Evening star., 1935-08-31
LABOR DAY Brings
LULL IN STRIKES
Omaha Has Threat of Bak-
cry WaIkout in Addition
to Car Trouble.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Monday hallowed for the no
bility of toll, called Labor day and
recognized as holiday in most every
State Of the Union, will be only q lull
In industrial strife In many places.
The strike of street car men in
Omaha, Nebr. and Council Bluffs,
Iowa, started on April 20 and in
volving 268 men, still was on. Omaha
also had a threat Of bakery strike.
Union officials claimed 800 men
were on strike at a stove manufacur-
ing plant in Milwaukee The Iowa
Manufacturing Co. at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, was working with q skeleton
force while negotiating with $50 work.
ers demanding union recognition and
higher wages.
The Strutwear Knitting Co. plant at
Minneapolis, employing LOO. was shut
down indefinitely a week ago after
pickets demanded reinstatement of
eight discharged employees, union rec
ognition and increased pay. A broom
corn strike at Charleston, H., In
volving about 100 workers, was in
active with the crop harvested.
Walkout at Lynchburg.
Approximately $50 workers Of the
S. g. K. Knee Pants Co.. Lynchburg,
Va, walked out yesterday, claiming
the company had slashed wages down
TO as low as 81 weekly for As hours
of work since the demise of the N. r.
A. The management planned to re-
sumo operations Tuesday with re-
placements.
Between 5000 and 1000 miners, who
demand equalization of working hours.
were still on strike after 25 days at 10
collieries of the Philadelphia g. Read
ing Coal & Iron Co. in the Pennsyl-
vania anthracite field.
Forty union drivers for two Tulsa
Oklo., dairies voted to strike at mid
night tonight unless the companies
met demands for minimum wage Of
$40 a month.
Strikes in force in California in
cluded those of the bargemen on the
Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.
which started July 2. and the jackson
union miners, which began last Oc-
tober.
-Four maritime unions at San Fran
cisco presented requests to steam
ship companies yesterday for shorter
hours and more pay. The deadline for
automatic renewal Of agreements was
midnight last night. Oficials of the
unions said the action would not i'm
pair water front peace.
A strike Of shipping clerk in
concentrating firms Of New York
was thrown back to its beginning of
few days ago when the union Cancelled
some 400 agreements with individual
manufacturers last night. The union
claimed the manufacturers we're boot
Logging working cards to firms which
had not signed with the union.
Trouble at Seattle.
Merchants at Seattle feared o gen.
eral strike Of produce workers was
starting when 13 men walked out at
one firm demanding a minimum Of
s27.50 a week. Dave Beck. interna-
tional organizer for the teamsters.
with whom the produce workers are
afiliated, minimized the probability OF
the strike becoming general.
The Forest City Manufacturing Co.
at St. Louis had a strike on its hands
because of alleged discrimination
against union workers, the union
claiming that $50, mostly women, were
not rehired after previous strike was
settled.
A threatened strike of $500 work
ers of the Wabash Railroad and its
subsidiary, the Ann Arbor Railroad,
was averted through efforts of the
National Mediation Board. A l3-
day strike of street car and bus work
ers at South Bend, Ind. was ended.
Conferences were being held at the
same place in an effort to avert a
threatened strike of milk drivers.
Some 900 union workers Of the Co
lumbian Enameling and Stamping
Mill at Terre Haute have been idle
since they struck last Spring and the
mill has been operating with non
union help.
Six score pressmen were on strike
at Coshocton, Ohio. in protest
against wage reductions and increased
hours. The Hercules Clothing Co.
of Columbus. Ohio, suspended oper-
ations when TOO union workers walked
out because of wage reductions.