AMERICAN STRIKES

Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 9

AMERICAN STRIKES

STEEL SITUATION IMPROVES WORKERS RETURN TO PLANTS Trem Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, June 26. Several thousands of workers returned to the plants, and it is expected that more will follow during the next few days. Four bombs were thrown, but no damage resulted. Many arrests were made. The Committee for Industrial Organisation contemplated protesting to President Roosevelt, demanding that he should rid Youngstown of the soldiers, who are acting as strike breakers. Intimations that the steel strike was virtually defeated brought retorts from the 0.1.0. that the fight had just begun. The Mediation Board is remaining on the scene, and is still hopeful that it can contribute to a settlement. Senator Wagner, author of the ‘ Labour Law,’ in a radio address, condemned “ a very few large corporations for fighting Labour and Labour’s right to organise.” ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE MISS PERKINS’S PROPOSALS. COLUMBUS (Ohio), June 27. (Received June 28, at 11.45 a.m.) Governor Davey declared that Miss Frances Perkins asked him to get Mr Girdler and the Purnell Steel .Company executives to come here. “ Keep them here until they sign an agreement with the strikers,” she said. Governor Davey replied that he had no power in such' proceedings, and as- . , serted that it would be kidnapping. Miss Perkins, speaking at Washington, said: “ I did not make such an unwarranted and high-handed proposal, but merely suggested the use of a sub-poenae to get the officials of the Union and the companies together at a round conference table.” It is reported that at Youngstown, under the protection of the militia, 18,556 men resumed work at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company and the Republic Steel Corporation plants. APRIL'S IDLENESS RECORD INCREASE SINCE JANUARY. WASHINGTON, June 25. A Labour Department report shows that 350,000 workers were involved in 750 strikes during April. The idleness totalled 3,385,000 man days, showing more than a 60 per cent, increase since , January. For the whole of 1936 there were 2,125 strikes, involving 790,000 workers on 13,800 days. RAILWAY WORKERS' THREAT A SERIOUS NOTE. NEW YORK, June 26. The national strike situation took on a specially serious note when a walkout of 800,000 railway workers was threatened as a result of a complete breakdown of negotiations concerning the employees’ demand for a wage increase of 20 cents an hour. WOOL TRADE AFFECTED DESIRE FOR “ CLOSED SHOP.” BOSTON, June 25. Seven hundred members of the Woolhandlers and Marine Warehouse Union struck for a “ closed shop.” The International Longshoremen’s Association I branches in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore announced that they would not handle wool shipments until the strike was settled. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST FORD COMPACT DETROIT, June 27. (Received June 28, at 8 a.m.) Charging the Ford Motor Co. with the responsibility of promoting malicious and brutal assaults upon U.A.W. organisers, the National Labour Relations Board has issued a complaint which contends that the company is interfering with, restraining, and coercing employers in order to discourage membership of unions. It cited the heating of union organisers at the gates 'of the plant on May 27.