Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1941 — Page 3
By. moms Ek. STOKES. Times Special Writer - [ee
DETROIT. Nov. 19.—~The C.1LO. convention here finally found the n
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man who could take the meas ‘of John L. Lewis, He was sitting onthe platform all the time.
Phil Murray, C. I. o. president, did the job, but notin a mean
" way or directly. He did not denbunce Mr. Lewis. In fact; he referred
to him in a complimentary way in passing, as he had before, recogniz- :
ing the great services of Mr. Lewis to the cause of labor. He did it by gently pushing aside his old friend, so that when it was all over, when the delegates had stilled the din they raised in tribute to their president, Mr. Lewis was left alone and Phil Murray was in command of a convention almost united for the first time.
In an impromptu speech, the high point of the C.'I. O. convention. thus far, Phil Murray threw himself squarely behind President Roose--
velt’s foreign policy. He spoke just before the convention took the resounding vote adopting its strongly werded resolution.
The ovation he received was
message enough for John: L. Lewis,
who has opposed the Administration foreign policy.
OTAL OF
MINERS
110000 |, NOW IDLE
More Than 57,000 Commercial Pit Workmen in Penn-
sylvania, Maryland and
West Virginia Walk Out
In Sympathy With Captives.
| By UNITED PRESS
Apprinima ely 110,0 President Ro
coal miners were idle today as sevelt continued his “watchful waiting” policy
in an explosive defense disruption that may eventually bring
50,000 U. S. troops into th
e mine fields.
‘Mr. Roosevelt was reported to have told advisers that
he would take no direct act
into the mine fields, at least until the close of the national : ion in Detroit.
C. I. O. conventi
tion such as ordering the Army
There were reports, nonetheless, that the War Depart-
ment had perfected plans for “taking over the situation,” with 50,000 troops ready for
immediate use.
Outstanding Se its. in the labor picture today were as follows:
1 Approximately 57.900 commer- . cial miners in Pennsylvania, Maryland and West; Virginia walked out in .150 or more mines in sympathetic support of) 53,000 United Mine Workers striking for the closed shop in captive pits.
The House Labor Committee opened secret hearings this morning or. anti-strike legislation. One section would give statutory power to the National Defe Mediation Board and require a 30day cooling off period a strike. -A secon prohibit strikes wit] vote of the union
quarters believed a compromise would [be reached 2 Bex fore the strike deadline.
$0,000 Out in W. Va. . The coal shutdown was by far ‘the most critical problem facing the Government. A Thirty thousand commercial "miners in West Virginia, taking ad-
William Blizzard Sr., vice *presie dent of the U. M. . for District 17, ercial mines in ern West Virclosed after oliday.
Captive mines in Pennsylvania
remained closed generally today— third day of the strike that took 53,000 men out of the major steel companies’ mines. Pennsylvania motor police toured the Fayette County strike area but did not. interfere with picket lines. The largest group of pickets were at two U. S. Steel Co. mines—the Colonial No. 4 and the Red Lion— from whence came an appeal last night to Governor Arthur H. James for protection when the day shift reported at 7 a. m. At Uniontown, F. B. I. agents were reported to be inquiring into alleged subversive activities in connection with the captive mine strike. Steel output in the Pittsburgh district headed for a cut of more than 17,000 tons a week. Running short of beehive coke as
: result of the mine stoppage, the
Carnegie-Illinois Steel -Corp.—larg.|est steel producer in the world—pre- "| pared to bank four blast furnaces in this area and two at Chicago. “This will reduce the rate of ingot . production by about 10 per cent,” the corporation” announced, Elsewhere on the labor front: At Ravenna, O., A. F. of L. unions announced they had agreed to “defer temporarily” a strike at the government shell loading plant. Union officials, who twice have postponed a strike, will meet at Washington Friday: with labor and war department representatives. The Labor Department’s Conciliation Service announced settlement of a dispute in which 5000 United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.) had threatened to strike at the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit. Other labor developments:
Call Hillsdale Strike
‘The U. A. W.-C. 1. O, called a strike of 400 employees at the Hillsdale, Products Corp., manufacturer of machine gun and tank parts. OPM officials met with representatives of the A. F. of L. and an independent welders union- formed
{in a revolt against the A. F. of IL.
The jurisdictipnal dispute recently caused a strike in West Coast shipyards. A dispute involving Midwest ruck operators and 250,000 ‘A. F. of L. drivers and warehousemen was
: {referred to the National Defense
Mediation Board by the Labor De(partment, !
SHIP EVERY 48 HOURS NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (U. P.).— The Columbia Broadcasting System today heard the British radio report that “every 48 hours an American ship arrives in the Persian Gulf with arms for Russia.”
