Evening star., 1934-04-09
MOTOR CAR STRIKE.
CAUSESSHUTDOWN
IN HUDSON PLANT.
Motor Products WaIkout Is
Key Problem for
Labor Board.
UNION LEADERS SCORE
FEDERAL NEGOTIATORS
Several Hundred Workers of
Stove Company Quite Work,
Demanding Pay Raise.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 9.-The Hudson
Motor Car Co. announced a shut
down, effective at pm. today, be-
cause of inability to obtain parts, par
ticularly those manufactured by the
Motor Products Co., where a strike
is in progress.
The shutdown was announced by
J. Edward Schipper, public relations
representative of the company, who
said "the plant will remain shut until
We get new source of supply or the
strike at Motor Products is settled"
The shut down at the Hudson plant
throws $4,000 employees out of work.
Company officials emphasized there
Is no labor troubles at the Hudson
plant and that the shut down was
neceSsitated solely because suppliers
could not furnish material needed to
continue production.
Approximately 1000 workers of the
Motor Products Co. went on strike
last week, their walkout resulting in
a suspension Of work by about 1900
other employees of the company.
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Edward F. McGrady, assistant to
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, N. R. A. head,
who is sitting with the Federal Auto
mobile Labor Board here. said today
that the Motor Products strike is con-
sidered the key problem confronting
the labor tribunal and added that the
strike in that plant must be halted"
unless the booming automobile indus
try is to be paralyzed at the height of
the production season.
A proposal advanced by the Labor
Board for a settlement of the Motor
Products strike was rejected by work.
ers in a meeting yesterday and re-
newed efforts were being made today
to work out a plan acceptable to both
sides.
Union Heads Dissatisfied.
While the board was wrestling with
this problem word came of strike
g. Cannon Foundry Co. at Muskegon,
Mich, which supplies castings for
several large motor car manufae-
turing concerns. Strike leaders said
the walkout was general among the
approximately 1,700 employees sa-s p
Dissatisfaction among labor union
officials was added to the difficulties
facing the board today as 1t renewed
its efforts to settle one strike and
avert another threatened for next
Thursday. Meanwhile, several hum
dred employees of the Detroit Michigan
Stove Co. went on strike, demanding
20 per cent wage increase and a So
hour, 5-day week.
1.-The board" said DR.. Leo Wolman,
chairman, has its hands full here"
The dissension among representa-
tives of the American Federation of
Labor locals in various automotive
plants was given expression in tele-
gram to Washington criticizing the
Labor Boards procedure.
While the contents of the telegram
were not Immediately disclosed, Will
liam Ceilings, American Federation of
Labor organizer, said the board was
not living up to the spirit of the
agreement" that gave birth to the
board and that it was attempting to
settle differences "by mediation in
stead of by decisions, as the agree
ment demanded"
Coincident with the reports of grow
ing dissension among the labor off,
cials came a rumor that Richard L.
Byrd, labor's representative on the
board, might retire. Byrd. however,
declined to discuss the rumor and
went ahead with the boards session
when it met this forenoon.
McGrady. who had planned to re-
turn to Washington Saturday, said
today he intended to "stay in Detroit
until the situation here is cleared up"
1000 Workers Involved.
Coming close upon the failure of
its plan for settlement of the strike
in Wisconsin plants of the Nash Motor
Co. and an affiliated, where 1900 men
are out, the board met anoth ,r rebuff
yesterday when striking workers of
the Motor Product Corporation re-
jected q settlement program drawn
up by the board.
The Motor Product strike involves
1000 workers in the plating depart
ment, although 1900 others have been
made idle by the walkout.
The labor tribunal was seeking a
new basis of settlement for that strike
and also averting the threatened walk
out next Thursday Of tool and die
makers employed in nearly three
score Detroit job shops.
The tool and diemakers are demand
ing a 20 per cent wage increase and
a 36-hour, 5-day week.