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Thursday, March 24, 1938
FORMER RESIDENT WITNESSES STRIKE
SCENES DESCRIBED
The following communicatiin, tell
ing of personal experiences in the
Flint, Mich., strike, was received
from a former resident, Mrs. George
Burnside, who now lives at Durand,
Mich.
To the Editor:
If you and any of the readers of
your paper would care to read a
very good and true account of what
happened in Flint during the great
G. M. strike last year, which was
ended Feb. 10, you should read Paul
Gallico's novelette in the last Cos
mopolitan. It is called "Sit Down
Strike."
Mr. Gallico was here in Flint dur
ing the entire strike, and though he
has had to change names, locations,
etc., he has in the main tampered
but very little with what actually
took place.
Of course there was no Mary Ste
phanie, and the young leaders of
the strike were splendid young men.
They fought shoulder to shoulder
with the men, and at what we call
"The Battle of Bull Run," because
the Bulls attacked five times and
were routed every time, Roy Reuth
ers and Bob Travis were in the thick
of the fight. Only in his description
of the attempted taking of what he
calls Primus No. 3 did he change
things. What really happened was
this:
The strike was confined to the two
Fisher Body plants until, I think,
just shortly before the signing of
the agreement. G. M. started work
ing the Chevy plants. Men were
called back to work on Monday. The
situation was very tense. The chief
of police had arrived with some 500
vigilantes. To talk about it was im
possible, because you had no way to
know on which side people were..
Old friends refused to speak to one
another. The Flint Journal was fill
ed with propaganda against the
strikers until its circulation dropped
so severely that they had to take a
more neutral tone.
The picture drawn for the outside
world was that thousands of "loyal
workers" wanted to go back to work
and a "few hundred strikers" were
keeping them from it. While it is
true that only a few hundred men
sat down in the Fisher Body plants
yet the unrest throughout the en
tire group of factories was terrible.
G. M. was speeding production
because of long quiet period of the
depression, and do you know what
that meant?
It meant that the machinery in
the factories was speeded up until
none but the fastest could keep up.
If one couldn't keep up, he was fired
regardless of how many years of
service he had. The stretch-out was
where the men had to take over the
jobs of those that were fired. The
men had to work overtime for no
increase in pay. All this because a
company that made a surplus in
'35 of $227,000,000 over and above all
costs and disbursements, and in
cluding all dividends, couldn't hire
more men nor give the men enough
to live on; because, you must re
member, there is always from two
to three months idleness each year.
The plants were filled with Pink
erton spies and thugs. It was worth
a man's job to even mention a un
ion (and I want to say that all this
is'going on right niw in the factories
of that Great, Quiet, Unassuming,
Philanthropist, Mr. Henry Ford). The
men were afraid to join the C. I. O
because the A. F. of L. had sold
them out in '30, and every man who
had struck was fired and blacklisted.
Such, roughly, was the situation in
the plants.
When the sheriff started to obey
the injunction against the strikers,
and asked Governor Murphy for
help in getting them out, and the
men in the plants said that the only
way they would come out was dead,
i and the men finally saw it was a
fight to the finish, they swung in
behind the C. I. O.
By the time Plants 9 and 4 struck,
at least 30,000 out of 40,000 had fall
en in behind the C. I. O. Merchants,
sensing which way the wind was
blowing, became less truculent, but
the attack was still fearful against
the union by the press, the pulpit
and even radio.
Then Plant 1 struck. Five hun
dred police and vigilantes formed
a flying wedge, and equipped with
gas masks, tear gas, and sawed-off
Heppner
IN GALLICO STORY
shotguns they entered the plant to
evict the strikers. The account of
this in Paul Gallico's story is very
vivid and real. But while they were
rioting at Plant 9 the strikers quick
ly took over Plant 4, the most im
portant plant in all the G. M. em
pire. Mr. Burnside works here, in
the sheet metal department, and my
son-in-law, Mr. Kelley, is a tool
maker, and Lee works right across
the street in Plant 5. You can im
agine our feelings when the flash
came that the strikers had been
evicted from 9, but had captured and
barricaded themselves in 4, espec
ially when the reports of the cas
ualties began to come in.
