Evening star., 1941-07-12
Automoiive Fibers.
Pact Expected 10 Be
Ratified Tomorrow
Agreement Also Reached
In Greet Lakes Area
ShipbuiIdin9 Dispute
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Approximately 10000 automotive
workers remained idle today pend
ing union ratification, expected to-
morrow, of an agreement between
officials of National Fibres. Inc,
Detroit, and C. I. o. strikers who
demand q new contract.
Most OF the idle workers are EN-
ployed in auto shops which had to
shut down because of lack of up
holstery produced by the fiber COM
pany.
James r. Dewey, Federal labor
conciliator, said both sides had
reached agreement, with terms un-
disclosed, and that it was subject to
ratification at a meeting tomorrow.
Meanwhile. men in Chrysler. Dodge
and De Soto, as we'll as the Briggs
body plant, were without work.
A conference of management,
labor and Government representa-
tives In Chicago resulted in an
agreement designed to prevent work
stoppages in shipbuilding and repair
plants in the Great Lakes area
The pact provides for 31.12 hourly,
instead of the present 81. for
skilled mechanics. The agreement
must be ratified by all.
WiIlys- Overland Work Halts.
The auto assembly line Of WHY'S
Overland at Toledo was stalled rs
the result of . strike at the plant OF
the Sealed Power Corp, Muskegon,
Mich. piston makers. Company Of
ficials said other plants, with de-
fense contracts, would have to close
Monday night.
The A. r. of L.-United Automobile
Workers struck at Sealed Power
Tuesday, demanding q union shop
contract and increases over undls-
closed current wage rates. The De-
fense Mediation Board. considering
the issues, has asked work resump-
ton as Q patriotic duty.
In Chicago labor leaders and rail-
road officials agreed TO hold parleys
within a fortnight on the question
of wage increases within unions rep
resenting approximately 1,l5o,0o0
employees of the carriers.
Engineers. firemen, conductors,
switchmen and trainmen have voted
to ask for a 80 per cent increase
in pay for $50 900 men, while clerks,
machinists, telegraphers and others
have asked for increases of 80 TO "a
cents hourly for 300, 900 workers.
The latter groups now get from SO
10 IS cents hourly and the operating
personnel get from $506 a day up.
The carriers say the wage in
creases would mean nearly $500, ,000,-
600 in additional pay annually.
kearny Dispute Unsolved.
The Defense Mediation Board was
unable TO settle a dispute between
C. 1. o. shipworkers and the Fed
eral Shipbuilding Corp Kearny.
N. j.. which holds nearly $500 900 900
in defense contracts. The c. I. o.
asks . union shop, vacations and
grievance machinery. A threatened
strike will be delayed. the union
said, while the board drafts recon-
mendations.
At the Keasbey & Mattison Co.'S
asbestos manufacturing plant at
Amber. Pa, where United States
marines twice crossed picket lines
to remove Navy defense material,
900 workers voted unanimously TO
end . 16-day -old strike.
Dispute Certified 10 Beard.
The Labor Department certified
to the Defense Mediation Board .
labor dispute at the Breeze Corp.
in Newark and Elizabeth, n J.
The department said that C, l. O.'s
United Auto Workers Union was
threatening q strike at the corpora
ton in a dispute involving questions
of q 10 per cent wage increase, .
union shop contract and dues check
OF.
The corporation employs $40
workers and is manufacturing radio
equipment for the Army Signal
Corps. The certification did not
indicate the present wage rates.