Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12

United Automobile Workers of Amer
lea apparently was the chief task to
be completed today before representa-
tlVeS OF each sign it.
The formal affixing of signatures
was delayed day when the union said
General Motors had made some
changes in the final draft and insisted
that original phraseology" be re-
stored. There also were counter
charges of violations of the February
II truce
Both sides indicated the delay did
not signify serious hitch in the ne
gotlations, which opened February Is
to compose differences left unsettled
in the truce that terminated the wide
spread strikes in the corporations
plants.
A conference between the Chrysler
Corp, whose Detroit plants have been
closed since Monday by shutdown strik-
ers, and the U. A. w. A. proceeded, ap-
parently with little if any progress, as
they awaited action in Circuit Court
tomorrow upon the company's petition
for an injunction against the strikers
and union leaders.
Denied access to their plant Offices
by the sit-downers, Chrysler execu-
rveS set up headquarters in a down.
town building The $4,000 employees
Of the automobile producers factories
here were idle. 1t was estimated that
about 5000 of them remained in the
plants.
Gov. Frank Murphy planned to re-
turn to Detroit from the State cap
ltal, Lansing, for the week end, but
he indicated that the trip was purely
personal. He said yesterday he had no
intention of intervening in the Chrys-
Ter labor dispute.
There were no signs of a resump-
ton OF conversations between the
union and the Hudson Motor Car
Co., whose plants also are held by
Shutdown strikers, leaving 10000 work.
ers idle. The management rejected
the request of the U. A. w. A. for
sole collective bargaining rights.
Strikers still possessed the REQ Mo-
tor Car Co.'S plant at Lansing. Three
tourths Of the 1900 idle employees were
estimated to be remaining inside.
There, too, the company rejected the
U. A. w. AS request for exclusive
bargaining rights Engineers design
ing new models were permitted to
continue their work.
More than 200 delegates from union
locals in various plants are to assem-
Die here tomorrow to ratify the Cen
eral Motors-union compact.
When the signing of the agreement
was deferred yesterday, c. E. Wilson,
General Motors vice president said
There are still several things to
IRON out. We don't like these 10 sit
down strikes we've had in 20 DAYS
We already have an agreement of
February II, and if the union doesn't
live up to that one, will it live up to
another?"
To this Ed Hall, U. A. w. A. vice
president, commented:
They, likewise, have an agreement
ana If they don't live up to this one
any better than they did their agree
ment OF February II, they will have
a lot OF sit-downs. Let them put that
IN their pipe and smoke it,"
Officials of the Chrysler plant at
Los Angeles, employing LOO men,
announced that it would be closed
indefinitely because OF shortage OF
materials. The New Castle, Ind, unit
mad closed earlier for the same reason.
Homer Martin, president of the
union, Joined in the Chrysler con-
terence yesterday and said the COM
pany turned down the unions offer
10 prove in an election that it repre-
sents a majority of the employees.
Here is another astonishing ex-
ample of the unyieldtng dictatorship
OF industry, said Martin. He added
that corporation officials "can come
INTO no court with clean hands as
long as they refuse to obey the law
by which they now seek an iniunc-
ton"
All we are interested in now" re-
marked B. E. Hutchinson, Chrysler
finance chairman, sis the law on legal
possession OF other peoples property"
Deputy sheriffs read the Circuit
Courts show cause" order to strikers
in some of the plants late yesterday
and also at the U. A. w. A, head
quarters.
A. F. OF L. CLAIMS GAINS.