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HOOSIERS’ sleuthing spread on
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La Follette group records.
REPUBLIC use of labor spies repudiated by Girdler.
C. L O. seeks to halt West Coast
revolt against Bridges.
S. W. 0. C. dues drive causes riot; two reported hurt.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY " - Times Staff Writer
« mittee hearings today.
The tale of these two “direct-by- = mail detectives” was unfolded in : connection with the questioning of * Tom M. Girdler, the $175,000-a-year
: Republic Steel Corp. board chair- “ man, who is a Clark County, In- - diana, native. “ It involves the purchase of a new car from the Dawson Buick ¥ Co., Elwood, by Dewey W. Jones, “ Republic Steel police captain from " Cleveland. . » : % According to the testimony given the Committee by letter, Mr, Jones + came around to the Dawson ga“rage on July 7 and told Bernard = Reabuck, a mechanic there, that * his name was Ralph Willis and 2 that he was visiting in Elwood be“cause he had spent his boyhood “+ there. + At that time Mr. Jones was wantZed by the La Follette Committee © as a witness to testify regarding the use of company police during the 1937 strike in “little steel.”
Two Pistols Found
« Having decided that he wanted . to trade in his old car and buy a = new one, however, Mr. Jones finaltly gave his right name. Then : when he drove to Canada in his = new car for a vacation, Mr. Rea- ~ buck went to work to recondition “ the old one, the testimony shows. In doing so he found two pistols,
. some shells, a bronze police badge
- and some Republic Steel literature * dealing with labor matters. These . were in a dashboard compartment, > Mr. Reabuck said, while on the * windshield was a sign showing that the driver belonged to the “Fraternal Order of Police of Cleveland.” Mr. Reabuck revealed his dis- - covery to Howard Caven, bookkeeper at the wson garage, who immediately identified Mr. Jones as the missing man wanted by the LaFollette - Committee and about whom he had read in the news- - papers. So with Mr. Reabuck dictating and Mr. Caven writing, the entire ~ story was sent to Senator Robert ~M. LaFollette Jr., committee chairman. Spy Report Discovered
‘Enclosed was the “labor liter“ature,” which proved to be a copy of an official Republic order, stating’ that employees were not to be interfered with in organizing for col“lective bargaining, on the back of which was written a report of union spy activities. “Did you leave anything in your old car at Elwood?” Senator LaFollette asked the long-missing Mr. Jones when he took the witness stand alongside Mr. Girdler. “I think maybe I left a raincoat in it,” he replied, whereupon Senator LaFollette read the list of - articles found and produced facimilies of the spy report. . “I don’t know anything about it,” Mr. Jones contended and stuck by “his story while the Senator pro‘ceeded to put the entire matter into ‘the record in complete detail.
Rioting Breaks Out
In Union Dues Drive
- MONESSEN, Pa., Aug. 12 (U. P)). —Rioting broke out at the gates of the Pittsburgh Steel Co. plant here early today as a result of a duescollecting campaign by members of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a C. I. O. union. Police reported that two men were -hurt but were treated by the.com- : pany doctor and went to work. Mill officials denied this. One of the in-
. .jured reportedly suffered a stab
wound and the other a head injury -from a flying brick.
. * {POLICE SEEKING OIL
HURLING VANDALS
Police today sought vandals who :hurled three glass jars of oil , through the windows of the home of George Dapp, superintendent at the Mahan Paper Box Co. plant, 320 «~W. South St., at which workers have been on strike since June 30. .. One man was questioned by police - but was released after detectives reEpovied his car showed no signs of oll, - > os
<8 Charles W. Bevan, 620 W. 31st St.,
told police he saw a car.containing three men stop in front of Mr. ‘Dapp’s home and that two men got ‘out, went to the porch, hurled ob- < jects at the house, then returned to
_ sthe car and drove away.
z DEPUTIES LOSE JUROR I FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. 12 (U. .P). — While escorting a Superior Court jury to lunch, deputy sheriffs “discovered they had only 11 men “in tow. A quick trip to the Courthouse revealed the 12th juror was
“locked in the jury room. He jdined iis colleagues at luncheon,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—How ¢ two: Elwood, : Ind, -garagemen be- = came voluntary sléuths for the La & Follette Civil Liberties Committee * is spread in the reeord of the com-
By HERBERT LITTLE , Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Tom M. Girdler returned to steelmaking today, leaving 4 Senate Civil Liberties Committee record full of his regrets and repudiations of the tactics of labor spying and violence ascribed to his Republic Steel police. He was the final witness in the “Little Steel” strike investigation. The Republic Steel Corp. chairman denied knowledge of spy tactics, and said they were contrary to Republic’s labor policy. Then he volunteered that Republic chieftains in the last four weeks, since the Senate Committee hearings started, have “reviewed” their tactics and stopped all espionage on labor unions and organizers. “If it isn’t stopped, then I am very much mistaken,” the spectacled “Little Steel” chieftain said. Still defiant in defense of his company’s wefusal to sign a C. 1. O. contract—which led to the bloody 1937 strike in which 16 were killed and 307 injured—Mr. Girdler fired a new blast of charges against Philip Murray, C. 1. O. steel chieftain, and demanded that additional testimony be taken to show violence by strikers, pickets and other C. I. O. unionists. As to most of the antiunion activjties which the Senate Comniittee under Chairman Robert M. La Follette (P. Wis) has been investigating for four weeks, Mr. Girdler professed little or no knowledge.
