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Evening star., 1937-03-21
$1,000 GET RAISE
IN TEXTILE MILLS
c. |. 0. Committee Worker at
AshevII|e Says Operators
Eager to Organize.
BY the Associated Press.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., March 20
Additional wage adjustments TODAY
brought to 900 the number of textile
workers in the CarOlinas who will get
more pay by April /.
Paul Christopher, worker for the
Committee for Industrial Organiza- =
tons forthcoming campaign to or
ganize the industry, reported from
Asheville that the operatives were
"eager to organize"
Our telephone is busy all day long
with workers calling up from all over
North Carolina and South Carolina
to ask us to organize them or to as
sure us of their support" Christopher
said. 1T is an enthusiasm I have
not seen since the good days of 1888
and 1884"
Christopher said the organization
did not yet have the staff to handle
the many calls for organizers that
were coming in, but that the situation
would soon be remedied
He added he was making AshevilIe
headquarters for survey of North
Carolina textile facts which he and
his aides are compiling.
Raises for their employees were an
nounced duriHg the day by the Rhod-
hiss Mills of RhOdhiss. N. c., the
Sayles Bleachery at Blltmore, the
American Yarn and Spinning Co. of
Mount Holly N c and the Pep1IhIic
Cotton Mills of Great Falls, N. C.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
u. S. AIDS MURPHY
|NCHRYSLER CRISIS
Miss Perkins Denies Depart
ment Has Any Peace
Plan of Own.
BY the Associated Press.

Labor Department chiefs sought
yesterday to aid Gov Frank Murphy
OF Michigan in his search for a solu-
ton of the Chrysler automobile Sit
down strike.
Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Sec
retary, talked over the situation with
John l.. Lewis, chairman of the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization.
with which the striking United Au-
tomobile Workers are affiliated.
AtterWard McGrady said no conclu-
sions had been reached-that they
merely went over the situation in great
detail.
No Significance in Farley"
Lewis said there was no special
significance" to the conference, add
ing:
You know Ed and talk things
over on the least provocation."
Secretary Perkins spent the morn
ing in New York, where she said pre-
viouSly she intended to confer with
Walter P Chrysler
Although Miss Perkins denied she
had advanced any specific proposals
for settling the strike or starting
peace conference, it was said in usually
Well-informed quarters that both she
and McGrady were feeling about" for
solution.
HAS No Plan of Own"
The United States Department Of
Labor is not laying down any pro-
grams or plans in an attempt to settle
the Chrysler automobile dispute" Miss
Perkins said in a formal statement
Gov. Murphy is handling the sit
uation himself, and doing an ex-
tremely difficult task with patience
and understanding in the public in
terest
The Department of Labor is simply
cooperating with Gov Murphy IN
his efforts to bring about an adjust
ment Of differences, and will con, ,unHo
to be Of assistance TO him in any way
he thinks We may be Of service"
Evening star., 1937-03-21
BABY is FOUND DEAD
IN HOTEL BATH TUB
Mother Discovered Semi Con-
scious in Suicide Attempt After
Drowning Son, /.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GREENVILLE, S. c., March 20
The year-old son of Mrs. Charlton
Shell young Spartanburg, S, c., widow,
was found dead and his mother semi
conscious in the bathtub of hotel
room here late today.
Coroner George w Mccoy said the
mother had drowned the child and
had attempted suicide
The coroner said the baby was dead
when entrance was forced into the
room and that Mrs Shell, in the bath
tub with the child, was semi-con-
scious. She was revived and was re-
ported in good condition tonight at a
| hospital.
Mccoy said a relative, concerned
over Mrs. Shells dependency since
her husbands death several months
ago, came here from Spartanburg
early this afternoon and traced her
to hotel Mccoy said knocks at
| the door were unanswered and that
| water could be heard running. Police
were called and they broke into the
room.
Evening star., 1937-03-21

President Roosevelt. Last Fall we
received notices in our pay envelopes
that very bad things were going to
happen to us if We voted for you and
Mr.. Roosevelt. You know that the
very people who fought so hard against
your election are those who employ
and exploit us. We defied their threats
last November and voted for you
anyway. We elected you.
We don't intend to leave these
plants without satisfactory settle
ment. You can do one of two things
You can use your influence to see that
our grievances are adjusted Or you
can use the States troops to try to
force us out. The first way will lead
to industrial peace and the elimination
of the causes for strikes. The second
way will lead to bloodshed and violence
and more strikes. We are resolved to
protect our rights to our jobs with
our lives. The choice is fatty up to
you"
Evening star., 1937-03-21
LEADERS TO DISCUSS
CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL
1000 Youngsters Due to Partici-
pate in Annual Community
Center Event

