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Editorials
The Hill-Sheppard
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VOL. XLVII No, 108 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937
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PRICE FIVE CENTS

Peace Group
Plans Rally
For April 22
Peace Council Will Ask
Dismissal Of Classes;,
'Sit-Down' Plan Killed
Shulman Outlines
Movement's History
A unanimous motion to appeal to
the University for the dismissal of
classes at 11 a.m. Auril 22 in order
to hold a peace meeting was passed
last night in an open session of the
Peace Council.
Immediately following the meeting,
Julian Orr, '37, president of the
council, explained that a sit down
strike' against, war, one of the sug-
gestions made for a peace demonstra-
tion, is not being seriously considered.
Sit-Down Only Suggestion
"The statement that the Peace
Council would consider a sit down
was merely a suggestion which has
received- no serious action," Orr said.
"In preparation for the proposed
peace meeting Orr declared, "we are
planning a program of publicity in-
cluding bulletin board notices pre-
senting vital information regarding
.war and the peace movement. The
notices will deal with bills before the
national legislature having any rela-
tion to the national peace movement.
The history of the peace movement
on the campus was described by
Marshall D. Shulman, '37, associate
editor of The Daily.
Spreading rapidly from England
where Oxford University students
pledged not to fight for King or
country, the peace movement saw its
first anti-war strike in April 1934 by
25,000 university and college students
in the New York area, Shulman
pointed out.
Heard Eby
O May 4 of that year University
of Michigan students met in Natural
Science Auditorium to listen to ad-
dresses by Kermit Eby, instructor in
Ann Arbor High School, and Philip
Nash, president of the University of
Toledo.
Last year 500,000 students through-
out the nation demonstrated by
strikes and meetings their anti-war
convictions. On this campus there
was a demonstration sponsored by
the University Peace Council at which
2,000 heard Professors Slosson and
Weaver speak.

Athena, Alpha NuAt Stalemate
Over Loved And Lost Question

I

England Plans
Huge Increase
In Navy Size

Gallant Men Back Idea;
Cynical Women Reject
Idea As Mere Poetry
The poet knew that "it is better to
have loved . ." But members of
Alpha Nu and Athena still are in
the dark as to the answer.
Alpha Nu, men's honorary speech
fraternity, thought it was. Athena,
w o men' s speech organization,
thought not. But a heated debate
on the question: "Resolved, That It
Is Better To Have Loved And Lost,"
ended without a decision.
The audience was inclined to treat
the matter somewhat humorously,
some even venturing to interupt the
steady flow of oratory with laughter.
It was a serious affair, however, to
members of the affirmative team-
.Richard May, '38; Paul VonBergen,
'37; and James Gram, '37E-and tof
the negative team-Mary E. Owen,
'39; Betsy Anderson, '38; and Mar-
cella Madison, '37Ed.
So serious was it, in fact, that Karl
Nelson, '37, chairman, announced
that he considered his position more
that of a referee than a presiding
officer. But he was unable, at that,
to stop the final clinch that ended
the bout in a draw. No judges were
present, and the audience, it was
contended, might let its personal
feelings enter into the matter.
The arguments of the Alpha Nu
affirmative team, members of which
apparently had plenty of unfortu-
nate experience with loving and los-
ing, went something like this:
Evidence gleaned from the hal-
lowed halls of Mosher-Jordan prove
conclusively that amorous influences
have a definite destructive effect on
the mind of man; and women, fair
and otherwise, take up time and en-
ergy "which nmght. better be .spent
on the finer things of life."
Going into the origin of the word
"woman," the affirmative gentlemen,
Non-Union Men
Drive Strikers
From Foundry

