Evening star., 1941-09-30

QelenSe OrderS.
The Calico strike was called by
Chemical Workers Local 22,051 CA
F. L. to support demands for con-
cessions in a contract to replace one
expiring October %. The plant has
orders for compounds used in NUM-
tions.
R. M. Taylor, plant director of
manufacture, termed the walkout a
jurisdictional dispute between the
A. F. L. union and Local 1928,
Chemical Division, United Mine
Workers of America &C. I. o.. which
claims majority of the 1000 work.
ers.
Second Bendix Strike.
At Bendix, members Of Local 700,
Aircraft Division, United Automo-
bile workers of America, walked of
their jobs for the second time in
two months, this time in protest
against what they termed unfair
labor practices by the company. F.
Leroy Hill, company president, de-
MED the charges.
The plant employs 800 In the
manufacture of aircraft equipment
for defense needs.
At Philadelphia, another c. I. O.
strike halted production by the
American Engineering Co. of parts
for two cruisers. The company has
contracts for winches, anchor ma
chinery, cranes and other auxiliary
machinery. The union said the
walkout, affecting $40 workers, was
called because the management had
employed men at wages below the
minimum called for in contract,
but did not disclose details.
A wage dispute resulted in a
walkout at the Midland Steel Prod
ucts Co., Cleveland, affecting 1,40O
workers engaged in making frames
for the small cars the Army calls
"blitz buggies" and for Buick, Hud-
son and Studebaker automobiles and
Ford trucks. A c. I. o. spokesman
said the company had rejected a
demand that wages be raised to the
level paid in its Detroit plant. He
said the current scale ranged from
6s cents to S1.20 an hour, and was
10 to 20 cents an hour under the
Detroit rate.
Two Strikes Averted.
A threatened shutdown of the
Monsanto Chemical Co. plant at
East St. Louis, Ill, which holds large
defense contracts, was averted when
200 A. F. L. production workers paid
back union dues and returned to
work.
The men, members of the Chem
ical Workers Union, we're turned
back at the main gate by pickets
yesterday when they were unable to
produce cards showing dues paid to
date.
The plant has about 900 employees
and is making sulphuric acid for the
new INT plant at Weldon Spring
Mo. and other chemicals important
In the defense program.
A strike which delayed the con-
struction of naval minesweepers al
the Greenport Basin and Construc-
ton Co., shipyard at Greenport, N
Y, was called off today after unior
and company officials conferred with
representatives of the Office of Pro.
duction Management.
Jerome S. Healy, company attor-
ney, said that Roy Granato, organ
izer for the Marine and Shipbuildine
Workers Of America &C. I. o., or
dered 90 strikers to return to work
tomorrow. Non-striking workers to-
day completed 96-foot minesweep.
er, the eighth such vessel ordered
by the Navy.
The main plant of Chryslel
Corps Dodge division at Detroit
which employs 10000, closed today
and company spokesman attrib.
uted the shutdown to a walkout ir
q department where 100 men hac
been laid off because of curtailec
production.
The walkout tied up work in q
Briggs Manufacturing Co. plant anc
forced 10000 additional workers tC
tdleness. This in turn forced the
closing Of the Plymouth plant fol
lack of bodies, and a third 10000
men were forced out of work.
The spokesman said reduced pro-
duction schedules led to the laying
of of 100 of the 400 men employed
in Dodge's paint department yes.
terday. Today, he said, the Other
800 in the department struck ir
protest and the entire plant wal
closed.
Grievances which have led II
walkout of some 10000 anthracite
miners again are going to be laic
before President John l.. Lewis oi
the C. I. o. United Mine Workers oi
America.
Under a move designed to bring
all of the States 100000 hard Goa
diggers into the dispute, lamar
committee was named from Penn
sylvania's three union districts tt
seek a settlement with Mr.. Lewis
here today.
Spread Threatened.
CCCllOoI4fCo IL OA1l AAoVl iSpo l
7 and 9 decided on the action al
Hazleton, Pa, to have all three CO.
operate as a unit, with the under
standing all would strike and no
return to work until demands ar
met.
Yesterday the c. I. o. Steel Work
ers' Organizing Committee moved II
prevent unauthorized strikes in it
northeastern district pennsylvania
New York, New England. part o.
Ohio and part of Kentucky.
Clinton S. Golden, regional dl
rector, advised all locals that work
ers who struck in violation of con
tract could be discharged by th'
management and ARE entitled to NJ
protection whatsoever from our or
ganization."
Bryce P. Holcombe, United State
labor conciliator, announced tn
strike at the Louisiana shipyards a
New Orleans had been settled ant
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