Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1939 — Page 6

A _r S SPAR AS Shows Public Favors Pennsylvania Law Which Forces Reliefers to Accept Jobs

| or the whole Armour group | appropriate bargaining unit. | result of such an election would de- | pend heavily. on what units were

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PACKING STRIKE THREAT AT GROWS

C.1.0. and Meat d Meat Companies Seek Public Favor in ‘War of Nerves.’

CHICAGO, Aug. (NEA). — The biggest union of packinghouse workers ever organized, and the four biggest companies in that industry are jockeying for position in public favor in the event negotiations fail to head off “the worst strike you ever saw in this great industry.” This forecast of the probable bitterness of such a struggle if it breaks is in the words of Van A. Bittner, chairman of the Packinghouse Workers’ Organizing Committee, an affiliate of the Council of Industrial Organization. The day such a strike is declared, shipments of cattle and stock will stop flowing into the big Armour yards and any others affected; Swift, Wilson and Cudahy may also be struck at a nod from union officials. Two and a half million farmers who raise livestock would be directly affected. Shortages of meat, or rising prices might easily follow if the strike became widespread. Both Sides Woo Public

Both sides are attempting to woo public opinion, the P. W. O. C. by broadsides and pamphlets, the Ar-

mour Co. by advertising, each set-|

ting forth their claims. But the basic difficulty is simple: The P. W. O. C. says: “We have a majority of your employees, and we wan 8 national contract covering the i Armour says: “We doubt that you have such a majority. It is not proved. In all individual plants where you have proved it before the Labor Board, we are bargaining according to law. We do not want a single national contract.” Should such a nation-wide ‘packing strike be unleashed, beginning with Armour, where C. I. O. feels strongest, it might well be violent. The men who slaughter and pack the nation’s meat are a rugged lot, and past labor difficulties in this field have been marked by extreme violence. Formed P. W. O. C. in 37 The P. W. O. C. was organized in 1937 by the C. I. O. in the same manner as the 8S. W. O. C. in steel and the T. W. O: C. in textiles; that is, by bringing together for effective organizing action all possible

existing organizations in the indus-|.

try concerned, and building on that foundation. It seeks country-wide contracts with the big packing plants, a condition never yet attained.

Many of the smaller packing |

plants already have been organized by the P. W. O. C, which today claims 78,000 members, more than half of all packinghouse workers in the country. The P. W. O. C. claims that 80 per cent of Armour workers belong to it, which is probably the

reason why they are beginning with

Armour. The company denies that this is the case, though a string of Lahor Board certifications in 14 large Armour plarts in various cities indicates that the P. W. O. C. must be at least close tb such a majority. The company insists that the certification of the pig Chicago plant was obtained by ihe P. W. O. C. because it got a majority of all votes polled in a plant eleciion. but points out that this was not a majority of. all employees, many not having voted at the election. ‘No NLRB Appeal Yet

The P. W. O. C. position is that, though they have a majority of all Armour workers, that company has refused to bargain with them in accordance with the Wagner act. This Armour denies, insisting that it has bargained and is bargaining with every unit in which either the C.1 O. or the A. F. of L. has demonstrated a majority. But it refuses to negotiate with the P. W. O. C. for the nations! contract which the organization seeks. Neither side has gone to the Labor Board for a nation-wide election, apparently because neither ¢an be sure whether the Board would designate individual: plants the The

designated. Wage rates are not primarily at the union asks no general increase, but an adjustment of dif-

' ferentials so as to provide equal pay | for equal work. The company says | wages are at an | hours well within the law; annual

all-time peak;

earnings comparable to other industries.

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Majority in Nation Indorses ‘Work-or-Starve’ Theory Of Quaker State.

By DR. GEORGE GALLUP American Institute of Public Opinion. RINCETON, N. J, Aug. 11. Pennsylvania’s new “work-or-starve” relief act, which requires persons receiving relief to work: for what they get, is overwhelmingly approved by the voters of Pennsylvania and indorsed by public ‘opinion throughout the rest of the country as indicated by a survey.

by the American Institute of Public Opinion.

