Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1940 — Page 15
Attempt to Capitalize on Defense Emergency Seen by|
BA sh
OF LABOR FEARED
Friends of Workers; Roosevelt Says He Asks
No New Laws Now.
By THOMAS
\
L. STOKES
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Friends of labor are expressing concern over what they fear is an attempt at capitalizing ‘the defense emergency to enact legislation curbing
the rights of workers.
"They are disturbed by proposals which emerged from
the debate in the House over
the Vultee aircraft strike in
~~ California—subsequently settled. These included various
restrictive measures, particularly one by Rep. Eugene Cox (D. Ga.), for outlawing all strikes in times of emergency and for compulsory arbitra-
tion. The outbreak in the House had the: earmarks of having been prearranged and timed. This appearance of premeditation was further emphasized when Rep. Hattoh Sumners (D. Tex.), who had participated, called a meeting of the Judiciary Committee to discuss proposals relating to strike activity. Letter to Jackson
From this meeting, attended by 11. of the 25 members, went a letter by Chairman Sumners to Attorney General Robert H, Jackson inquiring whether legislation was necessary, .and asking that the letter he laid before a conference that President Roosevelt had called with the Attorney General, the Secretaries of War and Navy, and Sidney Hillman, labor member of thesdefense advisory commission, ostensibly to discuss strikes in defense industries. “Chairman Sumners, a House veteran, is particularly influential with southern conservatives, from whom has come much of the opposition to la r measures enacted by the New ‘This element frequently has ie itself powerful in alliance with Republicans against New Deal reforms. Also participating in the antistrike . campaign is Rep. Howard Smith (D. Va.), chairman of the Special House Committee which investigated the National Labor Relations Board, and sponsor of amendments to the Labor Act which were put through .the House a few months ago by the same coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats. The amendments are now pending before the Senate Labor Committee.
Consult on Proposals
Chairman Sumners and, Rep. Smith. have been in consultation over the anti-strike proposals. Mr.
Smith was active with Rep. Cox twoyears ago in organizing the blockade in the House Rules Committee “which bottled up the Wage-Hour Bill for months. President Roosevelt, in. a press conference after the meeting terday, said the strike situstiogn defense industries was under daily study, but that as of today he was asking no additional legislation. . That was his answer to the Sumners. group. Mr. Jackson said he had received the sumners letter; otherwise he declined comment. No anti-strike flegislation was passed during the World War period, but the situation was met a year after United States’ entry by setting up the National War Labor Board for the peaceful settlement by arbitration of labor disputes in war industries.
Roosevelt Has Wide Power
The Board itself has no power to enforce its decisions in the absence of agreements to accept its decisions, but it was backed by the war powers givén to President Wilson. President Roosevelt already has large powers in this emergency which would give him similar influence. President William Green of the A. F, of L. suggested at New Orleans that some sort of arbitral tribunals be set up to adjust disagreements, He said no strikes should be permitted to interrupt production for national defense and aid to Great Britain. Pending in the Senate now is a bill by Senator Robert Wagner (D. N. Y.), author of the National Labor Relations Act, to set, up a system of mediation for labor disputes.
Voorhis Warns’ House
The House debate over anti-strike proposals was unusually .intemperate, to the point where Rep. Jerry Voorhis (D. Cal.) warned the menbers not to “go haywire.” “It is the rank and file of labor,” .he said, “upon whom will fall the weight of the blow if, because an indefensible thing is done at the . ‘behest of a handful of irresponsible people, the House loses its balanee, goes haywire on these matters, and commences to pass legislation to restrict fundamental rights.”
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Prison Poetess Is Back in Cell
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27 (U. P,).—Roberta Hall, known as the “prisen poetess,” was behind bars again today and authorities ssid she was en route back to the cell at Techachapi Prison Farm from which she became nationally famous for her verse. She was arrested for violating her-parole by issuing a fictitious check and police said she would be recommitted to the prison im-
mediately. Twice Mrs. Hall ' has served prison terms’ on bad check charges, and twice she has been .paroled to take up her literary
life. : “I'm glad to be going back to prison,” she said. “I'm lost in the world outside. “1 have been with my mother in "Florida for more than a year. I could see her withering away under the humiliation I caused . her. My old friends did not accept me. Magazines wanted my ‘work, but they wanted prison stories. My Z2ile forbids me to ‘write such stories. “After. & while I packed up and came away. 1 read about one paroled man who killed himself. 1 .hadn’t the courage for that. There is no place for me out in
| unaccountably,
3700 ON JOB AT VULTEE PLANT
Workmen ‘Happy to| Get Back,” Says Union; Contract Is Compromise.
