Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1939 — Page 5
U.S. IS TRYING T0 STAVE OFF COAST STRIKE
Seamen Rap Government Hiring Halls, Threaten To Clog Up Trade.
By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, April 13. — The Government moved today to head off a seamen’s strike aimed at tying up the Pacific Coast. Har'y Lundeberg, militant head of the Seafarers International Union! of North America and of the Sailors] Union of the Pacific, told officials he will strike the West Coast if the U, S. Maritime Commission insists on opening Government “hiring halls” there as planned. A prostrike vote is being taken by the union, which has the support of A. F. of L. President William Green and the powerful Teamsters’ Union, he added. Although the Commission says it will not budge, Labor Department and Commerce Department officials insist on compromising the dispute. They are expected to get President Roosevelt's support.
Strike Voted in '38
Control of “hiring halls” was the chief issue in the violent 1934 strike | and is now the main strength of the Lundeberg union, which claims 100
per cent organization among Pacific Coast sailors. Last year, when Government halls started on the East Coast, where the C. I. O. National Maritime Union is dominant, Mr. Lundeberg’s union voted 98 per cent for a strike to prevent extension of] such halls to the Coast. But the actual test of strength has been delayed until completion of the first Maritime Commission ships for Pacific runs. Four of these ships, built on the East Coast, are now ready to sail for Seattle to reopen a line there to the Orient; and more are to come for San Francisco lines later. The Commission plans to man those ships with Eastern (C. I. O) crews, which would fit in with the Government hiring-hall scheme and precipitate widespread violence on the Pacific waterfronts, Mr. Lundeberg charges.
Precedent Inherited
Chairman Land of the Commission insists that Government hiringhalls are the only method by which
the Government can avoid making union membership a condition of employment and avoid taking sides between rival A. F.of LL. and C. I. O. unions. He inherited this policy from former Chairman Joseph Kennedy and ex-Secretary of Commerce Roper, who based their stand on an 1872 law. Although the Commission contracts with private man- | agers to run the ships, workers are; direct Government employees. Secretary of Labor Perkins has, informed the Commission that ap-| plication of the 1872 law in this! case is not mandatory but optional, and that West Coast halls should not be opened. This also is the] attitude of Commerce Department! labor advisers. | Since Government halls would be operated by the Bureau of Marine inspection under Assistant Sec-| retary of Commerce Johnson, the! immediate decision rests with Sec-! retary of Commerce Hopkins. He is] reported siding with Secretary Perkins and against Chairman Land.
Quick Truce Sought
Meanwhile, Director John R Steelman of the Conciliation Service| is pressing for a quick settlement of
this dispute because it is holding up; the Alaskan fisheries conference! which involves about 25000 men. Mr. DLundeberg says the union strike vote applies not only to Government vessels but to all Pacific Coast ships. He admits this; would involve breaking the union's contracts with private companies: from which he won control of the! hiring halls, an eight-hour day and a $7250 monthly minimum in the last strike. But he justifies this on! the ground that “the only way to win a strike against the Govern-! ment, and preserve union control] through its own hiring halls, would be to tie up the whose Coast—and the teamsters would help us.” ! He would not comment on the possible attitude of C. I. O. ieader Harry Bridges, and his longshoremen, toward such a strike. AC. I. O. union official was quoted in San Francisco yesterday as opposing the Lundeberg strike threat. |
U.S. CALLS WITNESSES IN PASSPORT FRAUDS
NEW YORK, April 13 (U. P).— First Government witnesses were; called today at the trial of three] persons charged with falsifying pass- | ports for a suspected spy ring, of which the principal characters, Donald L. and Ruth Norma Robin- | son, were imprisoned in Moscow a! vear ago and have not been heard from since. | The indictment named nine defendants but some may never have existed except as aliases. Those on trial were Edward Blatt, a lawyer, said to be on such close terms with the Robinsons that they left him money to care for their daughter “in case anything happened to them abroad”; Ossip Garber, photographer | charged with having forged pass-; port photographs and the State De-| partment seal, and Aaron Sharfin, a] friend of political associates of Alpert Marinelli, former county clerk whose office handled passport applicatiens.,
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Executive offices of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce have been established at 523 Lemcke Building, it was announced today. The Board of Directors has engaged Mrs. Evelyn G. Livengood as co-ordinating secretary.
PETTENGILL T0 TALK AGAINST GROSS LEVY
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5 3 ) i : A year’s scholarship at the John Herron Art School will be awarded to the winner of a health poster contest being sponsored by the Indiana Tuberculosis Association. Co-operating with the association are the art section of the State Teacher Association, the Indiana
Department of Education, the State Health Board, and the school.
Entries are being shown at the H. Lieber Gallery where they will be judged by Miss Thelma Williams, representing the Education Department; Dr. Lewis C. Robbins, Health Board representative; Frederick Polley, representing the Teacher Association art section; Donald M. Mattison, from the Herron Art School, and Murray A Aueérback, for the Tuberculosis Association. Four successful contestants, from which will be chosen the scholarship winner, will be announced at the annual meeting of the association April 18.
ELKHART, April J3 (U. P.).—Retail merchants will meet tonight to]
hear former Rep. Samuel Pettengill, | South Bend Democrat, outline plans | for a state organization to fight the Gross Income Tax Law. | Mr. Pettengill will explain legal | action taken to attack the validity] of the law at the meeting, spon- | sored by the Elkhart Merchants] Council. Council directors pointed out that they had not committed the mer-| chants to participate in the program | against the tax, and that invidual, retailers would be free to decide whether to support the movement.
ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT AGAIN RAPS NEW DEAL
DALLAS, Tex, April 13 (U. P).— Elliott Roosevelt said yesterday that all efforts of the New Deal to alleviate the ilis resulting from overproduction of cotton had failed. He urged Southern planters to take the initiative if they hoped to “solve the cotton problem and regain world markets.” The President's son, a frequent critic of the New Deal addressed the 30th annual convention of the Texas Cotton Ginner’s Association. ! He told ginners that the New Deal
miserably unworkable.
CAPITAL MAN NAMED BISHOP ALEXANDRIA, La, April 13 (U, P).—Dean Noble C. Powell of Wash- | ington Cathedral, Washington, D. C., tonight was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana. Dean Powell, if he accepts the position, will succeed the Rt. Rev. James Craik Morris of New Orleans; |
| Who resigned last fall.
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BALTIMORE, April 13 (U. P.) Mts. Julia Neville Steinmetz, former aviatrix and actress, has lost her fight to save her home from fore-
closure by the Home Owners Loan with two men and the assistance
After the sale, Mrs. Steinmetz retired into the house and said she would stay there. “1f they want me to leave theyll have to carry me out but I'll be dead before they do,” she said. Armed with an Army flare pistol, Mrs. Steinmetz took a position the vestibule of her home yesterday and rang a bell to call friends to her side, just as auctioneers appeared to dispose of her home, Neighbors poured out of houses to help. HOLC Attorney 8S. Oliver Cohen and an aid attempted to reason with her. Meanwhile, traffic on North Avenue became blocked with scores of automobiles and people. Finally, the two men tussled with
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BLOOMINGTON, April 13 (U, P). —Mrs. Alice Nelson today took over management of the Indiana Univer sity dormitory system. She was former manager of the cafeteria and soda shop. Her appointment was announced by the Board of Trustees,
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