Some at to Defy, Pickets Monday Police Ready To Give rAll Protection

1 0 4 Reported at

'Return' Meeting By GEORGE W. TETHEKLY

Bmghamttm+Press Staff Writer The smoldering back-to-work

movement among 500 employes of the strike-bound Kroehler Manu factoring Co. plant is expected to break out in the open Monday morning at the factory's gates.

Many of the employes who have been out of work nearly five months because of the strike may defy the picket line of Local 304, International Upholsterers' Union. A. P. L^ and enter the Ely Street plairt.

The back-to-work movement caihe to light last night at Kalurah Temple' when a number of Kroeh­ler employes indicated a willing­ness to return to their jobs. CALLED BY SALESMAN

The meeting was called fiy Paul Eisele* a Kroehler salesman, who, according to observers, said the company has made a "final" offer and that Kroehler workers in two other cities have returned as M

. result He claimed, observers said, that

200 employes have returned to work at the Kroehler plant in Dal­las and 135 to the company's plant in Naperville. 111.

-A claimed 104 employes at­tended last night's meeting. The meeting was picketed by members «f the union local. -

Paul T. Gorman, attorney for the local, said that 100 union mem­bers will be on hand to picket the

; Binghamton plant at 7 a. m. Mon­day. He conceded that "perhaps 25 to 50- Kroehler employes will report for work but forecast that efforts to get the plant into produc­tion "will fail dismally." DOJTT HAVE SKILL . Those who plan to return to

work," be said, "do not have the skill necessary to turn out furni­ture-

He insisted that the Kroehler management is ready to "give in" to union demands. He said the

. company plans to exhibit furni­ture at the Chicago Furniture Show next week "and any back-to-work movement simply will en­courage the management to hold out and thus prolong the strike."

Mr. Gorman disputed claims that 200 have returned to work in Dal­las He claimed only 95 have re-, turned there and 123 at Naperville. He also asserted that "only about 60" attended last night's meeting

'at Kalurah Temple' "and not all of them indicated they would be willing to report Monday.'* POLICE NEUTRAL

T h e union," he said, "will at­tempt by* peaceful methods to dis­suade workers from returning to their Jobs."

Police Chief Michael J. Hanifin said police will be "neutral" if a back-to-work move develops Monday..'

"But." he said, "we have to see that everyone—is protected- and

• guaranteed their rights. If anyone wants to enter the factory, it is up to us to provide protection, if called upon to do so."

He said pickets have conducted themselves "peacefully."-PROTECTION FOB ALL

**We are there for their pro­tection, too," he said.

Mr. • Gorman described l a s t night's meeting as a "company-sponsored affair." He described Mr. Eisele, meeting chairman, as a "member of management" He

' said a charge of unfair labor prac­tices has been filed in Chicago against Kroehler "for interference in union affairs."

He said the union has the sup­port of unionized truck drivers and the railroad brotherhoods "and without their support Kroeh­

l er cannot move supplies, mate­rials or finished products,"' Kroeh­ler truck drivers also are union­ized. DECLINE COMMENT

Spokesmen in the back-to-work, movement said they 4id not know how the company planned to cope with the problem of moving freight

Executives of the company de­clined to comment because, they

- said. **we had nothing to do with last night's meeting."

They reiterated that bulletins were i>osted in the factory last August when the strike started stating that doors of the plant '.'are open at all times to those" who want to return to work."

The back-to-work movement came on the heels of a company-wide vote of the 2,500 Kroehler employes in the nation on a Kroeh­ler proposal to end the strike. 10 CENTS OFFERED

The company offered, a 10-cent-an-bour increase, vacation benefits, six paid holidays and a new piece­work rate. Majority of Kroehler employes turned down the pro­posal in the. nationwide vote.

The union is demanding a 20-cent-an-bour increase, a closed shop, and the inclusion of lead men and inspectors in terms of a proposed contract

Binghamton employes of Kroeh­ler turned down the company pro­posal 204 to 103 • in balloting Dec 12.

An earlier back-to-work move­ment was started last October, but it collapsed when .little interest was shown.