DOWNEY, Cal., Nov. 27 (U.P.).— The big Vultee Aircraft Co. plant swung back irito production of vitally necessary military planes| today as C. I. O. workers, who had been on strike since Nov. 15, returned to work under a Compromise con- |
streamed into the factory and started up the machinery at 9:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time), bringing to an end the walkout called by the C. I. O. United Auto Workers in a demand for higher minimum wages. Union spokesmen said “he workmen were “obviously very happy to get back to the job.”
No-Strike Clause Modified The strike was settled by a 16months contract which is a com-
promise between the company and its 3700 employees.
The union wanted an increase in cnt hourly wage from 50 to
Dr. Svseldian
cents an hour. It got 62% cents proportionate increases for apprentices. The company wanted a clause prohibiting strikes. The nal agreement did not include, stich a flat prohibition, but did state that the union would not “engage in or permit its members to take part in any sitdown, stay-in, slowdown or sympathy strike in the plant . . or any curtailment of the work or restriction of production or interference with production of the company.” Arbitration Set Up
ture disagreements was set up. Grievances will be arbitrated by a committee consisting of two representatives each of company and union and one member appointed by these four. Vultee President Richard W. Millar said the wage increases would increase the company’s annual payroll $1,300,000. The strike ended 24 hours after the arrival of John R. Steelman, chief of the United States’ Labor Department Conciliation Servica, but he gave the credit to R. J.| Thomas, international president of] the Automobile Workers Union, who also flew here from the C. I. O. convention at Atlantic City.
Save Lives, But
Sacrifice Auto
WHEN THEIR CAR stopped, at Shelby and Bates Sts., early today, Mrs. Rhoda Black, 2275 N. Illinois St., and Charles Adair, 1021 Bates St., asked a taxi driver to push it. . He did, but just as the pushed car entered the Big Fpur tracks there, the warning bell began to ring and the gates were lowered. The cab, driver unidentified, stopped, but the pushed car went on. Mrs. Black and Mr. Adair, still unable to start the engine, abandoned the car. In a moment Train 35 picked up the empty car and carried it 125 feet on the “cow catcher,” damaging it considerably.
“1 Cecil Stafford snaps pictures that
Machinery for arbitration of fu-
School News—
Visual: Education Workers Must- Keep Ahead of Curriculum.
By EARL HOFF
In the basement of the School Board Building, 150 N. Meridian St., Joseph Martin bends over a cluttered work bench, fashioning a small, sturdy pair of brass shears. Several weeks from now, a small grade school pupil will pick up those shears, make a few experimental snips, and listen wide-eyed as his teacher tells about pioneer days in Indiana. The shears are a special pair, like nothing manufactured today. On one side is a small box-like attachment which snuffed out candles as the shears trimmed the wick. Alongside Mr. Martin are a dozen Paul Revere lamps, candle molds, tinder: boxes and candie holders. He's going to start soon on replicas of early American bed warmers.
He Consults Originals \
As he works, Mr. Martin consults originals. His materials are humble things like five-gallon lard tins. Mr. Martin’s work is just a small segment of a large program that makes school vivid and interesting for Indianapolis pupils. He works for the Visual Education Division, headed by Miss Carrie B. Francis. Before the division bécame sponsor .of a WPA Museum two and a half years agc, Miss Francis and an assistant, Mrs. Lucille Wild, gathered together all the objects that were sent. out to schools to to illustrate class work.
Has Large Staff Now
Now Miss Francis has a large staff, ‘David Goings is busy fash-
~
ioning authentic replicas of pioneer|
William Miller is covered wagons.
water wheels. building small’
are made into lantern slides while his brother, Lester,=uses his artists skill to tint them. Miss Francis is looking for a taxidermist to take the place of Dry John B. Parr who has returned to dentistry. Ray Roberts is foreman. Miss Francis has to watch out for curriculum ‘changes in the schools so she can keep her staff one jump ahead. When a new study is introduced, the staff has to get busy on new exhibits. And the objects turned out have to be good or keen-eyed youngsters, on the look-out for details, will lose interest.
Message Brought Change
“These are lousy foxes,” one little boy said after examining an animal exhibit, and that was that.: But he whistled with admiration when
the next animal exhibit came to
Models, Exhibits Make Classwork Exciting: _ Authenticity Assured By Keen-Eyed Pupils
Joseph Martin of the Public School Visual Education Division , ,, pupils will be impressed by his handiwork.