The National Guard then took over
and it wasn't pleasant to see ma
chine guns trained on the gates of
the plants and know that your hus
band and son-in-law were inside.
Then the sheriff set a date for evic
tion of the Chevy-Fisher Body plant
right near Plants 4 and 9. Thousands
of people poured into town from
Toledo, Cincinnati and Columbus in
Ohio, from Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Indiana and Illinois. Thousands
jammed as near the 'plants as the
soldiers would let them go. But the
government kept the sheriff from
it. Everyone was tense, because, if
the sheriff had attempted the evic
tion, there would have been a terri
ble riot. At first the G. M. leaders
wouldn't even enter the same room
as the labor leaders, but in the end
they got around the table and end
ed the strike.
But all wasn't finished yet. When
the men went back to work they
found every door but one in each
plant welded shut. Men were of
fered (sub rosa) $75 a month more
if they would join a vigilante move
ment inside the plants. These men
were kept after hours and given
steel helmets, gas masks and gas to
use against the union. Guards were
set at each of the doors. However,
this didn't last long. There were
detectives and lawyers here from
the federal government and it was
soon stopped.
What difference is there in the
plants today?
No man can be fired without just
cause. The right speed of the line
and the presses is determined by a
representative of the union and the
foreman of the plant. The dreaded
stretch-out, or working more than
one machine, has been eliminated.
Spies are out of the plants and the
eight-hour day with time and a half
for overtime has been accepted. Ma
chines have been made safe, fumes
of strong gasses that were killing
the men, are being eliminated. On
February 12, the day we celebrate
as victory day this year, the union
demonstrated. Men, women and
children marched under their ban
ners Buick, Chevrolet, Fisher Body,
Marvel Carburetor, A. C. Spark Plug,
Du Pont, Redmonds, and the tool
rooms, clerks, waiters, white collar
workers, and the teachers federation,
all under the banner of the C. I. O.
AAA Programs Have
Encouraged Sound
Farming, Says OSC
Although Oregon farmers have
received substantial cash benefits
through past federal AAA programs,
and have opportunities of earning
between three and four million dol
lars under the 1938 program, the in
direct benefits from improved farm
practices are even more important
in the long run, believes F. L. Bal
lard, vice-director of the extension
service at Oregon State college.
The new law establishes definitely
the place of the extension service as
being that of an educational agency
FAST RELIEF FOR
DISTRESSING SYMPTOMS OF
G CLODS
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INSIST ON
GENUINE
BAYER ASPIRIN
Gazette Times, Heppner,
in connection with the AAA admin
istration. The policy of the Oregon exten
sion service continues as in the past
to be that of lending every aid in
explaining the federal program to
farmers and showing them what op
portunities it affords in any partic
ular case. After that, decision is left
to the individual as to his voluntary
cooperation.
Every practice recommended by
the technical committee in Oregon
for use under the federal program
has been based on sound, long-time
farm management, Ballard points
out. The result is that Oregon agri
culture is making sound technical
progress while cooperating in the
federal programs, he says. Oregon
has achieved a greater degree of
change from soil depleting to soil
conserving crops than any other
western state.
Meanwhile the several programs
will have brought approximately 15
million dollars in cash to Oregon
growers when payments for the 1937
program are completed. Under the
1938 program, with its definite and
substantial allotment for wheat
growers, Oregon farmers could qual
ify for more than 4 million dollars
in benefit payments. With an esti
mated 75 per cent participation, the
cash returns will approximate ZVz
million dollars, according to figures
compiled by N C. Donaldson, secre
tary of the state AAA committee.
An indirect benefit just announced
is the provision for loans at 4 per
cent to wool growers on stored wool,
to encourage orderly marketing.
