Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1937 — Page 15

THURSDAY, FEB. 25,

CONFERENCE ON MINER DEMANDS

1937

owners are among the greatest coal operators, and also because the United Mine Workers are financing the drive to unionize steel, the New York meeting may determine what will happen in the steel industry. A coal strike might more effectively cripple the steel industry than could a steel strike—because

RAINISNOT SOLE CAUSE OF FLOOD,

| though it ran the water 10 feet over | flood stage at Evansville. It was 19 feet over flood stage | this year. | That same month of 1882 there | was a flood in Cincinnati and Louisville. Records of rainfall in Jeffersonville and Lawrenceburg had not |

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diana in March, 1904, and Evansville had a recorded rainfall for that

month of 7.36 inches. Indianapolis’ fall was 10.95 inches: Varo Pols Floods of less disaster, but serious | An

inches; 9.86 inches at Bloomington. | enough to merit study, have oc-|floods is difficult to ascertain. Nine Disastrous Floods [curred once every three or four | item that should not be overlooked |

In January, 1907, there was a flood | years. |1s that property damage in early | causing an estimated $1.000.000 This does not mean that floods floods was listed as less than in later |

nine disastrous general floods, or on Eastern United States, the damage | an average of one every 13 years. in Indiana was negligible. The amount of damage done by

SECURITY FORUM TONIGHT

The Junior Chamber of Commerce is to sponsor another of a series of open forums on social security legis= lation at 8 o'clock tonight .in Crop= sey Auidtorium of the Central Lie brary,

been started that year. 'A | damage and the fall in Evansville | Other than the nine were not disas- | DS: WY Juay, rary Yacauss Here

coal is thoroughly unionized while Flood History Reviewed | trous locally. Por example, the flood | WAS less physical property in the

of floods for the Interstate ComPITTSBURGH, Feb. 25. — Pros- | the Pittsburgh steel workers’ con- | mission on the Ohio Basin has re- for July when the flood was formed: | pects for continued peace in two | ference, at which Lewis supporters | MISS ly th Vevay, 7.33 inches for July, and | great basic industries, coal and steel, | {fom plants throughout this country | vealed that only through a delicate | Spiceland, 10.5 inches. : morn —_ Amon a rest largely on two momentous labor | 2d Canada will seek to draft long- | combination of meteorological hap- | "However, this flood was strictly | ¢ 25 at : ie A meetings. wali Setnahas on the American | penings can a flood be engendered. {local in character and appears in | The first, which opened Feb. 17 | in Stee! Trstitute. The amount of precipitation be Wo = ie Rie oe in New York City, has brought to- Mines Well Unionized . It e. Tas oS sing. ny gether John L. Ne ey other . plore, for instance, has no absolute by State Planning Board Sa chieftains of the United Mine Work- | L€Wis has virtually a closed shop | bearing on the size of the flood or | that Indianapolis had 1221 inches | in the coal industry. Within 30 the our Of property damage |of rainfall in June, 1875, and that | (days, his aids announce, he will | caused by it.

ers, and the Appalachian coal opera- . ; | the ground was saturated for the tors. They are seeking a new Vai yh oa titres, gis In February, 1882, a total of 14.62 | July rain. Bloomington had a rethat expires April 1. | 3 ‘Sunlar oon Ng | inches of rain fell in the Evansville

agreement to Sueceed ‘the ‘cont ; Sh f Vein tell in corded fall of 209 inches for the | him the exclusive right to bargain | area. an ve 2 does not ar The second meeting is to be held | ¥ ee Dear

| two months. . in any record of major fi ren ! i - | in Pittsburgh about March 10. when | fOF all the steel workers. ) J oods, even' A $3,000,000 flood occurred in In- | steel workers representing the new | Just what Lewis’ strength in the |

C. I. O. steel unions will convene. | Steel industry will be when he comes The coal meeting may determine | to Pittsburgh in March is probwhat happens in the subsequent lematical, but the Steel Workers Steel meeting. For John L. Lewis, | Organizing Committee says 150,000 Who is demanding a 30-hour week | steel workers already have signed and a wage raise for his 500,000 coal | union cards. However, this is 93,000 miners, against demands of the op- | Short of a majority of the 485,000 erators for a lower wage and longer | Wage earners in steel. week than the present 35-hour Moreover, the C. I. O. forces are standard, is also boss of the Steel dispensing with payment of dues Workers Organizing Committee, by many thousands of those who Which is attempting to unionize the | have signed cards to join the Lewis 485,000 steel workers. union, and nobody knows how many Lewis to Press His Luck of them would drop out if the, | Amalgamated Association of Iron, Lewis believes he has been “get- | Steel & Tin Workers (the Lewis ting the breaks” and he apparently | steel union) insisted on collecting | intends to press his luck. He feels | dues.

AFFECTS STEEL

Future of Labor in Basic Industries Rests in Two Parleys.

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Damage -.$ 2,000,000 2,000,000 10,000,000 | § . 5,000,000 '@ 10,000,000 3,000,000 1.000,000 - 25.000,000 . more than 50,000,000

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