More than 1000 boys and girls from
various community centers and juve-
nile groups in the District will par
tlcipate May in the third annual
Children's Festival Circus, sponsored
by the Community Center Depart
ment, Mrs. E. K. Peoples, director,
announced yesterday.
A special meeting OF leaders in
terested in the event will be held at
10 a m. tomorrow in the board room
of the Franklin Administration Build
ing. Thirteenth and K streets.
The circus will be held in Central
High School Stadium and will pre-
sent parade, circus stunts, a gypsy
scene and an international finale
Mrs. Peoples said.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
WOoLWoRTH STORES CLOSE.
Strikers Seek SIG Minimum Wage and
40Hour Week.

AKRON Ohio, March 20 (Rl.-Five
stores of the F. w. Woolworth Co.
in Akron and one in nearby Barberton
were closed by strikes today as prin-
cipals at Youngstown conferred on
settlement of the Ohio Leather Co.
slt-doWn strike.
The General Retail Store Employees
Association called the WoolWorth
strikes after D. J. Marquis, interna-
tlOnal organizer, said Cleveland Of
flclals Of the company indicated their
unWillingneSs to revise an offer the
union had rejected Wednesday. About
225 employees, mostly women, are
affected.
Marquis said the strikers are seek
Ing SIG weekly minimum wage, a
40-hour week and seniority rights to
replace the present minimum of $3.50
for 48-hour week.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
B. & 0. TRAIN KILLS ONE,
INJURIES TWO IN TUNNEL
Workmen at Mount Royal Sta
ton Had Been Warned to
Leave Posts.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 20.-A Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad train struck
three workmen in the tunnel at Mount
Royal Station today, killing signal
man and injuring the other two.
G. K Clarke, the signalman, died
instantly. The right leg of Edward
Shrodes, 54, signal foreman, was am
putated below the knee. Clarence
Brandenberg, assistant signalman, re-
ceived cuts on the face.
Railroad officials said the crew
working in the tunnel had been
warned of the approaching train and
all but the three had left their posts.
Evening star., 1937-03-21

~ ETROIT, March 20,-FolloW-
ing is the text of an an
nouncement today by K. T.
A Keller president of the
Chrysler Corp, addressed to employees
of Chrysler Corp"
"Chrysler Corp. wishes the employees
and the public to know the situation
as we see it.
"First-as to the seizure of our
plants.
The union agents who seized our
plants and offices on March have
refused to vaCate them and some
$4,000 employees have thus been de-
prived Of work. 4,he Circuit Court
ordered the union agents to leave the
plants by o'clock on March IT.
Instead they mobilized at the plant
gates at that time and have since
paraded their defiance of the court.
The court on Friday, March 10,
ordered the arrest of those illegally
holding the plants and the sheriff
has been directed to bring them into
court to answer for their misconduct.
The necessary writs to enforce the
courts order are now in the hands
Of the sheriff
"Chrysler Corp has adopted the
peaceful means provided by law to get
back its plants. The court says the
corporation stands before it with
clean hands
The court says:
lo
between the rule of law and the
rule of violent help.
In this sense, then, the issue in
the case at bar is not between this
plaintiff and these defendants. Re-
Spect for the courts and for law
court has right to expect the citi-
zens of this community to give their
entire cooperation and support to
the position here taken
Lawless Elements Not Wanted.
We cannot operate our plants un-
til We get possession of them. We are
anxious as you are to resume produc-
ton, but We cannot operate except
on workable basis and We cannot
operate our plants with laWless ele-
mentS in control.
'Second-aS to the unions demand
"Chrysler Corp. was engaged in
collective bargaining conferences with
the union at the time the plants were
seized. We have bargained with
these people all the time for more
than three years. Just before the
seizure, the union conferees demanded
for sole bargaining control over all
our employees. If we did not say
yes they threatened to take over
the plants within the next few
hours. This they did.
The union demand for sole bar
gaining control of all our employees
means only one thing-a closed shop
A U. A. w spokesman states that
they are entitled to closed shop condi-
tions in our plants.
Asked what would happen under
those condition if an employe refused
to join the union, one of the C. l. O.
leaders said to us during the present
negotiations, one OF lnfee thlngS
would happen-the men could quit,
the union members could make his
life miserable or the union members
could refuse to work with him.
We cannot expose our employees to
such coercion and abuse.
As to Corporation Policy.
'Third-as to the corporation
policy:
We have continued negotiating
with the unions representatives in
Evening star., 1937-03-21
TAX REVENUES UP 6Ooc

