Evening star., 1937-03-02
Six Companies Also An
nounce Pay Increases,
While General Strike Ten.
sion Is EaSed.
WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION
OBSTACLE is REMOVED
Women Continue to Hold Two
Woolworth Stores in Detroit by
Sit.Down Protest-Miners in
Pennsylvania Stay Under
ground in Dispute.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A conciliatory attitude by employe
and employer alike eased the tense
ness of disputes along the far-Hung
strike front today.
Opposing forces clashed over wages.
hours. union recognition ana otner
issues without resorting to physlcal
violence. In many instances indus
trial management exercised only
massive resistance to the Slt-ooWn
strike method. Picketlng generally
was carried on in orderly fashlon.
The Carnegie-nlinois Steel Corp. S
decision to bargain with the ComnliV-
tee for Industrial Organization sig
nailed the first such move in years De-
tween the steel industry ana organ
lied labor.
Conferees reported cooperative
snirit existed at the initial wage par4ey
between Philip Murray, high c. L: o.
oficial and Benjamin F. Falrless'
president of the steel corpora'lon'
Paw Boost for 10000.
Six steel companies almost sinful
taneously announced pay boosts ana
4o-hour week for some 10000 work
ers They we're the Republic Steel
YOUNGSTOWN Sheet &, Tube, National
Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Inland steel
and National Tube.
The Pittsburgh Steel Co. later an
nounced it will institute 50 mini
mum daily wage rate. effective March
16 in its plants at Monessen and Al
lenport, Pa.
The company said the increase
would affect more than 1000 employees
and added that other rates and condl-
tions of work will be 'equitably' ar
ranged.
The Sharon Steel Corp. of Youngs-
town, Ohio, employing 5000 workers IN
the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys,
also announced 10-cent-an-hour
wage increase for its employees today.
Company officials and employe repre-
sentatives continued to discuss the A.
hour week at Sharon, Pa.
Sharon steel is dllleQ Will tiie
Pittsburgh Steel Co.
The settlement opens the way for
the Navy to get steel needed for war
ship construction, the stumbling block
heretofore being the unwillingness of
the steel industry to comply with the
40-hour Work-Week provision OF the
Walsh -Healy act, which applies to
Government contracts in excess OF
$4,000.
Although new strikes broke out and
old ones persisted, Hugh S. Kerwin OF
the United States Department OF La
Dor considered the strike situation
normal for a recovery year." An
other department official, Edward F.
McGrady, said the sit-down technique
has magnified labor disputes.
Women Hold Two Stores.
More than 100 sit-down strikers,
most of them women, held two F. w.
Woolworth Co. stores in Detroit. Both
establishments were closed and
strikers barred company officials from
one. A union official said the strike
might be extended to all of the firms
1000 5-and-10-cent stores in the Ma
ton unless the dispute over wages and
hours is settled by Saturday.
Shutdown strikers at the Timken-
Detroit Axle Co. and the Ferro Stamp
ing Mfg. Co., both in Detroit, were
ordered by a court to show cause why
et, tho ro1ontS
Negotiators for General Motors
Corp. and the United Automobile
Workers of America reported at De-
troit a national minimum hourly wage
was the lone obstacle to adjournment
of their conference. Tomorrow the
union will confer with the Chrysler
Automobile Corp.
The sit-down form of strike went
underground when $50 coal miners
chose to remain $50 feet under the
surface in the workings of the Jami-
son Coal Co. mine at Uniontown, Pa,
when their days work was done.
Relatives and friends brought food
and clothing, which were lowered to
the strikers by night shift workers.
$500 Hosiery Workers Out.
The American Federation of Hosiery
Workers said more than $500 en-
ployes quit work at eight mills in
Berks County, Pa. Union recognition
was the issue.
The Walton Shoe Co. announced
D pay boost had induced 1,400 en-
ployes to return to work at its six
plants in Chelsea, Mass.
Some 107 blind employees went on
strike for increased pay and improved
working conditions at factory oper-
ated by the Pennsylvania Association
for the Blind at Pittsburgh.
At North Chicago, ILL.,, scene of two
(See STEEL, Page A-3.)