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settlement of the Others Gov. Frank
Murphy of Michigan said he did not
intend to intervene.
A final agreement between the U
A. w. A. and General Motors Corp
on issues growing out of the G. M. c
strike was delayed pending rephrasing
OF certain portions
A dozen Detroit firms outside the
automobile industry were plagued with
sit-doWn strikes. At the Crowley
Miner & Co., large department store,
5000 employees remained on sit-doWn
while union and company officials
planned a new conference.
The U. A. w. A. gained recognition
from the Douglas Aircraft Corp as
bargaining agent for its members
among the $500 employees at the Santa
Monica, Calf, plant. President Donald
Douglas of the company said an agree
ment provided for reinstatement of
297 strikers indicted on felony counts
for a shutdown demonstration two
weeks ago.
The race of the c. I. o. and its rival,
the American Federation of Labor,
for members continued apace. The
A. F. of L. scored a gain when more
than 200 delegates of the Maintenance
OF Way Employees Union voted at
Pittsburgh to affiliate with the fedora
ton. The railroad employees claimed
representation for $4,000 workers.
Earlier an official of the Steel Work.
ers' Organizing Committee announced
eight of % employe representatives of
the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corp. s
Vandergrift plant had aligned with the
c. I. o. Twelve of IA employe repre-
sentatives of the McKeesport, Pa, Tin
Plate Co. voted to join a c. 1. O.
affiliate.
The c. I. O., starting drives for mem
berS in the oil and textile industries,
also announced plans for enrolling
chemical, tile and gas workers in the
kanawha Valley in West Virginia as
new district of the United Mine Work.
ers. In Illinois the u M. A. sought
to represent all employees in the coal
industry.
III L dAl DIINCTS
Police received fresh reports of vio-
lence in Chicago's taxicab drivers
strike. Rowing squads of men slugged
drivers, split tires, smashed headlights
and windows and removed cab door
handles in an effort to prevent nom
striking drivers from operating.
More than 1000 workers were idle
In several other Chicago strikes.
Members of the United Rubber
Workers Union voted a strike at the
F1restone Tire & Rubber Co. plants
at Akron, Ohio. Ten thousand pro-
duction workers and 1900 Office en-
ployes were Idle in the dispute over
union bargaining demands.
The composing room forces of two
Miami newspaper plants struck last
night, but one group returned to work
after a temporary pay increase pend
ing negotiations. The latter group
consisted of so printers at the Miami
Tribune. The Daily News was the
other newspaper involved
A strike of garment workers er =
ployed by the Tri-State Dress Manu-
featuring Co. at Memphis, Tenn.
ended when the company granted de-
mands for closed shop, 40-hour week
and $1z minimum wag?. A Jas in
crease brought settlement of another
strike in the same city, involving 400
workers of the Chickasaw Wood
Products Co.
Forsaken by their sponsors erst-
while sit-doWners styling themselves
hunger strikers peacefully left w. P.
A. headquarters in obedience to a
police order
squadron of patrolmen, motor
cycle policemen and detectives-al-
most as many officers as Strikers
stood by as Police Chief Ira Martins
custer order was transmitted to t. e
men and women who had occupied
headquarters more than two weeks.
ACCORD BEING REPHRASED.
DETROIT, March IL up. - Re-
DhraSinu certain nortions of ~ eo,o~a