THE BINGHAMTON PRESS, January 4,1947. 8

*£* Mt9U Be Warmer Monday ..̂

Zero Cold Snap to Hit Triple Cities Tim^^^^

2 Iruckers

Sweet Sleep: Police Play Sandman Role

Police quickly solved a sleep (problem .for a Maple Street couple early this morning.

A woman telephoned head­quarters at 3:15 a. m. and re­ported she was afraid to go to sleep because her husband had threatened to kill her.

When police arrived, they were met by the husband who told them he would like to go to jail so he could get some sleep.

Arrested for public intoxica­tion, he was soon asleep on a City Jail cell cot. - I^is wife retired as police

started the return ,trip to head­quarters with her husband.

Girl in Hospital /\ Coasting on a piece-^of card­

board put eight-year-old Joanne Sosnicki of 200 Cohklin Avenue in s City Hospital last might. -

The * girl, daughter of Charles Sosnicki. suffered deep lacerations of the %ight side. Her condition is reported fair.

WnfMmton grew Pfaoto by Kelly.

ZEROED IN—It's one of nature's signs When Weather­man Thomas E. Reed appears in codnskin cap and points at zero mark on thermometers Welfr here he is,f

Cold wave coming, A zera cold wave blustered toward the Triple Cities

from the northwest today. ' ;#>'?' Weatherman Thomas F. Reed said the mercury will

tumble to that little round "0" on the thermometer tonight. Mr. Reed tempered this severe

news with a prediction that a mass of warmer air will be wafted in on the west wind tomorrow night or] earlyt Monday. >

It the forecast comes true, to­night-will be the coldest so far this winter. The previous low is 6 degrees recorded Tuesday.

The cold spell was hitched to a mass of air springing from the top­side of the Arctic Circle, Mr. Reed said. It was sliding across the Midwest today.

Partly cloudy skies will look down on the shivering Triple Cities tonight and tomorrow, the weatherman said.

The Sabbath temperature is not expected to rise above freezing.

The temperature dipped to 18 this morning from yesterday morn­ing's high of 39.

Early this afternoon, the mer­cury had squeezed upward only 3 degrees to a reading of 22.

Snow flurries filled the air at times this morning, but Mr. Reed disdainfully recorded them as a trace. He saw little chance for fhore snow this weekend.

While the cold wave moved east­ward, Western Canada reveled -in rising temperatures caused by a serving of- warm air from some Pacific current.

This mellow air, mixed with a breeze from the Gulf of Mexico* will nudge the cold wave out of the Triple Cities tomorrow night or Monday, Mr. Reed said.

Today, meanwhile, the cold wave reached its icy fingers even into the vulnerable South.

Sub-freezing weather in Texas threatened damage to the winter vegetable and• citrus crops, the Chicago Weather Bureau reported.

At Fort Worth, the mercury plunged to 7 above. Along the Rio Grande River, unusually low readings included 23 at Del Rio and 30 at Laredo. San Antonio reported 19.

Freakish temperature compari­sons were recorded as the cold wave left portions of the Midwest and struck southward.

While the weather people re­ported 6 below zero at Oklahoma City and ir above at Fort Worth, residents of International Falls, Minn., basked in the comparative warmth of 8 above. At the same hour, it was 18 above in. Bismarck, N. D.* , , •

The cold spell also thrust a knife into California, with a reading of 34 at Los Angeles — the lowest there since Feb. 15. 1941.

Sub-freezing temperatures were reported in Georgia, Tennessee and Louisiana. The mercury hovered at the zero mark in Arkansas.

In Northern New York State, trains and buses were delayed and several schools were closed by a mixture of sleet, freezing rain and snow.

Colder weather in Kentu, day was expected to che^c^the melting of snow which, with^heavy rains, had flooded many streams and halted highway traffic in some regions.

Two Appointed Provisionally

Mrs. Bonnie' Stocks, 446 Che­nango Street, has -been appointed provisionally as a stenographer-clerk in the comptroller's office, a $l,600-a-year job.

