Evening star., 1937-02-18

ference, Mortimer issued this state.
ment:
The union will insist that the COM
pany cease eni:sting regularly en-
ployed workers as plant guards in ad-
dition to their other duties. This
practice was publicly admitted BY Mr..
Knudsen William S. Knudsen, Gen.
eral Motors executive vice president),
in statement Wednesday night.
Under the guise of plant protec-
ton. non-union workers are being
armed with clubs and paid a premium
Of an hours wages each day to intimi-
date union members.
Such a police force can have no
other purpose and can tend only to
tnflame labor relations"
After the union charged last night
that the Chevrolet Co. at Flint had
900 clubs" taken into its No. ( plant.
Knudsen In his statement said that
investigation has disclosed that there
have been no cases Of disturbance or
attempted intimidation, that no night
sticks have been used and no excess
supply will be carried"
KnudSen revealed that some en-.
ployes would be given extra pay TO
guard against possible riot" working
a half hour each in the morning and
afternoon outside the regular work.
ing hours"
At Flint Adolph Germer, organizer
for the Committee for Industrial Or
ganization, OF which the auto workers
union is member, charged that 10
Chevrolet employees had been dis
missed for soliciting unio.. member
ships
Confined to Chevrolet Plant.
"All grievances have been confined
to the Chevrolet division" Germer
said. There has been no trouble or
discrimination elsewhere. There has
been discrimination against union men
working for Chevrolet at Saginaw,
Mich, also"
Methods of settling alleged union
grievances are among the six union
demands being discussed by the ne
gotiators. Others include speed of
production, seniority rights, hours of
work and wage scales.
1t was understood that the decisions
reached on each point will not be put
into writing until all of the problems
have been solved ano the negotia tors
are ready to announce their eonclu-
sions.
Alvsn Macaulty, president of the
Automobile Manufacturers Associa-
ton. who Is vacationing In Florida,
said the strike settlement was mot q
striking victory for the workers"
Il don't know of any main issues
1t settled" asserted the president OF
the Packard Motor Car Co. THE
agreement that Lewis organization
(John L. Lewis C. I. o. should have
the right to represent workers in
striking plants was . right they al
ready had under the Wagner act and
was not q concession. The 5-cent--an-
hour raise undoubtedly would have
been given anyway"
Mscauley's company announced .
similar wage increase last Friday, the
day after General Motors made its
announcement.
General Motors operations in Flint
returned to normal for the first time
in seven weeks as the remainder of
its employees were called back to work.
The last to report were $500 workers in
the Buick and Fisher body divisions.
Troop departures scheduled for to-
day left only threescore National
Guard officers sta aoned in the erst-
while Strike capital" Flint's last sit
down strike was ended. too. Seventy
five employees of the Standard Prod
ucts Co., an automotive supplier.
evacuated the pla.lt last evening.
U. A. w. A. officials declined to
comment upon the statement of Cir
cult Judge Paul v. Gadola, who issued
an injunction against General Motors
sit-down strikers at Flint, that they
would have to appear in his court to
Apologize for their contemptuos ac-
tions" in disregarding the injunction.
General Motors agreed to dismissal of
the injunction. a. the will of the
court in the strike settlement