Evening star., 1941-06-18
Troops al Plane PLAN
Reduced; 5hipyard
Peace Tonight Seen
Mediator Is Assigned
To Piper Aircraft Strike;
Vinson Bill Attacked
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A further reduction was ordered
today in the number of troops on
duty at the Inglewood Calf. plant
of the North American Aviation
Corp, with production back to 10
warplanes a day after strike which
lost its punch with arrival of several
thousand soldiers. ..
One battalion OF 900 infantrymen
left yesterday and another 900 were
ordered to depart today. About $500
soldiers remained on guard in the
wake of the bitter wage dispute.
Wages were the issue in strike
still in progress at another plane
factory, the Lock Haven, Pa, plant
of the Piper Aircraft Corp, makers
of light planes used in civilian pilot
training.
A Government mediator was as
signed to the dispute, while pickets
patrolled the entrances to the plant,
turning away production workers al
though permitting the entry of Of
fee employees and engineers. A. F. l..
machinists want wage minima Of
80 cents an hour for semi-skilled
employees and so cents for skilled
raised to 55 and rs cents respectively.
The firm has offered a fiat 10 per
cent wage increase.
Vins0n Bill Attacked.
Heads of the A. F. L. and C. I. o.
here found common ground: Both
issued statements in opposition to
the pending Vinson bill which would
bar workers from striking within 80
days after disputes were referred to
the Defense Mediation Board. c. I.
o. President Philip Murray declared
the bill would force workers to re-
frain from acting to protect their
rights while allowing employers to
proceed with attacks on the union" !"
A. F. L. President William Green
said passage of the legislation would
"aggravate industrial unrest"
Meanwhile a jurisdictional strike
of G. I. o. United Automobile
Workers at the Douglas e. Lomason
Co., Detroit, threatened to force the
closing of several large truck fac
tories because of a shortage of parts.
Between 200 and 300 civilian work.
men struck yesterday on construc-
ton jobs at two Hawaiian air fields,
but they decided to return to work
today pending negotiations for pay
adjustments. The construction COM
pany has offered a sliding scale of
81 TO S130 hourly but carpenters
are asking a fiat rate of sl25.
Longshoremen Walk Out.
A. F. L. Longshoremen were
ordered to walk out yesterday at
Morgan Line piers in Baltimore,
Houston and Galveston in protest to
Federal acquisition of the lines 10
ships.
1--WE want to do our share toward
the emergency, and we are willing
to sacrifice to the limit" a union
spokesman asserted, but when
called upon to give up our only
means of livelihood and to be left at
the mercy of welfare, it's time to do
something about it."
Other union leaders said only IS
per cent of Baltimores 5000 I. l.. A.
members were employed.
Harvey w. Brown. president of
the A. F. L. International Machinists
Union. predicted that a strike at
II San Francisco Bay shipyards
would end tonight. He said there
would be a secret vote on going
back to work, but local union officials
declared no ballots had been printed
or other arrangements made.
c. I. o. utility workers voted to
strike at midnight at the Colfax
plant of the Duquesne Light Co. OF
Pittsburgh, because. a spokesman
said, an independent union had re-
jected a Federal mediators peace
plan.
The company and the C. I. o
union had accepted the plan. The
union charged the company with
bad faith, knowing" a spokesman
said, that 'it could influence the
independents action" A committee
representing the independents
signed the agreement, he said.
AS a strike of municipal service
workers continued at McKeesport,
Pa, garbage and trash piled up un-
collected. The workmen were dis
contented with 10 per cent wage
boost offered last week, and also
sought union recognition. The City
Councils offer would have raised
basic pay rates of 179 employees from
S4.75 to 1928.