Evening star., 1934-03-24
Settlement Is Expected in
Several Hours as Leaders
and Administration Heads
Confer to Avoid Strike.
GOVERNMENT WOULD
CHECK UNIONS LIST
Crisis in Auto Industry Delayed
for Third Time as Leaders Re.
port Progress-14 Factories
Working Out Shorter Hour and
Higher Wage Schedules.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Automobile manufacturers, confer
ring with Hugh S. Johnson and other
administration officials in an effort
to prevent a strike in the industry.
issued a statement today saying they
had agreed to appointment of an i'm
partial board to pass on labor griev-
ances, but they charged again that
the labor unions intend to obtain a
dominant position.
Despite the statement, adminiStra-
ton officials expected a settlement
Of the dispute within few hours.
The manufacturers spoke in reply
to reports that settlement of the
strike depended only on willingness
of the management to let the Gov
ernment check the union member
ship claims with pay rolls and say
whether they are correct.
won't Disclose Authority"
i -
sue" the statement said, let there
be no misunderstanding as to what
it means.
ct means that the union refuses
to tell the manufacturers whom the
union represents. 1t wants the rlgnt
to act for employees without disclosing
their authority from them. 1t is like
q lawyer saying to you, I have a
client who is suing you. l won't tell
YOU who it is, but will bargain Tor
him.
mo outside agency can check the
union claims against the pay roll can
come to any fair decision without
disclosing the names to the manu-
facturerS.
THE unions refusal to say whom 1t
represents is just another indication
of its purpose to dominate industry.
"All the union would have to do is
coerce men into signing union appn-
cations" the statement continued.
Denies Discrimination.
"The public should know that this
refusal on the part of the union TO
say whom the union represents is the
same issue of union domination IN
another form.
The union said that if it tells the
manufacturers whom it represents,
there will be discrimination against
union members. On the contrary the
manufacturers have agreed to an I'M
partial board to pass on any cases OF
alleged discrimination and to nave lCs
findings reviewed by board created
by N. r. A. Thus, there is no warrant
for the unions claims that there Will
be discrimination.
Observers held the opinion that the
last paragraph strongly suggested the
basis for agreement would avoid the
holding of elections in the plants at
this time and instead would involvs
submission of union lists to both the
Government and the manufacturers
under an absolute pledge of non-dis-
elimination against the men whose
names would thus be revealed.
officials, however. refused to say
that this was the basis of the plan
they we're trying to put through.
Lists Held Available.
Meanwhile, William Collins, union
representative, reafhrmed the position
OF the labor delegates in an informal
statement to newspaper men. He said
the union does have lists of its MEM
bership and will give them to the
Government but not to the manufac-
turers.
THE manufacturers have lost sight
of the fact" Collins said, that the
unions have given list of their men,
bership or have one available for any
Government representative who may
be decided upon to represent the Gov
ernment.
"In view of the general policy in
the past and the present of automo-
bile manufacturers of discrimination
against any union or truly repre-
sentative collective bargaining dele
gate, the position of the union is that
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