The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-10
Workers Are Back At
 Calf. Airplane Plant
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of the Building Maintenance Union (AFL).
 Organizer Philip Mack said the union was willing to negotiate through the state arbitration board but would continue the strike In an effort to gain 10 per cent pay in. creases, time and Q half for over. time, a reduction in hours and gen. erally better working conditions,
 He said the demands were siT1- liar to benefits obtained after a one day strike last week at the i3-story North Station industrial building,
 Pickets paraded before the nine struck buildings were an estimated 600 workers including elevator op. orators, janltors, charwomen and others walked out at noon yester- day.
 Must Use stairs
 Several thousand white collar workers were forced to trudge up stairs as elevator operators rode their cars to upper floors and abandoned them to join the walk out.
 Among major structures listed by the union as struck" were the i5- story Chamber of Commerce build ing, the History Rice building, the i2-story Ames building and the i2- story National Shawmut bank building.
 There was doubt In some cases as to whether employees in some buildings actually were on strike, Though oil nine structures were picketed, Prank A, Ewart, agent for several of the buildings, said em- ployeS still were working at the Na- tional Shavnut Bank building and at least one uGher building involved,
 Detroit, June l0--(Up) Picket lines were established around six Detroit plants of the Bohn Alumi- mum and Brass corporation today as 4,000 employees stopped work on $25 900, 900 in defense contracts to enforce wage increase demands.
 The walkout was called last night after contract negotiations between the company and the CTO- United Automobile Workers broke down. Tho company refused to grant l0.cent-an-hour increases demanded by the union to match raises of Chrysler and General Mo- tors Corporation employees,
 simon D. Den Uyl, corporation secretary -treasurer, said the com- pany granted wage increases in Q contract signed last December. He estimated s5 per cent of the cons pany'S production was on marine and aircraft engine parts.
 Secretary of Labor Frances Per- kins certified the dispute to the Na- tional Defense Mediation board.
 Textile Workers Out
 Fall River, Mass, June i0.-tUP) -Mariano s. Bishop, organizer for the Textile Workers Union Of Amer- ica (CIO) said today that about 1900 Of the approximately 2400 employees Of the American Thread Co.'s Kerr Mills were Idle because of a strike of workers in cotton departments.
 Bishop said about 600 of the mum. Der were strikers and that they sought pay increases and generally better working conditions. He said the strike was not sanctioned by either the CIO or AfL but that the majority Of the 1900 had joined tho CIo since Saturday when the strike started.
 Company officials refused to dis- cuss the case but 1t was learned that much of the mills work was on na- tionai defense contracts.
 II0d Carriers Strike
 Portsmouth, N. H., June i0,-tUP) Work on 800 defense housing units costing about $2,800,000 still was halted today aS members Of the in- ternatlonal Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers Union oi America tAFL) continued their two- day.old strike for higher wages,
 The union claims HOO workers are affected by the walkout, while the public buildings administration con- tends that only 300 to 500 workers are immediately concerned.
 Joseph B. Moriarty, business agent of the union, stated that there hns been q difference of opinion on tho wage scale for labroers since tho project started in April. The unior reportedly is demanding a wage in' crease from 62 i-2 cents an hour tt 75 cents an hour.