The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-15
Union, Non-Union
 Men March To MiHs
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, the armistice, they indicated in tel- egrams to President Roosevelt, Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and Sen. Robert M. LaFollette of the Senate committee on civil liberties. that the issue of the trouble and its manner of suppression were far from set- tied.
 Held Company Responsible
 Reuther accused General Motors and its agents" of responsibility for Friday nights shooting. It was pro- voked by them, he said, in order to bring martial Jaw and thereby ham, dicap union organization efforts.
 Reuther appealed directly to President Roosevelt. He sent the president this telegram:
 Refusal of Governor Townsend to guarantee our members inherent rights of civil liberties and the use of national guardsmen to curb our efforts of union functionings and organization, violates all concepts of human rights and social justice. It makes mockery of the General Motors strike settlement. We urge that you directly intervene in this situation 50 that we can become free men again"
 5000 Punch Clocks
 Flint, Mich, Feb. 15-- (UP) - Thirty thousand punched time clocks and resumed work in Gen. eral Motors plants here that were stilled during the 44-day sit-down strike.
 The concensus among workers was that it was swell to be back | to work"
 Several production workers wore United Automobile Workers Union buttons for the first time in the plants. Little was said of the strike.
 At Chevrolet plant No. 4, occu- pied for time by sit-downers, 250 engines wore turned out in the first hour. Normal production is 325 and it was believed this would be reach ed today or early in the week.
 One worker, Earl Blakley, grinned at visitors who watched him fac ing" bearings. He wore 8 union button and said he had been one of the 1l-day sit-downers in the Chavrolet plant.
 Tt certainly is okay to be back to york;" he said, "but it's no harder than working on patrol duty during the strike"
 4,OOO Back On Job
 There were 4,000 more workers back on the job at Fisher Body Plant No. l, but the north wing, oc- cupied for the duration of the strike by sit-downers, was still in the process of clean-up. It was ex- pected that fully 7,200 men, in two shifts, would be back before the week was over. At Fisher No. 2 one thousand were getting ready to turn out bodies for Chevrolet, which ex- cept for the final assembly line, was running full blast today.
 A total of 11,543 men returned at Chevrolet plants, 4, 5, 6, 8, g and 10. Reopening also required the services of 1,463 maintenance men. Buick was reopened with 11,560 men, while A. c. spark plug, never closed during the strike, continued to operate at full speed to turn out small parts for the expected record production during the next few months.
 The national guard troops, quart cred in barracks, awaited word to move out of the city. First Conference
 Detroit, Feb. 15-CUP)-General Motors officials and representatives of the United Automobile Workers Union meet tomorrow for their first conference to bargain collec- lively on wages, hours and working conditions as provided in the settle ment of 44-day strike.
 The three points were not touch- ed in last weeks strike settlement, which was concerned chiefly with the major question of union recog- milton in the corporations plants throughout the country. The conferences will be held in the General Motors building where negotiations were to have begun nearly month ago but were can- celled after collapse of a truce ar- ranged by Gov. Frank Murphy.
 John L. Lewis, head of the com- mittee for industrial organization, who established headquarters here and participated in the final strike settlement, returned to Washington, yesterday. leaving to his aides the task of dealing with the corpora tion representatives.