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Evening star., 1941-05-12
Employers Dominate
Bethlehem Union,
Appeals Court Rules
Decision Books N. L. R. B.
Orders to Dissolve
Labor Agency
PlrRGPOUND-

BACKGROUND
In 1888 a National Labor Reid
tions Board trial examiner opened
hearings at the Bethlehem Steel
Co. on charges made By the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee
&c. /. o. that the company Das
violating the Wagner Act. The
examiner found the charges to be
subStantiated, and the N. L. r. B.
later upheld his report, ordering
dissolution OF the Employees Rep
resentdtion Plan, described as
company union. Bethlehem dp-
pedled the order, and the S. W.
o. c. called strike in March OF
tTis. year to halt e. r. p. 1ctiD-.
tiles. Strike ended tghen COM
pdny promised E. r. p. activities
,Dould be suspended.
By WILLIAM A. MILLEN.
The United States Court of Ap-
peals today upheld the National
Labor Relations Board. which ruled
that the employees representation
plan Of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.
is a company dominated union.
The company also was ordered to
disestablish the employees organiza-
ton as a bargaining agent.
The court held that the corpora
ton had expressed animus to the
c. I. o. Steel Workers Organizing
Committee.
A 77-page dissenting opinion was
filed by Associate Justice Harold M.
Stephens, who held that the board
had misconceived the law in the
case and that the decision of the
board Is based on "a theory that
the act (National Labor Relations
AcD condemns local unions as such
and compels their destruction with
out reference to the will of affected
employees, requiring the latter, If
they are to be organized at all, to
join national union"
The majority opinion, written by
Associate Justice Henry w. Edger-
ton, and joined by Associate Justice
Fred M. Vinson. recalled that the
board found Bethlehem had domi-
mated, interfered with and con-
tributed support to 10 labor organi-
cations, called Plans of Employees
Representation" located respectively
at the company's Cambria, Laeka-
wanna, Lebanon, Steelton, Mary
land, Bethlehem and Concentrator
plants, Rankin Works, Leetsdale
Works No. l and Jeetsdale Works
No. and had expressed animus
to employees.
Further, the court observed, the
board found that the company had
surreptitiously given money to the
Mayor of Johnstown, Pa, to insure
continuance of his anti-union atti-
tude and conduct and that the cor
poration must be held responsible
therefore; that the company had
employed detectives to obtain
by surveillance information about
union activities, and that in this
conduct employees had been inter-
fered with, restrained and coerced
in the exercise of the rights, guar
anteed by the act, to form or join
labor organizations, and to engage
Evening star., 1941-05-12

Foreign
Resident general sees Tunisia as
danger spot. Page Az
High command of SPANS Army
shufiled by Franco. Page "A
Only one bomber lost in flights to
England, pilot says. Page B-1
National.
10 planes ordered into hunt for miss
ing couple. Page As
Wheeler says U. s. seeks to force
Ireland into war. Page A-6
Mutual network ends A. S. C. A. p.
dispute. Page Bill
Washington and Vicinity.
B'nai Birth discusses participation
In soldier welfare. Page B-1
Washington man killed In Maryland
trafie accident. Page B-l
Evening star., 1941-05-12
Summary Of Todoy's Star
Editorial ond Comment.

Mothers Day celebrated here In
churches and homes. Page B-1
Evening star., 1941-05-12

(See BETHLEHEM, Page A-4.I
Evening star., 1941-05-12

(See STRIKES, Page AS.
Evening star., 1941-05-12
Weather Forecast

Fair, rather cool tonight and tomor.
row; lowest tonight about 46. Temper
atures today-Highest, 81, at 2 pm;
lowest, 4S, at 6 am.
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full Details on Page Ar.
Evening star., 1941-05-12

In Gallup, N. Mex, the A. F. L.
planned count test of the States
right to prohibit picketing of the
Evening star., 1941-02-26

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Evening star., 1941-02-26

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glasses.
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Evening star., 1941-02-26

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Evening star., 1941-02-26

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under-coot wear. Four colors
in sizes small, medium and
large.
Evening star., 1941-02-26