GREENSBORO, N. c., March %
P).-Charles H. Robertson. collector
of internal revenue, said tonight Fed
eraI income tax collections in North
Carolina from March l through today
aggregated S729O63415. an increase
of about so per cent over a correspond
ing period of 1886.
The increase in the number OF re-
turns, Robertson said, was about 33
per cent
Evening star., 1937-03-21
MARSHAL FOCH BURIED
NEAR NAPOLEON'S TOMB
lie Brun and Marshal's Widow
Present at Ceremony for
Allies Commander.

BY tie Associated Press.
PARIS, March 20-The revered re-
mains Of Marshal Ferdinand Foch,
commander Of the allied armies in
the World War, were laid to final rest
today near the body of Napoleon, un-
der the famous Dome des Invalides.
In the presence of President Albert
Lebrun, the marshals widow and the
highest officers of the government
and army, the body was placed in St.
Ambrose Chapel, at the right of Ma
poleon's tomb. 1t formerly was in
one of the side chapels of the In
vaIides
On the marble tomb, at the base, are
sculptored the important military epi-
sodes of the marshals life. Above
the base stand the figures, in bronze,
of eight soldiers, carrying a bed of
laurel leaves, on which rests a figure
Of Foch.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
JOHN F. R0LFE DIES:
HARTFORD PUBLISHER
57-Year-Old Director of Times
Took Post in 192S-Victim
of Heart Attack.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn, March 90
John F. Rolfe, publisher of the Hart
ford Times, died tonight at his home
after an illness of two days. He was
81 years old
He was stricken Thursday evening
with heart attack.
Rolfe became publisher of the Times
when the paper was purchased in 1928
by Frank E. Gannett of Rochester,
N. Y.
He had previous newspaper expert
ence in Corning, N. Y, and Elmira,
N. Y.
His widow, Mrs Bertha Rolfe, and
brother, Albert Rolfe. of Elmira,
survive.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
Refusal Held Lawless Act.

Then when we had built up our
union in spite of these obstacles, the
ChrySler Corp. refused to recognize
us. And this refusal, Governor, was a
lawleSs act.
We have many other complaints
We don't feel any better about this
whole situation when we know that
Walter Chrysler using the money We
earned for him and entirely ignoring
our complaints, is unconcernedly va
catloning in Florida. that only few
days ago he paid 81 900 Cmore than
many of us earn in Year, for a
case of champagne
We want to remind you of one
other thing, Governor. The same sort
OF intimidation that Chrysler used
against us was used against you and
Evening star., 1937-03-21