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his school. His message had gone home. The busy staff has fathioned all orts of illustrative objects for classrooms instructions. An elaborate bridge exhibit contains a drawbridge that works perfectly. Stored in the basement quarter also are rows of boxes of lantern slides, stacks of posters, rock exhibits, horn and hoof exhibits, butterflies and moths, pictures and innumerable objects ‘that bring home school studies. With a puzzled expression, pedestrians frequently: halt by the basement windows of the School Board Building to watch the workmen, Boy Scouts drop in to ask the advice of the staff on merit badge craft work. And the staff has to work swiftly
to fill the demands of teachers.
These requests usually are made at
the first of ‘a school year, and a
truck shuttles between the iy
workshop and storage rooms and City schools carrying the exhibits. Not only do the exhibits focus the
attention of youngsters on their school work, but it also encourages
pupils to build models of their own. Also the youngsters pick up additional information they normally wouldn't get. One little girl, after seeing a vegetable exhibit at school returned home with the query: “Mother, did we ever have salsify for dinner?” Seeing a look of puzzlement on her parent's face, the 7-year-old cleared matters up. “It's a member of the turnip family,” she said with finality.
Preserve Labor
CONVENTION HALL, New Orleans, Nov. 27 (U. P,, —The American Federation of Labor today de- | manded safeguarding of social gains |and the right of continued colleci tive bargaining as part of the program under which' its unions will co-operate with the Government in the total preparedness drive. The action was taken after the | Federation convention had approved a resolution backing the Administration in its policy of giving Great Britain all aid short of war. “It is essential that we should give | evry possible activity to the defense of our borders, including the Western Hemisphere, so that a free trade union movement may continue to function within our hemisphere,” the resolution said. . The convention reaffirmed the Federation's boycott against Japanese goods. The report on defense was divi
PASHA, EGYPT'S WAR MINISTER, IS DEAD:
CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 27 (U. P.).— Saleh Younes Pasha, Minister of War, died today. With other members of the Cabinet, Younes was accompanying King Farouk tc Fayum to inaugurate a water system. He collapsed while sitting in a train in the Cairo station, just before the party was te begin its journey. The minister was carried to a station sitting room where he died almost immediately. Only last month Hassan Sabry Pasha, the Premier, died while reading a speech in Parliament.
'Goldfish' and
—Army officers, who have to pay for their own food, were a bit envious today as they talked -of the kind of “free” chow that will be served to selective service trainees. The menus will not be elegant. They won't include souffles, crepe suzettes, pate de foi gras. But the meals will be plentiful, varied and wholesome. That's what the officers promise. : “Goldfish”—canned salmon—and “corned willie”—corned beef, which were the pieces de resistance at virtually every meal during the last World War, will be served so rarely now as to be almost a treat. War Department officials are taking seriously the Napoleonic axiom that an “army marches on its stomach.” They are paying as much attention to the trainee’s palate as to military tactics. Good food and plenty of it is as much a matter of morale as it is of diet. Every one of the Army’s| bakers and cook schools in each of the nine corps areas has capacity enrollment, There will be enough trained cooks and bakers available to meet the needs of the expanding army. Army dietary experts estimate that it costs between 45 cents to 52 cents a day to feed a soldier, depending on the location of the post. For example, certain foods may be cheaper in one area than in another. To provide for more efficient handling of the feeding problem, the Army has decentralized this function. sergeant,
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Jbe_going |with
Each company mess : approval of his
Comin
‘Corned Willie’ Will Be a Treat to Trainees
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (U. P).
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menus of his particular unit. The cost per man is established by applying prices prevailing locally to a standard list of food supplies. Army regulations every company officer, from captain on down, take a course at one of the bakers and cooks schools so that they will be experienced in mess. supervision. There are two types of menus— one for the gurrison and the other for the field. The trainees will receive garrisbn meals for the greater part of the year they are in service. The field menus are less elaborate, but they are designed to provide a balanced ration. Incidentally, canned corned heef, cooked in‘a number of ways, generally shows up during field maneuvers. For the benefit of trainees-to-be, the Washington headquarter§ company of the Army made available a day’s menu taken at random from its records, one that officers say is typical of any army camp or post. Here it is: Breakfast
Sliced oranges, cereals, fresh milk, creamed ,; chipped beef, fried potatoes, toast, ‘butter, jam and coffee. Dinner Egg and celery salad, lima bean soup, crackers, fried fresh mackerel with Spanish sauce, potatoes with
Defense, A.
require that||
cheese sauce, butter cauliflower, fresh’ kale, pinapple pudding, bread, | butter and milk or coffee. Supper - Relish, hamburgers and Italian! spaghetti, brussels sprouts, peas and |
's Rights in
F.L.Tells U.S.
ed between labor's part in the immediate preparedness pperation and and what it would should wartime conditions develop. It warned that “we must not destroy the soul of what we should defend.” The convention is to adjourn Friday. The last controversial issue was disposed of yesterday when the|. convention approved a report condemning racketeering and gangsterism among union heads. Delegates approved the resolutions committee report urging autonomous national and international unions to clean house. Milo J. Warner, National Commander of the American Legion, addresses the convention today. There were indications that the International Typographical Union
may soon re-enter the Federation.
