The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-05
LABOR TROUBLE
 THROUGH NATION
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 of the Peninsular Metals Products company. The union won recogni- ton for six months as the sole col lective bargaining agency for the cornpany's workers. The agreement alDo included boost in the wage minimum for men from 50 cents an hour to 75 and for women from AS cents to GO; 40-hour work week: and time and one hall Tor overtime. Efforts still were under way to settle strikes in the Tim ken Detroit Axle company and the Michigan Malleable Iron company. A strike affecting 1,20O workers stlli was in progress in three plants Of tine Bohn Aluminium and Brass cor poeation.
 Hudson Motor Car Co.
 Meanwhile, union representatives planned to resume at 3 D. m. Their conferences with officials of the Hudson Motor Car company on recognition, wage, seniority and other demands affecting working ccnditions. Hudson was the third lrator automobile manufacturer to bc approached by the union in It's campaign for collective bargaining in the automotive industry. General Motors and union conferees will re- new their attempts Monday to break n reported deadlock over the work erx' minimum wage demands--last of six points which were not in- cludcd in the February Il strike settlement. Conferences continued between union representatives and executives of tho Chrysler corpora ten.
 Washington, March 5.-CUP)-- support for the strike of 2,500 work ers at the Lebanon, Pa, plant of the Bethlehem Steel corporation was promised today by the steel workers organizing committee, while across the continent in Santa Monica, Cal, another unit of John l.. Lewis committee for industrial organization was bargaining Tor ad- jlistment of working conditions Tn aircraft plants. Strike leaders said several hundred men were Sit ting down" in the Lebanon plant, although they charged that the heat had been turned off and the build- ing WAS cold. Bethlehem officials said the strike had resulted from q misunderstanding" Of an announce ment that & 10-centS-an-hour wage increase and 40-hour work week would become effective March l6.
 A. c. I. 0. Wins Here
 While Donald Douglas, president of the Douglas Aircraft corporation, conferred with c. I. Q. representa- tatives, a majority of workers in the Northrop Aircraft plant, 8 Douglas subsidiary, voted in favor of representation by the aircraft division of the United Automobile Workers of America, c. I. O. affiliate. The vote was 689 for the U. A. w.. 333 for the Northrop Employes' association, 48, for the American Federation of Labor and 20 for self-representatoin.
 The first meeting between Doug las and the union representatives since the sit-down strike in his fac- tory last week was conducted in a friendly and btlsiness-like manner, the company president announced.
 WOOIwOrth Girls
 Negotiations were resumed in De- troit at 10 a. m., to settle Sit down strike of l50 "5 and 10" girls who have held two r. W. Woolworth stores for nearly a week. officials of the walters and WaitreSSes union which called the strike, said the company had agreed to pay the union scale of $2 for an eight-hour day and to establish a six day week.
 Tn Chicago, messenger boys marched out of Western Union and Postal Telegraph offices and announced they would not return unless they received higher wages, an eight-hour day and uniforms with long pants instead of puttecs. But they were back on the job a few hours later when the com paries agreed to conferences on the demands.
 Blind Employees
  rived in Pittsburgh to participate in efforts to end a strike of more than 100 blind employees of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind. The unusual strike began as a git-down Monday when a conference on demands for higher wages and adjustment of working conditions broke up in disagreement
 The Carnegie Illinois Steel Cor poration Company Union, apparent ly incensed bscause Lewis c. !. 0 obtained a oile-year contract In which its steel committee was recog- nized as bargaining agency for It's o1n members. prepared to purge" iGA ranks of '0utSide" union mcm- heFs. The company union vas ad- vised by the management to adopt A moro centralized leadership. II received assurances that the c0in- s"Nv would eunllrue i0 deal with ii