by llle Associated Press.
~ ETROIT, March 20-Follow-
ing is the text of a letter
addressed today to Gov.
Frank Murphy by the chair
men of the Strike Committees in
charge of sit-down strikers in the
eight Chrysler plants here:
I'VE sit-down strikers in the Chrys-
Ter plants want to state our case
directly to you We want to state
it as strongly and as vigorously as
possible. And we want you to know
that what we have TO say is sup
ported by more than $4,000 other
Chwsler workers, more than 1000
automobile workers in Detroit. 300
900 in Michigan, and 300, 600 in the
United States.
First, Governor, we stand four
square behind our leaders who de-
clined to attend your conference
Wednesday, If they had had any part
in proposing the sort of boards your
conference proposed. they would have
betrayed US. We have had boards
before. They don't work. And we
automobile workers who work in the
shops know better than any one else
that they don't work. We know that
the only thing that does work is
collective bargaining Our employers
have refused to recognize the princi-
Piles of collective bargaining, so we
nI 10 H.
we have to make them abide by the
law.
Wages Declared Inadequate.
Parts of your statement last We'd
nesday-the parts emphasized by the
SpaperS-called our actions dis
orderly and unlawful We would to-
day have more confidence in you if
you had openly and specifically stated
the reasons for our actions, which you
well know, and have previously de-
scribed
We have suffered for years in these
shops Of the Chrysler Corp. We
haven't been paid wages enough to
support our families in deCenCy and
health
1--WE have seen each year an in
crease in the speed Of the line. And
still the toremen and gang leaders
stand over us and demand more and
more production.
Last Summer hundreds of us fell
like flies on the job because the heat
and speed Of work were more than we
could stand. And it wasn't until We
threatened to strike that the manage
ment slowed down the line.
Last Fall thousands of us were dis
charged in violation Of our seniority
standing. We had to threaten a strike
then to get rehired.
While We were exercising our right
to organize, we were opposed by one
Of the NEST vicious and unspeakablt
spy systems ever employed in indus
try. The Chrysler Corp. retained an
agency that hired criminals and eX-
conVicts to do their filthy work This
is a matter Of public record. We were
subject to intimidation by fOremeN
and petty bosses. Our members were
fired for no other reason than that
they had joined the union. These
things that they did to us were law
less.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
UNION DRIVE HITS
STEEL'S BIG FIVE
Independents Are Target of
Unions as Gains Are
Consolidated.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, March 20.-Organ.
lied steel labor consolidated its gain.
tonight and launched the opening
wedge in It's drive against the IBIS
fiVe' independent steel producers OF
the country.
Philip Murray, chairman OF thu
steel workers Organizing Committee
carried the fight to the heart OF tht
giant Bethlehem Steel Corp. at 6
steel workers mass meeting tonight ir
Bethlehem, Pa.
Before leaving the union head
quarters in Pittsburgh, Murray ISSUED
a formal statement urging industria
peace and loyalty to the terms of the
contract he signed Wednesday with
officials Of Carnegie Illinois Stee
Corp. and four other big steel produc-
ing units Of the United States Stee
Corp.
Other Contracts Announced.
The committee simultaneously an
nounced similar contracts, recognizing
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers as a collective
bargaining agency for its member
ship, had been signed with 18 smaller
independent concerns.
A spokesman for the committee sale
the drive is on now" against the big
five" which includes, besides Bethle.
hem with its $4,000 workers, Republic
Steel, $1,000 Jones g. Laughlin Steel
Corp, about $4,000; National Steel
10000, and Youngstown Sheet & Tube
1900.
Approximately 1850 900 steel worker.
are employed by Carnegie Illinois anc
these co-signers for big Steer':: Amer.
lean Steel and Wire, National Tube
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co.
and Columbia Steel.
Dues Suspension to End.
David j. Mcdonald, secretary-treas-
urer of the committee, also announced
March 81 as ending Suspension of dues
After that date, dues will be 81 q
month for men and so cents for women
workers. An initiation fee of So viii
become effective for all new union
members joining after May /.
The Steel Workers Committee. or
ganized last June under auspices OF
the John l.. Lewis Committee for In
dustrial Organization. announced il
now has contracts with the following
independents:
Blaw-KnOx Steel Corp, Pittsburgh
Braeburn Alloy Steel Co., Pittsburgh
Hunter Steel Co, Pittsburgh; Henry
Dlsston Sons Co, Philadelphia; Tipp-
ton-W0ods Co, Phillipsburg, N. j.;
Havana Metal Wheel Co, Havana. Ill D.,
Crescent Forge & Shovel Co. Havana
Ill; BabcOck & Wilcox. Barberton
Pa; Northwestern Barb Wire Co.
Sterling. Ill Atlantic Foundry Co.
Akron, Ohio; Hamilton Steel Co. In
diana Harbor; Molybdenum Corp. ot
America, Washington, Pa. Reliance
Steel & Iron Products Co. Rankin
Pa; Morrow Manufacturing Co.
WellSton, w. Va; Ingram Richardson
Manufacturing Co., Beaver Falls, Pa;
Pittsburgh Tube Co., Monaco, Pa;
Jeannette Steel Corp, Jeannette, Pa.
and Seyler Manufacturing Co., Pitts
burgh.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
Priced Dollar Bill
Returned to Girl
By "Meanest Thief
BY the Associated Pre0

BY the Associated Press.
QUINCY, Mass, March 20
Three days ago burglar looted
the home Of Constance Estes, IS,
OF clothing value at 5000 and q
framed 81 bill, given to Constance
by her father six years ago when
she attained the honor roll in
school.
Today Constance received by
mail an anonymous ne-sentence
note reading, The meanest thief
repents." Enclosed was the dollar
bill, identified by Miss Estes
through a peculiar marking.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
II STORES CLOSED
|NPROV|DENCE, R. |.
Arrangements Act Following
Failure of Conference
With c. |. o.
BY the Associated Press,