300, Armed,
Sit-Downers
Metal Plant

Attack 78
In Ontario

citing some reference or other, traced
the "malevolent influence of woman
from the time of Eve, through Jose-
phine up to Eleanor Roosevelt."
The ladies of the negativecoun-
tered these "arguments" with dia-
grams of "uncles who had failed in
love," contending that their sour
countenances were caused by that
fact. Likening the faces of their op-
ponents to "those of inmates of
a criminal insanity ward," the Athena
girls held that love is a woman's
chief occupation andsthat, there-
fore, the gentler sex can ill afford
to lose time by failing.
"The sales appeal of woman de- I
preciates rapidly with age," one of1
their number explained, as if toJ
clinch some point or other.t
In rebuttal, one of the Alpha Nub
boys made some uncomplimentary
remarks about the law of heredity
and the sour-faced uncles of the neg-
ative team members, and the affair 1
ended without serious injury to anyn
of the combatants.
Ask Prominent
Citizens' Publict
Court Supporta
Democratic Opposition
To President Is Seekingt
Testimony At Hearingsg
WASHINGTON, March 3.-(A)-
Democratic Senators opposing the
Roosevelt court reorganization billY
invited a group of prominent citizensl
today to speak out against the planr
at the coiing hearings before ther
Senate judiciary committee. .r
Acting as a unit after days of in-
formal meetings and discussions,
they asked certain leaders among then
farmers, labor, the legal profession
and other groups to appear, butf
pending the receipt of acceptances,t
withheld their names.
At the same time, they receivedr
assurances from Senator Ashurst1
(D.-Ariz.), chairman of the judiciary
committee, that they may proceed.
with their witnesses on Monday,
March 15, as soon as the top spokes-
men for the administration have
concluded their presentation.
Beyond that, it became apparent
that no effort will be made for the
present to limit the length of the
hearings, a move that the opposition
had been ready to battle to the ut-
most.
While supporters of the bill count-
ed on speeches to be delivered tomor-
row and on Tuesday by President
Roosevelt to increase their numerical
strength, the opposition clung tight-
ly to its contention that it commands
a minimum of 43 senate votes. (Thet
full membership is 96).
During the day, the Pennsylvaniaf
house delegation began what ad-
ministration leaders said they hoped
would be a "band wagon movement."
The delegation held a caucus, after1
which Rep. Dorsey, secretary of the
group, announced it had voted to
"support the policy of the adminis-
tration regarding the Supreme
Court."t
Murphy Strike
Stand AttackedT
In Court Talk
WASHINGTON, March 3.-()--
Rep. A. P. Lamneck, Democrat of
Columbus, Ohio, struck anew at
President Roosevelt's judicial reor-
ganization proposals tonight with
charges of "one man government"
and "undermining the Supreme
Court.";
Without mentioning the name of
Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan,

he criticized "this governor, who is
said to have White House ambitions,"z
for "undermining the judiciary" in
protecting sit-down strikers in the
recent Detroit automobile labor con-
troversy.
"We have recently had a case of
the executive undermining the judi-
ciary in Michigan. Some automobile
workers went on a strike and seized
the factory of their employers. They
comprised a very small minority of
the total number of workers, but be-
cause of their key position they threw
ten times their number out of work.
The factory owner sought and re-
ceived an injunction-the court or-
dering the men out of the factory.
The men refused to go; and when the!
sheriff reported to the governor that
he did not have sufficient men to
evict the strikers, but the non-strik-

