Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1934 — Page 3

JUNE 13, 1934.

EMPLOYERS ON DEFENSIVE IN LABORTROUBLE Strikers Theoretically Side With Government in Present Strife. This is the last of three articles by Harry Elmer Barnes, Ph. D., on industrial strife in American history as a background for interpreting of disorders accompanying application of Clause *A of the national industrial recovery act. BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES Times Special Writer The twentieth century dawned with a black background of industrial warfare behind it. There was little change during the first decade of the new century. The struggle between the miners and the reactionary employers continued unabated in Idaho, Colorado and other western mining centers. In 1902 a strike in the anthracite area of Pennsylvania threatened the east with a fuelless winter. President Roosevelt forced the coal operators to accept arbitration but not the principles of labor union. From 1905 to 1910 the American Federation of Labor placed less reliance upon strikes than upon the union label and the boycott in its fight for collective bargaining. This worked fairly well until the supreme court decision in the Danbury hatters’ case interpreted the secondary boycott as a conspiracy in restraint of trade, punishable under the Sherman act. Newspaper Plant Bombed In 1910 there occurred an ominous incident in labor warfare, the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times, owned by Harrison Gray Otis, the chief labor baiter on the Pacific coast. The explosion on Oct. 1, 1910, cost twenty lives. William J. Burns was called in and evidence he gathered led to the arrest of the McNamara brothers and Ortie McManigal. During the course of a sensational trial the McNamaras confessed guilt in return for a promise of mercy, which the state only partially carried out. While (Sompers had no responsibility for the dynamiting, he at first sympathized with the McNamaras, whom he sincerely believed to be innocent. Their confession helped to put a serious crimp in any remaining militancy on the part of ihe American Federation of Labor. Mill Strikers Win The next sensational strife between labor and capital was waged under the leadership of the I. W. W. at the textile town of Lawrence, Mass., in 1912. The strike leaders, Joe Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, from the first made every effort to prevent violence and succeeded in doing so. Only the police and the troops shed blood. The peaceful tactics of the strikers were vindicated, since the strike was won after tremendous feats of endurance. Our entry into the World war helped to lessen strikes and industrial warfare. Soon after the war industrial strife broke out again. The I. W. W. had, indeed, been relentlessly attacked during the World war. On Armistice day, 1919, the American Legion, incited by the lumber barons of the northwest, attacked the I. W. W. headquarters at Centralia, Wash. Four veterans were killed and several I. W. W. leaders were later sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. A general strike in Seattle, in 1919, tied up the whole city for a week. Steel Strike in 1919 In the autumn of 1919 came the great steel strike, precipitated as the result of an effort to unionize the plants of the United States Steel Corporation. The federal government quickly came to the aid of the steel corporation through injunctions and the calling out of the federal army under General Leonard Wood. The Boston police strike of 1919 was cleverly exploited by employers to discredit all strikes. The strikes at Passaic, N. J., in 1925, and at New Bedford, Mass., in 1928, were the most colorful flareups until the spring of 1929. Serious and extended industrial warfare broke out in 1929 in the textile towns of North Carolina, particularly in the district around Gastonia and Marion. There was some bloodshed, but most of the mortalities occurred among strikers, who were wantonly fired on by deputy sheriffs controlled by the textile companies. Even women were shot

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down by deputies and strikebreakers but no convictions could be secured. The depression put a serious crimp in strike activities for labor leaders recognized the futility of conducting strikes in bad times. Nevertheless, a considerable guerilla warfare took place in 1930-31 in the mining areas of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. So far as casualties were concerned, the honors were about even between the striking mountaineers and the com-pany-controlled deputies. In many ways the growing industrial violence of 1934 differs from these earlier episodes. The disorder is more widespread because the NRA is supposed to have a national aplication. Hence the test of the government’s determination to enforce Clause 7-A, guaranteeing collective bargaining, is bound to take place on a wide front. Further, in the past the government has been almost universally against the strikers. Today the strikers are at least theoretically in accord with the government in taking seriously the meaning of Clause 7-A of the NRA.

