The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-06


the New England industrial strike
situation centered In textile mills at
Woonsocket and Westwarwick, r.
l., tension on other labor fronts
slackened today as nearly $500
workers awaited promised wage In.
creaSee.
Governor Robert z. Quinn threat
ened to intervene again unless Of.
ficials Of the Perennial Print ant
Dye Works agree to confer with
l'.ders Of 800 workers on strike fol
% per cent wage increases and sole
bargaining rights for the @. I. o
Tea: gas was used Thursday to dis.
perse pickets as 100 workers re-
turned.
At Woonsocket $500 workers In
Eve textile mills voted to strike
against replacement Of men SPIN
ners with women.
Meanwhile Boston police question
cd three men In connection with
the beating yesterday Of oil truck
driver Charles Quinn Of Chelsea
and a private detective guard. The
assailantS, believed among 30 strik-
ing Chelsea truck drivers, smashed
the rtuck and fed before police
irrived.
Night Work Over
Ofiicials of Everlastik, Inc, oil
Chelsea announced suspension OF
night work as result Of two-min-
ute sit-down strike Of 40 workers
who were routed from the plant
Thursday night by police.
Five per cent wage increases were
granted 1900 piece workers Of the
Haywood Wakefield company al
Gardner, effective March Is, bring
ing wages to rs per cent higher
than the 1929 level.
A 10 per cent wage increase ef-
fective Monday was granted 1,00C
4, ,rkers at II. II. Brown company
and National Shoe and Slipper
company In Worcester.
At Lowell, 500 employees Of Johr
Pilling Shoe company were given 9
10 per cent wage increase and al
Portland, Me-, 1,400 Lenox Shoe
company workers were granted II
pc. cent increases effective March
20.
Some 1900 employees of the Uni.
versal Shoe corporation and the
Allied Novelty Shoe corporation
plants In Sanford, Me-, were prom.
ised increases April /. Amount Of
increase was not announced.
Friendly Enemies
\ Bostonii March g. CUP - The
American Federation Of Labor anc
Its rebel offspring, John L. Lewis
committee for industrial organisa-
ton, assumed the attitude Of
'.frinedly enemies" In Massachusetts
today.
Urged by President william Greer
to 'fight against" and resist" al
tempts by G. I. o. to organize
shoe workers IN the rewly-formec
United Shoe Workers Of America
the State Federation contented It.
self with q midiy-worded statement
calling the breach in labor ranks
unfortunate"
fzc1o III WaheaCtsusCttS VIC ak
fortunate n that the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor Unions and the
new groups aim ct common oh.
jective--the organization Of unor.
Ranized workers." President John r
0atelee and, Secretary Treasurer
Robert J. Watt Of the Massachusetts
Federation pointed out.
The New England o. I. o. Coun'
oil likewise passed lightly oveI
Green's battle cry. The council de.
clared is only desire was 70 extent
the u. 9. w. A., already claiming
membership Of 1900 In New Eng
land, 10 ell unorganized shoe cen
tiers. The statement said nothing
OF any attempt 10 win away mem
bers OF A. =. Of LIS Boot and efo'
Workers Union.
Principal BatllelieI9s
PRINCIPAL battle-ground was ex'
pected to be BFockton. where I'D
last large New England Independent
shoe WnEigeEs' union-rthe Brother
heed Of Shoe end Allied Craftsmen
--elalms a membership o. l2.oO0
1rHknkenh IA 1879 ~ dissatisfied n