79 Faculty Men
Attack Judicial
Plan In Petition
Protest Written By Reeves
Cites 6 Objections; Sent
To Sen. Vandenberg a
Seventy-nine members of the facul-
ty have signed a petition protesting
President Roosevelt's proposal for
changes in the organization of the
United States Supreme Court, and
have mailed it to Sen. Arthur A. Van-'
denberg for presentation tothe Sen-
ate, it was revealed yesterday.
The petition, written by Prof. Jesse
S. Reeves of the political science de-
partment, made clear that the signers
were expressing their views, not as
faculty members, but as citizens of
the state and the nation.
The petition cites the following six
reasons for opposition to the presi-
dent's proposal:
First, "It would destroy the historic
independence of the court, guaranteed
to us after centuries of struggle for
constitutional liberties both in Eng-
land and America." Second, "It seeks
to accomplish, under the guise of ap-
parent Congtessional authority, what
would amount to an amending of the
Constitution." Third, "It seeks an
arbitrary age limit of 70 years upon
federal judicial tenure." Fourth, "It
seeks to increase the membership
from nine to fifteen under the claim
that thereby the efficiency of the
Court will be increased and greater
dispatch of business effected. The
fact is that the Supreme Court is
not now and has not been, for a
number of years, behind in its work."
Fifth, "Under the guise of increasing
efficiency, the proposal . . . would
enable the president to control the
Supreme Court." Sixth, "Under the
guise of increasing efficiency, the pur-

To Add
With
Mainly

Eighty Warships
Finances Raised
By Taxes

SARNIA, Ont., March 3.-(I)-
Three hundred non-union workmen,
many of them armed with iron rods,
drove 78 sit-down strikers from the
Holmes Foundry today after two
hours of hand-to-hand fighting in
which eight men were injured sever-
ly enough to require hospital treat-
ment.
A score of others suffered minor
injuries as the battle raged all over
the plant, from the roof to the ground
floor.
Workers Arrested For Trespassing
The plant is just outside the city
limits.. Sarnia police did not partici-
pate in the fighting but arrested the
strikers who crossed the boundary
line, on warrants charging them with
illegal trespass.
Twenty-six men were in jail to-
night.
Of the eight men in' Sarnia Gen-
eral Hospital, the most severely in-
jured were: Pierce Archer, a strik
leader, who suffered a leg fracture
and head injuries; Peter Tomko,
ankle and wrist fractures, and Leon-
ard Cooper, brain concussion and
head cuts.
In Plant Since Monday
The strikers had occupied the
plant since Monday, demanding a $5
daily minimum wage, eight-hour day
and recognition of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Plate Workers. On Tuesday, wives
of the strikers drove away non-strik-
ers who 'approached the plant.
This morning, M. Montgomery,
union organizer of Hamilton, Ont.,
was seized outside the plant by 100
non-strikers, beaten and taken eight
miles out of the city. The attack on
the plant followed.
The strikers were driven back into
the plant. For half an hour, the op-
posing forces hurled scrap iron at
each other.
Pratt To Play Six
Selections Today
Wilmot Pratt, University carillon-
neur, will offer a program of six
compositions on the Charles Baird
Carillon at 4:15 p.m. today.
Mr. Pratt also announced that the
third T1 hiivi~r ra f srh rmont~h will

