Show nt i r EDISON SES OPPOSES SHIPYARD GRAB GRABBy F By Associated Press Governor Charles Edison of ol New Jersey Tuesday protested proposed government operation of ol the he Federal Shipbuilding and Dry DryDock DryDock DryDock Dock company yards at Kearny N. N J. J as fraught with the greatest danger to labor industry and all citizens of the United States In telegrams to Secretary of the Navy Knox L. L L H H. Korndorff president of Federal Sidney Hillman Hillman Hillman Hill- Hill man of the 0 P M John Green president of the In Industrial Industrial In- In Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America C CI I O 0 which has conducted the strike and W. W H. H Davis chairman of the national defense mediation board Edison who preceded Knox as secretary of the navy said Sees Freedom Periled When labor Jabor and capital complacently complacently com com- encourage the government government government govern govern- ment to takeover industrial plants they are contributing to the creation creation creation cre cre- of a system which wIll vill destroy de destroy destroy de de- stroy the very freedom we wish to preserve There must be some other answer Korndorff offered the huge yards where are on strike to the navy for operation and conferred Tuesday with Secretary Knox in Washington The CIO C I 0 I local 16 which called the strike also has urged the government to take over the plant Knox withheld any hint of his attitude toward the company's offer affecting the big plant where workers have been idle since Thursday In proposing the step Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day K Korndorff o 0 r n d o 0 r f f declared that the strike involves no issue but the maintenance of th the open shop We are unwilling to abandon the defense of the freedom of the American worker to choose whether er he will belong to a union or I Inot not I Even before Korndorff's offer a high defense official declared that the navy navy department had plans lying ready on the desk to take over the plant if the company did not alter its stand At the heart of the dispute is the unions union's insistence on a contract contract contract con con- tract clause providing that a union member must maintain his union membership in good standing if he heis heis heis is to continue as an The mediation board recommended recommended recommended mended such a clause along with increased wages The company granted the wage boosts but bul balked at the maintenance nce of oJ union proviso More Delay Seen Legal experts here believed that if the navy should decide to take takeover takeover takeover over the plant in the interest of national defense defense an an executive order order order or or- der by President Roosevelt might be necessary Since the president is on a vacation cruise there appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to be some possibility of i delay even 1 if Knox decided to take up Korndorff's Korndorff s offer The national railway mediation board Monday offered its services to the management and of the nations nation's railroads in an effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort to avert a threatened strike which would tie up a major portion portion portion por por- tion of the country's freight fa fa- fa I The board arranged a conference conference conference confer confer- i ence to be held at Chicago Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- i day to discuss the of union railroad men for wage increases affecting approximately workers i iThe The U U. S. S conciliation S.-conciliation service has I invited representatives of the I Mack Manufacturing company Allentown Pa and striking CIO C I 0 to a Washington conference con con- ference Friday to discuss the wage dispute which brought on the walkout The company has orders for several million dollars' dollars worth of gun carriages tank parts and trucks for the army The A F L-called L strike continued continued continued contin contin- to hamper operations at the Wright Curtiss-Wright corporation propeller propel propel- ler division at Caldwell N. N J. J The union claims that tha t only 50 of day shift production product on men passed the picket line Monday but the company Insisted that the plant was open and operating |