INDUSTRIAL TRUCE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 106, 1 November 1934, Page 13

INDUSTRIAL TRUCE

FORMATION OF UNIONS

TERMINATION POSSIBLE

WASHINGTON, October .30.

President Boosevelt's industrial truca was seriously threatened today by the action of the Great Atlantic and Pacific 'tea. Company, operators 6f a nation' wide chainVf grocery stares,''in closing 300 stores in Cleveland, Ohio, as a protest against attempts to foi'hi a Union among the employees. ' '. , ] '

Company^ officials charge the union with intimidation, 'aiid declared thS.t they were definitely withdrawing their entire business, with an' estimated annual tjirnover of -20,000,000" dollars, from Cleveland, rendering 2500 out of work. L ■"■.'•■' •; *..; '.

The Socialist Party announced plans to boycott' all the company's stores. There is a possibility that: the American. Federation of-Labour .niay take.a similar stand. ' N ■.■.'.,-,

President Koosevelt on. September 30 proposed an armistice between: Capita) and Labour, ■ while the newly^rebrganised National Recovery-, Administration evolved legislation, intended, permanently to safeguard the rights of each. ■ From those willing to join in- establishing this hoped-for peace-period, :th« President said he Would seek. .assurances ' regarding the making. and.maintain ence of agreements which, could be mutually lived up to and under which Wages, ■ hours, and working-.conditions might be dotefmiiied. Any later adjustments could be made by- agreement or mediation, or arbitration. of State or Federal agencies.: . ■ : Employers and employees would not be asked permanently to give up the weapons common to1 industrial war, but both groups would-be tasked, to'give-a -fair trial to peaceful methodsof adjust, ing their conflicts of opinion and inter estS. '.' '■ ;■ -,-: -- '• ' ■ ■' ■■ ■ ■; :