Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 271, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1936 — Page 3

JAN. 21, 1936.

TROOPS NAB 4 AS ARMY ROLE TIGHTENS GRIP Guardsmen Patrol Area Near Plants at New Albany and Jeffersonville. (Continued From Page One) rier guard and there was peace on both strike fronts with the guardsmen keern'.g picketers out of large areas surrounding each plant. Those arrested were Harl Barth. 23; Carl Thien. 20; Everett White. 25. and Lawrence Overton. 26. who were taken into custody when they refused to leave the protected area around the Jeffersonville plant. The National Guard this morning established an armed taxi service, driving its trucks under guard to the homes of all workers who called and said they would accept jobs at the factory in New Albany but were afraid to go to the plant unprotected. Workers Arc Guarded Upon receipt of such calls, trucks driven by uniformed Guardsmen and guarded by others armed, were sent to the homes, the workers were loaded in, and the trucks were driven to the plant. It w r as estimated by Guard officers that there will be 45 at work in the New Albany plant by noon. At the same time it was believed that unless some effort is made at arbitration, the Guard will be withdrawn within two days except for a skeleton staff, although martial law will be continued. Ample lunches were carried by the workers entering the Jeffersonville plant today. The plant was beleagured yesterday by union strikers and 120 women and men held captive until the troops sent by Gov. McNutt escorted them home. A few women workers depended on their comrades to supply their noon repast. Orders Peaceful Picketing Walsh, in overtures to Col. Fechtman, commander of the troops in the martial area of Floyd and Clark Counties, offered settlement on the basis of; 1. A 40-hour week. 2. Wages by piece work on a scale to be determined by a board of arbitration to be selected, one by Fine company, one by the union, and one by Col. Fechtman. 3. Closed shop, union recognition, no strikes or lockouts. Col. Fechtman, in conferring with Walsh, pointed out that the National Guard had been called in to prevent disorder and to give to any one who desired it the right to work. Civil life in New Albany and Jeffersonville resumed its even tenor today. Strike conversations "shushed” at the first questioning from newspaper men. Factions favoring the return of the workers to the plant and others asserting allegiance to unionism were on every street corner and in every tavern and lunchroom. No Violence Reported Declaration of martial law and the disembarking from busses of 400 tinhatted youths resulted in evacuating all picket lines near the two plants in Jeffersonville and New Albany. The guard took over policing the plants without an altercation or an arrest. Maj. Ralf Paddock, commanding Companies C and L, One Hundred Fifty-first Infantry, Terre Haute, early today ordered the union's commissary, near the New Albany plant, to desist from feeding 650 workers on strike. A Lent, which served as a dormitory for picketing workers, was ordered dismantled. Guardsmen commanded street intersections near both the New Albany and Jeffersonville plants. Tourists were compelled to detour to other routes to Louisville and points in Indiana or to take circuitous routes in the cities of New Albany and Jeffersonville to avoid the martial law area around the plants. Warned to Avoid Blockade Filling station attendants warned motorists to take other highways to avoid the blockade. One driver, traveling at high speed, beat the guard barrier in front of the Jeffersonville plant and left before guardsmen could halt him. A young guardsman, in attempting ito duck the speeding car, slipped on the ice. A report that he had been knocked down by a hit-and-run driver turned a quiet entrenchment of the guards at their strike posts into laughter as newspaper men rushed to the scene. The guardsmen, fed and housed in the New Albany armory, spent their off-hours warming themselves inside the two plants. Roving patrols cleared streets of loafers or cruising cars of strikers City police of both Jeffersonville and New Albany as well as 50 special deputies, sworn in to cope with yesterday's rioting which resulted in injuries for three persons and the jailing of 11 others on assault and battery charges and rioting, returned to their police departments todey as all companies of the guard called out by Adjt. Gen. Elmer F. Straub reported for guard duty and martial law areas were set near the two plants. No Strike Breakers, Is Fledge Early today as Col. Fechtman detailed guards companies to strike zones and as steel bayonets glinted under the dull arcs of the two towns he said that owners of the shirt factories had assured him that strike bieakers would not be used. W. j. Gr°ssert, Jeffersonville plant superintendent, declared that 500 former workers are willing to return to work provided they could be promised protection from strikers Shirt company officials charge many of those on the picket lines were sympathizers and friends of a minority of the workers in the two shirt company factories. Union officials contradict the statement by pointing out to a membership of between 750 and 900 in th? union of the 1250 workers in the vwo plants. A third plant of the company in New Albany is being dismantled. It was not affected by yesterday’s brawls and fisticuffs. Organizer Denounces McNutt Mr. Walsh, garment union organizer. was vehement in denunciation to Gov. McNutt for declaring martial law. 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With bayonets drawn, members of the Indiana National Guard are shown here as they halt persons within the six-block military area of the M. Fine & Sons Shirt Cos. plant in New Albany. The military took control of the area late yesterday following minor riots. Guardsmen in the photo are from Company C, One hundred fifty-second infantry, one of the first units to arrive in New Albany.

