Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1937 — Page 11
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1937
GIRDLER'S IRE
‘Republic
AGAINST UNION DATES T0 1914
Head Fought ‘Labor Organization in Two Steel Firms.
Times Special WASHINGTON, June 24. — In questioning today Tom M. Girdler, Republic Steel head, the Senate Postoffices Committee confronts the country’s No. 1 foe of organized la-
. bor.
Mr. Girdler’s hatred of labor
unions is no new thing born with the rise of the C. I. O. It was in evidence during the years from 1914 to 1929 when he was general superintendent of tlie Jones & Laughlin works at Aliquippa, Pa. Union men called the plant the “Siberia of the industry” in those days. It was in evidence also in 1930 when he took over Republic Steel and fired veteran foremen and mill hands left and right, and again in 1934 when he abandoned contracts his subsidiary companies had had with A. F. of L. unions for 21 years. On one other occasion the Girdler ire against William Green, A. F. of L. president, broke forth when he announced that rather than “fool around with: the professional labor unions” he would quit steel and raise apples and potatoes on his Ohio farm.
Favors Long Hours Nor does Mr. Girdler have any
patience with the heresy of short
working hours. He gets to his desk
at 8:40 a. m. daily and sees to it|
that his staff, including vice presidents, gets there at 8 a. m. None of them leaves before 6 p. m., which makes a good old-fashioned 10-hour day. For his services Mr. Girdler is paid $129,000 a year. He is a steel man in the old tradition, though he is only 60. His biographers call him energetic and dynamic, ahd explain that by no stretch of imagination could he be called either sentimental or urbane. His name is Tom, not Thomas, but that fact does not indicate a proletarian background. He was never a mill man. Born on an Indiana farm, he was educated at Lehigh University and took the degree of mechanical engineer in 1901. His first job was with the Buffalo Forge Co. in England. A year later he returned to this country and worked for various steel companies, among them the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. in the days before that company reformed its relations with labor.
Joined Republic in 1929
In 1914 his career with Jones & Laughlin, which was to take him all the way to its presidency, began. He stayed with it till 1929, when Cyrus Eaton of Cleveland induced him to take over Republic Steel and try to whip that costly leviathan, with its inefficient old mills situated in high-cost territory, into a paying proposition. Since then Mr. Girdler has merged two steel companies with Republic |
making it the third biggest unit in
the industry, reorganized its financial structure and defied tradition by announcing a price discount for quantity orders. He lives at Greystone Farm, Mentor, O., and outside of work hours enjoys riding the horses he keeps there.
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CARDINAS DECREES STATE RAIL CONTROL
By United Press MEXICO CITY, June 24—Labor and financial circles today weighed the consequences of President Cardenas’ surprise decree expropriating the heavily obligated National Railways, Inc. The decree, issued last night, involves more than half of the rail trackage in the nation and was in-= terpreted here as a step toward state socialization of industry. The decree deprives rail unions of the right to strike and bargain collectively.
MRS. ROOSEVELT TO SPEAK By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind, June 24. —MTrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak here Nov. 17 under the auspices of the Delta Gamma Chapter of Psi Iota Xi Sorority, it was announced today. -Her subject will be “Relationship of the Individual to the Community.”
MAILING UNION
TOLD BY MAYOR TO END STRIKE
Three Pittsburgh Newspapers’ Employees Reconsider Peace Proposal.
By United Press . PITTSBURGH, June 24.--Mayor Cornelius D. Scully today asked 150 mailroom employeés, whose strike
has forced suspension of Pittsburgh’s three newspapers—the Press, the Sun-Telegraph and the Post-
Gazette—to reconsider the publi; hers’ proposal to return to work immediately at the same wage rate with increased wages to be provided in a new contract to become effegtive Jan. 7, 1938. “If this continues as an outlaw strike, and union labor tells the publishers to put out their newspapers, that will leave you saying ‘We want you (the public) to come over to|us as ‘against the majority,’” Mayor Scully warned the strikers. . The publishers’ proposal was for the mailers to return to work and abide by the present contract which does not expire until Jan. 7. At the end of the present contract, a new three- -year contract will increase the pay rate from $6.80 to $7.50 per day and to $7.85 per night. before expiration of the sesand year of.the new contract, the question of wages would be reopened to establish a pay rate for the third year. The strikers returned to their union hall to reconsider. Charter Revoked Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union, with which the mailers union is affiliated, . termed the walkout an “outlaw” strike -and revoked the union’s charter for breaking its contract with the papers. E. A. Clark, president of the striking union, charged iast night that its contract with the papers was
Sixty days;
illegal and that the pay of the avers age mailer is far below that paid other crafts employed by the newspapers of Pittsburgh. Clark declared that the publishers made an offer “by letter during March of 1937 wherein they extended us an open invitation to discuss this contract at any time we saw fit. Notwithstanding the contract under which we have been
working was illegal and the publish= ers have knowledge of this fact, we |
continued operating under it until we felt that living conditions warranted an increase in wages.” Clark charged that during the past 18 years mailers have received an average increase of 39 cents per year in their weekly salaries.
LEE TAKES OVER AS
COAL BOARD HEAD
William Zeller Is Named Vice Chairman. By United Press
TERRE HAUTE, June 24—Hugh B. Lee, Terre Haute, today assumed
his duties as chairman of the Indi-
ana Bituminous Cocal Producers’ Board after elections at a meeting of more than 100 state coal producers. The producers. who have signed the bituminous coal, code under provisions of the Coal Act of 1937, met here yesterday and elected members of ‘District No. 11, executive board. ‘Frank Barnhart, Workers Union district president, was appointed to the borad as the employee representative. Other officers named are William Zeller, Indianapolis, vice chairman: William H. Cooke, Terre Haute, managing director of the State Bureau, secretary and treasurer.
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WON BY AUTO UNION
U. A. W. Plans Further Organization Work.
MUNCIE, Ind. June 24.—Officials of the United Automobile Workers Union planned further organization moves today after winning an election to determine the employees’ collective bargaining agency at the Warner Gear Co. plants. The election, conducted by Robert H. Cowdrill regional National Labor Relations Board director, showed 1563 votes for the United Automobile Workers Union and 383 for the Warner Gear Employees’ Association. .
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C. I. 0. Affiliate Wins Rubber Election
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