Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1941 — Page 7

'y Navy Day will be celebrated Mon-

9 Monument Circle.

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In South Bend: Hoosier Recruits to Parade.

day throughout Indiana with numerous speeches, radio programs, movies, displays and other features, rding to. Paul E. Fisher, State Day chairman. ts of the State-wide obce will be two addresses by reid C. W. Nimitz, USN, ief of the Bureau of Navigation. He: will speak to students of the versity of Notre Dame, and at the Indianapolis Navy Day banquet at the Claypool Hotel. Peatured on the local program will be impressive ceremonies for approximately 325 Hoosiers when dmiral Nimitz gives them the U. 8. Navy oath at 4:30 p. m. at the

Parade to Monument

Most of the recruits have been enlisted through the efforts of American Legion posts in Indianapolis and throughout the State who have been conducting a “Recruit A Man for Every Post” camepaign. ' The recruits will parade to the Monument with “bluejackets” from the, U. 8. Naval Training School, Naval Armory, under command of Lieut. L. PF. Brozo, USNR, the Shortridge High School Band will lead the parade. Others who will be present at the Monument Circle ceremonies will be Governor Schricker, Mr. Fisher, Commander O. F. Heslar, USNR, assistant director of Naval Regerves; Commander’ R. H. G,

Mathews, USNR, officer in charge|

of recruiting, Indiana Area. © Admiral Nimitz will be accompanied during the day by Commander F. M. McWhirter, USNR,

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A . Admiral to Speak Here and

Barbara Bogue

Times Special RICHMOND, Ind. Oct. 22 — Miss June Griswold, Earlham College senior, Rochester, N. Y., has been chosen as homecoming queen to reign. over the campus Nov. 1. Miss Barbara Bogue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Bogue, R. R. 2, Box 569, Indianapolis, was one of four other coeds selected

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Thought Award to Low Bidder Would ‘Blow Up’ Arms Effort, He Says.

WASHINGTON, Oct, 22 (U. P.. —Sidney Hillman co-director of OPM, said today that he urged against award of a low-bid housing contract to P. J. Currier of Detroit because it might involve “putting a match to a place where there is plenty of powder and blowing up our defense program.” Mr, Hillman appeared before the Senate Committee Investigating National Defense to defend his action in recommending that the contract be withheld from Mr. Currier. According to Mr. Currier’s previous testimony, his bid on the project at Wayne, Mich, was $431,000 below his’ nearest competitor. The contract was held up at his advice, Mr. Hillman said, because a “labor issue” was involved which might lead to “disturbances” that would affect the defense program. He said Mr. Currier had had labor troubles which involved a “purely raiding situation,” ‘and said that a man had been killed during the course of the trouble,

Refers to ‘Raiding’ Mr. Hillman did not go into details of the “raiding situation” but presumably he referred to attempts

g |of the C. I. O. to organize team-

sters and buildings trades workers

J—traditionally the backbone of the

American Federation of Labor. Mr. Currier now employs C. I. O. labor. Committee Counsel Hugh A. Fulton said that the trouble did not involve Mr. Currier’s own men and that the man who was killed was not employed at his plant. Mr. Hillman replied that he did not know all the facts but was willing to accept Mr. Fulton's statement.

|He protested, however, that labor

troubles could well arise from the situation. “Certainly a threat of an {illegal and unauthorized disturbance is not something you would back down on, Mr. Hillman,” Senator Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me), remarked.

Tried to Avoid Risk

Mr. Hillman replied that he was not contending that a general teamsters’ strike would follow the award of the contract to Mr. Currier. “But the record of industrial relations in the United States shows that those things have happened,” he said. “I don’t propose to be a party to any more at this time. “I do not believe we owe it to Mr. Currier to take this chance— this gamble.” Committee Chairman Harry 8. Truman (D. Mo.) commented: --“If we can’t let this contract to the lowest bidder—and a union man at that—then I don’t know what this country is coming. to.”

Threat to Livelihood

“There is little doubt,’ Mr. Hillman told the Committee, “that the A. F. of L. would have regarded the award to Currier’s company 2s a threat to working standards and

means of livelihood of A. F. of L.|

workers. . . . “Any - such award as was proposed in this case would have Jeapardized the basic requirements of

our defense program not merely in

construction in Detroit, but through« out the entire industrial area.” r. Hillman said the A. F. of L. representatives had claimed that the Currier enterprises, except for a brief interval, had operated on a non-union basis—*“that is, during virtua'ly all the time that he has been in business, Mr. Currier has refused to enter into any contract with either the A. F. of L.or C. I. O. unions.”

Reads gen Mr. Hillman an his testimony with a long explanation of his duties in “formulating and applying sound labor policy” to the defense program and details of the stabilization agreement between the Government and the A. F. of L. building trades unions. He said the reason the Government dealt only with the A. F. of L. building trades group in the agreement was that ‘it “represented virtually all of organized labor in the -construction industry.” He added, however, that there was

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nothing in the agreement to prevent award of contracts to C. I. O. work= ers or to non-union shop construc tion workers.

Points to Concessions

He cited the “sacrifices” which he said A. F. of L. construction workers had made in this agreement such as acceptance of time and a ‘half for overtime rather than double time, acceptance of three shifts a day on projects urgently needed, and agreement to outlaw all strikes or work stoppages during the emergency. He denied that there were any “secret or unpublished clauses” or ‘that the agreement directly or ‘indirectly provided for a closed A. P. of L. shop or “harbors or fosters any. monopoly.” He said the policy of. the Administration was “abundantly clear” that other elements as well as price were to be taken into consideration in the award of defense contracts—other elements such as whether the award would reflect the labor policy of the national defense

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