Miss Agnes Petro, 25 Winding Way, who had been working tem­porarily in the comptroller's office at $5 a day, has received a . provisional appointment as stenographer-clerk in the corpora­tion counsel's office at $1,440 a year. V

Physician's Office

In $20 ,000 Loss • Fire early this morning de­stroyed* a doctor's office in De­posit's business section jand threat­ened the Village ^Hall-Fire; Station and the Deposit CJourler, a weekly newspaper,- before volunteer fire­men gained control, more than two hours latere ;

Chief Harold Strong, whose men battled the stubborn blaze ilii:^freezing weather, estimated the total loss will approximate $20,-iooo.', - --\ / \ '' ?;; -1; ; ., ' T h e chief said he believed siV'Shortcircuit in electrical wir­ing in the offices of Dr. Joseph Phelps on the first floor of a two-story frame building caused the blaze.

The flames burned out the in­terior of the two-story, wooden building, DK Phelps, who recent­ly added valuable X-ray equip­ment, lost everything. He is part­l y insured.

DIFFICULT TO BATTLE ,v T ^ to battle, Chief Strong said, because the wobden building is sandwiched be­tween the Deposit Courier build­ing and the Village Hall which arc of brick construction, and because of a concrete wing to the news­paper plant adjoining' the rear of the two-story structure. 'Firemen attacked the flames

from the front and from the roofs of t?*e newspaper plant and mu­nicipal building. They had to keep the nozzles on six water lines open constantly because of freezing temperatures. :M The volunteers managed to keep the fire from causing, serious dam­age to the municipal building or newspaper plant. ONE ROOM SCORCHED

The flames licked around a sec­ond-floor window of the municipal building arid scorched the interior of one room. The concrete wall of the newspaper plant's wing which houses the weekly's pressroom, buckled and cracked.

The second floor of/the burned out building was occupied by the Lamoree family until Sunday, when it was vacated. The Lamorees m o v e d t o Binghamton, Chief Strong said.

The burned building is owned by ,th«f Deposit Courier Co., Inc., of wbieh W. C. Stow is president;

The^fire %as: discovered b£ Night Patrolman Milton Smith. X.

Officials of the Deposit Courier Co., who purchased the frame building last summer for expansion purposes, today Indicated they are considering plan* for a new, fire­proof structure.

Doctoral Dentists To (ret Supplies

World War II Veterans, includ­ing doctors and dentists, who wish to buy surplus medical and surgi­cal supplies and equipment at Binghamton Army Medical Depot, will report at the depot starting at 9:30 a. mV Monday.

Veterans have a top priority to buy $1,750,000 in surplus, goods Monday through Wednesday at a government surplus sale now being held at the depot by War Assetts Administration (W A A).

The sale is held daily from 9:30 a. m. to 3:30 p. m., /according to James Hart, assistant site sale manager. .'-.'.'

Government agencies had prior­ity to purchase yesterday and to­day. Only one agency made a purchase. That was the Federal WoAs Agency ' which purchased $100,000 in laboratory equipment for use in veterans* education classes; x ' -

Bribery Trial

Is Adjourned

"Give and Take9

Quiz Show to Be Staged At to

John Reed King's radio quiz show,* /'GJfve and Take,'* will be presented in Binghamton Central High School at 8:30 p. m. Jan. 27.

The show will tie sponsored by the Binghamton Jayn-cees and. proceeds will go toward

TWo Pennsylvania coal truckers were on record in the Henderson-Laman trial today with testimony that their Binghamton employer deducted $5 each from their pay last January for what, they said was to be a monthly/payoff to Claude If. Henderson, Binghamton sealer of weights and measures. * One of the witnesses, Robert B.

Jones, 50, of Wilkes-Barre, testi­fied late yesterday that he heard Mr. Henderson promise to "make it hot" for other truckers in ex­change for the money: • •>

Mr. Jones and the other witness, Edward G. Hitchings, 45, of Lu­zerne, have been named by the district attorney as co-conspiratocs with Mr. Henderson and Fred E. Laman, a state inspector of weights and measures. The al­legation was made in a supple­mental bill of particulars filed last month. £

WORKED FOR BARRY Mr. Jones and Mr. Hitchings

testified for the prosecution late yesterday shortly before County Judge Daniel J. McAvoy ad­journed the Jrial until 10 a. m. Monday.