New Spring fouIords and woven
patterns, neot designs, stripes,
bold potterns, checks. All
silk and siIk-ond-royons.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
Bethlehem Workers
Respond to Appeal
By Resuning Work
Machinists Still Out;
Other Strikes Delay
Defense Production
By UNITED PRESS

The American Federation
of Labor responded to an ap-
peal of the National Defense
Mediation board Tuesday and
ordered members of II craft unions
back to work at two Bethlehem
shipbuilding plants.
The action, taken by the Bay
Cities Trades Council at San Fran
cisco, provided the first major break
in the dispute which has hampered
production at II bay area shipyards
since May 10. 1t did not, however,
affect the strike of l,700 AFL and
CIO machinists whose Walkout
caused the work stoppage.
Developments came rapidly after
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
certified the Bethlehem dispute to
the mediation board Monday. The
board asked the AFT unions to re-
sumo work pending negotiations and
the council met few hours later.
Bethlehem, which holds more than
half the $780, 100000 in defense con-
tracts among the II plants, was the
only major shipbuiider to reject d
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

means of protecting their families
and their livestock from rabid dogs
running at large in the country
areas. Objections were scattered.
IF that dog catcher comes on my
place after my dog he will be a
dead man," Mrs. M. V. Osborne,
resident of the area east of El
Centre, stormed at the board when
they failed to comply with the
wishes of signerS of a petition she
filed before the meeting Monday.
If you put in that dog ordinance
I'm going to raise big stink
around this court house. Pm goinG
to blow it wide open. The farmers
don't want that dog law. 1t will
keep tourists away and hurt every
business in the county. You boys
are getting TOGO. wise. I'll go before
the grand jury"
Earl Northrop, representing the
farmers who asked to have the Or
dlnance enforced, argued that it
was better to have dogs vaccinated
or tied up than to have children
bitten and then forced to take
pasteur treatment better to destroy
stray dogs than have milk COWS
bitten and run the risk of human
beings drinking milk from rabld
cow.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

Indicating that WPA is proceed
ing on the assumption that suf-
ficient funds will be forthcoming
to continue Ell Centre projects after
the end of the fiscal year, two
WA executives We're in the city
Tuesday to confer on extending the
projects.
Henry S. Gierlich, operations di-
rector for the San Diego-Imperial
area, and Frank Jones, properties
superintendent, inspected plans for
WPA work in Ell Centro slated for
the new fiscal year. The proposed
storm drain is uppermost on the
list for the new year starting
July l.
Apparently the only obstacle in
the way is congressional approval
for 194l-42 appropriations, usually
among the last items to be acted
upon in Washington.
If funds are forthcoming, water
pipe excavation will be continued,
the new storm drain constructed
and repair of water plant basins
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
vichy
Maps
Defense
London Fe ars Nazi
Troops to Invade
Strategic Area
BY UNITED PRESS

A three-way collision O.
British, French and AXIS
forces in Syria appeared to
be approaching Tuesday.
The French cabinet met in what
was described as one of its most
important sessions since the Bor-
deaux crisis for discussions believed
to revolve around defense of Syria
and operations in Frances North
African colonies. !
Gen. Maxine Weygand, French
commander in north Africa and
expert on Syria, attended the ses-
sion and was believed to have out
lined plans for French defense OF
the colonial empire and operations
against dissident colonies Whicn
have gone over to the Free French
banner of Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
SECRET
Cabinet ministers were pledged
not to reveal the proceedings ana
the Vichy censorship prevented cor
respondents from replying to direct
inquiries concerning Syria.
Berlin showed a sudden interest
in Franco-Britisn tension over
SYRIA. Nazi informants said the Sit
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
HERE'S MIRACLE RACE
It's Democracy's Competition

WASHINGTON, June 3 (UP)-
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox,
declaring that the United States
must play a determinative part IN
the tragedy that is now going on
in the world" today proposed a gov
ernment-sponsored competitive sys-
tenn among private shipbuilders to
bring about the miracle of sup
plying more and more ships for this
country and Britain.
Knox told a conference of $50
representatives of shipbuilding and
allied industries that the world sit
uation doesn't leave any room
whatever for complacency.'
1T is filled with danger for u.s.
he said. ut is filled with peril for
everything we hold worthwhile. 1t
is utterly impossible to exaggeratc
that statement We've got to fight
the clock "a hours day, seven days
week.
1--WE must play determative part
in the tragedy that is now going on
in the world or We'll spend the rest
of our lives and our children's lives
trying to fend off an enemy that
possesses the rest of the world
After asking the delegates to meet
with naval shipbuilding experts,
Knox was assured by L. H. Korn-
dorff, director of the National Coun-
Gil of American Shipbuilders, that
'the shipbuilding industry will ac-
cept your challenge and will do the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
Roosevelt Confers
With Winant, Then
Calls Chief Aides
Significance Attached
To Series of Talks
In Washington