It was suspended last year for refusing to pay the 1 cent per memper assessment to fight the C. I. O.
patriotic musical program will be
A CAPELLA CHOIR IN
PROGRAM ON DEC. 5
“A Parade of -Americanism,” a
given Thursday evening, Dec. 5 by
the Capella Choir of Crispus At- |
tucks High School. Leading roles will be taken by Rosa Broaden, Charles McClung, William Robinson, William Thurman, Holton Hayes and Fred Carpenter.
NEW I. U. DENTISTRY ¢ STAFFS TO BE FETED
The Indiana University School of Dentistry will honor new members of the staffs at both Indianapolis and Bloomington at a dinner tomorrow at.Riley Hospital. HermanB Wells, president of the university: Dr. Herman T. Briscoe, dean of the faculties, and Dean W. D. Gatch, of the I. U. Schoo! of
Treatment
~ WALLACE FETED AT MONTEREY
by Mexicans
Exceeds Expectations, He Declares.
MONTEREY, Mexico, Nov. 27 (U. P.).—Vice President Elect Henry A. Wallace, en route to Mexico City
Elect Manuel Avila Camacho Sunday, leaves today for Valles. His motor caravan will stop en route. at. Ciudad Victoria where Mr. Wallace will visit a sugar refinery. “He was guest of honor at 8 dinner given by Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera. Mexican Ambassador to the United States, last night after he had been welcomed by 50,000 persons who waved flags, cheered and showered confetti on the caravan. “I cannot help but feel that the heartiness of the reception here was an expression of the fine reception which the rank and (file of the Mexican people have for the golden heart of President Roosevelt,” Wallace said. “The treatment ace corded me thus far in Mexico has exceeded all my expectations. I was impressed by the such friendly faces of is Mexican people.” The Wallace caravan is traveling down the Pan-American Highway
for the inauguration of President|
from Laredo, Tex. to Mexico City.
Medicine, will ‘speak. liam H. Crawford will preside.
Dean Wil- |
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‘Wed Mother and
NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (U. P.).— Herman R. Darling, 44, was sentenced to from 18 months to three years in Sing Sing Prison yesterday on a charge of bigamy after he pleaded guilty to marrying his stepdaughter, Miss Anna Brown, 19, while still married to her mother. ; Darling married the mother June 27, 1928, and married the daughter last June 6. ro
PROPOSES CANADA BORROW U. S.. GOLD
OTTAWA, Nov. 27 (U.P.).—James G. Turgeon, Vancouver, liberal member of Parliament, proposed today that Canada borrow gold from the United States to finance her war
effort and pay it back, without interest, by setting aside a certain percentage of the output of Dominion gold mines.
After the close of the World War,
Mr, he said, Great Britain was unable
to pay her debt to the United States except - through trade and commerce, which was not acceptable to the United States He expressed confidence in the ability of Canada, as a gold-produc-ing nation, to pay.
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Then Returns to Florida Retreat; Speaks in N. Y. hs Saturday.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Nov, 27 (U. P.).—Wendell L. Willkie - back up the Florida Coast to Hobe Sound retreat today after se ing Republican National Chairmafty Joseph W. Martin off on a vaca in the Bahamas. i Accompanied by Mrs. Willkie, the Republican, leader sailed d i from West Palm Beach last 2 aboard the yacht Karen, owned hy" Roy E. Larsen, New ‘York magazine, publisher. . The party included Rep. Martin, Rep. Richard B. Wigglesworth Mass.) and Samuel F. Pryor, = Willkie’s eastern manager in the Presidential campaign. i Mr. Willkie said he would leave tomorrow or Friday for New York for a speaking engagement. Ha. plans to return later for a longer, vacation.
DIES IN CROSSING CRASH
3 ® HUNTINGTON, Ind. Nov. 2 (U. P.)—Wilburn Daniel Giddens, 23, was killed instantly last night when .his automobile was struck by, an Erie passenger train
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