Evening star., 1937-03-14
MOVE TO UN|ONZE
ELECTRIC WORKERS
OPENED BY c. |. 0.
Leaders Confer With Gen.
eraI Electric Officials on
Bargaining Tomorrow.
AGREEMENT SIGNED
BY G. M. C. WORKERS
Parleys Sought With A. T. & T.
and Westinghouse-Meet With
Steel Head Tomorrow.
BACKGROUND

0ACh hGROUND-
Present intensified drius for
untOnised labor dates back to split
last year betUeen American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor officials and John
L. LeUiS oUer craft Us. industrial
organization. LeUiS' unions Uere
suspended from A. F. OF L., pursued
acttUe orguniztng First big ofen-
Stue WdS automobile industry Uhere
series OF Slt-dOlCn strikes halted
1DorE in General Motors plants
early in this year. Finally G. NJ.
agreed to meet LeWiS' Committee
for Industrial Organization IN ne
gottdtionS. These talks noU are
being held.
By the Associated Press.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization thrust another iron into
the blazing labor fire yesterday-aim-
ing at unionization of the million or
more workers in the electrical manu-
featuring and communication fields.
The executive board of the United
Electrical and Radio Workers of Amer
lea, c. l. o. affiliate, prepared to open
collective bargaining conferences with
the General Electric Co. at New York
tomorrow and planned to seek similar
parleyS with the Westinghouse Elec-
trio & Manufacturing Co. and the
American Telephone & telegraph Co.
General Electric employs $4,000; West
inghouSe $4,000. Looking beyond these
big three, William Mitchell, national
representative of the union, asserted:
We are going to organize them all.
We have organizers all over the coun-
try"
Presses Huge Drives.
The c. l. o. Is pressing concurrent
drives in the huge steel and automotive
industries; dickering for new contracts
for 450,000 soft coal miners: girding
for campaigns among the 2,225, 900 on
the pay rolls of oil and textile firms.
Detroit witnessed a mass scale DEM
onstratioE by c. l. o. foll~ers.
Marching TO the blare of a I2-piece
band, thousands of members of the
United Automobile Workers Union
formed two endless chains and moving
in opposite directions, gyrated about
the Wayne County Court House. In
side, Judge Allan Campbell deferred
until tomorrow decision on the
Chrysler Motor Co.'S petition for an
injunction 70 evict strikers holding
eight of its plants. The union de-
mandS exclusive bargaining rights for
$4,000 ChrySler employees.
High officials of the U. A. w. affixed
their signatures at 1926 o'clock this
morning Sunday to an agreement on
the issues that precipitated WIDE
spread strikes in General Motors
plants in January.
General Motors officials, who al
ready have signified their approval of
the document, will sign it either today
or Monday.
Delegates from locals in General
Motors plants in six States ratified
the agreement shortly before midnight
after 13-hour meeting, during which
vigorous objections were raised TO
SOIlt OF the terms.
Majority Substantial"
A union spokesman said that the
affirmative majority was "substan-
tial' IN the viva voce vote taken at
the conclusion of the prolonged ses-
sion. although there was q scattering
of opposition"
Subsequently the delegates voted
to make the ratification unanimous
The pact did not include the 30
hour week and national minimum
hourly wage clauses requested by
the union, but did provide seniority
rights and machinery for settlement
of grievances designed to prevent
future WalkoutS.
While Michigan strikes kept nearly
10000 idle in ChrySler, Hudson and
REQ automobile plants and left other
thousands on the jobless sideiines in
other industries. Gov. Frank Murphy
took long stride in the direction Of
peace.
He called representatives of the
general public, employers and employees
to meeting next Wednesday to evolve
a program for dealing with pending or
threatened labor controversies.
Indications of an early understand
ing on wages and hours between
(See LABOR, Page A-4)