WASHINGTON, June 3.
(UP) President Roosevelt
arranged a series of confer
ences today with John G..
Winant, ambassador to Brit
ain, and William S. Knudsen, the
nations production chief, and Ad-
miral E. J. King, commander of
the vital U. S. Atlantic patrol.
The three conferences, scheduled
separately, followed a meeting Of
Mr.. Roosevelt and his legislative
lieutenants. Vice President Henry
A. Wallace, Speaker Sam Rayburn.
Acting Senate Leader Walter F..
George of Georgia and House Lead
er John W. Mccormack of Massa-
chusetts comprised the legislative
group.
The activity followed Mr.. Roose-
velts return from a long weekend
at his home in Hyde Park, NY,
and Signified his determination to
put force into his recent proclaim
alton of an unlimited national en-
ergency.
VAAidAio Wdo PiSPcll GU W give dal
up to- the minute report on latest
war developments and Britain's i'm
mediate requirements to counter
act Axis gains in Crete.
Winant conferred for slightly
more than an hour with Mr.. Roose-
velt in the residential section of
the executive mansion and then had
lunch in another room with Lend
Lease Administrator Harry l.. Hop
kinS.
Much significance was attached
to the fact that Knudsen and King
were summoned to meet with Mr..
Roosevelt after Winant's visit, since
Knudsan is charged with insuring
all-out production for Britain and
King with insuring delivery of
the goods"
Mr.. Roosevelt also was expected
to sign sometime today the bill
authorizing him to requisition i'm
modified foreign ships for our own
use or transfer to the British. Ap-
proximately 100 ships now in Amer
lean harbors could DE requisitioned
under the legislation.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

pressure is being eXelted from eacn
side to rally votes for another show
down. Assemblyman Charles Lyon,
Los Angeles, gave notice OF recon-
sideration when the assembly failed
by four votes to override the veto,
but it was uncertain whether a
new vote would come today or later
in the week.
1t required hours of bitter debate
and lengthy call OF the house be-
fore a vote was taken. 1t stood SO
to "a to override, with 81 votes nee
essary under the tWo-third major
ity rule.
The Gordon Rich Hays bill orig
inally was passed by the assembly
so to 90 and by the senate "a to
Gov. Olson, in vetoing it, termed
the bill unconstitutional class leg
islation" Nonetheless, the senate
quickly posted a 3S to S vote 20
override.
Only six assembly members failed
to vote on the controversial meas
ure. Mrs. jeanette Daley, who favors
it, and Thomas Maloney, who op-
poses, are in Washington on busi-
ness.
Leading the fight for passage of
the "hot cargo" bill, James Phillips,
Oakland, declared labor's operation
of the secondary boycott was most
unfair because the innocent by
stander suffered most"
Phillips emphasized the bill only
was effective during the national
Gerald Kepple of Whittier quoted
President ROosevelts proclamation
on the national emergency asking
labor and capital to harmonize their
Paul Richie, San Diego, contend
ed the purpose of the bill was to
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

in addition, to set up fund from
which shipbuilders could pay bonuses
to foremen OF other workers who
assumed leadership in the compe-
tition. This suggestion was frowned
on by Korndorff, who said he pre-
ferred bonus payments for ships,
with authority for the builder to
distribute the bonus as he sees fit.
Korndorff was asked at the con-
clusion of the conference to select
a committee to consider Knox's
proposals and also to look into the
advisab.lity of setting up compet-
tive system in government ship
yards and, perhaps later, to extend
it to manufacturers of turbines,
gear and other ship machinery.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
Supervisors Put Price on Head of
Every Unlicensed Dog in County as
Rabies Law Draws Favor, Opposition

