Evening star., 1937-03-15
GREEN ASKS COURT
ENFORCE ORDER ON
REMINGTON RAND
Company Faces Loss of
u. S. Order in Labor
Dispute.
RELATIONS BOARD RULE
LAUDED BY A. F. L. HEAD
Federal Agency Assails Policies
of Firm in Ordering 1000
Workers Rehired.
BACKGROUND

OAC n hoHo(fNO-
Widespread operations OF Rem
tngton Rand Uere completely tied
up last Spring When refusal OF
management to confer With en-
ployes on Working conditions pre-
cipitated long strike in sir scat
tered plants All efforts failed to
bring tUo sides into conference,
tOtth management reSorting to "a
rious means OF strike breaking.
AS Labor Board conducted eI-
hduSttDe hearings into case, La
Toilette committee also entered pic
ture during questioning of Neu York
StrtEe-breakerS. The picturesque
"ChoUderhead" Cohen told the
committee James II. Rand, jr., had
giDen q trainload of strike breakers
a pep" talk and offered them
individual bonuses for breaking
through picket lines.
BY the Associated Press.
William Green, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, asked
the Labor Relations Board today TO
seek Immediately a court order en-
forcing the boards Remington-Rand
decision.
The board ordered Remington
Rand, Inc, yesterday to take back
1000 former employees who, the board
said, lost their jobs following a strike
started last May in six of the COM
pany's plants.
The company also was directed to
recognize the Office Equipment Work
ers' Council as sole collective bar
gaining agency for employees in six
plants.
Possible loss of a s57500 Govern
ment contract also faced the COM
pany as result Of the boards criti-
cism OF its labor policies in ordering
the unemployment of the workers.
Contract Reconsideration"
Arthur Altmeyer, chairman Of the
Social Security Board, said that board
had instructed that the question of a
contract for photogrsphing forms "be
reconsidered for purposes of determin-
ing whether any other course is now
open to the board"
Green said the Labor Federation
would utilize all its resources to COM
pei Remington Rand to comply" with
the Labor Boards decision.
I'VE regard the decision as a COM
plete vindiction of the strike and the
strike policy that the workers have
pursued" he added.
THE board established complete
justification for the strike.
I'VE are going to advertise the de-
cision throughout the Nation in order
to prevent sales of Remington-Rand
products to the friends of labor"
Green added he meant by this that
the federation would call on city CEN
tral bodies and State federations to
try to block the sales of Remington
Rand equipment TO State and local
governments.
Confers With Madden.
After talking with j. Warren Mao
den, chairman of the Labor Relations
Board, about court enforcement or
der, Green told reporters he was not
at liberty to disclose the boards plans
in this respect.
The labor leader described as an
Interesting sidelight" that James M.
Rand, jr, president Of the company.
and Charlton Ogburn, A F.. of l..
general counsel, were college ROOM
mates.
Ogburn, he said, had never been
able to do any more good with Rand
than I was
Recognition of the union as exclu-
sive collective bargaining agency was
the principal issue in the strike.
Corporation to Fight.
A statement issued in New York by
the legal department Of Remington
Rand said Gin the opinion of the at
torneys" for the company, the deci-
sion cannot be sustained in the Fed
eral courts"
The statement, telegraphed fHom the
company's legal department in Buffalo
and posted on all bulletin boards in
the company's plants, said:
ITO all employees of Reminston-
Rand plants:
The attorneys for Remington
Rand, Inc, are Immediately taking
steps to protect the company's $4,000
factory workers from discharge on
account of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board decision.
That decision must be affirmed by
the Federal courts before 1t can be
binding. In the opinion of the at
torneys, the decision cannot be sus-
tained in the Federal courts.
u. A. w. SIMSON,
Corporation attorney"
The Labor Board said the 1000 for
mer workers had lost their jobs in six
scattered plants at Syracuse, lion and
Tonawanda, N. Y; Middletown, Conn,
and Norwood and Marietta, Ohio.
The boards decision asserted Rem
ington-Rand had exhibited callous.
imperturbable disregard of the rights
Of its employees that is medieval in its
(See REMINGTON-RAND, Page A-2D