Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-10
!: Nd b0HN STR|k
URGES Clio OFFICER
Work Hailed
On Is Million
Air Contracts

Air Contracts
Strike intent notices were filed
today against the Budd Wheel
and Motor Products companies
by the UAW-CIO.
Notices to the State Labor
Mediation Board charged both
companies with refusal Of the
employers to grant wage ADJUST
ments."
In both cases Paul Ricketts,.
executive secretary of the board.
has wired the OPM for confir-
nation of his belief the compa-
MES have defense contracts.
Leo Lamotte, JAW CIO East
Side regional head. said he would
recommend striking Bohn Alumi-
mum and Brass Company workers
return to their job. in a local
union meeting scheduled for this
afternoon.
He said:
IL am going TO recommend
that the men return pending the
GU come OF mediation now
scheduled before the National
Defense Mediation Board.
81 want tn emphasize, how
ever, that this IN q duly author
Il 1Aw l.
entirely with the workers. They
will have to vote on the ques-
ton"
Six plants of the company are
closed by the strike, shutting of
$25, 900, 900 in parts to major air
craft and submarine chaser man
lufacturers.
Simon d. Den Uyl, secretary.
treasurer of the Bohn Company,
said IL airplane engine manufac-
turers, the Hall-Scott Company,
submarine engine manufacturers,
and the Rock Island army arsenal
would face closing for lack Of
bearings if the strike continued.
NDMB SETS HEARING
Peter Markey, vice president Of
Bohn company, received a tele-
gram this morning from William
H. Davis, vice chairman Of the
National Defense Mediation Board.
setting a hearing in Washington
for June Is.
The wire. in part, said;
The board calls attention Of
both parties to the Presidents
proclamation Of May 81, I94I.
In which he proclaimed the ex-
istence of an unlimited national
emergency and called upon, l0yrI
workmen as well a. employers
to merge their lesser differences
In the larger effort to insure the
survival Of the only kind Of
| government which recognizes
! .ha -ss..st ~ ~. oraof c.v.4. "a y
lin the interests Of national
defense and In tho spirit Of
the Presidents proclamation the
board calls upon both parties to
make every effort to insure the
maintenance production pend
Ing the boards consideration Of
the matter"
The same telegram was re-
ported sent the union.
! Den Uyl refused to state
whether he thought the reference
to the unlimited emergency was
an implied warning the governs
ment could take over the plants
as II did in Los Angeles.
I'VE Will make no attempt to
interpret. We will 60 before the
board when they ask and do
everything they request II the
board asks us to open the plants,
we will"
\ Certification OF the dispute By
Secretary of Labor Perkins to the
defense board was asked by Ed
ward M. Owen, state labor medi-
alter, after local negotiations
COLLAPSED. The union demands a 10
cent hourly wage increase for en-
'lployes in the six struck plants.
A seventh Bohn plant, at 1918
Hart avenue. is not affected as 10
is under a separate contract from
the six on strike. union heads said.
a total Of 1900 men are idle az
a result Of the strike. No attempt
is being made to operate any Of
the six struck plants.
A picket line estimated at 800
men blockaded the main plant
gates at 2512 East Grand boule-
ward early this morning but was
reduced by half when IL was appar-
ent a shutdown was complete.
Unionists. however. made No