Evening star., 1941-06-14
Strikes
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to work since a strike was called
May 10
The board announced hearings
would be resumed next Tuesday on
the dispute between North Amer
lean Aviation Corp. and the c. I. o.
United Automobile Workers.
The hearings were interrupted last
week by the strike. Since then, pro-
duction has been resumed in the
plant at Inglewood, Calf. after the
Army took control.
C. I. o. officials who have taken
over the local and suspended loral
officers for refusal to end the out
law" walkout announced they were
enrolling every member over again
really forming new union.
Richard Frankensteen. c. l. o. air
craft director, said there would be
no wholesale" investigation OF
members "as to Communism" An
investigation under way by high c.
I. o. officials, he said, was virtually
confined to those in leadership po-
Sitions."
The military authorities have re-
stricted Army guards to the plant,
the adjoining Los Angeles Airport
and to the areas in which North
American employees reside. Until
yesterday soldiers were patrolling an
area extending a mile from the fac
tory. which turns out bombers and
pursuit craft.
In washington, legislation empow-
erine the President to take over
strike-bound defense plants was
tentatively approved by the House
Military Affairs Committee yester-
day. with final decision postponed
until Monday. Already passed by
the Senate, the measure would per-
nit Federal seizure il management
or union refused to make use of Fed
eral mediation and conciliation
agencies, and would authorize the
use of troops to prevent illegal
picketing.
Union Suspends 10 in Strike.
Members of the c. I. O.-U. A. w.
at Newark, N. j., suspended 10 OF
their group last night pending a
union trial on charges of instigating
a 9O-minute walkout Monday at the
Brewster Aeronautical Corps plant
in Long Island City, N. Y.
About so men were involved In
the walkout. Union oficials said
the suspensions represented union
opposition to any delay in defense
production. The Brewster plants
are turning out fighter planes and
employ about 1900 workers.
A jurisdictional dispute, resulting
in a strike at the Douglas and Iona
son Co.. automobile parts manufac-
turers. brought an A. F. l.. request
to President Roosevelt for Federal
intervention. Irvan Carey, inter-
national president of the A. F. l..
United Automobile Workers. tele-
graphed the President that the
C. I. O.-U. A. w. was attempting
to raid" A. F. L. unions which have
a contract with the firm until 1912
Richard T. Leonard, regional
C. I. O.-U. A. w. director, denied the
raid" accusation, asserting his
union agreed to a consent election to
determine a bargaining agent at
the plant but the A. F. L. union
did not. Negotiations are continu-
ing before the Michigan Labor
Board.
Yesterday President Roosevelt
asked a halt to interunion contro-
versies, after receiving q wire from
President Daniel j. Tobin OF the
A. F.. L. teamsters. Mr.. Tobin
charged that other organizations,
influenced by subversive elements,
were trying to take over local unions
from loyal organizations"
Court Restraints Unions.
Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early gave newspapermen an oral
statement on behalf of Mr.. Roose-
welt that this was no time for unions
to start "raiding one another"
Court action developed at Min
neapolis on the heels Of factional
differences that split General
Drivers Union 544 CA. r. L. when
more than $50 firms obtained a
District Court order temporarily re-
straining the two union groups from
calling strikes without giving the
Today notice required by State law.
Observers believed the court ac-
ton foreshadowed intervention OF
the National Labor Relations Board.
One group of the union was granted
q C. I. o. charter yesterday.
The scene of the Ford Motor Co.
United Automobile Workers &C. I
o. negotiations will shift Tuesday
to Washington before the National
Labor Relations Board.
The Ford company and the U. A
w. have been negotiating for con-
tract for the company's employees
for the last two weeks.
An agreement for blanket wage
increase to set a scale hitched to
living costs averted a strike at two
plants of the Budd Wheel Co. In
Detroit, State labor mediator an
nounced.
The agreement was said by Medi.