The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-11
TRUCK STRIKE IS
 ENDED FINALLY
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Helpers, an American Federation of Labor affiliate, in an effort to win a three-year contract providing for a uniform 75-cent maximum hourly wage rate compared with present maximum rates averaging 60 cents, but varying with locality.
 Shirt-sleeved negotiators agreed upon terms of the compromise at the session ending at mid-morning. After breakfast, they returned and worked out details of the return to work.
 Get to Work Quickly
 ''The organizations involved an4 ticipate having as much equipment in motion as near this afternoon as possible" Chairman Chester G. Fitzpatrick of the strikers negotiate ing committee said.
 "It is believed by the participating parties that the agreement means a new era in the trucking industry,@ Labor Director Saul added.
 Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts employers will meet at 3 p. m. today in Providence to vote on ratification of the agree- ment. Connecticut owners will meet at p. m. at Hartford. Other Massa- chusetts owners will meet late this afternoon at Springfield and Wor-. ceSter for similar votes.
 21 Hours In Conference
 When the peace conference ended at 9:30 a. m. in Governor William H. Vanderbilt's suite at Hotel Biltmore. the weary conferees had been in continuous session since l D. m. yesterday. Besides representatives of strikers and employers, the meet ing was attended by Federal Labor Conciliator Carl Gill, Labor Director Harvey Saul of Rhode Island, Labor Commissioner James T. Moriarty of Massachusetts and Labor Commits sioner Joseph M. Tone of Cons necticut.
 Most of the negotiations were in shirtsleeves when they admitted newsmen to the conference room and announced the agreement. They had recessed only once during the Marathon meeting = briefly last night for supper. They did not breakfast until after adjournment.
 The agreement was the third that has been reached during three weeks of intermittent negotiations. The previous two were approved by the negotiating committees but rejected by either the strikers of the employ- CTS as whole.
 Another Strike Averted
 Meantime in Massachusetts, strike by another branch of the teamsters' union, this one comprising 5000 metropolitan Boston coal and fuel oil truck drivers, had been averted temporarily.
 However, the refusal of the fuel truck drivers to make deliveries other than those scheduled in ad- vance has curtailed deliveries one- third. Since no new contract has been signed, the union maintained that 1t was not obligated to furnish drivers for unexpected deliveries.
 This dispute centers about the unions demand that contracts ex- pire December 31 instead of April as heretofore. Il
 Baldwin Gets Word
 Hartford, Conn, April 11-UP)-I Governor Raymond E. Baldwin was informed by telephcn from Provi- dence today that the agreement to end the tri-state truck strike called for a four-year contract and ap- pointment of an arbitration commit tee to settle differences during it's tenure.
 The information was given the governor by State Labor Commis- sioner Joseph M. Tone who has been attending the Rhode Island peace conferences since they started more than three weeks ago.
 The governor did not say whether Tone disclosed other data contained in the agreement concerning wages and hours
 Herbert J. Miller, organizer for the union in Connecticut, issued a call for all drivers to assemble at head- quarters immediately to discuss the agreement and its possible ratifica- tion.
 Simultaneously, Miller said that papers in the $990,000 federal court action brought by three major truck ing companies against the union, charging violation of the sherman anti-trust and Clayton acts, were served on union officials. today and that accompanying attachments had been released.
 Amicable settlement of the strike. 1t was indicated, might result ina abandonment of the litigation
 Union officers here were not ac-l quainted with terms of the agree nent.