The Pennsylvania law, under which a clerk may be ordered to dig ditches or a bookkesper to repair a sewer, has stirred up so much contro-

versy | throughout the State that last week a small group of unemployed men picketed the Governor's mansion demanding repeal of the act. With the law’ having gone into effect August 1, the American Institute tested public sentiment in Pennsylvania and the rest of the nation on the following issus: “Pennsylvania has a law requiring all able-bodied people on relief (including WPA) to accept any job offered by a local government, no matter what kind of job it is. If they refuse to take the job, their relief is cut off. Do you favor this law?” ;

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As passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature with the blessing of Governor Arthur James, the law requires the Boards of Public As-

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Should bookkeepers dig ditches? . . . Pe

sylvanians say yes.

sistance in the 67 counties of the

State to draw up lists of “employables” on relief. The services of these “employables” are then offered by the county boards to any governmental agencies, such as cities, counties, boroughs, townships and school boards, or char-

itable institutions, such as hos-

pitals, that can use them. The “employable” must accept the work or go off relief. The principle contained in this legislation is favored by voters, the survey finds, for two chief reasons. The first is that since taxpayers must foot ‘the bill for relief they “should get something in return” from reliefers in the shape of work. The second is that persons on relief should not expect to get something for nothing

and should not be ‘fussy’ about’

the work they do. Those voters who, on the other hand, oppose the work requirements of the

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Pennsylvania law argue that it is “foolish” and “inefficient” to make people work at a. job for which they are not suited. 7 # 2 HE required-work principle for relief is indorsed by Democratic voters as well as Republicans throughout the nation, the survey finds. Nearly eight out of every 10 Democrats favor it, and nearly nine of every 10 Republicans. While there is more sentiment for the Pennsylvania law among the upper income groups in the nation than among the lower income groups, nevertheless even a majority of persons on WPA. and home relief favor the idea. The vote of reliefs, as distinguished from all others in the survey, follows: Favor the Law Opposed

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NLRB Finds Firm Guilty of|

Urging | Employees to Shy From Unions. By LUDWELL DENNY

Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The C.

1. O. today began preparations for a!

giant Ford ‘organizing campaign, following. the National Labor Relations Board order to the company to cease discouraging union membership.

In its revised decision this morn-|

ing on the two-year-old charges,

the Board found the Ford company] .

guilty of violating two sections of the Wagner Act by alleged discrimination in discharging men to discourage union membership and by otherwise illegally restraining and coercing employees in their collective bargaining rights. Orders 24 Reinstated

‘The Board ordered reinstatement with back pay of 24 employees, but dismissed complaints of 11 others. It also dismissed the union charge that the Ford Brotherhood of America, Inc, was company-dominated. Three Ford representation cases are pending on union petitions from California and St. Louis plants. In today’s decision finding that the company evidenced unconcealed hostility toward organization by the United Automobile x Workers, - the Board stressed alleged statements of Henry Ford and the beating of unionists at the gates of the Dearborn plant on May 26, 1937. “We’ll Never Recognize , , .*

~ Among the statements attributed to Mr. Ford were the following:

‘Labor union organizations are the

worst thing that ever: struck the earth, because they take away a man’s independence. . . « We'll never recognize the United Automobile Workers’ union or any other union. . « » Our meh know what we can do and what we can’t do. We'll deal with them individually.” Regardless of whether the company appeals from the Board decision to the courts, C. I. O. officials said today they would speed up their plan to unionize Ford.

Police today were seeking clues to the disappearance of Walter J. French, 26, a Marion, Ind, filling station operator, whose car was found abandoned here Monday. He has been missing from’ his home since that day. When he left he told business associates he would return by 11 a. m. It was understood he went to Anderson to obtain payment on a bad check he had receive. He was reported to be carrying between $50 and $75. He is a member of the Masons, is married and has a 13-days-old son. ;

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CHICAGO, Aug. 11.(U. P).—The wife and children of William Ernest Dally, who disappeared mysteriously in ‘Gérmany in 1922, learned today that he has been living in Maryland with another wife for eight years. But he has disappeared again in a mystery as strange as the first. Mr. Dally was manager of the International Harvester Co.’s German headquarters at Hamburg when he first

|disappeared. His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth

Dally, and their children, Charlotte and Michael, were living in Chicago at the time. After years of searching they came to believe he was dead —until yesterday. Police at Ocean city, Md, had found a woman, dazed and ‘semiconscious, on the beach Wednesday. She said she was Mrs. Irma Dally, German-born wife of William A.

{| Dally, an investment broker at near-

by Salisbury, Md. She said her husband had thrown himself into the ocean. Police believed both had entered a suicide pact. : Coast Guardsmen dragged in vain 24 hours for Dally’s body. Mr. Dally’s daughter,” now Mrs. Charlotte Dally Wurth of Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, read of the

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