PROVIDENCE, r. l., March 90
Eleven department stores and five and
ten cent stores were ordered closed
by their arrangements at $3.50 o'clock
this aftrnoon after a conference with
officials of the Committee for Indus
trial Organization in the Crown Ho-
tel failed to compose differences.
The closing came during the height
of the Saturday afternoon shopping
period, with the stores thronged with
Easter season purchasers.
The stores which closed included
Outlet Co, the Shepard Co., the Bos-
ton store, Cherry & Webb Co., Glad
dings and Tilden g. Thurbers, Kresges
and Woolworths.
Counsel Makes Statement.
When the conference broke up, j.
torney and counsel for the stores, made
the following statement:
We've been given an alternative
that they are going to strike in our
stores this afternoon.
In the interests Of our customers
and employees, and to avoid disorder,
we have ordered our stores closed"
Joseph Sylvia, Rhode Island chair
man for the c. l. O., then issued q
statement saying:
The stores have not been threat
ened with strike If Mr.. McGrath
says so, he misinterprets it and is
bringing on trouble on his own voli-
ton"
Would Recognize Union.
McGrath issued another statement
in which he said that the split came
on an ultimatum delivered by the
union for straight 10 per cent
wage increase all along the line"
He declared that Sylvia said, These
boys are going back to their own
stores, and We are not responsible
for the consequences
McGrath said the department store
owners had agreed to recognize the
union as the collective bargaining
agency for its own members. He as
serted the owners had agreed on a
seniority rights ruling whereby they
would take back senior employees who
had been discharged during slack
business periods.
Other offers made by the owners,
according to McGrath, were the es-
tablishment OF minimum wages for
both selling and non-selling employees
that would be equivalent TO or above
the N. R. A. requirements, full-time
pay for overtime, time -and-a-half
for Sunday, and further provision
that more pay would be given when
change was made in the general
policy in the department store busi-
ness.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
GLOVE CAUSES DEATH

Catches on Leg, Pulling Worker
Off Truck.
SHREVEPORT, La. March 20 Cp).
"A glove which got caught on a nail
in log caused the death of Theo
Bamburg, 80, of Coushatta, La.
Bamburg was trying to toss the
log off truck. His glove caught on
the nail and the falling log pulled him
off the truck and fell on him, breaking
his neck.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
5-AND-10 TRUCE MADE.
Negotiations to Resume Monday-20
PiCketS Arrested

NEW YORK, March 90 CP).-
Union representatives and officials of
the H. L. Green Co, operators of the
F. & w. Grand 5, 10 and Is Cent
Stores, today announced a week end
truce had been agreed upon at a con-
ference with Mayor F. H La Guardia.
Under terms of the agreement. sit
down strikers will continue to occupy
five of the company's stores without
interference and the union will sys-
pend picketing and other strike ac-
tlVities at the eight stores not on
strike
Evening star., 1937-03-21
u PicketerS Arrested.

Late IN the day, 20 men and l Wom-
an, who had been picketing a Wool
worth store in downtown Manhattan,
were arrested. Strike sympathizers not
arrested continued to march, crying
out:
The truce is effective until II am.
Monday, when representatives of the
management and the union will re-
sumo negotiations on the employees
demands
La Guardia to Be Mediator.
1t was agreed that no action of anv
kind would be taken by either side
without calling in Mayor La Guardia
to serve as mediator This will apply,
1t was said, # deadlock develops at
the Monday session.
Representative of the union and
the F w. Woolworth Co. will meet
with La Guardia Monday afternoon
in an effort to settle the controversy
which led to nearly 100 arrests after
sit-down strikes in two of the COM
panys New York stores this week.
WOOLWORTH STORES CLOSE.
Evening star., 1937-03-21
Rock Scorpion Captured.

An African rock scorpion was cap
tured recently in Plymouth, England,
Gas Works
Evening star., 1937-03-21
The Strikers Say:

BY the Associated Press.
~ ETROIT, March 20.-Follow-
ing is the text of a letter
J addressed today to Gov.
Frank Murphy by the chair
Evening star., 1937-03-21
The Company Says:
BY the Associated Press.

:
~ ETROIT, March 20.-Follow-
ing is the text of an an
nouncement today by K T.
n Keller, president of the
| ChrVSler Corn addressed to "emploYeS