Japan Undecidedl
On Gun Size Limit
LONDON, March 3.-W)-Content
to equip three new battleships with 1
14-inch guns "irrespective of what i
Japan decides," Britain announced t
today her greatest peacetime navalX
building program-with a concurrent
increase in taxes.t
Appropriations for 80 warships,I
large and small, with a tremendous.
boost in moneys to complete vesselsz
now under construction, accountedr
for virtually all of a $118,880,000 in-c
rease over the current fiscal year'se
naval expenditures,nsubmitted to
Commons for approval today.
The naval share in Britain's rearm-c
ament program will be $525,325,000,t
the Admiralty announced. Of this,'
$390,325,000 would be raised in ad-I
ditional taxation; $135,000,000 would
come from Britain's new $2,000,000,-
000 defense loan.t
The Admiralty for a time had con-l
sidered placing 16-inch guns on thet
three battleships included in the pro-1
gram, in the event Japan refused tot
accept the 1936 London treaty fixingi
a 14-inch maximum.
Finally, Admiralty spokesmen said,
it was decided the smaller gun wouldS
be better suited to fighting in the
narrow seas around Britain. The
new 14-inch gun developed by the
navy can be loaded more rapidly than
the 16-incher, it is claimed, and
shoots a 1,560 pound shell which will
pierce armor up to a range of ninec
miles
By 1941 or 1942 Britain will have1
five super-modern battleships with
these new guns, including the Kingt
George V and the Prince of Wales;
now under construction. They willt
have a displacement of 35,000 tons.-
Neutrality Bill
Sweeps Senate
By 62-6 Vote
Pleas Of Borah, Johnsont
Ignored; Measure Next
Goes To HouseI
WASHINGTON, March 3.-()-
The Pittman neutrality bill, entitled7
"The Peace Act of 1937" and designedi
to keep America "out of the line of
fire" in the next war, swept through
the Senate today by a vote of 62 to 6.
The measure, first major piece of
new legislation passed by either
house this session, now goes to the
House, where a somewhat similar
measure is being considered.
In passing the bill, the Senate ig-
nored the pleadings and the warn-
.ngs of two men who have led it in
the past on matters relating to in-
ternational relations-Senator Borah
(Rep., Ida.) and Johnson (Rep., Cal.).
Instead it followed the advice of
the younger men who made up the
munitions investigating committee of
a year or two ago, and Senator Lee
(Dem., Okla.), himself a war veteran.
Lee stirred the chamber today with a
plea to remember "those who can't
speak to you today" and not to
"weigh gold against blood."
Besides extending the present man-
datory embargo on arms shipments
to belligerents, the measure would
prohibit American travel on bellig-
erent ships; outlaw shipments of
American-owned goods to warring
nations; and allow the President to
say what other goods American ships
could carry to such nations.
Victory Dinner
Speaker To Be
T.F. MacAllister

Thomas F. MacAllister of Grand
Rapids, Democratic candidate for
justice of the State Supreme Court
will be the principal speaker at the'
Ann Arbor victory dinner to be held
at 7 p.m. today in the Union to cele-
brate the Democratic victory in the
November election.
George Burke, general chairman of
the affair, said that this dinner, one
of the large number being held si-
t m-v,,l~~icrnic:,r in Pupvr~v Prt~epi,,'vof lthe

UAWA Claims
A Majority'Of
Chrysler Men
Presents Resignations Of
Labor Officials Residing
On EmployeeCouncils
Minimum Wage Still
Block To GM Truce
DETROIT, March 3.-(PA)-The
United Automobile Workers of Amer-
ca presented itself tonight as sole
bargaining agency for 67,000 em-
ployes of the Chrysler Corporation.
In a sudden stratagem less than
three hours after collective bargain-
ing conferences with Chrysler of-
ficials opened, the union presented
resignations of 103 out of 120 em-
ploye representatives on work coun-
cils in Chrysler plants in the Detroit
area.
The resignations, identically word-
d, said "The great majority of our
onstituents are heartily in favorrof
the U.A.W.A. being the sole bar-
gaining agency to represent them."
Press GM Conferences
As the Chrysler negotiations got
under way, other union officials were
pressing toward conclusion of set-
tlement conferences with General
Motors, only the question of a na-
tional minimum hourly wage block-
ing final agreement, and a union
committee conferred with officials of
the Murray Corporation of America,
which supplies part of the body re-
quirements of the -Ford Motor Co.,
and other producers. Some 1,500
union workers held the Murray plant
where a mass sit-down strike started
yesterday.
Lester L. Colbert, Chrysler 'resi-
dent attorney, said the Works Coun-
cil resignations appeared to be in-
formal, and that they were "neither
accepted nor rejected." He said
there was some discussion of who
should receive the resignations since
the council members represent work-
ers and not the company.
Seniority Rights
Herman L. Weckler, vice-presi-
dent and another Chrysler conferee,
told the union men who presented the
resignations that "you probably.will
want them back before this is over."~
The conferees also devoted some
attention to the union demands re-
lating to seniority rights.
Union negotiators who ended their
twelfth day of discussion with Gen-
eral Motors officials reported little
progress on the minimum wage prob-
lem. Ed Hall, U.A.W.A. vice-presi-
dent, said)s"we are continuing to
agree to disagree." The conferees
have not yet reached the point of
discussing a definite figure.
Union To Meet
5&10 Officials
In Strike Tall
DETROIT, March 3.-(IP)-Officials
of the Waiters' and Waitresses' union
said tonight that they will confer
here tomorrow with executives of the
F. W. Woolworth Company concern-
ing the stay-in strikes which have
closed two 5 & 10 cent stores in De-
troit.
The announcement was made by
Louis Koenig, business manager of
the Union, who said he and two as-
sociates would represent the strikers.
He did not name the company offi-
cials with whom they would meet.
Woolworth's downtown store was