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Lower Left—Drenched and happy, this quintet leaves its play at the beach long enough to pose. They are Harriet Somrak, May Luzar, Dorothy Wyne, Clara Nounsek and Sylvia Nounsek. Lower Right—Even though she isn’t swimming, little Rita Marine Hufnagul, 1102 North Holmes avenue, gets in 'a good day of wading at the beach.

Brown, J. Frank Miller, Chester A. Armel, George T. Sheehan, Claude C. Byfield, John S. Pock, Millard F. Higgins, Edwin Addison and James D. McNair. Hot Coffee Scalds Child Overturning a coffee pot in his home, 3-year-old Victor Florea, 608 East Walnut street, Apt. 7, was scalded today. He was sent to city hospital.

SOCIALISTS TO MEET W. H. Richards to Speak at Ninth Ward Session. Ninth ward. Socialists will meet at 8 tonight at the Dearborn, 3208 East Michigan street. W. H. Richards will speak on “A Socialist America.” The public is invited.

FURTHER RAINS NEEDED TO AID CROMiEVIVAL Corn Outlook ‘Materially Improved/ Weather Bureau Says. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 13.—Rains last week were of “inestimable value’’ to the drought area, but additional precipitation is needed to advance, “pr even maintain the present improved outlook,” the weather bureau said today in its weekly crop bulletin. “While rains came too late to be of material help to most winter and early spring grains,” the bureau commented, “they have been sufficient to relieve the serious livestock situation in many places.” The bureau reported the corn outlook “materially improved, with rapid germination of late planted corn and revival of considerable earlier acreages that were strugglig for existence.” “The present condition of the crop is now favorable, except in the southwest,” the report said. Downpour Hits Florida By United Press TAMPA, Fla., June 13. —Heavy property damage resulted today from record breaking rains that have flooded lowlands in this section. The weather bureau reported 7.4 inches of rain fell between 8 o. m yesterday and 8 a. m. today with the rains continuing. This exceeded by more than an inch the previous record for rainfall in the last forty years. LIFE OF NOGUCHI TOLD Rotarians Hear Story of Famed Scientific Figure. Members of the Indianapolis Rotary Club heard the story of Noguchi, famed Japanese-American bacteriologist, yesterday, as told by Mrs. Kathryn Turney Garten, book reviewer for Stewart’s, Inc. Mrs. Garten told the story as it is written by Gustav Eckstein. Eugene C. Fotser, director of the Indianapolis Foundation, gave a report on the work of the Flower Mission Society, the Summer Mission for Sick Children, and the Children’s Air Society. INSPECTORS TO MEET Electrical Group to Address by AI Feeney. First annual meeting of the Indiana chapter, western section of the International Association of Elec-, trical Inspectors, will be held at the Severin tomorrow and Friday. Al G. Feeney, state safety director; William F. Hurd, city building commissioner, and Gerry M. Sanborn, electrical contractors NRA code authority, will be speaker. 30 KILLERS BREAK JAIL Mexico Police Hunt Desperadoes; Warden’s Arrest Ordered. By United Press MEXICO CITY, June 13.—Mexico state police, abandoning all other duties, searched today for thirty long term prisoners, all convicted of murder, who escaped from pail at Tenango Del Valle. Arrest of the prison warden was "ordered. Anderson Electrician Killed By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., June 13. Joseph Chambers, 49, municipal light plant employe, was electrocuted here late yesterday when he grasped a 2.200-volt high tension wire by mistake.

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Howard H. Maxwell Struck by the propeller of a national guard plane at Wabash yesterday, Lieutenant Howard H. Maxwell, guard officer and Central Aeronautical Corporation vice-president, received arm and leg injuries. No bones were broken, X-ray examination at Methodist hospital here revealed. The accident occurred when Mr. Maxwell attempted to spin the propeller. He had flown AdjutantGeneral Elmer F. Straub to Wabash. to inspect the airport and armory there.

