Evening star., 1941-05-02
Phelps Dodge Strike,
Tying Up S3O,0OO,OO0
Arms Orders, Settled
1000 Workers Agree
To Resume Work While
Contract TuIks Go On
By the Associated Press.

| S6lIIeUlenC OF q Strlke involving
1900 workers at the Elizabeth IN
j. plant of the Phelps Dodge Cop
per Products Corp. opened the way
today for resumption of work on
$50 900 900 in defense contracts.
The big copper firms C. 1. O
workers voted last night to end a
2O-day strike and go back to work
while negotiations continue for a
new wage contract. The union
seeks a closed shop. seven paid
holidays annually, 10-cent hourly
wage rise and seniority rights. Will
liam H. Davis, vice chairman Of
the Defense Mediation Board, had
requested work resumption, which
may start Monday.
The Mediation Board today con-
tinued its efforts to avert a threat
ened strike in 81 General Motors
Corp. plants employing 10000,
many of whom are working on
$700, 100000 in defense orders.
The C. I. o. United Automobile
Workers seek a 10-cent hourly wage
rise, but the management, offering
2 cents additional for hourly work.
ers and more for some skilled
craftsmen contended no increase
was justifiable. The G. I. o. said
it would exempt defense work from
any walkout, but the management
maintained there could be no prac-
ticable distinction between defense
and non-defense production.
Coal Miners at Work.
Most of the soft coal workers were
back in the pits, while c. I. o. United
Mine Workers and Pennsylvania
anthracite operators discussed the
unions demands, including two
weeks vacation pay annually in a
new wage contract for 100000
miners. Operations continue, under
an agreement, until May 10, al
though the last contract expired
Wednesday midnight.
Leon Henderson, price admins
traitor, revoked an order fixing a
ceiling on soft coal prices because OF
the mine reopening.
A dispute in a Cleveland plant
of the Midland Steel Products Co
was settled last night and 1,40C
workers were to return to their jobs
today after two days idleness. Set
tlement terms were not made public
c. I. o. Automobile Workers said
the stoppage was brought about by
the firms failure to insist that some
employees join the union as a con-
tract required them to do.
Worried About Little Fellow"
Matthew Wol, A. F. L. vice presi-
dent, said in New York before the
Economic Club that strikes were
part of German plan to weaken
the United States industrial effort,
but he said part of the responsibility
lay with management also. He de-
nounced speedups and longer work
hours.
Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attor-
ney General in charge of. antitrust
prosecutions, spoke at the same
meeting and declared ne was not
so much alarmed about strikes in
defense industries as about ex-
ploitation of low-income groups ano
the crushing of small businessmen
between the laundering herds oi
large business organizations ano
large labor organizations"
Striking engineers Of the line,
Siboney of the American Export
Lines we're left ashore as the ship
held up since Saturday, steamed on,
Of New York Harbor, bound fol
Bermuda and Lisbon. The Nationa.
Maritime Union withdrew support
of a strike by the Marine Engineers
Beneficial Association, which sought
a so per cent war bonus" and 15s
N. M. U. seamen signed up for the
voyage.
Kellogg Strike Settled.
The Mediation Board announced
settlement of dispute at the
plant of the Kellogg Switchboard &
Supply Co. in Chicago. A strike
call, which would have affected 58(
men working on Army Signal Corp,
contracts, was looked into by the
Mediation Board April %. Terms
were not made public. A. r. L
unions said the firm had not bar
gained in good faith.
A second Federal court order wa,
issued requiring Carmine Joseph De
Matteo, former service department
head at the Edgewater IN. j. Fore
plant. to show cause why he should
not be forced to testify at a Ma