closed Saturday when clerks, mostly
young women, struck. A hundred
have remained inside since.
Monday 11 of the 26 clerks in the
chain's store at Woodward Avenue
and Grand Boulevard also started a
sit-down.
The 5 & 10 clerks are seeking in-
creased wages, a 48-hour week for
women and a 54-hour week for bak-
ery and kitchen men.
The same union reached agree-
ments today with the managements
of two restaurants where it called
strikes and they will reopen tomor-
row.
Loyalists Reported
Re-Entering Toledo
MADRID, March 3.-OP)-Govern-
ment forces were reported today tc
have reentered the city of Toledc
whence they were driven more than
five months ago and to be engaged in
heavy street fighting with the insur-
ganta~rm of en Fancico Fa -c

Old Engineering
Chimes Silenced;
Fate Is Undecided
The fate of the chimes in the an-
cient clock tower of' the West Engi-
neering Annex, displaced last week by
the new synchronized chimes in the
Burton Memorial Tower, is to be de-
cided upon by University officials.
Meanwhile, the chimes, which reg-
ulated the movements of students
and was the signal for the dismissal
of classes long before any of the pres-
ent day students were born, have been
silenced. The clock in the tower will
continue to run unless notice is re-
ceived to stop it, Edward C. Pardon,
superintendent of the building and
grounds department, said yesterday.
The present arrangement will con-
tinue until further action is taken,
according to Shirley W. Smith, vice-
president of the University.
Varsity Whips
Buekeye Tank
Team,_53 -31
Squad Ends Dual Season
Undefeated; Two Pool
Records Smashed
By GEORGE J. ANDROS
(Daily Sports Editor)
Michigan's undefeated swimming
team ended its dual-meet season in
the Intramural Pool yesterday after-
noon, trouncing a strong Ohio State
squad 53 to 31:
Coach Matt Mann's National Col-
legiate champions definitely proved
their superiority over the Buckeye
team that pushed them to the last
event before bowing earlier this sea-
son in Columbus, but the score belies
the strength of the invaders.
Coach Mike Peppe's up-and-com-
ing proteges came particularly close
to spoiling the day for Michigan in
the four individual free-style events.
Tom Haynie and Ed Kirar shared
first-place honors for the Wolverines.
Each winning two events. Kirar also
swam the anchor leg on the victorious
sprint relay quartet.
The Buckeyes came through with
two first places, but only by the
narrowest of margins. Jimmy Pat-
terson, Conference champion, took
the high-board diving from Mich-
igan's Ben Grady by 1.1 points, 409
to 407.9.In the backstroke Bill
Neunzig outsprinted Fred Cody on
the last length to win the back-stroke
'by three feet after the latter had
overcome the disadvantage of a bad
start.
Two pool records were beaten in
the course of the meet and another
was tied-all three by Michigan
(Continued on Page 3
Plan Five - Day'
Lecture Series
On Occupations
Leaders In Dozen Fields
Of Business, Industry
Will Describe Work
A five-day conference on occupa-
tional information, designed to give
University students a "realistic pic
ture of the various fields of busines
and industry discussed," will begin
Tuesday in the Union, Dr. T. Luthe
Purdom, director of the bureau of ap
pointments and occupational infor
mation, announced yesterday.
More than a dozen leaders in a

many different fields of business, in
dustry and government service ar
included in the program.
Sessions will be held daily at 4 p.m
and 7:30 p.m. through Friday. Ses
sions will be held at 9:30 a.m. an
2 p.m. Saturday. There will b
a dinner at 6:15 p.m. Friday anda
o luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
Earle J. Failor, comptroller of th
National Bank of Detroit, will ope:
the conference at 4 p.m. Tuesday wit:
a discussion of secretarial and ac
counting work. He will be followe