GIRL’S BODY FOUND IN RIVER AFTER QUARREL Lovers Dispute Blamed for Suicide of Indiana Miss. By United Press NEWBURG, Ind., June 13. Search for Miss Gayola Seals, 19, who disappeared from her home Saturday night after a quarrel with her sweetheart, William Hurley, was ended today with recovery of her body from the Ohio river. Hurley said they quarried over his insistence that they be married immediately while she wished to postpone the wedding.

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Real Estate Board, luncheon, Washington. Advertising Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Engineering Society, luncheon, Board of Trade. Illini Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade. American Business Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Alliance Francaise, Washington, 8 p. m. Shrine Caravan Club, luncheon, Scottish Rite cathedral. JUDGE 33 YEARS, DEAD Kentucky Federal Jurist, 80, was Named by McKinley. By United Press MAYSVILLE, Ky, June 13Judge A. M. Cochran, 80, for thirtythree years judge of the eastern Kentucky federal district court, died here last night. He was believed one of the few judicial appointees of the late President McKinley still in active service. Judge Cochran was a Harvard graduate and a classmate of Supreme Court Justice Brandeis. Roosevelt’s Mother Honored BETHLEHEM, Pa., June 13.—The degree of honorary doctor of letters yesterday was conferred on Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of President Roosevelt, by the Moravian Seminary and College for Women. Illinois Tow r n Skips Tax By United Press ASHTON, 111., June 13.—Ashton has too much money. The city council has decided, therefore not to levy a tax this year.

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JAPAN CONSUL FOUND ALIVE IN CHINESE CAVE Missing Official Planned Suicide, He Admits to Officials. By United Press NANKING, June 13.—Hidekal Kuramoto,, missing Japanese vice consul, for whose safety Japan held China responsible, was found alive today in a cave near the tombs of the Ming dynasty of emperors. A coolie found the man whose disappearance had threatened to involve Japan and the Chinese National government in a serious dispute. Chinese authorities issued a statement revealing that Kuramoto went into hiding and planned suicide after being reprimanded for loss of certain documents. Authorities told the United Press that the vice consul had admitted that his disappearance was voluntary and caused by “humiliation” following a reprimand by Consul General Suma. The alleged reprimand occurred last week. Kuramoto dropped from sight Friday. Japan immediately notified the Chinese government that it was responsible for his safety and sent warships here to “protect” other Japanese residents. Kuramoto later admitted to the United Press that he disappeared voluntarily. He said he left the consulate in a rickshaw and rode to the cemetery. From the mountainside, he looked out upon the lights of the city. “I looked back,” he said, “and shouted: ‘Goodbye to all that’.” The consulate attache had lost an important document and brought stern reproach upon himself. He planned self-destruction, he said. STATE PRESBYTERIANS CHOOSE MODERATOR Synod Group Holds Meeting at Hanover College. HANOVER, Ind., June 13.—The Rev. John Prentice, Bedford, was chosen moderator of the Indiana Presbyterian church synod in annual meeting at Hanover college yesterday. Business sessions of the synod and the fifty-second annual meeting of the Women’s Synodical Society will continue through tomorrow. GRAVES LEADS IN VOTE Alabama Ex-Governor Ahead for Democratic Nomination. By United Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala., June 13. With returns lacking from only 150 of the state's 2,256 voting boxes, ex-Governor Bibb Graves today held an insurmountable lead of more than 22.000 votes over Frank M. Dixon, Birmingham lawyer, for the Democratic governorship nomination. BAKERY CODE TO START, National Council Sets June 18 for Opening of Agreement. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 13.— I The bakery industry code of fair competition will become effective June 18, the National Bakers’ Council, code authority, advised today through the recovery administration. Girl Dies in Fall Off Horse By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., June 13.—Miss Irma Arson, 25. Chicago, was thrown from a horse and killed instantly last night on the bridle path of the Hammond riding academy. Her neclc was broken.