Evening star., 1937-02-28
DEMANDS LISTED
Union Leader Reveals Points in
Chrysler Negotiations.

Union Leader Reveals Points in
Chrysler Negotiations
DETROIT, February q (P.-Rich-
ard T. Frankensteen. organizational
director Of the United Automobile
Workers of America, announced to-
night the demands that will be made
on the Chrysler Corp. in conferences
scheduled to open wednesday.
Heading the list is recognition of
the union as sole bargaining agency
IN Chrysler plants. Frankensteen's
announcement said that there will
be no compromise on this point"
The program, which will be sub
fnitted for ratification by members of
Chrysler plant locals at meetings
Sunday and Tuesday, includes these
demands:
A blanket wage increase of 10 cents
m hour.
That seniority shall be enforced on
departmental basis and according
to work classifcations.
That a 30-hour week be installed
before any worker is laid off.
Dismissal Hearings Asked.
That no employe shall be dismissed
without first obtaining hearing be-
fore joint committee of union shop
stewards and management representa-
tives.
That in all decreases and increases
OF the number of employees seniority
lists shall be observed
That shop stewards and members
OF the union local Executive Commit
tee shall head the seniority list.
The U. A. W. A. representatives in
the Chrysler negotiations will be
Homer Martin. president; John
Brophy, director of the C. I. O., and
Frankensteen. Frankensteen said a
board of strategy chosen from the
Executive Committees of Chrysler 10
Gals would sit in an adjoining room.
!. The Chrysler conferees will include
Lester L. Colbert, general attorney for
the corporation in Detroit. and Her
man L. Weckler, vice president of the
De Soto division.
Missiles Hurt Three.
Flying missiles felled three strikers,
one a woman, today in the first vio-
lence of the unrelated labor disputes
that have spread in Detroit industrial
plants since the General Motors
strikes were settled
The injuries were received as union
workers holding two buildings of the
Ferro Stamping Co. in sit-down
strike of several days duration ousted
about 20 non-union employees from the
administration building in brief but
spirited attack
Wayne Marlett. strike chairman, said
Anna Gouci, %; Alex Laslo, 81, and
Peter Kuhn, %, were struck when the
fon-union men hurled lead missiles
3. inches in diameter at the strikers.
Burwell E. Allen. assistant treasurer
OF the company, said there was no
lead thrown to my knowledge" and
added he believed one non striker was
injured
- The largest strike in the city affected
1000 foundry workers at the Michigan
Malleable Iron Co., where 100 "stay-in"
strikers held the factory. j. j. Ken
nedy, assistant organizational director
Of the United Automobile Workers of
America, said the strikers demanded
reinstatement of four union members
discharged last week. and wage in
creases of 10 cents an hour.
Union headquarters announced that
its plant committee at the Hudson
Motor Car Co. will meet Monday with
company executives.
Harry Spencer, U. A. w. A. organ
iSer at Grand Rapids, Mich, said the
organization planned no immediate
strike in the Eagle Ottawa Leather
Co.'S Grand Haven plant, where 800
s1riendlyM stay-in" against what they
BE threat of sit-down by
employees. The plant produces
upholstery for automobiles.
Workers Affected.
'sA@a 9aeSecond sit-down strike In a lit
f2 Mdfe than a week affected 600
workers at Thompson Products. Inc,
here, after hour and wage negotiations
between the management and the
U. A. w. A. collapsed.
The wave Of "sit-downs" spread to
. downtown mercantile establishment
as about 100 salesgirls, demanding
10-cent increase in hourly wages,