Mich., plant of the Allied
ALL DAY LONG, delegate after delegate. had indorsed the resolu-
- tion, some with words aimed at John L. Lewis, Anti-Hitler enthusiasm - ‘washed their conscience clean for the time being of the captive-mine controversy which has been capitalized to bring down Public condem- ;
nation of Mr. Lewis and labor generally.
Thus, when the speeches were growing repetitious snd. the dele-
gates were growing restless, Mr. Murray stepped to the microphone to
take command, to crystalize the mind and spirit of te «convention
He did not stop with foreign policy. . Having deserted John L. Lewis on that issue, he then figuratively stepped over to the side of his absent friend and once more, as he had done before and as the convention had done, he took his stand squarely behind Mr. Lewis in his fight for the closed shop in the steel« company captive mines, and the convention was taken along with him. ‘Here Phil Murray, speaking fervently ‘in that slightly Scottish accent, stood before the delegates-in the role of the man who had been ‘born to a coal-digging father in Scotland, who came to this country ‘with his family as a youngster, who went to work in the mines himself
at 10, and then into a long career sungeiing to improve the lot of
his kind.
_ Harvester to Produce Gun Mounts
The first major gun production order received by an Indianapolis plant was announced today by the International Harvester Co., which will make the super structure for the Oerlikon anti-aircraffi gun pictured above. Production is expected to start about April 1. H. B. Rose, superintendent, said the Company had been given an order on the guns amounting to “several million dollars.”
HE ROLLED back the curtain sat before him, and as he talled gather about the fire of a winter some, of not so long: ‘880.
upon. soemes fasiliar to some who it was like the talk of men who evening and recall their battles,
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He told how he had fought the ‘militia in. West Virginia, He recalled the 1922 strike, when the United States flag was hoisted over
No. 4 tipple of the Pittsburgh Coal
Co., and the National Guard ‘was
called out to break the strike. And he added:
_ “I think it was Phil Murray that led the parade of 750 mifiersto.. the tipple that morning, if T am not mistaken”
He, related how he had denounced and fought brutality of com-
pany policy, and gone among the
miners and their families, urging
them to stand firm, and how ‘he was. thrown in the streets by the
- state police during" the 1927 strike,
His home was surrounded by
““Rithy Pinkertoné,” his: home invaded, his family terrorized. And “then, while the convertion hung on his words, he told how only. a few: days ago, while he was ill in the hospital, several sticks of
dynamite had been planted about his home. ‘There was a purpose in all this ;
NAZIS’ THRUSTS
DETROIT, Nov. 19 (U. P.).— Delegates to the fourth annual con-
vention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations today approved the withdrawal of C. I. O. President Philip Murray and ‘Thomas Kennedy, United Mine Workers’ secretary, from the National Defense Mediation Board. Mr. Murray and Mr. Kennedy were indorsed for resigning from the emergency mediation agency in protest against the Board’s failure to grant a closed shop in the captive coal mines. Five C. I. O. alternates to the NDMB resigned ‘with the ‘officers. Allan Haywood, director of C. I. O. organization, opened today’s session with an announcement that 1,000,000 Federal employees would be the major target of new membership drives designed to bring C. I. O. strength from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 workers within 18 months.
‘Charges Intolerance
“There is as much intolerance practiced by some Government officials as by Ford and Girdler,” he shouted. Mr. Murray, in a stirring pronouncement that organizational activities . must not be: halted “even by the national emergency,” declared that,the C. I. O. had placed the “South’s cruelly exploited workers” at the head of its unjonizing agenda. Sears, Roebuck. & Co., and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., were on the organization program, he said, and he made reference to membership movements in nonferrous metals industries, the oil industry, and white-collar workers.
organization in the South was “no idle threat.” Nothing, he declared, would “stand in the way of unionizing the southern workers.” Representatives of the Mine Workers Union arose shortly afterward to defend the convention’s support of the closed shop demands. John Mates, organizer in District 50, branded the captive coal mine shutdown “the most justifiable cause now before. the American
people.” Other speakers charged the
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Girls Wa. ne, Bylle Mann, at a. Francis, Gilbert, Pauline Crail, at City. Winfred Wray, ih St. Vincent's. , Marjorie Fowler, at St. Vin
: William, Eloise Rihschler, at Methodist. is Dunn,
James, Vi lyin Methodist, M ie, Jake = “a etRodist, a
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DEATHS
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C.1.O. Approves Murray's Withdrawal From NDMB
public press ‘with “building up a phony fight between miners and the President.” “What about the steel companies?” John Mitch of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee asked. Mr. Murray halted this debate at 11:45 a. m. and recessed the convention to Thursday morning, After the recess had been called, a fist fight broke out in the lobby of convention headquarters. August Scholle, Michigan regional director for the C. I. O., said he had been slugged by “enemies from the Lewis’ camp of toughies”” Scholle received first aid treatment for head injuries, but said he ‘was not seriously hurt. Earmarked for attention tomorrow were. proposals repudiating. the National Labor Relations Board and the Office of Production Management, in addition to the NDMB.
