Evening star., 1941-05-21
Strikes
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wage increase in undisclosed present
scales and the company offered a
Scent boost The firm has orders
for sl0,000,0O0 worth of airplane
parts.
In San Francisco settlement
! seemed near in canneries strike
which asparagus growers said hao
already cost them 81 900 900 in losses
An A. F. L. spokesman said a new
basis for settlement was agreed on
last night by representatives of the
IL unions involved and spokesmen
for the Gamers. If the Gamers as
body approve, the unions will act
on the proposals late today or to-
night so that operations may be
resumed tomorrow. The unions
originally asked pay increases of Is
cents an hour in scales ranging
from 3712 cents to 5212, but re-
duced the demands.
Shipping Peace ColIapses.
The apparent settlement OF a
month-long dispute between the A
F. l.. International Longshoremens s
Association and Great Lakes ship
ing firms collapsed at Buffalo, N
Y, when union members rejected
an agreement reached yesterday
and stopped work.
Shipping officials said the stop
page" was outlaw and illegal as
the companies and union had
agreed to the plan announced by
Maj. William j. Mack, Federal con-
ciliator. Union officials were not
available for comment.
The agreement called for increas-
ing hourly rates paid longshoremen
7i2 cents to a basic level of 871a
cents.
Northern Coal Pact Agreed On.
Continuing negotiations for ad-
justment of a wage dispute in the
Nations soft coal fields, Northern
operators agreed with the U. M. w.
on new two-year contract calling
for basic wage of 81 a day. This
represents boost of 81 a day. A
feature of the agreement was a
proviso that each miner should get
12-day annual vacation with pay
of $40 for the period.
Before the Southern coal parley
recess was jointly announced, the
Southern operators asserted in a
national newspaper advertisement
campaign that Mr.. Lewis would be-
come dictator of this country" if
| the bituminous industry accepted
the unions new wage and working
conditions contract.
Mr.. Lewis official spokesman, X
c, Adams, said this advertising
attempt of the feudal pet-baggine
coal operators, who. pretending a
Southern gentlemen's status. try to
elicit public support under the guise
of patriotism and pubic welfare
>" would rule the old devil him.
self in disgust" and declared their
economic record disclosed In con-
gressional Investigations bellies
| their self-advertised story of fair
play and square dealing
Lewis Is Confident.
Mr.. Lewis and the Northern opera
tors spokesman both said their new
contract was acceptable to almost
three-fourths of the country's BIZ
luminous industry. And Mr.. Lewis
added that the Mediation Board
cannot. in equity or in conscience,
ask 10 per cent of the industry to
establish a special scale for the
South.
Il don't think they can hold out
much longer on this regrettable
farce" Mr.. Lewis said Every
schoolboy knows they're licked"
In South Bend, Ind, 5000 men,
bers working in the Bendix Aviation
Corp. products plant voted last night
to reject a 712 2-cent-an-hour wage
increase offered by the Mediation
Board and set a strike deadline for
the night of May 29 The union
| had asked 15-cenf incrnaSe