Carnegie Officials Term
Signed Agreement Only
For Certain Workers
Union Says Drive
Has Only Started
Lewis' Aim Is Complete
Unionization Of Steel
Industry
PITTSBURGH, March 3.-()-
"Big steel" served .notice today on
John L. Lewis that it will continue
to recognize its own employe repre-
sentatives in collective bargaining as
well as his Industrial Union.
Union leaders and executives of the
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
issued conflicting statements on the
future of the company's employe rep-
resentation plan. followia President
Benjamin F. Fairless' signing of to
contract with the steel workers' or-
ganizing commsittee.
Murray Obtains Contract
Philip Murray, the scholarly, gray-
haired union leader who climaxed 33
years of labor negotiations by ob-
taining the contract, raised the issue
as he planned with 40 key organizers
to intensify the drive to bring the
country's 540,000 steel workers into
one big union.
Murray said:
"The signing of this agreement
definitely marks the end of the em-
ploye representation plan in the steel
industry."
An official statement by Carnegie-
Illinois, largest subsidiary of the
United States Steel Corporation, said
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, the nucleus
of Murray's drive, was but one chan-
nel for collective bargaining. The
statement follows:
'Has Always Employe Rfig t'0
"The policy of the Carnegie-Illinois
Steel Corporation with regard to col-
lective bargaining with its employes
remains unchanged. As previously
stated on many occasions, the com-
pany recognizes the right of its em-
ployes to organize and to bargain
collectively through representatives
of their own choosing.
"The company will recognize any
individual, or group or organization
as the spokesman for those employes
whom they represent, but it will not
recognize any single organization or
group as the exclusive bargaining
agency for all employes."
Is Cloud On Horizon
This issue appeared the only dark
cloud on an otherwise bright horizon
in the nation's five billion dollar
1steel industry.
s Almost without exception, steel
circles hailed the action of Carnegie-
Illinois and more than a dozen other
companies in establishing a $5 min-
imum daily wage for common labor,
and in many cases a 40-hour week, as
eliminating the threat of a possible
steel strike.
WIDE CAMPAIGN BEGUN
(By The Associated Press)
The Committee for Industrial Or-
ganization intensified its unioniza-
tion drive among the nation's work-
ing millions yesterday (Wednesday).
Close associates of the C.I.O. gen-
eralissimo, John L. Lewis, opined the
enrollment of 2,000,000 men now in
his laboring force marked only the
start of his momentous movement.
These developments took shape in
rapid-fire order:
1. Lewis lieutenants claimed 200,-
000 steel workers were in the fold
and moved to enlist the other 340,-
000.
2. The C.I.O. ally, the United Au-
- tomobile Workers Union, trained its
s sights on the other member of the
n automotive industry's "big three"-
r the Ford Motor Co.
General Electric
3. Another affiliate, the United
Electrical and Radio Workers of
s America, arranged to discuss collec-

- tive bargaining for 60,000 on the
e General Electric Company's payroll
on March 15.
1. 4. The aims of Lewis also were
- described as embracing a new wage
d and hour contract for his United
e Mine Workers that would set a new
a labor standard; nationwide organi-
zation drives in the oil and textile in-
e dustries and active recruiting in other
n lines;,-the right to 100 per cent repre-
h sentation of. steel and automotive
- workers in negotiations with their
d employers.

Steel Firm Agrees
ToCIO Plan;Plant
Union Continues