The Washington times., 1937-02-12
TALKS BEGIN
UNDER PACT
ON TUESDAY
Materials Speeded to
Factories After "A
Days IdIeness
Continued from Page y

II UIlllIutA llOIlI "sN -
roll approximately $2,OOO,OOO, it
was said
With the Chrysler S13O0OOOO
raise Wednesday. and General
Motors S2500O000 annual pay
roll boosts with the signing of the
peace pact yesterday. it was eSti-
mated S40,000,000 yearly has been
added to auto workers paychecks.
General Motors today started
moving the machinery that will
have some l25,O00 men and
women. jobless as a result of the
strike. back to work by Monday.
It began the gigantic task i'm
mediately after the sit down
strikers in three G. NJ. plants in
Flint evacuated in accordance
with the terms of the peace pact.
William S. Knudsen. G. c. M.
executive vice president, hopes to
be back at full production within
II days.
Violence Flares
Meanwhile, sit down strikers
held the main plant of the Nash
KeIvinator Company here, and
union pickets and police clashed
at another small Detroit plant of
the corporation.
Fists were swung freely during
the melee, but no one was taken
to the hospital. The fights oc-
CURED in front of the small Fort
Street plant. which employs about
135 men. After 100 pickets mixed
with a squad of 10 police, the
pickets withdrew from the com
pany's property to sidewalks front
ing the building.
Meantime. 1877 sit-doWners held
the Plymouth Road plant, which
employs about 5000. Company
officials have filed suit in circuit
court to oust the Sit-doWnerS. but
a hearing scheduled for yesterday
was postponed until Monday.
Officials of the union, the Me.
chanics Educational Society OF
America, we're scheduled to confer
with the company later today to
determine whether a basis for ar
bitration could be established.
General Motors cancelled stop
orders for materials which had
been sent out when the strikes
started "A days ago, and estimated
it had placed 25 million dollars
worth of orders in allied industries
supplying its plants.
While General Motors was con-
Cerned primarily with starting the
wheels of it's factories again, the
United Automobile Workers Union
moved to consolidate its position .
Members of the union and repre-
sentatives of the company under
the agreement signed yesterday
will sit down around a conference
table Tuesday and begin bargain
ing over union demands.
Resume Monday
BY that time, the company
hopes to have its 100000 to 1885,
900 idle men back at their
machines. and drawing Sl,000.000 |
a day pay. The first order to re-
sumo operation was issued today |
to 1880 Buick workers in Flint,
who were told to report Monday. |
Chevrolet and Fisher body Of
ficials were planning resumption
the first of the week" Mean
time, today and tomorrow clean
up squads of workers were to get |
the plants shipshape.
The strikers who had held three
General Motor plants in Flint
evacuated peacefully last night
amid scenes of wild celebrations.
The first sit-downers to leave were
those in Fisher body plant No. l,
then the stay-ins at Chevrolet No.
4 and Fisher body No. 2 left, all
converging for a victory march
through Flint's main streets.
Guardsmen Leave
Meantime, the first of 1000 Ma |
tional Guardsmen on strike duty
IN Flint began leaving for their
homes.
Today, union leader, Richard T.
Frankensteen started a drive to
consolidate the unions position in
other plants. He sent kilograms
to five firms, employing a total of
13,500 men, asking for conferences
over certain grievances, including
alleged discrimination against
union employees.
1t was not known how long the
collective bargaining negotiations
between the United Automobile
Workers Union and General Mo-
tors would last after they begin
next Tuesday.
The union and G. NJ were to
confer on wages, working condi-
tions. hours, and the So-called
speed of production lines at the
parley. G. M, in announcing its
wage increase yesterday, said pay
rates were now 25 per cent higher
than any rate in the pre-depres-
sion period