County supervisors Tuesday put
Drice on the head of every doj
running at large in the rural areas
of the county.
Hereafter every dog permitted to
run at large must be vaccinated
against rabies and wear a county
health department tag showing that
the vaccination complied with state
and county laws. The rabies vac
cination will cost 50 dog and
the tags 81 each, an annual cost of
SO for every dog. If owners wish
to avoid requirements of the law,
supervisors said, they must keep
their dogs tied up or confined to
their places. Dogs without tags will
be impounded if caught running
at large.
A delegation of farmers asked
the supervisors to put the rabies
control ordinance into effect as a
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
Biggest Bomber
Contracts Awarded

WASHINGTON, June 3 (UP)-
The war department today awarded
contracts totalling 1921 ,878,896 20
Consolidated Aircraft, San Diego,
and Boeing Aircraft, Seattle, for
production of four-engined bombers.
The two contracts, among the
largest ever awarded by the war
department, are step toward fill
ing President Roosevelt's recent re-
quest that production of heavy
bombers be stepped up to 500 a
month, approximately 10 times the
current output.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

gest," asserting that whereas Ger
many had discarded old weapons.
old men and old ideas the war de-
partment has been too slow TO adopt
modern techniques and now has
"our young men in huge canton
ments learning how TO fight yester-
days wars"
Collins said 10000 mechanized-~
panzer and air-borne - German
troops smashed the French mas
army of 100000 troops but that
the war department for our ma
tional defense is building another
old style mass army He complain
ed that the training program OF ~
months for selectees based on a
departmental plan which makes In
fantry and field artillery the bulk
and basic arms never will produce
a real or an efficient army.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

You Take Him
Our file of "unsolved mysteries
had another case Tuesday and fol
all Of us it can remain there. We're
not interested in hearing any more
about it.
The chase started when tele-
type message datelined Blythe
Calf. revealed that an army de-
serter who had broken out of the
Blythe Jail May 80 had been re-
captured. The message went on tC
say that he was wanted in Ell Cen
tro, Tex.
OF course, that means E1 Gen.
tro, California the city desk rea-
soned and a call was put in to
the Seeley army camp. 1t developed
that the Seeley camp had once had
a chap whose name was similar
but he had been discharged under
a cloud.
I'VE don't want him back" the
camp added quickly.
Now the city desk started imagin-
ing things again and We called
Penny Richmond to find out if by
some remote possibility there could
be an Ell Centre in Texas. The
postmaster obligingly thumbed and
thmbed and came up with this
report
There is an Electra, and an Ell
Paso and an Ell Campo and an El
Indio. Will any of those do?''
They wouldn't, so the sheriffs
office was checked again. 1t de-
veloped that deserter from the
63rd Coast Artillery, once stationed
at Fort Macarthur but now at Ell
Paso, Tex, had been wanted by
the Riverside sheriff. To further
complicate the matter, the all
points bulletin had once been can
celled through error! That made
everything just dandy and clear SO
We gave up. He can stay in jail
until the wars over for all of us!
Side Issue
Although RR never looked into
the matter closely, we would be
willing to wager that Napoleon
seldom eats at home.
Napoleon, big mastiff with the
Continued on Fage 6; Column q
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

job
Knox said competitive system
could be worked out whereby two
groups of workers in any yard would
be working in competition on the
building of two ships of the same
type. Performance awards could be
given by the government every six
months, he explained, for the group
finishing it's work first.
An alternative system, he said,
would be to award performance
trophies to competing companies
building ships of the same kind.
The awards, in such case, would be
based on the time elapsed from start
of construction to finish.
Knox said he would be willing,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

