Evening star., 1937-02-19
NEW PROBLEM
IN CANADA STRIKE
Additional Labor Troubles
Add to Issues at Peace
= Conference.
NJ TIE Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
DETROIT, February ia strike
IN one of General Motors two Cana
dian plants placed new problem be-
fore the corporations labor executives
today only a few hours after another
one had been settled at st. Louis.
The new strike was called in the
plant at Oshawa, Ontario, as negotia-
tors for the corporation and the United
Automobile Workers of America turned
to the consideration of a basis for
establishing seniority rights for work.
ers in their American factories.
230 Employees on Strike.
More than 230 employees in the plant,
about 80 miles from Toronto, struck
late yesterday and said they would
remain out until wage demands were
met. They asserted that when they
were given wage increase of approx
mately 7 cents an hour recently
the number of jobs they were re-
quired to complete daily was raised
from q to 80.
Harry j. Carmichael, general mana
ger Of the plant, urged the workers
to try the new schedule until the end
Of the month and then, he said he
would reconsider the wage schedules.
The strikers were to conduct secret
ballot today on their walk-out.
A strike which interrupted operations
in the Chevrolet and Fisher Body
divisions at st. Louis was settled last
night and the workers returned to their
machines today. 1t began when 10
Chevrolet workers charged that five
union employees had been replaced by
the management. Local U. A. w. A.
officials said they did not call the
strike.
Fights Prohibited.
Delmond Garst, secretary Of the To-
cal, conferred with the plant man.
ayers and later said their agreement
provided for all union employees to re-
turn; that there would be no dis
elimination against union members,
and that they would be permitted to
wear union buttons. He said it was
agreed also to post notices saying that
'any one who started fights-either
Union or non-union-will be fired"
Fights between union and nom
union employees there have been re-
ported since operations were resumed
at the conclusion of the widespread
General Motors strike.
Wyndham Mortimer, head of the U.
A. w. A. representatives comforting
with General Motors officials here, as
provided for in last weeks strike set
tlement, said that tentative agree
ment on methods of handling union
grievances has been reached and that
today's conversations would center on
seniority rights.
These were two of the unions six
strike was terminated. The others
include speed of production. hours Of
work and wage scales. Details of So
lutionS reached will not be announced
until all differences have been COM
posed.
At the conclusion Of yesterdays
talks c. E. Wilson, General Motors
vice president, said some progress"
was made. AS he entered the after
noon session he carried an improvised
blackjack which a corporation source
said was taken from q union member
at Flint, Mich.
Since the negotiations opened Tues
day union officials have charged that
General Motors stocked a Chevrolet
plant at Flint with 1000 clubs for
company guards. William S. KnudSen,
executive vice president of the corpo-
ration, said that none had been used
and no excess supplY will be carried {"