Evening star., 1941-06-05

call up legislation to require a cool
/ ing-off period before a defense
strike could begin.
Representative Ford. Republican,
of California said: This is the
most logical result of the way this
situation has been handled with
these outlaws" by such left-wingers
as Nine. Perkins and Hillman."
He referred to Secretary of Labor
Perkins and Sidney Hillman, as
sociate director of the o. P. NJ.
Representative Rich. Republican,
of Pennsylvania said that Miss
Perkins, congressional committees.
the President and Congress itself
has done nothing He urged action
before I'VE find ourself as France
found itself"
In the House Representative Voor-
his. Democrat, of California, COM
menting on statements by the Lum-
ber Workers Union leader. said it
appeared that you've got a condi-
ton of labor that's not going TO do
labor any good" He said it was a
type of leadership which in my
judgment is directed from some
other part of the world"
Coal, Aluminium Threatened.
Imminent threats of strike action
in two other essential ingredients
of national defense. coal and alu-
minum, faced the board.
Postponed from yesterday was a
board conference with Northern and
Southern soft coal mine operators
| and the United Mine Workers &C.
I. o.. The board has summoned
! them to hear its recommended
! tions for ending the wage dispute
involving 100000 miners in seven
States Of the Appalachian fields.
Swift board action postponed a
strike at five plants of the Alu-
minum Co. of America in Cleveland
scheduled for last midnight, but
leaders of the National Association
of Die Casting Workers &c. I. o.
warned that workers probably would
walk out unless the board set a
hearing for today.
Ralph T. Seward. executive secre-
! tary of the board, said it would not
advance the date for the hearing
from next Monday.
! Secretary of Labor Perkins certi-
| fled the dispute, invoicing 4.500
workers, to the board yesterday aft
! ernoon. Chairman Clarence A.
Dykstra promptly wired request,
which was needed, for continued
operations pending a board hearing
Monday.
The union demands a general
Az cent hourly pay increase and a
3-cent raise in the present mini
mum of Y cents.
Two Other Strikes Settled.
Two strikes were settled last night.
In San Francisco 4,500 striking
C. l. O. warehousemen voted to ac-
cept 7l2-cent hourly wage in
crease for upward of 700 woman
workers and to return to work today
in 1870 warehouses in the bay area.
The International Longshoremen
and WarehouSemen's Union had
asked a l0-cent increase for it's
woman members. who had been
getting so to So cents.
At Detroit Federal Conciliator
James F. Dewey persuaded 8.10O
members of the Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee to go back to
work at the Great Lakes Steel Corp.
which turns out steel for tanks, mu-
nitions and automobiles.
He promised they would get "as
good a contract as any" in the in
dustry if they ended the 28-hour
stoppage, which c. I. o. leaders said
was unauthorized" Demands in
cluded a 7-cent increase over the
present undisclosed hourly wage,
paid vacations, double pay for Sun
day work, and time and a half for
Saturdays.
The A. F. L. Inland Warehouse
mems Union, after striking at rs
New York warehouses yesterday
agreed to release munitions and
clothing destined for Great Britain
and perishable foods for the United
States Army.
The l,450 strikers, afinated with