Evening star., 1936-05-15
STRIKE EXTENDED
BY AUTO WORKERS
DEMANDING RAISE
WaIkout at Hill & Tibbitts
Follows Failure of
Agreement.
0PEN.SHOP QUESTION
AT MEETING TONIGHT
Mechanics Business Agent to
Give Talk-Pickets Picketed
at Nolan Motor Co.

The automobile mechanics strike
spread today to Hill g. Tibbitts, Ire,
l114 Vermont avenue, where several
men walked out demanding 80 cents
an hour. a 44-hour week and time
and-a-half pay for overtime.
Meanwhile, the mechanics called
mass meeting for tonight at Pythian
Hall. 1912 Ninth street, to take up the
challenge flung to them by the WASH
ington Automotiye Trade Association,
which has declared it would main
tain an open shop"
The strike at Hill & Tibbitts fol-
lowed a conference between union
leaders and William ]. Hill, president
of the firm.
Agreement Not Signed.
Oliver N. Garrison, business agent
of the mechanics union, offered the
company an agreement to sign. When
it was not signed, he ordered his men
of the job.
There was a difference in the num-
Der of men reported on strike at Hill
e. Tibbitts Garrison said he pulled
of SO and Hill said Is went out.
Hill afterward issued a statement, in
which he said:
Although our basic pay rate is very
close to demands of union officials. and
a willingness was expressed to consider
any condition Of employment, Garrison
said his hands were tied. and unless
we signed the agreement he would call
his men out. There was no choice.
We could either sign or they would
strike. Sixteen shop and stock men
stayed on Twenty-Five went out.
Over Is other men went about their
duties as usual"
Situation Up Tonight.
The mass meeting at Pythian Hall
tonight will take up the strike situa-
tion. particularly the recent resolution
of the Washington Automotive Trade
Association declaring for an open
shop" Speakers win include Harvey
Brown, vice president of the Interna-
tional Association Of Machinists. and
Garrison.
Strike pickets were picketed yester-
day afternoon at the Nolan Motor
Co., Inc, I'LL Eighteenth street north
west. 1t was the sixth place visited
by Garrison recently in his efforts
to get dealers to sign an agreement
for 80 cents an hour. and 44-hour
week, with time-and-a-half pay
for overtime.
Strike Call Baked
Garrison claimed that Nolan would
not sign, and would not let him inside
the place to call the strike, but that
two men walked out yesterday after
noon anyway in response to his call.
An official Of the Nolan company
said no men had gone on strike.
He said the company had refused to
sign the union agreement, but would
maintain an open shop. He said
employees were satisfied, and that they
had a company union with insurance,
sick benefits and other benefits.
When union pickets were put out
side the Nolan place with signs read
ing "On strike, this shop Is unfair
to organized labor" employees of the
Nolan place carried a sign outside
alongside the union pickets, with the
advertising slogan of the firm.
81 Dealers for Open Shop.
The resolution of the Washington
Automotive Trade Association, declar-
ing the dealers would maintain an
open shop, was signed by ST dealers.
Copies were mailed to all members
of the association and were sent per-
sonally to the home addresses of all
mechanics in the employ of associa-
ton members on May 9.
The other shops from which the me-
chanics are on strike are: Donohoe
Chevrolet, Inc, 1920 M street; Ouris-
man Chevrolet Sales Co.. 6l0 H street
northeast: r. L. Taylor Motor Co.,
Fourteenth and T streets; Mandell
Chevrolet Co.. Thirteenth street and
Good Hope road southeast, and Stan
ley H. Horner. Inc, l015 Fourteenth
street.