Air Conditioners
Confer at OSC Mar. 25
Oregon State College The prob
lems of air conditioning, probably
the fastest growing industry in the
country, will be discussed for two
days in the first air conditioning
conference to be held at the school
of engineering at Oregon State col
lege Friday and Saturday, March
25 and 26.
Specialists in the department of
mechanical engineering, in cooper
ation with the manufacturers of
heating, air conditioning and allied
equipment, have prepared an edu
cational program designed to be of
particular interest to those directly
engaged in heating and ventilating
work, as well as to those planning
installation of such equipment.
A comprehensive exhibit of air
conditioning units, heaters, coolers,
fans, control equipment and so forth
has been prepared by manufacturers
in cooperation with the college
STATE SCHOOL SUBSIDY AIM
A state subsidy of $10 for each
child on the school census rolls is
provided for in a proposed consti
tutional amendment which will be
placed before the voters of Oregon
next November. A portion of the
subsidy would come from interest
earnings of the irreducible school
fund. The remainder would be a di
rect appropriation from the general
fund. Based upon the 1937 school
census and the allocation of irre
ducible school fund interest for last
year the measure would require an
annual appropriation of more than
Want Ads
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in or out of town, call Glenn Hayes
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Must sell 1930 4-door sedan. Only
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Apartment 3 rooms with bath,
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RELIABLE ' MAN WANTED to
call on farmers in Morrow Countv.
No experience or capital required.
Steady work. Make up to $12 a day.
Write Mr. OVERLAND, 4613 Jay
St, Tacoma, Wash.
Oregon
$2,500,000 to be distributed among
the various counties for support of
grade and high schools. No provis
ion is made in the measure for rais
ing the additional revenue, sponsors
of the measure declaring that to be
a problem for the legislature to set
tle. The proposed amendment is be
ing sponsored by the Parent-Teacher
Council, the American Legion and
Legion Auxiliary and the State Fed
eration of Womens clubs. Agricul
tural groups and organized labor are
also said to be favorable to the pro
gram. NOTICE OP FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given that Willie
E. Mikesell, executor of the last Will
and Testament of Clara A. Mikesell,
deceased, has filed his final account
of his administration of said estate
with the Clerk of the County Court
of the State of Oregon for Morrow
County, and the said Court has set
April 18, 1938, at the hour of 10:00
A. M. of said day, in the County
Court Room of the County Court of
the State of Oregon for Morrow
County, at Heppner, Oregon, as the
time and place for hearing on and
final settlement of said final ac
count. Anyone having objections to
said final account must file same
with said Court on or before said
date.
WILLIE E. MIKESELL,
Executor.
Dated and first published this
17th day of March, 1938.
NOTICE OF SHERIFFS SALE OF
COUNTY PROPERTY
By virtue of an order of the Coun
ty Court, dated 2nd day of March,
1938, I am authorized and directed
to sell at public auction, as provided
by law, the following property, at
not less than the minimum price set
out after the description:
Lots 1 to 12 inclusive, Block 32
to the Town of Irrigon, Morrow
County, Oergon. Minimum price
40.00.
Therefore, I will, on Saturday the
26th day of March, 1938, at the front
door of the Court House in Heppner,
Oregon, at the hour of 2:00 P. M.,
sell sadi property to the highest and
best bidder for cash in hand.
Dated this 3rd day of March, 1938.
C. J. D. BAUMAN, Sheriff.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administrator of the es
tate of Frank A. Lundell, deceased,
has filed with the County Court of
the State of Oregon for Morrow
County, his final account of his ad
ministration of said estate and that
said court has set Monday, the 4th
day of April, 1938, at the hour of
10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of said
day in the County Court room at the
Court House at Heppner, Oregon, as
the time and place for hearing ob
jections to said final account and the
settlement of said estate and all per
sons having objections thereto are
hereby required to file the some with
said court on or bfore the time set
for said hearing.
Dated and first published this 3rd
day of March, 1938.
E. R. LUNDELL,
Administrator.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, Gen
eral Land Office at The Dalles, Ore
gon, February 24, 1938.
