Evening star., 1939-05-31
~ the Associated Press.

~ eilS hSoOClAbSU FIeSS.
NEW YORK, May 31.-Labol
troubles today threatened to rele.
gate some State exhibits at ths
'World of Tomorrow" to a world ol
yesterday.
OF the 26 States participating ir
the fair out on be-glamored Flush
ing meadows, exhibits of 8 either
are incomplete or have not been
started, while many of the remain
der were finished late because OF
labor squabbles or other Interrupt
tions and disturbances.
Some exhibitors told of sabotage
some told of complete serenity and
speed in dealing with labor.
Pavilions and exhibits opened late
all over the 2-square-mile area,
some managers blaming the tardi-
ness on a too-early opening date;
some on labor trouble; some on de-
lay Of appropriations. A few ex-
hibitors began building late de-
liberately, figuring the crowds would
not start in full force until June.
Last week State Supreme Court
Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo wrote
fair officials and Gov. Herbert H.
Lehman. charging labor groups,
which he did not name, with Sabo-
tagging foreign exhibits and creating
III will by unfair demands.
Some of these exhibitors con-
firmed this today but asked that
their names not be used.
Deliberate Loafing Charged.
Not so with some of the domestic
exhibitors who felt they had been
hamstrung by uncalled-for union
jurisdictional disputes and by what
some called deliberate loafing-
peaceful sabotage"-to force over
time.
The State buildings not complete
today were Connecticut, Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Ne
vada, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas and
Wisconsin. Several of these build
ings have not seen one stroke of a
paint brush or even one nail driven
for interior work.
Mrs. Mary D. Spalding of the Ari-
Zona exhibit said her building was
completed three weeks late but that
there had been no labor troubles.
Last week, however, what appeared
to be disgruntled laborer cut the
electric cable with a hacksaw, dis
rupting for time operation of the
building.
E. j. Irish, managing the Vermont
Building, said some laborers on
temporary work in the New Eng
land unit had refused to be forced
into joining a union. Work was held
up-with pay continuing-until" fair
authorities settled Matters A num-
Der OF smaller strikes held up build
Ing also, he said
Two Months to Complete.
Missouri opened three weeks late,
said its manager, F. w. Savers,
principally because of a jurisdic-
tlonal strike of carpenters and
metal workers. There was no over
time, however" he said, because
we would not pay it, but it took two
months to complete our exhibit
where it should have taken one"
Several managers said their costs
had been eXcessive-considera
more than they had been assured
they would have to pay-Mr. Sayers
, saying Missouri's San Francisco
Fair building cost $21 900 while the
one here, practically a duplicate,
cost $4,000.
The Puerto Rico exhibit opened
late, principally because of heavy
demands of labor" but these were
met without serious consequences.
Utah reported no exceptional
trouble, but forestalled this by
bringing its own union men. This
building was reported to have cost
100 per cent more than a similar
one at San Francisco, principally
because of the labor scale and ex-
pensive pilings sunk in the old
marshland here.
George H. Clements said his
Florida exhibit-one of the most
elaborate on the grounds-was vir-