Evening star., 1941-04-29
Mediation Board Sets
General Motors Talk
A Day Ahead
Hearing in Washington
On Threatened Strike
Moved Up TO Thursday
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press
William H. Davis. vice chairman
OF the Defense Mediation Board
said today hearing on threatened
strike involving 100000 workers in
General Motors plants had been
advanced from Friday of this week
to Thursday.
The board addressed notifications
Of the change in date to Alfred P
Sloan, chairman of the General
Motors board; Charles E. Wilson
General Motors president; R. J
Thomas, president of the United
Automobile Workers Union, and
Walter Reuther. director of the
General Motors division of U. A. w.
Pins Hopes on Board.
Meanwhile. negotiators in the con-
tract dispute between General
Motors Corp. and the United Auto
mobile Workers &C. I. o. indicated
in Detroit today that their hopes for
a settlement lay with the board.
AS yesterdays conference ended
In the -month-old negotiations,
Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey
and U. A. VIC. / o. leaders said
preparations would be made this
afternoon to submit the issues to
the board.
Mr.. Dewey declared he had
talked to Mediation Board officials
and gave them a report on the sit
uation.'
WalkOut on Conference.
At Madrid. n. Mex, union repre-
sentativeS walked out on ne9otl-
ations seeking settlement of strike
at the four mines of the Albuquer-
Que & Cerillos Coal Co last night,
asserting they would not return
until State police left the camp. The
strike was called yesterday by
United Mine Workers of America
&C. I. o. asking basic rate of Sc a
cents an hour with clause grant
ing any increase beyond that figure
made in the Appalachian contract.
The union charges the company
pays some Workrs as low as 35 cents
an hour
Negotiators for the Amalgamated
Association of Street Electric Rail-
way and Motor Coach Employees
"a. F. L.. given strike powers by a
membership vote. today in Cleye-
land resumed month-old confer
ences with officials of the PennSyl-
vania Greyhound Lines. Samuel B.
Bewong of Detroit, member of the
unions international Executive
Board, said mail ballots showed
members rejected a company pro-
posal, 926 to "a
Wage Increase Granted.
A 10-Cent- -an-hour wage increase
for 75.000-80000 workers in the
major plants of the General Elec
tric Co. was announced in joint
statement issued in New York by the
company and the United Electrical
Radio and Machine Workers of
America &C. I. o.. The agreement
also includes provisions for double
time instead of time and a half
for work on observed holidays
and Sundays. 1t goes TO local unions
for ratification. The plants affect
ed are at Bridgeport, Conn; Sche-
nectady. N. Y; Erie, Pa; Pitts
field, Mass; Lynn, Mass; Phlla-
delphia. and Fort Wayne. Ind.
Employees of the Fairchild Avia-
ton Corp, which has S2l,0O0,00O in
defense orders, decided yesterday
to accept terms of an agreement
reached in New York by J. S. OgS-
bury. company head, and c. I. o.
agents representing Local l2l7,
United Electrical, Radio and Ma
chine Workers. Differences were
ironed out at a three-day confer
ence with Federal Labor Conciliator
William Cam and Jack Kroll of the
Office of Production Management
participating, after the plants 42l
workers had threatened to strike If
their contract, which expired last
Saturday, was not renewed.