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work because of the REQ Motor Car
Co. strike at Lansing.
Approximately 5000 employees Of the
Yellow Truck and Coach Co. were at
work when that strike started at 8
am. The strikers took control Of the
plant and for an hour would permit
no one to enter or leave. Then en-
ployes in plant Offices and 1000 nom
union workers left. The remainder
prepared to occupy the plant.
Harry Grossman, vice president OF
the company, said no demands had
been received from the workmen.
Clerks Turned Away.
Four strikers guarded the office
entrance to the Fisher plant at Pom
tiac, turning away clerical employees.
There was some traffic congestion as
1000 day shift employees reported for
work, only to find the gates closed.
A union shop steward said the sit
down was called because the manage
ment refused to recognize the shop
steward system and was preclpltated
by the discharge Of three men. He
said a settlement conference was in
progress.
At the big Yellow Truck and Coach
plant, which covers 80 acres at the
southern edge of Pontiac, strikers and
company police together guarded the
entrances.
Although company officials said in
Detroit that the Yellow Truck plant
was not affected by the G. M.-U. A.
W. A. agreement union salesman
said that union shop stewards were
recognized under the agreement at
one time. This source said that two
employees were discharged yesterday
for union activities and that the man
agement refused to negotiate with
stewards who attempted to present a
protest.
The sit-down strike, he declared,
would continue until the men are re-
instated and the shop steward system
of settling grievances is recognized.
Murphy to Press for Peace.
Gov. Frank Murphy said he would
press night and dav" for solution
of the Chrysler strike when his confer
ence with corporation officials and U.
A. w. A.-C. I. O. leaders resumes.
Sixty thousand Chrysler workers
and more than 10000 employees Of
dependent companies are awaiting .
settlement to return to work. Walter
P. Chrysler, corporation chairman, and
John L. Lewis, head Of the c. l. O.,
are to return to Lansing for the re-
sumption of the conference. Both
have been in New York on business.
Whether Lewis would be able to re-
turn as scheduled, in the event q
threatened soft coal strike material
ICES, was not known. Lewis, president
of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, left the Governors conference
to participate in the coal wage parley.
B. E. Hutchinson, Chrysler finance
chairman, announced that 1--WE have
found it necessary to lay of many OF
our salaried employees and reduce the
compensation paid to others retained
to perform necessary services during
this shutdown period"
This corporations pay rolls must
be earned through the sale Of its
product to the public" he said. This
source OF income having ceased, pay
rolls, both salaried and hourly, have
of necessity to be adjusted accord
ingly"
The Michigan senate deferred until
| April Z action on three bills intended
| to prevent sit-doWn strikes.
In a radio address last night Gov
Murphy said: "It Is my first duty
as Governor to attempt" to solve Mich
lean's labor troubles. He said pressure
had been exerted upon me to take
sides in the present controversy"
II have been urged" he said, "te
shoot the workers out Of the factories
and thus end sit-down strikes once
and for all When they want that
done they will have to get anothe,
man for Governor Of Michigan.
Those who demand it-and I be.
lieve that they do SO stncere!y-argue
that property rights must be respected
and protected. I agree with them
but / feel even greater respect arc
protection should be accorded human
rights. =
Il want no human blood to besmirct
the fair name Of this State"