Denies Knowing of Antiunionism
“I don’t know much about citizens’ committees and I don’t know anything about vigilantes,” he said. Much testimony has been adduced that Republic officials actively promoted these movements during the strike. h . His hazy memory extended even to a telegram sent him by President Roosevelt during the steel strike, asking him not to carry out his announcd intention of reopening his Youngstown, O., plants. He said he remembered receipt of the telegram, and Senator La Follette asked: 7 : “Did you reply?” “I don’t remember.” “Did anyone else in your company reply?” “I don’t know. I think the troops (sent in by Governor Davey) were moving into Youngstown before that telegram was received.” Mr. Girdler testified to aid in efforts’ of the National Association of Manufacturers to collect funds for anti-union campaigns, but said he did not read much of the literature sent out. He said that he first proposed the famous study of the British Trades Union Act and other labor laws, which Republic and five other non-C. I. O. steel firms have paid his publicity concern, Hill & Knowlton, more than $86,000 to conduct. This study is not yet completed, but he is satisfied he will get his money’s worth, he said. “Doesn’t Remember An hihg” Mr. Girdler “doesn’t es anything about the action of the Iron and Steel Institute, of which he is presiden, in sending out a circular urging support of National Associgtion of Manufacturers’ activities, he said. The N.A.M,, he commented, did a lot of very good educational work.” Senator La Follette cited the employment of Harold F. Vargo, who had a police record, as a labor Spy, | by one of Republic's police captains, and demanded: = “How could this go on without approval of the corporation?” “I don’t approve of spying on men attending union meetings,” was Mr, Girdler’s reply. “It’s silly. The corporation wouldn’t do anything about the information they got, anyway. He said that spying could have gone on, without his knowledge, however. . Mr. Girdler “didn’t know” whether Republic used affiliated organizations to influence public opinion. Senator La Follette thereupon called Republic's Birmingham manager, Wade Oldham, ot the stand and asked the same question. Senator La Follette then put in the record a letter from Leon Gilbert, Associated Industries of Alabama secretary, to Mr. Girdler, tell--ing of wide distribution of literature furnished by Republic among Birmingham and Alabama civic and business organizations. One piece of this literature, sent to all members of the greater Birmingham committee; was described in Mr. Gordon’s letter as “an editorial by Dorothy Thompson (newspaper columnist), entitled ‘Mr, Galloway and Mr. Payne’.” This was also sent to all members of Associated Industries. © A letter from Mr. Oldham disclosed also that the Alabama Mining Institute contacted business leaders and others, “with the result that between 150 ang 200 telegrams of commendations” were sent
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Receipts from the sale of farm products in Indiana amounted to $122,062,000 during the first six months of this year, $19,073,000 less than during the same period in 1937, the Depart-
$141,135,000.
benefit payments amounting to $5,340,000 in 1938 and $9,122,000 in 19317. Gross receipts for June this year were $20,030,000 as compared with $22,235,000 in June of last year. The $116,722,000 receipts from the sale of farm products, minus Government payments, for the first six ‘months of 1938 came from $21,-
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to Governor Davey on his action in calling out the Ohio troops.
C. I. 0. Seeks to Quell West Coast Revolt
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P). —The Committee for Industrial Organization officially recognized for the first time today intra-C. I. O. charges of communism against one of its leaders and sought to quell a
revolt among four of its West Coast affiliates. C. 1. O. Director John Brophy
of some Los- Angeles locals of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, the United Automobile Workers of America, the United Rubber Workers of America, and the United Shoe Workers of America announcing last Sunday
the Los Angeles Industrial “Union Council. They attacked Harry Bridges as a communist sympathizer, and said that they would boycott the State Industrial Council meeting called by Mr. Bridges, West Coast director for the C. I. O. “Mr. Brophy said that C. I. O. Chairman John L. Lewis had designated him as national C. I. O. representative to attend the state council meeting, to be held in Los Angeles on Aug. 20 and 21. The C. ‘I. O. announced that President Sherman Dalrymple of the rubber workers and Director Powers Hapgood of the shoe workers have “emphatically repudiated” the action of the Los Angeles officials. He said both had urged their California locals to participate in the meeting. Mr. Hapgood is from Indianapolis.
These sums include Government®-
107,000 in crops and $95,615,000 in livestock and livestock products.
Farmers’ Group Opposes
Marketing Quotas
Concerted action by corn-belt farmers resulted in the Department of Agriculture’s statement that there would be no corn marketing quotas or referendum vote, R. Lowell McDaniel, Indiana organizer of the Corn Belt Liberty League, said today. He said the League has been mobilizing opposition ‘to Federal farm measures such as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, marketing quotas and the Farm Act. > “The farmers have caught the vision of where the present agricultural program .of the Government will take them,” he said. “They refuse to allow theorists in Washington to do their thinking and plan their! work.”
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Aug. 31 was set as the new deadline for receipt of crop insurance
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Tom Girdler ends his testimony before Senator La Follette, repudiating labor spying.
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proximate cost of wheat crop insurance for his particular farm at the time his application is filled out,” Mr. Gregory said. “After the application has been checked in branch offices of the Federal Crop
Insurance Corp., the farmer will receive a notice of the exact premium due. After the premium is paid the policy will be issued.”
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