NRA DOWNFALL KEY TO DISPUTE Stronger Union Formed Then, Leading to Strike Oct. 10. Times Special NEW ALBANY. Jan. 21.—Arbitration, parades, walkouts and minor brawls that were shuffled in day by day following the ending of NRA have brought the steel gleam of bayonets to shir.t workers of Floyd and Clark Counties. NRA ended for the shirt workers in the factories of M. Fine & Sons Cos., Inc., Jeffersonville and New Albany, Oct. 10, 1935. With its cessation the formation of a stronger garment makers’ union brought a strike and yesterday’s street brawls resulted in injury for three persons and the jailing of 11 other pickets, sympathizers and non-union workers. Up to October, 1935, the Fine factories maintained the NRA wage scale of sl3 weekly minimum despite other garment factories lowering wages, company officials contend. W. J. Gressert, Jeffersonville plant superintendent, who was in the thick of yesterday’s rioting, says, “And our going off of the NRA scale, after others had long ago taken the step, precipitated the trouble.” Walked Out Oct. 10 The day-to-day march of plant workers and the plants into martial law under the seal of Gov. McNutt reads fcs follows: Oct. 10, 1935—Three hundred employes walked out on a strike. Union leaders charged the strike was a lockout. Wage reductions below the old NRA scale, failure to recognize the United Garment Workers of America, increase from a 36-hour week to a 45-hour week, was termed by union leaders as the cause. Parades were held in both Jeffersonville and New Albany. Oct. 11—Local 189 of the United Garment Workers was organized. Three hundred joined. Fine company officials, in turn, declared 700 attended a mass meeting in one of the plants and accepted a wage cut which would have a minimum of sll weekly. Workers protested that they could earn but $8 weekly. New Albany Wo.k-.’rs Join Striking Jeffersonville workers urged New Albany plant workers to follow their steps. Rumors were current that the Pine company planned to move the smallest of its New Albany plants to a Southern city. Oct. 16—Shirt workers in the New Albany plants left their spinales to join Jeffersonville plant workers on strike. Mayor J. G. Hauswald. New Albany, refused to take sides in the labor controversy. He promised police protection to New Albany plants. Union leaders claimed a membership of 800. Dec. 10—A news story from Vicksburg. Miss., corroborating rumors, disclosed plans of the Fine company to move one of its New Albany factories to that city. The company admitted the str *y's veracity. Street Brawls Reported Dec. 12—Frank E. Walsh, international organizer of the United Garments Workers, charged that reports that the Fine factories would be moved were "mere gestures.” He declared the plants would open as union factories or not reopen. Street brawls between union and non-union workers were reported to police. He cautioned the business men not to meddle in union affairs and praised Mayor Hauswald of New Albany for attempting to effect a strike settlement. Civic organizations joined m efforts to mediate the strike in both Jeffersonvile and New Albany. Dec. 20—Two nundred citizens and former employes of the plant were said to have signed a petition requesting that the New Albany plants be reopened. Jan. 4—Mayor Allen W. Jacobs. Jeffersonville, joined in attempts to

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open the doors of the shirt factories. Dismantling of the machinery of one Now Albany shirt factory was begun by the Fine company. Demand 40-Hour Week Jan. 9—Proposals to reopen the Jeffersonville plant with reduction of the hours from 45 to 44 and what plant officials said was a 5 per cent reduction in wages was refused by the garment workers’ union. Union leaders insisted on union recognition, no strikes or lockouts, equal division of the work, a 40-hour week. Jan. 14—New Albany labor refused to aid dismantling one factory to move it to Vicksburg, Miss. Indianapolis workmen aided in tearing down sewing machines for packing in boxes for shipping. Jan. 16—Floyd County officials and Police Chief Edward H. Meyer, of New Albany, visited with state officials and Gov. McNutt in Indianapolis regarding steps to preserve the peace in the event the Fine company plants were reopened. Col. Paul W. Fechtman of the Indiana National Guard visited with officials of both Floyd and Clark Counties as well as city officials of New Albany and Jeffersonville and reported his findings regarding conditions to Adjt. Gen. Elmer F. Straub. Officials of both counties were assured that if things “got out of hand" guardsmen would be sent and martial law declared. Plants Ordered Reopened Jan. 17—The Jeffersonville shirt factory and one of the New Albany plants. Plant Two, was ordered to reopen. Picketing of the plants dropped as police of both cities guarded the plants. Rumors were current of dismissal of Mr. Walsh, union organizer, and that another union was to take over the rolls of the United Garment Workers of America in New Albany and JefferonvUle. Jan. 18—Fifty deputy policemen were sworn in to guard the plants at their opening yesterday. Union leaders held a ballet meeting and said the workers voted to remain on a strike until their demands were met. Col. Fechtman told city authorities of New Albany and Jeffersonville that troops would be called if conditions got out of hand. Jan. 20—The Jeffersonville and one New Albany plant reopened, j Pickets battled with fists, sticks and

