Evening star., 1941-03-31

unmolested. police reporting no dis
turbance as about Is pickets jeered.
Before the strike 5000 were en-
ployed on the day shift.
This strike has not been certified
to the Mediation Board.
Demands of Allis- Chalmers in
cluded a union shop. Those at Uni
versal Cyclops wanted higher wages.
Lewis Hopes for Coal Pact.
In New York, John L. Lewis said
he was family clinging to hope"
for settlement in the coal dispute.
The president of the United Mine
Workers of America &C. I. o. has
instructed $4,000 miners in the APP
palachian field not to work without
a contract or without assurance any
forthcoming benefits would be retro
active to April l.
|. simultaneously with the appear
ance of DR.. Steelman, negotiators
announced that even without a new
pact maintenance crews would be
kept on the job to prevent the mines
from flooding.
Ezra Van Horn, Cleveland coal
executive and chairman of the joint
wage conference, said that no single
point of the miners demands had
been agreed upon.
Besides the wage increase, the
miners seek 200 guaranteed working
days a year and two weeks annual
paid vacations.
The Appalachian contract would
be the basis of similar contracts for
the outlying soft coal areas where
10000 additional miners work.
Twenty thousand bituminous miners
in Alabama, outside the Appalach-
ian area, were ready to leave their
jobs at midnight.
DETROIT.-An agreement set
tling 22-day United Auto Workers
&C. I o. strike at the Federal
Truck Co. was ratified at a union
meeting and L. F. Rye, Federal la
Dor conciliator, announced that the
plant, said to have $5,000,000 in de-
fenSe orders, would resume opera
tions tomorrow. Mr. Rye said the
settlement included pay increase
of 5 cents an hour, an extra weeks
pay at Christmas in lieu of a vaca-
ton, and improved seniority and
grievance arrangements.
The settlement cleared Detroit of
strikes in defense industries.
SAN FRANCISCO.-The San
Francisco Metal Trades Council will
meet tonight to decide whether to
sanction strike by A. F. L. ma
chinistS for higher wages in the
bay area shipyards and industrial
plants.
A union spokesman said the strike
would be called Thursday unless
the increases are granted. The
union has ordered $500 machinists
to meet Wednesday night to re-
ceVe picketing assignments.
PHILADELPHIA State official
expressed confidence that I'VE can
settle this among ourselves" as
representatives of cement mill
workers in four authorized
to call strike if necessary
gathered to settle differences with
Clle employers.
Delegates were empowered to call
a walkout of 10000 in mills in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New
York and Maryland. Much of the
production has been for defense.
The companies had rejected union
demands for a wage increase of u
cents an hour. They offered a
raise of cents an hour.
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND.-Two persons were
injured today as A. F. L. unionists
penetrated c. I. o. picket line at
the E. F. Hauserman Co, producing
prefabricated steel houses to be
erected near naval power station
at Indian Head, Md.
Police Chief William Bauer of
Cuyahoga Heights said so A. F. L.
workmen marched in body through
the C. l. o. picket lines.
A company representative said
operations had been resumed.
The plant, closed last Thursday
when the c. I. o. Furniture Workers
Union charged six of its members
had been discharged, has been
operating under an A. F. L. contract.
1t recently empoyed 140 persons.
c. I. o. leaders said they had
petitioned for National Labor Re-
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