Evening star., 1941-02-01
Progress Is Reported
On Ending Strike at
pheIps-Dodge Plant
Deadlock Continues
At AIIis- Chalmers;
Glass Accord Reached
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Some progress" toward settle
ment of a strike at the Bayway
plant of the Phelps-Dodge Copper
Products Corp. at Elizabeth, N. j.,
was reported today as company and
union officials resumed negotiations
to end the dispute which affected
], 600 workers and halted production
on $74,323 worth of Navy orders.
Meanwhile, at Milwaukee, a dead
lock continued in a strike which
for 10 days has halted work on
$40 900 900 in defense orders at the
Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
r. ]. Thomas, international presi-
dent of the c. I. o. United Auto
mobile Workers Union which called
the strike, announced last night he
was withdrawing from negotiations
after making mo headway" at
conference with the firms officials.
Principal C. l. o. demand is union
shop. More than 5000 workers are
affected.
Other plants where defense orders
were held up by strikes included the
International Harvester Co. at Chi
cago, employing $500, and the Ala
bama Drydock & Shipb uilding Co.
at Mobile, where 3,400 men were
idle.
Plate Glass Agreement.
At Atlantic City. manufacturers
and Is 1000 workmen in the Nations
plate glass industry agreed today to
a new contract calling for fat two
cents-an-hour increase in wages,
bringing the average pay to "a cents
The agreement was reached two and
one-half hours after expiration of
the old contract 1t also calls for an
annual weeks vacation with pay for
all workmen of one years service.
Tive representatives of the United
States Labor Department were on
hand at the Phelps-Dodge dispute.
The strike was called by the United
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers Of America &C. I. o. who
sought higher wages and collective
bargaining election,
Peter D. Besch, international rep
reSentative of the union, expressed
belief the strike may spread" to
other Phelps-Dodge plants at
Yonkers, N. Y, Fort Wayne, Ind,
and Los Angeles, and Wylie Brown,
president of the company, said more
than 5000, 900 900 in Federal defense
contracts might be tied up unless
Phelps-Dodge could continue supply
| ing other manufacturers with pro-
ducts. The company has $4,000. :
900 in Army and Navy contracts in
its own four plants, Mr.. Brown said.
Strike Called at Dayton.
A strike of nearly 1900 truck
drivers and helpers was called at
Dayton, Ohio, today, with a union
demand for a wage increase of 10
cents an hour the principal issue.
Pickup and delivery of freight was
affected. A conference was called
to consider the dispute.
Defense Commission trouble
shooters tried their hand at finding
a solution for two-weeks-old dis
pute involving A. F. L. and c. I. o.
building trades workers which is
reported to have halted construc-
ton of a new smelter furnace at
the American Zinc Co., East st.
Louis.
Officials in the commissions labor
section reported that Is c. I. o.
union bricklayers employed on the
furnace job were fired allegedly
for incompetence"
New workers to complete the job
have not been hired. they said,
because the company's production
workers belonging to C. I. O.'s
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
Union have threatened a strike if
A. F. L. bricklayers are hired. A. F.
L. construction workers on a nearby
unit of the zinc company are re-
ported to have said they would
strike II the c. I. o. men were re-
hired.
Conference Set Today.
Gov. M. M. Nicely of West Vir-
ginia announced last night that
union Representatives and officials
VI Jllc SIl1hC-DOl1llQ I1Ou1lOdlll ObdIC
Steel Foundry Co. of Parkersburg
would hold a conference at pm.
today in an effort to settle the
dispute.
Officials of the State Industrial
Union Council &C. I. o. and the
Steel Workers Organizing Commit
tee charged that 18 men were dis
charged because of union member
ship" Company officials contended
the men were laid off because they
were not needed after one of the
three shifts had been discontinued.
The plant, working on Govern
ment contract, was shut down
earlier in the week after pickets
appeared at the gates.
A wage agreement ended a strike
at the Martinolich Boat Co. ship
yards at San Diego, Calf, which is
working on five boats for the Navy.
A. F. of l. building trades workers
went back to their jobs on a $780,
900 expansion program at Wright
Field, Ohio, Army Air Corps testing
center.
Whelan Strike Voted.