleases.
For the funds now being appro-
priated this month are for the fiscal
year beginning July l, 1887, and the
money will be spent through July /,
1e38-the very vital time of the pri-
maries before congressional elections.
On whether the administration re-
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votes of many members Of Congress
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primary contests of the Spring of
1888, when their respective renomi-
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be before the voters for decision.
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shifted the fragrance of printers ink
as typesetter, linotype operator and
then composing room foreman on the
Charlotte Observer. Switching to the
news rooms, he covered everything
from police courts TO politics on the
Charleston Evening Post, Augusta
Herald and Atlanta Journal from 1908
to 1888. There was a stretch OF poll
ltlcs as executive secretary to tho
Mayor Of Atlanta. longer stretch as
Washington correspondent for the
Atlanta Journal. Appointed first ex-
ecutive assistant to the Postmaster
General in 1888, Branch assumed his
present position in 1894. still with .
bit Of nostalgia for journalism.
Letters by airmail, perhaps the most
romantic part Of postal service, travel
from Washington to Los Angeles in
ID hours. Since 1884, when airmail
contracts were annulled, a new and
faster service has been established.
The margin of subsidy is getting
less" Branch says. Payments to air.
mail contractors in 1880 were over
IA millions, revenues over 2 million,
as contrasted to 1885 payments Of
over II million, revenue almost 10
million. Airmail poundage for 1890
was around 100000 for 1886, l,778.-
9l2. The increase is about 100000 a
month and growing "by leaps and
bounds" Branch says. 1t is a modern
miracle to consider that airmail cov-
ers now $4,000 miles of foreign air
service, 10000 domestic. Planes fy
the Pacific every week 1t takes
letter about six days to reach China.
Transatlantic service is expected
this Fall" Branch says.
One-quarter of a million people are
actively engaged in seeing that our
letters are delivered. approximately
$4,000 are employed in transporta-
ton alone. There are $4,000 rural
mail carriers, $4,000 on the star
routes. contact from one receiving
point to another. beside the legions
dealing with rail and ship mails.
These have the lions share Of Uncle
Sans business" Branch says, but
airmail increasingly binds people Of
the world together.
Evening star., 1937-05-27

continued growth of the
AS result, following
would be the
Housing, 2oS industrial public utilities
20 cent; Railroad passenger
cent; other consumer goods, 80 per
These figures rebuilding and
pansion thinking
Note-1he market
S6OOOOOOOOO0 This
changes and 1929
had divided equally would
person and 81 900 per family This
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