Evening star., 1939-09-27
Truck Drivers
Strike Ended by
Arbitration Pact
Two to Be Named
To Decide Issues
Within J Days

More than $50 dump truck driv-
ers of the Drivers, Chauffeurs and
Helpers Union Local No. 639 re-
turned to work this morning, after
their two-week- -old strike was end
ed yesterday afternoon by an arbi-
tration agreement.
With the end of the strike, about
5000 building tradesmen whose
work depended indirectly on the
truck drivers were enabled to go back
to work also.
The agreement was reached by
representatives of the Union and
of the Committee for the Dump
Truck Operators Association, who
met with DR., John r. Steelman,
chief of the Labor Department Con-
ciliation Service, and the latters
assistant, Howard T. Colvin.
Under the agreement, DR.. Steel
man is to name two arbitrators, one
from the Cancellation Service, and
another from outside, who are to
render a decision within seven days,
the decision to be retroactive to the
time the drivers returned to work.
In the event of a deadlock between
the arbitrators. DR.. Steelman will be
authorized to dissolve the dead
lock"
The dump truck drivers have been
asking for an increase in wages of
from IS to 80 cents an hour and for
a 44-hour week in place of a 49,
hour week.
One hitch in the strike settlement
still remains, however, it was ex-
planned by a Union representative.
The dump truck drivers will not
work on a job, it was said, where
concrete work is being done. They
are demanding that the Buildings
Trades Department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor give truck
drivers jurisdiction over mixer
trucks. in accordance with a decis-
ion made in January, 1898.
Signers of the arbitration agree
ment were Charles j. Bell, presi 8,
dent of Local No. 500, and it's re-
cording secretary, Stewart M. Key
ser; George L. Potts, chairman of
the Committee for the Dump Truck
Drivers Operators Association; Ben
nett M. Cross and H. William Kopp,
members of the Committee.
Other Issues to be Decided.
Besides the fundamental matter of
wages, among items for the arbi-
traitors to decide are classifications
Of work on which different wage
scales are to be paid; a demand by
the union of guaranty of four
hours pay for reporting to work; the
length of work week in which holi-
days occur; work on Saturday; time
permitted for lunch. and what holi-
days are to be recognized as such.
Eight men forfeited SIS collateral in
Police Court today on disorderly con-
duct charges arising out of clashes
during the latter days of the strike.
The men, arrested Monday near
the Smoot Sand & Gravel Co.
wharves at the foot of South Capitol
street, we're: Donald Aubrey Dur
ham, %. of the 1900 block of Tenth
street NV: Malcolm Donald Cor
nett, 81, of Silver Spring, Md; Rich
ard Leroy Dodson, %, of the 800
block of F street S.W.; Owen Lee
Powell, %. of the 400 block of G
street NV; Caruthers Lewis, 38, COL
ored. Halls Hill, Va; William Har-
ris, 26, colored, of the 1900 block of
Cherry Hill street NV; Philip Stew
art, 26, colored, of the 1000 block of
Cecil place NV, and Isaac Tancil,
IS, colored, Rosslyn, Va.
Police escorts were provided yes
terday and Monday for trucks haul
ing materials to several construction
projects, after a driver had been
slugged.
Meanwhile, picket lines were
thrown around the Pennsylvania
Hotel on Union Station Plaza by
Hotel Service Workers Local 80, A.
F. of L., which charged that the
hotel refuses to recognizes our
clearly established majority and will
not bargain with us"