Both witnesses said they are former employes of Bernard Bar­ry, Binghamton coal dealer who last spring was indicted jointly with the city sealer and the state inspector on charges of bribery and conspiracy in connection with allegedly illicit coal deliveries.

Mr. Barry, who is not on trial now, .preceded his two former em­ployes to the witness stand with three and- one-half days of prose­cution testimony which ended early yesterday afternoon. TO OFFSET INCREASES

Mr. Jones and Mr. Hitchings testified that in 1944; they were instructed by Mr. Barry to short-weight customers in,i a move to offset price increases^at the mines. This coincided ' witih testimony given by Mr. Barry himself;

Mr. Barry told Mr. Jones last January that the latter would have to "chip in" $5 monthly to a fund to be paid to Mr. Hender­son. Mr. Jones testified.

The witness said Mr. Henderson was present when the alleged pay­off was discussed.

Mr. Jones quoted Mr. Henderson as saying ^ie would "make it hot" for other truckers If he received the "donation;'*^-v * .

Mr. Hitchings said he was told by Mr. Barry that the city sealer, in exchange for the money, would "stop other truckers from coming up" from Pennsylvania.

The witness said Mr, Henderson was not present during this con­versation.

Mr. Jones and Mr. Hitchings said they did not know what be­came of the $5 which they said Mr. Barry ^deducted from their pay envelopes late in January.

Mr. Jofies testified that in 1933 he was convicted of larceny and served eight and one-half months in i Luzerne County Prison at Wilkes-Barre. ' HAD TO MAKE GOOD

He said that in June, 1944, Mr. Henderson compelled him to make . good a shortage of 1,180 pounds of coal in a delivery to an Emma Street address.

Both Mr;. Jones and Mr. Hitch­ings : testified... that they complied with Mr. Barry's instructions to short-weight customers^

Mr. Barry, who admittedly has short-Weighted hundreds of cus­tomers, testified, earlier yesterday that he still holds a weighmast-er's license issued, by the New York State Department of Agri­culture- and Markets,

He testified that the applica­tion .blank for a three-year re­newal of the license, was handed to him by Mr. Henderson in July, 1945.

Milady's All Aglow

Editor Shivers off To See Spring Styles

Service at Citadel Mr. and Mrs. Roy'Evans and

their family will have charge of the "family night" service at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the Salvation Army Citadel..

Calpt. Paul Downing will speak on 'divers of God" at the worship service at 11 a. m. tomorrow. Ed-mond J. Lodge will discuss "An­chors of Christianity" at the 7:30 p. m. meeting tomorrow.

a drive to obtain incubators for Binghamton hospitals.

Mr. King's show; a CBS pro­gram, is heard on station WNBF on Saturday afternoons. Mr. King also conducts a daily quiz pro­gram for CBSV

RADIO VETERAN In the show to be presented in

Binghamton, the audience will participate. Prizes will be award­ed to the winners.

Mr. King, now 28, has been in radio since he was 16. While attending Princeton University, he announced football games.

Mrl King, a native of Atlantic City, N. J., first joined ithe staff of a radio station after writing. * high school show. V

The program was broadcast and, later the station offered Mr. King a job. : •';>

TICKET SALE Tickets will be on sale at

Weeks and Dickinson. Requests for tickets may be mailed to the Binghamton Chamber of Com­merce, but requests must include self-adressed. stamped envelopes and money orders.

Tickets also will be sold in advance at service . and social clubs, fraternal organizations and

professional and technical socie­ties.

The price of tickets ranges from $1.80 to $3.60.

Dairy Herd Group Has 2 Openings

Broome County Dairy Herd Im­provement Association has open­ings for two district supervisors, HVlra Blixt, assistant county ag­ricultural agent, announced today.

