Evening star., 1937-03-14
z WOMAN P|CKETS
At PANTS FACTORY
HELD BY POLICE
Charged With AssauItinu
Another Pair Who Tried
to Enter Plant.
EMPLOYEES OF BAKERY
IN ALEXANDRIA QUIT
Manager Says Other Workers to
Replace Them-Accord Seen
Near in Hotel Dispute.

Arrest of two woman pickets at
the National Pants Co.'S First street
southeast plant, bakery strike in
Alexandra and reports that nego-
tlations between hotel managements
and their kitchen and dining room
employees were progressing satisfac-
torlly were the latest Developments
yesterday in the labor situation in
this vicinity.
All the bakers and driver statesmen
employed by the Alexandria Baking
Corp. some 20 in number, were out
on strike last night, but M. w. Fields.
assistant manager, said the plant
would resume capacity operation today
with other workers.
Late last night, however, there had
been no recurrence of the trouble
Friday night which resulted in the
assignment of two Alexandria police
men to guard the plant. On that
occasion, strikers were reported TO
have walked out and smashed num-
Der of milk bottles in an adjacent
alley.
Says Picketlng to Begin.
Charles B. McClosky, business agent
for the bakers, said intensive picke.-
ing will begin tomorrow and will con-
tinue until their union is recognized.
Fields said he did not know what
the drivers were demanding, but that
the bakers were asking union recog-
milton and the union wage scale Of
Sl22 per hour He said the bakers
now are paid by the day. He did not
reveal where he expected to obtain the
men with whom he expects to resume
operation.
The two National Pants Co. pickets
were charged with asSaulting two other
women who attempted to enter the
factory at 4O8 First street southeast.
They were booked at the fifth precinct
as Effe Arledge, 80, Of 11l9 K street,
and Edna Stetler, rs, of Benning. Each
was charged with assault and released
or s25 collateral for appearance in
Police Court tomorrow.
Police arrested the two on warrants
near the factory about l pm. yester-
day. The alleged assault occurred ar
hour and a half earlier.
Those said to have been attacked
were Vera Baluk and Virginia Mauch,
both of 146 c street southeast.
Charles L. Pilzer, local manager Of
the company, said he was not sure
whether the women arrested were en-
ployed by the National Pants Co.
Says Operations at Capacity.
Both the First street plant and the
company's factory at sic Eighth street
southeast are operating at capacity,
he said insisting that the trouble
which began with a sit-down strike
out of sympathy for strikers at the
concerns at Newcastle. Pa, plant has
been settled. All but about a dozen
of the employees are back at work and
the remaining ones will not be allowed
to return to their jobs, Pil2er declared.
He said last night that picketS who
participated before his First street
factory yesterday were mostly college
student Sympathizers.
Negotiators for the managementS
of Washingtons hotels and for the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees AL
lance, Local No. 781. concluded a
four-hour conference at the Shoreham
Hotel late yesterday, and L. Gardner
Moore, president of the Washington
Hotel Mems Association, announced
they were well on the road" to an
agreement.
The conference is a result of the
sit-doWn strike of walters and kitchen
employees at the Willard Hotel last
Monday, which was ended after the
intervention of Assistant Secretary of
Labor Edward F. McGrady.
Neither side swould say what had
been accomplished so far The nego-
tiations. which are expected to result
in an agreement for all the hotels,
will be continued Tuesday.