Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1936 — Page 4

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Choir Singer Goes to Death Without Commenting on His Crime.

By United Press BOSTON, Aug. 4.—Newell Paige Sherman, former choir singer and scoutmaster, was electrocuted today for drowning his young wife for the love of a 17-yearrold girl. The girl, Esther Magill, who said at his trial that she never. intended marrying him, worked her regular hours at a factory yesterday and spent the evening at the home of an aunt in Worcester. She did not sign a petition for clemency that 51 ochers of the factory workers sent to Gov. James M. . Curley. — Sherman entered - the execution chamber at 12:02 a. m. One minute later Executioner Robert Elliott, who serves six states, pulled his switch. At 12:09 iwo guards lifted

~ Sherman’s 240-pound bulk from the

chair. He went to death with ;

comment upon his crime.

At his trial he repudiated a can‘fession in which ke had said. that he intentionally overturned a canoe on Lake Singletary, pushed and trampled his wife under walter, and left her $0 drown while he swam to

. shore and reported an “accident.” » |

Children’s Tent Stolen | Neal Myers, 1421 N. Kealing-av, was robbed last night of a tent he had placed in his back yard for neigh‘borhood children to slecp in on hot nights, .

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Lewis Fight Is Likely to Split DIES IN CHAIR] Labor Ranks, Clapper Observes

Craft Union Leaders ‘Trying’ Members of C. I. 0. in No Mood for Compromise, Writer Says.

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—After 50 years of cohesion, the organized

labor movement in America appears about to split into two groups.

John

L. Lewis and his followers in the industrial union movement are on “trial” for insurtection against the A. F. of L. and their excommunication seems. imminent. Lewis claims to represent about 40 per cent of the A. F. of L. membership, an indication of the extent of the “insurrection” and suggestive of the upheaval which his excommunication would cause.

Last week President Green of the. A. F. of L, appeared hopeful of a reconciliation. But the A. F. o council is now in session. Lewis refused to appear and the “trial” was ordered to proceed. Heads of<the craft unions represented on the council, the princes of labor's realm, indicated they were in no mood to compromise with rebellion. Green says now there is little hope of an amicable adjustment:

If this proves to be the case,-the labor movement “shortly will split into two groups, the A. F. of L. ruling ‘hierarchy clinging to its craft unions composed of highly skilled workmen and the Lewis group moving into the mass production industries like steel and automobiles to organize -the vast armies of workmen, skilled and. unskilled alike, into industrial a ns, each of |; which would cove & whole industry.

Lewis Attacks Setup

It is possible that the insurgents at some future time might capture the A. F. of L. organization, but to

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do so would require a revolution involving substitution of a. new regimge. Lewis has taken the position that the craft union mode of organization is out of date in dn age ‘of large-scale industry. He regards it as impracticable for labor to deal with, say, General Motors, through 15 to 20 different unions, segregating the electricians, machinists, boilermakers, painters and other trades into independent groups. He says organize all automobile employes into one big union so that they can fight as a unit and not be torn apart among Jurisdictional jealousies. In principle his plan is not entirely * rejected by the -controlling forces in the A. F. of L., where the advantages of industrial ; inionism , recognized as applicali ' to some

% Des of industry.

{But labor union politics comes into the matter. is is a kind of class war within labor’s ranks. The A, F. of L. is dominated by heads of the old craft unions. The man who

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is “prosecuting” Lewis before the A. F. of L. council is John P. Frey, head of the metal trades department. Under his jurisdiction are the metal trades craft unions, many of whose members or potential members would be lost to a genefl union of automobile workers. Similarly the carpenters, electricians and other craft groups would find their membership field restricted or reduced py the setting up of mass production industrial unions.

50-Year Cycle ‘Complete

Accordingly, these craft unionists have, so Lewis charges, sabotaged attempts to organize mass production industries as ordered by the San Francisco and Atlantic City F. of L. conventions in the last two years. Alleging that the A. F. of 'L. was not carrying out this mandate to organize these industries, Lewis some months ago set up his Committee for Industrial Organization and took the bit in his teeth. Now the A. F. of L. charges this was insurrection. This crisis completes the 50-year cycle of labor. Back in the eighties the Knights of Labor was somewhat analogous to the industrial union. It appealed to unskilled workers, and was politically conscious, forming alliances with Populists, Greenbackers, public ownership * groups,

‘and “in ‘general evolving ‘itself into

a political labor party. But skilled ‘workmen, who ‘had no interest in the hordes of common

labor which: were ‘diluting the labor market and pulling down wages, decided that it would be to their interest to cut ‘loose from the rag, tag and bobtail. Samuel Gompers rapidly built up the highly skilled craft groups into the American Federation of Labor, thrusting aside dreams of political power and concentrating on the practical matter of boosting the wage scale for the various skilled crafts. Now there has appeared a new leader who proposes to organize the unskilled masses who have been ignored by the skilled aristocracy of the labor movement for 50 years. They would take control of ‘the labor movement away from the less numerous skilled unionists. That.

is the revolutionary. significance of!

Lewis in the labor movement.

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Missouri, Kansas and Virginia Voters Go to Polls as Prelude to Fall’s General Political Waris:

By United Preis ‘Three States—Kansss, Missouri and Virginia—held primaries today that were preludes to this fall’s general warfare on all political fronts. None had direct bearing on national issues.

Greatest interest centered on Republican and Democratic primaries in Kansas, home state. of Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential nominee, to choose party candidates for state and congressional offices.

RICHMOND, 'Va., Aug. 4—Two congressional seats - were at stake today as Democratic voters cast their ballots in the Virginia primary. Senator Carter Glass had no opposition.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Aug. 4.— The issue of Pendergastism was the only one in today’s Republican and

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Democratic primaries in Missouri to choose candidates for state and congressional offices. The control of Thomas J. Pendergast, Kansas City boss, over the Democratic state organization, was the basis of the campaign of canRepublican and Democratic gubernatorial nominations.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Aug. 4— United States Senator Marvel Mills Logan, Democrat seeking renomination, held a 3188-vote lead over his chief opponent, former Senator

J. C. W. Beckham, as polls workers

began counting the last ballots today. Returns from 3937 out of 4296 precincts ‘gave: Logan, 169,502; Beckham 166,314. .

TOPEKA, Kas, Aug. 4—The fight for the Democratic nomina=tions for Governor and Senate held the chief interest in the Kansas primaries today. Jonathan M. Davis, former Gove ernor, sought the Democratic gubere natorial nomination against Walter Huxman, who is considered the New Deal candidate. Davis is a supporte er of the Townsend pension plan; Will G. West, secretary of state, was unopposed for the Republican nomination. Senator Arthur Capper had two opponents in the race for the Republican senatorial nomination, but was a heavy favorite. ,

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