Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1935 — Page 8

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VIOLENT STRIKE IN RUBBER INOUSTRY LIKELY; 2501000 IN AKRON FEAR BLOODSHED Decisive Test of Real Position of Big-Industry Labor Under NRA Looms; Plants and Workers Prepared for 4 War.” Pg \ T K s's <rr AKRON, 0.. April 11.—Heavier than the murk of smoke, sulphur, and gum that always lowers over this rubber center of the world hangs the threat of a widespread and inevitably violent strike. With foreboding, a quarter

million people here, half of them directly and all of them indirectly dependent on rubber, look forward to being made a collective guinea pig for a decisive test of the real position of big industry labor under NRA. Beyond local questions of wages and hours, beyond speedup' methods or 'rawhiding." beyond specific grievances. Me two big questions: Have "outside unions the right, and the ability, to organize the big industries? Have those industries the right, and the ability, to sponsor local organizations of employes that fulfill their rights under NRA? Those are the real questions at stake here, and that is why the impending rubber strike is as important to steel and automobiles as to rubber. Prepared for Battle Theae is a jittery feeling in the streets, for every one has seen the miles of new cyclone fence, the batteries of searchlights atop the "gum mills." the sandbag barricades. the reinforced gates of the factories. Every one has read the bitter exchanges of statements between union leaders and factory managers. And every one remembers 1913. Twentv-two years ago. Akron as the scene of particularly bitter strike warfare. The I. W. W„ fresh from its high-water mark attained in the Lawrence <Mass.) textile strikp, descended on the town. It organized a few hundred rubber workers, and called a strike. On the wave of strike fervor that followed, it boasted its membership rolls to several thousands. There was fighting all over town as the companies kept their mills open despite piekets. Vigilantes Rule City When state troops were refused, several thousand members of a Citizens’ League took over the streets as vigilantes to restore order. Bitterness was extrrme on the part of the beaten rubber workers, the embattled managers and stockholders, and the pubile generally, who saw business and every activity hamstrung. The movement, to unionize s he rubber factories was set back so far at. that time that it never made any substantial progress until the advent Os NRA. In mid 1933. a. score of years after the I. W. W. failure, the A. F. of L made its first really determined bid It organized "Federal unions" in each of the large plants to attract the rank and file of industrial rubber workers, former efforts having been largely confined to special skilled crafts within the plants, like operating engineers, machinists, sheet metal workers, and the like. Company Unions Formed On the wave of NRA enthusiasm. membership boomed, and by the fall of 1933 may have reached as high as 25.000 here. Meanwhile. Firestone and Goodrich organized "company unions" under various names. Goodyear has had a company union plan since 1919, when an "industrial assembly" was started, regarded then as a pioneering step in labor relations. The A. F. of L. unions, having reached a peak, began to decline in membership. Last summer, a strong six-week strike was engineered at the General Tire and Rubber Cos. and. supported by the locals In the larger plants, was carried through to a partial victory. Last fall Coleman Clahertv. chief A F of L. organizer in Akron, for-

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mer sheet metal worker and personal friend of William Green, asked for government labor board elections at the Firestone and Goodrich plants to determine representation in collective bargaining. Elections were not asked at Goodyear where the 16-year-old company ipresentation plan had such a firm hold that a ballot would presumably have gone against the A. F. of ,L. union. Firestone and Goodrich tied up 1 ne proposed elections in the courts, where they now languish. The unionized workmen, seeing their membership dwindle with this legal delay, became more and more restless The local plants, or “federal unions,” co-ordinated in a council which included the craft unions in the plants, and made contacts with the automobile industrial unions in Detroit. A few weeks ago. requests were made of the factories for negotia-

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tlons looking toward a contract with the United Rubber Workers. All were refused, the managements claiming they would not negotiate with a minority. Strike talk followed immediately, mounted in volume. Union membership rolls began to swell again. Back dues were paid up by hundreds. . Vote Against Strike > Company union elections v *re held at the plants, and a huge vote against a strike rolled up in each case. The companies took this as a mandate from a majority of their employes to- keep the plants open despite any strike. A citizens’ committee publicly backed this attitude, offering to guarantee the right to work to all who wished to do so. Union-run elections followed immediately, showing an equally decisive vote for a # strike. Union leaders *ake this as equal evidence tha* a strike is wanted and will be sup- | ported. Conciliation has failed to i date. Preparations are under way for a i long and bitter strike. A thousand ; deputies have been collected and drilled in riot tactics by Sheriff Jim Flower, who is expected to try to bar mass and chain picketing. National Guard observers are already j on the scene. Reds Are Banned The unions have called for “men with military experience.” and are developing a picket system of their own. which will include the “flying squadron" tactics used in the textile strike of last year. i Masses of unemployed will be added to the picket lines, though j Communist and other radical delegations will be opposed—they were quickly booted out of the General Tire strike last year. Their literature is already flooding the scene, however. j Financial support may be forthcoming from the Detroit auto unions, though a sympathetic strike

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by them is unlikely. Craft unions directly interested have offered support, as has the A. F, of L general organization. The new federal rubber unions are not believed to have any great strike reserve funds. The companies have huge supplies of tires on hand, some estimate enough for five months, and each has smaller plants in other cities where the union organ.zation is probably less strong than in Akron. The t hree large companies, though their profits have been either small or non-existent for the last five years, have vast financial reserves. Unless last-minute presidential intervention saves the situation, Akron may be the San Francisco. Minneapolis, and Toledo of 1934 all rolled into one. NEW YORK FLAGS AT HALF-STAFF FOR OCHS I.a Guardia Proclaims Period of Mourning for Publisher. His In it* */ Vrrnn NEW YORK. April 11.—Flags were half-mast on all municipal buildings ! today as the city entered a 24-hour period of public mourning proclaimed by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia to honor the memory of Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, who died Monday in Chattanooga. The mourning period extends until noon tomorrow. Funeral services for Mr. Ochs will be held at 10:30 a m. Burial will follow in the Temple Israel Cemetery at Mt. Hope, N. Y. 10 Killed in Theater Collapse Si/ I nil) and Press CANTON, China, April 11.—A balcony collapsed in a crowded motion picture theater today, killing at least 10 and injuring 60. Many of ! the victims were children.

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