The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-02
President Will Keep
 Hands Off Strikes
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 after Knox and Knudsen had tried and failed to accomplish that.
 Three Man Board
 Also pending Is Q proposal for Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to appoint special three-man board to re-investigate the whole matter. She Is due hefe tonight from the west coast.
 The president's determination to continue work on the situation through existing machinery irldica- ted he has no immediate thought of Attempting to take over the Al- lis- Shaimers plant under provis- Ions of the Conscription Act.
 Early said the White House has not received any reports on the Ford strike at Dearborn, Mich.
 The president continued to keep In close touch with New York negotiations on the soft coal dead- lock. John R. eteelman, chief of the labor department conciliation ser. vice, telephoned the president last night, informing him the coal nee gotiations still were progressing and expressing hope that Q settlement might come soon.
 Ford Plant Hard Hit
 Dearborn, Mich, April 2-(UP)-- Michael F. Widman, IT,, director of the UAW-CIO organizing drive, said today that the strike against the Ford River Rouge plant, largest industrial unit in the world was HOO per cent effective" He said the only persons working in the plant were maintainence crews provided by the union to prevent damage to costly steel and glass furnaces.
 The company said nothing. A re. porter who entered the adn1tnistra. ton building seeking Hary Bennett, personnel director and company spokesman, was not permitted to reach Bennett's ofiice.
 When he told Q building employe what he wanted ne was told, don't be silly"
 Unofiicial word from inside plant indicated that only maintenance crews were working.
 State Police In Charge
 Gov. Murray D. Van wagoner to- day ordered state police to "main- tain law and order" at the strike- bound River Rouge plant of the Ford Motor company.
 The state police were requested by Mayor John Carey of Dearborn after pickets of the United Auto- mobile Workers (CIO) employed highway blockades and fist fights to proven tday shifts from entering the plant this morning.
 The governor replied:
 "I have directed Commissioner Oscar A. Olander to send the full available manpower of state police to Dearborn at once for the pur. pose of maintaining law and order"
 The governor said he did not know immediately how many state policemen Olander could send to Dearborn or how soon they could arrive.
 Buffalo Plant Closes
 Buffalo, N. F., April &(UP)- The American Gar and Foundry O., large.scale producer of shells for the British government, was shut today by 6 strike called by the Federal Local Union 22Si8, A. P. of I. afiiliate, and suspension of work by members of the CIO Steel Workers Organizing committee.
 Company officials could not De reached for comment, but police said no employees entered the plant this morning. They reported there was no picketing. The plant efh. ploys 1900 men.
 Thomas W. scovona, president of the Federal Local Union, asserted the strike was called because the company refused to abide by c re. cent agreement to pay time and a half for Saturday work, piece work rates and had violated seniority rules.
 scovona's claim that the AFL represented Q majority of plant workers was challenged by Ralph Tillotsen, scteel workers organizing committee field representative.
 Tillotsen charged the AFL or- ganization called It's strike without authorization to herd workers into that union and attempt to stop . swing to the CIO." He said CIO members stopped work because they didn't know what else to do" and that the SWoC executive menf- bers were meeting this morning to formulate the sWoC policy in the situation.
 May End Mine Trouble
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