The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-08

the coal industry or anywhere else. Your union has given its word that there will be no stoppages dur ing the life of this (Chrysler) con- tract-and that means sit-downs, stand-ups, walkouts, or any other stoppages.'
 Union Chrysler Meet Representatives of the union and the Chrysler Corporation meet to- day to discuss supplemental fea- lures of the strike settlement, in- cluding wages, working hours and general working conditions.
 Company executives said 65,0OO employees would return to work as soon as possible in nine plants. Feeder" plants, forced to close when the strike throttled their market, also were ready to furnish supplies to the manufacturing con- cern. One Chrysler official said 5o,0O0,0o0 of par:s would be re- quired.
 Lewis credited Governor Murphy with solution of the Chrysler union dispute, and told the Fairgrounds audience:
 Would that we had more Frank Murphys in the several states; would that we had more like him in congress-" .
 He declared that the governors of Vermont, Texas and New Jersey had 1 threatened a blood purge in or der to prevent organization of work CTS if they should happen to com init the crime of trespass."
 He Warns Governors
 Let me say to them,," he added that they'd better restrain their trigger fingers. The time has gone by here in America when American labor is going to be shot back into it's job or out of its job by anybody who happens for the moment to command a few soldiers"
 Lewis left Detroit for Pittsburgh, where he planned to confer with his c. I. O. aides who are organiz- ing steel workers. But before he departed he heard Martin and Richard T. Frankensteen, U. A. w, organizational director, echo his denunciation of Ford &
 Ford will recognize the union or else he won't build cars" Frank ensteen said. General Motors said they would never. affix their sigma ture to an agreement1swith us and did Chrysler. We proved they would"
 Perfect Plans
 Detroit, April .-(UP)-Automo- bile company heads perfected plans today to get nearly 85,000 workers back on the job as the Sit-doWn wave appeared near its end in Michigan.
 The last big strike-Hudson Mo- tors-appeared near settlement when conferences resumed at 10:2O a. m. in Gov. Frank Murphy's of fices at Lansing. The strike, af- fecting 11,OO0 workers, probably will be settled on the same terms that ended the Chrysler and Rec sit-doWnS.
 In Detroit, Herman L. Weckler, vice president of Chrysler in charge of industrial relations, and Lester l.. Colbert, resident counsel, conferred today with United Auto mobile Workers Union representa- tives. They will work out sup plementary agreement, on wages, hours and working conditions, pro- vided for under terms of the pact on collective bargaining signed at Lansing Tuesday night.
 Plant managers and production heads of the Chrysler Corporation pushed plans to reopen closed plants. The first men to return to jobs will be maintenance men, who will put the shops in shape to op- crate at full blast within two weeks.
 Briggs Manufacturing company which turns out bodies for the Chrysler corporation, notified 15,- GOO workers to report today, Satur- day and Sunday in preparation for resumed operations on Chrysler's demands. The Reo9 Motor com at Lansing, likewise prepared to put its workers back in the har- ness.
 May Go to Canada
 Lansing, Mich, April 8.-tUP)- Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers. here for a conference on the Hudson Motor strike, said today. q prob ably will fly to Osilawa,S Ont. scene of a strike in Canadian General Motors plants. But don't know definitely yet" Martin addeds
 He said he was waiting to hear from William s. Knutsen, executive vice president of General Motors, and would have a statement on the Canadian situation later