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do" he said, I'VE will have to accept
his dictates"
Senator Connally said it was OBJ
vious that the President would have
| to operate through his subordinates.
The President is not going out to
San Francisco and make a social
call on all of your men and ask them
to 60 back to work." Senator Con-
nally said.
yinson Strips Bill.
Earlier, Representative Vinson,
Democrat, of Georgia announced he
would strip from his bill aimed at
defense strikes everything except a
requirement for a 30-day cooling of
period before such a work stoppage.
He said he had decided to abandon
provisions-widely opposed by labor
organizations-to freeze existing
open or closed shop arrangements
agements the right to deny employ
ment to workers they had reason
able cause to believe" were sub
versive.
Il think we can accomplish the
main detectives Of the bill-which
is mediation before strike begins
without these other provisions
Representative Vinson said.
He predicted the legislation would
be approved by the House within
week or two and that administration
leaders who arranged cooling-off
period of their own for the original
bill would no longer delay action.
To Consider Ending Strike.
Meanwhile, machiniSts' union OFF,
Gals considered proposal by Sem
ator Mead, Democrat, of New York,
that they end the strike of about
1900 men which has tied up IL San
Francisco shipyards and submit
their grievances to arbitration.
Harvey Brown, president of the
A. F. L. union, said he would study
Senator Mead's suggestion in the
light of testimony called for by the
Senate Defense Investigating Com
mittee and make his decision later.
The committee summoned local
officials of the union to explain their
differences with the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding Corp, which Mr..
Brown told the committee yester-
day boiled down to the main issue
of a closed shop.
Mr.. Brown declared the Bethle-
hem company had refused to sign a
master agreement" reached by the
Metal Trades Council in the area.
The union official added that he
could not see how any one could
say-as had President William
Green of the A. F. L.-that his union
was engaged in an outlaw" strike
when the company refused to sign
the agreement, which included q
provision for closed shop.
Observing that some other metal
trades workers had gone back to
work in expectation of the final
conclusion of the agreement, Sen
ator Mead said he thought the ma
chinists ought to return to their
shipbuilding and submit their diff
ferences to arbitration.
Eleven yards holding a total Of
$500, 600, 900 in defense orders were
affected by the walkouts of c. I. o.
and A. F. L. machinists, although
about $500 employees, not machin-
lists, have crossed the picket lines
to 60 back to work.
| Hillman Accused.
Mr.. Brown told the Senate In
vestigating Committee yesterday
that representative of Sidney Hill
man had stimulated" strike at the
Vultee aircraft plant in California.
He said Government representa-
tive had encouraged a rival union
to walk out at the Vultee plant when
the A. F. L. group was sponsoring
a drive to expel Communists. Under
sharp questioning by Senator Con-
nally, he said this representative had
been sent by Mr.. Hillman, former
G. I. O. vice president and associate
director Of the ONCE Of Production
Management.