Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-16
WE|RTON HEARING
0PENEDBYN.L.R.B.
Board Refuses Company's
Request for Delay in
Terrorism" Quiz.

By the Associated Press.
NEW CUMBERLAND, w. Va, Aug
ust le.-The National Labor Relations
Board today refused company request
for postponement and opened its hear
ing on charges the Weirton Steel Co
used ''terrrism- 70 oppose the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee.
Attorney William T. Fay, counsel for
the company, asked the delay for fur
ther investigation of the unions charg-
e. that its organizers were intimi-
dated.
More than 200 husky men Of the
mills crowded into the vine covered
Hancock County Court House and
heard John w. Porter, board attorney,
declare in his opening address that:
Wierton Steel, largest unit in the
National Steel Corp headed by Ernest
T. Weir, had dominated its employees.
The company fostered and main
tanned two employe organizations.
And that the company discrimi-
mated against some of its employees.
Edward Grandson Smith of Clarks-
burg, w. Va, president of the COVER
nors of West Virginia University, pre-
sided as trial examiner for the board.
Most of the steel workers, includ-
Ing members of the S w. o. c., trav-
p1oI lose tho1 noI1nS N tho Ohm
River Valley from the noisy, unincor-
porated city & Weirton, where more
than 10000 work for the steel COM
pany, to this quiet, rambling town
Of $500.
ASsaiied by Holt.
And many came with their ears still
ringing with charges hurled by West
Virginia youthful, anti-New Deal
Democratic Senator. Rush D. Holt,
that the Labor Board has been giving
fever lasting, lopsided decisions"
which would lead to his demand for a
senatorial investigation unless they
We're stopped.
Holt was speaking at a mass meet
ing Yesterday at a picnic grove out
side Weirton. Claude c. Conway, an
officer IN the Security League, organ
i7ed IN Weirton to combat outside
unions and sponsor of the gather
ine estimated 5000 were present
Holt declared:
The National Labor Relations
Board has been just another alpha
betcal way to spell c. l. O.
The c. +. O. wants the National
labor Board to decide its cases not
on the question of right or wrong but
L. Lewis.
Two-M Long Parade.
~ am going TO do all in my power
to see that the board conducts
its activities IN West Virginia fairly
and honestly"
Before the rally, a emile long pa
rade of Weirton workers marched
four abreast through the town to the
spoke.
The marchers. keeping time 10 Ave
brass bands. carried placards depounc-
ing John L. Lewis, the c. I. o. and the
National Labor Board.
The crowd cheered wildly when Holt
declared
Il am now preparing much data on
the whole set-up, and unless there is
change for the better in the Ma
t1onsl Labor Relations Board and it
settles down to try to conciliate and
help industrial strife, rather than
spread difficulties, and unless it stops
those everlasting, lopsded decisions, I
United States Senate in the next SEES
sion and ask that body for an inves-
tlgation Of the board"
Accuses Lewis.
Holt then accused John L. Lewis,
chairman Of the c. l. O., of having
determined either TO rule or destroy
the American Federation of Labor
The very day that Lewis was de-
feated in the race for presidency Of
the A. F. of L." the Senator charged,
he set out in an ambitious way to
either rule or destroy that organiza-
ton"
Representative Arthur P. Lamneck
of the twelfth Ohio district, Dem
cCrat, told the workers:
"Organize as you please under the
Wagner labor relations act and elect
whom you please to represent you.
IF that doesn't suit John L. Lewis,
tell him to go to hell"
Lamneck declared that he under
stood members of the N l.. R. B. Wis
tied some of you workers in your
homes in company with members of
the c. I. o. The N. l.. R. B. is not
ellppoSe6 to take sides "