Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1939 — Page 5

THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1939 — Born Angler Gets Tangled Up

AGREEMENTS BY NLRB CLASSED “AS BLACKMAIL

Counsel of Manufacturers Tells Committee Board Should Not Conciliate.

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By LUDWELL DENNY

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 22.—Antiunion employers now add to their | - many charges against the Labor Board the accusation that its con-|

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ciliation of disputes is a form of} blackmail.

The Illinois Manufacturers Asso-' ciation, through its counsel, David R. Clarke, told the Senate labor commiftee at hearings on Wagner law amendments that should specifically prohibit Board from engaging in mediating | or conciliation activities. Mr. Clarke charged the Board and | its agents with violating the pledge | of President Roosevelt in signing the Wagner Act that the Board] would not function as a concilia- | tor.

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LONG'S BROTHER DUE TO BECOME LOUISIANA HEAD

Leche Says He Will Quit; U. S. Starts Probe of WPA Fraud Charges.

BATON ROUGE, La., June 22 (U. P.).—The trail of Louisiana’s lusty politics doubled back today to the turbulent reign of Huey Long, the potlikker connoisseur who welded a

Twentieth Century barony out of the Cajun trappers, sharecroppers and poor city folk of his "native state, Governor Richard W. Leche, heir to former Senator Long's empire of swamps and red clay hills, an-

signing “before the end of next week.” He said illness was forcing his retirement. He will be succeeded by Lieut. Gov. Earl K. Long, Huey Long's

But all other factors aside, the Louisiana political machine was in trouble again with the Federal Government, Even as Governor Leche called reporters to his sickbed in the Executive Mansion, two WPA investigators were questioning relief clients, probing deeper into reports of wholesale corruption in the state. Governor Leche and other state officials were named in affidavits published by a syndicated Washington newspaper column and reportedly sworn to by seven former Louisiana WPA workers, who made the charges.

Tugwell to Run in 1940

Two hours before Governor Leche made his announcement, State Treasurer A. P. Tugwell said he would be a candidate for Governor in 1940, and if the Administration

refused to support him, he would run nevertheless. Mr. Tugwell promised to abolish, if he were elected, periodic “shakedowns” of state employees to finance the state political campaign He demanded abolishment of the “state welfare (sales) tax”"—one of the measures Huey Long had denounced until he was shot in a pink corridor of his skyscraper State Capitol one | hot September night in 1935. Governor Leche’s Legislature passed the tax shortly after Senator Long’s death. Governor Leche recently had fired revenue collector Alice Lee Grosjean —a pretty Shreveport stenographer who had blossomed forth under Mr. Long’s tutelage.

Leche Tells Faith in Long

While Senator Long was living, politicians had learned that the quickest route to his ear was through Miss Grosjean. She shared a confidence that few others enjoyed. Governor Leche fired her with no other explanation than that he “needed a man” for the job and subsequentlv other members of her family were ejected from the State payroll. Shortly thereafter, Governor Leche announced from his Covington “Gold Coast” estate that he demanded “absolute lovalty” from his supporters. Whatever connection there was, if any, between the incidents never was explained. Governor Leche was stricken with arthritis early last winter. Physicians said his last illness was a recurrence of it. He said in his statement to “the people of Louisiana” that he had implicit confidence in Lieut. Gov. Long and in Coleman Lindsey, president pro tem. of the Senate, who will become Lieutenant Governor. Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans he said had idorsed Lieut. Gov. Long for the Governorship in 1940.