9750 HAVE LEARNED DEFENSE JOBS HERE
With; the completion of the 12th class of the Indianapolis Defense Training Program next week, 9750 persons will have started on their way in some branch of national defense work. These courses have ranged from introductory schoeling to highly technical studies. The present defense school, which ends next week, will complete 18 months of work. The courses have been from six to 12 weeks in length and operating five and six days {a week. The most popular course has been in machine shop work in which 5070 men have received schooling. Next in popularity has been parts inspection courses which have had an enrollment of 1755 persons, Other courses offered have been welding, electrical maintenance and foundry. Instructors in the Indianapolis Training schools number 89.
RED CROSS WORKER TALKS ON DEFENSE
Gus Meyer, general: field representative for the American Red Cross, was interviewed today in one of a series of radio programs sponsored by the Women’s Division of the Indiana Defense Council. Mr. Meyer, who recently returned
from Red Cross service in Spain,
discussed the “Part Red Cross Plays ‘in Civilian Defense” over WIRE, Mrs. Dorothy Buschmann, head of the Army, Navy and Marines Service Men's Club, will speak on
next Wednesday's program.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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[HEARINGS OPEN
started secret sessions this morning
{ velt’s plans.
ON STRIKE BILL
Administration Hopes to ‘Avoid ‘Steps Inviting Labor Revolt.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (U. P). —~Administration Congressional leaders proceded cautiously today with a two-point labor legislation program designed to sidetrack more drastic anti-strike measures which they “believe might precipitate a general labor revolt. The House ' Labor Committee
on the program to which President Roosevelt. gave a green ght in a conference with legislative leaders yesteraay, le e program calls for le isla tion that would: - “ tn 1. Give statutory authority to the Defense Mediation Board and give that agency power to order a 30day “cooling off” period before a strike could be called in defense labor disputes. 2. Prohibit strikes that are not authorized by a majority of the union involved after a secret vote under government supervision,
Picket Cufb Proposed
The Administration also leaned 2 compromising ear to proposals to outlaw violent picketing, backed! up by Federal enforcement. This program eventually will ake form in a bill sponsored by Chairman Mary T. Norton (D. N. J.) of the Labor Committee. Mrs. Norton said yesterday she had drafted a bill embodying the first point and added later that she would incorporate the second point. Against this ‘background House leaders worked desperately to hold the lid down on Congressional un-
defense strikes. The advocates of strong action against all labor, interference with defense. production were confident of enough House votes. to pass drastic legislation.
Showdown Possible
forces to bring a showdown at any moment by calling the Vinson Compulsory Mediation Bill, which: has been on the Speaker's table since last June. House leaders held h ferences = yesterday wit
ed conRep.
E. Cox (D. Ga.) and Chairman Gar Vinson (D. Ga.) of the Naval Fons Committee to ‘outline Mr, Roose-
Then they moved in on the Rules Committee with an urgent request for a rule that would send the Frice Control Bill to the floor for ¢onsideration next Monday
| Start
rest over Presidential handling of fall.
It is possible for the strong-action |;
Howard W. Smith (D. Va.), Rep. E St
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i |AIM AT MOSCOW
of Long-Heralded ‘Final Attempt’ to Take Capital Seen Near.
LONDON, Nov. 19 (U. P) —Ger-|.
man spearheads rammed into the Kalinin Volokolamsk and Tula salients of the Moscow front today
|and pounded tke Donets basin de-
fenses in what British experts believed may be the start of the longheralded “final” Nazi attempt : to Sapitre Moscow before winter fully sets RD radio reports, heard by
|the United Press listening post, ad- | tq
mitted that the Red Army gave ground at Volokolamsk but said the German advance was checked finally in heavy. fighting. There was no sign of any break in :the severe cold which Ser, the whole Russian front. Influenza has broken out in epidemic form Feng the German troops, according to the Moscow radio. ‘Severe . suffering among illequipped Nazi units was indicated. Italian troops in the Donets area were said to be still fighting in summer uniforms despite near zero weather,
Fierce Kalinin Battle
Russian reports gave this picture of operations: VOLOKOLAMSK SECTOR: Russians forced back to villages “G” and “M” by a heavy German attack which is still developing. On another part of the sector the Russians occupied three villages. MOZHAISK AND MALOYAROSLAVETS SECTORS: Russians strengthen positions and shell German front lines. TULA: Heavy artillery exchanges underway as Germans bring up more reinforcements for ‘new attacks; two motorized regiments ‘of 112th Nazi division driven back six and a half miles. NARO FOMINSK: Heavy fighting “with Russian: cavalry in action. Russians captured two villages but lost two others to the Germans. KALININ: New German offensive in progress; Russians defeated German 102d infantry division but Nazis brought up new troops and continued to attack despite loss of 2800 killed: in two days fighting.
