Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1938 — Page 8

~~ PAGE 8 — 'WAGE- PARLEY NOW BATTLE OF

RAIL STATISTICS |

Carriers Asking 15 Per Cent Reduction Affecting 914,000 Workers.

By THOMAS L. STOKES , Times Special Writer / CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—A battle of statistics is being waged here in

secluded hotel conference rooms bhe- |.

tween railroad executives and labor chieftains over the carriers’ proposal for a 15 per cent wage cut affecting 914,000 workers. - Labor is contributing the bulk. Its two spokesmen, A. F. Whitney, representing the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and George M. Harrison, head of the Railway Lahor Executives Association, representing the 19 other railroad unions, already have piled the record high in the two weeks of discussion thus far with data touching on such matters as speculation and financial mismanagement. Huge sums spent for propaganda, dividends and the like. They have plenty more ready. Their object is to build up a record to enlist public support in their fight against the proposed wage cut. But, beyond that, the wealth of material they have accumulated serves another purpose. It is like the stack of books which a senator piles on his desk as he plunges into a filibuster. Labor’s representatives claim they are prepared to filibuster for days longer.

Railroads Play Waiting Game

When a break may come is hard to tell. Railroad labor's terms, at this juncture, are absolute withdrawal "of the proposed wage cut. Railroads are playing a waiting game with hope of a compromise. The next few days may see the beginning of an arbitration effort by the Government. H. A. Enochs, chairman of the Carriers Joint Executive Committee, has announced that he is preparing documents requesting that a Federal mediator intercede. The matter may take the same course it did a year ago, when some railroad labor won a 5 per cent increase. At ‘that time Dr. William M. Leiserson, chairman of the National Mediation Board came quietly to Chicago, planted himself in a hotel room and let out the word that he was at hand if the parties desired to arbitrate. Meanwhile, the opposing groups are going through a routine. Mr. Enochs and his committee of six others meet one day with Mr. Harrison and his group and the next day with Mr. Whitney and his group. A comfortable hotel ballroom is provided for the confabs. Railroad labor’s spokesmen argue for maintenance of present wage scales. “But where is the money coming from?” blandly asks Mr. Enochs, and points to curtailed revenues.

Labor Asks ‘Cultural Wage’

Typical of the routine performance was the final session last week between the railroad executives and the Whitney group. They spent two hours at it. Mr. Enochs, leaving the ballroom, chatted with reporters. Someone asked about the “cultural wage” labor is asking. “I have no quarrel with the cultural wage—or anything else—if they can tell us where to get the money to pay it,” he said. “Today they say a living wage means an automobile, a radio—that these are necessities. When I was . a. boy, if you had water in your house—why, that was something!” He smiles slowly and departs. Reporters file in to see Mr. Whitney, a stalwart figure, foursquare, sitting back of a long table which reaches nearly the length of the

room. His men sit, informally, coats |

off, in front of him, and listen as he talks to newspapermen. He has called Mr. Enochs’ attention, he says, to the $186,000,000 which it was testified before the Wheeler Senate Committee was spent for propaganda by railway associations of all sorts between 1920 and 1936. He spoke of the “pernicious lobby” which he said the railroads had built up by using not only these associations but their local agents counsel and surgeons for propaganda purposes, a “well-oiled machine” which he said extended to every county in the country.

Defended Associations

Mr. Enochs, he said, defended the associations as necessary for proper operation of the $27,000,000,000 railroad industry, but admitted that several railroad presidents had objected to spending money for such purposes. During the two-hour discussion, the railroad labor leader suggested to Mr. Enochs that he and his group read “The Living Wage” written 25 years ago by Father Ryan. He said he told the railroad executives that labor intended to sit here until they “inculcate” some fundamentals about wages into them. . Then he piled on statistics, citing figures to show that railroads, since 1921, had cut down their expenses, reduced their fixed charges, achieved reduction of unit costs through technological improvements, had increased their dividends from $1,299,000 in 1921 to $44,411,000 in 1936 (made up of $29,411,000 in cash and $15,000,000 in stock) and yet wages had come down from $45,000,000 in 1921 to $43,000,000 now.

Mr. Enochs, he said, broke in

with counter arguments from time to time. So the battle rages. “I'm willing to sit here,” Mr. Whitney concluded, his jaw set, “until we convince these men that they must withdraw their demand

for a wage cut.” HEADS BAR GROUP

Times Special 2 BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 3—Prof. J J. Robinson of the Indiana University Law School faculty, has been chosén to serve as chairman of the criminal law section of the American Bar Association.

