Evening star., 1937-04-03
that closed its assembly plant at
Kansas City late yesterday.
10000 Out of Work.

10000 Out Of Work.
Approximately 1901 900 wage-earners
Of these and other automotive firms
were idle, but other strike settle
ments will return nearly 10000 Of
them to work the first of next week.
This figure is only 5000 less than the
highest number made idle during the
44-day General Motors strike at the
start OF the year.
Union leaders said the Flint Chev-
rolet strike was spontaneous" and
was prompted by the workers belief
that their representatives were not
getting anywhere" in negotiations
with the plant management on
grievances, provided for in the March
IL agreement between the o. A. w. A.
and General Motors.
Arnold LEM, Chevrolet operations
manager at Flint, promised to meet
with Robert c. Travis, union organ
izer there, and the Committee Of Nine
Shop Stewards set up under the
agreement. Lenz said the company
had made a sincere endeavor to full
fill its part of the agreement.
When this meeting was announced
the strikers voted to leave the large
factory and evacuated in hilarious
mood. Estimates of the number OF
workmen who had remained in the
plant range from 500 to 5000.
William S. Knudsen, executive vice
president of General Motors, con-
ferred yesterday with Homer Martin,
U. A. w. A. president, and told him
I'VE are endeavoring in good faith
to live up to our obligations" He
asked the union "to live up to" the
agreement and submitted list OF
nearly 80 stoppages of work which, he
said, violated its terms.
To Return to Work.
Employees made idle by strikes
Thursday in the Fisher Body plant
and the Yellow Truck plant at Pom
tiac are to return Sunday and Nom
day. They ended their sit-downs
after settlements of their differences
were reached yesterday.
A sit-doWn strike at the Hudson
Motor Car Co.'S Detroit plants has
kept 10000 workers idle since March
8, the day the Chrysler strike began.
No negotiations were scheduled.
A two-man mediation board, seeking
formula to solve the 23-day -old Sit
down at the REQ Motor Car Co. s
truck factory in Lansing, indicated
that it was ready to submit its rec
concentrations today to the full body
Of conferees. The strike threw 1900
men out Of work
Canada Strike Farley.
A conference to avert a strike in
the Oshawa, Ontario, factory Of Cen
eral Motors of Canada opened in To-
ronto yesterday and will be resumed
in OshaWa Monday
The Graham-Paige Motors Corp
announced at Detroit last night that
it has completed several weeks of
friendly negotiations with the
U. A. w. A. and signed an agreement.
1t provided for an 8-hour day and
40-hour week with time and a half
Aol oFSltliilC'
of IS cents for men and 65 cents for
women, and recognition of the union
as the collective bargaining agent OF
its membership.
Martin, commenting on the Ford
strike at Kansas City, predicted the
outcome would be the signing of an
agreement with the company similar
to that arranged with General Motors
three weeks ago
The Chrysler tie-up resulted in its
body supplier, the Briggs Manufacture
ing Co., laying off 19,400 workers and
employees of other parts manufacturers
dependent upon it also have been
laid of
Gov Murphy, who aided in bring
ing General Motors and the union
into conference to settle the wide
spread strike, said in Lansing:
Il consider agreements that return
men TO work as sacred obligations. I
have insisted upon complete compli-
ance by both sides when questions
involving agreements have come be-
fore me. Only through preserving
the integrity of agreements already
made can We move forward peace
fully in an orderly manner"