The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-13
court ACTION
ON STRIKERS
IN ABEYANCE
Custer Plea Is Reserved;
Committee Studies Set
clement Terms

pE IhOll, "dICH 10. WI
Governor Frank Murphy today
appointed committee of 20
prominent Detroiters to study
means of settling the sit-down
strikes as Circuit Judge Allen
Campbell reserved his decision on
an Injunction petition seeking the
removal of 5000 strikers from
Chrysler corporation plants.
The governors committee in
cludes business, labor and social
leaders, who will inquire into the
strikes that have closed IL auto
motive plants in the metropolitan
area and left an estimated $4,000
idle.
Mass picket lines paraded be-
fore. the Wayne county building
today as Circuit Judge Allen
Campbell opened hearing on
Chrysler corporations petition for
Injunction TO force evacuation Of
nine Of its struck plants by 5000
sit,down strikers. Four or five
hundred men and women, many
wearing membership buttons in
the United Automobile Workers
Of America, marched before the
courthouse. - 7 r. o..
DETROIT March l3. (UPC.-
Governor Frank Murphy last night
inauguratcd conferences seeking
to end industrial strife here after
announcement of tentative final
settlement of the recent nation
vide General Motors strike eased
tension in that section of the Ia
Dor front. -..-
Murphy, whose mediation led to
settlement of the 44-day G.M.C.
strike, planned conferences with
representatives of labor, capital
and the public in an effort to end
sit-down strikes which have
thrown nearly $4,000 out of work
here.
He first turned to strike clos
: ing nine plants Of Chrysler cor
poratjon, the nations third largest
builder of automobiles, and a sit
down in the Crowley-Milner de-
partment store.
The tentative settlement in the
General Motors strike was an
r,ounced by William S. Knudsen,
executive vice-president of the
corporation.
The agreement. covering United
Automobile workers demands
conditional. to the strike settle
ment Of February IL, will be vot-
ed upon by union representatives
front all G. NJ. plants today.
calling upon all citizens to CO.
operate, Murphy indicated he con-
sidered the increasing wave of sit
down strikes a throat to demo-
cratic government.
The vigorous young executive,
whose mediation was credited
with last months General Motors
strike settlement and paved the
way for negotiations which ended
yesterday, said he would name q
comhaittee representing all inter
ests lin the labor conflicts and in
Sst on q formula for their solu-
llOu4 #
aHs planned to begin confer
etccs, presumably with high Off
tMlS of. labor and capital, imme-
sdiately upon arrival in Detroit,
" Murphy's departure from Lans-
INK conceded with apnouncement
OF the General Motors agreement,
Which resulted from nearly a
month of almost daily confer
cnces.
Agreement by union and Gen.
cral Motors .eonferees upon the
lengthy permanent peace" pact
was announced shortly after 5
p. m.
.kt'Its all settled" ;Kpudsen said
as he left the confidence room
high in the Generaf Motors build
ing. Knudsen was smiling his evi-
dent pleasure at the conclusion Of
the long drawn out negotiation
conferences called to settle wage.
hour and recognition demands
4 pressed by the union.
:. THE agreement was the final
step in ending the greatest strike
in automobile history which COM
pletelv halted production in Gen.
eral Motors plants in Ia states
and made 4 re nm workare ;l1a