NOTICE is hereby given that Ivan
Applegate, of Heppner, Oregon, who,
on September 7, 1934, made Original
Homestead Entry, act Dec. 29, 1916,
No. 028978, for Lot 4, Sec. 6, T. 7, S.,
R. 29, E., Lots 2, 3, 4, 7-9-10-15, WVz
SEi4, SEI4SE14, Sec. 31, SWy4) Sec
tion 32, Township 6, S., Range 29,
E., Willamette Meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make final
proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before W. J. War
ner, United States Commissioner, at
Hermiston, Oregon, on the 9th day
of April, 1938.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Merle Swaggart, of Lena, Oregon.
Claude Buschke, of Heppner, Ore
gon. Art Alderman, of Ritter, Oregon.
William Hodge, of Ritter, Oregon.
W. F. JACKSON,
Register.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned executor of the estate
of Lucretia Somo, deceased, has filed
his final account of his administra
tion of said estate with the County
Court of the State of Oregon for
Morrow County and that said court
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has set Monday, the 4th day of April,
1938, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock in
the forenoon of said day in the
County Court room at the Court
House at Heppner, Oregon, as the
time and place for hearing objec
tions to said final account and the
settlement of said estate and all per
sons having objections thereto are
hereby required to file the same with
said court on or before the time set
for said hearing.
Dated and first published this 24tk
day of February, 1938.
JOS. J. NYS, Executor.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned have filed with the
County Court of the State of Oregon
for Morrow County their final ac
count of their administration of the
estate of S. P. Devin, deceased, and
said Court has set Monday, the 4th
day of April, 1938, at the hour of
10:00 o'clock in the forenoon of said
day at the County Court room at the
Court House at Heppner, Oregon,
as the time and place for hearing
objections to said final account and
the settlement of said estate and all
persons having objections thereto
are hereby required to file the same
with said court on or before the
time set for said hearing.
Dated this 23rd day of February,
1938.
HARLAN J. DEVIN,
Executor,
ALMA D. CLOUSTON,
Executrix.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County admin
istrator of the estate of Eliza Thomp
son, deceased, and all persons having
claims against the estate of said de
ceased are required to present the
same with proper vouchers, to the
undersigned administrator at the law
office of Jos. J. Nys at Heppner,
Oregon, within six months from the
date hereof.
Dated and first published this 24th
day of March, 1938.
H. L. DUVALL, Administrator.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by ,
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County admin
istrator of the estate of Samuel B.
Forbis, deceased, and all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased are hereby required
to present the same to the under
signed administrator, with proper
vouchers, at the law office of Jos.
J. Nys, at Heppner, Oregon, within
six months from the date hereof.
Dated and first published this 24th
day of March, 1938.
H. L. DUVALL, Administrator.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned was duly appointed by
the County Court of the State of
Oregon for Morrow County admin
istrator of the estate of John F.
Challis, deceased, and all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased are hereby required
to present the same to the under
signed administrator with proper
vouchers, at the law office of Jos.
J. Nys, at Heppner, Oregon, within
six months from the date hereof.
Dated and first published this 24th
day of March, 1938.
H. L. DUVALL, Administrator.
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, executrix of the estate
of Samuel E. Notson, deceased, has
filed her final account with the
County Court of the State, of Ore
gon for Morrow County of her ad
ministration of the estate of said de
ceased, and said Court has set Fri
day, the 22nd day of April, 1938, at
the hour of 10:00 o'clock in the fore
noon of said day in the County Court
Room at the Court House at Hepp
ner, Oregon, as the time and place
for hearing objections to said final
account, and all persons having ob
jections to said final account or the
settlement of said estate are hereby
required to file the same with said
court on or before the time set for
said hearing.
Dated and first published this 24th
day of March, 1938.
Date of last publication April 21,
1938.
MARY ANN NOTSON,
Executrix of the Estate of
Samuel E. Notson, Deceased.