Evening star., 1937-01-23

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settled.
THE only way to get us out OF
those plants is to pull us out Travis
said The General Motors walk-out
at Washington did not frighten us.
The company refused to negotiate at
Toledo year ago until the men were
back at workout it did"
Lewis, head of the Committee for
Industrial Organization. which is di-
recting the U. A. w. A. strike. told
newsmen he could not undertake to
interpret President Roosevelt's words.
then added
IT do not think. as some have sug-
gested, that the President intended to
rebuke the working people of America
who are only attempting to secure
their rights guaranteed to them under
the law
Lewis declared that labor has dem
onstrated" that it has ample con-
fidence" in President Roosevelt and
that perhaps We have confidence
that in the end the President will do
what is necessary"
Senator Holt. Democrat, OF West
Virginia said it was most braZen''
for Lewis to declare that MIR. Roose-
veit should support the c. I. o. chief
in the automobile strike. Lewis sup
ported the President in his campaign
for reelection last Fall.
Certainly it should not be a ques-
tiCn of party support, but should be a
question of right and wrong Holt
commented. THE statement of Lewis
is typical Of the man. II given the
power, he will continue such demands
upon all public officials that he has
supported"
Sloan repeated the company'S Oft
stated position that the unlawful oc-
cupation of our plants by sit-down
strikers who have no right. in law or
reason, to hold possession Of them
was the obstacle to negotiations be-
tween General Motors and the union.
General Motors is willing to bar
gain collectively when 1t receives back
it's plants" he said.
Ford Aide Meets Knudsen.
Knudsen was met upon his arrival
this morning by Charles E. Sorensen.
general manager of the Ford Motor Co.
The two left the station together after
Knudsen said: I'VE are going ahead
as far as possible in the unemployment
Of men" He promised a full state
10 In, the dow
Shortly after Knudsen and Sorenson
had left the station. Martin and
Wyndham Mortimer, first vice presi-
dent of the U. A. w. A., arrived from
Washington.
Martin said he would leave at noon
for Toledo, for q conference with
Glen McCabe, president of the Flat
Glass Workers Union.
The conference, he said. would re-
late to a possible settlement OF the
bbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. strike.
Martin also said he would address
mass meeting in Toledo tonight.
IF Mr.. Sloan will cut out trying
to double-cross us and get down to
collective bargaining" Martin said.
we can settle this strike and the men
can be back at work in "a hours"
Dealers Affected.
More than $4,000 General Motors
dealers and new-car statesmen have
been affected by the strike. OF this
number 1900 are dealers. 1t was
pointed out that none Of the dealers
has been seriously affected, ana VIII
not be for at least three months.
ut is a boon for some Of the Dealers
it was stated, "for 1t permits them to
get rid of their used cars, which have
been stacking up under the heavy new
car sales Of the past year"
The deadlock in the West Coast
maritime strike affecting 10000 work
ers reached its eighty-sixth day. City
and county officials in San Francisco
appealed for congressional action to
end the dispute and mapped plans to
request presidential Intervention.
Violence marked the controversy
when 80 men were arrested In San
Francisco after a fight between union
stevedores and members Of a rival
organization. -Four men were seized
after 400 strike sympathizers rioted
at Inglewood, Calf.
San Francisco officers invaded head
quarters Of the rival stevedore group.
headed by Lee Holman, who has not
been recognized by shipowners, and
seized several pick handle clubs and
two dirks A ma jority of the arrests
were made there.
Offshore shipowners fiatly rejected
final" peace offer by the 1nterna-
tional Longshoremen's Association,
and renewed a previous offer which
the stevedores had turned down.
Prospects of settling the Minnesota
lumberjack strike were considered
bright. At Rochester, N Y, more
than 400 hotel service employees, on
strike since December 81, reached an
agreement with operators A two-day
strike in the Firestone Steel Products
Co. plant at Akron, Ohio, involving
700 men. ended by union order. Fed
eral ofncials sought peace in Libbey-
Owens-Ford Glass Co. and gas work.
ers' strikes at Toledo, Ohio.
A strike of municipal electrical
workers in Chicago plunged most Of
the city's streets into darkness for
nearly three hours last night. Strik-
ers raised the spans Of 80 of Chicago's
IS bridges, disrupting street car and
automobile trafiic in the downtown
section. Union officials suspended the
strike pending negotiations Monday on
demands for restoration Of the 1882
wage scales
Striking East Coast seamen have
been granted hearing by Eshe Ma