Evening star., 1941-07-30
Strike in New York
Affects Navy Yard;
-Four WaIkouts End
Four Federal Agencies
Seek Settlement of
Electrical Dispute

By the Associated Press.
Work stoppages in four widely
separated cities were terminated to-
day, but a strike of 5000 A. F. l..
electrical workers in New York City
went into a second day, with its
effects reaching into the Brooklyn
Navy Yard.
The National Defense Mediation
Board announced the end of stop
pages at the Gulf State Utility Co,
Baton Rouge. La, and at Air Asso-
ciates, Inc, Bendix, N. j.
At st. Louis, where 2,700 A. F. L.
construction workers walked off the
site of an $4,000 900 ammunition
plant in protest against discharge
of two ice haulers, the strikers
agreed to go back to work and sub
NIT the discharge of the two to ar
bitration. A similar resume work.
negotia te later decision ended
one-day walkout at the Clifford
Jacobs Forging Co, Champaign, Ill.
Four U. S. Agencies Act.
Four Federal agencies-the Navy,
Office of Production Management,
Cancellation Service and Defense
Mediation Board - attempted to
bring about a settlement OF the
New York electricians strike. Rear
Admiral E. j. Marquart, comman-
dant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
declared 200 skilled electricians had
walked off projects in the yard, in
cluding work on dry docks in which
two super -battleships are to be built
He said he had asked union agent
to send the men back to work.
Other construction. chiefly of a
non-defense nature, was tied up.
The union called the strike, effec-
tive yesterday morning. as a result
of long dispute between the cleo
tricianS and the Consolidated Edi-
son Co, power and light distribu-
tors. The company had turned down
a union demand for employment of
600 A, F. l.. electricians on a plant
construction job. The Edison firm
has contract. it explained. with
the Consolidated Edison employees.
The Mediation Board did not an
nounce details of the agreement.
under which 200 employees of the
Gulf State Utility Co. decided to
go back 10 their jobs after a three
week strike. The original issues
involved union recognition and a
collective bargaining agreement.
500 Return at Bendix.
Under the agreement worked out
by the board in the Air Associates.
Inc, dispute, 500 C. 1. o. United
Automobile Workers will go back
to work in the Bendix, N. j.. plant
where airplane accessories are man.
ufactured. Meanwhile, negotiations
were TO open in New York today to-
ward a collective bargaining agree
ment. The strike was called TO
back up protests over alleged dis
charge OF some employees for union
activity. Six persons were injured
July II in disorders outside the gates
of the plant
Demands for higher wages brought
the one-day work stoppage at the
Clifford-Jacobs Forging Co. The
business agent of an A. F. L. union
announced that 1873 employees of the
struck plant had joined the union.
which agreed to negotiate their de-
mands for wage boost and a writ
ten contract.
Eight hundred A. F.. L. laborers.
whose strike tied up work on 81
100000 work of naval construction
at Key West, Fla, expressed their
Willingness to return to work to-
day, provided contractors release
$50 newly-hired colored men.
Whether this condition would be
accepted appeared doubtful The
strikers approved compromise
wage offer. which would increase
their earnings from 1920 to s26
a week.
Western Cartridge Talks Set.
With two exceptions, the Western
Cartridge Co, Alton, Ill. agreed
to accept recommendation of the
Mediation Board for settlement of
a dispute with c. I. o. chemical
workers. The company said, how
ever, it would prefer to negotiate
with the union on the
questions of wages and vacations.
The negotiations were scheduled to
begin tomorrow at East Alton.
conferences were slated in
Washington tomorrow between Fed
eral conciliators and the manage
ment and employees of the United
States Gypsum Co. looking toward
settlement of strike of 5000 en-
ployes at II scattered plants. The /
union wants contract covering all /.
the plants, an increase of 10 cents |
IN wages now ranging from 421a
to 62l2 cents an hour. an arbitra-
ton system for settlement of griev-
ances and other concessions.
Charles E. Wyzanski, jr., of Bos-
ton, was appointed by President
Roosevelt yesterday as one of the
three representatives of the public |
on the Defense Mediation Board.
Mr.. WyzanSki, who has been Serv- |
ing as an alternate member since |
April, succeeds DR.. Clarence Dkystra, |
who resigned to return to his duties |
at president of the University of |
Mr.. Dykstra, however,
has agreed to be an alternate.