Candidates are urged to apply immediately at the Farm Bureau office in Broome County Court­house. . ,";• .','..'•

Successful applicants will be re­quired to attend a two-week course for Dairy Herd Improve­ment Association supervisors be­ginning Jan. 20 at Cornell Univer­sity.. ,• ;.v;'

Supervisors must be qualified milk testers — preferably high school graduates.

Their work entails monthly visits to the farms of association members, making butterfat tests and keeping complete herd rec­ords.' • •*•;•;/•:: ••• v.'"".* ""' :> '

—Photo by The Binghamton Press.

TREVA DAVIS * As She Left Binghamton for New-York City Fashion Shows

Bundled in her warmest woolen and her teeth giving off a slight chatter, Treva Davis took off for New York today to get the low-down on the low-cut fashions for\the spring's balmy weather.

The Woman's Pages editor of The Binghamton Press, neverthe­less undaunted by the forecasts which are calling for the winter's severest cold wave, commented dutifully that spring can't be far behind and, she added:

"What is spring without the lat­est spring fashions?" WOMAN FARSIGHTED

Said Miss Davis:- ^ "A woman is a farsighted think­

er. While the menfolk are mutter­ing about the coal bills and shovel­ing out the driveway, certain they will never survive the winter, the little women are anticipating the best season of all, the season of spring fashions."

To make it easier for the women who can't get away for the big spring fashion shows and see for themselves, Miss Davis wilt see and judge all the new clothing for her sisters, under the skin.

She will send us several stories a day on what looks to her to be the situation for the vernal sea­son. , /

Watch for her expert stories, beginning Monday, in The Bing­hamton Press.

Alcohol Group Aide to Speak

Mrs. Ila Phillips of New York City, assistant to the director of the National Committee for Edu­cation on Alcoholism, returns to Binghamton tomorrow to address two groups.

She will speak at a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous at 8 p. m. tomorrow at 89 State Street. Two members of the organization also will speak.

At noon Monday, Mrs, Phillips will address the charter meeting of a local branch of the National Committee for Education on Alco­holism. The luncheon meeting will be at the Arlington Hotel.

Mrs, Phillips delivered several speeches here last fall.

Union Files Ejf Suit for $3,500,000

Leather Workers

Ask Portal Pay Local 285, International Fur and

Leather Workers Union, C. I. O., filed suit in Federal Court in Utica today against Endicott Johnson Corp. for $3,500,000 in back pay under the Supreme Court's portal-to-pprtal pay interpretation.

he suit was filed by the Union through, Sidney H. Greenberg. Syracuse attorney, who has handled most of the C. I. O. portal-to-portal suits in the northern dis­trict court.

Today's suit follows several filed yesterday by individual workers who were, represented by the United Shoe Workers, also C. I. O., which now is attempting to union­ize several Endicott Johnson de­partments. NO COMMENT -Company officials had no com­ment other than to say they were aware that union organizers had been circulating forms throughout the plant authorizing the union to introduce the litigation.

The leather workers union repre­sents about 1,200 employes of Endicott Johnson's tannery depart­ment.

Besides t h e action brought against Endicott Johnson, 24 addi­tional portal-to-portal claim suits, totaling $17,700,000 were filed in the Utica District Court today. Twenty-three actions were brought by C. I. O. unions, and* one by an independent union. $39,000,000 TOTAL

The new actions brought the total amount claimed in the north­ern court district to more than $39,000,000.

The amount being sought by the leather workers union would be retroactive for six years.

Today's suit differs from that filed yesterday in that a specific pay claim of $3,500,000 is men­tioned. In yesterday's suit the em­ployes who took action to recover "substantial" amounts, asked the court to determine the pay due them.

'The actions against Endicott Johnson represents the only portal-to-portal cases in the Triple Cities.

Milton Filker, regional director for the United Shoe Workers, C. I. O., said in Endicott yester­day that his union is serving as adviser for individual suits being brought by E J workers.

Church to Elect Congregation officers will be

elected at the annual parish meet­ing of First Universalis! Church at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday.

The election will follow a family night dinner. Annual reports will be given and the constitution ap­proved for another year.

World's Woes —Why Permitted?:

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