U.S.A. INDUSTRIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 11

U.S.A. INDUSTRIES

GOVERNOR WARNS STRIKERS [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] NEW YORK, February 16. A message from Trenton says that the Governor of New Jersey (Mr. H. G. Hoffman) has issued a statement warning the Committee of Industrial Organisation that the “lawless methods and practices” used in the automobile workers’ strikes in Michigan and Indiana will not be tolerated in New Jersey. He said there was no doubt in his mind that stay-in strikes were illegal. He was determined, if necessary, to employ the entire resources of' the State to preserve property rights and to punish any attempts to subvert or contemn the law. He had issued the statement because of reports that the Committee of Industrial Organisation was preparing a “unionisation” drive among New Jersey industrial workers. Replying to Mr, Hoffman, leaders of labour unions in the State .issued defiant statements that they were prepared to call a stay-in strike if necessary, in spite of the Governor. They accused him of'opposing all efforts to organise labour, and of “standingguard over the State’s sweatshops.”

EXPELLED LEADER. WASHINGTON, February 15.~ Mr. James Petrillo, president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, disclosed that Mr. Green yvas given a musicians’ union card on February 28, 1936, to safeguard his position as president of the American Federation of Labour in the event of a break with the mine union. Mr. Petrillo said that Mr. Green played the piano. BANKS CRITICISED. ' WASHINGTON. February 16. Testifying before the House of Representatives appropriations committee, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, jun. (Secretary to the Treasury) criticised the banks for failure to lend money for business and instead investing it in Government bonds. He said: “There is every incentive for the banks to get business in their own communities. I never asked them to buy Government securities.” Later, after conferences with Government officials, Mr. Morgenthau said that a definite plan for dealing with the inflow of capital and gold from foreign countries would be announced within a few days.