The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-22

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 bury area, thought it was being done elsewhere in the state.
 Strike Is Held Up
 Officials of the local union an- .nounced carly this afternoon that yesterday it had been voted here to so on strike, but that execution of the voted measure would be held up for an undetermined time. It was reported> that one local driver had announced himself as on strike and had later in the morn ing been discharged by the firm which employed him. Union lead CTS here said that no strike would be effective here. unless as a sym pathy measure, before local truck ing company operators had receiv- ed formal notification of the de- mands of the drivers.
 No Picket Plans
 Edmund Naylor, business agent for the local branch, said this noon that the local has made no plans for picketing of any trucks. He said that the unions 227 members here would take no further steps until the suggested new terms and wage scales were presented to the trucking employers of the city. Waterbury police received no re- quests for help during the day. and no reports of any truck being stop ped at the city line had reached headquarters.
 Strike Elsewhere
 Hartford, Conn, April 22-UP) "A strike of more than 1000 Con- necticut and western Massac husetts truck drivers over demands o r wage readjustments, today threat. ened a paralysis of the industry be- tween Boston and New York.
 Trucks piled up along Connecti- cut highways where they had been stopped by union organizers aud drivers and orders went out from union headquarters to allow only and other perishables to pass through the state.
 Locals of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf- feurs and Helpers in New York and Massachusetts, were solicited to refuse to handle trucks passing into those states. Union trucks from New York were permitted to pass through Connecticut be- cause of contracts o W in force with the union.
 Three Places Exempt
 The strike, called here last night did not affect truckers at New Haven. Bridgeport and Norwalk there were reported att tempts to persuade drivers to join q general walkout.
 Union organizers here said the strike was called because of fall ure of negotiations with approxi- mately 40 interstate trucking con- cerns to meet demands for higher wages and u proposed rearange- ment of hours.
 Organizer John J. Murphy, busis ness agent of the Hartford local. of from 55 10 60 cents an hour for local drivers and from 72 to 70 cents an hour for drivers on longer hauls.
 Some More Demands
 In addition 1t was demanded drivers be paid time and one-half for working more than AS hours. and for holidays and Sundays; for time spent at holdovcr points; that extra help be paid on the same basis of regular classification of subur. ban and route drivers as road drivers and encouragement Of to permit drivers l.; spend weekcnds and holidays at home.
 Union officials claimed the tn- dustry has been operating under Il temporary agreement reached af- ter the general strike of October, 1893, which expired last Septetn- bcr.
 Murphy declared: we've ex- hausted every reasonable means III an effort to reach an agreement, and said Joseph Adley, New Haven, representative of the East ern Motor Freight Truck Confer.- ence, told him the conference hnd been informed by manufacturers they would ship by rail if the con- ference recognized the unions.
 State police reported the strike being orderly conducted and there were no complaints of intimida- tion. Only the regular patrol was maintained to keep the highways free from congestion and to re- route trucks not involved in the walkout.