Evening star., 1934-04-13
1900 D|EMAKERS
|NDETRO|T STRIKE
WaIkout Does Not Affect
Workers in Autom0tive
Industry Proper.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 13.-Detroits tool
and die industry strike, affecting be-
tween $500 and 1000 men, Is on.
Workers ratified strike plans last
night. Picketing started at midnight
when the Automotive Tool and Die
Manufacturers Association, an organi-
zation Of job shop operators. refused
the workers demands for a 20 per
cent pay boost and a 36-hour week.
The strike does not affect those
tool and die workers employed in the
automottve industry proper. but only
those In the job plants.
In 6 few cases job plants which
negotiated separate agreements with
their employees also were excepted.
Most Of these exceptions were In
dependent shops not af1aliated. with
the manufacturer association.
No Violence Reported.
Police said this morning there had
been no violence as picketing started.
A mass meeting Of tool and die
workers Is to be held on Monday
night to decide whether the strike
shall be made general.
In Flint A. F. Of L. workers en-
ployed in the No. plant Of the
Fisher Body Co. voted three times
in favor Of striking before q counter
resolution, holding of such action
for several days, was adopted.
The group favoring strike charged
the company had failed to keep prom
ises to re-employ a number of dis
charged employees.
Frances ]. Dillon, A. F. Of L. or
ganizer, advised that strike action be
delayed until means of conferring
between employer and employe have
been set up.
Industrial circles appeared much
less concerned today over the tool
and die job shop strike than a gen.
eral undercurrent Of unrest in the
ranks Of labor in the heart Of the
motor industry.
Meeting Held Significant.
Evidence of this unrest was seen
In some quarters in the scheduling
Of meeting Sunday in Pontiac of
several locals of the United Auto
mobile Workers, American Fedora
ton Of Labor afiiliate. william Col
Inns. chief organizer of the Federation
in the automobile industry denied,
however, that there was anything
unusual In the meeting.
New developments also included the
direct demand to manufacturers by
Pontiac local asking 30-hour, 5-day
week, with a minimum wage OF 60
cents for unskilled labor. This over
ture was noteworthy in that. it ig-
nored the National Automobile Labor
Board, the subject of apparently in
creasing disfavor in labor circles.
May Cause General Strike.
The chief danger in the tool and
die strike lies In the possibility that
its example may cause Q general out
break of labor troubles SO far kept
in subjection through timely media
ton that appears to be losing effec-
tiveneSS.
This morning q survey showed the
tool and die shops affected by the
strike were so members Of the Manu-
facturers' Association. Twelve mem
bers Of the association aad q num-
Der not afnliated with it had reached
individual agreements and were not
affected.
Despite the strike talk at Flint over
the reinstatement Of discharged en-
ployes, the Labor Board reported
progress today in working out the
basis Of collective bargaining in the
different shops. The board already
has received membership lists from IL
union locals, and In the case Of the
Hudson Motor Car Co. conferences
already have been held between union
committees and company executives.