The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-28
AUTO UNION MEN LICKED BY MOB.
Labor Agitators Meet With Bad Reception on Visit
 to Flint
BY WILLIAM n. LAWRENCE

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 Flint, Mich, January %. - (UP) --sheriffs deputies and Flint police sought today the driver and occu- pants of an automobile that side- swiped a machine carrying five United Auto Workers organizers, sending four to Hurley hospital. A union organizer last seen in the hands of . mob at Saginaw, was sought by police who wished to es. tablish whether he still was . pris. oher or had saved himself. Occu- pants of the wrecked machine were union officials who had fled two Michigan cities in the face of vigbr- ous protests against their attempts to arrange for a union meeting at Saginaw Sunday.
 Fleeing from Bay City and Sagi- nav after mobs had attacked them, organizers were under heavy police escort when an automobile crowded them off the road within the Flint city limits, forcing their machine into Q telegraph pole.
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 So swiftly was the accident" ac- complained that the police escort was unable to identify the car or pursue it. At Hurley hospital, ate taches diagnosed the injuries of Am thony Federoff, 35, of Pittsburgh, as serious.
 Frank O'Rourke, Saginaw; Wil- Hams Hynes, 51, of Fayette City, Pa, and Joseph Detzel, of Toledo, Ohio. were not seriously injured.
 Arthur Place, 20, Saginaw, driver of the hired car in which the union officials were riding was not hurt.
 Missing from the party was John Mayo, another organizer, who was captured by Q mob at Saginaw. Union leaders professed to know nothing of his whereabouts. It was known, however, that he was not 2 member of the party which left Saginaw for Flint under police escort.
 Union Officials Angry
 Union officials, incensed by the attack, said that six occupants oi the attacking machine were known Robert Travis, president of the U.A.W.A. local at Flint, said that warrants would be sought today charging these occupants with as- sault with attempt to commit murder.
 Federoff's injuries were diagnosed at the hospital as possible fractures of the skull and upper spine, with severe scalp wounds.
 The organizers left Flint head. quarters for the northern cities of Saginaw and Bay City. Their ob. jective was organization in the Gen. eral Motors plants of those cities through Sunday mass meeting. With the five organizers was William Boyd, who joined the party at Saginaw. A
 The union leaders conferred at the Hotel Wenonah with local union leaders. A group of non-union ein- ployes gathered quickly before the hotel. The union men requested po- lice protection.
 The. union officials were driven by police to Saginaw. Before the Saginaw plant of the Chevrolet Motor Company an angry mob drag ged Federoff and Mayo from their machine. Police rescued them and took the U.A.W.A. delegation to the city police station.
 Three hours later, police escorted the men to a Saginaw hotel. The anti-union mob followed in auto mobiles. As the organizers sought to enter the hotel they were set upon. Police lines failed to hold. Tn the melee that followed Mayo dih- appeared. O,Rourke was struck about the face and eye.
 This disturbance was the only incident which marred the return of nearly 46,000 men to work in Gen. eral Motors plants in eight cities under truce enacted from union, non-union and civic leaders.
 Forty thousand workers went back to their jobs in Chevrolet plants yes- terday, and another $500 were scheduled to take up their posts m Fisher stamping factories today:
 washington, January 28. = (UPl
 4 Speaker William B. Bankhead said today he had written Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins that as yet he could not give her "assur- ance" of congressional action on her request for increased powers to deal with strikes.
 Bankhead said he could not as- sure Miss Perkins of action on her request for power to subpoena parties to industrial disputes because con- gress had not had an opportunity to scrutinize her proposal. He made clear there was no present indication that congress would try to rusn through the legislation on an enier- gency basis. :.
 Miss Perkins request was sent 10 Bankhead and Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson follow inc her inability to bring together for a face-to-face conference both parties to the General Motors strike.
 The subpoena power she asked would not provide mandatory meoi- ation but would enable her to conn pei the attendance at . labor de- partment inquiry of both manage ment and unions.