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Board members deny that their organization acts as a conciliator.|™ But they have defended before the Jack Amos... ” ” ” n ” \ cases—52 per cent of all cases han- y dled between the fall of 1935 and won to ave en “wets wr Vender of States Nets agreement of both parties. re nrnere| Behind on His Fishing closed by compliance or otherwise, only 6 per cent of the cases have come up to the Board for adjudica- ; Jack Amos has been unable to pursue the profession for which he studied “Shotgun and blackmail settle- a P description of those 8378 “agree- | Jack is. according to associates, the No. 1 Indiana catfish catcher. ments” obtained by the Board, Mr.| jack started out to make it a life work, and studied it from all angles. Clarke told the Senate committee. Byt in 1911 he got a job with the State Conservation Department and take unproved labor complaints to| por the last several years Jack] : “YOU [has been the chief fish net fixer for| jack is the reason he decided to had better settle now in advance, OI |the State Hatcheries. Nets are used specialize in catfish fishing. it will cost you much more in time|t, take fish from where they are| He says he likes catfish best of all through Board hearings and per- The wear and tear of the nets is catch them. If he happens to get a haps through the courts.” considerable. bass he throws it back. Catfish have All winter long Jack mends and no bones. This alleged practice, Mr. Clarke the spring. During the summer he | said, acts as an invitation to irre- builds new nets and does some re- BRIDE ACCUSED OF sponsible employees to trump up Pair jobs. Boards agents will try to frighten| He learned to make and repair SHOOTING HUSBAND the company into a “settlement.” nets, he says, when he was a boy No judicial or administrative body and either had to make them or not ~~ Board can act as a conciliator with-|decided that fishing in general | ye. a St. ‘was in a critical condi3 5 Tus 3 y 3 a | > out its proposed settlements having would be his avocation and only a| tion at City Hospital today with five After his testimony, Mr. Clarke |cialize in catfish a. | bullet wounds. Police charge they said he favored Federal conciliation| ay, old-timer in his native Brook- | Were inflicted by his bride of a week, | and mediation by proper authorities, {jj taught him the fine points of | Audell, 24. Rilistion Service HY t She confessed shooting him after : [recalls that if he so much as : i : 5 | He declined to comment specif- | snapped a twig on their stream- Anding another woman in their ically on the recent proposals of|gfshing expeditions the old-timer | home last night when she returned - | | from her work as a laundress, po-| William M. Leiserson of the Labor 4 i i ; | But they got the fish. There are | lice claim. , and Chairman Otto Be : : : Se i ne iy A HIT, (han on quite a few technical pointers which | Mrs. Arthur, who was injured Board, that the Labor Board be v2aC when > : | cot it grazed by a bullet, was treated supplemented by an entirely sepa- Be ition ith esas, oe ol at City Hospital and then jailed on rate Federal mediating agency to Which is that he never, under any . : yagrancy. Her husband was violations. |five minutes at any spot where he | RTA ith ti Like the advocates of a separate hasn't caught a fish. | Police said they were told that stressed the point that she Wagner Said, and decided to take & NAD oyera] times. They said that in Act makes the Labor Board solely along the canal. When he awak-| har statement she said she finally a law enforcement agency and that ened he pulled the string out and went to a trunk and obtained a 22- | mised. |all the fish and left only the heads.| She fired five times, she said. Ry Se ; (Catfish heads are no good. | Bullets struck her husband in the Labor Act Foes Still | {and left shoulder. The other) Are Unappeased | Jack says those who fish for cat-| woman fled during the shooting, WASHINGTON, June 22 (U. P).!and a large ironhook. They bait | N————————— —Revision of some of the National the hook with a ham and tie the] YOUNG BANDITS SENTENCED Labor Relations Board's regulations rope to the top of a hickory tree. | WARSAW, Ind, June 22 (U. P). ‘ i beneath the tree. When the fish is | Grimes, 22, both of Syracuse, today vf SEE IerCs fh Os National | cpyght he objects so strenuously | were sentenced to two years in the Labor Relations Act. {that he shakes the hickory tree and reformatory after they pleaded sel of the A. F. of L. praised the man, who then pulls in the catch. erated by Richard Besk at Lake! Board's changes, but declared .that| The most interesting thing about Wawasee. the A. F. of L. was not dropping its the Wagner Act at this session of Congress. Regulations Changed nounced four important changes in its regulations. They would: 1. Permit employers to petition bargaining representatives for employees, when the employer is| caught in a struggle between {wo applied for certification. 2. Increase from five to 10 days] the waiting period between the fil-| and the beginning of hearings. Extends Suits’ Scope | 3. Require that any bona fide tract alleged to violate the Wagner | act be made parties to any proceed- | ings instituted by the Labor Board | 4. Require that labor organizations |: which are alleged to be company- | copy of the complaint and notice of | hearing, with consequent opportunity to apply for intervention in the

Board Denies Accusation Senate Committee the fact that 8378 Thus, with 16 per cent of the drawn by the parties, and 6 per cent Because he has had too many fish nets to mend in the last two years, tion. ments” would be a more accurate from early boyhood. He said agents of the Board often that has cut in seriously on his catfish fishing. employers with the advice: and money to carry this case gng put them where they should be.!fish to eat, and therefore sets out to |mends nets so they will be ready in| charges with the hope that the Taught by Old-Timer with the great power of the Labor have them. By that time he had Charles Arthur, 34, of 437 E. New coercive effect, he added. [little while later he decided to spesuch as the Labor Department Con- pis specialty and Jack to this day | Senator Wagner (D. N. Y.), Dr.igoulq be very cross. | Mediation | : ine hi light! the b f the skull k had picked up during his long Slightly at the base of the sku handle disputes not involving law Circumstances, stays longer than charges of assault and battery and mediating agency, Mr. Clarke| He caught a nice string once, he wp “arthur was knocked down law violations cannot be compro- found that the turtles had eaten caliber revolver. How It's Done Along Ohio | left thigh, left chest, left abdomen | (fish in the Ohio River get a rope police said. failed today to appease proponents Lnen the fisherman goes to sleep Kenneth Sloan, 21, and Walter Joseph A. Padway, general coun- the falling nuts awaken the fisher-|guilty to robbing an oil station opfight for a general overhauling of The Board late yesterday anfor elections to determine collective bona fide unions which have not ing of charges against the employer | unions which are parties to a con-| in regard to the contracts. | dominated must be served with a| proceedings if they so desire.

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CHARGES DROPPED IN TRACTOR TUG-0-WAR

HUNTINGTON, Ind. June 22 (U. P.) —Charges of driving a motor vehicle without lights against Parker Cox and Fred Phillips had been dismissed todav to end a squabble over a tractor tug-of-war. The tug-of-war occurred last week when Mr. Fhillips, a isi] salesman, and Mr. Cox, a farmer, argued the respective pulling merits | of their machines. The tug-of-war) was to solve their problem. Instead, the chain connecting the! machines broke and the Phillips | machine went out of control to crash into a house. The woman in| the house fainted. And a boy sitting on a bicycle became so excited ! at watching the duel that he fell from the cvcle and was injured.

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