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Carrying a hammer in her left hand, Mrs. Della Howard (center) faced special deputies yesterday after she had escorted her daughter to work at the Jeffersonville branch of the M. Fine & Sons Shirt Cos. Mrs. Howard told the deputies, shown in the photo, that she was ready to repulse any one who attempted to interfere with her daughter’s return to work. The Indiana militia now is in control at Jeffersonville and New Albany.

some charged blackjacks were used, in order to prevent 120 workers returning to their sewing machines in the Jeffersonville plant and 2.'' workers entering the New Albany factory. Three persons were injured. Union leaders declared knives and blackjacks were used by strikebreakers. They charged workers were being imported. Martial law was declared. Troops, without a semblance of trouble, took over the job of guarding the plants. Workers imprisoned in the Jeffersonville plant were freed by soldiers. Military areas were declared around the two plants. Eleven persons were arrested by police of both cities during the brawls in front of the plants. WOMAN SEEKS RETRIAL Petition to Be Filed Today in South Bend Poison Case. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 21. Motion for anew trial was expected to be filed in Superior Court here today for Mrs. Cora Werntz Rendall, 52, convicted last Thursday of the poison murder of her fifth husband. George Schock, defense attorney, said he would introduce new evidence if anew trial is granted. It was not indicated whether an appeal would be taken to the Supreme Court. LEG IS BROKEN BY CAR * - Jacked-Up Auto Falls, Knocks City Resident to Ground. Harry Doty. 28. of 3812 N. Salemst is in City Hospital with a broken leg received when a jacked-up automobile dropped and knocked him down. The accident occurred at the garage operated by George W. Poore at 340 S. Permsylvania-st.

CITY WOMEN RECALL MEMORIES OF COURT Three Were Presented at British Function. Three Indianapolis women, who were presented at the Court of St. James’, today recalled memories of the late King George V of England and Her Majesty, Queen Mary. They are Mrs. Elias C. Atkins, who was presented in 1919 by her uncle, John W. Davis, then ambassador to England; Mrs. James F. Frenzel, who was presented during the May, 1930, court, and Princess Diana Rockwood Eristavi-Tchitcherine. Dr. F. S. C. Wicks, All Souls Unitarian Church pastor, remembers seeing King George while the King was passing in the royal carriage during a state occasion in England. ENGLISH GOSSIP OF POSSIBLEMARRIAGE Only Four Rulers Have Remained Single. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 21.—One of the most interesting topics of conservation in the British Empire today was the possibility that the new King Edward may find reason to marry in his accession to the throne. It was recalled thet only four sovereigns of England, from the time of Edward the Confessor to the present day, remained unmarried through their reigns. Queen Elizabth, “the Virgin Queen,” was the most notable. Edward V was murdered in the Tower of London at the age of 13 and Edward VI died when 16. Only William II of the male monarchs, who mounted the throne single, eschewed a later marriage. He died at 43. Kiwanians to Hear Former Head Carl E. Endicott, international past president, is to be the Kiwanis Club speaker tomorrow at the Columbia Club.

