Evening star., 1941-08-09
Strikes Tie Up
$600,000,00o in
Defense Orders
Picket Lines EncircIe
Curtiss- Wright Plant;
Keorny Yord Shut
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Strikes at two New Jersey indus
trial plants virtually tied up produc-
ton today on approximately $500.
900 900 of defense orders. q.
Picket lines we're thrown around
the propeller plant Of the Curtiss-
Wright Corp. at Caldwell, and
company official said work stoppage
probably would be complete tomor-
row on the plants 500 100000 worth
of contracts. An A. F. L. official
said 800 of the 1,493 workers in the
plant had joined the walkout.
Work was at a standStill on an
other s493 900, 900 of defense orders
for naval vessels-as the huge ship
yards of the Federal Shipbuilding e.
Drydock Co. at Kearny which en-
ploys about 1900 men remained in
the grip of a C. I. o. strike.
Meanwhile, the Defense Media
ton Board announced in Washing
ton that an agreement had been
reached for settlement of a disputs
between the C. l. o. Packinghouse
Workers Organizing Committee and
Armour e. Co. of Chicago The agree
ment, details of which we're not
announced, must be ratified by the
union.
Union Asks L. S. to Take Over.
Issues in the dispute, which affects
about $4,000 workers. included
closed shop, check-off system,
overtime pay, grievance clause and
wages.
Peter Flynn. vice president Of
Local 16, Industrial Union of Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers of Amer
night to take over the shipyards at
Kearny without another hours
delay" Mr. Flynn. the union official
who announced the valkout. spoke
after Ralph Bard, Acting Secretary
OF the Navy, had warned that steps
would be taken to get production
resumed unless there was a quick
| settlement
I'VE believe" said Mr. Flynn in a
statement, the Government should
step in without another hours de-
lay. With the unions collective bar
gaining rights fully protected under
Government operation, the picket
line will instantly become march,
ing line Of American workers rush.
ing back to pick up where they left
off one of the most vital jobs in the
national defense program
Draft Redistribution Stopped.
The union said it called the strike
to back up demands for what it said
was a modified union shop as recon.
mended by the Defense Mediation
Board. The management declared
a closed shop was asked and rejected
the provision in a proposed work
contract.
Under construction at the plant
are two cruisers. six destroyers,
three tankers and a number of cargo
vessels. In addition the company
has orders for five other cruisers. 81
additional destroyers and number
of merchant vessels.
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. ma
tional director of selectice service,
scotched a move by New Jersey
draft boards to reclassify strikers
as available for immediate military
service. He telegraphed this order
to State selective service headquar-
ters.
Registrars will not be reclassi-
fled pending clarif1cation of situa-
ton. Inform all local boards i'm
mediately."
The union had termed the local
boards action as "barefaced at
tempt to use selective service as a
breaking weapon"
Meanwhile, an A. r. L. machlnlsts
union took control Of the unauthor-
lied strike at the Curtiss- Wright
Corp. at Caldwell.
The strikers. who left the plant
shortly before o. p M. Director Will
liam S. Knudsen arrived on an in
spection tour, voted last night to
accept leadership of Aircraft Lodge
7O3, International Association OF
Machinists, which had been defeat
ed Thursday by an independent
union, Propeller Craft, in National
Labor Relations Board election for
collective bargaining rights.
Two Strikes Ended.
Two strikes involving defense pro-
duction were reported ended,
The C. I. o. Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee and the man
agement of the American Car d.
Foundry Co. signed contract at
Huntington. w. Va, providing wage
increases and ending a walkout
which started July %.
An agreement between the Todd
Galveston Dry Docks, Inc, Of Gal
weston. Tex. and an A. F. L. union
ended a walkout of some 1000 A. F.
L. union members which started
July Is.
At Billings, Mont, W. A. Boyle,
district president of the C. I. o.
United Mine Workers, said threat
ened strike OF Montana coal miners
for an increase of 81 a day in the
present scale of $3.50 q day, had
been called of after mine operators
agreed to negotiate on q new
contract.
Claude Fairfield. a representative
OF the A. F. L. International Asso-
citation Of Machinists, revealed at
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