Evening star., 1934-11-01
A. & P. RE0PEN|NG
SOON IS FORECAST
BY j. s. MEDIATOR
Sees 300 Chain Stores in
Operation on Basis Of
Federal Labor Truce.
FIRM HEADS CONTINUE
7-POINT PLAN STUDY
Union Reported Ready to Demand
Pay Raise From Second
Big Employer.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, November l.
Belief that the Great Atlantic & Pa
| cific Tea Co. dispute with organized
/ labor is settled was expressed today
by A. L. Faulkner, Cleveland con-
ciliator. for the United States Depart
ment of Labor. upon his return from
Washington, where the National Labor
Board laid peace plan before both
I sides.
The 300 A. & P. stores probably
| will reopen the latter part of this
week or the first part of next" Faulk-
! ner said. The stores were closed Sat-
urday night, after chain store officials
charged that pickets at two local
warehouses had hampered movement
of trucks carrying foodStuff to the
] stores. With the closing of the stores
some 1900 employees were thrown out
of employment.
Lind's View Is Same.
Ralph A. Lind, director of the Cleve-
land Regional Labor Board, evinced
! equal optimism as he stepped from
/ the Washington train with Mr. Faux
ner and delegation of labor leaders,
who participated in the parleys at the
| Capital
Il think labor came out Of it excel
lently," said Lind They got all the
protection they asked for"
Asked about the reaction of John
A. Hartford. president of the grocery
chain to the peace proposals. Lind
said:
Mr.. Hartford personally seems con-
/ vinced that the stores here should
| reopen. If he did not feel this way,
I'm sure he would not have gone to
, the board of directors with the peace
plan"
Capital Awaits Report.
Acceptance or rejection of the peace
proposal by either side will first be
| reported to the National Labor Rela-
tons Board at Washington, Lind said.
Thomas A. Ferrell, secretary of the
| Cleveland Federation of Labor, who
headed the labor delegation from here,
| declined to comment on the plan He
| planned to call meeting of all union
| REPRESENTATIVES, lHNOlFcO III Illc tuS-
pute, probably later today. Approval
of the peace proposal by the unions
was regarded likely.
| More union labor demands on the
company appeared imminent today.
| Officers of the Grocery Chain Stores
Executives and Employees Association
announced last night at New York
| that moves fo- increased wages and
| better working conditions would
spread throughout the East"
| First to be approached in the matter
OF wages and working conditions will
be the James Butler Grocery Co.,
| operating 665 stores in New York. New
Jersey and Connecticut. The associa-
| tion,s officers said the movement would
| include all chain stores, including
/ those of the A. & P. Co.
25 Per Cent Will Be Asked.
Among the provisions of contracts
| to be submitted to the Butler chain
management are those asking 25 per
cent pay increase for managers and
clerks.
Trouble of minor nature, possibly
| the work of Halloween pranksterS
with perverted sense of humor. be-
set another chain store organization
! in Cleveland when plate glass win
dows were smashed in six establish
ments of Fisher Brothers Co.. grocers.
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