EDWARD'S RULE MAY BE TINGED BY SOCIALISM New King Sympathetic to Poor and Oppressed, Record Shows. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. •- Will Britain's new sovereigr, Edward VIII, come to be known as the empire's “Socialist King?” There are those in England who predict he w r ill. They say he w r ill turn Britain upside down, smash precedent and do and say things never said or done by any British monarch in history. But those w r ho entertain such fears mostly have vast vested interests and have already found themselves squirming under the unexpected lash of the Prince's tongue. They are inclined, therefore, to exaggerate. They recall, for instance, a speech he made at the Guildhall after an inspection of the slum districts of some of Britain's principal cities. When he rose to address the gathering, whose aggregate wealth reached almost astronomical figures, it was expected that he would give them 10 minutes of platitudes and sit down amid the usual whitegloved applause. Instead, ne said this: ‘‘There are a great many slum dwellings in this country that are relics of a bygone idea of what was tolerable for workmen. That type of home must be demolished. They are not, and must not be considered, fit for the coming generation. I’ve personally inspected many such places. And I have been appalled. "New houses can be built within reach of workingmen if a big income is not what is looked for. This nation can not afford to perpetuate such slums. What’s the use of treating the diseases of slum-dwellers, especially the children, if when cured they are to be sent back to such slums? It is a disgrace to our national life.” Stuffed Shirts Amazed For a moment there was amazement. Then a burst of applause from most of those present. Others moved uncomfortably and pulled at their collars as if these had suddenly become too small. The new King will hardly be a “Socialist King.” But he is and will likely remain social minded. He began early, telling his grandfather, Edward VII, that when he grew up he intended to renounce the throne and be a locomotive engineer instead. When the World War broke out, court, cabinet and the British general staff all put thumbs down on his going to France. He willed otherwise. Said he; “If I do and don’t come back, one of my brothers can carry on as King. But if I don’t go, as King I shall be discredited.” And did. Under Fire in France In France I not infrequently saw the Prince of Wales. He lived like any other soldie. and insisted on being treated as such. He played cards with British Tommies in the trenches, slithered around on a bicycle and was the despair of the brass hats who felt themselves somehow responsible should a whizz-bang or a German tar-box wipe him out. In Western Canada, where he has a ranch, he wore cowhand clothes and on roundups led the singing with his ukulele. From the strictest court in Europe, he willingly posed with Hollywood stars, caddies on the golf links, wearing ten-gallon hats, in queer bathing suits and however or wherever news photographers caught him. In India he shocked not only all the castes of that country, high and low. but the entire world by welcoming and addressing the outcasts—- ! the despised untouchables—an act ! big with portent for 350,000,000 peo- : pie now that he is Emperor and : King. Never has the new ruler of England been a “stuffed shirt.” He played the game even when a strip-

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REMOTE POSTS IN CANADA JOIN EMPIRES GRIEF Governor General, Prime Minister Express Formal Sympathy of Dominion. By United Press OTTAWA, Ont.. Jan. 21.—Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, and Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King expressed th formal grief of Canada today over the death of King George V, but the emotion of a bereaved people came trickling in slowly and dramatically from places of which the King probably never had heard. The sorrow at loss of a beloved King was assuaged by joy at accession of a monarch regarded almost as a Dominion native. Official word of King George's death that caused the Governor General to cable King Edward VIII that he was "heart-broken" and the Prime Minister to message an expression of "the profound sympathy of the people of Canada,” reacted in a simpler manner in Hudson's Bay trading posts, ranch houses of Alberta and fishing ports of Newfoundland. Word Flashes Through Country "The King is dead.” The words went in all the directions of the compass. At rail and wire heads they flashed onward through the ether. A handful of the townspeople of Warways. end of the northwest rails and gate to the barren lands, read the message over the shoulder of a station agent bent over his clicking telegraph instrument and a typewriter. On the same wire the word reached fur-clad farmers and trappers at Peace River and Lac La Biche. Police Spread News Power: ul broadcast stations of the Northwest Mounted Police crackled the message. At Cameron Bay, on Great Bear Lake, where night and day will be almost indistinguishable for another two months, a lonely police operator heard the flash and threw off his headphones to shout the news. The Hudson’s Bay Cos. factor at Aklavik, farthest north of outposts, told Eskimo subjects of the dead King that the great white chief was no more but anew great chief nad come. Pride that the new King had been an Alberta rancher in person—he still owns a beautiful ranch 66 miles southwest of Calgary—rose amid sorrow in the western plains. Roping Feats Recalled "He can rope and ride like an old-time cow hand.” a cowboy recalled. MacKenzie King and Lord Tweedsmuir followed their messages to King Edward with other cables expressing probably the deepest emotion of the Canadian people—sympathy for Queen Mary. "My wife and I are deeply distressed at the tragedy which has deprived the empire of its great and beloved sovereign and we beg most respectfully to express to Your Majesty our profound sorrow and heartfelt sympathy in your great loss,” the Governor General said. The Prime Minister’s message to the new King was the official expression of Canada’s sorrow. Sympathy Is Extended "I respectfully extend to Your Majesty and to all members of the royal family the expression of the profound sympathy of the people of Canada',” it said. "His late Majesty was greatly beloved by his subjects in Canada. No sovereign had so close an association With our country and toward him on the part of all were feelings of personal attachment and devotion. Canada shares with the British commonwealth in mourning the loss of one whose personality and public service strengthened the bonds of their friendship and unity and who as man and King enjoyed universal esteem and affection.”