The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-11
UNION LEADERS
 VERY UBLANT
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(coutinued from Page D thrown open windows and slrylights and exposed the buildings water system, including fire spriuklerS, to eight aa0ve zero weathef.
 Company officials said the guard mobilization in adjacent Chevrolet plant No. 9 was for the purpose of forcing entrance to plant No. { to turn on the heat which they said strikers had turned of.
 Strikers said the company had turned o6 the heat intermittently for several days. exposing them to colds and pneumonia from sudden extremes of temperature, and they had opened windows in protest.
 Know What t0 Do
 All, from union organizers at Pengelly hall to unstaven sit-down strikersat Fisher Body Corporations plant No. l said that when the set- clement was made known offlcialiy, they would "know what to say and do."
 Col. Joseph H. Lewis. commander of 3,200 national guardsmen in the Flint area, said he had received no new orders from Gov. Frank Mur- phy in regard to the movement of troops out of the city.
 T have not conferred with the governor" he added, land of course won't act until I have heard from him.
 "There will be no troop movement for the present, probably not for some itIne after any settlement is made"
 National Guard Tripled
 National Guard officials tripled their armed forces in the General Motors strike area today as ap- proximately 1900 sit-down strikers awaited union call to quit three plants.
 Strikers in Chevrolet plant No. { and the No. 2 factory of the Fisher Body Corporation--in the military zone--and at the big Fisher No. plant outside awaited off, cial notification that the strike truce between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers of America mad been signed.
 Hopes that the evacuation of the plants might be attempted today faded when Adolph Germer, 0. I. O. representative, said the men would come out, if the settlement is ap- proved, not before Saturday or Sum- day.
 Those dates, of course, are tenta- tive" Germer explained at Union headquarters. we want to have the men come out of the plants for monster demonstration such as was planned before"
 Official word from union officials was expected nomentarily at the plants where sit-down strikers were told the agreement had been signed at 11:46 a. m. in Detroit.
 Ready to Break News
 Unio,, -- Ind trucks planned to in- wade the military zone and the un- guarded Fisher No. 1 area with the news. The men inside the plants will vote upon acceptance of the terms as q prelude to any evacua- ton.
 Aphaty and skepticism which greeted first word of the truce changed during the morning to jubilation. Strikers sang and cheer ed the news hours before 1t was to become official with the signatures of General Motors officials and .. A. w. A. leaders.
 In the military zone, two national guard trucks, a machine gun mounted atop each, patrolled hilly Chevrolet avenue between the Fisher and Chevrolet plants. On the roof of the Chevrolet plant, 150 sit-downers gathered to sing and cheer. In the street below sentries paced the main gates. Within the prohibited strike area hundreds of company guards were assembled.
 Company guards opened the main gates shortly before noon advising National guardsmen that this was to permit strikers to leave If they want to-"
 "Close the gate" the roof-top strikers shouted. we aren't coming out, we're going to stay all winter"