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One tense episode followed another as the liner Normandie docked at New York, bringing a bizarre story of a woman passenger allegedly

attacked by her husband, followed by the husband’s

miles out in the Atlantic.

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After a seaman reportedly rescued Mrs.

Robert Moore Duncan as she struggled with her husband at the rail, Mr. Duncan disappeared and is believed to have leaped into the ocean. When the Normandié docked, Mrs. Duncan was in the ship’s héspital, too ill to be moved, it was reported. Her father, Willard S. Richardson, executive of the Rockefeller Foundation, rushed to the ship’s hospital. Objecting to having his picture taken, Mr. Richardson swung a left

hook to a photographer’s ribs.

Mr. Duncan, the missing husband, is

35, and a professor of political science at Colgate University.

Times Special

New Harmony Project Echoed In NYA Proposal for 35at I. U.

Bachelor Communal House 0 Be Set Up; Boys To Aid in Cooking, Laundry Work.

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LOOMINGTON, Aug. 3.—The ghosts that walk the old Rappite community houses in historic New Harmony, down in the southwest corner of Indiana, will feel at home in Bloomington, starting Sept. 1. For the plan and spirit of those Pennsylvania Dutch who settled New Harmony in 1814, and lived, ate, worked and studied together in

bachelor bliss in big three-story houses, are echoed in a project planned here. It is the first resident worktraining center to be established by the National Youth Administration in Indiana, and will house 35 young Hoosiers while they study at Indiana University.

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state and district NYA super-

visors and sponsored by citizens or groups from their communities, will find their “community house” already built for them. Like the Rappites, who came overland from Harmonie, Pa., to found an experiment in communal living on the banks of the Wabash, the boys will live on a share-and-share alike basis—and that means sharing work. Another similarity will be the absence of women from the household—the boys will even help with the cooking. The full-time supervisor who will run the house will be a man. He will be assisted by two students employed on NYA projects in the University—also men. The house will be equipped for cooking, eating, study and recreation. The boys will take all their meals there. A male cook, employed by NYA, will prepare meals —assisted by the boys. 2 2 8 ACH occupant will be assigned household duties. He'll do his own washing, and help in the house laundry. Boys will form a self-governing organization to set up and enforce house rules. For living expenses, they will be assigned to NYA work projects on the campus, for which they will receive a monthly wage, The Rappites were students, despite their pioneer life—and here, too, the NYA project duplicates the New Harmony plan.

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URPOSE of the program, according to Robert S. Richey, state NYA director, is to make the boys “more employable.” The Indiana Employment Service will help find jobs for them when they finish “school.” Up to this point, the Rappite ghosts from New Harmony should feel right at home in this modern counterpart of their “noble experiment.” But what will those hardy old ghosts say when they find out that the University Home Economics Department is going to help plan the meals?

WILSON ENDS PROBE

OF INMATE'S DEATH

Verdict of ” Aocidenh Due to Be Returned.

A verdict of “death by accidental burns” is to be returned in the case of Marion Jones, 56, Negro, who was fatally scalded in a bathtub at the Central State Hospital here, Dr. E. R. Wilson, Coroner, announced today. As State officials continued their plans “to improve the employee personnel at benevolent institutions,” the coroner announced that his investigation has been completed. “Our findings substantiated the charge that Roy Sherman, an attendant, had left the hospital ward at the time of the accident,” Dr. Wilson said. Charges of involuntary manslaughter were placed against Sherman when it was alleged that his departure enabled a patient to attempt to give a bath to Jones, a paralytic patient. Jones apparently was unable to climb out of the tub. Sherman has been released under $500 bond, and a preliminary hearing is to be held in Municipal Court next Wednesday.

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A complete “fair practice” regulation, governing phases of ‘the manufacture, transportation and- sale of beer, wine ‘and spirits was ‘adopted Soday by the State Alcoholic: Beverages Commission. =~ This regulation, Commissioners explained, is“largely a recodification of rules and. orders previously ‘promulgated by the-Commission. Explaining: that the regulation is not intended ,to supplement- or set aside any provisions of the Indiana Alcoholic Beverages Act, Hugh A. Barnhart, State Excise Adminis - trator, said: “This new regulation, while having “the full force: and effect of law on

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City Council unanimously passed an

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