‘Mass Troops Near Tula
OREL: New German thrust developing about 200 miles south of Moscow. |
DONETS BASIN: Russians admit Germans have captured additional areas but report 1000 Germans of Fourth® mountain infantry division killed in five-day battle. :
LENINGRAD: German troops repulsed - with heavy losses in persistent attempt to cross Neva River. The biggest battles appeared to be raging in the Kalinin and Volokdlamsk sectors while important new Nazi troop concentrations were reported developing around = Tula where there has been a lull in fighting for several days. It appeared here that the Germans may be about to make another major attempt to break through north and south of Moscow at Kalinin and Tula in an attempt to sweep east, encircling the capital in an effort to cause its
Cold Causes Distress
British experts believed German distress on the central front is growifig more. acute with the con-
4inuance of cold weather and that
unless their oft-promised drive on
Moscow gets going shortly their po-
sition there may deteriorate stead-
At the same time it appeared that the Germans are increasing their pressure on the southern front, particularly in the Donets basin as a preliminary to a big winter drive into the Caucasus which probably will be launched if and when théy ge Sonirel of the Kerchenski
ROME HOLDS U. S. PASTOR
- ROME, Nov. 19 (U. P.).—Competent quarters said today that the arrest in Rome yesterday of the Rev. Hiram Woolf of Elmira, N. Y., rector of the American Episcopal Church here, was purely a police matter. The Rev. Mr. Woolf was arresied on Suspicion of espionage.
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attack but German anti-tank troops drove off the Russians, destroying 27 of their tanks. ; The high command | Deported heavy air attacks upon ED ‘dumps. © A large
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others stood for President Roosevelt's message, for Mr. Murray's es ‘praise of the Roosevelt foreign policy, for the resolution, ; Now they would not even rise In personal tribute to the man hos vice ‘president of ‘the Mine: Workers. They Sad gives up, the TAWA fight ‘on foreign policy, John Ls daughter, Kathryn Lewis, | ; sought to tone down the resolution before the resolutions comm
had decided not: to take the fight to the floor, But still they sat, in final protest.
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That is the removal of Gen. the French col alone, although
Philippe Petain undoubtedly will remain head of the state, but Pucheu either will replace Admiral Francois Darlan as active. director of affairs, or will equally with him, -Pucheu has: won a victory in the dismissal of Weygand, who had the su pory of Petain and through Pe- , the support of Darlan. in ensuing days, Laval is called ne the Government, it will be a sign that the former vice-premier has been assigned the task of conducting direct negotiations' with Germany. Pucheu heads a faction backed by the younger, realistic members of the cabinet. The group is said to favor a dictatorial government pledged to close political and eco-
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Prine and a clique favorable to fuller co collaboration with Germany is in the saddle.
Back of it lies a story of internal political greed and a struggle for power. The Weygand affair indicates that Pierre Pucheu, young minister of the interior, is th new ‘strong man in the Vichy government and that Pierre Laval, a of collaboration with Germany, will join forces with him. Maral 5
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interpretation to be placed on Weygand from control es he Africa. German it was strong, was not responsible, intrigue,
nomic collaboration with It is backed by the powerful Won banking interests. be : Pucheu is 42. He has been in ig Government, only three months, rising from political obscurity. arlan and his supporters, by the rich Bank De Paris et E Bays, have been in a struggle wit! the Pucheu group for the financi gains to be harvested in the struction of French industry commerce, under the ndersioon Marshal Petain is under: have supported the Darlan g preserving a balance between two factions. It would appear both Petain and Darlan ve § fered a political: defeat, EAT
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The century-old dispute between the Indians and white settlers over the tribes’ “happy hunting. grounds” in the vast forests of Indiana has reached the Marion County courts.
A suit was filed in Superior Court
Miami County, who claims to be the son of Tak-quah-ke-uh (Camillus Bondy) of the Miami Indian tribe, asking $10,000,000 damages from the State Conservation Department. The suit charges that the State Conservation Department has “illegally stripped the timber and natural resources from 902 acres of land” given to the Bondy ancestors by. a Federal land grant in 1854, The action quotes a Som, of the Indians’ treaty . with the Federal Government under fhe signature of President Zachary Taylor. e suit stated that the treaty gran hunting and fishing rights on the land as an Indian preserve. The suit charged that the land
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‘Happy Hunting Grounds’ i Dispute Revived in Park Sui;
grant: treaty had been violated the State Conservation Depart in making a- state forest park ol of the section along the Salamon River, in. Wabash and Miami Couns ties. Conservation Department officis said the State purchased the lands from private owners years ago and now holds legal deeds to the land.
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E. Deery, Corporation Counsel ward H. Knight and City. a D] Michael B. Reddington. Mr. a member of the Model Ordinance Committee of
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