Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1938 — Page 10
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1STGONVENTION ON 3D BIRTHDAY
Claiming 4 Million Members, Lewis’ Flocks Will Meet Monday.
By FRED W. PERKINS
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.— This] week marks the third anniversary of the actual beginning of the C. I. O., which as a full-fledged and
country-wide rival to the American Federation of Labor will open its first national convention in Pittsburgh next Monday. A variety of dates can be cited as the time of birth of the C. I. O. but
Nov. 9, 1935, is the one with the.
most mathematical certainty. For it was then that the C. I. O. opened up a small suite of offices in Washington, which now has grown into a considerably larger headquarters, with the probability of further expansion. A million members were claimed three years ago, and four million now, still leaving several times the latter number to be unionized if the
prophecies of C. I. O. leaders hold |:
true. Split Is Deeper
The event of three years ago was ;
in direct conflict with the policie and desires of the A. F. L., whic apparently had been content with organizing the higher-paid crafts men or “aristocracy” of labor rathe than the many millions of mass production workers to whom th C. I. O. appeals. Today the split is deeper and wider than ever, and there appears no immediate prospect that it wil
=: be closed.
The opening of C. I. O. offices
i hree years ago was preceded by
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" 1any events, in all of which ap-
sared as a leading character the
~.pulky figure of John L. Lewis, who
still is and probably will remain the dominating influences of the new labor movement. Some chroniclers say the actual beginning of the C. I. O. was a fist fight in a convention of the A. F L. at Atlantic City in October, 1935 A group led by Mr. Lewis had been contending for years that the A. FP. L. was ignoring its greatest field of labor usefulness by failing to organize the great mass-produc-tion industries on the industrial basis—that is, with all of an industry’s workers of every grade under one union leadership’
Lewis Swung
Their final effort came to failure at Atlantic’ City when their pro-
- posals were voted down by 1,802,400
to 1.083,000—these figures representing the membership of the unions that sent delegates to the convention. Then a group of rubber workers asked formally for an A. F. L. charter on an unrestricted industrial basis. There were parliamentary objettions by William L. Hutcheson, president of the Carpenters’ International Union, a leader of the craft idea in the A. F. L. and a member of that body's governing council. An altercation ensued between Messrs. Hutcheson and Lewis on the convention floor. An epithet was heard passed from the former to the latter. The bulky Lewis delivered a swinging but powerful haymaker to the point of the Eutcheson jaw. The carpenters’ leader, himself a large man, was knocked against a table, while others rushed in to stop the row. The crack of Mr. Lewis’ fist may not have been “a shot heard ‘round the world,” but its repercussions may still be detected in American organized labor. Lewis Pulled Out
A few weeks later Mr. Lewis formally resigned as a vicé president of the A. F. L. and the C. I. O. was set up with a membership of seven unions, of which' the most important were Mr. Lewis’ United Mine Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers. At Pittsburgh more than 40 different organizations are to be represented, including such lusty newcomers as the steel workers, the automobile workers and the rubber workers. The Pittsburgh gathering is expected to demonstrate finally whether industrial unionism holds the future of organized labor, whether it can hold out for the sweeping concessions, practically a surrender, it demands from the A F. L.; and whether there are disruptive forces within the C. I. O,, such as communism, that will bring about its destruction.
STOUT BUYS STOCK OF KIMBER’S, INC.
Edward E. Stout today announced the purchase of stock and fixtures of Kimber’s, Inc, known as the Penn-Wash Bootery, 4 N. Pennsylvania St. The store specializes in women’s footwear exclusively. Mr. Stout, who is president of
Stout's Factory Shoe Store Co., has |:
operated shoe stores in Indianapolis for more than 50 years. Mr. Stout's original store opened at 318 Massachusetts Ave. in 1886.
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