complete and total Dictator
ship"
"Communistic socialistic" |
were the terms used by the admin
istration's most vehement critics to
describe the request. Even admin
istration supporters were surprised,
although most of them declined
comment.
The bill was introduced in the
senate without comment yesterday
by Chairman Robert R. Reynolds
D.. N. c., of the military affairs
committee at the request of the war
department which said it had the
approval of President Roosevelt, the
navy department and the office of
production management.
Immediate congressional reaction
indicated that the bill was headed
for a battle comparable to those
over CONSUMPTION and the lend
lease act. Republicans almost unan-
imously opposed it and will be sup
ported by some Democrats.
UNLIMITED POWERS
Some senators even expressed in
credulity that a request had been
made for powers which, if used, it
was charged. would be unlimited in
its effect upon every man, woman
and child in the United States.
Undersecretary of War Robert P.
Patterson said he hoped congress
would pass the bill soon-"in the
broad form just as it is"-because
of the seriousness OF the present
emergency.
Patterson conceded the bill was
very sweeping and very strong"
but he felt it was justified by pres
ent conditions.
1t was learned that at least one
administration leader in congress
felt that it was too sweeping and
should be modified to put time
limit on the presidents proposed
power to requisition any and all
private property desired for defense
purposes. AS drafted by the war de-
partment the bill would be perma-
nent legislation that could be in
VoKed IN any national emergency,
including the present.
The bill was understood to have
been principal topic of discussion
at the presidents conference this
morning with legislative leaders.
Patterson said the proposed leg
islation was drafted last March by
war department experts, and ap-
proved by the navy and other inter-
eSted government agencies.
Chairman Walter F. George, D.
Ga, of the senate foreign relations
committee read the bill and laughed
He refused comment. Sen. Hiram w
JohjSon, R., Cab, indicated he
thought his informer was joking.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, D.
Mont, leader of the congressional
on-interventionists doubted that
Hitler or Mussolii has that much
personal power"
1T is a direct threat to every in
dividual in the United States,
Wheeler said, whether he is la
borer, farmer, or business man
that one man, at his whim, can take
the farm, the farm machinery, the
tools of the laboring man, or the
Continued on Page 6; Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
wPA Officials Inspect Projects
Here on Assumption Funds Will be
Available for Work Durinu Summer

will be among the summer items
of work, Director of Public Works
Walter Heinecke indicated
Meanwhile, connecting a new,
larger water main to feed the East
side tank made itself Immediately
felt upon Eastside water pressures.
A chart of pressures in that To-
cality that previously had shown
serious drops Tuesday revealed a
different picture. Pressures were
maintained uniformly high despite
heavy drains during the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
Draft Evaders
Held for Trial

Headed for trial in federal court
OF a charge of draft evasion, Mario
Atkinson, 80, Mexican laborer, was
held prisoner in the Imperial
county Jail Tuesday
United States Commissioner Dor
sey Whitelaw set bail at $25O0 af-
ter a hearing late Monday Atkin-
son, who was born in Cotton, said
he went to Mexico to avoid the
draft and was arrested at Calexico
when he sought to return to the
United States, Whitelaw said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
Grand Jury to
Quit for Summer

Imperial county grand jurymen
met Tuesday and decided to adjourn
for the summer unless summoned
to handle some emergency
H. Arann of Seeley and Mrs. M.
v. Osborne of Ell Centro were the
only witnesses seen to enter the
grand jury room Tuesday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

Guthrie, and Sun-Maid Raisin
Growers also were named.
The evaporated milk firms charg-
ed included the Borden company,
New York; Carnation Co., Milwau-
kee; Pet Milk, st. Louis Nestle's
Milk Products, Inc, New York;
Libby, McNeill and Libby, Chicago;
and Sage Milk Products Co., Salt
Lake City.
Spokesman for the antitrust divi-
sion of the attorney generals Of
flee described the indictments as
designed to combat rising food
prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03

~ years OF tne mouse subcommittee
on army appropriations, fired the
salvo and demanded that the de-
partment "revise defense plans at
once" He said a separate air service
with its own cabinet department
was urgently needed.
A scattering of unofficial replies
already can be heard and it is n
foregone conclusion that the de-
partment will be cleared entirely on
some of Collins charges because
the faults of which he complains
lie either with congress or past
administrations rather than with
President Roosevelt or the depart
ment, itself.
But Collins is a powerful figure.
His charges are serious. He made
them in the current Readers Di-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-03
Two Injured When
Autos Collide

Two men, Lambert Esquer, Jr.,
20, Mexicali and Isabella T. Oh
pendo, Westmorland, were injured
late Monday in a traffic accident
two miles east of the Highline
canal on the Yuma highway.
Esquer's car and one driven by
an unidentified Filipino collided,
Highway Patrolman Tillman Daley
and Everett Weatherbie said.